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Ligaya Ang Itawag Mo Sa Akin (They Call Me Joy)
Ligaya means joy, in English, and that’s what she says she sells, to whorehouse customers. “I sell joy.” She meets Polding, a young farmer. He asks for her hand in marriage, gets her a wedding gown, defends her against all, his own mother included. Just as Ligaya learns to love Polding, society’s judgement gets in the way.
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Inagaw Mo Ang Lahat Sa Akin (Harvest Home)
In a northern village, all is sunshine and happiness as a priest blesses a rich harvest celebrated in a pastoral scene reminiscent of an Amorsolo painting. Jacinta (Maricel Soriano) seems a dutiful daughter, contented woman, and a model wife to Peping (Tirso Cruz III). The community views her sister, Clarita (Snooky Serna), as exactly the opposite: she ran off to the city, found a rich husband in Joey (Eric Quizon), and even stayed away from the funeral of their father Arcadio (Robert Arevalo). Their mother Almeda (Armida Siguion-Reyna), the perfect religious role model, has grown somewhat deranged from age and the loss of her husband. When Clarita and her husband arrive in the village to clear up property deeds, the family begins to shatter, peeling off the layers concealing a dark secret that has kept everyone in silent misery behind the happy exterior.
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Apple iTunesInagaw Mo Ang Lahat Sa Akin (Harvest Home)
In a northern village, all is sunshine and happiness as a priest blesses a rich harvest celebrated in a pastoral scene reminiscent of an Amorsolo painting. Jacinta (Maricel Soriano) seems a dutiful daughter, contented woman, and a model wife to Peping (Tirso Cruz III). The community views her sister, Clarita (Snooky Serna), as exactly the opposite: she ran off to the city, found a rich husband in Joey (Eric Quizon), and even stayed away from the funeral of their father Arcadio (Robert Arevalo). Their mother Almeda (Armida Siguion-Reyna), the perfect religious role model, has grown somewhat deranged from age and the loss of her husband. When Clarita and her husband arrive in the village to clear up property deeds, the family begins to shatter, peeling off the layers concealing a dark secret that has kept everyone in silent misery behind the happy exterior.
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Maalaala Mo Kaya: The Movie (Memories)
Two mothers fight for the same child. A moving story of relationships set against the realities of contemporary society. Forced by poverty and lack of opportunities in her own country, Marissa (Chin Chin Gutierrez) chooses to go abroad to build a better future for her 2-month old son, BJ (Karl Angelo Legaspi). She leaves him in the care of her cousin and best friend, Ana (Aiko Melendez). After a few months, Marissa stops writing. Her recruiter reports that she got married to a Japanese. When Marissa fails to return at the end of her contract, Ana decides she must raise BJ as her own. As BJ grows up, Ana experiences the joys and pains of being a single mother, and as such, comes face to face with society's narrow-mindedness and discrimination. But Mike (Richard Gomez) is different. As his love for Ana grows, so does his attachment to BJ. For him, BJ is a bitter-sweet reminder of his own past, of his own child whom he was forced to abandon as a teenager. Ana, Mike, and BJ form a family but is about to be torn apart as Marissa suddenly returns to claim her son.
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Kung Mawawala Ka Pa
Tony (Christopher de Leon) and his wife Marissa (Dawn Zulueta) are very much in love and happily married with an only child Charisa (Sara Jane Abad). A technocrat but with political ambitions, Tony enthusiastically accepts, to his wife’s consternation, the Mayor’s offer to join his team.Tony loathes Sylvia (Amy Austria), Marissa’s long time friend, because of her meddling in their marital affairs, but reluctantly takes her as his campaign manager in a political move. Sylvia begins to run their life causing the couple’s domestic fights. Eventually, Tony falls into Sylvia’s hands and, consequently, her lap. His family is in danger of breaking up and only the terminal illness of their daughter can put his indiscretion to a stop.
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Saan Ka Man Naroroon (Wherever You Are)
David (Richard Gomez) leaves his bride Amanda (Dawn Zulueta) to find gold in the mountains with his friends. On the way to the mining area, they are ambushed by bandits; everyone is killed except David, whom the bandits shrug off as dead. Cita, a native girl (Sharmaine Arnaiz), nurses him back to health. Dealing with severe memory loss, David tries to build a new life with her. But the determined Amanda has not stopped looking for him. They meet again. David’s memories come flooding back,forcing him to choose between past and present.
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Mga Bilanggong Birhen (Familia Sagrada)
It is 1923. When agrarian injustices result in poverty under American-ruled Philippines, the dormant revolutionary “pulajanes” resurface to stop the abuses of landowners, under the able leadership of Kapitan Pablo. The rich are weakened by their own abuses. Some of the poor learn to betray. Love is sacrificed. Relationships do not mean a thing. War is war. It is costly. Women are captives.
Apple TVMga Bilanggong Birhen (Familia Sagrada)
It is 1923. When agrarian injustices result in poverty under American-ruled Philippines, the dormant revolutionary “pulajanes” resurface to stop the abuses of landowners, under the able leadership of Kapitan Pablo. The rich are weakened by their own abuses. Some of the poor learn to betray. Love is sacrificed. Relationships do not mean a thing. War is war. It is costly. Women are captives.
Apple TVApple iTunesLigaya Ang Itawag Mo Sa Akin (They Call Me Joy)
Ligaya means joy, in English, and that’s what she says she sells, to whorehouse customers. “I sell joy.” She meets Polding, a young farmer. He asks for her hand in marriage, gets her a wedding gown, defends her against all, his own mother included. Just as Ligaya learns to love Polding, society’s judgement gets in the way.
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