
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
8.0Two shipwrecked men on South Sea island help natives battle vicious modern pirates bent on rape and mayhem.
South Seas
1974
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Munting Koronel
1953
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Pretty Boy
1957
NRThe three movie queens of Sampaguita Pictures lead a star-studded adaptation of the popular CBN program.
Kahapon Lamang
1959
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Inang Mahal
1956
NRA story about an orphan girl who thinks that a guerilla leader is an angel.
Anghel sa Aking Balikat
1965
Film credits
1980s · 3 titles
9.0A provincial son who just finished law school embarked on becoming a successful man, even if it means leaving behind his former life and seducing a woman beyond his means.
Vein Wound
1980
9.0A 1982 drama by Lino Brocka set in the world of boxing, starring Phillip Salvador, Vic Vargas and Chanda Romero.
In This Corner
1982
NRIron-hand discipline imposed by parents on their privileged children is deemed unappreciated and wasted.
Uhaw sa Kalayaan
1980
1970s · 16 titles
8.0Two shipwrecked men on South Sea island help natives battle vicious modern pirates bent on rape and mayhem.
South Seas
1974
A love story set against the backdrop of a coconut plantation
Seed
1973
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Totoy Bato
1977
7.0A 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
NRA story about the life of Rosa Henson and Kumander Lawin.
Ang Lihim ni Rosa Henson sa Buhay ni Kumander Lawin
1976
10.0A story about a military man who was tasked to make peace with a tribe of head hunters.
Nueva Vizcaya
1973
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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Apat na Patak ng Dugo ni Adan
1971
9.0Two 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
7.0A 1979 Filipino action drama starring and directed by Fernando Poe Jr.
...At Muling Nagbaga Ang Lupa
1979
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tierra... Sangre...
1970
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Hit and Run
1975
NRThe story of an indigenous Igorot woman who traverses the complex path of life to the playful line of destiny.
Aliw-iw
1979
8.0A 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
King
1978
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
7.0A 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
NRAll 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
8.0A 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Ang Pagbabalik Ni Daniel Barrion
1968
9.0A 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Dressed to Kill
1966
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sino Ka, Madame X?
1966
8.0Set 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Nag-uumpugang Bato
1961
7.0A story about a guerilla assassin tasked to kill fascist collaborators and sympathizers in the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
Ang Mangliligpit
1968
8.0Seven stories contained in letters received by the Mother of Perpetual Help Shrine at Baclaran, Phillippines.
Mother Dearest
1961
NRThe story of the heroic exploits of PC Ranger Captain Laudemer Kahulugan tasked to hunt down Huk dissident leader Casto Alejandrino.
Walang Pagkalupig
1962
10.0A 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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Munting Koronel
1953
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Pretty Boy
1957
NRThe three movie queens of Sampaguita Pictures lead a star-studded adaptation of the popular CBN program.
Kahapon Lamang
1959
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Inang Mahal
1956
7.0A deadly weapon in the hand of a fiery woman only one man could tame it's fast-streaking fury.
Balisong
1955
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Anak ng Espada
1954
10.0Based 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
7.0Centering on a hedonistic woman’s escapades throughout the urban landscape of Manila.
Waldas
1955
8.0Savage passions run wild - as violent as a condemned man on the loose.
Condemned
1958
10.0A thrilling actioner of a meathead swashbuckling adventurer with a sensitive heart
Tres Ojos
1954
10.0The 2nd anniversary presentation of Vera-Perez Productions
Ipinagbili Ko ang Aking Anak
1959
NRShe 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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
May Umaga Pang Darating
1953
9.0Rudil 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
8.0A 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
10.0The motion picture that will make you proud you are a Filipino.
Lupang Kayumanggi
1955
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Kamandag
1959
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Mga Anak ng Diyos
1957
9.0Adapted from Espesyal Komiks.
Talipandas
1958
9.0Bankruptcy 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
8.0A 1959 Filipino action drama starring Mario Montenegro and Lolita Rodriguez.
Kilabot Sa Makiling
1959
7.0Here 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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Pitong Pagsisisi
1959
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Inspirasiyon
1953
9.0A story about a mother who acquires a disease and how the family dealt with her.
Apat na Taga
1953
8.0St. 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
9.0A 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
9.0Based on the popular comics by Mars Ravelo, Roberta is a battered child taking care of his brother in an impoverished setting.
Roberta
1951
