Movies: Tessie Tomas

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...

Delia, a faded movie star, finds out she is dying and looks for someone to care for her chronically ill husband, Sammy. Using their trusty old Mercedes Benz, the two travel far in the hopes of finding acceptance and forgiveness from Sammy's estranged...

A young drag queen, Dodong, who joins a barangay gay pageant to gain acceptance in his father’s community. He is instead met with hostility from his father, who chases him into a jungle, where he sobs to a lone bright star. What follows is the strang...

Jess Huson has a dream like many other struggling Filipinos, he dreams of a better life for himself and his family in America. After he is rejected, Jess embarks on a comical adventure filled with crazy schemes and ludicrous plans that end up in hila...

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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 retired university professor who refused to leave his home in the campus despite an administrative order for eviction. With his whole life bearing witness to Diliman estate's evolution, he is the only remaining gatekeeper of the histories of his ho...

Two aging couple who work in the Filipino film industry, a linear editor and an ex-dubber, who, at the twilight of their lives, decide to part ways to know what’s missing in their lives. They both explore things they haven’t explored before as they b...

After a horrific collision between a passenger bus and an 18-wheeler truck in Nueva Ecija claimed two dozen casualties, two families await the arrival of their dead....

Twins Bambi and Bobby (Roderick Paulate) are separated from birth. Their mother Mameng (Nanette Inventor), unconscious from childbearing, is found by an old woman who takes one infant Bambi, who grows up to be a gay running a beauty parlor. Bobby gro...

What happens when Dad exchanges lifestyle with his son? Join Ariel (Aga Muhlach) and his widowed Erpat (Eddie Garcia) in this riot of a comedy on young and not so young love....

Trapped in a world of hectic schedules, pressure, and little time for each other, married couple Ellen and Rene decide to have a temporary separation....

Maricel, Dina, and Snooky are in for exciting times as they hit the college campus! They meet cute guys, join organizations, fall in love with their professor, and get into all sorts of mess....

Biography action film of the late Gaudencio "Boy" M. Cordora; chief inspector of the Philippine National Police....

Bong Revilla plays Capt. Bartolome “Bart” Renaldo, a tough and honest cop but is very afraid of his wife Gloria (Lani Mercado), who resigned from being a cop to be a plain housewife. And although he is a loyal husband, Bart’s ex-girlfriend Mildred (P...

A man tries to keep his partner from straying by romancing the object of the man's affections himself....

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....

Gagay (Gelli de Belen) and her family are gathering woods which they make into coal. Though they were poor, they already saw some improvement in their lives. This is the Cinderella story for the brown-out plagued generation of this country....

Two cousins accomplish the final wish of their dying uncle to deliver a brown paper bag to a seedy, run-down hotel crawling with shady characters and retrieve in exchange a mysterious package....

The story revolves on the amazing adventures of Aw, Em and Gee, who are mild-mannered massage therapists by day and sexy secret agents who solve crimes by night. They are then tasked to embark on a top-level secret mission to retrieve the precious “P...