Top 20 movies like Bamboo Flowers

Bamboo Flowers

Tour guide Berta is having a tough time making ends meet. She’s forced to let her son Omel travel to the big city to take a job at an electronics store. Luis is studying to be a seaman, but can’t seem to pass his exams. His girlfriend Dolores is working as an intern at a resort, and dreams of going abroad as well. Sandra, following a painful event back in Manila, returns to her native Bohol, taking her spoiled son Eric with her.

Bamboo Flowers is of 2 hour(s) and 10 minute(s). It is Produced By:  Film Development Council of the Philippines, Productions 56. It was released on 2013-09-11. It has the tagline: When the flowers bloom, the bamboo dies. It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.

Genres: Drama

1. Wild and Free (Wild and Free)

Wild and Free

Ellie and Jake fall in love, but struggle with their relationship when they discover an unexpected connection between their pasts.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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2. Walang Take Two

Walang Take Two

A frustrated, ambitious, self-centered and narcissistic filmmaker named Hapi has finally finished writing the screenplay of his first ever indie film which he believes is a masterpiece. Overeager, he enlists the help of his best friends, the comical Caloy and the voice of reason, Onyok, to make his dream movie. The only problem is, they have no budget to produce it.Residing in a poverty stricken community that is highly dependent on the Indian 5-6 cash loan system, which includes his own sister Rowena, Hapi, out of desperation, finally resorts to borrowing money from the community’s main Indian lender, Alfajor. However, things become worse for Hapi when his nemesis, the neighborhood midget thug named Oblax, steals his borrowed money. Deep in debt, burdened by his father, his dream movie project put on hold, and a seemingly bleak future with his current love interest, Cherry.

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3. Maskara (Maskara)

Maskara

The Philippines is being geared up to be interconnected through a system called One Wired Nation . This would allow faster and easier access to information across the country, from the smallest barangay to Malacañang. With OWN, progress is inevitable, says Bert Javelo from Prime Connections, the company who won the contract to build and manage OWN. Bert promises instant service and progress to the country. But Pia Gorospe is not convinced and smells something wrong.

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4. Ikaw ang Pag-ibig (Ikaw ang Pag-ibig)

Ikaw ang Pag-ibig

Evangeline spends most of her time working late, editing TV commercials. Her work doesn’t leave her much time to spend with her boyfriend Joey or their son. In spite of having a family, she mostly keeps to herself, enjoying her independence. But when her priest brother Johnny is diagnosed with cancer, she’s suddenly called on to be a possible bone marrow donor. As her dysfunctional family starts to gather around the ailing Johnny, Evangeline is forced to come face to face with her failings.

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5. Tupang Ligaw (Tupang Ligaw)

Tupang Ligaw

Abel arriving at the outskirts of Barrio Paraiso, a little provincial town run with an iron fist by the sinister crime lord El Diablo. Abel is in town to find his troubled older brother, hoping to bring him home and fulfill a promise made at his father's deathbed. He gets some help from the widow Melissa and her young son, who offer him a place to hide out while wages a violent war in hostile territory against the crime lord and his many well armed goons.

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6. Laut (Laut)

Laut

A sea gypsies from Zamboanga who are now living in Mabalacat, Pampanga, Nadia of the group called Sama d’Laut. She hopes to marry the man she loves but was forced to leave when things got really difficult for her home province.She ends up in Mabalacat where she is forced to live a new life.

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7. Lihis (Lihis)

Lihis

The film splits itself between two timelines. In 2006, Ada is basing her thesis on a massacre that occurred twenty years prior in a village called Acacia. Her mother Cecilia was part of a fact-finding mission into a massacre, and Ada’s inquiries bring up her history as a member of the NPA. The other timeline traces the relationship of Ka Felix and Ka Jimmy, two rebels who fall in love, despite the movement’s laws against such a pairing.

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8. Ano ang Kulay ng mga Nakalimutang Pangarap? (Ano ang Kulay ng mga Nakalimutang Pangarap?)

Ano ang Kulay ng mga Nakalimutang Pangarap?

Teresa has worked for the Bautista family since she was seventeen. She was the nanny of siblings Stella, Vince and Andre , and their mother. The three have all moved abroad in their adulthood, but all reunite back at home with the passing of their mother. With no one left to stay in the country, it is decided that all of their properties will be sold, including the house they grew up in. But they are faced with the problem of what to do with the elderly Teresa, who has no money saved, and little contact with her relatives.

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9. Iadya Mo Kami (Iadya Mo Kami)

Iadya Mo Kami

Father Greg, a diocesan priest, is reassigned to a parish up in the mountains. He embarks on a mission to help solve the crime, a mission which leads him to the discovery of his own personal salvation.

It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.

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10. Golden Door (Nuovomondo)

Golden Door

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.

It has an average vote of 6.504 on TMDB.

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11. Moonstruck

Moonstruck

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.

It has an average vote of 6.849 on TMDB.

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12. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (卧虎藏龍)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.

It has an average vote of 7.423 on TMDB.

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13. Anita's Last Cha-Cha (Ang Huling Cha-Cha ni Anita)

Anita's Last Cha-Cha

A 12-year old Anita falls in love with the new woman in town; years later, a girlhood crush blossoms during the Fiesta of Santa Clara in Obando, Bulacan.

It has an average vote of 4.8 on TMDB.

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14. Manila in the Fangs of Darkness (Maynila sa mga Pangil ng Dilim)

Manila in the Fangs of Darkness

A man follows a woman through the streets.

It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.

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15. Old Skool

Old Skool

Lola Fely lovingly dedicated most of her life to care for her family, she finally decided to pursue her longtime dream to finish Grade 6 at the age of 69. Too old for some, but never too late for Lola Fely who is determined to survive the challenges of studying and adapting to the pre-teen campus life. Other characters include Buboy, the class bully, played by Buboy Villar, and Pinky.

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16. Bakat (Bakat)

Bakat

Annie, an alluring lady, catches the eye of old widower Leoncio. The old man marries her after a short period of acquaintance. Leoncio's son Robert and daughter Marites disapprove of their father's single-handed decision, leading to a conflict that causes the old man's fatal heart attack. After Leoncio's death, Robert feels terribly sorry for Annie especially when he discovers that she is suffering from schizophrenia. Soon, Annie's condition helps Leoncio's children realize the essence of a family.

It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.

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17. Lauriana (Lauriana)

Lauriana

Orphan Carding befriends Army Captain Samuel Corazon, who’s stationed in his town to root out the remaining Huk guerrillas. At the dance hall, Corazon woos dancer Lauriana, and they soon move in together. The two become sort of surrogate parents for the orphan Carding, with Corazon teaching him the ways of men. But the soldier has a dark side, and Carding becomes witness to the violence occurring in their home, and a heinous act committed by the soldier on his common-law wife.

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18. Qiyamah (Qiyamah)

Qiyamah

One morning, residents of a rural village are horrified when the sun rises in the West. According to Islamic belief, this phenomenon signals the Apocalypse. As village folk react differently to the situation, a tragedy strikes when one of the residents is raped and her brother brutally murdered as he tries to avenge her. Steep in superstition, the villagers attribute these to the Devil himself.

It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.

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19. Sonata (Sonata)

Sonata

A woman whose whole life is her art, but when she loses it she goes into a self-exile, only to be, hopefully, reinvigorated by a young boy daring to bring it all back.

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20. Inagaw Mo ang Lahat sa Akin (Inagaw Mo ang Lahat sa Akin)

Inagaw Mo ang Lahat sa Akin

In a quiet, rural Filipino village, sibling rivalry continues through adulthood for two sisters and finally tears their family apart.

It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.

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