Movies: Filipino

Ada is a shy gay man living in a small town in the Philippines. After many heartbreaks over many years, he has committed himself to a simple and single life. But when a magical stone from outer space transforms him into a flamboyant female superhero,...

Explores the little-known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses risking their lives on the front lines of a pandemic, thousands of miles from home....

Filmed pre-martial law in South Korea, a Filipino immigrant, who's grown up in a Kiwi environment is thrust into a whole new continent. Making his way around the incredible country of South Korea, he has to overcome many challenges. And to make sure ...

When a group of elementary students chose to tell a local folklore Alamat ng Isdang Kulay Bahaghari for a stage play, their curiosity brought them investigating the river to search for the infamous fish, only to discover that the folklore is not what...

Filipino-born Ella works as a nanny in a prosperous Moscow family. Day by day, she carries out the same routine actions: washing, cooking, cleaning, babysitting. But once she accidentally hurts her arm, her smooth repetitive life gradually gives a lu...

A teenager is resurrected as a plant-headed zombie, searching to find his past happiness and humanity. How long will it all last though, knowing that life may change again when the sun goes away?...

The film follows an old man who looks back on a fleeting love that illuminated his life, only for it to vanish without a trace....

Weeks after his last journey through South Korea, Gyan Lumo is now taking on his next assignment. Becoming the next king of Japan. Experiencing all the thrills and frills of modern Japan, from gacha, to theme parks, and back to gacha (he's addicted),...

Within hours of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, bombs rained down on U.S. and Filipino forces in the Philippines. After months of vicious fighting, Allied forces surrendered on the island only to be met with a brutal march to P.O.W. camps dotted...

The warm relationship between Mendel, an elderly Holocaust survivor, and his Filipino caretaker, Jose, is tested when Jose does not have a work permit and the police begin searching the neighborhood for illegal foreign workers....

A Filipino immigrant struggles to maintain his façade of success in Vancouver when his family in Manila asks for a hard favour....

An anthropomorphic cloud shares how it achieves small wins in this natural cycle of life, one that dwells on the commonality that suggests “mga ulap tayong nagiging ulan"....

Bela, a first-generation Filipina immigrant, must face her parents' prejudice regarding her sexual orientation....

A surgery to finally fit in a literally new world bears a heavy risk, pushing an alien immigrant to make last-minute precautionary measures on the day of his surgery....

This documentary paints the life of former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay (1953-1957), from being a simple mechanic, a wartime guerilla leader, and as president of the Philippines, leading up to his death in a plane crash in Mount Manunggal, Ce...

A Filipino mother's obsession with her teenaged son becoming famous turns into delusion when she sneaks into his play rehearsal....

When their father dies during their mother's hospitalization, a Filipino family goes to extreme and absurd lengths to hide the truth....

In a hidden paradise somewhere in the Philippines, two brothers share a simple but sufficient life. Things change when an unexpected visitor brings a new-found attention to their island home. With their idyllic island now on the tourism spotlight, th...

‘TAKBO’ is a short experimental film that studies the realities by which young Filipino women live....

Benok, robbed off his childhood, had to work due to poverty. While his mother spends time on gambling. In his eyes, the world has changed where children work and adults play. Benok finds his way to experience how to become a real kid again....