Movies: Lino Brocka

For love is our anthem, our dream and golden flame - to make beautiful tomorrows as we burn yesterday's sorrows....

After his expulsion from college Juni Locsin (Gabby Concepcion) is forced to continue studies at Eastern College Of The Republic, an ordinary university. This is a contrary environment to the young man accustomed to luxury....

Dreaming to be released from her miserable life of poverty, Aida, a waitress, abandons her bedridden father, her moralistic mother, her jobless brother and her good-for-nothing sister to live-in with her boyfriend Carding, whom she believes could giv...

Corazon Rivera is a factory worker in a textile company owned by Cynthia Ocampo's family. Her live-in partner and co-worker, Robert de Asis, is an ambitious law student. One day, she finds herself pregnant and Robert is not pleased. As he worms his w...

A successful couple decide to separate and see other people in this romantic comedy from Lino Brocka....

In Lino Brocka's 1981 melodrama, a man's juggling of three women—his wife, his girlfriend, and the wealthy married woman with whom he begins a torrid affair—leads to violent consequences....

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

A UNICEF-sponsored six-film anthology depicting childhood horrors around the world. "Hassane" - a malnourished child in Niger needs help from the doctors, but village traditions prohibit it. "Liouba" - a child escapes to the forest after a beating by...

An aired tv movie about the relationship between a handicapped child and his parents....

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

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

A girl grew up alone in a secluded island, ostracized by the people for being born out of wed lock. A young Hawaii-based Filipino-speaking tourist came and brought her to Hawaii where she learns an unexpected truth about her past....

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

Lydia, a prostitute, is caught between the love of her long-time partner, Sidro, who is a hired gun, and George Grace, an American soldier stationed at a U.S. military base in Pampanga....

The lives of a newly married couple and their mutual friend unravel after the wife becomes the victim of a gang rape during a honeymoon....

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 for greener pasture but it seems like it is too far and hard to reach. His family here in the Philippi...

A Filipino immigrant travels the American west searching for his relatives. Although he doesn't speak much English, he winds up getting involved with Chinese immigrants, and a beautiful blonde American girl and finds himself appointed sheriff of a sm...

Drama among family and friends unfold in Villa Miranda, a town in the world of false glories and true defeats....

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

Signos (1984) is a Super 8mm film documentary that was a true product of its time, a collaboration by film artists and writers, who, in spite of varying political persuations, were united by one common goal – ousting the reviled Marcos regime. It fea...