
Directing
Leroy Salvador
Known for
Directing
Credits
76 titles
Leroy Salvador was a Filipino actor and film director who began his career as a child star. He first appeared in the 1946 film Aladin, portraying the young version of the title character played by Jaime de la Rosa. Recognised as one of the most talented figures in Philippine cinema, Salvador later became known for his versatility both in front of and behind the camera. He was the eldest among the well-known Salvador family in the entertainment industry. In 1953, he earned the FAMAS Best Supporting Actor Award for his performance in Huk sa Bagong Pamuhay (1953), a role that also brought him international recognition when he received the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Asia-Pacific Film Fes…
Known for
9.0The most impossible dreams of a great musical come true with the nation's to radio stars, stage and television names.
Tuloy ang Ligaya
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Basta Bisaya
1970
7.0Three women united by friendship. Three women connected by music. Three women divided by fame. They were three women struggling to make a living when fate smiled at them. From anonymity, they were thrust into a world of glittering lights and deafening adoration. But much that celebrity brought them good things, it too, began to destroy them. They became too consumed by their fame that, one day, without them knowing, the friendship that had been their anchor was fast crumbling down?
Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas
1986
7.0Thin and awkward Teng-Teng gets a magic barbell as a reward for his good deed. It turns him into a muscular and powerful Captain Barbell, a superhero who fights the forces of evil.
Captain Barbell
1986
4.0Jack and Jill face a new whole adventure- this time in America! When they received a telegram from their dead uncle's lawyer they were prompted to go to the US immediately. Thinking she can have everything back, Jack decides to sell her jeepney and exhaust her savings to buy their plane ticket. But the day they are about to know the span of their uncle's riches they witness the murder of his lawyer! Jack and Jill must get out fast before the killers get to them first.
Jack & Jill Sa Amerika
1988
9.0Cristy’s persistence and Jim’s longing for a child lead to an illicit relationship. However, too much love suffocates, and covetousness can breed hate.
Unleash the Love Again
1985
Film credits
1980s · 9 titles
7.0Thin and awkward Teng-Teng gets a magic barbell as a reward for his good deed. It turns him into a muscular and powerful Captain Barbell, a superhero who fights the forces of evil.
Captain Barbell
1986
4.0Jack and Jill face a new whole adventure- this time in America! When they received a telegram from their dead uncle's lawyer they were prompted to go to the US immediately. Thinking she can have everything back, Jack decides to sell her jeepney and exhaust her savings to buy their plane ticket. But the day they are about to know the span of their uncle's riches they witness the murder of his lawyer! Jack and Jill must get out fast before the killers get to them first.
Jack & Jill Sa Amerika
1988
9.0A young couple eloped, got married and then must cope with problems like money, living on their own, trying finish school and raising a baby. not to mention the fact that even young married couples do get bored sometimes.
Through Thick and Thin
1984
9.0Two families with different characters swap lives to realize that all they need is a healthy balance of being book-smart and being street-smart.
Like Father, Like Son
1985
9.0Three stories of love starring Sharon Cuneta. The first, "I Love You, Moo-Moo" (directed by Leroy Salvador), is about a young bride who died on her honeymoon; the second, "Ang Silid" (directed by Lino Brocka) is about an interior decorator who investigates a forbidden room owned by a mysterious woman whose sister was murdered; and the third, "Katumbas ng Kahapon" (directed by Emmanuel Borlaza) follows a young woman torn between her abusive husband and her former lover who returned from the US.
Three Faces of Love
1988
A plucky middle-class girl gets pregnant out-of-wedlock but refuses to let her misfortunes dampen her spirit and love of life. Against all odds, Rosenda brings up her daughter all by herself, rejecting offers from Robert Cuevas, the father of her baby.
Rosenda
1989
6.5Two teen stories in one movie. "Dear Partyline" tells the story of Badong who falls in love with a girl in a Coke commercial who happens to be the other half of their telephone party line. "Dear Killer" tells the story of Lenny and the mysterious disappearance of a girl who was considered the school's best Soprano singer.
Dear Diary
1989
6.2Adapted from the komiks serial by Carlo J. Caparas, this film is about the fugitive, the singer, and the song that sparked their passion. A man escapes prison to kidnap a singer that he has become obsessed with and they embark a passion-filled life on the run.
Somewhere
1984
A view on the lives of four woman, married, widowed, mistress and "missed."
Sa Totoo Lang!
1985
1970s · 4 titles
10.0A compilation of film clips featuring dance and song performances culled from various films of the so-called big three - Sampaguita, LVN, Premiere.
Happy Days Are Here Again
1974
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Dash A Lotsa Nonsents!
1978
8.0A tale of two unwed sisters whose lives have been imprisoned by their father.
The Captive Virgins
1977
7.0A mother and daughter falls madly in love with mysterious stranger Emil Santos.
Heat
1979
1960s · 4 titles
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Molave
1961
10.0A story about a young woman who was adopted by a woman who held a secret grudge against her family.
Emily
1960
NRAfter a series of successful concerts at the Araneta Coliseum in May 1960, American pop singer Neil Sedaka was contracted by LVN Pictures to appear in a musical featurette called “Festival in Rhythm.” The film was shown as an added attraction to “Dahlia” which was released in July. “Festival in Rhythm,” originally shot in color, was a compilation of musical numbers featuring LVN stars and singing and dancing talents leading up to Neil Sedaka. The only surviving print is a black and white workprint from the color original. Since black-and-white positive film stock was not full-color sensitive, warm colors (like skin tones) print dark, hence the dark complexion of the actors in the film.
Festival in Rhythm
1960
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Puro Labis Puro Kulang
1962
1950s · 22 titles
9.0The most impossible dreams of a great musical come true with the nation's to radio stars, stage and television names.
Tuloy ang Ligaya
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Pasikat
1955
NRA story about a young man who falls in love with a girl named Charito.
Charito, I Love You
1956
10.0A marriage story of a young couple.
Darling Ko
1955
NRUpon the advice of his heart, Arturo searches for the girl with whom he should settle down.
Pilipino Kostum No Touch!
1955
5.9A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila.
Child of Sorrow
1956
6.5A poignant story of a family’s struggles in life. It tells of Rosa, who lives in the slums near the railroad tracks, with her mother and five brothers. Her mother wallows in guilt and depression when her drunkard father is run over by a train. Though she is set to marry her fiancé, Rosa chooses to put her family’s needs before her own. Rosa’s brothers also carry their own burdens, except for one, the youngest, Avelino, who helps his sister shoulder the weight of the family’s problems.
Malvarosa
1958
7.7Carding, the anti-Japanese guerrilla turned Huk rebel when his family's land is taken over by the greedy landlord while Maxie, the communist recruiter who assures Carding that only a communist can be a true Filipino; however it was Jesus, Carding's brother-in-law who shoots Carding in the arm foiling his attempt to escape the military.
Huk in a New Life
1953
9.0Korea is a 1952 Philippine war film about the Korean War directed by Lamberto V. Avellana. Produced by LVN Pictures, the film is considered to be lost. Benigno Aquino Jr. wrote the script who based it on his experiences in the war as a correspondent.
Korea
1952
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Casa Grande
1958
NRA story about a mischievous youth group.
Dama Juana Gang
1956
7.2Hassan, the son of a tribe chief of the Badjaos, a pagan, sea-dwelling Filipino tribe, meets and falls for Bala Amai, the niece of the chief of the Tausugs, an Islamic, land-dwelling tribe. Although the Hassan is willing to give up his lifestyle for Bala Amai and vice versa, the Tausugs plot to break up the union of the happy couple.
Badjao
1957
9.0Your favourite love team plus the Philippines' newest heart-throb and the scree's most seductive siren.
Anak ni Waray
1958
5.5A young woman takes up a job as a cook in a wealthy couple's residence. Her employer, an elderly man is infatuated with her, much to the dismay of his arrogant wife.
Waray-Waray
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Bad Boy
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mr. Announcer
1959
NRA fantasy story about a man who acquires a copper ring that grants three wishes.
Singsing na Tanso
1954
NRDedicated to the valiant Boholano hero Francisco Dagohoy, this film shows the real causes that impelled the Dagohoy Uprising.
Dagohoy
1953
7.5Maria and Jose, a young married couple begin life together in an orchard in the countryside. It isn't long until they have four children: Miguel, Arturo, Angelita, and Lito. The eldest, Miguel, is a deaf-mute. Life is good for the family and the children grow up and bring joy to the community. But trouble enters their lives when Jose makes an enemy of Bruno, a widower, much feared in the village.
Blessings of the Land
1959
9.0A story about a tomboyish girl who sells street foods and a vagrant boy who met each other at Luneta.
Luneta
1954
7.4No synopsis available yet.
1-2-3
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Dalawang Pag-ibig
1953
1940s · 1 titles
Behind the camera
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Basta Bisaya
1970
7.0Three women united by friendship. Three women connected by music. Three women divided by fame. They were three women struggling to make a living when fate smiled at them. From anonymity, they were thrust into a world of glittering lights and deafening adoration. But much that celebrity brought them good things, it too, began to destroy them. They became too consumed by their fame that, one day, without them knowing, the friendship that had been their anchor was fast crumbling down?
Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas
1986
7.0Thin and awkward Teng-Teng gets a magic barbell as a reward for his good deed. It turns him into a muscular and powerful Captain Barbell, a superhero who fights the forces of evil.
Captain Barbell
1986
4.0Jack and Jill face a new whole adventure- this time in America! When they received a telegram from their dead uncle's lawyer they were prompted to go to the US immediately. Thinking she can have everything back, Jack decides to sell her jeepney and exhaust her savings to buy their plane ticket. But the day they are about to know the span of their uncle's riches they witness the murder of his lawyer! Jack and Jill must get out fast before the killers get to them first.
Jack & Jill Sa Amerika
1988
9.0Cristy’s persistence and Jim’s longing for a child lead to an illicit relationship. However, too much love suffocates, and covetousness can breed hate.
Unleash the Love Again
1985
9.0A young couple eloped, got married and then must cope with problems like money, living on their own, trying finish school and raising a baby. not to mention the fact that even young married couples do get bored sometimes.
Through Thick and Thin
1984
7.0A young woman who all her life has lived under the shadow of her sister, a sister who is not only older but more assertive more intelligent and more appreciated. She knows that even with her best effort she cannot compete with her. Everything is fine with her she is after all more at peace with her kind of uncomplicated existence. But even the most submissive and most patient of people can only take so much. The day comes when she realizes that for her to live her own life she must end her meekness and learn to speak up.
Bound Heart
1986
10.0Eva is a dancer in a nightclub where Dom frequently stays. One night, Dom brings with him his best friend Winston to show Eva. Winston is smitten with her beauty and decides to pursue her without knowing that Dom is secretly in love with her. Eva and Winston eventually become a couple and Dom become their most trusted friend
Alabok sa Ulap
1987
10.0A widower found a strong resemblance between his late wife and the tutor of his daughter. Because he never got over his loss he courted and married her and then proceeded to remake her in the image of his wife. Naive and very much in love she obeyed his wishes and only later realized that her husband was not really in love with her but only with a memory.
Walang Karugtong Ang Nakaraan
1987
6.3A desperately poor young man is forced to avenge himself against the abusive rich and powerful who had oppressed him.
Sagot ng Puso
1990
4.0Lando is married to Lorna. He took on the huge responsibility of taking care of his widowed aunt Trixia and her two children, the youngest being a moron. Because of his obligations to his aunt's family, his relationship with his wife Lorna has not been as happy and ideal as they would have liked. Aside from being needy and dependent on Lando, Trixia has been very close to Lando, a fact that is very much seen by Lorna. A deep dark secret will be eventually revealed to Lorna: that Lando and Trixia is involved romantically and that Trixia's youngest child is Lando's. In the end, Lorna will be slowly relieved of the thorns that has been weighing down on her chest.
Tinik sa Dibdib
1985
9.0About young people learning that happiness comes from learning how to give of one's self. MANYIKA is about an enchanted doll who came to life and taught two orphans the value of love. BANANA-CUE is about a rich girl who found happiness in the company of a classmate who sold sweetened bananas in order to see himself through high school.
Pik Pak Boom
1988
6.5When Aldrin returns from the States, everyone is as ecstatic as his grandfather. But his reason for going home is not because of his lolo but his sister who is in an asylum. His vow is to take her away from their grandftaher who caused the early death of their parents. To avenge for what happened to his family, Aldrin plans a final revenge and that's when Jenna comes into his life.
Pati ba Pintig ng Puso?
1985
4.5The launching film of Akemi Roces
Inosente
1990
4.5The launching film of Akemi Roces
Inosente
1990
Rio Locsin's favorite movie
Gising sa Magdamag
1979
8.0Gloria Sevilla plays a woman who works hard to tend to her child and sick husband in the seaside town of Danao, Cebu. After an incident, the woman must face the court in this classic Visayan melodrama from 1969.
Line of Life
1969
8.0A puto vendor had been selling cakes everyday after school to help his widowed mother. That was why all the kids in school had been calling him Puto. Puto was the constant butt of jokes but he remained good-natured helpful and kind to everybody. Taking pity on him a dwarf decided to give him special powers. This gave Puto the chance to realize his dream of winning the track and field race.
Puto
1987
The four children find each other after Elisa and her mother, were thrown out of the house by the evil mother-in-law. Left to fend for themselves, they end up living with the mother’s friend, a bar girl, in an informal settlement.
Mga Batang Yagit
1984
8.2A young man avenges his mother's fate in the hands of her philandering husband by seducing the latter's daughter from an earlier marriage.
Huwag Mo Kaming Isumpa
1986
9.0Three stories of love starring Sharon Cuneta. The first, "I Love You, Moo-Moo" (directed by Leroy Salvador), is about a young bride who died on her honeymoon; the second, "Ang Silid" (directed by Lino Brocka) is about an interior decorator who investigates a forbidden room owned by a mysterious woman whose sister was murdered; and the third, "Katumbas ng Kahapon" (directed by Emmanuel Borlaza) follows a young woman torn between her abusive husband and her former lover who returned from the US.
Three Faces of Love
1988
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Si Inday sa Balitaw
1970
8.0After more than a decade of imprisonment, Dolores is ready to start a new life again and rebuild the family she never had.
Mundo Man ay Magunaw
1990
6.5Two teen stories in one movie. "Dear Partyline" tells the story of Badong who falls in love with a girl in a Coke commercial who happens to be the other half of their telephone party line. "Dear Killer" tells the story of Lenny and the mysterious disappearance of a girl who was considered the school's best Soprano singer.
Dear Diary
1989
4.0When the old man became ill Jack took over her father's job of chauffeuring for a handsome millionaire whose rather eccentric mother had decided to adopt Jill so she could fulfill her dream of having a daughter. But Jill was really Jack's sister or brother.
Jack & Jill
1987
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Puro Labis Puro Kulang
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Puro Labis Puro Kulang
1962
10.0A teenager experiences his first taste of physical intimacy with the opposite sex, courtesy of an elder, worldly-wise woman.
First Lessons
1989
7.0Pretending to be happy in a high school reunion, Sheila, Daisy, and Sandy find comfort and love with each other when they reveal about the sad realities of their lives.
Pangarap na Ginto
1990
7.0Marcelino is the son of a rich family who needs to look for his twin brother who was separated from him. If he does not find him in time, his parents will give his brother’s inheritance to his evil Uncle.
M & M: The Incredible Twins
1989
4.3a film by Leroy Salvador.
Kokak
1989
9.0A woman gets sold by her mother to predatory men.
My Pretty Baby
1991
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Hindi Laruan Ang Puso
1990
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Basag
1980
9.0A friendship turns south when one of them stole the others' fiance and then asks her to keep the relationship together.
Beloved
1985
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Wow Na Wow!!
1966

