Adolfo Alix Jr.

Mananambal (2025)

A horror film starring Nora Aunor and Bianca Umali. Set in Siquijor, a Mananambal is a Filipino practitioner of traditional medicine, who is also capable of performing sorcery. ...

X&Y (2024)

YSHA wants to travel to make amends with people she hurt in the past. XANDER is in need of money to support his family. The two accidentally meet---will love find its way through them too? ...

After All (2024)

In this time and age, who would ever believe that Reincarnation still exists and that finding one's "Soulmate" has already become a taboo? Romantic love stories may only sound like formula concepts that talk about undying love and "forever". But isn't LOVE ...

Pieta (2023)

Pieta follows Isaac who tries to navigate the outside world after spending years in jail for killing his father. ...

That Boy in the Dark (2023)

A boy living in the dark struggles to find light as he encounters weird and eerie things when he lives with his grandfather. As he investigates the hauntings, dark secrets will be revealed. ...

Bugso (2022)

Dado and Estrella want to to start a family and forget their old work as sex workers. But when they meet Baby, their relationship turns shaky as Estrella finds out about Dado and Baby's affair. ...

Huwag Kang Lalabas (2021)

Three stories of haunting secrets, folklore, and urban legends. ...

My Fantastic Pag-ibig: Fairy Tail Romance (2021)

Meet Lentis (Alex Diaz), a mermaid who returns to shore to see her beloved earthling Nep (Yasser Marta). If he asks to have legs to get to know the young man better, will fate give it to him? ...

Kiko en Lala (2019)

Born with two-different personalities in one body, Kiko and Lala struggle as they fight for their right to love. ...

Circa (2019)

Doña Atang, a once celebrated film producer from the earlier years of Filipino cinema, celebrates her one hundredth birthday. For her wish, she wants a reunion with all the actors and staff that she has worked with in the past. She is also looking for an ...

Mystery of the Night (2019)

Spanish-ruled Philippines, 1800s: A woman, raped and banished to the woods on a full moon's night, sees her newborn child swallowed by animalistic shadows lurking in the foliage. Raised by the forest's mysterious ghouls and demons — boars, wild cats and ...

Bato (2019)

The dramatization of the life of General Ronald dela Rosa. ...

Dark Is the Night (2018)

Filipino director Adolfo Alix Jr. returns to the Festival with this timely story of a couple caught up in Rodrigo Duterte's violent war on drugs when their son goes missing. ...

Taray ni tatay (2018)

Love Is... (2017)

The phenomenal EB Dabarkads love team Alden Richards and Maine. ...

Pastor (2017)

Pastor Luis Aguila and his family are seemingly tested with their faith. Luis is an ex-convinct who is now the head of his church. Mildred, his wife, tries to hide her secret as she grapples between her family and church duties. Their youngest son Carlo wr ...

Alaala: A Martial Law Special (2017)

To commemorate the 45th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law by former President Ferdinand Marcos, GMA Public Affairs presented "Alaala" with a special performance in which Alden Richards brought to life the experiences of Boni Ilagan, one of the ...

Mrs. (2016)

70-year-old Virginia shares the old ancestral house with Delia, her ever-loyal maid. Delia is marrying her long-time boyfriend, Rene, and tearfully confides to Virginia that she wants to go home to her parents in the province to start a new family life wit ...

Whistleblower (2016)

Inspired by the much-publicized travails of Benhur Luy and Janet Lim Napoles, the film opens with a police operation that leads to the recovery of a certain Zeny Roblado who has been unduly detained by her boss Lorna Valera. From there, Zeny spills whateve ...

Padre de Familia (2016)

Noel who has to assume the responsibility of being the breadwinner of the family after his father went missing. ...

Chain Mail (2015)

A usual chain mail is forwarded to a group of people. Some pass it while others ignore. One dies and is followed by series of sudden and unexplainable deaths of others. Soon after, a revelation begins to unfold, the chain mail is cursed and so she has to f ...

Kinabukasan (2014)

The day after the committal of her loved one, Ernest tries to move on. She gets a visit from Niles and they talk about the secrets of the past, hoping to forego of the conflict between them. ...

Alamat ni China Doll (2013)

A journalist investigates a woman with the name of China Doll. Soon, he discovers his knowledge of her turns out to be dangerous. ...

Porno (2013)

An assassin, a porn dubber and a transgender. Three souls. One explicit illusion. To find the ultimate joy in their empty lives. A safe haven, where passion and love mean humanity, ecstasy means enlightenment, and the soul is the ultimate. ...

Death March (2013)

The story of its namesake - the forcible transfer of 76000 American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese Army in 1942. ...

Mater Dolorosa (2012)

A woman runs her criminal syndicate all the while taking care of her family. ...

Kalayaan (2012)

Julian is a soldier stationed on a remote island in the Philippines. He has finished his three months of service on the island and is ready to leave, but news of a coup d'état in Manilla forces Julian to stay on the island longer. All Julian has is a walk ...

Springtime Man (2011)

A Yakuza member seeking to lead a new life in Manila. A morbid turn of events brings Haruo (Jacky Woo) to the squalor of Manila. A prized asset of the feared Yakuza in Tokyo, Haruo, aka Tadano Hayashi, escapes the criminal syndicate with bountiful cash, a ...

Liberation (2011)

Makoto of the Japanese Imperial Army decided to go into hiding after the Japanese soldiers were defeated in 1945. In the dread of the forest, he decides to struggle despite efforts for him to surrender, thinking the war is not yet over. For a span of almos ...

Fable of the Fish (2011)

Impoverished, childless and living in a garbage dump, Miguel and Lina become instant celebrities when Lina miraculously becomes pregnant. But Lina gives birth to a fish, which increases her celebrity but leaves Miguel humiliated and the couple at odds. Wha ...

Presa (2010)

A former movie actress went to jail for selling drugs. ...

Chassis (2010)

Single 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 l ...

The Affair (2010)

An ex-seminarian slash communist runs a hotel in Baguio. He then meets a handsome upcoming lawyer. A once-a-year trip to Baguio by the lawyer and conversations with the hotel owner develop into an affair which encompasses decades of socio-political changes ...

D'Survivors (2010)

A group of young models on their way to a photo shoot are inadvertently stranded on a deserted, uncharted island. Though they've landed on a paradise beach, personalities clash and chaos soon reigns as they try to find a way to survive. ...

Romeo at Juliet (2010)

An unconventional love story between two souls. Their past catches up on them as their affection for each other goes stronger... ...

Ante (2009)

LV and her family make their living by operating an illegal off track betting outlet. But things haven't been going well for them lately, and the future is uncertain with Sta. Ana Park closing down. ...

Villa Estrella (2009)

How come people who go there are never seen again? Does the villa "eat" people alive? The movie tells the story of Ana who has always been having nightmares about certain people getting killed of Madre Na Aswang. Things become scarier when her ex-boyfriend ...

Manila (2009)

A tribute to filmmakers and National Artists Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal. In the "Day" segment, Piolo Pacual portrays the role of William, a drug addict who tries to rebuild his sense of self and reconnect with the people around him. For the "Night" seg ...

Aurora (2009)

"The social worker Aurora is kidnapped by a group of Moslem rebels who have lost their ideals and only plunder. In a military attack on the camp where Aurora is being held, she manages to escape. But in the jungle, she doesn't have a hope and two attackers ...

The Thank You Girls (2008)

A group of gays is on a road trip in search for a beauty contest crown. Constantly losing in beauty contest in their city, five young cross-dressers and their elder gay manager travel to the province hoping to lure the contest. Each personality has story t ...

Immoral (2008)

Tackles the dynamics of the relationship of a husband with his wife and his lover -- and they all live together in one house. ...

Adela (2008)

Adela, a former radio personality, celebrates her 80th birthday. Alone, and without support, she longs for the family and stability of years gone by. Mundane events take on heightened meaning as Adela gauges her life against those of the sea of humanity. A ...

Daybreak (2008)

A married man is having an affair with another man. After some time apart, the two men spend a night together in a family vacation home in Tagaytay, Cavite. Together in such close quarters, the two are left with nothing to do but to confront the realities ...

Batanes (2007)

Pam meets Rico an Ivatan, and decides to leave her stressful life in the city to follow him to Batanes to meet his parents Boy and Lydia and marry him. Pam tries to adapt to the Ivatan way of life but hates the sea that Rico loves so much. Her hatred for t ...

Nars (2007)

Jennylyn Mercado, Jodi Sta. Maria, Agot Isidro, Coco Martin, and Jon Avila portray five graduating nursing students who are at a crossroads in their lives and their careers. Their different stories are a cross-section of society's nurses. Each character re ...

Tambolista (2007)

Jason and Billy struggling to fulfill their unlikely dream, and having their world crumble around them as a consequence. ...

The Goat (2007)

Peping wakes up to find out that Gima, their goat, is missing. His family make a living out of the milk provided the goat. He hides the truth from his grandmother. His father is also arriving the next day so he needs to find Gima before its too late. Toget ...

Siquijor: Mystic Island (2007)

"HILAKBOT," Xavier Adriano's brainchild-horror show is doing well in its afternoon slot. The show tackles tongue-in-cheek re-enactments of horror stories interspersed with interviews with the people who have knowledge or have had experienced the hauntings. ...

Donsol (2006)

A story about two lonely people who met during the whale shark watching season in Donsol, Sorsogon. ...

Umaaraw, Umuulan (2006)

A young man succumbs to depression due to failure in his career and love life. He then meets a girl. What follows is obsession, romance, and melancholy. ...

D' Anothers (2005)

Hesus Resurreccion, a total scaredy cat who lives with his social-climbing aunt and two rowdy cousins, inherits an abandoned mansion. Coincidentally, the said location serves as a portal to the afterlife for the stranded ghosts, and they know that Hesus is ...

Beautiful Life (2004)

A group of disparate women find comfort in one another when faced with heart-wrenching tragedy in this moving story. After a terrorist bombing at an airport kills many innocent victims, the lives of the family members who lost their loved ones are forever ...

Homecoming (2003)

The movie tells the story of Abigael Edades who returns to her Philippine hometown from her five-year stint as a nurse in Canada. Her town mates rousingly welcome her as a hero, the crass moniker ascribed by the government to hundreds of thousands of Filip ...

Mga Munting Tinig (2002)

Melinda is a new substitute teacher at the Malawig Elementary School, located in a poor remote barrio. A young university graduate, her family expects her to look for work abroad, but in her idealism she takes on a challenging job in the provincial public ...

Kahapon, May Dalawang Bata (1999)

It is the time of El Niño, a season ruled by superstition and fear. The rain is long in coming, the ground has cracked up dry. The ricestalks are thin and sickly. Villagers go hungry. And a boy dies from a snakebite. The adults splinter. Some pray. Others ...

Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement (2010)

Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement. ...