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- The Pineda family struggles with bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest, and skin irritations in a dilapidated movie theater.
- Joselito (Aga Muhlach), an intellectually-disabled man, is wrongfully charged with sexual assault, kidnapping, and murder of a little girl. In prison he becomes friends with his fellow inmates and together they form a plan to smuggle his young daughter (Xia Vigor) inside the cell. Years after, his daughter (Bella Padilla) becomes a lawyer and is determined to prove her father's innocence.
- Elaine and Orly are a young couple whose marriage is in shambles because of a dysfunctional sex life. Miguel introduces her to an exciting and exhilarating world that liberates her from an otherwise boring existence.
- Four women who swear to be friends forever become domestic helpers abroad. However, one of them is beaten to death by her employer. Keeping their promise to come home safe, sound, and alive, Brite, Gay, and Dolly decide to bring their dead friend Res home.
- Fascinating journey through the life and work of the prestigious Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, both marked by sexuality and eroticism. Charismatic and somewhat eccentric, brilliant intellectual with extraordinary sensitivity and member of Barcelona's 'gauche divine' in the 60s, Gil de Biedma liked to describe himself as a 'poet of experience' while he suffered dreadfully from the dichotomy strangling him: bourgeois and executive for a multinational by day, communist and homosexual poet by night.
- A married man resigns from his job, leaving his wife to provide for his family. He now has to adapt to a new role: staying at home, taking care of the kids, and running the household.
- Torotot explores the story of two couples, why and how their marriages crumble and how their infidelity and passion brought them tragic endings. Leo 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 pre-mature 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.
- Jose Rizal's life and works are recounted through a series of non-linear flashbacks which reflect on various aspects of his life - as writer, propagandist, lover, friend, brother, doctor, and the man that inspired a revolution.
- A college student, his girlfriend and bestfriend get more than what they bargained for when they decide to learn about the dark days of Martial Law straight from an old retired soldier who may be one of its worst abusers.
- Peter Kasimsiman was once a submissive son to his parents. But losing his mother at a tender age, left him with an abusive father who only knew of tending to his carriage horse, Brown Beauty. Peter is eager to win the love and attention of his indifferent Tatay. But an unfortunate incident forces him to run away from home. His horrible life starts to change its course when he meets the nurturing haciendera Helena who provides him shelter and unconditional affection he knew his father would never be able to give. Helena teaches Peter love and kindness, grooming him as the sole heir to the hacienda in the event of her death. Albeit fueled with the guidance of the good-natured foster mother, who's known for her passionate concern for her employees, Peter has an intolerable bad temper especially towards her mother's loyal servant, Maita and the latter's beautiful and gifted daughter, Samantha. Peter's almost perfect life is threatened as people from the hacienda adore the beauty and goodwill of Samantha. These include the estate's striking horse trainer, Erickson, the good-looking veterinarian, Dickson and even the trusted estate horse, Sylvester. Add the unwanted presence of his long-lost sister, Peter's life seemed like an everyday living hell. Little did Peter know that Diobayo, the Goddess of Horses, watches every move he makes as he grows oblivious to other people and the surrounding horses' needs. To teach Peter a painful lesson, Diobayo cursed him transforming him into the horse, Petra, whenever he acts surly and proud. Will Peter choose to continue his grumpy personality? Or will he be able to use his 'horse instinct' to change for the better?
- A transgender sex worker in her late 40s along Fields Avenue whose only aspiration is to have breast implants for her profession unexpectedly assumes the role of a mother to her orphaned niece, a transgender youth who is only beginning to discover her own sexuality. As she works more shifts to save for her implants, troubles arise when she begins to feel the weight of her struggles - being an aging sex worker in fast-evolving society, a partner to her young fiancé, and a parent to a teenager she just met. Her difficult confrontations eventually lead her to a new attitude towards life, and a unique recipe to a famous Kapampangan dish, Sisig.
- Fredo (Cesar Montano) is a fisherman who has endured more than his share of hardship in life: his wife and child both perished in a boating accident, and today Fredo approaches each trip to the sea with the angry determination of a man out for revenge. Fredo commands a crew of young people from poor families as he takes his rattletrap ship into the ocean in search of fish that live along the reefs, snaring catch with an illegal netting system. Not all of Fredo's youthful sailors are willing to put up with his abusive arrogance, however, and even his father Dado (Pen Medina) and close friend Botong (Jhong Hilario) have grown weary of Fredo's tirades. Fredo's body is beginning to betray him as well, and as he and his crew damage the sea's reef beds in search of fish, no one is certain how much longer he will be able to continue.
- Bugbong Sarado is a mystery drama revolving around two neighboring couples. In a twisted chain of events one man (Brandon) falls for the wrong woman (Stella) and ends up killing the man (Brix) who rightfully owns the woman he fell for.
- Norma (Maricel Soriano) straddles between being a mother to Ruby (Tala Santos) and being a nanny to her employer's daughter Louise (Erika Oreta). Norma left her daughter in the province to be a nanny to another person's daughter. An emergency forces Norma to bring Ruby with her to Manila and her employer is kind enough to accept Ruby in the household, but Louise competes with Ruby for Norma's affection. Now Norma must balance her love and attention for the two special people in her life: her daughter and her ward.
- Continuing the tradition of national artist Ishmael Bernal's benchmark film Working Girls after 25 years, Working Girls 2010 depicts the role of women in the new millennium. Seven women of different backgrounds, stories, and personalities entwine in a colorful story of family, love, and life--Dr. Cleo Carillo (Eula Valdes) is a very well-known cosmetic surgeon to celebrities. Her clients include high-profile beauty queens and socialites such as Marilou Cobarrubias (Ruffa Gutierrez) and Betchay Magbutay-Cavendish (Carmi Martin). She is successful in her field and enjoys being in the spotlight, but her success is not without intrigues and lawsuits, things that are well-known to her star client Marilou Cobarubbias (Ruffa Gutierrez), who started as a simple girl who was trained to be a beauty queen. She married an old business tycoon and eventually became a widow. But her husband's daughter from his first wife, Amanda dela Vega, is determined to bring her down by arranging that she inherits nothing but a nearly-bankrupt business. She struggles to learn how to stand on her own, something which Tere Villanueva (Iza Calzado) has been doing since she was young. Tere is the ideal nurse: sweet, smart, and caring to her patients. She becomes close to an old patient, Amelia Marcelino, and fears that she might end up like her, facing the possibility of dying alone. She also suffers a lingering broken heart because of her failed relationship with her one great love Leon (Jao Mapa). But fate dictates that Tere is assigned a new patient: Leon's terminally-ill wife. Ada Villanueva (Jennylyn Mercado), Tere's cousin, shares Tere's heartache and pain after rejecting the marriage proposal of her child's father--who promptly got engaged to someone else. She works hard as a call-center agent to provide for her son, but has little time to actually spend with him. Taking care of a child is nowhere near the priority of Dara dela Vega (Bianca King): beautiful, sophisticated, and US-educated, she becomes overconfident--arrogant, actually. This brings on wrath and cold treatment from her coworkers. Tobz (Carlo Aquino), Ada's call-center colleague, is the boyfriend of an ambitious girl who claims that she is a successful and glamorous model: Wendy Casuga (Christine Reyes). She idolizes beautiful women who become high-profile socialites, just like Marilou Cobarrubias. She is often seen in auditions and VTR's to fulfill her dream of being famous. Melvin (Antonio Aquitania) is the husband of Paula Cabigting (Eugene Domingo). Affected by the US recession, he returned to the Philippines jobless, eventually becoming a bum. Paula works hard to manage her online business selling fake designer bags because she cannot even rely on her husband to drive her around delivering goods to her customers, so she must hire a service vehicle owned by Nelson Obleta (Ricky Davao), beginning a complicated relationship. This is the story of seven lovely, highly-entertaining working girls, each with her own story to tell, connected by coincidence or destiny. Strong, independent, and driven to succeed, they are also women who just want to be understood and loved.
- As a devoted entrepreneur wins the affection of a free-spirited traveler, he must also win over her stern and disapproving father.
- Everyone's favorite group of friends from the 90s go on an adventure on the open seas. Wacks plans a weekend get-away for the gang using his father's yacht without him knowing. However the boat breaks down, forcing the group to stay on a nearby island.
- With Dr Valentine and Valentina's master plan threatening the entire world, Narda must find a way to get her magical stone and become Darna again to foil their plans.
- In the darker side of Manila-by-night, tribes of youthful gangsters roam the streets in search of quick fixes and precarious thrills. World-weary Tondo throbs to the beat of of hiphop and freestyle gangsta rap, and to the scents and sensations of drugs and sex and violence. We witness this crepus-cular underworld through the eyes of ten-year-old Ebet. We follow him as he witnesses the deadly lives of teen age gang members in Tondo and the events that lead to their explosive confrontation. The Thugz Angels tribe members chance upon a blood-soaked body of a member of another gang. Police arrest a Thugz Angels member for the murder. The murdered teen is a member of the Sacred Brown Tribe, whose leaders vow to avenge their fallen member. They learn that Diablos gang members killed the SBT neophyte. During the wake, SBT members forge a reluctant alliance with the Thugz Angels, and assemble to raid the Diablos lair. The Diablos are older, bigger, and confident of their fighting prowess. They know that they are being targeted for revenge and prepare accordingly. Ebet lurks throughout the story, an enigma that is part innocent child and cynical adult. His loyalties are a mystery, and all that is clear to us is his love for his drug-addicted mother. As the clock ticks towards midnight, guns are loaded, and knives are sharpened. The battle is about to begin! And this is just part of the story. Hailed as a gritty portrayal of Manilas notoriously violent streets of Tondo, Jim Libirans Tribu is an ultra-realist depiction of youth corrupted by violence, death and decay, told documentary-style and punctuated by the poetically-charged street poetry of the cast. Realist Cinema with a social project. The filmmaker employed real-life gang members as lead actors in this film. These gangs were from rival clans working together to finish this difficult project triggered a wave of unification and peace in a large part of Tondo's ghettos.
- On the day of her wedding, Precy who has the soul of Stefanie seek the help of Kim Atienza. The solar eclipse happens once every two years. The five waited two years for the eclipse to happen.
- During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, a young Chinese copra trader named Fong-Huan marries Elisa, a young and pretty Filipina. The couple's children, Daniel and Linda, were raised in a mixture of Chinese and Filipino-Hispanic tradition. These richly-cultured people are the ancestors of a dysfunctional third-generation family whose daughters tell their own stories of joy, struggle, and the complex realities in the life of Filipino Chinese families.
- After eating a spider doused in radioactive waste, ordinary ice cream vendor Junie uses his newfound powers to fight his rival, who becomes a mutated monster after he unknowingly ate a cockroach with the same radioactive element.
- Keka is a beautiful young woman working in a call centre. Wanting to hunt down the killers and avenge her boyfriend's death, she undergoes rigid trainings. Everything has been going well until shee meets the guy, who makes her fall in love again.
- A family becomes trapped in a village full of mysterious people and transforms into black dogs.
- A group of unsuspecting teens are terrorized by creatures from Philippines mythology.
- Four beauty pageant contestants vying for the coveted title of "Miss Manila Sunshine" set sail on a yacht. They ended up stranded on a deserted island after their vessel catches fire. Together with an attractive young man, a maid, and the gay pageant director, the four ladies find life "anything but dull".
- Cris and Jason are two policemen with two opposite personalities and philosophies-Cris is the epitome of the rare, near-extinct breed of honest cops while Jason is the basurero, the legman/front man who does the dirty work of his district's high officials. Despite their contrasting natures, the two forge an unlikely friendship during their Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) training, a friendship borne from conflict and competition, and bordering on brotherhood. The unlikely architect of their friendship is Major Sagala, their SWAT trainer. An alcoholic and once a basurero himself, Sagala sees in the two young cops the raw talent and skill that could make them the best the force he had ever seen. A loner and an outcast, and despite his rough and tough exterior, Sagala finds the sons he never had in Jason and Cris. Five years later, Cris is transferred from Cotabato to Jason's SWAT unit in Manila. His mother is in need of operation unavailable in the province, prompting him to make the request. It is only then that Jason finds out that he is the godfather to Cris's son, and that the boy is also named after him. For the first time in his life, Jason feels the warmth of a family. But Cris is a changed man. An encounter with a local politician in Cotabato has left him scarred physically and emotionally. His faith in the system he lived for has been replaced by a cynical hatred for the world. As the visit of the pope to the country draws near, Jason and Cris uncover a plot to assassinate the Pontiff. For Jason, cracking this case would mean his ascension from a basurero to legitimate police official. Until he finds out that the seemingly holy Cris is involved in this plot to kill the holiest man in Catholicism. As a bomb ticks its way to an explosive ending, the two men must confront each other in a deadly role reversal that will test their friendship. Banal explores the unseen side of police work, stabs at the unscrupulous behavior of the media in everyday events, and shows an uncompromising picture of Philippine society. In today's day and age, angels can become demons, and sinners can become saints.
- An accountant is found restrained inside a mansion, and she agrees to testify against her employer, who is the head of a massive scam against the Filipino people.
- Business rivals Vito and Cora want to prevent his daughter Anna and her nephew Dondi from falling in love. Destiny intervenes with their lives at the right time.
- Ploning, is a story of one mans search for the enigmatic woman who has deeply wounded him in the past. Having grown up in an illegal Taiwanese fishing vessel, Rodrigo (30 years old) returns to the beautiful island of Cuyo and is given from sunrise to sunset to look for his Ploning. In his search, he discovers that the woman he loved and adored as a boy is not the woman he thought he knew. Ploning has displayed her maternal love for Digo ( the 6-year old Rodrigo) but is shrouded in her mysterious love and devotion for Tomas, her childhood sweetheart who left her when she was 16. This 30-year-old spinster who has held a special place amongst the people as a dutiful daughter, a devoted friend, a caring sister and a loving maternal figure is slowly unveiled through Rodrigos memory and an emotional meeting with Plonings confidante, Seling. Through his search, Ploning will be revealed as the islands most bittersweet source of selfless love.
- Rafi (Anne Curtis) is happily committed to her lovely partner in life, Mark (Derek Ramsay). She's a bachelorette from a rich family, who belongs to the "Friday Club", the regular get-together of her college friends. Rafi is an attention-getter because of her in and out beauty and impressive credentials. But one day, a major life decision shifts everyone's impression of her. Sam (Andi Eigenmann), a rebellious, carefree and happy-go-lucky woman, who thinks that she can get away with her every dilemma. However, her perspectives turn 180 degrees when she meets the man who unexpectedly changes her life.
- Torky is a bookkeeper working for Baba, a millionaire cash-management specialist. Because of some conflict in her business that puts her life in danger, Baba entrusts the safety of her son Justin to Torky who takes him home to meet his daughter Ice, and also Ching, the street urchin that Ice took under her wing. Justin is not particularly fond of Torky; how will the four of them get along under one roof?
- Since Enteng Kabisote's last adventure, he has settled down to become a successful businessman and a caring grandfather as his son is busy being a law enforcer. He is unaware that there will be huge trouble and he will again be needed to save the world.
- After twenty years, local police captures the murderer of the older brother of a young boy. Now a doctor, he must go back to his old town and face the murderers himself. He then discovers that the murderers are Aswangs (folkloric Filipino vampire-like creatures) and they pose a deadly threat not only to him but also for the entire town.
- All is well for the Kabisote family and the kingdom of Engkantasya until a magical time-travelling mirror suddenly appears in the Kabisote family's doorstep, where an evil being known as the Dark Angel managed to step into their timeline and begins to plan a revolution where he and his army will be known as the Heroes of Darkness. In the ensuing chaos, Prince Inok, planning a way to get Faye to love him again, forms an allegiance with the Dark Angel which leads Enteng to be kidnapped and have his memories removed. Now it's up to Faye, Benok and Ina Magenta to rescue and restore Enteng's memories so he can join them in the final battle against the Dark Angel.
- A whimsical comedy about three women who cry at funerals, professionally.
- Xavier "Xavi" Lavezares was supposed to be a brilliant psychiatrist with a bright future ahead of him, until his sister Mara killed herself in front of him in the throes of a supposed demonic possession. Trying to find answers in a vocation he thought he'd never take up, Xavi becomes a man of the cloth who spends his spare time taking apart cases for exorcism. After the Vatican calls for an increase in the number of exorcists worldwide, Fr. Xavi is tapped to become to an exorcist. But when a botched exorcism ends in murder and leaves a supernatural echo from the trauma of his past, he enters a downward spiral as he is forced to confront the possibility of a reality far greater than his own. When idealistic young clairvoyant Sister Barbara "Barbie" Vergel de Dios finds one of her former students experiencing the symptoms of possession, she is convinced that it is real. But she has trouble finding an exorcist to believe her. When Fr. Xavi is put on the case as a last resort, she sees one last chance to find help for the girl. With the aid of his keen observation skills, his rigorous learning, a heady clairvoyant assistant and perhaps a little faith, the cynical Fr. Xavi must find the means to confront a gripping darkness bigger than himself, and in doing so find some measure of purpose and redemption.
- Ciara(Claudine) goes to America as a physical therapist fulfilling a lifelong dream to better provide for her sister's needs. While back in the Philippines, Julia (Anne) lives a fast life and engages in a whirlwind romance with photographer Storm (Richard)Julia decides to follow Ciara to the US while Storm decides he cannot live without Julia and joins her on impulse. As Julia struggles to make a career, Storm starts to lose himself as an illegal alien, thus wanting to return to the Philippines. To help Storm obtain an immigrant status, Julia pleads Ciara to marry Storm for papers. Out of love for Julia, Ciara agrees.l Amidst the fraudulent marriage, true love blossoms between Storm and Ciara. Caught in the web of love and lies, fate finds its way to bring true love together. But with whom?
- When Niko visits his grandparents in the Philippines for the summer, he knew he would be exposed to a different culture. What he didn't expect, was to plunge headlong into an unseen world of magic and mystery. Now with the help of an exotic vampire girl and a host of other mystical creatures, he must overcome his own fears and embrace his destiny in order to save his grandparents from the forces of evil -- an evil he had unwittingly unleashed.
- The story is set in Bohol, Central Visayas during World War II before, during, and immediately after, the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.
- Alfredo S. Lim has just been awarded as one of Manila's ten most outstanding policemen. The celebration has abruptly ended when one of his co-honorees is killed while trying to stop a robbery. Lim tracks down these criminals which ruffles the feathers of powerful people. His work takes a personal toll on his marriage and also puts his family in danger.
- Pepito, growing up in a remote fishing village in the Philippines is destined to become the successor of his mother: the only midwife in the whole district, a job given from generation to generation. As Pepito's mother Rosa who is a widow, becomes pregnant she tries everything to abort the baby because of the shame this would bring. This fails and she sees the only way to protect her son is to commit suicide. After a while Pepito falls in love with a teacher from the capitol, Mrs. Santiago. But this relationship cannot have a future.
- Gil Blanco suffers frequent blackouts due to his heavy drinking. His inability to control his alcoholism drives his wife away, leaving him to take care of their son Niño. Will Gil be able to stay sober and regain control of his life?
- Three village friends unravel the mysteries behind the series of neighboorhood killings and try to connect them to their suspicious, new neighbor who seemingly shapeshifts and only comes out at night.