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Plot Summary:
The film is about the lives of simple folk caught between the crossfire of Kapitana accused of political patronage, and Patrol Kalikasan using the environment as a front for their own political and economic interests on the small mining community.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political thriller
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Murder in Batz (2015)
Plot Summary:
The murder of a woman in an abandoned house is the first murder this rural French island has had in 100 years. Or is it? A cop who left the island 20 years earlier and a young intern who moved away when she was six years old - but doesn't remember those first six years of her life - team up to solve the murder and some other mysteries that develop during the course of their investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, visually appealing
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The Rapture of Fe (2009)
Plot Summary:
In this metaphoric story of violence and resilience from director Alvin Yapan, Fe (Irma Adlawan) returns home to the Philippines after several years of working overseas, her job a victim of global economic shifts. Fe is initially greeted with affection by her husband Dante (Nonie Buencamino), but he has a long history of domestic violence fueled by rage and long-term impotence, and Fe quickly discovers her time away has not changed him. Dante works in a factory making baskets, and Fe soon joins him there; she becomes the lover of Arturo (T.J. Trinidad), the man who manages the basket company, but while Arturo treats her well, he's still under the thumb of his father who owns the factory. Meanwhile, an unknown admirer sends her parcels of strange black fruit on a regular basis. Torn between two men who cannot give her what she needs and wants, Fe's frustration leads to take desperate steps to establish her independence.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Shake Rattle and Roll 12 (2010)
Plot Summary:
The first episode "Mamanyiika" plays on the words "mama" and "manyika" which literally means "mother doll". The story of a possessed doll. The second episode, is the tale of three girls, one of them the apple of the eye of a terrible engkanto, who then captures the girl. Punerarya the third story, is a story of a tutor teaching the children of the ghoul entrepreneurs of a funeral parlor.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, anthology, exciting
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A Speck in the Water (1976)
Plot Summary:
Nunal sa Tubig is a story of a community living on an island where fishing is the main source of livelihood and how they are affected by progress.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Escape (1995)
Plot Summary:
Set during the terrifying reign of Filipino despot, Marcos, two upper caste but very different strangers team up to try and survive the physical and mental torture they undergo after they are suddenly jailed. Geny is the conservative businessman while Serge is more sensitive and outgoing. Both of the young men's parents give all of their money, but the government refuses to free them. Even a mutual hunger strike fails to move their jailers. In desperation, Geny and Serge begin plotting their escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: political drama
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Thy Womb (2012)
Plot Summary:
A Bajau midwife copes with the irony of her own infertility amid the deprivations of her gypsy community in Tawi-Tawi. A saga of island life stuck between the devil of passion and the deep blue sea of tradition.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching
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Acapulco Gold (1976)
Plot Summary:
In this rollicking adventure set on the high seas, an innocent insurance agent working on the beautiful Hawaiian island of Kauai, is framed as a drug smuggler. He gets help from a most unlikely source - the town drunk who knows more than anyone suspects.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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West Side Avenue (2001)
Plot Summary:
A Filipino teenager is shot to death on the sidewalk of New Jersey, USA. An investigation starts into his death. His family members and friends are interviewed. Along the way, we find out not only more about him but about the community of Filipinos in America in general, including the destructive effect of the drug "shabu" on its youth. The detective who handles the case also has his own personal demons to settle with his violent past.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 315 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, slow cinema, aesthetic, detective, complex
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The Pawnshop (2009)
Plot Summary:
Follows the lives of four different people, each linked to the other by the house of business. Olivia, owner of the establishment, yearns for her late husband and denies the onset of old age. She lives with her appraiser Amy, a romantic who is doing almost everything for love. Kanor serves as the pawnshop security guard. He holds Olivia in high esteem for letting him and his wife stay in the apartment above the shop. Kanor opens his house to boarder David, a seaman in transit.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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The Seventies (2002)
Plot Summary:
A middle-class Filipino family struggles to survive in the era of dictatorship.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: political, tagalog
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The Last Virgin (2003)
Plot Summary:
A priest visits a small seaside town. Miling a former nun who now teaches catechism on the island thinks that father Emman is the priest she sent for. She believes that a priest would help revive the townspeople's faith in God by putting up bars and girly joints.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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In Just the Wink of an Eye (1981)
Plot Summary:
About the incestuous obsession of a retired policeman Dadong Carandang (Silayan) for his daughter Mila (Santos). When she tells her father that she wishes to marry her boyfriend Noel (Ilagan) because she is pregnant, the news unleashes a series of abnormal events that inevitably lead to the family's doom.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 696
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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A Dangerous Life (1988)
Plot Summary:
A Dangerous Life is a 1988 English-language Australian film about the final years of the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos' rule, from the assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr. in 1983 to the People Power EDSA Revolution in 1986 that ousted Marcos. The film focuses on American TV journalist (Gary Busey), who finds himself in the middle of key events that lead to the downfall of the Marcos regime. Originally airing on television as a mini-series that ran for a total of six hours, the film was edited to 162 minutes for the home video release.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Philippines, Australia, UK
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, political thriller
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Black Beach (2020)
Plot Summary:
Carlos is a businessman who gets a request to intercede on behalf a US engineer in the oil industry who's been kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Belgium, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Angela, the Marked One (1980)
Plot Summary:
Angela Delmar (Hilda Koronel) works as a waitress for one of the seedier bars in Manila. There she meets five patrons of the bar, who also turn out to be a gang specializing in drugging and raping girls and later on selling them to prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Factory (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a factory is bound to close, a group of workers decides to take action against the owner.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, France, Armenia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, art house
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Suspek (1999)
Plot Summary:
A Filipino action drama film directed by Toto Natividad.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags:
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Norte, the End of History (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country’s never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable, when something mysterious and strange starts happening to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 250 min
Plot tags: philosophical, realistic, stylized, atmospheric, serious, slow cinema, contemplative, art house, black and white, cerebral
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Dogman (2018)
Plot Summary:
Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, breathtaking, neo noir, emotional, dark, hood, controversial
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Calvento Files The Movie (1997)
Plot Summary:
This movie has two episodes depicted from investigative crime show. Each episode speaks of grotesque deaths, betrayal, and the family members of the victims’ pursuit for justice. Episode 1 : Balintuwad It is the story of an epileptic fifteen-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted and later on drowned to death by a group of unknown men. As the rape-slay case comes to close, investigation reveals that the suspects are schoolteachers, who are expected to enhance a good future for children. Episode 2: Inay, May Momo, A young mother and her daughter’s nightmare begin when the husband is man-slaughtered by the mother’s other lover. The widowed wife files criminal case to imprison to killer however instead of surrendering the murderer chases down the mother and her distraught daughter to make them drop the charges against him.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Koblic (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tomás Kóblic, a former pilot and captain of the Argentinian Navy, disobeys an order and becomes a fugitive in order to survive. He chooses to hide in a small town in the south of the country, where his presence will catch the attention of the unscrupulous and violent local marshal.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, disturbing, social, mindfuck, exciting
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Whistleblower (2016)
Plot Summary:
An accountant is found restrained inside a mansion, and she agrees to testify against her employer, who is the head of a massive scam against the Filipino people.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: political thriller, suspense
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A Sort of Family (2017)
Plot Summary:
What limits does Malena cross to get what she wants most? Malena is a 38 year old middle class doctor from Buenos Aires. One afternoon she receives the call from Doctor Costas, who informs her that she must travel immediately to the north of the country: the baby she was waiting for is about to be born. Unexpectedly Malena decides to embark on an uncertain journey, full of crossroads, facing all kinds of legal and moral obstacles that will make her constantly wondering how far she is ready to go.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Poland, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, compassionate, art house, complex
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Bingo (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young photographer is entangled in a terrorist plot against a right wing politician in an election campaign.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: political thriller
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Honor Thy Father (2015)
Plot Summary:
A pair of married white-collar swindlers run afoul of their latest victims.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, political
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On the Job (2013)
Plot Summary:
On The Job is about the ambitions and passions of four men trying to make a living, for themselves and their families. It shows the parallels between two prison inmates who are contract killers, and the two agents of the law investigating the murders. As they get caught in a web of machination of corrupt government officials, their jobs lead them on a head-on collision against each other with their loved ones as collateral damage.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, tense, noir, neo noir, tagalog, unpredictable
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Metro Manila (2013)
Plot Summary:
Seeking a brighter future in megacity Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family flee their impoverished life in the rice fields of the northern Philippines. But the sweltering capital's bustling intensity quickly overwhelms them, and they fall prey to the rampant manipulations of its hardened locals. Oscar catches a lucky break when he's offered steady work for an armored truck company and gregarious senior officer Ong takes him under his wing. Soon, though, the reality of his work's mortality rate and the murky motives of his new partner force Oscar to confront the perils he faces in his new job and life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Philippines
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, serious, captivating, noir, neo noir, dramatic, sincere, rough, bleak
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Black Mama White Mama (1973)
Plot Summary:
When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight their way across the wilderness, igniting a bloody shootout between gangsters and a group of revolutionaries.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, realistic, rough, serious, psychotronic, psychological, slasher, cult classic, independent film, exciting
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Cavite (2005)
Plot Summary:
Adam, a security guard, travels from California to the Philippines, his native land, for his father's funeral. He arrives in Manila. As he waits, a phone rings in his backpack; he answers it, and a male voice tells him that his mother and sister are captives and will be killed if Adam doesn't cooperate. Over the next hour, the voice sends Adam by bus, taxi, motorized tricycle, and on foot through an urban landscape of busy streets, cramped apartments, a fetid squatters' camp, a bank, a cockfighting arena, and a church. Adam's conversations with the voice cover murder, Islam, jihad, rebellion in Mindanao, and his family. What is it Adam will be commanded to do?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, crying
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Massacre Mafia Style (1974)
Plot Summary:
Terror reigns when Mimi, the son of a deported Don, along with his associate Jolly Rizzo wage a bloody war for control of the West Coast underworld, battling hordes of hard-boiled mobsters and deadly black pimps on their rise to the top!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, crying, independent film, cult film