Movies: Tonio Gutierrez

Brocka's potboiler about the rise of a starlet is the quintessential rags-to-riches, prey-turned-predator story, brimming with true-life anecdotes and an authentically acerbic sense of the seamier side of show business....

Mario O'Hara's melodrama about an aspiring singer and her ex-convict sweetheart....

A group of beauty contest finalists stranded in a desert island without food, water and shelter....

A male cab driver is transformed into a female superhero....

A playboy and a simple girl from the provinces try to make it in the big city....

Angela Delmar works as a waitress for one of the seedier bars in Manila. There she meets five patrons of the bar, who also turn out to be a gang specializing in drugging and raping girls and later on selling them to prostitution....

Medel (Bembol Roco) is a petty thief who gives his earnings to his neighbors who needs it but his felonious activities stopped when he marries Frieda (Beth Bautista) and adopts Bimbo (Niño Muhlach)....

Three distinct yet interwoven stories of various women and their ordinary experiences living not-so-ordinary lifestyles. Seedy, realistic, and raw....