Lino Brocka Movies

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.

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

A typical story of a hopeless Filipino worker whose last resort is to work abroad to save his family from poverty. Melo trudged the desert to look...

Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood profiles controversial Filipino director Lino Brocka, detailing his rags-to-riches rise in the mainstream...

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...

A successful couple decide to separate and see other people.

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

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

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.

Adapted from Mars Ravelo’s serialized “komiks,” this 1971 melodrama by Lino Brocka stars Rosemarie Sonora, Dante Rivero and Hilda...

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

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...

After her mother dies in childbirth, a blind little girl has to learn to live with her wealthy father’s new wife—her new...

A Filipino immigrant travels the American west searching for his relatives. Although he doesn't speak much English, he winds up getting involved with...

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

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

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...

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

A nighttime attempt to sabotage a Japanese munitions store in the little town of Santiago goes wrong when Gonzalo (Fernando Poe, Jr.) discovers that...

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