Lino Brocka Movies

Dreaming to be released from her miserable life of poverty, Aida, a waitress, abandons her bedridden father, her moralistic mother, her jobless...

Poldo, a poor man, takes up a job as a security guard at a high-class apartment complex. However, he soon finds himself protecting his employer's son...

A simple love story between two souls, a beerhouse dancer and her lover, intensely in search for their place in the sun

The setting is an Olongapo bar. Lolita Rodriguez is an ex-movie queen trying to earn a living for her son and herself. He is mortally embarrassed by...

An actress's past is unraveled after a fan starts stalking her.

Because his mother is too poor to feed her young children, Empoy is sent to work for his exploitative and cruel aunt.

Alice, Benjie and Andro are bank robbers who go into hiding in the jungle after one of them kills a civilian during a heist.

A woman becomes the object of obsession of a man who will stop at nothing to possess her.

Salve, a content barrio lass, is married to Alfred, an aspiring politician. Alfred meets Via finds out that they can both be very useful to each...

Diego and Gabriela Silang are landed Ilocos natives disaffected with the imposition of the indulto de comercio (a law giving right to Spanish...

A stage mother drives her younger son to his ‘stardoom’ to make up for her downward slide from her bourgeois origins.

A 1984 erotic melodrama by Lino Brocka about a former softcore porn star ("bold star" in the Philippines), her abusive husband and their new...

A 1982 drama by Lino Brocka set in the world of boxing, starring Phillip Salvador, Vic Vargas and Chanda Romero.

Adapted from Mars Ravelo’s serialized “komiks,” this 1971 melodrama by Lino Brocka stars Rosemarie Sonora, Dante Rivero and Hilda...

This official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1983 directed by Lino Brocka and starred Carmi Martin, Phillip Salvador, Dennis...

A driver sells his baby to his wealthy childless employers, causing consequences years later.

A strong-willed matriarch and her family leave their fishing village for Manila after an oil spill.

A story about a husband who falls in love with his mother-in-law.

A typical story of a hopeless Filipino worker whose last resort is to work abroad to save his family from poverty. Melo trudge the desert to look...