
Pancho Magalona
Actor · 1922 – 1998 · Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines
Enrique Gayoso Magalona Jr., professionally known as Pancho Magalona, was a Filipino actor from the 1940s to the 1970s. He achieved success as a romantic lead with frequent on-screen partner and wife Tita Duran. In 1959, Magalona won the FAMAS Award for Best Actor for his performance as a bandit in the 1958 film Hanggang sa Dulo ng Daigdig. One of his best remembered roles is portraying the character of Simoun / Crisostomo Ibarra in the 1962 film adaptation of José Rizal's novel El Filibusterismo.
Movies23
Movie6.2WarDramaBrigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.
Merrill's Marauders
1962 · 67 votes
Movie7.0DramaCentering on a hedonistic woman’s escapades throughout the urban landscape of Manila.
Waldas
1955 · 1 votes
Movie6.2WarDramaThree soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.
The Hook
1963 · 19 votes
Movie10.0MusicDocumentaryA compilation of film clips featuring dance and song performances culled from various films of the so-called big three - Sampaguita, LVN, Premiere.
Happy Days Are Here Again
1974 · 1 votes
Movie8.0WarA U.S. Marine Corps pilot is shot down over the Vietnamese jungle. In his endeavor to get to safety, he meets a female guerrilla fighter and a nationalist named Hong.
A Yank in Viet-Nam
1964 · 1 votes
Movie8.0Action
Movie3.5ThrillerActionTwo rival gun-runners are at odds when one of them secretly discovers that the other's female companion has plans to recover a $40 million treasure stash, hidden away in Surabaya by her late husband.
Stoney
1969 · 10 votes
Movie10.0DramaRomanceA story about a young woman who was adopted by a woman who held a secret grudge against her family.
Emily
1960 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyDramaBasiong spends all of his time in the cockpit. His family is neglected and his child Mario dies. St. Peter and his rooster decide to intervene.
Texas, Ang Manok na Nagsasalita
1952 · 1 votes
Movie5.4An American cavalry brigade is sent to occupy a small Filipino village in 1902 and quell guerilla resistance in the surrounding jungle. Working with the people to build roads, schools, and bridges, they prove that the most important thing an army can have is "good will and integrity."
Cavalry Command
1958 · 7 votes
Movie10.0MusicKasintahan Sa Pangarap
1951 · 1 votes
Movie7.8ActionDramaA story depicting the life of executed murderer and gang leader, Marciál "Baby" Ama. Ama, who became a gang leader with his prison mob while serving a sentence for lesser charges, was executed for murder at the age of 16 via electric chair on 4 October 1961.
Bitayin si....Baby Ama!
1976 · 3 votes
Movie8.0DramaPancho Magalona portrayed Rudy Concepción in a biographical movie called Kasaysayan ni Rudy
Kasaysayan ni Rudy Concepcion
1952 · 1 votes
Movie3.0DramaA sakada is a farmer who works in a sugarcane field. The film proceeds to document the stages of sugar production once in the mill, then shifts to the unrest outside where a sakada was shot to death by one of the hacienda's guards.
Movie8.0ComedyRomanceA flirty girl falls in love with a guys working at a 50s diner.
Menor de Edad
1954 · 1 votes
MovieActionComedyMaldita
1953
Movie8.0DramaOne man dared turn this crude, uneducated, ill-clad gutter-born woman into high society's most beautiful, exciting, tempting creature.
Basahang Ginto
1952 · 1 votes
Movie9.0After studying medicine in the US, twin doctors Eddie and Mario Gomez return home as they are both commissioned by a hospital in the Philippines. The two have different personalities, with Eddie being a carefree playboy while Mario is reserved, his face being scarred after he figured in an accident. Mario makes a courtesy call to their benefactor Doña Dolores Villarama, only to discover she has passed on, leaving her blind granddaughter behind.
Ang Ating Pag-ibig
1953 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ActionAdventureThe murders of two American plantation owners leads an Interpol agent into a battle with Filipino drug smugglers and violent religious fanatics.
Moro Witch Doctor
1964 · 2 votes
Movie9.0WarDramaA man and a woman fight for the freedom of their country Marking with his gun Yay with her typewriter. Thrown together by a cause greater than either of them they share the suffering of the flesh and the spirit among the country's guerrilla fighters. They emerge, out of the crucible of war, heroes-and lovers.
Cry Freedom
1959 · 1 votes
MovieActionDramaAn omnibus seven-part movie.
Bicol Express
1957
MovieRomanceMusicSimpatika
1949
MovieComedyRomanceBe My Love
1958