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Plot Summary:
Three advertising executives are doomed to perpetually look for the right man. Tates, Katie and Sonia are all are stuck in a rut with love, sex and marriage. Tates will do whatever it takes to just to have the man she wants even if he is tangled in a messy annulment case and even if it takes her to shed a lot of money to have him. Katie found her love story with a macho dancer but is scared to let her friends know because of his unconventional job. So she tries to give him a more decent look for her friends to see. She also finds bodily insecurities because of her chubby physique. Sonia is the two-timing chick that finds her self pregnant while being with two men. She is in-love with a painter but finds more security with a rich man. Despite her strong feelings for the former, she chooses to be with the latter in order to provide better for her and her child.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags:
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Stray Cats (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two bestfriends, a gay man and a woman, are always unlucky in finding love.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody
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Extramarital Travels (1988)
Plot Summary:
Tugomir, a student, wants to write a dissertation on Love, but fails to complete it before being obligatory drafted in the army. There, he succumbs to paranoia that his girlfriend is cheating on him. He decides to cheat on her too.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Manay Po! 2 Overload (2008)
Plot Summary:
Luzviminda Dimagiba (Cherry Pie Picache) and her three gay sons: Oscar (Polo Ravales), Orson (John Prats) and Orwell (Jiro Manio) are back! And now they want to add a new member to their outrageous family – a cute little baby to make their new home happy and complete! But babies don’t just really just fall from heaven or can be fetched from a river, so when the Dimagibas are figuring out this dilemma, Bette (Rufa Mae Quinto) – the ditzy baby maker just came right on time to provide the answer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
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American Adobo (2001)
Plot Summary:
The everyday struggles of people trying to bridge two cultures, as well as their attempt to find happiness in their new homeland. Tere (Cherrie Pie Picache), mid-forties and single, hosts a dinner for a friend visiting from Manila, Lorna. Invited are their New York City-based friends and former college classmates -- Mike (Christopher De Leon), a newspaper editor in his forties, Gerry (Ricky Davao), an advertising copywriter and closeted gay, and Marissa (Dina Bonnevie).
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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User (2002)
Plot Summary:
Cathy, a young and innocent freshman, has a crush on senior hunk, Nick, the campus' basketball star. One day, he came to her and asked her to have dinner and drive her home. One thing led to another until she ended up giving her virginity not knowing that he made a bet with his friends. He dumped her right after he got what he wanted without any explanation. Filled with hatred, she seduced Louie, her classmate who had a crush on her, to get back at Nick - and as a favor she would go to bed with him. Things got out of hand and led to a tragic ending.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
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Red Diaries (2001)
Plot Summary:
The first episode deals about the story of a mistress who is engaged in an extra-curricular activity with her lover's driver. The second story deals about an illicit relationship of a balik-bayan with a seminarian. The third and the most controversial is about the martyr wife of an abusive police officer who allowed his colleagues to molest his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: anthology
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I Will Survive (2004)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Philippines
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Happily Ever After (2005)
Plot Summary:
Happily Ever After is a trilogy. Each is a love story with a touch of magic, comedy and whimsy. Tying all the segments together is a seemingly fake fortune teller, who uses a science sphere she got at a novelty store as a crystal ball!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology
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I Do (2010)
Plot Summary:
Mayumi is a girl with a happy disposition in life who dreams of meeting her "the one" someday. She has been dreaming of meeting her "the one" and having the perfect wedding ever since she was a little girl. When she meets Lance, a Chinese descendant, in a wedding, she immediately knows that he is "the one" she is waiting for, her faith and destiny. The two of them become lovers despite the unwillingness of their families to their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: tagalog
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A Woman with Red Hair (1979)
Plot Summary:
Kozo and his colleague rape their boss's daughter and have sex with an unnamed woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Nympha (2003)
Plot Summary:
A re-imagination of the Celso Ad Castillo classic, "Nympha" tells the story of an orphan woman named Nympha living in a backward province with a narrow minded aunt who is a religious fanatic.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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The Man in the Lighthouse (2007)
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Mateo is a lighthouse caretaker dating a teacher Suzette. The small town they are in is trying to increase tourism. Jerome stumbles across Mateo and Suzette having sex, whilst he is on holiday from Manila. A local a gay man, who pays local teenage boys for sex, talks to Mateo about the negative aspects of being gay in the Philippines. According to local legend, a lighthouse fairy seduces desirable men who then never marry. Mateo's relationship with Jerome leads to self reevaluation.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Sosy Problems (2012)
Plot Summary:
The problems of 4 rich beautiful girls.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, serious, captivating, realistic, documentary filmmaking
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The Raffle (1991)
Plot Summary:
Francesca, an incredibly beautiful woman, after the death of her husband discovers his unfaithfulness and huge amount of debts he left. Cesare is Francesca's best friend, he is a solicitor. Following his advice Francesca starts selling all her goods, like the house, jewels, furs and finally also the yacht. By doing this she is able to survive for the rest of the year, but has no prospects for the future and every attempt to get a job fails. Finally she makes a decision to set up a lottery in which the prize is her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, sexy, surprise ending, captivating, bleak, cynical, hot
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Dedicated to the Aegean Sea (1979)
Plot Summary:
Dedicato al mare Egeo is a forgotten and bizarre co-production produced between Italy and Japan from 1979, starring the famous Italian porn star Illona Staller (Cicciolina) and directed by the famous Japanese pinter, printmaker and novelist Masuo Ikeda (1934–1997) from his own script based on his novel “Ege-kai ni sasagu”, for which he won the Akutagawa Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Japan. Ikeda’s vigorous artistic activity even included screenplay writing and film directing. With this movie, Masuo Ikeda has undoubtedly left his mark on the ’70s Italian skin cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Town Whore (2001)
Plot Summary:
Syota ng Bayan is Tanya Marquez, a bold star who quits showbiz and goes back to her hometown. Finding out that a cement factory is causing a lot of havoc in the environment and in the lives of her town mates, she challenges the incumbent of Mayor Golano to have it closed. When denied, Tanya rallies the people in protest but is silenced. The mayor's opponents prevail upon Tnays to run for mayor in the coming elections against Golano's son, Peter Lee. During the campaign period Tanya and Peter Lee meet and fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: political drama
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Kimmy Dora (2009)
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Kimmy and Dora (both Eugene Domingo) are identical twins but are as different as night and day. Kimmy is the smart, dictatorial type while Dora is the slow, dumb-wit sister. Kimmy has always been jealous of her sister as Johnson (Dingdong Dantes), the man she really likes, only has eyes for Dora. All hell breaks loose when their father(Ariel Ureta) gets a heart attack and makes Dora the majority owner of their family business if in case he dies. Kimmy thinks this is unfair and gets the help of their lawyer Harry (Baron Geisler) to take care of "business". A misunderstanding brings forth a plan to kill Dora but they kidnap Kimmy instead. Now Kimmy must find a way to get away from her captors while Dora must act as her tough sister and control their corporation in order to hide the truth from their father.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tagalog
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Where the Heart Is (1998)
Plot Summary:
From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois, is wrongly accused of rape by a racist policeman. The story is told in voiceover by his childhood friend, neighbor, and the mother of his future child, Clementine, who is white. The city is Marseilles as in the previous film, symbolic with its churches, prisons and ruins. Except in this film, director Robert Guediguian also ventures outside, taking the story to Sarajevo; two different cities, one devastated by war, the other by a bad economy and unemployment. A la Place du coeur won a Special Jury Prize at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival and was also shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival and the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Yellow Card (2000)
Plot Summary:
A teenage soccer star learns some tough lessons about the consequences of unprotected sex.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Zimbabwe
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Larger Than Life (2001)
Plot Summary:
A mother and her daughter—who are both victims of incest-rape perpetrated by the same man now languishing in jail—are approached by a couple of filmmakers with an offer to produce a movie based on the two women’s true story. They hesitate on the idea at first but agree eventually for the sum of money they will be paid in exchange for selling the rights to the material. When the finished film is finally shown in theaters, they proceed to the city all the way from their hometown to catch the screening. They are elated at the prospect of seeing the larger-than-life versions of themselves. But as the motion picture gradually unfolds before their very eyes, they instead go through another harrowing experience of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, suspense, realistic
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Dama de Noche (1998)
Plot Summary:
A woman who was maltreated during her younger years gets revenge on the people who abused her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Next Best Thing (2000)
Plot Summary:
A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, light, sentimental, humorous, offbeat, emotional, realistic, semi serious, sexy
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Bromance (2016)
Plot Summary:
When three friends go on a camping trip in a remote part of Argentina, sexual tensions quickly bubble to the surface. Once in virtual seclusion by the beach, Juli, also camping at the site, quickly recognises that that the boys seem to have a closer relationship than what she would consider 'normal'. The line between friendship and love fade further for two of the boys in particular as their desire becomes too much to bear. When what started as a simple getaway quickly becomes tinged with sex, romance, and conflict, everyone is forced to confront who they really are for the very first time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, light, humorous, lgbt cinema, contemplative, queer cinema
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The Man in Her Life (1997)
Plot Summary:
Selya is disappointed with Bobby who only wants sex but no real relationship nor marriage. So she leaves and decides to marry the gay Ramon who, she is convinced, is definitely different.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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It is Not the Pornographer That is Perverse... (2018)
Plot Summary:
An omnibus film comprised of four short films with interconnected themes and overlapping characters. 'Diablo in Madrid' is inspired by the Pasolini short film La Terra vista dalla Luna (1967). 'Uber Menschen' finds a professor visiting Madrid and contemplating killing himself when an Uber driver talks him out of it. 'Purple Army Fiction' is a reworking of certain ideas developed in LaBruce’s feature film The Raspberry Reich (2004). 'Fleapit' is an homage to films that depict people having sex in movie theatres, from Lamberto Bava’s Demons (1985) to Frank Perry’s Last Summer (1969), and beyond.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, sex comedy
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Alive and Kicking (1996)
Plot Summary:
A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sincere, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, independent film, fairy tale
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Humpday (2009)
Plot Summary:
Imagine your life is somewhat complete with a house, job, and wife but then your best friend from college comes knocking at your door at 2 AM. During a pot-induced hedonistic party, a plan is hatched between the two friends to create an Art Film of “two really straight men having sex.” If they only knew how much this would affect all of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, satirical, stylized, humorous, semi serious, sexual, absurd, indie film, mumblecore, sex comedy
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Liberated (2003)
Plot Summary:
Liberated tells the story of a group of friends with focus on the two lead stars Zubiri and Prieto. Zubiri plays a sexually liberated (hence the title) young woman who falls in love with the beau of her morally-inclined best friend (played by Prieto). The discovery of the illicit affair then results to one of the main characters' suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, sexy, naughty
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Friends & Lovers (1999)
Plot Summary:
Friends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's father. (Ian and dad are estranged because dad worked too many hours when Ian was a lad.) Dad has something to say, but Ian won't listen. Meanwhile, David is gay and virginal; Ian's business partner, Keaton, is unhappy that his sister Jane is pregnant with no plans to tell the father; Lisa is everybody's pal and no one's lover; John, stuck in adolescence, is always on the make. He brings German-born stunner, Carla, and promptly loses her affection to Hans, a fast-talking ski instructor. David meets Manny: they have chess in common. Soon, surprises abound as relationships take new turns.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexy, melancholic, humorous, realistic, independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, offbeat, witty
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Service (2008)
Plot Summary:
A struggling family (Gina Pareño, Jaclyn Jose, Coco Martin) owns a Filipino porn theater where prostitutes conduct their business.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines, France, South Korea, Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, sincere, atmospheric, serious, emotional, erotic, tense, realistic, saga, gloomy