Lino Brocka Movies

With interviews with National Artists Lamberto Avellana and Lino Brocka and myriad talents from the Mowelfund community such as Nick Deocampo and...

This official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1983 directed by Lino Brocka and starred Carmi Martin, Phillip Salvador, Dennis...

A strong-willed matriarch and her family leave their fishing village for Manila after an oil spill.

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

A 1982 drama by Lino Brocka set in the world of boxing, starring Phillip Salvador, Vic Vargas and Chanda Romero.

A typical story of a hopeless Filipino worker whose last resort is to work abroad to save his family from poverty. Melo trudged the desert to look...

This film probes into the minds and hearts of illegitimate children and their mothers.

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.

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

A surreal film about a man recovering from mental illness.

The setting is an Olongapo bar. Lolita Rodriguez is an ex-movie queen trying to earn a living for her son and herself. He is mortally embarrassed by...

Diego and Gabriela Silang are landed Ilocos natives disaffected with the imposition of the indulto de comercio (a law giving right to Spanish...

Film critic Tony Rayns interviews Lino Brocka and other prominent Filipino filmmakers.

Brocka's potboiler about the rise of a starlet is the quintessential rags-to-riches, prey-turned-predator story, brimming with true-life anecdotes...

Benito is a married wealthy businessman. Unknown to his family, he is a closeted homosexual and is having a secret affair with his driver, Diego....

Angela Delmar works as a waitress for one of the seedier bars in Manila. There she meets five patrons of the bar, who also turn out to be a gang...

A girl grew up alone in a secluded island, ostracized by the people for being born out of wed lock. A young Hawaii-based Filipino-speaking tourist...

For love is our anthem, our dream and golden flame - to make beautiful tomorrows as we burn yesterday's sorrows.

Corazon Rivera is a factory worker in a textile company owned by Cynthia Ocampo's family. Her live-in partner and co-worker, Robert de Asis, is an...

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