Maria Isabel Lopez

Acting

Maria Isabel Lopez

Born 1958-09-14 · Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental, Philippines

Maria Isabel Lopez (born Maria Isabel Pagunsan Lopez on 14 September 1958) is a Filipino actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Working Girls (1984), Silip (1985), Kinatay (2009), Barcelona: A Love Untold (2016), Pamilya Ordinaryo (2016), Ma' Rosa (2016), and Lola Igna (2019).

Acting credits

Daughters of Eve poster
5.0

In the remote countryside of Ilongo, various women are sexually abused by local men. Two sisters meet Simon, the most attractive man in the village, and fight over him - one constantly haunted by Catholic dogma because of the abuse she suffered previously.

Daughters of Eve

1985

Siphayo poster
4.5

A self-made farmer and rice mill owner who faces a rebellion by his two sons when he installs his young mistress as the new woman of the house immediately after the death of his wife. Complicating matters further is the fact that the older son is already living with his common-law wife in the same house.

Siphayo

2016

Captive poster
5.9

A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.

Captive

2012

No artwork available
NR

"Faith, Love, Time, and Dr. Lazaro," "Tata Selo," and "Sandaang Damit;" three short stories written by three multi-awarded Filipino fiction writers, Gregorio Brillantes, Rogelio Sicat, and Fanny Garcia, transformed into three short films.

Three

2014

Bahay Ampunan poster
NR

A pair of brothers encounters violent forces inside the walls of an old orphanage.

Bahay Ampunan

2015

Tag-init poster
4.0

One mystery envelops a group of friends who goes out on a vacation. Will they find the real criminal or be caught with their own mesh?

Tag-init

2004

Dune Warriors poster
4.0

After the end of the world, Earth is a thirsty planet ruled by vicious warlords. One woman is brave enough to fight back; she bands together five warriors to save her town and their precious water

Dune Warriors

1991

Cuchera poster
1.0

Based on a true story, Cuchera is about Filipino drug mules, drug couriers and their recruiters. It follows the story of Isabel, a veteran drug mule, in her first attempt at running her own drug transshipment operation between Manila and China. Isabel’s character is based on the story of an actual Filipina drug mule who was caught with eight capsules of heroin lodged in her sex organ, 48 in the rectum and 11 in her abdomen after an x-ray was conducted by Chinese authorities. Cuchera presents an accurate depiction of how some Filipinos end up becoming entrenched in the world of illegal drugs. Currently, the Philippines leads all Southeast Asian countries in the number of nationals arrested for drug smuggling charges in China. As of 2009, there are currently 95 Filipinos languishing in various jails in Chinese territories---four of whom are on death row. Violators include minors who enter China with fake passports.

Cuchera

2011

Busaw poster
NR

In the aftermath of a serial killer's capture, a man searches for what remains of his sister.

Busaw

2026

Molata poster
3.7

In an idyllic surroundings amidst the rice terraces, young and care-free Ida has a wonderful life. But one night, a group of armed men charges into her home and kills her parents. Worse, these men conspire and accuse Ida of the murder of her folks. Years pass and Ida is on her way to national penitentiary. But a freak accident happens, and Ida manages to escape. Assuming a new identity, Ida who now goes by the name of Molata, returns to her village where people no longer recognize her. And using her body as a lure, she sets out to exact revenge.

Molata

1999

No artwork available
NR

Olivia begins an affair with her older sister Alicia's husband, who initially raped her because she'd been leading him on. Olivia's boyfriend splits up with her when she confesses to him that she's impregnated by a different man.

Magkaagaw

1997

Ways of the Sea poster
NR

This film exposes the human trafficking operation and journey through the seas of Southern Philippines to neighboring Malaysia. Based on research and interviews, this dramatic narrative provides a kaleidoscope of characters hoping for a better life in Sabah, in spite of the dubiousness of the process, and uncertainty of a true job in Malaysia. It also represents a microcosm of the multi-cultural groupings of Mindanao whose diversity is bound by a common goal, an opportunity to earn a living, as they take that illegal small boat ride from their homeland to that foreign "Promised Land."

Ways of the Sea

2010

Ay Ayeng poster
NR

A mountain maiden attempts to use education to help solve the problems of an Ifugao village, but finds that outdated traditions and military oppression stand in her way. A photojournalist documents her story.

Ay Ayeng

2008

Butchered poster
6.2

A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman.

Butchered

2009

Joy & Joan poster
4.5

Fashion model Joy is unlucky in love. Having been jilted by the object of her desire, Marc Charoux, she takes a trip to Singapore with the rich and decadent Bruce. Soon, however, Joy implores servant girl Millarca to help her escape from Bruce's grounds. Posing as a tourist, she meets Joan, a tour guide and kindred soul who begins to introduce Joy to brand new ways of passion. But trouble, as well as one of Bruce's man-servants, insists on following Joy & Joan wherever they go.

Joy & Joan

1985

Dingding Lang Ang Pagitan poster
5.0

Two neighbors a married man, and a stripper, were involved in an adulterous relationship, which altered their lives. Their daily engagements were unpreventable with only a wall separating them.

Dingding Lang Ang Pagitan

1986

Ika-Sampu poster
6.0

A story about a descendant of a rich hispanic family that lived in the Philippines in the 1800s (1896). Nine years ago, Alexa Nicole de la Vega started having dreams about a mansion where she always used to play as a child, These dreams gradually turn darker and leading to a part of the mansion which was described in her dreams as a "door she cannot open". Every year, her dreams about the mansion turn darker and more grotesque. One day a lawyer visits in her office informing her that she has inherited a house passed on by her father in his last will. She calls her best friend Daniella, a collector and a curator of a Spanish museum, suggesting to her that there many be many treasures hidden there. This turns out to be a good opportunity to get her dad's company back to its prime. Alexa decides to go to the house she inherited to look for this rumored treasure. She later found nine pieces of golden coins in her great great grandfathers old study - then things start to change.

Ika-Sampu

2010

Anino poster
NR

On the anniversary of her mother’s death, a quiet teen being raised by her two grandmothers awakens to her first period and is relentlessly bullied at school. When her bully later turns his torments on her crush, her pent-up rage erupts and she discovers an ancestral power that is both terrifying and freeing.

Anino

2025

Ma' Rosa poster
6.5

Ma’ Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor section of Manila where everybody knows her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested. Rosa’s children are ready to do anything to buy their parents’ freedom from the corrupt police.

Ma' Rosa

2016

Sex Files poster
5.4

An anthology of three sex stories that led into acts of crime.

Sex Files

2002

Barcelona: A Love Untold poster
6.3

Ely, a young man who can't get over Celine, his past love, meets Mia, a young woman who escaped from a painful past in the Philippines and is trying her luck to rebuild her life in Spain. They meet. They fall in love. But can they overcome the hurt of the past to have a future together?

Barcelona: A Love Untold

2016

Baby Tsina poster
10.0

A woman develops feelings for a gang leader and is subsequently jailed for murder. While in prison, she undergoes a transformation, eventually leading her fellow inmates in a movement for penal system reform. Seven years later, she is declared innocent. Based on the true story of Evelyn Duave Ortega, also known as Baby Tsina.

Baby Tsina

1984

Sa Kuko ng Agila poster
NR

Tonyo (Joseph Estrada), a mini-bus driver in Olongapo, opposes U.S. military bases in the Philippines. He saw the changes of the city after the military bases were established. Social problems of corruption, prostitution, poverty, and the plight of fishermen after the base appropriated much of the land and sea. The movie depicts his struggle between principle and practicality, a battle of healthy past and promising future and the quest for freedom and nationalism.

Sa Kuko ng Agila

1989

Kapirasong Dangal poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kapirasong Dangal

1986