Joel Lamangan
Director · b. 1952 · Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
Joel Lamangan (born September 21, 1952) is a Filipino film director, television director and actor. His award-winning films includes The Flor Contemplacion Story, Sidhi, Deathrow, Hubog, Aishte Imasu 1941, Blue Moon and Mano Po.
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Movie6.7RomanceDramaA young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
The Year of Living Dangerously
1982 · 374 votes
Movie7.0DramaA 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 moves in with them.
Insiang
1976 · 69 votes
Movie6.6DramaBona, a middle-class student, becomes infatuated with a struggling actor, Gardo, and drops out of school to live with him. She becomes his unpaid maid, performing chores and enduring his relationships with other women, in the hopes of reciprocation.
Bona
1984 · 13 votes
Movie6.8DramaPol moves to Manila for better opportunities after his American lover leaves. However, he gets drawn into the gritty world of gay prostitution and sexual slavery.
Macho Dancer
1989 · 18 votes
Movie8.0DramaWhen plain orphan Elsa begins having visions of the Virgin Mary, the rest of the residents of her isolated village find themselves questioning their own beliefs and values. Soon, Elsa is healing people with a variety of ailments. As word of this phenomenon spreads, tourists, pilgrims, patients and a documentary filmmaker all arrive on a quest to partake in the miracle.
Himala
1982 · 22 votes
Movie6.5ComedyDramaWomen cope with various problems while earning a living in the city.
Working Girls
1984 · 8 votes
Movie6.9DramaCrimeIn 1985, in the obscure town of Dolores, the Orapronobis, a cult under the leadership of Kumander Kontra, murders a foreign priest who gave the last rites to an alleged rebel, who was also executed by the same group.
Movie7.4DramaMysteryJulio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.
Movie8.2ComedyDramaA Palanca-winning comedy about gay best friends for life John and Mark whose friendship is put to the test when one of them has a terminal illness and asks the other to help him stage his fake death, wake, and funeral as his dying wish. The result is a laughfest of "deadly" proportions.
Deadma Walking
2017 · 4 votes
Movie8.8DramaHistoryAccused of treason, Dr. Jose P. Rizal awaits trial and meets with his colonial government-appointed counsel, Luis Taviel de Andrade. The two build the case and arguments for the defense as significant events in the central figure's life prior to his incarceration unfold. Upon hearing Rizal's life story, Taviel begins to realize that the accused not just is innocent but exhibits in fact all the qualities of an extraordinary man. When the mock trial unreels, Taviel is all set to act as the prime advocate for his client as Rizal himself is about to give an earth-moving speech to defend his honor and address his countrymen. Meanwhile, the Spanish authorities have worked out the vast political machinery to ensure a guilty verdict. A revolution waits in the wings.
José Rizal
1998 · 5 votes
Movie6.3DramaActionPoldo, 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 from the violent attacks of a nightclub owner.
Jaguar
1979 · 11 votes
Movie4.0HorrorThrillerManila is besieged by the worst typhoon to hit the country. Talk of the world coming to an end hangs in the air. And five men find themselves stranded inside a police station with a prisoner who may o may not be the devil. It's going to be a long night.
Violator
2014 · 6 votes
Movie6.5DramaCurrent most popular performer at a gay club in the Philippines (though it’s patronized by an awful lot of ogling straight women), Dwight (Tyron Perez) has a crush on a collegiate girl and an eye on better prospects working abroad. But he unwisely gets involved with boytoy-hungry Madame Loca (Cherry Pie Pichache), a ruthless, corrupt businesswoman. Her disillusioned ex-dancer bodyguard Bert (Lauren Novero) tries in vain to warn Dwight. Meanwhile, past-prime-at-28 Alfred (Allen Dizon) struggles to find legit work to support his wife and child.
Twilight Dancers
2006 · 10 votes
MovieAbe, a woodcarver and artist, loses everything when his wife leaves him for another man. He falls in love with a woman who looks like his wife and calls her by his wife's name Nida, when in reality she is a prostitute named Cecile.
AbeNida
2023
Movie7.4ComedyDramaEscaping the torment of growing up with an abusive older brother, he and his friends found further suffering at the hands of Japanese soldiers, forced into sex work to survive. But even after the war, Markova's struggle continued.
Markova: Comfort Gay
2000 · 5 votes
Movie3.7Lydia, 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 at a U.S. military base in Pampanga.
PX
1982 · 3 votes
Movie5.0ComedyDramaContinuing the tradition of national artist Ishmael Bernal's benchmark film Working Girls after 25 years, Working Girls of 2010 depicts the role of women in the new millennium. Seven women of different backgrounds, stories and personalities entwined in a colorful story of family, love and life.
Working Girls
2010 · 1 votes
Movie6.4Science FictionDramaMadmen control Manila in 2034 after massive volcanic eruptions have plunged Southeast Asia into darkness.
MovieComedyFive gay men who were inseparable in their youth—calling themselves the “Jackstone 5”—reunite decades later after living very different lives. What begins as a lighthearted catch-up filled with nostalgia gradually exposes the wounds, secrets and compromises each carried in order to survive in a conservative society. Some lived abroad, some married, some hid their true selves, and others chased love and failed. As old tensions resurface and buried emotions return, the friends are forced to confront who they were and who they’ve become. Through laughter, conflict and confession, they rediscover the comfort of chosen family and learn that it may never be too late for forgiveness, self-acceptance and second chances—in friendship and in love.
Jackstone 5
2025
Movie7.3DramaRomanceSet during World War II, Rosario, a school teacher, enters a forbidden relationship with a Japanese soldier, Masugi.
MovieDramaSix men. Six failed marriage. One wedding to restore their faith in second chances. This is the bittersweet saga of six men who have separated from their wives. Inspired by true stories, their parallel and overlapping tales offer six different portraits of the failure of monogamy in a society where divorce is supposedly not an option. Ironically, fate and circumstance bring them together at a church wedding, where one of them takes a second chance at marital bliss.
Separados
2014
Movie5.5DramaHistoryA man named Jesus takes on the ruling military junta.