Movies: Brillante Mendoza

Iliac works in a massage parlor where the gay clients are given more than a shoulder kneading and back rub. When Iliac's father dies he must reconcile his job as a sex worker with the rest of his family....

A struggling family owns a Filipino porn theater where prostitutes conduct their business....

A photographer is tasked to take a photo of a rare flower thriving in the mountain, but he discovers women trapped in a hidden brothel for illegal loggers....

A woman seeking excitement meets a man who brings light and meaning to her world....

A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines....

Ma’ Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor section of Manila where everybody knows her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested. Rosa’s c...

A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman....

A group of friends go to a secluded town to do a short film project but when they take an addictive substance that promised to bring them to cloud nine, they get to experience hell instead....

Lucas, a deaf boy from a small fishing village, is sexually abused by Fr. Mejor, an influential priest. After his parents Madonna and Dante discover the truth, they decide to file a court case against the priest despite the obstacles in their way. In...

Motherland explores the tragic Mamasapano incident, resulted in mass casualties in southern Philippines....

Peping works as a bodyguard to gambling boss Rodolfo, but when he falls in love with Mika, Rodolfo's mistress, he is convinced to rob the business he has sworn to protect....

Patrick gets a visa to Japan in order to provide for his family. But when he needs to earn more, he is introduced to becoming a hosto....

A hit-and-run accident transpires two families. When her husband succumbs to death, Nita files a criminal case. Alfredo is sent to jail after pleading guilty in place of his son Rafael, but Rafael cannot be released from the burden of guilt....

When a dare pushes two couples into an orgy, suppressed feelings rekindle between the two ladies, who were once best friends and lovers....

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema....

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....

The married life of Sabel and Brian was cut short when three men rape her and kill Brian in their honeymoon. Surviving from the crime, she vows to let the culprits experience hell....

The story of the rebuilding of their lives by the survivors of the disaster caused by Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, particularly focusing on the struggles of a mother who lost their children....

Two elderly women bear the consequences of a crime involving their respective grandsons. One is the victim, the other is the suspect. Both weak and poor, they laboriously solicit money in the midst of a storm, one for the victim's burial, the other f...

A single mother, who had an ominous dream about her husband who passed away before her, tries to reconcile her two sons. With the help of the local community, peace seems to be coming to the family, but soon the entire region becomes embroiled in ser...