Lino Brocka Movies

A privileged teenager, disillusioned with the hypocrisy he witnesses in his small town, forms a bond with a lonely leper and a mentally unstable...

Chuck is a TV executive who feels he has achieved his goals far too early in life. He decides to leave his wife Carissa to go on a soul-searching...

A nun is ostracized by her superiors after a brutal encounter with a rapist leaves her pregnant.

It tells of a couple, Dante and Elsa who hires a new governess, Carla to care for their four children. The governess quickly establishes rapport with...

In 1985, in the obscure town of Dolores, the Orapronobis, a cult under the leadership of Kumander Kontra, murders a foreign priest who gave the last...

This film probes into the minds and hearts of illegitimate children and their mothers.

Lino Brocka's adaptation of Mars Ravelo's "komiks" melodrama about a successful businessman who is terrified of being exposed as a homosexual.

Brocka's potboiler about the rise of a starlet is the quintessential rags-to-riches, prey-turned-predator story, brimming with true-life anecdotes...

A young man achieves success as a singer, affecting everyone around him.

The story of an unsuccessful attempt to convict a congressman's son of rape takes an unexpected twist, as the accused pursues a friendship with the...

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.

Diego and Gabriela Silang are landed Ilocos natives disaffected with the imposition of the indulto de comercio (a law giving right to Spanish...

A young boy discovers his politician father's corruption and cruelty as he discovers his real mother is a victim of his own father's immorality and...

Coring, a gay beautician, is left with a baby by his former ward, Dennis. The baby grows up thinking that Coring is his real father. Everything seems...

Ivan, a writer living in Manila, walks through the city in search of his past.

Salve, a content barrio lass, is married to Alfred, an aspiring politician. Alfred meets Via finds out that they can both be very useful to each...

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...

Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood profiles controversial Filipino director Lino Brocka, detailing his rags-to-riches rise in the mainstream...

A Filipino immigrant travels the American west searching for his relatives. Although he doesn't speak much English, he winds up getting involved with...