Filipino indie movies that I like
non-Star Cinema/Regal/Viva movies; films that started in the festival circuit
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- DirectorJoselito AltarejosStarsKenjie GarciaJiro ManioNino FernandezAntonio is a 15-year-old boy coming to terms with his sexuality in Manila, where his uncle comes to stay with him and his mother.
- DirectorMarlon RiveraStarsEugene DomingoJM De GuzmanKean CiprianoJocelyn, Rainier, and Bingbong are film-school graduates dead-set on making an Oscar-worthy film. They set out to do a quick pre-production as a courtesy call to their lead actress (Eugene Domingo), and a thorough inspection of their film's major location, the Payatas dumpsite. They believe they have a winning script and the energy and drive to make their dreams come true, no matter what the cost.
- DirectorBrillante MendozaStarsGina PareñoJaclyn JoseJulio DiazThe Pineda family struggles with bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest, and skin irritations in a dilapidated movie theater.
- DirectorEllen Ongkeko-MarfilStarsRicky DavaoIrma AdlawanReggie CurleyBest friends and hopeless romantics Boyet and Martha cope with difficult relationships in this comic drama from the Philippines that highlights the special bond between gay men and straight women. As Boyet tries to tame his confusing boyfriend, Dom, who sometimes says he's straight, Martha deals with the frustrations of her long-standing relationship with Steve.
- DirectorJade CastroStarsMartin EscuderoLauren YoungKerbie ZamoraRemington is in love with Hannah but she finds him lazy and uncouth. Then he starts to change. Suddenly he is becoming neater, nicer, more sensitive. Is he doing it for her? Or is something beyond his control changing him into someone he is not? He discovers that his gradual transformation is tied to something he did long ago, to childhood transgressions and curses uttered in graveyards. Hannah falls for the new and improved Remington, but he starts falling for someone else. As the ghosts of Remington's past come to haunt him, so do the the Zombadings. Undead, fabulous, they threaten to rock this sleepy town to death.
- DirectorJerrold TarogStarsLJ MorenoChe RamosDanielle AfuangA high school movie featuring a mix of real students and professional actors that deals with the experience of finding one's identity in a country that barely has one.
- DirectorJerrold TarogStarsLovi PoePaulo AvelinoTJ TrinidadAndrea Gonzaga is about to marry a man she doesn't love when a mysterious guest arrives and suddenly reminds her of the man she truly loves.
- DirectorJun LanaStarsEugene DomingoEddie GarciaIza CalzadoNewly-widowed Marilou inherits from her husband the town's only barbershop--a business that has been passed down by generations of men in his family. With no other means of support, she musters the courage to run the barbershop. But--as to be expected--she fails to attract any customers. But a touching act of kindness she extended to Rosa, a prostitute who works in the town brothel, leads to an unexpected opportunity. Rosa, who now considers Marilou a friend, urges her prostitute friends to pressure their male clientele into patronizing Marilou's barbershop. The men have no choice but to grudgingly oblige out of fear that Rosa will expose their infidelity to their wives.