Van De Leon

Acting

Van De Leon

Born — Died

1920-12-16 — 1980-03-05

Place of birth

Manila, Philippines

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 16 titles

South Seas poster
8.0

Two shipwrecked men on South Sea island help natives battle vicious modern pirates bent on rape and mayhem.

South Seas

1974

No artwork available
10.0

A love story set against the backdrop of a coconut plantation

Seed

1973

Totoy Bato poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Totoy Bato

1977

Isa Para sa Lahat, Lahat Para sa Isa poster
7.0

A classic tale of revenge starring Fernando Poe Jr alongside his real-life brothers, Andy, Conrad, and Frederick Poe. Together, four brothers must put their differences aside and band together to avenge the brutal murder of their father by familiar enemies and finally put his memory to rest.

Isa Para sa Lahat, Lahat Para sa Isa

1979

Ang Lihim ni Rosa Henson sa Buhay ni Kumander Lawin poster
NR

A story about the life of Rosa Henson and Kumander Lawin.

Ang Lihim ni Rosa Henson sa Buhay ni Kumander Lawin

1976

Nueva Vizcaya poster
10.0

A story about a military man who was tasked to make peace with a tribe of head hunters.

Nueva Vizcaya

1973

No artwork available
10.0

Jun, an art student, moves away from his family after a fight with his father about his college program. He meets Menchu in class and they fall in love, but Jun struggles to fully commit due to his past trauma. Singing becomes his solace and brings him closer to Menchu. However, a revelation after a family tragedy puts their relationship to the test.

Bawal na Pag-Ibig

1977

Apat na Patak ng Dugo ni Adan poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Apat na Patak ng Dugo ni Adan

1971

Tatak ng Tundo poster
9.0

Two childhood friends choose different paths in life; one believes in the principle of law and justice and the other believes that only the ruthless survive.

Tatak ng Tundo

1978

...At Muling Nagbaga Ang Lupa poster
7.0

A 1979 Filipino action drama starring and directed by Fernando Poe Jr.

...At Muling Nagbaga Ang Lupa

1979

Tierra... Sangre... poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tierra... Sangre...

1970

Hit and Run poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hit and Run

1975

Aliw-iw poster
NR

The story of an indigenous Igorot woman who traverses the complex path of life to the playful line of destiny.

Aliw-iw

1979

Roberta poster
8.0

A young female hero is unjustly accused of murder and intimidated to say that she committed the crime so that her family would not be harmed.

Roberta

1979

King poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

King

1978

No artwork available
9.0

The film tells a story of large rural families suffering from economic insecurity in a remote part of the town of Magdalena, Laguna, where major life events are punctuated by the tollling of the church bells, and the coastal community of Dalahican, Quezon. Both places are homes of large families dealing with the reality of poverty.

The Bells of San Jose

1974

1960s · 13 titles

Baril sa Baril poster
7.0

A story about two childhood friends Mario and Ricardo who are both war heroes, one day a corrupt attorney who desires power uses their good-hearted nature to test their friendship to get rid of each other.

Baril sa Baril

1961

Ang Iniluluha Ko'y Dugo poster
NR

All the flesh, the fire and ardour of a mother's love, a mother's grief, a mother's TEARS.

Ang Iniluluha Ko'y Dugo

1966

Ang Mananandata poster
8.0

A story of a man who goes on a manhunt after a band of outlaws kills his brother and a child in his hometown.

Ang Mananandata

1965

Ang Pagbabalik Ni Daniel Barrion poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ang Pagbabalik Ni Daniel Barrion

1968

Alamat Ng 7 Kilabot poster
9.0

A gunslinger was tasked by an antique collector to find a missing treasure, on his way he meets 6 more gunslingers to help him on the task but as they arrived at the town where the treasure was buried, they are mistaken for military aid.

Alamat Ng 7 Kilabot

1967

Dressed to Kill poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dressed to Kill

1966

Sino Ka, Madame X? poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sino Ka, Madame X?

1966

Perlas ng Silangan poster
8.0

Set at the backdrop of the colonization of pre-Hispanic Philippine, this historical epic revovles around the story of Ramir, a half-caste warrior falls in love with Princess Mahalina. Ramir has to reckon with another brave native, Kiram.

Perlas ng Silangan

1969

Nag-uumpugang Bato poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nag-uumpugang Bato

1961

Ang Mangliligpit poster
7.0

A story about a guerilla assassin tasked to kill fascist collaborators and sympathizers in the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.

Ang Mangliligpit

1968

Mother Dearest poster
8.0

Seven stories contained in letters received by the Mother of Perpetual Help Shrine at Baclaran, Phillippines.

Mother Dearest

1961

Walang Pagkalupig poster
NR

The story of the heroic exploits of PC Ranger Captain Laudemer Kahulugan tasked to hunt down Huk dissident leader Casto Alejandrino.

Walang Pagkalupig

1962

Ang Dayuhan poster
10.0

A mysterious gunslinger came to town and was mistaken by Donya Isabel to be the person she hired to help her problem with Don Jose, her second husband. Greed consumed Don Jose, enlisted a band of notorious gunslingers to eliminate the daughter to claim the family's wealth.

Ang Dayuhan

1968

1950s · 28 titles

Munting Koronel poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Munting Koronel

1953

Pretty Boy poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pretty Boy

1957

Kahapon Lamang poster
NR

The three movie queens of Sampaguita Pictures lead a star-studded adaptation of the popular CBN program.

Kahapon Lamang

1959

Inang Mahal poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Inang Mahal

1956

Balisong poster
7.0

A deadly weapon in the hand of a fiery woman only one man could tame it's fast-streaking fury.

Balisong

1955

Anak ng Espada poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Anak ng Espada

1954

El Indio poster
10.0

Based on Francisco V. Coching's adventure comics novel, the film tells the story of Fernando (Cesar Ramirez), a handsome and dashing Spanish mestizo who goes back to the Philippines to exact revenge on his father whom he believed abandoned him and his mother Blanquita. There, he discovers the cruel and oppressive colonial government and joins the rebels in the fight against the oppressors as El Indio.

El Indio

1953

Waldas poster
7.0

Centering on a hedonistic woman’s escapades throughout the urban landscape of Manila.

Waldas

1955

Condemned poster
8.0

Savage passions run wild - as violent as a condemned man on the loose.

Condemned

1958

Tres Ojos poster
10.0

A thrilling actioner of a meathead swashbuckling adventurer with a sensitive heart

Tres Ojos

1954

Ipinagbili Ko ang Aking Anak poster
10.0

The 2nd anniversary presentation of Vera-Perez Productions

Ipinagbili Ko ang Aking Anak

1959

Monghita poster
NR

She had everything a woman would wish for beauty, a man's love, and devotion, security yet, there was that longing for Someone beyond this world.

Monghita

1952

May Umaga Pang Darating poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

May Umaga Pang Darating

1953

Tanikalang Apoy poster
9.0

Rudil and Ester are now husband and wife, making Ester the newest addition to the affluent Rioblanca family. She slowly learns about how this family is run by their iron-fisted matriarch.

Tanikalang Apoy

1959

Rodora poster
8.0

A story of a mother and daughter separated by fate, the mother who have no memory of the child she bore, and the daughter who hopes to find her long-lost mother.

Rodora

1956

Lupang Kayumanggi poster
10.0

The motion picture that will make you proud you are a Filipino.

Lupang Kayumanggi

1955

Kamandag poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kamandag

1959

Mga Anak ng Diyos poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mga Anak ng Diyos

1957

Talipandas poster
9.0

Adapted from Espesyal Komiks.

Talipandas

1958

Sino Ang Maysala? poster
9.0

Bankruptcy drove Don Ramon Versoza to commit suicide leaving nothing to the family his wife, Rosa, and four children, Carmen, Gloria, Lolita, and Bobby. Carmen, the eldest, filled the gap left by her father and swore to send her siblings to school.

Sino Ang Maysala?

1957

Kilabot Sa Makiling poster
8.0

A 1959 Filipino action drama starring Mario Montenegro and Lolita Rodriguez.

Kilabot Sa Makiling

1959

Siklab sa Batangas poster
7.0

Here is the surging drama of three brothers - torn between two flags - Here is the story of Elias Tabak - the fire of vengeance burned in his heart, and - it took one woman to tame the fury of his "tabak".

Siklab sa Batangas

1952

Pitong Pagsisisi poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pitong Pagsisisi

1959

Inspirasiyon poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Inspirasiyon

1953

Apat na Taga poster
9.0

A story about a mother who acquires a disease and how the family dealt with her.

Apat na Taga

1953

Kerubin poster
8.0

St. Peter is exasperated with the antics of Kerubin, a mischievous little angel. So he sends Kerubin to Earth with the proviso that she cannot return to heaven until she makes one sad soul happy. Kerubin settles on Anastacis, a young housewife who wants to have a child but cannot and whose husband is beginning to have a wandering eye.

Kerubin

1952

Dumagit poster
9.0

A story of the boy Dumagit who grows up in the jungle with his guardian and animal friends. Dr. Joaquin Olivar and his pregnant wife Marina hide in a remote island after Olivar was accused of a crime and Marina feared being ostracized. Marina dies after giving birth to a baby boy, David. Olivar takes care of the baby on his own and gives him the nickname Dumagit. Later, Olivar is killed by a group of men who came into the island to hunt animals. Twenty years later, Federico Olivar, brother of Joaquin Olivar, comes to the island to look for his brother. This film is the Philippine version of Tarzan.

Dumagit

1954

Roberta poster
9.0

Based on the popular comics by Mars Ravelo, Roberta is a battered child taking care of his brother in an impoverished setting.

Roberta

1951

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