
Rustica Carpio
Oyuncu · 1930 – 2022 · Paombong, Bulacan, Philippines
Rustica Cruz Carpio (August 9, 1930 – February 2, 2022) was a Filipino actress, scholar, playwright, philanthropist, and public servant. Most notably an actress, she performed on stage, film, and television. She received acclaim for her role as Lola Puring in Grandmother (Filipino: Lola), a film by Filipino director Brillante Mendoza which was selected to compete in various international film festivals, including Venice and Dubai. For her acting work in the said film, she was critically well-received, earning nominations and awards, winning the Gawad Urian for Best Actress, the Crystal Simorgh for Best International Actress at the Fajr International Film Festival in Iran, and the Las Palmas International Film Festival Best Actress award in Spain. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Film5.9DramGerilimA dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.
Captive
2012 · 32 votes
Film6.6DramBona, 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
Film7.2DramFilipinler’in başkenti Manila’da, bir cinayet sonrası iki yaşlı kadının, iki büyükannenin (Filipin dilinde “Lola” büyükanne anlamına geliyor) yolları kesişir. Öldürülen genç, büyükanne Sepa’nın torunudur. Yaşlı kadın, torununun cenazesini kaldırabilmek için para bulmaya çalışır. Cinayeti işleyen genç ise diğer büyükanne Puring’in torunudur ve o da torununu hapisten çıkarabilmek için para bulma derdine düşmüştür. Yönetmen Brillante Mendoza, Kinatay filminin hemen ardından çektiği Lola’da, Filipinler’deki günlük yaşamı, yarı belgesel tadında ve oldukça dokunaklı bir biçimde gözler önüne seriyor...
Film4.3AksiyonGerilim1992'de Hong Kong'da Ty, arkadaşı J.J. tarafından cinayet ve kokain hırsızlığıyla suçlanarak hapse atılır. Eşi Rachel da bu komploda yer almış olabilir. Yıllar sonra, Çin hükümetinin iyi niyet jestiyle serbest bırakılan Ty, Rachel’ı aramaz. Ancak Rachel onu bulur ve J.J.’nin onu öldürmek istediği konusunda uyarır. Ty, J.J.’yi bulmak için Manila’ya gider; J.J. burada tropikal balık ihracatı kılıfıyla yasadışı bir iş yürütmektedir. Ty, Filipinli fahişe Inez’in yardımıyla gerçeğe yaklaşır, ancak Inez bir noktada bu karanlık dünyaya daha fazla dayanamaz.
Film7.0KomediThe lives of the three Soriano brothers, Dennis, Chip, and Jeff, changed when Atty. Aga Agaton informed them that they would inherit the fortune of their grandfather, who was based in the United States. However, to claim their inheritance (according to the will), the brothers must graduate from high school, and if not, the lawyer would claim it instead.
Ma'am, May We Go Out?
1985 · 3 votes
Film6.0KorkuA story about a descendant of a rich hispanic family that lived in the Philippines in the 1800s (1896). Nine years ago, Alexa Nicole de la Vega started having dreams about a mansion where she always used to play as a child, These dreams gradually turn darker and leading to a part of the mansion which was described in her dreams as a "door she cannot open". Every year, her dreams about the mansion turn darker and more grotesque. One day a lawyer visits in her office informing her that she has inherited a house passed on by her father in his last will. She calls her best friend Daniella, a collector and a curator of a Spanish museum, suggesting to her that there many be many treasures hidden there. This turns out to be a good opportunity to get her dad's company back to its prime. Alexa decides to go to the house she inherited to look for this rumored treasure. She later found nine pieces of golden coins in her great great grandfathers old study - then things start to change.
Ika-Sampu
2010 · 1 votes
Film9.0DramRomantikOpposites attract when Trixie, a spoiled rich brat, asks Alex, a hardworking taxi driver, to be her boyfriend to appease her grandfather.
Mahal Kita, Walang Iba
1992 · 1 votes
Film5.8DramSuçStern, intelligent Sylvia, a lawyer, finally met her match. Only that the person is a woman, and was convicted of murder.
T-Bird at Ako
1982 · 10 votes
FilmDramTeresa (Rustica Carpio) has worked for the Bautista family since she was seventeen. She was the nanny of siblings Stella, Vince and Andre (Jackie Lou Blanco, Bobby Andrews and Ryan Agoncillo), and their mother. The three have all moved abroad in their adulthood, but all reunite back at home with the passing of their mother. With no one left to stay in the country, it is decided that all of their properties will be sold, including the house they grew up in. But they are faced with the problem of what to do with the elderly Teresa, who has no money saved, and little contact with her relatives.
Film3.8DramSingle mother Nora lives with her daughter Sarah on a cardboard groundsheet and hammock tied to the undercarriage of a semitrailer in the parking lot of a Manila cargo terminal. Deep in debt and receiving little help from her husband, Nora has nothing to live for except for Sarah. Living in a community suffering from abject poverty, Nora sifts through trash and spends time with Vilma, a happily single shopkeeper, and Minda, whose truck-driver husband disappeared a month ago presumably to live with another woman. With no other viable options to support her daughter, Nora turns to prostitution.
Chassis
2010 · 4 votes
FilmKorkuA pair of brothers encounters violent forces inside the walls of an old orphanage.
Bahay Ampunan
2015
Film9.0DramRomantikA young couple's blossoming love against an adult romance gone sour.
Where Love Has Gone
1984 · 1 votes
Film10.0DramThis is the life story of Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, a Chinese-Filipina nun who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.
Mother Ignacia: Ang Uliran
1998 · 1 votes
Film6.0GerilimKomediThree tales of unbridled terror follow a couple vacation on a secluded island where strange forces are at work to keep them there; a young woman whose boyfriend is ill meets a handsome young man in the woods who seems to exhibit magical powers that can cure her sick friend, on the condition that she stay with him forever; and a family who move into a new apartment, unaware of a supernatural tragedy that occurred there.
Shake, Rattle & Roll V
1994 · 2 votes
Film7.4DramThe episodically connected lives of four college friends unfold throughout the incipient martial law years, as they struggle to define their sexual and professional desires and how best to attain them.
Moral
1982 · 10 votes
Film8.3DramFerry owner Benjamin has a regular passenger, Chedeng, who is studying to become a midwife. Chedeng has a friend and neighbour, Maria, and without either of them knowing about it they both have a relationship with Benjamin. When Mary finds out she’s pregnant, things get difficult.
Film9.0DramRomantikMina is a commercial model struggling to provide financial assistance to her ill mother when she meets the arrogant painter Dino. He offers her to be a model for his work of art which she accepted. This draw them closer to each other until Mina learns of Dino's past relationship that eventually becomes a hindrance to their budding romance.
Pinagbuklod ng Pag-Ibig
1978 · 1 votes
Film5.8RomantikKomediHe was already different even before he was born. His eccentric mother took fancy on horses during her conception, and this led to his being born with animal appeal. As he grew up, he became the object of people's curiosity. But the moment he became a full grown man, his strange physical endowment turned him into an object of desire. Girls and even gays fell under his incredibly wild sex appeal, and he got himself the reputation of being a ladies' man. Until he met the woman who would change his life forever.
Totoy Mola
1997 · 7 votes
Film9.0KomediDramSt. Peter inadvertently lost his heavenly keys that the Almighty sends his jester planet earth of all places to search for the misplaced keys. Wandering the streets, the petulant clown is greatly grieved by poverty and the moral degradation of man.
Film6.9DramKorkuWhen Narcing brings home his wife Puring to their hometown Mulawin in the 1930s, it sets off a series of events that include parricide, infidelity, betrayal, guilt and redemption.
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Jun, an art student, moves away from his family after a fight with his father about his college program. He meets Menchu in class and they fall in love, but Jun struggles to fully commit due to his past trauma. Singing becomes his solace and brings him closer to Menchu. However, a revelation after a family tragedy puts their relationship to the test.
Bawal na Pag-Ibig
1977 · 1 votes
FilmDramThe story of three young women, Salome (Amy Austria), Bella (Rio Locsin) and Sylvia (Lorna Tolentino), are prostitutes who live together in one house.
Chicks
1980
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Walang Katapusang Tag-araw focuses on two strong-willed women, Matilde and Binyang, who clawed themselves up, in almost simultaneous and parallel ascent to the good life. Set in Sampaloc, Manila in the 60s, the women's lives intertwine in their rivalry over Amando, scion of rags-to-riches neighbor gigolo, Leo.
Walang Katapusang Tag-araw
1977 · 1 votes
- Film5.0MaceraFantastik
Ang Panday 2 begins with Flavio/Panday (Revilla) and Maria settling in the peaceful and quiet town of Matandang Kahoy. All is well until Lizardo returns and captures Maria. On his quest to save his lady love, Flavio crosses paths with Ariana whose father had been killed by Lizardo. As the two join forces, Ariana finds herself falling for Flavio. All this happens in a magical world filled with dragons, fairies and other mythical beings. According to Director Carlo J. Caparas who penned the story, the King of Philippine Movies himself, the late Fernando Poe Jr., would be impressed with the production of Ang Panday 2. FPJ had starred in the original Panday films, and had long been associated with the beloved Pinoy komiks character.
Ang Panday 2
2011 · 1 votes
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DiziDramEddie Romero's miniseries adaptation of the novel from Filipino writer and activist Jose Rizal, published during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines in 1887. Noli Me Tángere (Latin for "Touch Me Not") explores perceived inequities in law and practice in terms of the treatment by the ruling government and the Spanish Catholic friars of the resident peoples in the late nineteenth century.
Noli Me Tangere
1993