Caught in the evil schemes of a politician, David decides that loyalty to an evil boss is not the way to go. His decision to break away leads him to Panyang, another victim of Cong. Leon Manalo.
A man who vows to fight for justice (Lito Lapid) and a hard-hitting TV reporter (Maricel Soriano) are forced to work together to escape the people who are after them.
Ian Montes is a picture of success. Despite being a son of a shipping tycoon, Ian refused to just ride in his father's empire. He built his own real estate company and earned his first million at a very young age. He never looked back since then. Driven by his ambition to become better, if not as good as his father, Ian managed to make it on his own. But behind all the glory is a man yearning for love and recognition.
Casilda diagnosed with terminal cancer, has a few months to live. She finds a way for her husband to become close to a beautiful woman with the same guts and forbearance of her caliber. One she can leave all of her loved ones with when it’s time for her to go. Then, the unexpected happens…
A 1983 Filipino drama starring Gloria Romero, Snooky, Maricel Soriano. Janice de Belen, Julie Vega, William Martinez and Manilyn Reynes.
It’s a story of people and their secrets that tear them apart...The movie follows a surprising decision that each family member will make in the aftermath of a tragedy… life changing decisions that will either lead them to a future lasting happiness, or one full of despair.
Bahay Kubo: A Pinoy Mano Po! is a 2007 Regal Productions movie starring Maricel Soriano and Eric Quizon. The movie is one of the official entries of the Metro Manila Film Festival.
The film is based on the true story of a maid who was either seduced or raped and made pregnant by her Chinese employer; the baby was either killed by the employer's wife or by her own hand, depending on who you talk to.
A teen-aged daughter who idolizes her father finds it difficult to get attracted to guys of her age.
A Manila professional determined to unearth the mysterious disappearance of her younger brother. Plagued by guilt over neglecting and ignoring the needs of her brother, she takes a bitter and scary journey to the island of Panay where her brother was last seen. On her way to the dreaded town of Panitan, Maricel runs into a group of students who are on a research project to disprove the existence of witches in that town.
Drag Race Philippines Season 2 proudly presents the soap opera with the shortest runtime and the longest, most unforgettable title.
In a quiet, rural Filipino village, sibling rivalry continues through adulthood for two sisters and finally tears their family apart.
This film probes into the minds and hearts of illegitimate children and their mothers.
A woman is thinking of abortion, against her firm faith and family's wants.
Quadruplet siblings (two boys and two girls) played by Vice Ganda were separated after birth when their grandmother steals two of the siblings (a boy and a girl) away from their mother. The stolen siblings lived a comfortable life in the US, not knowing that their mother and siblings, a gay and a lesbian, struggled to make ends meet in the Philippines. When the boy develops hepatitis that requires him to have a liver transplant from a compatible donor, their father tells them about their siblings in the Philippines, who may be possible candidates as donors. But once the siblings finally meet, pent up resentment and animosity between the girl and the gay siblings, has threatened the chances of the boy sibling's survival.
"In His Mother's Eyes" follows the story of Tim, a special child who was left in the care of his uncle Bibs by his working mother Lucy for several years. When Lucy returns, she attempts to regain the affection of her son and brother. Unfortunately, it is not as easy as she thought. Despite her best efforts to make up for her absence, her attempts fail and only make things worse.
Norma has to balance her love and attention for the two special people in her life: her daughter and her ward.
Mystery surrounds all the characters and seemingly ordinary events become suspenseful and thrilling as the fate of two souls forever intertwined, affect destiny, change life… cause death.
Jerry, an undercover agent, has successfully infiltrated a bigtime drug syndicate. He gets assigned, however, to liquidate Roselle, the lone witness to a murder. In a dilemma, Jerry has to protect Roselle without blowing his cover.
Good friends (Maricel Soriano & Rene Requiestas) bent on becoming cops always end up getting on each others nerves. One ends up as a Jeepney Driver and the other as a Traffic Enforcer. This inevitably reunites them in all sorts of crazy situations. - Written by ledster
Susie (Snooky) and Amy (Maricel) play the daughters of Ilocano Manang Biday and Visayan Inday Waray, characters made famous by 1950s movie queens Gloria Romero and Nida Blanca. Follows 1954 film Waray-waray.
a film by Luciano B. Carlos.
Tales of young, romantic love intertwine and reflect both the idealism and the naivete of youth.
Florencia, the matriarch of the Filipinas family, is in poor health, and Yolanda, the eldest of the Filipinas children, finds herself in the unenviable position of keeping her bickering family from disintegration. As the tension rises, Yolanda seeks refuge in a local church. She is critically injured trying to break up a nasty fight between brothers Emman and Samuel, forcing her family to make a life-changing decision.
a film by Luciano B. Carlos.
a film by Luciano B. Carlos.
a film by Mike Relon Makiling.
Three Sisters Corazon,Cecilia and Celina are students of the school. Corazon allways never think about men until a pouplar student came for her Second Sister Cecilia was rebellous kid who was with A Handsome teacher Professor David who having a girlfriend but he fall in love with Cecilia and Third sister Celina who nickname Diva by male admirers who fall in love with Migs however they faced real world to become women.
Luisa is raped by an unknown assailant a few nights before she is wed to Jake. When Jake discovers Luisa's prenuptial chastity is in question on their first night, violent events unfold. Poor Luisa is a battered victim and reacts chillingly. Tit for tat. Fire against fire. Dreams become nightmares, love turns to rage.
Bekikang is left and abandoned with a baby boy by friend, Fortunato. He loves and raises the child as his own flesh and blood. When things are going so well between Bekikang and the child, Fortunato and the mother of the child after years of absence reappear to take the child back.
A florist has a married man for a boyfriend.
A wacky and hilarious misadventures of a trio of swindlers who chance upon Isko, a man from the countryside who is planning to work overseas but duped on his money by the flirty Dorie together with his accomplices Elvis and Ricky. More trouble ensues when they took custody of Don Sebastian's grand daughters, Brenda and Donna when Don Sebastian was killed by his assailants whose life was saved earlier by the swindlers. Now they will run for their lives because the assailants goes after the wealth left behind by Don Sebastian to her granddaughters.
Rowena, a transgender actress returns to her home on Guam for her high school reunion’s “do-over week,” to live out a big regret… her childhood dream of becoming a cheerleader. But she must then confront a different kind of reunion, with her estranged family.
What would happen if a country of 97 million people were taught at a young age that the boogie man was real. In the Philippines for the last 400 years, the 'aswang' has been used as propoganda and social control by Spanish Colonizers, the Catholic Church, the Philippine Administration, and even the CIA.
A Save an Orphan Volunteer is taking care of a young girl, who is being stalked by Engkantos, as the chase begins, the lives that surrounding them maybe at risk.
Two brothers become rivals in the affections of the same woman. Their rivalry tears them apart, and causes one of them to be heartbroken. But the two are forced to reunite in order to protect their family from a greedy businessman.
After spending a couple of years behind bars, Lando wins back his freedom. But his prison record has incapacitated him from landing a job. Fortunately, a friend of his knows someone who needs a driver and a bodyguard desperately. But that someone turns out to be Mariel, the very woman whom Lando has had an encounter with. Desperate for a job, Lando agrees to work for Mariel despite his negative impression of her. As expected, their working relationship is as stormy as it can get. But love works in mysterious ways - even the rowdiest of enemies can become more than friends.
THE BITTER-SWEET EXPERIENCES OF THREE YOUNG WOMEN IN LOVE ARE DRAMATIZED IN THIS ROMANTIC DRAMA.
Maricel Soriano and Eugene Domingo co-star with Billy Crawford and Andi Eigenmann as lovers set to get married. However, theres one stumbling block: Their mothers (that is, Maricel and Eugene) are against it. The two moms are revealed to be mortal enemies because in their younger years they fell in love with the same man. The young lovers hatch a plan to reconcile their feuding moms. The tragedy: The mothers get lost in a remote island where they are forced to work together and settle their issues if they have to survive. They do become friends again. What they dont know is that their children are on the brink of separation.
Three uplifting stories of faith, compassion and courage provide the framework for this inspirational film. First, Jocelyn (Maricel Soriano), a victim of the mudslides in Leyte, finds strength in the face of tragedy; next, a family's adoption of a neglected young boy brings healing; and in the final chapter, widower Rudy Abad (Cesar Montano) decides to build a village in the Philippines in memory of his wife, who died in the Sept. 11 attacks. - Maricel Soriano, Cesar Montano, Ricky Davao
=The movie portrays seven wayward men who suffer within the walls of the national penitentiary. They serve their sentences as if they are living their regular free, luxurious lives outside the cold bars of the prison, in open air, able to go where they want when they want. Four of the men - Nandong, Noel, Butch, and Caloy - are gay men who feel attracted to Steve Guanzon and eventually sodomize and rape him.
During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, young Chinese copra trader named Fong-Huan marries Elisa, a young and pretty Filipina. The couples children, Daniel and Linda, were raised in a mixture of Chinese and Filipino-Hispanic tradition. These richly cultured people are the ancestors of a dysfunctional third-generation family whose daughters tell their own stories of joy, struggle, and the complex realities in the life of Filipino Chinese families.
A married couple decides to adopt a baby girl and raise her as their own, but internal family problems arise when the two are blessed with a biological child.
Four disparate friends one a homosexual strive to be wonderful spouses and parents, yet despite good intentions, they all struggle with personal dramas. While Cynthia and her husband are no longer intimate, Mylene has learned her spouse is sleeping around. In the meantime, Louise fears her daughter isn't pretty enough, and gay foster father Mandy must come out of the closet.
Melissa, a successful advertising executive believed she has a perfect life with her husband Dodie and two children Vincent and Jenny. What she did not know is that her husband has fallen out of love with her and is seeing another woman named Sandy. Sandy confronted Melissa and told her to give up Dodie because she has been impregnated by him. Melissa tried to win her relationship with Dodie however, the latter chose Sandy over her. Their marital break-up almost shattered her. But with the help of her kids and friends Melissa learns to be self-sufficient. In the long run, she learns to move on with her life and overcoming the challenge of single parenthood.
A government agent investigating a suspected terrorist is accused of having an affair by his wife. The false accusation leads to the end of their marriage for the sake of their son.
Doris is a loving yet strict sister to Ditas, who could not make decisions on her own. Doris has always treated her younger sister like a child to the point that Ditas feels smothered by her sister’s attention. One day Doris gets impressed with a young cab driver Miko who volunteered to fix her eatery’s broken electric fuse box. Doris hires him as Ditas’ official school service driver. Ditas initially protested but she yielded to her sister’s demand nonetheless. The two then started to secretly date each other. On the other hand, Doris’ world was turned upside down when her ex-flame Mike showed up to her. Because of Mike’s persistence Doris decided to open up her heart for the second time. However, as the two sisters’ respective romantic relationship become stable, Doris learned about Ditas’ affair with Miko.
Sandra, a 35-year-old wedding coordinator who sees her uneventful life turned upside down when she falls for the much-younger Eric.
A dedicated educator caught in the upheaval and needs of the times imparts the basic rudiments of knowledge while being haunted by personal questions that remain unanswered.
A close friendship between two women is shattered when one of them seeks temporary solace in the other's husband.
After years of trying to have a son, a couple finally decides to adopt one. While Shayne their only child is receptive at first, she finds herself getting increasingly jealous of Joel who has become the couple's center of attention. Shayne realizes that her adopted brother is no threat at all when he demonstrates his affection for her. But just when harmony is restored in the family, tragedy strikes during a beach excursion.
Divided into three "short films", each one pokes fun to a particular genre. Episode 1: Bala Sa Bala, Kamao Sa Kamao, Satsat Sa Satsat. Episode 2: Shake, Shaker, Shakest. Episode 3: Asawa ni Marie.
Follows a group of young adults as they navigate life after college.
50's melodies provide the soundtrack to this classic that had fans swooning and rooting for their respective idols, eventually rolling down the aisles towards the riotous ending.
A playboy and a simple girl from the provinces try to make it in the big city.
After separating for too long, two sisters are reunited but complications are bound to happen when bickerings of past continues. Joy, a succesful careerwoman, attempts to reconcile her parents and reconnects with her siblings.
After finishing prison sentence in Canada and came back to the Philippines, Gemma wants to recover her son after she was abandoned by her husband, Edwin. To do so, she worked as a nanny and was hired by Cindy, new wife of her husband. Being closer to her son in this household, she plans to escape with her son.
Adela is the sheltered daughter of successful Dr. Maximo Sevilla. She has spent her life crocheting alone in the big house, and disappointed her father for failing to qualify for a career in law or medicine, and for lacking the confidence of her departed mother. Adela vainly struggles to cultivate elegance, until she meets and falls for the charms of striking David Javier.
Donna, Judith, and Bessie are sisters from an aristocratic family. Each of them keeps a secret, all fighting for love and peace of one another.
A story of an young girl who tries to escape from memories of the past and while doing so she alienates herself from her family. Since she was a little girl, Clarissa has always wanted to get out of the slums that she lives in. She has always been close to her rich god-mother Monina Gardamonte and to Monina's daughter, Therese. Too close in fact that she confides to her god-mother more than to her own mother, Naty and her elder sister, Nancy. Because of her closeness to her god-mother, Clarissa tasted the high life and has always wanted to be a part of it. When she grew up, she became more determined to be a part of high society, and Clarissa takes every opportunity at all cost to achieve her desires.
A love triangle involving a young woman who leaves her provincial boyfriend and newborn son to try her luck in Manila. She meets a man who promises to marry her and take care of her son.
The life of tomboy tricycle driver Olga gets thrown for a loop when she collides with the rich Truman, who then makes it his mission to win her heart.
It is a story of Angeli (Maricel Soriano), an orphan girl raised by a wealthy widower, Diony (Eddie Garcia). Angeli's hardships as a child left her to be a possesive and selfish woman. Diony has an only son, Efraim (Gabby Concepcion). Angeli adores Efraim since childhood. Efraim and his dad have made Angeli the apple of their eyes. Santina (Lorna Tolentino) comes later in the picture and leaves Angeli vying head to head for the attention of his dad and the man he loves. Will Angeli win over Santina's delicate charm? Or will she be forced to accept where she really came from? Will Efraim pick Angeli over Santina?
Anthology features three family-friendly fantasy / horror tales; "Sleeping Beauty," "Zombies" and "Querubin: Maria Leonora Theresa." It's an adaptation of the radio drama series written by Severino Reyes, which was popular in the 1950s.
Assistant Production Designer Wilson Nañawa is tasked to look for a Last Supper to use as a prop for a TV commercial. He finds three, but loses the one owned by Gareth Pugeda. What happens next changes Wilson forever as he spends the next two years entangled in bureaucracy and red tape facing estafa and serious physical injury charges. How will this ordinary man fare against a system he knows nothing about? Will justice prevail for Wilson? Or will he be imprisoned for the loss of Last Supper No. 3?
The 1989 very special Valentine's presentation of Regal Films.
Dim-witted Pilar flies to the US after winning the Miss California Soy Sauce contest. Excited to find her long lost sister, Pilar finds herself helpless upon her arrival in the land of milk and honey until she meets Pepe, her handsome "flight mate."
Shirley's unplanned bundle of joy strains her relationship with her father John, who accepted an odd job of being a human toy of a young boy to support her final year in college.
John and Marsha first movie.
John en Marsha movie.
Struggling to make ends meet, John (Dolphy) decides to seek his fortune in the United States, with son Rolly (Rolly Quizon) in tow. After narrowly avoiding deportation, he takes a job in a factory, unaware that it's a front for one of the country's biggest drugs.
When his country-dwelling aunt takes to a sick bed, John (Dolphy) and the rest of the Puruntong clan head to the hinterlands for an extended stay. Can the fish-out-of-water family overcome the culture shock of rural life without killing one another? Nida Blanca, Matutina, Rolly Quizon and Maricel Soriano reprise their roles in this Filipino comedy based on the popular 1980s TV series "John and Marsha."
An accidental affair leads to an extraordinary story of a unique family set up where the two characters play mother to the same child.
Due to numerous failures, an aging scientist who is trying to create a formula to bring back his youth decided to sell his soul to a gay demon and must find true love within a year.
Tenteng, a bullied wimp who dreams of being a strongman, gains superpowers from a magical barbell.
After a string of unsuccessful relationships, Corina married Teddy, an old widow whose daughter, Ana and sister Julita never approved of his new wife. An assertive young stepmother, a rebellious stepdaughter, and a working wife whose career provides tension between the wife and her husband are the portraits of the strong-willed woman of the 1980s.
Remedios (Maricel Soriano), born and raised in poverty, is an ambitious young woman vows to rise above her origins.
The Heiress centers on the story of Luna, a mambabarang or a powerful demon sorceress, who will stop at nothing to keep to herself her young niece, Guila.
Comedy movie starring Maricel Soriano, William Martinez and Roderick Paulate.
Cara is on a mission to break the curse that has haunted her family for generations. During her efforts to break the curse and save her family, Cara falls in love.
About basketball and love
Maricel, Dina, and Snooky are in for exciting times as they hit the college campus! They meet cute guys, join organizations, fall in love with their professor, and get into all sorts of mess.
An anthology film featuring the biggest tandem love teams in Philippine cinema.
A mother juggles her family's dying publishing house along with her troubled relationship with her three daughters.
Two teenage couples realize that marriage isn't child's play and takes maturity and selflessness, as well as love, to make it work.
A story about three girls struggling to find a better life in the city by working as maids in a house of a wealthy family. Carmela discovers a very important secret about her life when she met Crising, the loyal servant of the family. Yasmin fell in love with her master's son, Willi, but was distraught when Willie couldn't stand up for her and their unborn child. While Noemi who ran away from her mother to reach for her dreams, pretends to belong to a rich clan when she met a guy she likes.
In the heart of Manila, a rookie pickpocket crosses paths with Baldo, the so-called "king of pickpockets".
A single mom struggles to raise her son.
A 1993 Filipino drama anthology film by Joey Gosiengfiao.
Celia, a daughter of a housekeeper of the Regattas, finds an unknown man- Edwin - in one of their huts. As she helps the man, the two grew close to each other and fell in love. However, they must first solve their problems: Celia must obtain her father's properties while Edwin must clear his name's bad reputation.
STUDENTS FROLIC ON THE BEACH TO UNWIND AFTER ALMOST A YEAR OF SCHOOLING, SIGNALING THE ADVENT OF THE GRAND VACATION.
Abandoned by her mother, Inday suffers many hardships during her childhood. She tries to despise her mother, Monina, who seems to not care that she left her child years earlier.
Maricel Soriano plays the role of a young woman pursued by two suitors whose respective qualities make it difficult for her to choose one over the other.
Dolphy Jr plays an up and coming martial artist just like his father.
Tiger Force is all about rival drug gangs and undercover police agents. Nothing amazingly original for the genre. But what make it stand out is its pace, and the quantity and quality of the action.
A lover's vow of eternal love is vigorously tested by time.
The Best of John en Marsha sa Pelikula, Part II: Directed by Ading Fernando. With Dolphy, Nida Blanca, Rolly Quizon, Panchito.
As current as today's headlines...the gripping saga of a small man's uphill fight against the dreadead Japanese mafia.
A Foolish Parody Of Charlie's Angels Dolphy,who is considered the "King of Comedy" of the Philippines,stars in these parody of "Charlie's Angels" known as "Dolphy's Angels". He is cast together with Filipino sexy actresses who are known for their sex appeal.
The Puruntong family experiences upward social mobility in this comedy of lifestyles and human foibles.
After the death of her mother, a young girl had to face all sorts of hardships including mistreatment from an abusive father and stepmother. She ultimately decides to run away to get away from it all. Will she find true peace?
Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1982 directed by Elwood Perez and starred Snooky Serna, Maricel Soriano, Gabby Concepcion, William Martinez, Albert Martinez, Robert Arevalo, Liza Lorena, Marissa Delgado, Raul Aragon, Alicia Alonzo, Mila Ocampo, Johnny Wilson, Joel Alano, Aiko Melendez, and Kristine Garcia.
In this riotous comedy, Italian import model-turned-actor Dani Diovanni plays an abandoned half-American teenager who catches the fancy of screwball Maricel Soriano who plays the role of a comely lass from Pagsanjan.
Characters from the folk fantasy world empower the young leader of a small but prosperous town with a magical knife, an equally magical gun, and martial arts skills when criminal syndicate members wreak havoc on the once peaceful community.
Two sisters fall for the same man, a doctor. The older sister meets him when both are medical students; the younger one meets him when he treats a grave ailment for her. This is the Tagalog version of the Visayan film 'Usahay.'
Four professionals — three men and a woman — leave their respective jobs to work as domestics in a rich household, where the master’s four children initially make their lives miserable.
A childless couple finally has a child under mysterious circumstances, but later, the wife resents the growing closeness between the child and her husband.
Estela "Taray" Caluglog is a stern and faultfinding provincial girl who travels to the city to prepare her papers to become a domestic helper in Singapore. Once a sunglasses-wearing boy named Teroy accidentally bumps Taray with his motorcycle, Taray angrily chases after him with her switchblade. As further hijinks ensue, the two get to know each other and eventually fall in love.
Nagkataon... Nagkatagpo: Directed by Augusto Salvador. With Rudy Fernandez, Maricel Soriano, Eddie Rodriguez, Bembol Roco.
Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1986 directed by Celso Ad. Castillo and starred German Moreno and the All-Star Cast
A mother, who loves watching K-dramas, decides to stop her chemo treatment after losing hope of getting better. Her only dream before dying is to meet her ultimate K-drama idol, who is visiting Manila for a series of events. Her four children agree to work together with the condition that once their mother meets their idol, she will undergo therapy before her time runs out.
Set in the remote mountains of the Philippines, First Light sees the death of a young construction worker force an elderly nun to confront the muddied ethics of an institution she has dedicated her life to.
Amid the cutthroat world of showbiz, a team of talent agents juggles celebrity egos, industry politics, and personal ambitions — revealing the chaos behind the spotlight. A film cut of the two episodes of Call My Manager.