Candy Pangilinan

Acting

Candy Pangilinan

Born 1972-05-08

Maria Carmela "Candy" Espiritu Pangilinan (born May 8, 1972) is a Filipino film and television actress and comedian. She won best actress for CineFilipino 2016 and Los Angeles International Film Festival for the movie Star na si Van Damme.

Acting credits

Love, Ngo poster
9.5

Ngongo volunteers at a cleft lip foundation and works at his mother's burger stand. He falls for a woman, but her family rejects him due to his condition and social status, leading him to face challenges with love and acceptance.

Love, Ngo

2026

Wonderful Nightmare poster
8.0

A high-flying, career-driven lawyer dies prematurely due to a clerical error in heaven.

Wonderful Nightmare

2026

Beast poster
NR

After a final harvest forced upon him by the landlord, an old farmer and his loyal carabao embark on a magical road trip to Manila, chasing the ghost of a niece the years stole from him.

Beast

2026

A Werewolf Boy poster
6.0

A teenage girl moves to the countryside with her family. She meets a mysterious feral boy who lives on their property. The girl attempts to teach the boy how to behave like a human, but his wild instincts create challenges as their bond grows.

A Werewolf Boy

2026

Pakners poster
8.7

Manuel is a man who's just been conned out of his savings. One day, when he meets up with Nanding, a jeepney driver, he has a plan for how the two of them can find riches. It is no other than billiards.

Pakners

2003

Abay Babes poster
NR

Best friends forever or worst friends ever? Many years after high school, Emerald, Ruby, Perla, and Goldie (considered the Bicol “It Girls” of their batch) are reunited for the latter’s upcoming wedding. Joining them is Jade, Goldie’s friend from America. Everyone is excited about this get-together, but somehow, Goldie’s friends are finding it hard to believe that she is going to be the first to fulfill their dream of getting married, considering that she is the least attractive among them.

Abay Babes

2018

The National Third Wheel poster
NR

Trina who has lived her whole life as a third wheel meets the man who passes her standards and believes that this man will finally make her a third wheel no more. As they get to know each other, she finds out she's actually dating a single dad with an 8-year-old boy and he actually has a good relationship with the mother.

The National Third Wheel

2018

Mahal Kita, Alam Mo Ba? poster
8.0

In a rush to escape from the policemen arresting his boss, Mario disguised himself as an Arab man and gets to meet Teresa, a woman who is waiting for an Arab prince whom she is set to marry.

Mahal Kita, Alam Mo Ba?

1996

Adik Sa'Yo poster
10.0

A rehabilitating love story. A story about Paulo isang lalaking dating adik sa drugs nakailang rehab and Joy, na di man sa droga ay parang mas malala pa dahil adik ito kay Paulo simula high school – may rehab ba para sa dalawang ito? Is there a space for true love in between this addiction?

Adik Sa'Yo

2023

Boy! Gising! poster
NR

Vandolph plays big city streetwise kid who shacks up with a bunch of other kids like him in a makeshift home, hull of a bus, where Totoy (Babalu) lords over them as a surrogate date. Together they do their shenanigans that almost always end up in the craziest of misadventures. Until a band of underworld gangsters discover Boy's potential in one of their rackets - as a boy sumo wrestler. The kid obliges. The adventure heightens as Boy, Totoy and their cohorts go up against the bad guys in the wackiest chase ever!

Boy! Gising!

1995

The Only Family poster
5.0

A story of a young couple, Charlie Sicat and U.S.-based Prince Price, who decides to get married after two years of long-distance relationship. But there is one hitch: Charlie’s father Dindo had promised to give his wife Sunshine another church ceremony to mark their 25th wedding anniversary. Dindo vehemently refuses to have both weddings take place. Prince’s attempt to win over Dindo is further complicated by his nouveau riche mother Marlene, who insists on having her son’s wedding done her way.

The Only Family

2009

The Girl Allergic to Wi-Fi poster
6.3

Norma, a typical teenager who is always online, created a joint social media account for her and her boyfriend to mark their third monthsary. She gets a rare illness called electromagnetic hypersensitivity, which means she can't be around cellphones, tablets, laptops, and Wi-Fi. To help her cope with her syndrome, Norma relocates to a remote province with no signal, forcing her to have a long-distance relationship with Leo.

The Girl Allergic to Wi-Fi

2018

Diary ng Panget poster
7.9

A young woman takes a job as a personal maid for a rich young man. The pair do not get along, but soon due to their classmates' games of love, their relationship grows more complicated than before.

Diary ng Panget

2014

Isko: Adventures In Animasia poster
9.0

A coconut dealer named Isko must save the princess and the land of Animasia from the evil monsters.

Isko: Adventures In Animasia

1995

D' Lucky Ones! poster
7.9

Tina and Lea are best friends who are also avid fans of Vilma Santos. They were inseparable until Lea decides to leave the country and go to Korea. They promise that someday they will really become one big happy family when their children get married. Years after, by virtue of an old vow, Lucky Girl and Lucky Boy are forced to be together by their mothers. Problem is, they hate each other's guts. But, just when they're falling for each other, love plays a trick on the meddling moms which threatens to bring the young lovers apart.

D' Lucky Ones!

2006

Isolated poster
7.2

A nurse and her patient are trying to escape when a violent intruder starts hunting them.

Isolated

2025

Ikaw Pa... Eh Love Kita poster
7.0

A man who vows to fight for justice (Lito Lapid) and a hard-hitting TV reporter (Maricel Soriano) are forced to work together to escape the people who are after them.

Ikaw Pa... Eh Love Kita

1995

And I Love You So poster
NR

When Lara lost her husband of five months, she didn't think she could go on living, much less love again. Now, seven months later, Lara is still in mourning. Every time a loved one died, someone else was there to cushion the blow. When her mother followed six years later, there was the rest of the family. But when her husband died, no one could offer any consolation - not her siblings, not her in-laws, not her friends. Not only was he the love of her life, he had also become her life. It would have been better if she died with him. In the meantime, her business -has taken a nosedive. She's also deep in debt with her unpaid condo and car mortgages. With all her predicament, how would Oliver and Chris figure in her life? Will she finally move on?

And I Love You So

2009

Because I Love You poster
8.0

Dolzura Cortez has had several men in her life. One returns to her as an AIDS researcher and unwittingly, Dolzura becomes his subject. He encouraged her to come out in public so she can dispel the social stigma that comes with the disease.

Because I Love You

1993

Deadma Walking poster
8.2

A Palanca-winning comedy about gay best friends for life John and Mark whose friendship is put to the test when one of them has a terminal illness and asks the other to help him stage his fake death, wake, and funeral as his dying wish. The result is a laughfest of "deadly" proportions.

Deadma Walking

2017

Un-Ex You poster
6.7

Having had to fend for herself for most of her life, newly turned 30, Zuri has now become an independent and competent career woman who has put love on the backburner. But when she finds out she has a rare case of premature menopause - and may soon lose the ability to carry a baby - she scrambles to find a man with whom she can have a family of her own. After many attempts at different methods, she finds one last hope in her ex, ANDY. The only problem is that Andy has amnesia and has forgotten all about Zuri. Now, Zuri has to find a way to get him to fall in love with her all over again.

Un-Ex You

2025

Shake, Rattle & Roll III poster
7.6

In three tales of extreme horror, a young couple hires a mysterious nanny for their baby; a young woman discovers that her sister has been dead and been made alive again; and a student unwittingly brings home from a beach field trip the egg of an alien monster.

Shake, Rattle & Roll III

1991

Sunny poster
7.7

A Philippine adaptation of the 2011 hit Korean movie, Sunny is the story of a middle-aged woman who dreams to fulfill her dying wish to reunite with high school friends.

Sunny

2024

Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin poster
4.3

Divided into three "short films", each one pokes fun to a particular genre. Episode 1: Bala Sa Bala, Kamao Sa Kamao, Satsat Sa Satsat. Episode 2: Shake, Shaker, Shakest. Episode 3: Asawa ni Marie.

Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin

2016

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