Marilou Diaz-Abaya Movies

When Narcing brings home his wife Puring to their hometown Mulawin in the 1930s, it sets off a series of events that include parricide, infidelity,...

The episodically connected lives of four college friends unfold throughout the incipient martial law years, as they struggle to define their sexual...

Accused of treason, Dr. Jose P. Rizal awaits trial and meets with his colonial government-appointed counsel, Luis Taviel de Andrade. The two build...

Sarah Crewe is the only daughter of the wealthy Capt. Crewe. They are based in India. However, Sarah is sent by her father to a boarding school in...

Women cope with various problems while earning a living in the city.

Gruff retiree Rene rejects most human contact, but begins to soften once he comes to terms with his homosexuality.

Joey comes home after nearly a decade of living in the States. With Joey back, the four friends find themselves complete again they reminisce on the...

When Louella came back from Hong Kong as a domestic helper, she began to search for her son Leonard, whom she had put up for adoption seven years...

The melding together of two separate stories that share a similar premise - each detail the account of a young Filipino woman who becomes a victim of...

A woman after killing her husband and his friends goes into post-traumatic shock and withdraws from any form of communication. A feminist journalist...

Ahmad belongs to the Bangsamoro people. While many of his kind are bent on fighting, thinking that Mindanao is only for the Muslims, Ahmad prefers to...

The film explores the tension between human freedom, what people decide to do with their lives, and divine wisdom, what God asks for each person....

A woman develops feelings for a gang leader and is subsequently jailed for murder. While in prison, she undergoes a transformation, eventually...

Childhood best friends Beverly and Maxine's picture-perfect relationship is strained when one of them is suddenly thrust into the world of marriage...

Fredo is a fisherman who has endured more than his share of hardship in life; his wife and child both perished in a boating accident, and today Fredo...

Newly trusted to take over the management of a rich family's business, a poet rekindles his love for the matriarch's only daughter, a spinster who is...

A newlywed Sol learns that her husband Roy is a psychotic who alternated between treating her tenderly and beating her up when she disobeys his...

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

In a remote fishing island in the '50s, Pepito grows up learning the trade of his mother, Rosa, the only midwife capable of delivering the newborn...