Movies: Manny Castañeda

This movie is Lea Salonga's first movie in the Philippines after her Miss Saigon stint. It was an acid test if Salonga has the acting ability that Filipino critics are demanding. The Tony-awardee did not win any awards for this movie, but her two lea...

Follows a group of young adults as they navigate life after college....

(PANGAKO) A tragic love story between Lara and her brother Anton’s friend Jimbo. Due to his mom’s health problems, Jimbo had to go back to Davao. Unsure when they will meet again, Lara leaves her locket to Jimbo as a sign of promise that he would com...

A troubled young woman enters a rehab facility that houses a deadly secret....

Inspired by the actual story of one of the youngest mothers in Philippine history, “Nuwebe” follows the story of Krista who at the tender age of 9 got pregnant from the sexual abuse perpetrated by her own father. What follows is a story of struggle a...

Living a simple lifestyle in the barrio of Maisan farming a small-sized field, Sebyo has no other inspiration aside from Coring. Her homecoming to serve as their new Municipal Health Officer (as a full-pledge doctor) started the thrill, excitement an...

A funny story about three female friends. Karen is the smart and fashionable one among the three. Love is the cousin of Karen. She works in the cosmetics section of a department store, and dreams of becoming a beauty queen someday. Yolly is the busin...

Eva is a dancer in a nightclub where Dom frequently stays. One night, Dom brings with him his best friend Winston to show Eva. Winston is smitten with her beauty and decides to pursue her without knowing that Dom is secretly in love with her. Eva and...

A story about three friends, a simple housewife with a bad tempered husband, a busy career wife whose husband want a child, and one who desperately wants to become a wife....

Arman is torn between two women, a woman who came from a decent family or the one who kept it a secret of being a first-class prostitute....

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....

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....

The movie tells a tale of a young Filipino woman who believes that her American father has died, but gets romantically involved with a man who might possibly be her father.Bessie is a young woman who was raised by her widowed mother, who tells her th...

The plight of two ill-fated sisters separated by the need to live a better life. They are re-united by tragedy....

The plot revolves around a girl, who manages to get romantically involved with two people - one in real life and one she meets on the internet from the USA, but neither of these men know about each other. The fun starts when her internet lover makes ...

Three women united by friendship. Three women connected by music. Three women divided by fame. They were three women struggling to make a living when fate smiled at them. From anonymity, they were thrust into a world of glittering lights and deafenin...

A young couple's marriage is tested when wife is consumed by her career, and husband finds solace in his son's teacher....

The Guwapings are back, but this time with their individual episodes. Mark Anthony Fernandez stars in a domestic comedy-drama as he plays Basti, a teenager caught between his warring estranged parents....

Joining her friends on a field trip, a student heads out with the rest of her class to a nearby lake only to find one of the students has died after an encounter with a strange being....

a film by Ipe Pelino....