Marilou Diaz-Abaya Movies

Accused of treason, Dr. Jose P. Rizal awaits trial and meets with his colonial government-appointed counsel, Luis Taviel de Andrade. The two build...

A woman searches for the child she put up for adoption.

Film critic Tony Rayns interviews Lino Brocka and other prominent Filipino filmmakers.

The melding together of two separate stories that share a similar premise - each detail the account of a young Filipino woman who becomes a victim of...

Baby Tsina a famous underworld figure during the 50's who acquired the nickname because of her ivory skin and slanting eyes. She led the police in a...

In a remote fishing island in the 50's, Pepito grows up learning the trade of his mother, Rosa, the only midwife capable of delivering the newborn...

The episodically connected lives of four college friends unfold throughout the incipient martial law years, as they struggle to define their sexual...

When Narcing brings home his wife Puring to their hometown Mulawin in the 1930s, it sets off a series of events that include parricide, infidelity,...

Women cope with various problems while earning a living in the city.

Fredo is a fisherman who has endured more than his share of hardship in life; his wife and child both perished in a boating accident, and today Fredo...

Ahmad belongs to the Bangsamoro people. While many of his kind are bent on fighting, thinking that Mindanao is only for the Muslims, Ahmad prefers to...

A newlywed Sol learns that her husband Roy is a psychotic who alternated between treating her tenderly and beating her up when she disobeys his...

The film explores the tension between human freedom, what people decide to do with their lives, and divine wisdom, what God asks for each person....

A woman after killing her husband and his friends goes into post-traumatic shock and withdraws from any form of communication. A feminist journalist...

Milagros is a prostitute who becomes the maid of a family of four men. With them, she finds the family she never had. With her, each man finds the...

Rod leaves Helen for his career and she falls in love with another. Rod becomes successful and goes back to Helen who obviously still feels strongly...

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...

Newly trusted to take over the management of a rich family's business, a poet rekindles his love for the matriarch's only daughter, a spinster who is...

The fates and wisdom of five older gays and their longings for young love between envy, despair and gay porn. The director dedicates this...

Potrait of director Marilou Diaz-Abaya