Cinefilipino Classics

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From acclaimed filmmaker Raymond Red comes this story about Macario Sakay, founder of the revolutionary group “Republika ng Katagalugan” (Tagalog Republic), who took up where the Katipuneros left off after the arrest of Emilio Aguinaldo in 1901. Refusing to accept the Yankees’ plan for benevolent assimilation, Sakay (Julio Diaz) became the new leader of the Katipuneros and continued to lead insurgent activities against the Americans until his eventual surrender and execution in 1907.

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Coring (Dolphy) is a gay beautician whose world gets turned upside down when his companion Dennis (Phillip Salvador) leaves him for a bar hostess, Mariana (Marissa Delgado). One year later, Dennis reappears at Coring’s doorstep to deposit a baby boy, presumably his and Mariana’s lovechild. Dennis entrusts the baby to Coring and leaves to join the US navy. Coring resorts to living a dual life, trying to be a good role model to the child, Nonoy (Niño Mulach) while hiding his true nature to spare the boy embarrassment.

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Award-winning director Lino Brocka’s handiwork is evident in each of the cinematic treasures included in this anthology. Three separate stories about people who, in different ways, seek a way out of the lives they have become trapped in. In the first installment, “Mga Hugis ng Pag-Asa”(“The Shapes of Hope”), we follow a young drug addict, Noni, as he struggles through a drug rehabilitation program and also tries to come to terms with issues regarding his parentage.

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Acclaimed director Lino Brocka and screenwriter Mario O’ Hara tell a powerful story about small town injustice. Junior (Christopher de Leon) is a privileged young man living in a small, devoutly Catholic provincial town. His father is a womanizer, his mother a materialistic shrew. His friends spend their days tormenting the village idiot, Kuala (Lolita Rodriguez), and the upstanding women of the town shun local leper Berto (Marion O’ Hara) as they go about their charitable work.

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"Insiang" is Lino Brocka's tale of one girl's coming of age in the slums of Manila. The title character, played by Hilda Koronel, is a young girl who lives in a small crowded shanty with her mother, Tonia (Mona Lisa). Her boyfriend Danny (Rez Cortez) treats her little better than a sex object and her mother's lover Dado (Ruel Vernal), overcome by desire for young Insiang, rapes her in her own home. She runs to her mother for sympathy but gets rejected instead. Disillusioned and worn out, Insiang decides on revenge.

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In this modern-day version of the biblical legend on Cain and Abel, strong-willed matriarch Señora Pina (Mona Lisa) favors her younger son Ellis (Christopher de Leon) over the older Loren (Phillip Salvador) whom she blames for the death of her husband. Ellis grows up cowardly and spoiled while Loren becomes a responsible family man despite his increasing resentment towards his mother. What began as a sibling rivalry develops into a deep feud that would later escalate into a large-scale war - with all the mayhem and bloodshed.

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A groom (Philip Salvador) takes his city bride (Cecille Castillo) to his hometown to settle in his father's house. Struck by her uncanny resemblance to his dead wife, the patriarch (Vic Silayan) is driven to lust after his daughter-in-law. When things come to a head, a violent family quarrel ensues and leads to tragedy.

A middle-aged spinster (Charito Solis) recounts the tale to reveal her identity and trace the downfall of the landowning clan trapped in the past.