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Plot Summary:
When Chona Chong (Zsa Zsa Padilla) learns that her wealthy husband Elton (Jay Manalo) is having an affair with two younger women (Cherry Pie Picache and Rufa Mae Quinto) -- and has even fathered a child with one of them -- her once-perfect life lies in ruins. Numbing the pain with Botox, liposuction and breast implants works well enough, at first. But then her only son (John Prats) drops another bomb: He thinks he might be gay.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tagalog
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Straight (2009)
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Straight!!' is a funny tale about Pinu, who struggles with himself, his fears and his complexes, to 'come out' as straight and find himself a love story.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
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Rice Rhapsody (2004)
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Fearing her son could be gay, a conservative mother takes in a French foreign exchange student, who ends up teaching the family a lot about life, acceptance, and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia
Duration: 106 min
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Resident Aliens (2012)
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Guam, U.S.A. Thursday, November 24, Thanksgiving Day. Alex, a local newspaper photographer, gets into a “green card marriage” with her good friend James, a Guam-born Filipino. Miriam, a former member of the Philippine press and now an established Guam journalist, longs to repair a damaged relationship with her American husband. Ella, a hotel housekeeper for almost 20 years, finds means of sending her 88-year old mother to the Philippines with the uncertainty of coming back. As the island of Guam celebrates this classic American holiday when people count their blessings and give thanks, the lives of the three Filipina immigrants intersect and find themselves at a tug-o-war of sacrifice and significance where they must find their home or must they find it somewhere else.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Guam, Philippines
Duration: 77 min
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Love Matters (2009)
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"Love Matters" is a movie revolving around three main protagonists - 52-year-old Tan Bo Seng, his 17-year-old teenage son Benny and 36-year-old Jeremy, Bo Seng's 'adopted' brother - and their accidental journey in seeking and keeping love and happiness. Bo Seng (Henry Thia) who leads a routine life attempts to revive the passion with his wife Jia Li (Yeo Yann Yann). Jeremy (Jack Lim) lives a colourful life; with "Never to commit" as his motto for love. Benny (Alex Leong) has just started school life and his only distraction is his crush, Jennifer (Natalli) who is his classmate's girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Singapore
Duration: 113 min
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Le Harem de Madame Osmane (2000)
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In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad temper. Her husband left her and the fear to lose her respectability haunt her. The former member of the Resistance during the Independence War persists in controlling the slightest moves of the households rather than struggle against her own frustrations. Learning her daughter is in love, the possibility of finding herself alone will push her to the limit: The symbolical Mrs Osmane "harem" is about to collapse.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Spain, Morocco
Duration: 100 min
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Philippine Science (2007)
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Amidst the chaos of Martial Law in this Third World country in the 1980s, six teenagers in the top high school for the sciences discover themselves as they go through the joys and pains of adolescence. They were the top two hundred students from all over the Philippines who passed the examination for the Philippine Science High School, which was created for the purpose of giving an education highly enriched in the Sciences to exceptionally gifted Filipino children. Selected from the best and brightest from all over the country, they endure college-level courses in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics from their sophomore year onwards. Those who can make it are hailed as the future science and technology leaders of the New Republic, those who don't are deemed unfortunate victims of natural selection. They all learn however that they are neither isolated from the real world, nor are they exempted from living real lives.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tagalog, independent film
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The American Success Company (1979)
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A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and friends and get a lot richer in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min
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Sono Positivo (1999)
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A Southern Italian family is suddenly faced with AIDS. One of them has it. Which friend or family member could have begun this cycle of infection? The characters include a vain housewife, her straight-laced husband, her gay brother, and her husband's and brother's best friend. Hilarious mayhem ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
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Manay Po! 2 Overload (2008)
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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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Bridal Shower (2004)
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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
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Manay Po! (2006)
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Manay Po tells the story of Luz, a small time jeweler who dreams of making it big so as to provide a better life for her family. Her life revolves around her brood of three, namely, Oscar, Orson and Orwell and her live-in boyfriend Gerry. With the help of her good friend and maid Maritess, Luz was able to raise her children normally despite the absence of a husband. In spite of her children's questionable sexualities, their family paints a picture of a happy family - a home filled with laughter and unconditional love.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Extremely Easy Job (2022)
Plot Summary:
Remake from Korean movie "Extreme Job".
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 113 min
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
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Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, weird
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I Will Survive (2004)
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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
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Offset (2006)
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The plot focuses on the lives of the soon to be married Stefan, a German working in Romania for a wealthy and eccentric printing company owner, Nicu Iorga and his soon-to-be bride Brîndușa, who is Nicu's secretary.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Romania, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: intercultural
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Zoufalci (2009)
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Thirtysomethings Linda, Radim, Tonda, Otakar, Dagmara and Silvie have been friends since they met as teenagers. All of them arrived in the big city, Prague, from their small home town. The euphoric dreams each had for themselves have not materialized and they are all starting to feel trapped in different ways. They all seem to know one thing: what they don't want in life. At a party back in their home town they reminisce over one of their early dreams: to buy a farm, live together and, most importantly, have fun with their lives. In the weeks that follow, each of them is faced with a crisis that brings this old dream into sharper, more sober focus. Can they make it a working reality? Do they really want to?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min
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Happily Ever After (2005)
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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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Jack the Dog (2001)
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Jack is a successful photographer who has always been a womanizer. But at one point in his life he wants to settle down. He marries Faith and together they have a son, Sam. But things aren't working out that well as the two, due to Jack's active working life, grow apart more and more. When Jack can't control himself anymore and starts an affair with Hope, the marriage is over. Faith moves to London to marry the wealthy Klaus and wants to take Sam with her. But Jack wants his son with him and both agree to shared custody. Jack desire for women doesn't vanish, but living together with his son slowly brings a change in him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Uncut (1997)
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Freely drawing from a variety of film genres, including musicals, the sudsy melodramas and documentaries and combing them with a free-flowing narrative and bright pop-art sensibilities, this hard-hitting experimental romp from Canadian filmmaker John Greyson packs a political wallop while satirically comparing and contrasting the issues of censorship and circumcision. The tale centers on the exploits of three homosexuals named Peter. Peter Koosens is obsessed with the semi-scandalous behavior of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau while college student Peter Cort, ponders the significance and necessity of male circumcision. Peter Denham is an artist who seduces the other two and freely borrows from their work to make something of his own. Their exploits land the trio in prison after an operatic number (the police sing songs adapted from Bizet's Carmen).
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema, queer cinema
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The Telegraphist (1993)
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Set against the beautiful backdrop of northern Norway, this film tells the story of a telegraphist in a very small community at the turn of the century.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway
Duration: 102 min
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Desperadas (2007)
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The story is about four beautiful half-sisters - Isabella, Courtney, Stephanie and Patricia - who have problems in their personal life. Isabella has issues with commitment, Stephanie is having problems with her husband Richard, Courtney's boyfriend Patrick becomes a Born again Christian and Patricia publishes her new sex book much to the dismay of her husband who's having trouble with their relationship as a couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 102 min
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Mano Po 2: My Home (2003)
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Antonio Chan, a prominent Chinese businessman, has three women in his life v Sol, a Filipina; Lu Shui, a Chinese; and Belinda, a Filipino-Chinese. Antonio has children with all three women. A crisis shakes up the over-extended Tsinoy family prompting all the members to re-examine their values, their relationships, and confront issues that they have refused to face all these years. With Mano Po 2, My Home, Regal Entertainments continues the tradition established by the critical and box-office hit Mano Po. Features strong dramatic performances from a stellar ensemble cast, lush visuals, a reverberating musical score, an unforgettable theme song, and a heart-warming screenplay that eloquently captures the rich Tsinoy culture. Laugh, cry, and be touched by this family story about forgiveness, healing and undying love.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 134 min
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Mano po 6: A Mother's Love (2009)
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Melinda Uy is a half-Filipino, half-Chinese struggling mother to four children married to a full-Chinese blood man. Her family was believed to bring curse to Olive's famiily. Because of this, Melinda was not accepted by Uy's family as one of their members. Melinda's struggling as a mother begand when she has nothing else to do but to strive and work more.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Temptation Island (2011)
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Four beauty pageant contestants, who are vying for the coveted title of "Miss Manila Sunshine", set sail on a yacht. They ended up stranded on a deserted island after their vessel got caught up on fire. Together with an attractive young man, a maid and the gay pageant director, the four ladies found life "anything but dull".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, captivating, suspense, entertaining, disturbing, visually appealing
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In My Life (2009)
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Shirley is a woman who wants to be in control of everything. Working as a librarian in a public school, a firm "Sshhh!" from her makes the students tremble in fear. But in her family, her unwarranted intervention in the lives of her children and their families keeps her emotionally detached from them. Realizing that she has lost the command she once had, she goes to New York to reunite with Mark , her estranged gay son who is now suffering from colon cancer. But Shirley doesn't know this and living with Mark in New York comes with a cost. She has to live with her son's lover Noel who is an illegal immigrant. Everything is going right until circumstances forces Shirley to go back to the Philippines. Now that she's back with her family, she realizes that something is wrong she is not happy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, sincere, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, tagalog, queer cinema
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When I Met U (2009)
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A young woman and her pilot are stranded on a remote island after they crash land their plane. The two are contentious at first, but grow affectionate as they work together to survive. But when their rescue arrives, they are instantly brought back to the real world, where they're both in committed relationships.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: tagalog
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The Only Mother (2003)
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The story evolves around the ups and downs of being a single mother, Ina the main protaganist. Her three husbands leave her with 12 children and a financial problems that she needs to shoulder. Simple plot with a hilarious cast. Packed with laughs and tear-jerker scenes with movie/commercial spoofs, surely Ang Tanging Ina will make your heart delight.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, entertaining, inspirational, tagalog
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The Bride and the Lover (2013)
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In the story, Vivian is sole heir to a business empire. Sheila is Vivian's friend who is a lifestyle magazine editor. Meanwhile, Philip is the hottest bachelor in town engaged to be wed to Vivian. However, a scandalous revelation tears the three characters' worlds apart. Time passes by and the supposed bride becomes the lover and the supposed lover is now the bride.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Looking for Hortense (2012)
Plot Summary:
A wife pressures her husband to solicit work papers from his civil servant father.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Shampoo (1975)
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George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing "star" and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds down with the wife, daughter and mistress of a potential backer doesn't help. It also does little for his relationship with his current girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, stylized, cult classic, witty, biting, sexual, funny, dark comedy, entertaining, meta