Ishmael Bernal Movies

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

Opposites attract when Trixie, a spoiled rich brat, asks Alex, a hardworking taxi driver, to be her boyfriend to appease her grandfather.

This drama offers a rare chance to compare the styles of two major Filipino filmmakers. The first episode is about a chance encounter between a...

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...

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...

The Delfin family moves to a new house after the husband migrates to Saudi Arabia for work. The family consists of Lorna, her daughter Virgie, their...

An innocent young woman who sells flowers in a small-town cabaret frequented by down-and-out prostitutes is lusted after by the son of a school...

=The movie portrays seven wayward men who suffer within the walls of the national penitentiary. They serve their sentences as if they are living...

Celia, a daughter of a housekeeper of the Regattas, finds an unknown man- Edwin - in one of their huts. As she helps the man, the two grew close to...

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:...

Virginal Ninay becomes a woman as an object of desire for liberation, but she's confused about her gender.

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

A story between two women sharing the same man.

Portrait of director Ishmael Bernal

A motion picture about about a group of lost and confused youth.

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

A 1974 film from Ishmael Bernal about a man with seven wives.

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 group of high school students navigate their lives and loves in this ensemble film from Ishmael Bernal.

Ishmael Bernal's caustic drama about kept mistresses.