Movies: Rosa Aguirre

Recreation of the widespread rapes and murders of Filipina women by Japanese soldiers during WWII....

Cristina, a pretty young neighborhood girl, is pursued by the mysterious Satur, a wealthy but mysterious young man. Cristina, however, is engaged to Sendong, a young farmer. When Cristina's mother is taken suddenly ill and there appears to be no hope...

Because his mother is too poor to feed her young children, Empoy is sent to work for his exploitative and cruel aunt....

A privileged teenager, disillusioned with the hypocrisy he witnesses in his small town, forms a bond with a lonely leper and a mentally unstable homeless woman....

This strikes straight at the heart because it is a tender story of four people, each deserving a Purple Heart....

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A story about a father's love for his family, making a supreme sacrifice to give them a new lease on life....

A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila....

About an aspiring Negros Occidental mayoral candidate (Leopoldo Salcedo) tortured and killed during election season....

This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to show the Philippine people the "benefits" of the Japanese invasion and takeover of their country....

A story about Celing and her kid brother Pidingare recently orphaned and they come to Manila to find work in the home of their late parents' hacienda landlord. But they are treated miserably by the landlord's ill-tempered wife, Doña Esperanza....

Carding, the anti-Japanese guerrilla turned Huk rebel when his family's land is taken over by the greedy landlord while Maxie, the communist recruiter who assures Carding that only a communist can be a true Filipino; however it was Jesus, Carding's b...

A touching drama of parental love that prolific filmmaker Susana de Guzman adapted from her own serialized novel in Liwayway magazine....

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A doctor finds love in a remote resort when he was asked by a friend to be his best man at the wedding. Ric and Gloria met accidentally while fishing at the foot of the mountain. They soon fall in love....

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A coming-of-age story of a barrio lass in a patriarchal archipelago....

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