1. Love Beast: Steamy Disgrace (愛獣 熱く凌す)
Married couple Fujijiro and Taeko live at the foot of Mt. Fuji with their 3-year-old daughter Natsuko. One day, Taeko is assaulted and later gives birth to Kanako. Unable to bear village rumors, Taeko commits suicide. 20 years later, Natsuko goes a quest to find the missing Kanako after seeing her picture in a gravure magazine...
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
2. Pi7ong Tagpo (Pi7ong Tagpo)
Seven stories with no connection at all but with a common universal theme of doing good deeds and making the right decision.
3. Who Is Your Sponsor? (스폰서 X)
To live in a life of luxury, Yeo-in, wags her tail like a cat to her ring sponsor who is increasingly becoming uninterested. Her hands sooth the lonely nights. She calls her hip-hop ex-boyfriend, however, he is already living his new life with a new lover. These are the different stories of people who were used to being tamed.
4. Yummy in Neon Town: I Am Ready to Be Eaten (むちむちネオン街 私たべごろ)
Inside the club there is the happy beat of music, free flowing beer and generous tips from drunk horny patrons. But for four bar girls the harsh realities of life wait just outside the front entrance.
5. 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.
6. Two Roses and a Golden Rod
In this steamy morality play, a Hollywood screenwriter lusts after his beautiful 16-year-old daughter -- who reciprocates his feelings -- while his wife finds herself torn between her spouse and her lesbian inclinations.
It has an average vote of 3 on TMDB.
7. 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.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Pisara (Pisara)
Tackles the journey of Michelle Orot as a newly hired SPED Teacher and her struggles after knowing that she has seizure disorders - an epilepsy.
11. Ang Sugarol (Ang Sugarol)
Set in the world of high-stakes cockfighting, gamblers place their money and lives on the line.
12. Partee (Partee)
A story of the different false possibilities created by an "intoxicating substance" induced in someone’s life. It's a narrative that completely breaks the moral compass and defies the rules of society. The three characters in the film discover a fiction that transcends moral boundaries.
13. Atras (Atras)
The story is about a teenage boy living in the Philippines who is being persuaded by his family to go to the U.S. to live a better life but continues to be caught in a web of bad choices. The plot is close to my heart because it tells the story of so many of my friends and family living there now and the struggles they face with poverty, drugs, and violence.
14. College Girls' Massage Parlor (안마방 여대생들)
Hyun-jin is always frustrated with his wife who always refuse her, saying she's tired. One day, Hyun-jin drinks with his friends, Min-seok and Jin-gi, and got a massage together per Jin-gi's suggestion. But then, he falls in love with the special service, and after that, Hyun-jin goes back to the massage parlor whenever he has time...
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
15. 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.
16. Ligaw (Ligaw)
A victim of rape by her brothers, Criselle had not known joy in her life. Her so-called mother abused her and made her work to the bones. Her supposedly loving father failed to defend her. The plot thickens as she discovers the true identity of her mother and the twisted fate she had received. Drowning with revenge, Criselle gives her soul to the devil and instantly becomes possessed by it. She plots to kill her entire family and end the torment that had beset her. I
17. Sekyu (Sekyu)
A security guard jumps to the other side of the fence and turns to crime when his meager pay is not enough to keep his wife and children by his side. How far will he go to secure his future and what will he lose/gain on the way?
18. Flotsam
A young woman running away from a volatile relationship ends up in a small beach resort where it seems everyone is falling in and out of love.
19. Delicious Body Girl Misaki (デリシャスボディガール・美咲 妖艶未亡人と愛欲たっぷりハンバーグ)
Kenichi dies in an accident just as he is about to be offered a position at a prestigious Western-style restaurant. In order to carry on Kenichi's legacy, his wife Misaki tries to learn the recipe for the "ultimate braised hamburger steak" that Kenichi pursued until the end. Misaki is surrounded by men who are attracted to her passion and beauty...
20. 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.
