Lino Brocka Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

Pol moves to Manila for better opportunities after his American lover leaves. However, he gets drawn into the gritty world of gay prostitution and...

Upon her retirement from being a school teacher, a mother slowly realizes that her children are already grown-up and she now is faced with the...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

A privileged teenager, disillusioned with the hypocrisy he witnesses in his small town, forms a bond with a lonely man with leprosy and a mentally...

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...

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.

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