
Directing
Maryo J. de los Reyes
Born — Died
1952-10-17 — 2018-01-27
Place of birth
Sta Cruz, Manila, Philippines
Known for
Directing
Credits
41 titles
Mario Margarito "Maryo" Jorolan de los Reyes was a prolific director for film and television. He was best known for directing numerous films including "High School Circa 65" (1979), which is his directorial debut, "Bagets" (1984), and the internationally acclaimed "Magnifico" (2003). He died on 27 January 2018.
Known for
4.2A love triangle develops between a man, his wife, and his best friend.
Flesh
2002
4.0Set in the immediate summer after the events of the first movie, and deals with more of the guys' misadventures as they prepare for college.
Bagets 2
1984
3.9Ian Montes is a picture of success. Despite being a son of a shipping tycoon, Ian refused to just ride in his father's empire. He built his own real estate company and earned his first million at a very young age. He never looked back since then. Driven by his ambition to become better, if not as good as his father, Ian managed to make it on his own. But behind all the glory is a man yearning for love and recognition.
A Love Story
2007
5.0A woman is torn between trying to save her failing marriage or pursuing the possibility of a new love.
The Unmarried Wife
2016
During World War II, the "dark years" in the Philippine history, Tacing is a woman involved in different love affairs which resulted in endless trials and tribulations.
You Cannot Trample Me
1984
3.3Tess is a bored businesswoman who is married to Andy, a processed meat salesman. She learns to cook good food from Alice. Unknown to both of them, they shared the same man all the time.
Pahiram Kahit Sandali
1998
Film credits
Behind the camera
4.2A love triangle develops between a man, his wife, and his best friend.
Flesh
2002
4.0Set in the immediate summer after the events of the first movie, and deals with more of the guys' misadventures as they prepare for college.
Bagets 2
1984
3.9Ian Montes is a picture of success. Despite being a son of a shipping tycoon, Ian refused to just ride in his father's empire. He built his own real estate company and earned his first million at a very young age. He never looked back since then. Driven by his ambition to become better, if not as good as his father, Ian managed to make it on his own. But behind all the glory is a man yearning for love and recognition.
A Love Story
2007
5.0A woman is torn between trying to save her failing marriage or pursuing the possibility of a new love.
The Unmarried Wife
2016
During World War II, the "dark years" in the Philippine history, Tacing is a woman involved in different love affairs which resulted in endless trials and tribulations.
You Cannot Trample Me
1984
3.3Tess is a bored businesswoman who is married to Andy, a processed meat salesman. She learns to cook good food from Alice. Unknown to both of them, they shared the same man all the time.
Pahiram Kahit Sandali
1998
4.0Twins Bambi and Bobby (Roderick Paulate) are separated from birth. Their mother Mameng (Nanette Inventor), unconscious from childbearing, is found by an old woman who takes one infant Bambi, who grows up to be a gay running a beauty parlor. Bobby grows up with his biological mother and becomes a tough guy getting involved with a crime syndicate now hunting him for taking away a damning microfilm. But the syndicate always mistakes Bambi for Bobby and has taken him captive.
Bala at Lipistik
1994
5.7Experiencing the forbidden. Experiencing rejection. Hating your parents. Hating the world around you. Discovering what's hot. Discovering what's cool. Discovering your first true love. Discovering who you are. Growing up can be such a wild time. But not when you've got the best guys to hang out with. Five chaste young men immerse themselves in the superficialities and superfluity of adolescence over the course of their last year in high school. But as they make their gradual transition from boyhood to manhood, they realize it is their formidable bond that stands as the real deal.
Bagets
1984
10.0A divorced couple fight over their son.
I Love You Mama, I Love You Papa
1986
3.3A young Pina was traumatized when her family was murdered while she had her first menstruation. She grows up into a serial killer transforming herself to different personalities as she seduced one man at a time grossly killing them while in the act of sexual pleasure.
Tagos ng Dugo
1987
4.7Jonas always buys from her suki Kaye, a perfume whom he gives it to her girlfriends. After days, he brakes up with her girlfriend.
I Think I'm In Love
2002
8.0Ano Bang Meron Ka is a tightly woven modern love story between two of most unlikely lovers played in the film by Joyce Jimenez and Diether Ocampo. Joyce plays a high-living partygoing lifestyle writer and special events organizer who when she meets the more laid-back and unassuming bar owner, Diether, finds in the guy the exact foil to her want on ways - but whom romantically electrifies her to sweep her off her feet in the most unexpected ways.
Ano Bang Meron Ka?
2001
8.0Ano Bang Meron Ka is a tightly woven modern love story between two of most unlikely lovers played in the film by Joyce Jimenez and Diether Ocampo. Joyce plays a high-living partygoing lifestyle writer and special events organizer who when she meets the more laid-back and unassuming bar owner, Diether, finds in the guy the exact foil to her want on ways - but whom romantically electrifies her to sweep her off her feet in the most unexpected ways.
Ano Bang Meron Ka?
2001
7.8A boy builds a coffin for his terminally ill grandmother, while raising money to buy a wheelchair for his sister.
Magnifico
2003
NRSix generations of males of the Alegre all have died tragically due to women who all look the same. Until Teddy, male descendant and archeological student, put the pieces together after falling in love with the beautiful elusive.
Diosa
1982
4.0Leo and Marie are having marital problems because the woman is spending too much time with her pet dogs. This prompts Leo, the art director of ad agency, to have a one-night stand. Marie then confronts her husband about his infidelity and plots her own revenge. Another couple experiencing marital problems featured in the movie is composed of Gabby and Rita. The husband has to deal with premature ejaculation but Rita doesn't mind at all. That is until she meets the very aggressive Gaston (a married meat vendor) who awakens her appetite for lust and forbidden passion.
Destierro
2008
1.0Tour guide Berta is having a tough time making ends meet. She’s forced to let her son Omel travel to the big city to take a job at an electronics store. Luis is studying to be a seaman, but can’t seem to pass his exams. His girlfriend Dolores is working as an intern at a resort, and dreams of going abroad as well. Sandra, following a painful event back in Manila, returns to her native Bohol, taking her spoiled son Eric with her.
Bamboo Flowers
2013
4.3Sarah Jane Salazar, a young woman with HIV, fights for her rights as a human being and becomes a national figure for safe sex at age 19.
The Secrets of Sarah Jane
1994
3.0Happily Ever After is a trilogy. Each is a love story with a touch of magic, comedy and whimsy. Tying all the segments together is a seemingly fake fortune teller, who uses a science sphere she got at a novelty store as a crystal ball!
Happily Ever After
2005
3.7When Mae finds out that her husband Spanky is having an affair, Mae confronts the other woman which results in tragedy.
In the Name of Love
1995
9.0A nurse falls in love with her hospital patient, sending tongues wagging.
Totoo Ba Ang Tsismis?
1981
7.0A pilot with an ideal family life and a beautiful wife faces the temptations of another woman, a fee-spirited and fiercely independent single girl.
My Other Woman
1990
NRAnthology features three family-friendly fantasy / horror tales; "Sleeping Beauty," "Zombies" and "Querubin: Maria Leonora Theresa." It's an adaptation of the radio drama series written by Severino Reyes, which was popular in the 1950s.
The Tales of Grandmother Basyang
1985
7.0Alex, in an altercation after a car accident with Gaston, loses his brother Joey. Gaston is eventually arrested, but during the exchange of bullets during his arrest, Gaston's son Sonny unfortunately dies. Alex thinks the arrest will give justice to Joey's death, but instead it still leaves him distraught. After Joey appears in Alex's dreams and comforts him, his life changes. Meanwhile, Gaston is in prison and wants to avenge Sonny's death.
Higit pa sa Buhay ko
1999
3.7The first episode deals about the story of a mistress who is engaged in an extra-curricular activity with her lover's driver. The second story deals about an illicit relationship of a balik-bayan with a seminarian. The third and the most controversial is about the martyr wife of an abusive police officer who allowed his colleagues to molest his wife.
Red Diaries
2001
3.7A trilogy about desire, obsession and ultimately, redemption. The film explores the dark and bizarre possibilities of love and relationships, while depicting the plight of women as they are empowered in a world where discrimination and violence against women persist
Bedtime Stories
2002
NRA story which happened in a small town in Bohol in 2005. Twenty one pupils died and almost a hundred were hospitalized after eating cassava cakes sold by an old woman, who might have accidentally used pesticide in her ingredients.
Kamoteng Kahoy
2009
8.0Clarissa is an ambitious young woman born to a poor family. She is later adopted by her rich godmother after a tragedy. Determined to escape a life of poverty, she uses everyone around her, including her friends and family, in her relentless pursuit of wealth and power.
Selfish Desires
1984
NRA musical comedy about the after-school activities of high school and college students, particularly in disco houses.
Bongga Ka 'Day
1980
8.0Set in 1965, the film follows the everyday lives of the students and the faculty.
High School Circa '65
1979
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Mahal Kita, Walang Iwanan
2000
A view on the lives of four woman, married, widowed, mistress and "missed."
Sa Totoo Lang!
1985
3.0The story revolves around Maxi dela Cerna, a young, aspiring New York-based fashion designer who returns to the Philippines shortly after her mother’s death to find her father. She had been swindled by her ex-boyfriend and hopes to pay off her debts by selling the piece of provincial land that her parents co-owned. But this means spending time with her father whom she hates for walking out on her and her mother 15 years ago. As the uptight and guarded Maxi struggles to immerse herself in farm life and deal with a father she despises, she crosses paths again with Tommy, her childhood friend, now an architect who is trying to heal from his own mistakes in the past with his 7-year-old son.
I'll Be There
2010
8.0Maricel, Dina, and Snooky are in for exciting times as they hit the college campus! They meet cute guys, join organizations, fall in love with their professor, and get into all sorts of mess.
Schoolgirls
1982
Christine is a university guidance counsellor trapped in a loveless marriage. Leo, her husband, a cruel and vicious politician refuses to set Christine free as he needs her when he runs for public office and hires Orlando, a private detective to get solid evidence against Christine's infidelity.
I Want to be Happy
2000
9.0Dim-witted Pilar flies to the US after winning the Miss California Soy Sauce contest. Excited to find her long lost sister, Pilar finds herself helpless upon her arrival in the land of milk and honey until she meets Pepe, her handsome "flight mate."
Pepe en Pilar
1983
8.3The story of Annie Batungbakal, who dances in a disco bar.
Annie Batungbakal
1979
7.5The story of a generation that loves to party & loves to booze.
Kabilin-bilinan ng Lola ('Wag Uminom ng Serbesa)
1996
9.3Tata went back to his hometown, Bohol with his mother from their poor life in Quiapo. He suddenly realize that his father is still alive. He fell in love with the girl he met named Stephanie who is about to get married to his stepbrother named Prince.
Nandito ako... Nagmamahal sa 'yo
2009
5.2Melvin, a social worker, meets handsome stripper Efren and they become friends. When Melvin's mother dies, he moves in with Efren and his three female roommates.
Efren's Paradise
1999

