Lino Brocka Movies

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...

Mario O'Hara's surreal debut film about a man recovering from mental illness.

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

A successful couple decide to separate and see other people in this romantic comedy from Lino Brocka.

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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

Brocka's potboiler about the rise of a starlet is the quintessential rags-to-riches, prey-turned-predator story, brimming with true-life anecdotes...

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...