Lino Brocka Movies

A modern-day version of the biblical legend of Cain and Abel, the strong-willed matriarch Señora Pina favors her younger son, Ellis, over the...

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

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

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

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...

A successful couple decide to separate and see other people in this romantic comedy from Lino Brocka.

Drama among family and friends unfold in Villa Miranda, a town in the world of false glories and true defeats.

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

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...

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

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...

Poldo, a poor man, takes up a job as a security guard at a high-class apartment complex. However, he soon finds himself protecting his employer's son...

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...

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

As their wedding day approaches, Joel and Grace open up about their past lovers, and just before the wedding day, their ex-lovers meet up with them.

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 nun is ostracized by her superiors after a brutal encounter with a rapist leaves her pregnant.

A Filipino immigrant travels the American west searching for his relatives. Although he doesn't speak much English, he winds up getting involved with...

A story about the life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila, which becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend...

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