Ishmael Bernal Movies

Film critic Tony Rayns interviews Lino Brocka and other prominent Filipino filmmakers.

A Filipino aristocrat loves his wife but he has a little fun with a chorus girl.

Si Popeye, atbp (Popeye etc.) is an unofficial Popeye film released in the Philippines in 1973. A live-action film, it consists of three stories:...

A re-telling of Artemio Ricarte, a Filipino patriot who fought against the Spanish and later Americans. He was later supported by the Japanese during...

Ishmael Bernal's caustic drama about kept mistresses.

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

A woman is thinking of abortion, against her firm faith and family's wants.

A young woman and her mother fight over one man in this dramatic film about three people who genuinely love each other yet express their affection...

A determined single parent, she manages to raise a child while remaining successful in her career as an advertising executive. Everything in her life...

A martial arts film co-directed by Ishmael Bernal and released in 1975.

A girl is torn between two lovers: the one she loves, and the one she cannot resist.

A stripper and taxi driver are fished out of poverty and anonymity by a commercial film director. The obsession with success forces them to affect...

The story of Annie Batungbakal, who dances in a disco bar.

Boy Kodyak is detective Teo Rosa, a young plainclothesman still embued with idealism. When he finds out that a small-time punk named Rogel is...

A 2012 documentary about the making and the legacy of the 1982 drama masterpiece directed by Ishmael Bernal that ended up being one of the greatest...

A fashion model is torn between two men: her young boyfriend who is a self-centered fashion model and an older married man who is estranged from his...

Six beautiful people caught in a deluge of their own raw passions unleashed.

A woman recently separated from her politician husband has an affair with a male friend.