Movies: Mario O'Hara

Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one....

A story about the life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila, which becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend moves in with them....

A woman fell in love with a Japanese soldier, during the Japanese Occupation in the Philippines. The whole town turned against her....

A lyrically brutal tale of a pair of young lovers, Nena and Jose, doing their best to live and love in an increasingly hostile world....

Two young boys discovered an ancient book in a dilapidated mansion. Unaware, they have unleashed the cursed warrior(halimaw) character in the book upon reading. The bloodthirsty demon went on a killing spree in the darkness of night. Discovering that...

At the turn of the century, Maruja Isable Sevilla y Mira poisons herself when forced to marry a man she does not love. Several decades later, she is reincarnated as a young producer-actress, Nina Concepcion. Nina is hell-bent on filming the legend in...

A film which dares to imagine an "alternative historiography" of Jose Rizal by working the figure of Rizal into the "society and sexuality" of Sisa, a character in Noli Me Tangere....

In acclaimed filmmaker Mario O'Hara's depiction of unabashed sexuality, Sarsi Emmanuelle plays Carla, a woman going through a traumatic experience that completely changed her life....

A pregnant woman arrested for frustrated murder is sent to the Manila City Jail where she meets several women with shocking pasts....

Three mothers fight over one child...

Sindak is a movie about four guys, security guards by night, sex maniacs by day, and in weekends, regular dudes who like to shoot the shit with gin and pulutan (gleaned from their weekend monkey-hunting trips). Unbeknownst to them, they live in a wor...

Laurice Guillen's first attempt as a movie director resulted in a masterful portrayal by a powerful cast on the social changes that challenge the old Filipino traditions on love, sex and marriage....

Ang Paglilitis ni Andres Bonifacio is the untold story of the trial of Andres Bonifacio under the Revolutionary Government of Pres. Emilio Aguinaldo. Two leaders, Andres Bonifacio, Supremo of the Katipuneros, and Emilio Aguinaldo, president of the R...

A tale of two unwed sisters whose lives have been imprisoned by their father....

This is an adaptation of the Palanca award-winning play written by Maria Angela Barrios about a mother and her Amerasian daughter....

A 1983 Filipino drama starring Gloria Romero, Snooky, Maricel Soriano. Janice de Belen, Julie Vega, William Martinez and Manilyn Reynes....

Marcelino Pan y Vino is a Filipino TV movie from 1979 directed by Mario O'Hara. The film is a remake of Ladislao Vajda's 1955 film of the same title, about a boy brought up by monks and encountering Divinity....

"Tatlo, Dalawa, Isa" is a compilation of three intimate stories directed by Filipino cinema legend Lino Brocka. The films show the perseverance of hope despite a sense of despair. Featuring a drug addict, an abandoned daughter and a repressed catho...

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

Vivid Mario O'Hara film noir, about a young woman turned prostitute....