Movies: Lamberto V. Avellana

This strikes straight at the heart because it is a tender story of four people, each deserving a Purple Heart....

Interpol follows a fat man from Tokyo to Hong Kong to Manila as he takes care of business for an opium empire....

A documentary on the life of Emilio Aguinaldo, his role in the Philippine Revolution and the loss of political influence in the years after...

A story about Kulas whose land papers were stolen by the Spaniards and he went and got it back, but by doing so made him a wanted man so he left to live in the mountains and became a rebel captain and fought the Spaniards....

Lapu-Lapu who defeated Spanish invaders on then land of Mactan....

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A heart-touching story about the hardship of a grandmother and her two parentless grandkids....

This documentary paints the life of former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay (1953-1957), from being a simple mechanic, a wartime guerilla leader, and as president of the Philippines, leading up to his death in a plane crash in Mount Manunggal, Ce...

The 1952 Lamberto Avellana film "Sa Paanan ng Nazareno" from LVN Pictures which depicts a story of a struggle and hope surrounding the image of Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno of Quiapo....

A hotheaded man becomes a firefighter and is morally tested by other firefighters to join them in an illegal racket....

Lamberto Avellana’s English-language film based on Nick Joaquin’s play about a painter, a painting, two sisters, and a crook....

Carding, the anti-Japanese guerrilla turned Huk rebel when his family's land is taken over by the greedy landlord while Maxie, the communist recruiter who assures Carding that only a communist can be a true Filipino; however it was Jesus, Carding's b...

A documentary on the Boy General Gregorio Del Pilar and his last stand at Tirad Pass...

RUGGED in action, RAW in romance....

A story about Celing and her kid brother Pidingare recently orphaned and they come to Manila to find work in the home of their late parents' hacienda landlord. But they are treated miserably by the landlord's ill-tempered wife, Doña Esperanza....

Hassan, the son of a tribe chief of the Badjaos, a pagan, sea-dwelling Filipino tribe, meets and falls for Bala Amai, the niece of the chief of the Tausugs, an Islamic, land-dwelling tribe. Although the Hassan is willing to give up his lifestyle for ...

The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II....

With interviews with National Artists Lamberto Avellana and Lino Brocka and myriad talents from the Mowelfund community such as Nick Deocampo and Raymond Red, Beyond Mainstream documents the robust energy of nascent independent filmmaking in the coun...

A story about a farmer who had his parents killed and also abused by the Japanese occupation forces escapes joins the guerrilla and became a leader of a group....

Cristina, a pretty young neighborhood girl, is pursued by the mysterious Satur, a wealthy but mysterious young man. Cristina, however, is engaged to Sendong, a young farmer. When Cristina's mother is taken suddenly ill and there appears to be no hope...