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Lino Brocka

Lino Brocka

Catalino "Lino" Ortiz Brocka was a Filipino film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and significant Filipino filmmakers in the history of Philippine cinema. In 1983, he founded the organization Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP), dedicated to helping artists address issues confronting the country. Brocka was openly gay and often incorporated LGBT themes into his films.

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Movies Made By Lino Brocka (70)

Lucia (1992)

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

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How Are The Kids? (1992)

A UNICEF-sponsored six-film anthology depicting childhood horrors around the world. "Hassane" - a malnourished child in Niger needs help from the doctors, but village traditions prohibit it. "Liouba" - a child escapes to the forest after a beating by his a ...

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Huwag Mong Salingin ang Sugat Ko (1991)

Delfin is a doctor who returns to his hometown in the hopes of giving medical assistance to the people of Buena Vista who are suffering from leprosy. He also returns to find out the real reason why his father was killed. The longer he stays, the more he re ...

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Lampang Kerubin (1991)

A telemovie about the relationship between a handicapped child and his parents. ...

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A Plea to God (1991)

A nun is ostracized by her superiors after a brutal encounter with a rapist leaves her pregnant. ...

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Biktima ng Ligaw na Sandali (1991)

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

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Spark in the Dark (1991)

The lives of a newly married couple and their mutual friend unravel after the wife becomes the victim of a gang rape during a honeymoon. ...

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Above Everything Else (1991)

Famous TV commentator Maia Robles finds herself caught between having an affair with a politician and reporting on social issues, especially corruption. ...

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Father, Why Have You Forsaken Me? (1990)

After her mother dies in childbirth, a blind little girl has to learn to live with her wealthy father's new wife—her new stepmother—and her two children. After her stepmother purposely leaves her alone outside a crowded church, she is found by an old f ...

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Victim (1990)

The story of an unsuccessful attempt to convict a congressman's son of rape takes an unexpected twist, as the accused pursues a friendship with the victim. A mysterious and deadly rapist and murderer spreads terror and chaos among women in the city. But in ...

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All Be Damned (1990)

A corrupt, lonely couple manipulates a naive, young couple using money, power, and lies. ...

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Dirty Affair (1990)

A teenage boy befriends a starlet who is having an affair with an ambitious mayor. As the elections are coming up, the mayor's wife wants him to get rid of his mistress. The starlet agrees to stop the affair on condition that the mayor help release her boy ...

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When Forever Ends (1990)

A young man achieves success as a singer, affecting everyone around him. ...

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Sweet Revenge (1989)

Salve, a content barrio lass, is married to Alfred, an aspiring politician. Alfred meets Via finds out that they can both be very useful to each other's lives. He is set on pursuing a political career and Via is from a powerful political family that wants ...

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Fight for Us (1989)

In 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. ...

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When Will Sin Be Washed Away? (1989)

A driver sells his baby to his wealthy childless employers, causing consequences years later. ...

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Macho Dancer (1989)

Pol 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. ...

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God Is Still Asleep (1988)

Wanting a better life for his baby, a driver switches his son for his employers' newborn girl, forever entwining the futures of both families and enacting a series of violent consequences. ...

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Three Faces of Love (1988)

Three stories of love starring Sharon Cuneta. The first, "I Love You, Moo-Moo" (directed by Leroy Salvador), is about a young bride who died on her honeymoon; the second, "Ang Silid" (directed by Lino Brocka) is about an interior decorator who investigates ...

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I Carry the World (1987)

A riches story amidst the filth and squalor of the Smokey Mountain. A scavenger among the garbage who had to carry her crippled mother on her back while begging on the steps of the Manila Cathedral. Raped by an unknown man she left her poverty laden existe ...

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Be Only Mine (1987)

The rich and beautiful Rosita would do anything to win the love of the man she had become obsessed with. Still, neither her beauty nor all the money in the world gave her what she wanted. ...

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Napakasakit, Kuya Eddie (1986)

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 for greener pasture but it seems like it is too far and hard to reach. His family here in the Philippines wa ...

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What Is the Color of God's Face? (1985)

A street hustler falls in love with a bar girl. They get married, but separate when the guy gets meted a death sentence after gunning down a rich customer of the bar in a fit of jealousy. The bar girl bears the hustler's child who becomes eventually blind. ...

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White Slavery (1985)

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. ...

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Miguelito (1985)

A young boy discovers his politician father's corruption and cruelty as he discovers his real mother is a victim of his own father's immorality and violence. ...

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This Is My Country (1984)

A laborer gets money for his wife's pregnancy from his boss on the condition that he will not join the union. ...

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Experience (1984)

An actress's past is unraveled after a fan starts stalking her. ...

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Your Body Is Mine (1984)

A 1984 erotic melodrama by Lino Brocka about a former softcore porn star ("bold star" in the Philippines), her abusive husband and their new next-door neighbor. ...

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Adultery (1984)

Dreaming to be released from her miserable life of poverty, Aida, a waitress, abandons her bedridden father, her moralistic mother, her jobless brother and her good-for-nothing sister to live-in with her boyfriend Carding, whom she believes could give her ...

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Bona (1984)

Bona, 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. ...

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Hot Property (1983)

This official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1983 directed by Lino Brocka and starred Carmi Martin, Phillip Salvador, Dennis Roldan, Vic Diaz, and Tony Santos, Sr centers on the story of Gigi, a burlesque dancer who is the main attraction ...

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Strangers in Paradise (1983)

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 came and brought her to Hawaii where she learns an unexpected truth about her past. ...

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Cain and Abel (1982)

A modern-day version of the biblical legend of Cain and Abel, the strong-willed matriarch Señora Pina favors her younger son, Ellis, over the older Lorenzo, whom she blames for her husband's death. ...

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Mother Dear (1982)

This film probes into the minds and hearts of illegitimate children and their mothers. ...

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Palipat-lipat, Papalit-palit (1982)

Chuck is a TV executive who feels he has achieved his goals far too early in life. He decides to leave his wife Carissa to go on a soul-searching journey. Being a male chauvinist, he expects his wife to understand his moves. Carissa seeks solace from his f ...

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In This Corner (1982)

A 1982 drama by Lino Brocka set in the world of boxing, starring Phillip Salvador, Vic Vargas and Chanda Romero. ...

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PX (1982)

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 at a U.S. military base in Pampanga. ...

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Caught in the Act (1981)

In Lino Brocka's 1981 melodrama, a man's juggling of three women—his wife, his girlfriend, and the wealthy married woman with whom he begins a torrid affair—leads to violent consequences. ...

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She's a Bachelorette, He's a Bachelor (1981)

A successful couple decide to separate and see other people. ...

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Hello, Young Lovers (1981)

Classes clash in this 1981 teen romantic comedy by Lino Brocka about a streetwise college dropout attempting to win the heart of a privileged, wealthy girl. ...

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Bourgeois (1981)

After his expulsion from college Juni Locsin (Gabby Concepcion) is forced to continue studies at Eastern College Of The Republic, an ordinary university. This is a contrary environment to the young man accustomed to luxury. ...

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Controversial (1981)

Brocka's potboiler about the rise of a starlet is the quintessential rags-to-riches, prey-turned-predator story, brimming with true-life anecdotes and an authentically acerbic sense of the seamier side of show business. ...

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Angela Markado (1980)

Angela Delmar works as a waitress for one of the seedier bars in Manila. There she meets five patrons of the bar, who also turn out to be a gang specializing in drugging and raping girls and later on selling them to prostitution. ...

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Stolen Love (1980)

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 ambitious law student. One day, she finds herself pregnant and Robert is not pleased. As he worms his way int ...

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Your Daughter's Mother (1979)

A story about a husband who falls in love with his mother-in-law. ...

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Jaguar (1979)

Poldo, 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. ...

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Mother, Sister, Daughter (1979)

After 20 years, Pura returns to her ancestral home to meet her father. However, this soon reignites a bitter rivalry between her and Emilia, her half-sister, that impacts the entire household. ...

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Heat (1979)

A mother and daughter falls madly in love with mysterious stranger Emil Santos. ...

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Rubia Servios (1978)

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

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Beasts (1978)

Alice, Benjie and Andro are bank robbers who go into hiding in the jungle after one of them kills a civilian during a heist. ...

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Wake Up... Maruja (1978)

A bride commits suicide on her wedding night. Years later, she is reincarnated as an actress-producer and tries to reveal her true story to the world. ...

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My Father, My Mother (1978)

Coring, a gay beautician, is left with a baby by his former ward, Dennis. The baby grows up thinking that Coring is his real father. Everything seems to be smooth until the kid's mother suddenly shows up to claim her son. ...

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The Dancer (1978)

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

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Hush Now, Little Boy (1977)

Because his mother is too poor to feed her young children, Empoy is sent to work for his exploitative and cruel aunt. ...

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Insiang (1976)

A 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. ...

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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday (1976)

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 her livelihood and sometimes refuses to acknowledge her as his mother. Bembol Roco is the son of a prostitu ...

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Dung-aw (1975)

Diego and Gabriela Silang are landed Ilocos natives disaffected with the imposition of the indulto de comercio (a law giving right to Spanish officials to buy rice and tobacco at the price they prefer). The year is 1762 and the British invade Manila, the c ...

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Manila in the Claws of Light (1975)

Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one. ...

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Three, Two, One (1974)

Three intimate stories showing the perseverance of hope despite a sense of despair, featuring a drug addict, an abandoned daughter and a repressed catholic. ...

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Weighed But Found Wanting (1974)

A privileged teenager, disillusioned with the hypocrisy he witnesses in his small town, forms a bond with a lonely leper and a mentally unstable homeless woman. ...

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Cherry Blossoms (1972)

A 1972 Tagalog-Filipino language drama/romance film directed by Lino Brocka, starring Dante Rivero, Pilar Pilapil and Hilda Koronel. ...

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Villa Miranda (1972)

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

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Stardoom (1971)

A stage mother drives her younger son to his 'stardoom' to make up for her downward slide from her bourgeois origins. ...

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Chain of Love (1971)

Adapted from Mars Ravelo's serialized "komiks," this 1971 melodrama by Lino Brocka stars Rosemarie Sonora, Dante Rivero and Hilda Koronel as a twisted love triangle. ...

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Even the Angels Cried (1971)

Fragile as a teardrop - Powerful as a God-given Right. ...

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Now! (1971)

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

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Dipped in Gold (1970)

Lino Brocka's adaptation of Mars Ravelo's "komiks" melodrama about a successful businessman who is terrified of being exposed as a homosexual. ...

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Santiago! (1970)

A nighttime attempt to sabotage a Japanese munitions store in the little town of Santiago goes wrong when Gonzalo (Fernando Poe, Jr.) discovers that the schoolhouse they are about to blow up is filled with women, old men, and schoolchildren. ...

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The Arizona Kid (1970)

A Filipino immigrant travels the American west searching for his relatives. Although he doesn't speak much English, he winds up getting involved with Chinese immigrants, and a beautiful blonde American girl and finds himself appointed sheriff of a small to ...

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Wanted: Perfect Mother (1970)

It tells of a couple, Dante and Elsa who hires a new governess, Carla to care for their four children. The governess quickly establishes rapport with the children and the husband creating rumors of an affair. Before things could go wrong, Carla decides to ...

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Movies Starring Lino Brocka (10)

Brocka x Bernal (2024)

A documentary on the life and work of National Artists Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal. ...

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Omens (2008)

Signos (1984) is a Super 8mm film documentary that was a true product of its time, a collaboration by film artists and writers, who, in spite of varying political persuations, were united by one common goal – ousting the reviled Marcos regime. It feature ...

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Lino: His Art and Life (1998)

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

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Signed: Lino Brocka (1987)

Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood profiles controversial Filipino director Lino Brocka, detailing his rags-to-riches rise in the mainstream film industry of the Philippines. Primarily using interviews with the effusive director himself, Blackwood a ...

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Beyond the Mainstream: A Salute to Philippine Independent Cinema (1986)

With interviews with National Artists Lamberto Avellana and Lino Brocka and myriad talents from the Mowelfund community such as Nick Deocampo and Raymond Red, Beyond Mainstream documents the robust energy of nascent independent filmmaking in the country in ...

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Visions Cinema: Film in the Philippines - A Report by Tony Rayns (1983)

Film critic Tony Rayns interviews Lino Brocka and other prominent Filipino filmmakers. ...

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Five and the Skin (1982)

Ivan, a writer living in Manila, walks through the city in search of his past. ...

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The Marriage (1980)

As their wedding day approaches, Joel and Grace open up about their past lovers, and just before the wedding day, their ex-lovers meet up with them. ...

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Mortal (1976)

A surreal film about a man recovering from mental illness. ...

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Manila... A Filipino Film (1975)

Making-of documentary about Lino Brocka's 1975 film "Manila in the Claws of Light," featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage. ...

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