Movies: Lino Brocka

Because his mother is too poor to feed her young children, Empoy is sent to work for his exploitative and cruel aunt....

Classes clash in this 1981 teen romantic comedy by Lino Brocka about a streetwise college dropout attempting to win the heart of a privileged, wealthy girl....

Three poor girls from the provinces of the Philippines are lured to the big city. In Manila they are tricked to work in the sex trade....

After his expulsion from college Juni Locsin (Gabby Concepcion) is forced to continue studies at Eastern College Of The Republic, an ordinary university. This is a contrary environment to the young man accustomed to luxury....

Famous TV commentator Maia Robles finds herself caught between having an affair with a politician and reporting on social issues, especially corruption....

The rich and beautiful Rosita would do anything to win the love of the man she had become obsessed with. Still, neither her beauty nor all the money in the world gave her what she wanted....

"Tatlo, Dalawa, Isa" is a compilation of three intimate stories directed by Filipino cinema legend Lino Brocka. The films show the perseverance of hope despite a sense of despair. Featuring a drug addict, an abandoned daughter and a repressed catho...

In Lino Brocka's 1981 melodrama, a man's juggling of three women—his wife, his girlfriend, and the wealthy married woman with whom he begins a torrid affair—leads to violent consequences....

Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood profiles controversial Filipino director Lino Brocka, detailing his rags-to-riches rise in the mainstream film industry of the Philippines. Primarily using interviews with the effusive director himself, Black...

Alice, Benjie and Andro are bank robbers who go into hiding in the jungle after one of them kills a civilian during a heist....

The lives of a newly married couple and their mutual friend unravel after the wife becomes the victim of a gang rape during a honeymoon....

Adapted from Mars Ravelo’s serialized “komiks,” this 1971 melodrama by Lino Brocka stars Rosemarie Sonora, Dante Rivero and Hilda Koronel as a twisted love triangle....

A stage mother drives her younger son to his ‘stardoom’ to make up for her downward slide from her bourgeois origins....

Mario O'Hara's surreal debut film about a man recovering from mental illness....

A 1984 erotic melodrama by Lino Brocka about a former softcore porn star ("bold star" in the Philippines), her abusive husband and their new next-door neighbor....

Diego and Gabriela Silang are landed Ilocos natives disaffected with the imposition of the indulto de comercio (a law giving right to Spanish officials to buy rice and tobacco at the price they prefer). The year is 1762 and the British invade Manila,...

Signos (1984) is a Super 8mm film documentary that was a true product of its time, a collaboration by film artists and writers, who, in spite of varying political persuations, were united by one common goal – ousting the reviled Marcos regime. It fea...

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A typical story of a hopeless Filipino worker whose last resort is to work abroad to save his family from poverty. Melo trudge the desert to look for greener pasture but it seems like it is too far and hard to reach. His family here in the Philippi...

This official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1983 directed by Lino Brocka and starred Carmi Martin, Phillip Salvador, Dennis Roldan, Vic Diaz, and Tony Santos, Sr centers on the story of Gigi, a burlesque dancer who is the main attr...