Filipino films that got under my skin
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One More Chance
Cathy Garcia-Sampana · 2007
Popoy and Basha had been together forever. Their love story began when they first met as students at university. They had been inseparable and did everything together—eating, studying and attending parties. However, Popoy's incessant planning and nagging took a toll on their relationship leading Basha to break-up with him.
Seven Sundays
Cathy Garcia-Sampana · 2017
The Bonifacio siblings reunite when they find out their father is diagnosed with cancer. In the process, they have to deal with unresolved issues among themselves before it's too late.
Family Matters
Nuel C. Naval · 2022
A story of a stroke-stricken father whose family members take turns in manning the caregiving department. As his condition worsens, his children and wife start to squabble among themselves as they try to adapt to the circumstances.
Call Me Mother
Jun Lana · 2025
Fabulous single queer mother, Twinkle, plans on surprising her loving adoptive son, Angel, with a Disneyland trip by finalizing his adoption papers - if and only if nobody claims Angel within three months. But the unexpected arrival of Mara starts to complicate their peaceful life. Shook by Mara's arrival, Twinkle goes the extra mile to prove that she is a caring and capable mother to Angel - resulting in over-the-top hilarious means to assure Mara that Angel is already in good loving hands. As the end of the three-month adoption process comes to a close, a surprising and threatening bond between Mara and Angel forms. Can Twinkle prove that motherhood lies not in biology, but in profound, unwavering devotion?
Bekikang: Ang Nanay Kong Beki
Wenn V. Deramas · 2013
Bekikang is left and abandoned with a baby boy by friend, Fortunato. He loves and raises the child as his own flesh and blood. When things are going so well between Bekikang and the child, Fortunato and the mother of the child after years of absence reappear to take the child back.
And the Breadwinner Is...
Jun Robles Lana · 2025
A mistaken identity leads to a promising opportunity when breadwinner Bambi comes home to her own funeral. Instead of correcting the comical mistake, Bambi, together with her dysfunctional family, decide to keep up the ridiculous act of her death in order to claim her 10 million peso life insurance in hopes of finally turning their dream life to reality.
Sunshine
Antoinette Jadaone · 2025
Just days before her team's tryouts for the Olympics, dedicated young gymnast Sunshine discovers she is pregnant. Now she must embark on a desperate and risky journey to fight for her dream.
GomBurZa
Pepe Diokno · 2023
A powerful and moving historical drama that tells the courageous story of three Filipino Catholic priests: Mariano Gomez, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora.
Manila's Finest
Raymond Red · 2025
Set during the first quarter storm in the 1970s, policemen Homer, Conrad, and Billy are consumed by the murder case of troublemaking teenagers in the slums.
Heneral Luna
Jerrold Tarog · 2015
A Filipino general who believes he can turn the tide of battle in the Philippine-American war. But little does he know that he faces a greatest threat to the country's revolution against the invading Americans.
Green Bones
Zig Madamba Dulay · 2024
A soon-to-be released criminal and a corrections officer is still grieving over the death of his sister opposing the prisoner's release.
Lea's Story
Chito S. Roño · 1998
A fiercely independent and unflinchingly candid woman connected with a women's crisis and survival center has to raise her two kids with different fathers. Her first husband has left her when their career options failed to converge. She is now stuck in an extramarital arrangement with another man who cannot bring himself to respect and commit to their quite unorthodox relationship.
