Lino Brocka Movies

Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood profiles controversial Filipino director Lino Brocka, detailing his rags-to-riches rise in the mainstream...

It tells of a couple, Dante and Elsa who hires a new governess, Carla to care for their four children. The governess quickly establishes rapport with...

A nighttime attempt to sabotage a Japanese munitions store in the little town of Santiago goes wrong when Gonzalo (Fernando Poe, Jr.) discovers that...

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...

Dreaming to be released from her miserable life of poverty, Aida, a waitress, abandons her bedridden father, her moralistic mother, her jobless...

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

A mother and daughter falls madly in love with mysterious stranger Emil Santos.

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

A documentary on the life and work of National Artists Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal.

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

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...

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...

Three intimate stories showing the perseverance of hope despite a sense of despair, featuring a drug addict, an abandoned daughter and a repressed...

After 20 years, Pura returns to her ancestral home to meet her father. However, this soon reignites a bitter rivalry between her and Emilia, her...

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...

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

A Channel 13 drama special about a cop whose one night of infidelity almost cost him his job and his life.

An actress's past is unraveled after a fan starts stalking her.

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

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