A middle-class girl from the Philippines drops out of high school to follow Gardo, a minor actor in low-budget films, to soon find herself not the wife, but rather the maid. Lino Brocka's lost masterpiece of Filipino cinema, newly restored in 4K.
Investigating the murder of the young Hanzel, detective Juan Mijares plumbs the depths of the Filipino youth gangs of Jersey City. Lav Diaz's sole film shot in the U.S. establishes the epic scope and Dostoyevskian themes that would define his oeuvre.
When Mila announces to her father that she is pregnant, he begins a sordid game to reassert control over his kin. Mike De Leon's Martial Law-era masterpiece: an unflinching portrait of the horrors of authoritarianism and patriarchy.
Four best friends are graduating from the University of the Philippines, their paths diverging in significant ways. Marilou Diaz-Abaya's feminist epic Moral, restored from near-unsalvageable elements.
A fork in the road brings newlyweds Narcing and Puring the provinces, a small town not so far from Hell. Inspired by a sordid true crime story, this classic Filipino melodrama turns to horror. Marilou Diaz-Abaya's masterclass on Filipino Gothic.
A rambunctious batch of students rebel against expectations to be good and clean. Every frame of Cleaners is xerox'ed and hand-coloured, providing a deeply nostalgic outlook on growing up in the Philippines in the early 2000s.
A laced cassette tape sets off the Yakuza, the Filipino-Chinese Triad, and a convent of fake nuns. Kakabakaba ka ba? finds master Mike De Leon at his most outlandish, comedic and biting.
Living near the US Clark Air Base, Corazon de la Cruz dreams of a better life in America… until the unspeakable happens. Nora Aunor starts in this timeless, galvanizing classic conceived as a protest film against the horrors of American imperialism.
Alienated Sonya struggles to keep her funeral home afloat, until an unexpected corpse lands at her doorstep. A powerful meditation on longing, Dwein Baltazar's Filipino Gothic Ode to Nothing is a captivating arthouse horror hybrid.
When the domineering Señora Pina asks her favorite son to name his inheritance, she sparks a feud that boils over into all-out filial war. in Lino Brocka's pulpy Cain and Abel, a powerful examination of the landed class and frontier justice.
