10-04-1920
Birthday
Aries
Zodiac Sign
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Genres
51
Total Films
Also known as (male)
Manila, Philippines
Place of Birth
10-04-1920
Birthday
Aries
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
51
Total Films
-
Also Known As (male)
Manila, Philippines
Place of Birth
actor
51 Works
producer
0 Works
director
14 Works
writer
7 Works
other
0 Works
Tatak Avellana
The musings and works of artist Lamberto V. Avellana.Year:
1988
Huwag Mong Itanong Kung Bakit
Aning is a maid in the Cuevas household. She is raped by an unknown assailant and comes home to the province pregnant. Her older sister Dinya serves the Cuevas household to search for the culprit. She catches the culprit but at the cost of her own vitrue.Year:
1988
Anak Badjao
Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1987 directed by Jose Antonio Alonzo and Jerry Tirazona and starred Anthony Alonzo, Charito Solis, Tony Santos Sr., Liza Lorena, Alicia Alonzo, Marithes Samson and Isadora.Year:
1987
The Untold Story of Melanie Marquez
This melodrama is a true-confession story of one of the country's top models and international-beauty-title holders, who struggles to rise above her deprived childhood and unfortunate relationships.Year:
1987
Tagos ng Dugo
A young Pina was traumatized when her family was murdered while she had her first menstruation. She grows up into a serial killer transforming herself to different personalities as she seduced one man at a time grossly killing them while in the act of sexual pleasure.Year:
1987
Gabi Na, Kumander
Gabi Na Kumander is the story of two brothers with opposite beliefs who suddenly find themselves in a fight for what each one believes is right. Ramil Macan had been assigned to fight the rebels in Sto. Nio and he discovers that the rebel leader is no other than his younger brother, whom he had given up for dead years ago. Ronald Macan, former law student and activist, took to the hills with the imposition of martial law. He is known as Kumander Kobra. Ramil had been assigned to put a stop to his activities and in the name of the law to take him dead or alive.Year:
1986
Baun Gang
Based on the true-to-life story of ex-PC Sgt. Alejandrino Baun, leader of the notorious Baun Gang.Year:
1985
Public Enemy No. 2: Maraming Number Two
A story about a man who has lots of different women and families.Year:
1985
Joyful Mystery
The fortunes of three impoverished friends and their families abruptly change after an airplane crashes in a nearby mountain. They rush to the crash site along with all the villagers, not to help the victims but to plunder their valuables. A dead American passenger carried a large amount of money in his briefcase which Mesiong, Ponsoy, and Jamin find and avariciously keep for themselves. But the town mayor gets greedy and with his hirelings abducts the three to divest them of their booty.Year:
1984
Sampung Ahas ni Eva
On a remote island, a plane wreck leaves a woman alone with ten men who are willing to kill to fulfill their desires for her.Year:
1984
Sister Stella L.
A nun who acts as a counselor in a home for unwed mother undergoes political awakening when her friend and namesake belonging to the same congregation as hers inspires her to get involved in the struggle for justice and freedom of striking workers in a cooking oil company.Year:
1984
Hot Property
This official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1983 directed by Lino Brocka and starred Carmi Martin, Phillip Salvador, Dennis Roldan, Vic Diaz, and Tony Santos, Sr centers on the story of Gigi, a burlesque dancer who is the main attraction of show.Year:
1983
Annie Sabungera
This is a story of the adventures and misadventures of Annie Sabungera, a young lady who seems to have a never-ending supply of suitors and trouble.Year:
1982
Salome
The story starts as a seemingly simple crime of passion, Jimmy, the persistent suitor, is stabbed to death by Salome, the young and pretty wife of Kario, an ordinary farmer. But as the story unfolds, conflicting versions of the crime are given.Year:
1981
Kung Ako'y Iiwan Mo
Year:
1980
Aliw-iw
The story of an indigenous Igorot woman who traverses the complex path of life to the playful line of destiny.Year:
1979
Bawal na Pag-Ibig
Jun, an art student, moves away from his family after a fight with his father about his college program. He meets Menchu in class and they fall in love, but Jun struggles to fully commit due to his past trauma. Singing becomes his solace and brings him closer to Menchu. However, a revelation after a family tragedy puts their relationship to the test.Year:
1977
Uhaw na Bulaklak, Part 2
Year:
1976
The Tenants
It proceeds to document the stages of sugar production once in the mill then shifts to the unrest outside where a sakada was shot to death by one of the hacienda's guards. A sakada is a farmer who works in a sugarcane field, harvesting it during the months of October to December.Year:
1976
Araw-araw Gabi-gabi
Year:
1975
Mga Uhaw na Bulaklak
Year:
1975
Kampanerang Kuba
Vilma Santos is Andang, a kind, honest, and devout hunchback who lives in the church's bell tower.Year:
1974
Babalik Ka Rin
The movie is about a former fashion model who turns to professional photography. She is wooed by twins who eventually become her lovers, though she believes that she is only dating one man. Upon discovering that her lover is actually two different men, she develops emotional and psychological problems.Year:
1973
Pinakamalaking Takas
Year:
1963
Blessings of the Land
Maria and Jose, a young married couple begin life together in an orchard in the countryside. It isn't long until they have four children: Miguel, Arturo, Angelita, and Lito. The eldest, Miguel, is a deaf-mute. Life is good for the family and the children grow up and bring joy to the community. But trouble enters their lives when Jose makes an enemy of Bruno, a widower, much feared in the village.Year:
1959
Cry Freedom
A man and a woman fight for the freedom of their country Marking with his gun Yay with her typewriter. Thrown together by a cause greater than either of them they share the suffering of the flesh and the spirit among the country's guerrilla fighters. They emerge, out of the crucible of war, heroes-and lovers.Year:
1959
₱10,000 Pag-ibig
Claudo thought that money was everything until Loida taught him that love is not on a cash and carry basis.Year:
1957
The Sea Gypsies
Hassan, the son of a tribe chief of the Badjaos, a pagan, sea-dwelling Filipino tribe, meets and falls for Bala Amai, the niece of the chief of the Tausugs, an Islamic, land-dwelling tribe. Although the Hassan is willing to give up his lifestyle for Bala Amai and vice versa, the Tausugs plot to break up the union of the happy couple.Year:
1957
Child of Sorrow
A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila.Year:
1956
1-2-3
Year:
1955
Silver Candlestick
RUGGED in action, RAW in romance.Year:
1954
Singsing na Tanso
A fantasy story about a man who acquires a copper ring that grants three wishes.Year:
1954
Abarinding
A story about Abarinding the daughter of a man who received a briefcase full of money from a thief.Year:
1954
Prinsipe Teñoso
Prince Teñoso who is exiled by his father, the king after freeing the pitiful giant from jail. In gratitude, the giant gives Teñoso a magic handkerchief that can tame animals and can give him his wishes. As a beggar, Teñoso is despised by the princes, the king's soon-to-be sons-in-law, but eventually is recognized as the hero responsible for curing the king's illness, and winning the king's battles against the moors.Year:
1954
Luha at Musika
A man would receive an inheritance from his uncle but under one condition to stay away from music.Year:
1953
Squatters
A story about a grandfather who is a landowner and a granddaughter whos an aspiring writer who pretends to be squatters to know why the people are disgruntled with them.Year:
1953
Dagohoy
Dedicated to the valiant Boholano hero Francisco Dagohoy, this film shows the real causes that impelled the Dagohoy Uprising.Year:
1953
Philippine Navy
Year:
1953
Haring Solomon at Reyna Sheba
Lamberto Avellana's adaptation of the Solomon and Sheba mythos.Year:
1952
Saykopatik
Year:
1952
Korea
Korea is a 1952 Philippine war film about the Korean War directed by Lamberto V. Avellana. Produced by LVN Pictures, the film is considered to be lost. Benigno Aquino Jr. wrote the script who based it on his experiences in the war as a correspondent.Year:
1952
In Despair
A story about Manuel a sickly musician who meets Shelly a beautiful store manager.Year:
1950
Doctor X
Madman or Scientist? See this amazing comedy-mystery teeming with giant animals, and tiny human beings. A thousand and one thrills and laughs.Year:
1950
Kontrabando
Lieutenant Diego, a government intelligence officer, a G-2, becomes a double agent to gain entry into the sinister world of the smugglers of firearms, jewelry, and opium.Year:
1950
Hantik
A story about a farmer who had his parents killed and also abused by the Japanese occupation forces escapes joins the guerrilla and became a leader of a group.Year:
1950
Capas
During the Japanese occupation in World War 2, a soldier was tasked by a ranking officer to go undercover and be a government official, but under Japanese governance to gain their trust and collect intel.Year:
1949
Parola
A story about an innocent man who was tried for murder but while being transported by ship to a prison sank and luckily he escapes to an island inhabited by another man and his daughters and a sister who abandon city life and settles on a quiet island to ease the pain and hatred.Year:
1949
Ibigin Mo Ako ‘Lalaking Matapang’
A father gives his son a task to buy land in the province to build an airport but the land titleholder is hesitant to sell the deeds.Year:
1949
Sierra Madre, Bundok ng Hiwaga
A story about a man who killed an intruder who tried to rape his pregnant wife, after doing so he ran away to the mountains and became the leader of outlaws, years later the son becomes a police officer.Year:
1948
Miss Philippines
A story about LVN Pictures a major production company searching for a new female star, held a contest entitled Miss Philippines. The daughter of a poor laundrywoman pretends to be rich to join the contest. She and her mother temporarily occupy a rich couple's residence who are currently abroad with their playboy son. The son comes home unexpectedly and plays along with the ruse.Year:
1947
Garrison 13
Two devil-may-care guerrilla brothers with prices on their heads fight for their country and for the women they love.Year:
1946
