Lino Brocka Movies

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

A documentary TV special on the life of Lino Brocka, released in 1998 for Pinoy Blockbuster Original.

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...

A simple love story between two souls, a beerhouse dancer and her lover, intensely in search for their place in the sun

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

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

An aired tv movie about the relationship between a handicapped child and his parents.

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

Upon her retirement from being a school teacher, a mother slowly realizes that her children are already grown-up and she now is faced with the...

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.

Lydia, a prostitute, is caught between the love of her long-time partner, Sidro, who is a hired gun, and George Grace, an American soldier stationed...

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

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...

A woman becomes the object of obsession of a man who will stop at nothing to possess her.

Wanting a better life for his baby, a driver switches his son for his employers’ newborn girl, forever entwining the futures of both families...

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...

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

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