Movies: Joseph de Cordova

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....

Isla, a island maiden who has all the males, including her father, lusting after her. Her dream was to leave her primitive surroundings and find another life in the big city. However, it would not be easy. To be able to escape, she must use her body ...

In 1985, jeepney driver Ulysses "Boboy" Alega loses his vehicle just as he needed money to pay his rent and buy medications for his child. After he accidentally shoots and kills a person during a fight, Boboy is then imprisoned and tortured by the po...

Based on the revolutionary novel by Jose Rizal....

Two families are rivals in the funeral business....

Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1986 directed by Celso Ad. Castillo and starred German Moreno and the All-Star Cast...

A 1984 Filipino Western film by Angel Labra....

A big-screen adaptation of D.G. Salonga's novel serialized in Tagalog Klasiks...

A 1980 Filipino action film from Carlo J. Caparas...

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 ...

About an aspiring Negros Occidental mayoral candidate (Leopoldo Salcedo) tortured and killed during election season....

Four masked men fighting against the evils of this world. A costume picture about a medieval swashbuckler who redeems his family's honor....

Is it possible for lovers who passed away a century ago to return to life in order to keep their promise of love?...

In 1988 and 1989, the late Cesar Hernando, writer Ian Victoriano and I started a series of interviews of LVN actors, directors and technicians with the intention of publishing a book on the story of LVN Pictures, one of the major studios of the studi...

Gerardo de Leon's masterpiece of an adaptation of Jose Rizal's gothic revenge novel....

"Thou shall not kill" is God's command that tortures the mind of David everytime he is in the brink of killing out of anger and revenge. But until when is the challenge of the said commandment?...

This dramatic anthology of true-to-life stories of love and domestic problems based on letters sent by to the TV drama program hosted by Helen Vela who gives advice to troubled viewers....

A coming-of-age story of a barrio lass in a patriarchal archipelago....

A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila....

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...