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- How the daily lives of seven women working different jobs in a big commercial bank in Makati are affected by their ambition for success in their chosen career paths and how this drive affects their personal lives.
- THIS IS AN ACTION-FANTASY FILM ON THE EXPLOITS OF A LEGENDARY FOLK HERO.
- Alyas Baby Tsina/Alias Baby China (1984) is based on the true legal story of Evelyn Duave Ortega, aka Baby Tsina (She was called this in court documents because she looked Chinese. Otherwise there are no references to anything Chinese in her story or the film.) Duave was found guilty of murder in 1971 and several appeals while on death row culminated in a Supreme Court decision seven years later that declared her innocent and released her from prison.
- Decent, simple, honest Chinese farmhand and ace martial artist Tai-Lin goes to the Philippines to seek his fortune. He befriends scruffy petty street hoodlum Siao-Mao and gets a job as a dock worker. When Tai-Lin discovers that the people he works for are involved in a crime syndicate that specializes in smuggling opium, he quits his job and joins forces with two fellow martial artists against the evil organization.
- A family's source of joy becomes the cause of all their grief. After years of trying to have a son, a couple finally decides to adopt one. While Shayne their only child is receptive at first, she finds herself getting increasingly jealous of Joel who has become the couple's center of attention. Shayne realizes that her adopted brother is no threat at all when he demonstrates his affection for her. But just when harmony is restored in the family, tragedy strikes during a beach excursion. Acting on a dare by Joel, Shane's father drifts afar from the shore and drowns. Shane's mother suffers a breakdown and blames Joel for the tragedy. Albeit Shane tries to hold the family together, the mother becomes inconsolable and demands that she return the boy to the orphanage. Now, Shayne must make the painful choice whether to keep her brother or submit to her mother's wishes.
- Ishmael Bernal's opus recreates the quality and slow pace of life in a dying village surrounded by the sea as it is caught in the eternal cycle of love and hate, of fertility and pollution, of birth and death. A bold and successful attempt to depart from the usual commercial fare, it cryptically paints a large, bleak canvas showing rural fold and how their chances at redemption and happiness are irreversibly decimated by poverty, ignorance, neglect and the dark side of big business.
- Crispin is a 29-year old bachelor who lives alone in his apartment and works in a bank. His life is filled with pain and suffering as he wants to find a woman to love as he approaches his 30s.
- HERBERT BAUTISTA IS A YOUNG aswang-buster SUPERHERO IN THIS FARCE, THAT COMBINES COMEDY, HORROR, FOLKLORE,
- It is a story of two friends that has closer together but it is ended because of betrayal.
- A waitress is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by five men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
- An embittered mother sends her daughter away when the girl reestablishes a relationship with her estranged father.
- Married businessman Don Benito (Eddie Garcia) has a steamy affair with driver Diego (Mario O'Hara).
- Catherine goes through all the travails of a young woman who must deal with a scheming stepfather out to dupe her of her inheritance.
- Star Cinema presents "Nagsimula sa Puso": Celina (Hilda Koronel), a young college professor, falls in love with one of her students, Carlo (Richard Gomez). When her mother (Armida Siguion-Reyna) finds out, she's not happy about it and seeks ways to end their relationship. When Carlo ends up in jail, his first instinct is to find Celina, the love of his life.
- A 1978 Filipino romantic drama film about a man's guilt over his affair with another woman that hurt the feelings of his long time girlfriend.
- A tragic childhood experience that led to a total lost, Rod aka Ben (Lito Lapid) grew up full of vengeance in his heart. He studied every single detail and then used his innocent image to gradually attack his long time enemies. They did attempt to erase his sudden existence but they failed. Rod succeeded and the truth was revealed.
- The film tells the life of Colonel Billy Bibit from his days as a cadet to his exploits as a young officer and one of the heroes of the Philippine Revolution of 1986.
- A mother and a daughter with a complex love-and-hate relationship keep and maintain a whorehouse on top of a hill.
- Nonoy (Miguel Rodriguez) brings a lot of women home, so his aunts kick him out. He works in a club where he meets with friends Belle, Au, Claire, and Boobsy. Boobsy had an affair with Nonoy and now has a child named Baby Doll (Matet). Belle, Au, and Claire take care of the child when Boobsy dies.
- A wobbly street vendor (Noel 'Ungga' Ayala), an ignorant probinsyano (Rene Requiestas) and an unemployed loafer (Jimmy Santos) meet in a small-time restaurant run by Mama L (Vangie Labalan). Realizing they all have hungry stomachs, they hang on to each other. After several attempts in looking for a job, they finally sees a solution to their problems, the lottery.
- KONTROBERSYAL is one of the classic masterpieces of acclaimed stage and film director Lino Brocka in the historical period of the 1980s. A story set in the glitter and glamour of the showbiz world. Behind the bright lights, fabulous costumes, and larger-than-life sets, real lives are broken and shattered for the hunger for fame and the thirst for money. Karina Daluz (Gina Alajar) was blinded by the ill promise of success offered by her producer Mers Madsen (played by Charo Santos). Her walk toward the path to stardom entailed her sanity and corrupted her soul. Her innocence was replaced by wickedness and her once good-natured self has become the demon that she feared. No love that is forever, no hope to discover for all the people living in KONTROBERSYAL.
- THIS FPJ ACTION-DRAMA FILM TACKLES THE ENMITY BETWEEN FAMILIES.
- The fugitive, the singer, and the song that brought them together: "Somewhere."
- Andrea is a Communist insurgent who fights the government in an armed conflict. When it is time for her to give birth, she seeks refuge in the city with her best friend Joyce, whose husband Emil has no sympathy for the likes of Andrea. When Andrea's husband is reportedly killed, she temporarily leaves her son in their care, and the childless couple becomes emotionally attached to him. But before Andrea can return to her baby, she is arrested by the military. With no news of Andrea's whereabouts and believing her dead, the couple decides to keep the boy and take him to the United States. When they return to the country after seven years for a visit, Andrea confronts them and tries to claim his son back.
- When he catches the ire of sinister individuals, Dino Obrero rises against them to stop their menace and protect his loved ones.
- This Filipino action thriller concerns a crime syndicate which specializes in holding people for ransom. Their most recent foray into crime succeeds in two cases but runs into difficulties when the kidnappers rape the daughter of their latest victim, a doctor. The doctor enlists the help of police Captain Alvaran (Joseph Estrada), who hunts the villains down with the able support of his loving wife.
- This is a story about Henry Cruz's alias Pogi (Bong Revilla) search for his lost son. He lost his son in the woods while he was being chased by the men of Don Pepe (Bernard Bonnin). The baby was found by a forester who took him in and took care of him. Meanwhile, Poigi arrives at Santa Rosa, where the people greet him warmly and ask help regarding Don Pepe's illegal activities. Confrontation scenes between Pogi and Don Pepe arise until he finally kills Don Pepe and surrenders to the authorities.
- HELL BREAKS LOOSE AS FATE BRINGS TOGETHER THE MAGNIFICENT AND THE BAD.
- The deadly KUNG FU EXPERTS fighting with devastating ferocity and blazing action.
- Based on the horrific 1970's murder of 8 nurses in Chicago by Richard Speck that paralyzed the city of Chicago!
- Dario (Ace Espinosa) rescues a powerful criminal syndicate group head, Don Manolo (Eddie Gutierrez) from an assassination attempt. Meanwhile, Carlo discovers Don Manolo's business in drugs and he tries to quit.
- Together they explode the triangle of a lifetime, in a lifetime of a movie.
- The biopic or real-life story of Captain Reynaldo Jaylo, the real-life Dirty Harry of Manila, the supercop who has killed more crooks than any other police officer in the world and was once thought to be the deadliest cop alive.
- INSPIRED BY A POPULAR SONG OF THE DAY, THE MOVIE FOCUSES ON BOTH FILIAL AND ROMANTIC LOVE.
- What makes these three brothers with three different lifestyles cross paths with one another?
- A young woman takes an elderly married man for a lover in a movie that depicts the changing morality and sexual mores of Philippine urban society. FOR ADULTS ONLY.
- THE VISION FOR A BETTER SOCIETY OUTLIVES THE MAN WHO PASSIONATELY FOUGHT FOR IT IN HIS LIFE TIME.
- AN AVENGING MAN - NO MATTER HOW LEVEL-HEADED AND UPRIGHT - CAN TURN INTO A FEROCIOUS BEST.
- Exploding before you with raw, unrelenting fury and high-voltage talents that promises to be a jolting force in Philippine cinema. Smashing to a climax that shrieks with truth and passion.
- SHATTERING THE WALLS OF CRIME'S SUPERSTRUCTURE - THE NEMESIS OF EVIL BLASTS A WEB OF CRIMINALS IN A ONE-MAN WAR OF RIGHTEOUS REVENGE.
- She said 'OKEY KA, ERAP' and so they got married--she gave him a child and so 'TATAY NA SI ERAP!' The child grew up unfortunately nagging--'ANDER DI SAYA SI ERAP!' Now they have 11 children, he wants one more, she replies, por diyos - 'TAMA NA ERAP!'