Ryan Eigenmann

biography: Born in 1977 into the prominent Mesa-Gil showbiz clan, Ryan Eigenmann is a versatile Filipino actor with over 30 years in the industry. He is the son of actors Michael de Mesa and Gina Alajar. Eigenmann began his career at the age of 11, starring in the television sitcom Family 1+3 from 1989 to 1993. He was nominated for Best Actor at the 22nd Gawad Urian Awards for his role in the 1998 gangster film Gangland.

Etheria

overview:
Etheria is a Filipino fantasy television series that was produced by GMA Network. The full title of the series is Etheria: Ang Ikalimang Kaharian ng Encantadia, referring to Encantadia, its predecessor series. Etheria ran for 50 episodes from December 12, 2005 to February 17, 2006, and then gave way to the telefantasya franchise's next incarnation Encantadia: Pag-ibig Hanggang Wakas, which began to air the following February 20.

The setting takes place before the events in Encantadia thus it may be considered as a prequel to Encantadia. It is also a sequel, a continuation of the story of the Encantadia series, because the story plot of Etheria starts with the four elemental Sang'gres and Ybarro going back in time when Etheria was in its full glory.

character: Marvus

original_name: Etheria

Magdalena: Anghel sa Putikan

overview:
Magdalena: Anghel sa Putikan is a Filipino drama series created by RJ Nuevas and developed by Agnes Gagelonia-Uligan, directed by Gina Alajar and produced by GMA Network. It banners Bela Padilla in the title role, with Dion Ignacio as her leading man, Ryan Eigenmann and Pauleen Luna as the main antagonists. The series premiered on October 8, 2012 on GMA Afternoon Prime block replacing Faithfully and October 10, 2012 worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV.

The series is also part of the networks set of shows for the last quarter of 2012, along with Sana Ay Ikaw Na Nga and Yesterday's Bride.

Based on Nuevas' comics novel, Kukulayan Ko Ang Langit, the series follows the ill-fated life story of Lena, a provincial lass who has been conned by a rich-looking Manila boy into joining him to the city of her mother’s fantasy. She sets foot on the big, bad city and is quickly transformed into prostitute.

The series ended on January 18, 2013. It ran for 15 weeks with a total of 75 episodes to be replacing by Forever on January 21, 2013.

character: Baron Villa de Asis

original_name: Magdalena: Anghel sa Putikan

Machete

overview: Machete is a fantasy Philippine drama produced by GMA Network adapted from a character of the same name created by Pablo S. Gomez. Directed by Don Michael Perez, the show premiered on January 24, 2011 replacing Jillian: Namamasko Po on the GMA Telebabad block. The show is broadcast internationally through GMA Pinoy TV on January 26, 2011, two days after its original release. The series is a remake for the movie with the same title which starred Cesar Montano and Rita Avila and was remade again in 1993 which starred Gardo Versoza and Rosanna Roces. The show had its finale on March 18, 2011.

character: Karum

original_name: Machete

Biritera

overview:
Biritera or Diva is a Filipino musical drama created by Jun Lana, written by Agnes Gagelonia-Uligan and produced and aired by GMA Network. The series headlines Angelika dela Cruz, Dennis Trillo, Glaiza de Castro and singing child star Roseanne Magan in the title role.

The story centers to the life of a simple little girl whose dream to become a famous singer. In her quest to become a full-fledged biritera, she will also discover the mystery behind her true identity.

Directed by Maryo J. de los Reyes, Biritera premieres February 6, 2012 replacing Munting Heredera and February 8, 2012 worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV. The series concluded on May 18, 2012, and replaced by Luna Blanca on GMA Telebabad block. It ran for fifteen weeks with the total of 73 episodes.

character: Dalton "Mr. D" Dimaano

original_name: Biritera

Panday Kids

overview: Panday Kids is a fantasy Philippine drama spin-off from the novel of Carlo J. Caparas. It is produced by GMA Network. This is a television sequel of the 2009 film, Ang Panday which was starred by Bong Revilla. The cast is led by three child stars, Buboy Villar, Julian Trono, and Sabrina Man. The show is part of the GMA 60th Year Celebration Offering.

character: Andreas

original_name: Panday Kids

Te Amo, Maging Sino Ka Man

overview: Te Amo, Maging Sino Ka Man or Te Amo is a Filipino drama television series created by RJ Nuevas and produced by GMA Network. The series headlines Iza Calzado, Jomari Yllana, Angelu de Leon and Argentine actor Segundo Cernadas. It premiered on February 2, 2004 on the network's coveted GMA Telebabad block. From September 16, 2006 until March 1, 2007, the series aired worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV, shown every Saturday with back-to-back episodes. It was re-aired on GMA Life TV from June 23, 2009 to February 3, 2010 and its Englis-dubbed version on June 21, 2012 until November 19, 2012.

character: Edwin Camacho

original_name: Te Amo, Maging Sino Ka Man

Kokey

overview: Kokey is an ABS-CBN fantaserye which was premiered on Primetime Bida August 6, 2007. It is a show that was greatly criticized because of its one-dimensionality and lack of educational value. Other sources of hostility include potentially harmful acts such as lying with no punishment or scolding from the alien character in order to protect it.

character: Nicassio / Korokoy

original_name: Kokey

Lobo

overview: Lobo is Philippine supernatural–fantasy horror TV series produced by ABS-CBN that premiered January 28, 2008 and ran through July 2008. It was top billed by Piolo Pascual with Angel Locsin and was the most expensive teleserye made by ABS-CBN.

character: Anton Rivero

original_name: Lobo

Almost Paradise

overview: A former DEA agent forced into early retirement runs a gift shop in in the Philippines. Despite his best efforts to begin a tranquil new life, he’s pulled back into a world of dangerous people and deadly situations, either through his friends in the local police department or running into people from his old life. And the problem is: he likes it.

character: El Diablo

original_name: Almost Paradise

Cattleya Killer

overview: NBI agent Anton Dela Rosa discovers that he possesses an innate ability to view crimes from the perspective of a killer accompanied by erratic sociopathic tendencies, just like his serial killer father known as the Cattleya Killer.

character: Gene Rivera

original_name: Cattleya Killer

The Bagman

overview: Convicted prisoner and former governor, Benjo Malaya, learns the tragic news about his missing family, he is left with no choice but to return to the vicious underworld that he turned his back on, and take on a new mission, this time, as a fixer for the sitting president of the Philippines to stop an impending and civil war.

original_name: The Bagman

The Iron Heart

overview: An undercover agent goes on a dangerous mission to bring down a crime ring. Fueled by a bitter and painful past, he along with his allies faces the grueling task that will challenge his resolve and strength.

character: Adonis

original_name: The Iron Heart

Voltes V: Legacy

overview: Voltes V: Legacy follows the story of three brothers, Steve, Big Bert, and Little Jon Armstrong, and their friends Jamie Robinson and Mark Gordon, as they fight the forces of humanoid aliens known as Boazanians who plans to invade the earth and launch their beast fighters all over the world.

character: Zu Zander

original_name: Voltes V: Legacy

Owe My Love

overview: Owe My Love is the story of a financial illiterate (Sensen) and a miserly but successful doctor (Migs) whose lives unexpectedly intertwine because of the economic impact of the pandemic.

character: Doc Coops Cooper

original_name: Owe My Love

Oh, My Mama!

character: Efren Ynares

original_name: Oh, My Mama!

The Half Sisters

overview: The Half-Sisters is a family drama.

character: Alfred Alcantara / Damon Sarmiento

original_name: The Half Sisters

Pyra: Babaeng Apoy

character: Daniel del Fierro

original_name: Pyra: Babaeng Apoy

Incognito

overview: In search of redemption, a crew of misfits joins a private military company on a series of deadly missions against the criminal underworld.

character: Eugene Escalera / Clover

original_name: Incognito

Someone, Someday

overview: When the CEO of a dating app unknowingly befriends someone out for revenge, old wounds resurface—threatening her company, family, friendships, love life, and even her dream of finding “someone, someday.”

original_name: Someone, Someday

The Secrets of Hotel 88

overview: Two estranged families reunite at the reopening of Hotel 88, until the former best friends behind it are found dead. Forced to share the inheritance, their children uncover buried secrets and the truth behind their fathers' mysterious deaths.

character: Andy Arellano

original_name: The Secrets of Hotel 88

Sellblock

overview: Chronicles the activities of Asia's biggest drug empires operating from inside Philippines security prison.

character: Gabby

original_name: Sellblock

title: Leonor Will Never Die

overview: Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.

character: Ricardo

original_title: Ang Pagbabalik ng Kwago

title: Desperadas

overview: The story is about four beautiful half-sisters - Isabella, Courtney, Stephanie and Patricia - who have problems in their personal life. Isabella has issues with commitment, Stephanie is having problems with her husband Richard, Courtney's boyfriend Patrick becomes a Born again Christian and Patricia publishes her new sex book much to the dismay of her husband who's having trouble with their relationship as a couple.

character: James

title: Every Breath U Take

overview: The movie Every Breath U Take is a story of a woman looking for love and a man who doesn’t care much about love. Angelica Panganiban plays the role of Majoy, a “virgin-virginan” looking for signs and waiting all these years for her one true love to come. Piolo Pascual plays the role of Leo, a playboy who doesn’t want to take love seriously. They will meet on a Valentine’s Day and love, or something like it, starts to blossom. How far can Majoy go for love? And when will Leo finally admit to himself that he is in love?

character: Mario

original_title: Every Breath U Take

title: Gangland

overview: A gang of teenagers accidentally inherits a bag of drugs. They try to  sell them back to their original gangster owners, but when that goes  awry, they are reluctantly drawn into a protracted and bloody gang war.  Meanwhile, they are neglected at home, and must deal with family abuse  as well as the gangsters.

character: Kano

original_title: Gangland

title: Double

overview: Doble Vista begins where the relationship between writer-videographer Javier and Lola, his object of romance, meets its end. The film explores a metafictional treatment taking its influences from Peter Wollen’s definition of CounterCinema as best exemplified by the films of Jean-Luc Godard.

original_title: Doble Vista

title: The Promise

overview: Daniel and Andrea grew up in the same home and have been closer than real brothers and sisters ever since. But her father's goodwill to take in Daniel and bring him up does not sit well with her real older brother, who retaliates one day and kicks Daniel out. But by this time, nothing can come between the deeply in love Andrea and Daniel anymore--until the rich family on whose hacienda they've been working all these years come back. Andrea catches the eye of the rich son, while the daughter fancies Daniel, too. This will set in motion a series of events that will test how deep the two's love goes.

original_title: The Promise

title: Mano Po 6: A Mother's Love

overview: Melinda Uy is a half-Filipino, half-Chinese struggling mother to four children married to a full-Chinese blood man. Her family was believed to bring curse to Olive's famiily. Because of this, Melinda was not accepted by Uy's family as one of their members. Melinda's struggling as a mother begand when she has nothing else to do but to strive and work more.

character: Gino

original_title: Mano Po 6: A Mother's Love

title: Miss You Like Crazy

overview: Allan and Mia meet in the most unexpected way. They eventually become close, causing their romance to blossom. Faced with huge decisions in life, the two find it hard to fight for their love for each other.

character: Nick

original_title: Miss You Like Crazy

title: Lastikman

overview: Young Hilario was nearby a rubber tree when it was struck by a meteorite. This incident gave Hilario the powers of elasticity and morphing. To honor his dead parents he vowed to use his powers for good. Hilario grows up and becomes Professor Larry, a teacher in Physics. He transforms into the superhero Lastikman to protect people from injustice and oppression.

character: Ryan

original_title: Lastikman

title: 100

overview: With only three months left to live, a cancer patient compiles a list of tasks to complete before she dies.

character: Emil

title: Bente

overview: A back to back treatment of a malaise which has shocked Philippine society for the past so many years: the mysterious disappearances and killings of Filipino journalists and activists. The film focuses on a hard-hitting radio commentator and his conflict with a former classmate who is a suburban town mayor. The radioman’s story runs parallel to the tale of a student-activist on the run with his activist-girlfriend. These parallel stories are interwoven with a third story, that of the former military man , now their would-be assassin. This killer’s unexpected obsession with his wife leads to a climax of murder and mayhem.

character: Caloy

original_title: Bente

title: The Beerhouse

overview: Noynoy wants to liberate Ningning (Jewel) but gets himself entangled to the underground

character: Noynoy

title: Tumbok

overview: Bad fortune and strange events plague newlyweds (Cristine Reyes, Carlo Aquino) who recently inherited a condominium located in a place many consider unlucky.

title: Awaken

overview: Sam decides to break off her engagement and leave her tumultuous relationship behind after a brief but life-altering experience. She resolves to focus on finding herself, her peace of mind and happiness and in the process she meets Jake, the man of her dreams. Everything seems perfect until she starts experiencing hallucinations and recurring nightmares that prompt her to question her own sanity.  The process of self discovery leads Sam to realize how fear and the memories of the past are subconsciously preventing her from getting what she wants the most.

title: Co-Ed Scandal

overview: Two girls and a boy of barely legal age are caught having sex on tape. Who are they? Why did they do it? Where are they now? The film draws answers from the urban legends that grew around the controversial sex videos and the result is a humorous narrative with elements of mock documentary. Leo (Ryan Eigenmann) is a 21-year-old co-ed student in a prestigious college. He dreams of making and starring in his own "dirty movie"and becomes obsessed with the idea. Leo eggs his girlfriend Claire (Jennifer Lee) to be part of the video. She hesitates but gives in to the idea soon enough when she finds her most compelling reason in the person of a sexy girl named Miles (Avi Siwa). Generally perceived as a tragic event, the Co-ed Scandal is viewed through the film from multiple perspectives ennobling the idea of beauty-and tragedy-as something that ultimately resides in the eye of the beholder.

title: Big Time

overview: Danny and Jonas are petty crooks whose idea of going big-time is kidnapping the only daughter of a middle-class couple for a ransom price of 50,000 pesos.

title: Kulimlim

overview: A man takes the law into his own hands when his wife's rapists are released from prison on a technicality, only to be possessed by the spirits of the criminals.

title: Keka

overview: Keka is a beautiful young woman working in a call center. Wanting to hunt down the killers and avenge her boyfriend's death, she undergoes rigid training. Everything has been going well until she meets the guy who makes her fall in love again.

title: 1st Time

title: Pedro Calungsod: Batang Martir

overview: Pedro Calungsod, a young Filipino man, leaves his Visayan native roots to join the Spanish Jesuit priest Fr. Diego de San Vitores in his mission to the Marianas Islands (Guam) in 1668. The San Diego Mission arrives in the Marianas where the young Pedro, a trained catechist and mission assistant, begins work for Fr. Diego de San Vitores in baptizing the Chamorro natives, preaching the holy gospel and spreading the good news of salvation through the Christian faith amidst paganism, doubt and disbelief. Despite the longing for his father and the threats to their lives, even at the peril of death, Pedro and Fr. Diego continued their missionary work. They roamed the dangerous islands and baptized many more natives and continued to enlighten them about Christianity.

title: In the Name of Love

overview: Former dance instructor Emman Toledo was employed as a dance instructor for a governor’s ball. He finds himself in a passionate love affair with Cedes Fernandez who happens to be engaged to Dylan Evelino son of the governor. The couple finds themselves in a dangerous situation. The Evelino Clan is too powerful that nothing gets in their way to get what they want. Despite her hatred for the dirty politics, Cedes has no choice but to succumb to the decision of Dylan out of her indebtedness towards the family. Emman is drawn towards Cedes from the first time she catches his eye. As their lives intertwine through dance, Emman and Cedes find themselves resisting an affair: one that holds the truths to their painful pasts, and the memories of a boundless love. Pursuing their feelings for each other will only set fire to the dangers and trappings of their love, so much so that their love could cost them their lives.

title: Ekis

overview: Gene works for the local underworld syndicate but always treats his abductees with kindness. He begins a dangerous affair with ex-bar girl Dolor, who's routinely beaten by her rich husband. When the cops move in on Gene's gang and Dolor's husband winds up dead, the couple flees with the law and their enemies in hot pursuit.

title: José Rizal

overview: Accused of treason, Dr. Jose P. Rizal awaits trial and meets with his colonial government-appointed counsel, Luis Taviel de Andrade. The two build the case and arguments for the defense as significant events in the central figure's life prior to his incarceration unfold. Upon hearing Rizal's life story, Taviel begins to realize that the accused not just is innocent but exhibits in fact all the qualities of an extraordinary man. When the mock trial unreels, Taviel is all set to act as the prime advocate for his client as Rizal himself is about to give an earth-moving speech to defend his honor and address his countrymen. Meanwhile, the Spanish authorities have worked out the vast political machinery to ensure a guilty verdict. A revolution waits in the wings.

title: Hide & Seek

overview: After a tragedy, a family moves to an isolated house where strange apparitions appear.

title: Felix Manalo

title: Baler

overview: In 1898, a band of Spanish soldiers heroically defended Baler against Filipino forces for 337 long and grueling days. The battle, now referred to as the Siege of Baler, is the setting of a forbidden love between a Mestizo soldier and a Filipina lass who lived at the end of the 19th century.

title: Milan

overview: Loving husband Lino is on a mission: his wife, who works as a domestic in Milan, is missing and he's determined to find her. To do so, he enters Italy illegally and takes cover as one of the hundreds of Filipino migrant workers who make their way to Europe.

title: Unfaithful Wife 2

overview: On the outside, Jennifer's life looks perfect: she's beautiful, rich, and she has Jimmy, a wonderful husband. But, despite everything, there remains a wound inside her that refuses to heal. One day, Archie arrives, and the serene world of Jennifer and Jimmy comes to a jolt. Archie is Jimmy's friend, but he, too, is the man who, in the past, had broken Jennifer's heart. With Archie around, Jennifer discovers that her incessant pain is caused by her longing for him...

title: Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin

overview: Divided into three "short films", each one pokes fun to a particular genre. Episode 1: Bala Sa Bala, Kamao Sa Kamao, Satsat Sa Satsat. Episode 2: Shake, Shaker, Shakest. Episode 3: Asawa ni Marie.

title: I'm Sorry, My Love

overview: In the hope of landing a job that will eventually enable her to pay for her sister's operation Tinay leaves her small fishing village and heads for Manila. With only her dreams accompanying her she arrives in the big city and how! She gets hit by a car but that proves to be a blessing in disguise because the accident leads her to her employment. She then meets Randy the son of her boss whose girlfriend Sylvia has been goading that they get married. But Randy feels that he's not yet ready to settle down and when he refuses to marry her Sylvia hooks up with another guy in a desperate attempt to make him change his mind.

title: Pinoy/Blonde

overview: Two cousins accomplish the final wish of their dying uncle to deliver a brown paper bag to a seedy, run-down hotel crawling with shady characters and retrieve in exchange a mysterious package.

title: Scream as Much as You Want

overview: After a killer with garden shears attacks a group of science students during a trip to the woods, the lone survivor comes under suspicion by others at their university. Panic spreads as the killings and disappearances continue on campus.

title: Asin at Paminta

overview: They are the unlikeliest of tandems. Two men whose only similarity is thier gender. One of them is Roman, a modest bounty hunter whose deftness is unparalleled. The other is Blakdyak, a younger bounty hunter whose mouth is as big as his appetite for money. Their paths cross when both are tasked to find Dannie, the witness in the murder of a deep penetration agent and the key to the arrest of a druglord. Friction arises early on, but both men soon realize that for them to accomplish their mission they have to settle their differences first.

title: Jacqueline Comes Home: The Chiong Story

overview: This controversial biopic recalls the events of the 1997 Chiong murder case told from the perspectives of the alleged victims and the Chiong family.

title: Anak ng Tinapa

overview: Anak Ng Tinapa (Something Fishy) is a story about a small fish: framing up and killing small fry instead of the "big fish" in a society ruled by sharks. Two crooked cops get a kick out of framing up hapless people by planting illegal drugs on them. Unknown to these rouge policemen, a group of loony and ambitious student filmmakers is watching and documenting their every move. In the end, a brutal killing spree of individuals occurs.

title: Baliw

overview: Angelo (Eigenmann) is an orphan who turns into a serial killer. Despite the efforts of rehabilitation, psychological turmoil still haunts and prevents him from living a peaceful and ordinary life. Faced with this reality, Angelo searches for a way to exorcise his personal demons. In the end, he gets his just reward when he crosses paths with a demon that he himself created.

title: Magikland

overview: On Christmas eve, four lonely kids are chosen to save Magikland, a fantastic and magical world where all the world’s toys and games come from.

title: Leonor Will Never Die

title: Desperadas

title: Every Breath U Take

title: Gangland

title: Double

title: The Promise

title: Mano Po 6: A Mother's Love

title: Bente

title: Miss You Like Crazy

title: Tumbok

title: Awaken

title: Lastikman

title: 100

title: The Beerhouse

title: Co-Ed Scandal

title: Kulimlim

title: Big Time

title: Pedro Calungsod: Batang Martir

title: Keka

title: 1st Time

title: In the Name of Love

title: Ekis

title: José Rizal

title: Hide & Seek

title: Felix Manalo

title: Baler

title: Milan

title: Unfaithful Wife 2

title: Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin

title: I'm Sorry, My Love

title: Pinoy/Blonde

title: Scream as Much as You Want

title: Asin at Paminta

title: Jacqueline Comes Home: The Chiong Story

title: Anak ng Tinapa

title: Baliw

title: Magikland


Adrian Alandy

biography: Adrian Louis Castro Alandy, also known as Luis Alandy and Adrian Alandy, is a Filipino actor and model. He has since appeared in soap operas and in theater, including the stage musical All About Men. He has also starred in several hit movies like Pacquiao: The Movie, Citizen Jake, and Alone/Together.

Komiks

overview:
Komiks is a Filipino fantasy-drama series that began airing on the ABS-CBN network on February 4, 2006. The series features popular local comic book stories and airs on Saturday evenings.

The show is currently in its fifth season. It can also be seen on TFC: The Filipino Channel.

original_name: Komiks

original_language: tl

Unlocked

overview: An anthology of nine different episodes dealing with queer relationships during one of the longest lock-downs in the world in Manila.

character: Kyle

original_name: Unlocked

Binoy Henyo

overview:
Binoy Henyo or Wonder Kid is a Filipino drama-comedy television series created and developed by Marlon Miguel and produced by GMA Network. The show premiered on July 22, 2013 on the network's pre-primetime slot, replacing Home Sweet Home, and on July 24, 2013 worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV. It stars David Remo as the titular character, with Sheena Halili, Luis Alandy, Nova Villa and Gwen Zamora. Winnie Hollis-Reyes executive produced the series and Albert Langitan directed the show. The series concluded it's nine weeks on September 20, 2013 with the total of 45 episodes and replaced by Prinsesa ng Buhay Ko on its timeslot.

The forty-five minute scripted drama centers on the titular character, Binoy, a six-year-old genius boy and his struggles with poverty and his longing for a father figure in his life. The show garnered both high ratings and positive feedback from viewers and critics, from its premiere telecast.

character: Francis Sandoval

original_name: Binoy Henyo

The Rich Man's Daughter

overview: Jade Tanchingco was born into a wealthy, traditional Chinese-Filipino family with a high regard for honor and is extremely dedicated to their Chinese traditions. She always believed she would end up married to her boyfriend whom her family approves, David, until she falls in love with a woman, Althea. A strong bond between the two women emerges that will test Jade's commitment to her conservative family and their values.

character: David Limjoco

original_name: The Rich Man's Daughter

My Lover, My Wife

overview: My Lover, My Wife was a television drama series developed by GMA Network starring Nadine Samonte, Luis Alandy, and Maxene Magalona. The show premiered on February 28, 2011 replacing Koreana. The series premiered to positive critical feedback and impressive viewership.

character: Lawrence Delgado / Arthur Salvador

original_name: My Lover, My Wife

Yesterday's Bride

character: Dr. Celso Agustin

original_name: Yesterday's Bride

Ngayon at Kailanman

overview: Ngayon at Kailanman or Until Forever is a Filipino drama series produced by GMA Network. It is a television adaptation of the 1992 hit movie of the same title. The series stars Heart Evangelista and JC De Vera. It was aired internationally, with a two-week delay, on GMA Pinoy TV. From March 27, 2012 until July 4, 2012, GMA Life TV aired its English-dubbed version worldwide.

character: Ronald Noche

original_name: Ngayon at Kailanman

Luna Mystika

overview:
Luna Mystika is a Filipino fantasy/romace drama created by RJ Nuevas, directed by Michael Tuviera and Gil Tejada, Jr., produced and aired by GMA Network. The series starred Heart Evangelista in the title role, with Mark Anthony Fernandez as the leading man.

The series premiered on November 17, 2008 and concluded on March 6, 2009. It was aired internationally with a two-day delay on GMA Pinoy TV.

Three years after the series ended, GMA Network makes its sequel entitled Luna Blanca. It is a three-generational drama which featured three generations of actresses for the title roles. On its first book, child stars Jillian Ward and Mona Louise Rey play the roles of Luna and Blanca respectively. On the second part, teen stars Bea Binene and Barbie Forteza will play the roles respectively. On the third book, which will covers the womanhood stage, actresses Bianca King and Heart Evangelista will play the roles of Luna and Blanca respectively.

character: Andoy

original_name: Luna Mystika

Beauty Queen

overview:
Beauty Queen is a Philippine drama directed by Joel Lamangan. The series stars Iza Calzado, Katrina Halili and Maggie Wilson as rival beauty queens. It premiered October 18, 2010 on GMA Network, replacing Endless Love on GMA's telebabad block. The show also broadcast internationally through GMA Pinoy TV and premiering on October 20, 2010. Premiere September 12, 2013 it currently re-airs via GMA Life TV it's English-dubbed version worldwide.

The series aired on TodayTV in Vietnam beginning June 13, 2011.

character: Dante Pineda

original_name: Beauty Queen

Broken Vow

overview:
Broken Vow is a Filipino drama series created and written by Dode Cruz, under the direction of Gil Tejada, Jr. and produced by GMA Network. The series starred Bianca King, Luis Alandy, Gabby Eigenmann and Rochelle Pangilinan as the four lead characters. It premiered February 6, 2012 replacing Kung Aagawin Mo Ang Langit in GMA Afternoon Prime block and February 8, 2012 worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV.

This series follows the story of Melissa, Felix, Roberto and Rebecca, the four protagonists whose lives and loves entangled by deception, obsession, broken love and broken promises.

Originally slated to air for just one season, the series awarded several extensions after it scores massive success in television ratings, both in Urban Luzon, Mega Manila and National Urban Philippines, outshining its competition in the afternoon slot.

The series is set to conclude on June 15, 2012 and to be replaced by Faithfully. It ran for 19 weeks with 93 episodes all in all.

character: Felix Rastro

original_name: Broken Vow

Iglot

overview: Iglot is a Philippine television drama series created by GMA Network. It premiered on GMA Telebabad and GMA Pinoy TV on August 29, 2011 and August 31, 2011, respectively. The shows stars Claudine Barretto, Marvin Agustin, Jolina Magdangal, Luis Alandy, Patrick Garcia, Pauleen Luna, and newcomer Milkcah Wynne Nacion.

character: Juancho Rivera

original_name: Iglot

Ina, Kasusuklaman Ba Kita?

overview: Ina, Kasusuklaman Ba Kita? or A Mother's Sacrifice is a Sine Novela produced by GMA Network starring real-life mother and daughter, Jean Garcia and Jennica Garcia with Iwa Moto, Dion Ignacio and Ariel Rivera. It is a remake of the drama film in the 1980s which starred Lorna Tolentino and the Rita Gomez. It is the 18th installment of Sine Novela. It is internationally aired through GMA Pinoy TV, which started on January 29, 2010, and ended on May 27, 2010.

character: Brent Carlos

original_name: Ina, Kasusuklaman Ba Kita?

La Vendetta

overview: La Vendetta is a Filipino drama-suspense-thriller series produced by GMA Network. The series premiered October 29, 2007 and concluded on January 18, 2008. The series is an experimental soap opera from as it is the first series in the Philippines to use the genre of suspense-thriller. It was aired with a one-week delay on GMA Pinoy TV worldwide. The series consist 60 episodes completing the first season. From July 1, 2011 until September 22, 2011 it was re-aired on GMA Life TV worldwide.

character: Ariel Guevarra

original_name: La Vendetta

Impostora

overview:
Impostora or The Impostor is a Filipino drama series aired on GMA Network. It is directed by renowned director Maryo J. de los Reyes starring Sunshine Dizon and Iza Calzado.

The series is the first of GMA Network’s grand 57th anniversary offering, it began airing on June 4, and concluded on September 21. The series was successfully aired internationally, with a three-week delay, from June 20, 2007 until October 9, 2007 on GMA Pinoy TV. It was shown in Malaysia.

From September 23, 2011 until January 10, 2012 GMA Life TV aired its English-dubbed version worldwide.

character: Leandro Meneses

original_name: Impostora

Sa Dulo Ng Walang Hanggan

overview: Sa Dulo ng Walang Hanggan is a Philippine primetime drama teleserye aired from 26 March 2001 to 28 February 2003 by ABS-CBN.

character: Clarence Cristobal

original_name: Sa Dulo Ng Walang Hanggan

name: Stories from the Heart: Loving Miss Bridgette

overview: The story of forbidden love between a conservative guidance counselor and a brash young medical student she meets in a chance encounter.

character: Luther

original_name: Stories from the Heart: Loving Miss Bridgette

original_language: en

Gulong ng Palad

overview:
Gulong ng Palad is a Philippine 50's radio drama series and 1980s soap opera hit. On January 9, 2006, the drama series came back in television under the direction of Eric Salud and Jerome Pobocan.

The television series can be watched regularly in Philippines' ABS-CBN from Monday to Friday after TV Patrol World. The show also aired simultaneously on The Filipino Channel.

The TV Dramas original inception was in 1977-1985 in 1977-1979 it aired on Fridays and aired in 1980-1985 as a primetime soap at 8:00PM

The TV Series was known for its Orgin as the Original Filipino Telenovela that starred TV and movie greats Marianne Dela Riva as Luisa and Ronald Corveau as Carding and Beth Bautista as Mimi and also known as BBC2 Now ABS-CBN Since 1985-Present and also made Award Winning Character Actress TV Veteran Caridad Sanchez a household name as Idad the loving mother and opportunist the original story was by Loida Virina for the tagalog version of the Cebuano Classic Radio Serial and in the present by Kristine Hermosa Tj Trinidad and Andrea Del Rosario as the leads and lead antagonist Cherie Gil

character: Diego Morales

original_name: Gulong ng Palad

I Can See You

overview: 'I Can See You' is a one-of-a-kind anthology that features compelling and thrilling stories every week on GMA Telebabad

character: Jason "Lakay" Bautista

original_name: I Can See You

The Heiress

overview: The story of Romina, a secretary turned wife of business tycoon, Robert, who married her despite the fact that she was raped and is carrying the child of the assailant. Unknown to Romina, it was Daniela, Robert’s daughter, who had orchestrated her abduction, right before seducing Romina’s fiance, Carlos. With Romina's and Daniela's lives intertwined, their daughters, Cassandra and Margaret, are made to fight as to who among them is the rightful heiress to the Mondragon empire.

character: Carlos Bartolome

original_name: Kadenang Ginto

Innamorata

character: Edwin Manansala / Arnaldo Manansala

original_name: Innamorata

Incognito

overview: In search of redemption, a crew of misfits joins a private military company on a series of deadly missions against the criminal underworld.

Love at First Spike

overview: A former basketball team captain finds himself in a tough situation as he is forced to join the school's boys' volleyball varsity team composed of queer members.

character: Ato Santillan

original_name: Love at First Spike

Prinsesa ng City Jail

character: Adrian

original_name: Prinsesa ng City Jail

Tropang G.O.A.T.

overview: Three boys embark on a volleyball journey that will challenge far more than their athletic skills. As members of the "Green Goats," they must overcome formidable trials both on and off the court.

character: Mang Obet

original_name: Tropang G.O.A.T.

Tabi Po

overview: Based on the winner of the National Book Award for Graphic Literature by Mervin Malonzo, "Tabi Po" transports us to an alternate retelling of the aswang mythos and sets it against the Spanish colonial period.

character: Tasyo

original_name: Tabi Po

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

iso_639_1: tl

iso_3166_1: PH

english_name: Tagalog

Pусский

iso_639_1: ru

iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

also_known_as:
Luis Alandy
Adrian Louis Castro Alandy

title: My Husband, My Lover

overview: Alice and Noel have a happy married life. Alice is a very successful woman and a dutiful wife to his kind and intelligent husband, Noel. But she is also a wild partner in bed to Dennis, her kept man. There is nothing wrong with her marriage, but Alice just feels the need to keep both her husband and lover. Everything is going well until one day, Alice finds out that she’s pregnant. Not knowing who the father is, she comes clean to Noel and Dennis, and this decision completely changes her life. Noel decides to break it up with Alice, and Dennis vows to take care of her and her baby.

character: Dennis

original_title: My Husband, My Lover

title: Desperadas

overview: The story is about four beautiful half-sisters - Isabella, Courtney, Stephanie and Patricia - who have problems in their personal life. Isabella has issues with commitment, Stephanie is having problems with her husband Richard, Courtney's boyfriend Patrick becomes a Born again Christian and Patricia publishes her new sex book much to the dismay of her husband who's having trouble with their relationship as a couple.

character: Mandy

original_title: Desperadas

title: Palos Fights Back!

overview: You're in it follow the thrill, the excitement, the spine-chilling suspense. From the MONGRELS, through the trapdoors of BANGKOK, to the snows of SIBERA. It's SUPER-ACTION.

original_title: Palos Fights Back!

title: Manay Po!

overview: Manay Po tells the story of Luz, a small time jeweler who dreams of making it big so as to provide a better life for her family. Her life revolves around her brood of three, namely, Oscar, Orson and Orwell and her live-in boyfriend Gerry. With the help of her good friend and maid Maritess, Luz was able to raise her children normally despite the absence of a husband. In spite of her children's questionable sexualities, their family paints a picture of a happy family - a home filled with laughter and unconditional love.

character: Adrian Pengson

original_title: Manay Po!

title: Kalayaan

overview: Julian is a soldier stationed on a remote island in the Philippines. He has finished his three months of service on the island and is ready to leave, but news of a coup d’état in Manilla forces Julian to stay on the island longer. All Julian has is a walkie-talkie, radio and TV. Meanwhile, Julian senses someone watching him. When Julian loses contact with the main base, soldiers Lucio and Eric are sent to the island. The soldiers then talk about a soldier previously stationed on the island and his encounters with a mermaid.

character: Eric

original_title: Kalayaan

title: Instant Mommy

overview: Instant Mommy follows the story of Bechayda, a two-months-pregnant wardrobe assistant for TV commercial production. In the fear of losing her Japanese lover and her dreams of a better life, she embarks on a plan that will get herself out of her predicament. Or so she thinks.

character: JB

original_title: Instant Mommy

title: Keka

overview: Keka is a beautiful young woman working in a call center. Wanting to hunt down the killers and avenge her boyfriend's death, she undergoes rigid training. Everything has been going well until she meets the guy who makes her fall in love again.

character: Jessie

title: The Woman Who Loses Herself

overview: She gets entangled with three men who want her: her suitor, her ex-boyfriend and her boss. But there's another one who wants to control and turn her into a sex monster.

title: Magikland

title: Transmutators

overview: In a time when mutants and behemoth alien warriors have come to a rule, a rebel group of survivors must embrace mega fighting machines to take on intergalactic invaders threatening humanity.

title: Nieves: The Engkanto Slayer

overview: After the tragic loss of her husband, Nieves resigns from her post as the town's Engkanto Slayer. When strange and unexplainable attacks begin to strike the whole town, Nieves, together with her slayers in training, must team up to save the townsfolk from the murders.

title: Kara Krus

overview: Adela, a married woman, suffers from split personality disorder. Her alter ego, Lena, is a promiscuous woman. Things turn chaotic when her alter ago killed someone.

title: The Tigers of Infanta

title: Boy Pick Up: The Movie

overview: There is an underground battle going on in the name of love. The soldiers are all Pikapistas! With pick-up lines as their weapons to woo the gorgeous Neneng B. (Sam Pinto), the war sizzles in the dark corners of the Metro. And there is one undefeated champion among them - BOY PICKUP (Ogie Alcasid)! Legendary, enigmatic, hypnotic, that’s his appeal to most who don’t get what his works penetrate their heart just the same.  Despite his underground fame and legend, Boy Pickup lives a normal and solitary life, He works as a pastry chef in Heaven’s Bakeshop, a bakery owned by ANGEL (Solenn Heussaff) and soon Angel feels indebted to Boy while Boy starts to fall for her.

title: Ligo na Ü, Lapit na Me

overview: College senior Intoy (Edgar Allan Guzman) is unwittingly fallen into a friend-with-benefits situation with his mysterious classmate Jenny (Mercedes Cabral). Jenny has a reputation for being promiscuous, and Intoy plays aloof to hide the fact that he’s fallen in love with her. Slowly, Jenny opens up to him as well, revealing the vulnerable center to her seemingly impervious façade. But poor, confused Intoy isn’t really equipped to deal with the feelings involved.

title: Migrante

overview: The film portrays the true stories of Filipinos, who, due to poverty in their country, are forced to go abroad to look for work, hoping they would find a better life.

title: Islands

overview: ISLANDS explores a cinematic journey of two astronauts. As they enter Earth’s atmosphere the structure transforms. The spacecraft becomes the meteor from a myth of a tribesman; it triggers an old lady’s memory of a lover from her past. As these diverse characters converge in a plane of reality, we confront a particular form of gravity we covertly feel—falling in love.

title: Babangluksa

overview: One year after the violent death of Carlos'; (Luis Alandy) girlfriend Beatrice, Anna (Precious Lara Quigaman), Carlos current love starts experiencing supernatural events. Afraid and surprised, Anna thinks that Beatrice';s ghost is haunting her. Anna approaches an espiritista, Idang (Angelika dela Cruz), and the medium tells her that Beatrice, powered by her Babang Luksa, is possibly haunting Anna to extract her revenge, as Anna is the main cause of her suicide. Anna performs a ritual to speak to the dead girl';s spirit, and to pacify Beatrice';s anger.

title: Shake, Rattle & Roll X

overview: This anthology features three chilling horror movies that include tales of supernatural beings and other beasts, such as "Nieves" in which a local hero must save her hometown from rampaging nature spirits known as Engkanto. In "Emergency," ghoulish creatures attack a remote hospital, and in "Class Picture," the ghost of a sadistic nun attacks a group of college friends. Mike Tuviera and Topel Lee direct these hair-raising films.

character: Dario (segment "Nieves: The Engkanto Slayer")

title: Circumcision

overview: The daughter of a circumciser rebels and challenges the status quo when she is asked to take over her father's job.

title: (Filipino: In the Name of the Father, Mother, and Children)

overview: In 1970s Mindanao, a man and his family take arms to defend the people against those who would oppress them.

title: The Sign

overview: Louie receives a text message from the province that his father Ulding had a heart attack. Louie rushes to drive home from Manila only to find out that the message was nothing but a prank.  Louie then senses something eerie about his hometown. He finds out there have been several killings in the area all done in the same manner. Apparently, the victim first hears some rumbling noise that is before they are found dead all covered with mud.  When the killings move closer to home and threatens Louie’s family, he discovers for himself how he had been estranged from his roots and now must face his past with the horror of what is to happen.

title: Shadow Behind the Moon

overview: The armed conflict between the Philippine military and the communist resistance at the beginning of the 1990s forms the backdrop to this study of three individuals who, for different reasons, are trying to resolve an untenable situation.

title: Mila

overview: A dedicated educator caught in the upheaval and needs of the times imparts the basic rudiments of knowledge while being haunted by personal questions that remain unanswered.

title: Bcuz Of U

overview: This movie encloses three intertwining love stories of six different people through a vintage car: Ria and RJ share the perfect relationship until she chickens out on their wedding. Years after, she decides to win him back. But the indecisive and the new RJ is now the most sought-after model in town. He wants nothing of her anymore. Will their love prevail over the pain they cause each other? Cara  never takes a chance on falling in love because she believes that it will only break her heart. That was until she meets Roni but only to find out that he is the kind of man she's been trying to avoid. Will she take the risk this time? Louie, a tourist guide, meets April a Korean girl who gets lost in the city and is left with no choice but to pretend that she is a famous actress in her hometown only to survive. Will it be possible for two very different individuals find home in one another?

title: Mandirigma

overview: The ill-fated clash between the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) police commandos and Moro rebels.

title: Luv Text

overview: Melissa is a spunky college student who’s completely love-struck and constantly dreams of her own Prince Charming. She finds herself transported back to her grandmother’s time and unravels the truth behind her grandmother’s beautiful but failed romance.

title: Kusina

overview: The silent witness to the life and love of Juanita. It is her sanctuary, the place where she creates dishes for her family, her friends, even enemies and strangers. Through cooking, she gets to know the people around her, and in return, reveal herself to them.

title: May Pag-ibig Pa Kaya?

overview: An unexpected twist occurs in Emily's uncomplicated life when the company she works for decides to hire her old schoolmate and former romantic obsession.

title: Siphayo

overview: A self-made farmer and rice mill owner who faces a rebellion by his two sons when he installs his young mistress as the new woman of the house immediately after the death of his wife. Complicating matters further is the fact that the older son is already living with his common-law wife in the same house.

title: Die Beautiful

overview: Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman, suddenly dies while being crowned in a beauty pageant. Her last wish was to be presented as a different celebrity on each night of her wake, but her conservative father wants to bury her as a man.

title: Dagim

overview: The brothers, Jun and Diego embark on a quest to find their father. Their journey leads them to a mountain town where they meet the beautiful Lila and  her brother, the charismatic Pido. Pido is a gracious host, introducing the brothers to the ways of the tribe, where members live a simple existence of brotherhood and equality, far from the corruption and greed that rule “civilization”. Jun is enamored by the possibility of living in Panimdim, little suspecting that the tribesmen’s pacifistic exteriors belie a terrible secret.

title: Swipe

overview: When a CCTV is installed in an apartment, it starts to record their activities and show the tenant's private lives. It tells the story of Loida who is a lady guard, Gloria whose marriage has recently been annulled, Frank who is a married man and actively engaging into gay dating sites and Janet & Edward who are the new tenants hoping to make a clean start in their marriage.

title: Tatlong Bibe

overview: A story about love, hope, giving, sharing, forgiving and three ducks.

title: Citizen Jake

overview: A drama of the personal saga of a young man struggles with the contradictions within his own social class and the demands of a dysfunctional political family in the Philippine Islands.

title: Never Not Love You

overview: The story of young lovers who try to build a life together until career opportunities send them to a different country where their relationship gets tested.

title: Deadline - Reign of Impunity

overview: Ross Rivera is a writer whose cynicism has converted him into a government apologist, is suddenly forced to reassess his role as journalist when he finds himself right in the middle of unearthing a conspiracy linking Muntazir Ghazi, a local warlord, with election fraud and the sporadic killing of journalists in various parts of the country. While Ross wrestles with the his conscience and attempts to convince Greta Manarang, television newscaster and grieving girlfriend of a recently murdered journalist, of his newfound integrity in Manila, Azad and Claire, local journalists who are keep into the tracks of Ghazi, are hunted down by Ghazi's henchmen. Their stories eventually intertwine, revealing a more frustrated than concerned outlook of the state of free speech in a country that supposedly fosters democracy.

title: Class of 2018

overview: When Section Zamora contracts a mysterious virus during a field trip, they are quarantined by the military in an abandoned facility. Students Ada, RJ, Princess, and Migs fight for their survival as they deal with the dangers of the infectious virus and politics among untrustworthy classmates.

title: Panahon Na

overview: A Hyperlink Movie about the choices and actions of a diverse group of people and about the question if it is possible to change your destiny.

title: Alone/Together

overview: Former college sweethearts Christine and Raf reconnect as adults — reminiscing of their shared past, and revisiting what could've been their future.

title: Death March

overview: The story of its namesake - the forcible transfer of 76000 American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese Army in 1942.

title: Outside De Familia

overview: A story of two senior citizens who have found solace and companionship in each other, filling the void left by their families.

title: Ang Happy Homes ni Diane Hilario

overview: A story of ordinary, happy people living in a tenement is suddenly shaken by a string of conspicuous deaths. Unfortunate and unrelated deaths continue, and they think a killer is living among them.

title: Bilyarista

overview: Aya, living in the slums of Manila, dreams of becoming a billiards World Champion, but after her father is killed, she’s manipulated by Itoy into playing underground gambling matches in back-alley pool halls.

title: The Loved One

overview: Ten years later, former lovers Ellie and Eric meet again to trace the memories of a love and sorrow that never went away.

title: Brothers By The River

overview: A coming-of-age story of two friends in Mindoro – Niko, a Manila boy, and Ayan, a Mangyan. Their unique bond spans a whole summer of being introduced to each other’s culture and lifestyle, with Niko teaching Ayan how to read, who in turn teaches Niko how to swim.

title: My Husband, My Lover

title: Desperadas

title: Palos Fights Back!

title: Manay Po!

title: Kalayaan

title: Instant Mommy

title: Keka

title: The Woman Who Loses Herself

title: Magikland

title: Transmutators

title: Nieves: The Engkanto Slayer

title: Kara Krus

title: The Tigers of Infanta

title: Boy Pick Up: The Movie

title: Ligo na Ü, Lapit na Me

title: Migrante

title: Islands

title: Babangluksa

title: Shake, Rattle & Roll X

title: Circumcision

title: The Sign

title: Shadow Behind the Moon

title: Mila

title: Bcuz Of U

title: Mandirigma

title: Luv Text

title: Kusina

title: May Pag-ibig Pa Kaya?

title: Siphayo

title: Die Beautiful

title: Dagim

title: Swipe

title: Tatlong Bibe

title: Citizen Jake

title: Never Not Love You

title: Deadline - Reign of Impunity

title: Class of 2018

title: Panahon Na

title: Alone/Together

title: Death March

title: Outside De Familia

title: Ang Happy Homes ni Diane Hilario

title: Bilyarista

title: The Loved One

title: Brothers By The River


Will Devaughn

biography: William Devaughn Stumpf (born February 27, 1982) is a Filipino-German-American commercial model and actor.

Faithfully

overview:
Faithfully is a Filipino drama series created and written by RJ Nuevas, under the direction of Michael Tuviera and produced by GMA Network. This series headlines Maxene Magalona, Mike Tan and Marc Abaya as the lead characters with Michelle Madrigal, Isabel Oli, Vaness del Moral and Isabelle Daza. This series premiered on June 18, 2012, replacing Broken Vow on GMA Afternoon Prime block and June 21, 2012 worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV.

The series centers on the life of Stella, who uncovers her husband's imprudence with one of her closest friends.

It ended on October 5, 2012 and ran for 16 weeks with 80 episodes overall. Magdalena will replace Faithfully on its timeslot.

character: Luke Gallanosa

original_name: Faithfully

Kung Aagawin Mo Ang Langit

overview:
Kung Aagawin Mo Ang Langit or Losing Heaven is a Philippine drama produced by GMA Network and stars Carla Abellana, Michelle Madrigal and Mike Tan. Created by RJ Nuevas and directed by Jay Altarejos, it premiered last September 19, 2011, replacing Sisid in GMA's afternoon prime block. It is aired worldwide with a three-day delay on GMA Pinoy TV.

The series concluded on February 3, 2012, it ran for 20 weeks with 100 episodes in all. It will be replaced by Broken Vow.

The series is currently shown in Vietnam on TodayTV CTV7 as Paradise Lost.

character: Waldy Buenafe

original_name: Kung Aagawin Mo Ang Langit

Bud Brothers Series

character: Filemon "Monty" Geronimo

original_name: Bud Brothers Series

Habang May Buhay

overview: Habang May Buhay is a medical drama series that aired on ABS-CBN. This is the story of a strong-willed nurse who undergoes family, career, and love challenges in the Philippines and the United States.

character: Patrick "Nonoy" Esteban

original_name: Habang May Buhay

You're Mine, Only Mine

overview: You're Mine, Only Mine is the seventh installment of the Precious Hearts Romances Presents TV series. Denise Laurel and Will Devaughn was the star.

character: Alex Moravilla

original_name: You're Mine, Only Mine

Almost Paradise

overview: A former DEA agent forced into early retirement runs a gift shop in in the Philippines. Despite his best efforts to begin a tranquil new life, he’s pulled back into a world of dangerous people and deadly situations, either through his friends in the local police department or running into people from his old life. And the problem is: he likes it.

character: Jimmy Teo

original_name: Almost Paradise

Rainbow Prince

overview: It is the story of Prince Zeyn, a young and audacious prince who is destined for a path filled with adventure, soul searching, and true love. His journey leads to magical moments, new relationships, and the most challenging decision of his life -- the decision of his heart over his duty as the future king of Zurbania. Prince Zeyn has to differentiate his reality from fantasy. What is more important, his responsibility to rule a nation or his true heart's desires? Can he find a middle ground or will he be forced to make the ultimate decision?

character: Mr. Wang

original_name: Rainbow Prince

Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition

overview: The celebrity edition of the reality game show "Pinoy Big Brother" features Filipino Celebrity housemates live together, share their stories and build meaningful relationships as they do tasks and challenges supervised by Big Brother. Every week a nomination is done, and the public decides who gets evicted and eventually become the Big Winner of the program.

character: Self - Celebrity Housemate

original_name: Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition

title: Desperadas

overview: The story is about four beautiful half-sisters - Isabella, Courtney, Stephanie and Patricia - who have problems in their personal life. Isabella has issues with commitment, Stephanie is having problems with her husband Richard, Courtney's boyfriend Patrick becomes a Born again Christian and Patricia publishes her new sex book much to the dismay of her husband who's having trouble with their relationship as a couple.

character: Patrick

title: David F.

overview: Black is scientifically the absence of color, but not all who see it is color-blind, figuratively.  David F. weaves three stories that look into the lineage of African-Americans in the Philippines--from American soldiers in the Fil-Am war to the “Amboys” in the former Clark Airfield.  In the course of history, the “F” in “David F.” may spell different levels of discrimination. But would we also admit that we Filipinos are bigots ourselves?

original_title: David F.

title: Layang Bilanggo

overview: An aging assassin hides in a facility for abandoned senior citizens to protect a daughter he left years ago.

character: Frank

original_title: Layang Bilanggo

title: Coronaphobia

character: Arrow

original_title: Coronaphobia

title: Aberya

overview: A Filipino-American boxer on a pleasure trip, a prostitute on a mission, a local drug dealer experimenting with time travel, and a social climber all cross paths in Cebu, the beautiful Philippine southern island, in this deliriously imagined occult superhero movie.

original_title: Aberya

title: Desperadas 2

overview: The story of Desperadas 2 is about four half-sisters - Isabella, Patricia, Stephanie, and Courtney - who have another big problems in their life. They also found out that they have another half-sister, Lugaluda.

original_title: Desperadas 2

title: El Presidente

overview: The film begins with his capture by Philippine and US forces under Frederick Funston's command in 1901, then flashes back to 1886, when an old woman gives Aguinaldo and his childhood friend Candido Tirona cryptic prophecies. Ten years later, Aguinaldo is inducted into the Katipunan and later assumes leadership of its Cavite chapter while becoming mayor of Cavite El Viejo. When the trouble breaks out in Manila in late August 1896, Aguinaldo tries to assure the Spanish provincial government of non-interference and covertly marshals his forces despite a lack of weapons. Learning that the Spanish mostly put their forces in Manila, Aguinaldo finally mobilizes his troops and take the command of the Katipunan forces in Cavite

character: Col. Agapito Bonzon

original_title: El Presidente

title: A Very Special Love

overview: Laida Magtalas is a modern-day Belle who works hard to provide for her family while hoping that someday she will meet her prince charming and that they will live happily ever after together. That would-be prince charming is none other than "Miggy", the youngest member of the Montenegro clan — a well established family in the business world. Moony Laida's desire to finally meet Miggy leads her to apply as an Editorial Assistant at his newly launched men’s magazine, "Bachelor". In spite of the fact that a relationship with Miggy may prove to be a long shot, Laida revels working in such close proximity with the man of her dreams.

character: Cris

original_title: A Very Special Love

title: Bakit Lahat ng Gwapo May Boyfriend?!

overview: Kylie, a wedding planner, has had a string of boyfriends who have all turned out to be gays, including Benj. Eventually, the two became best friends and business partners. When Diego, Benj's childhood friend, resurfaces and asks them to plan his wedding, Kylie sets out to prove that she's right again--that Diego, is indeed another closet case. Will she succeed?

character: Henry

original_title: Bakit Lahat ng Gwapo May Boyfriend?!

title: The National Third Wheel

overview: Trina who has lived her whole life as a third wheel meets the man who passes her standards and believes that this man will finally make her a third wheel no more. As they get to know each other, she finds out she's actually dating a single dad with an 8-year-old boy and he actually has a good relationship with the mother.

original_title: Ang Pambansang Third Wheel

title: I Found My Heart in Santa Fe

overview: Follows the story of Viktor, a German NGO worker whose visit to Santa Fe, Cebu becomes more than just a travel experience when he meets the beautiful local, Jennifer. However, the islander is still reeling from her previous relationship, and she’s quite unable to acknowledge her instant connection to Viktor. Are things going to end well between them?

character: Viktor

original_title: I Found My Heart in Santa Fe

title: Siargao

overview: Fresh from a breakup caused by her fear of settling down, video blogger Laura embarks on a solo trip to Siargao hoping to move on and find a new adventure. Here she meets rock singer Diego who is caught between uncertainties of the future and baggages of the past. This fateful encounter stirs up what local entrepreneur Abi thought were long lost feelings for a long lost love, i.e. Diego.  In this unlikely triangle, is there room for second chances? Or should they move on to something(one) new?

original_title: Siargao

title: Single/Single: Love Is Not Enough

overview: It picks up where the series left off in its final episode as the relationship of Joee and Joey moves on to the next level. Joee is about to give birth while Joey remains in love with her and tries to become a responsible foster father.

original_title: Single/Single: Love Is Not Enough

title: Blood Hunters: Rise of the Hybrids

overview: An avenging aswang killer teams up with a hybrid and a team of demon hunters to attack the lair of the most powerful underworld warlords, only to find themselves in a twisted trap and a fight to the death.

character: Mario

original_title: Blood Hunters: Rise of the Hybrids

title: Water Wars

overview: Catastrophic war, destroyed ecosystem, brink of extinction. War for the most valuable treasure of the time: water.

character: Jared

original_title: Water Wars

title: Showdown in Manila

overview: The film unfolds in Manila, Philippines, and in the jungles of the island of Boracay on a tropical island in the privacy of living Russian middle-aged man (Alexander Newsky). But the quiet life interrupted by the murder of one of the locals. In order to protect the daughter of the slain Filipino bandits Russian guy have to remember the past, he tried to bury.

character: VCU Member (uncredited)

original_title: Showdown in Manila

place_of_birth: Germany

title: Desperadas

media_type: movie

title: David F.

title: Layang Bilanggo

title: Coronaphobia

title: Aberya

title: Desperadas 2

title: El Presidente

title: A Very Special Love

title: Bakit Lahat ng Gwapo May Boyfriend?!

title: The National Third Wheel

title: I Found My Heart in Santa Fe

title: Siargao

title: Single/Single: Love Is Not Enough

title: Blood Hunters: Rise of the Hybrids

title: Water Wars

title: Showdown in Manila


Joseph Gilgun

biography:
Joseph William Gilgun (born 9 March 1984) is an English actor known for several roles, including that of Vinnie O'Neill in the Sky One series Brassic, Eli Dingle in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, Jamie Armstrong in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, Woody in the film This Is England (2006) and its subsequent spin-off series, and Rudy Wade in E4's Misfits. From 2016 to 2019, he starred in the AMC television adaptation of the Vertigo comic Preacher as the Irish vampire Cassidy.

Gilgun was born in Chorley, Lancashire, to Judith and Andrew Gilgun. He grew up in Rivington, Lancashire, as part of a working-class family with his two younger sisters, Jennie Seddon and Rosie Thomson. Gilgun attended Rivington VA Primary School and Southlands High School. He has dyslexia and ADHD, which he describes as the "biggest pain of [his] life" and in interviews has openly discussed depression and anxiety. He started drama workshops at the age of eight, following advice from an educational psychologist, and was described as having "exceptional talent". He also trained at the Laine Johnson Theatre School and the Oldham Theatre Workshop. When he was 10, he got his first TV acting role in Coronation Street. He stayed with the show until he was thirteen years old.

Gilgun studied A-Levels at Runshaw College. Outside of odd jobs and a few roles in small theatre productions, Gilgun worked as a plasterer until returning to acting full-time with Emmerdale in 2006.

Emmerdale

overview: The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.

character: Eli Dingle

original_name: Emmerdale

Misfits

overview: When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught in a strange storm, they discover that they have developed superpowers.

character: Rudy Wade

original_name: Misfits

This Is England '86

overview: It's 1986 - the year Maradona ends England's World Cup dreams in Mexico; the year Top Gun is the highest grossing film; the year over 3.4 million Brits are unemployed and the year Shaun is leaving school.

character: Richard 'Woody' Woodford

original_name: This Is England '86

This Is England '90

overview: Shaun, Harvey, Gadget, Trev and Kelly hit up the nightlife of raves and ecstasy. Woody and Lol are happy, living together with their kids and Combo is still in prison. But things slowly change. This is the year 1990 and This is England.

original_name: This Is England '90

This Is England '88

overview: Set during Christmas 1988, Lol is haunted by the devastating events that took place two and a half years before. She and Woody both find themselves struggling to cope with their lives without each other after he leaves the gang. Lol is carrying the burden of her guilt, whilst Woody is trying to build a domestic life with a new girlfriend and a potential promotion at work. Shaun has started drama college and, although still in a relationship with Smell, he has grown close to a girl performing in his Christmas play.

original_name: This Is England '88

origin_country: GB US

Preacher

overview: A preacher sets out on a mission to make the almighty himself confess his sin of abandoning the world. With his best friend Cassidy, an alcoholic Irish vampire, his love Tulip, a red blooded gun towing Texan, and the power of genesis, an unholy child born from an angel and a devil, Jesse gives up everything to set the world straight with its creator.

character: Cassidy

original_name: Preacher

Ripper Street

overview: A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.

character: Carmichael

original_name: Ripper Street

Brassic

overview: A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in suburban northern England. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way.

character: Vincent "Vinnie" O'Neill

original_name: Brassic

Sorted

overview: Sorted is a six-part BBC television comedy-drama series about the personal and professional lives of several postmen. It initially broadcast in 2006 on BBC One and BBC HD. Created by Danny Brocklehurst, the series, set in Manchester but filmed in Stockport, stars Neil Dudgeon, Will Mellor, Hugo Speer, Cal MacAninch, and Dean Lennox Kelly.

character: Mechanic

original_name: Sorted

Shameless

overview: The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help and find it in Steve, a young middle class lad who falls for Fiona, the oldest sibling, and increasingly finds himself drawn to this unconventional and unique family. Anarchic family life seen through the eyes of an exceptionally bright fifteen year old, who struggles to come of age in the context of his belligerent father, closeted brother, psychotic sister and internet porn star neighbors.

character: Rico

original_name: Shameless

Brassic

job: Creator

department: Crew

department: Creator

twitter_id: joegilgunactor

instagram_id: gilgunjoe

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

Italiano

biography: Joseph Gilgun è nato il 9 marzo 1984 a Chorley, nel Lancashire, in Inghilterra. È un attore che è apparso per la prima volta in Coronation Street (1960) quando aveva solo dieci anni. Più tardi divenne noto attraverso Valle di luna (1972) e il film This Is England (2006).

iso_639_1: it

iso_3166_1: IT

english_name: Italian

Français

biography: Il est un acteur anglais né le 9 mars 1984. Il est connu principalement pour ses rôles de Woody dans le film This Is England, Rudy Wade dans la série Misfits et Cassidy dans la série Preacher

iso_639_1: fr

iso_3166_1: FR

english_name: French

普通话

约瑟夫·吉尔根

biography: 约瑟夫·威廉·吉尔根（Joseph William Gilgun，1984年3月9日-）是一位英国演员

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: CN

english_name: Mandarin

普通话

約瑟夫·吉爾根

biography: 約瑟夫·威廉·吉爾根（Joseph William Gilgun，1984 年 3 月 9 日-）是一位英國演員

iso_3166_1: HK

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

title: This Is England

overview: A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.

character: Woody

original_title: This Is England

title: Top of the Range

overview: Two homeless men stumble across a "top of the range" cooker.

character: Joe

original_title: Top of the Range

title: Lockout

overview: Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security prison.

character: Hydell

original_title: Lockout

title: Henry

overview: Harassed single parent Karen lives with her two year old son Henry and gets no help from the child's father. Lack of childcare costs her a job interview and she goes to a park,leaving Henry with Anna,another mother whilst she goes for a drink. In the bar she picks up Martin and goes home with him for - unsatisfactory - sex but on returning to the park she finds Anna has called the police to whom she must give her address. This turns out to be a blessing in disguise when Martin follows her home and proves to be a potentially sympathetic friend.

character: Martin

original_title: Henry

title: Tennis

overview: When Mary returns home from her weekly game of tennis, she encounters Jerry in the midst of robbing her. Not knowing what will happen to her, she resorts to her only defence; to talk to him. However what begins from a trivial conversation quickly turns into an intriguing confrontation where both Jerry and Mary learn a few truths about each other. Based on a true story.

character: Jerry

original_title: Tennis

title: Vegas Baby!

original_title: Vegas Baby!

title: Pride

overview: In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.

character: Mike

original_title: Pride

title: The Infiltrator

overview: A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.

character: Dominic

original_title: The Infiltrator

title: The Last Witch Hunter

overview: The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family.

character: Ellic

original_title: The Last Witch Hunter

title: Harry Brown

overview: An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.

character: Kenny

original_title: Harry Brown

title: Big Dippers

overview: Two small time crooks steal a briefcase and are amazed to find it contains £2million. But when it seems that the money was going to be used to pay the ransom for a kidnapped boy they try to get the money back to the owner.

character: Carl

original_title: Big Dippers

place_of_birth: Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK

title: This Is England

title: Top of the Range

title: Lockout

title: Henry

title: Tennis

title: Vegas Baby!

title: Pride

title: The Infiltrator

title: The Last Witch Hunter

title: Harry Brown

title: Big Dippers


Daniel Talbott

Law & Order

overview: In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

character: Bryce Moore

original_name: Law & Order

title: Pretty Bird

overview: A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of American dreams and delusions.

character: Hustler (uncredited)

original_title: Pretty Bird

title: Dreaming American

character: Man's at bar

original_title: Dreaming American

original_language: fr

title: Bong of the Living Dead

overview: A group of friends and zombie movie buffs have their life long dream come true. As their provisions run low, reality begins to set in and they realize that the zombie apocalypse isn't all it's cracked up to be.

character: Emily

original_title: Bong of the Living Dead

job: Director

title: Light

overview: An intimate, raw character study of a conservative, gay young man, tormented by the unconditional love of his husband. After an unfathomable act of violence, he finds his way to a desolate church parking lot, and possibly to the end of his own road.

department: Directing

original_title: Light

job: Producer

title: Light

department: Production

job: Screenplay

title: Light

department: Writing

title: Midday Black Midnight Blue

overview: On Whidbey Island, a grieving man is haunted by his memories and spirals closer to a breakdown two decades after the death of the woman he loved.

original_title: Midday Black Midnight Blue

title: Telling Time

overview: Ten months into the pandemic, day is for sleeping and night is for wandering alone and aimless on the east side of Los Angeles. A young man reminisces about the loss of a great love, his tidal thoughts spilling out like water. A spare, meditative study on the unending isolation of Covid19.

original_title: Telling Time

title: Midday Black Midnight Blue

job: Writer

title: Midday Black Midnight Blue

job: Executive Producer

title: Mike & Seth

overview: When Seth, the best man, arrives to town for Mike and Emily's wedding, the boys spend one last night alone. Seth is haunted by memories of his and Mike's complicated past. The night reveals secrets, privilege, and fear of what's to come. Are we deserving of our desires if we can't face our betrayals?

original_title: Mike & Seth

title: My Age Now

overview: A young gay man wrestles with the end of a life-changing romance.

original_title: My Age Now

title: My Age Now

title: Soft Animal

overview: When Noam, a 36-year-old queer romantic stuck in a tidy-loving-but-kinda-stagnant relationship, reconnects with a younger ex living off the grid, he's pulled into a hot, hazy journey of passion, memory, and rediscovering desire.

original_title: Soft Animal

title: Soft Animal

title: Birdwatching

overview: By a stream in the woods – a place between worlds – two women find each other ankle-deep in the water, letting go of what's past and wondering what will come.

original_title: Birdwatching

title: Birdwatching

title: Like Lightning

overview: This film captures an erotic memory, where intimacy is illuminated only by the dramatic, available light of a thunderstorm. It is a short piece dedicated to the power of atmosphere and the intensity of connection under volatile skies.

original_title: Like Lightning

title: Welcome to Tool Shed

overview: At the long-standing Palm Springs gay bar Tool Shed—a desert oasis for leather-loving, sex-positive seniors—a generation who once faced the HIV/AIDS epidemic and decades of oppression find themselves trailblazers again as the first openly LGBTQ+ seniors.

original_title: Welcome to Tool Shed

title: Until the Time We Die

overview: Taylor lives on his own in the house where he was raised, his parents both gone. He travels far out of New Orleans each week to care for his wayward older brother Cody — their family, a tightly closed island of two. When his brother makes a decision that breaks open his life and leaves Taylor utterly alone, he emerges from the smallness of his existence and ventures into the chaos and swirl of the French Quarter and greater New Orleans, whose eclectic inhabitants, lost souls, and fellow travelers will either drown him or help him toward some new shore of possibility.

original_title: Until the Time We Die

title: Until the Time We Die

title: Until the Time We Die

title: Pretty Bird

title: Dreaming American

title: Bong of the Living Dead

title: Light

title: Light

title: Light

title: Midday Black Midnight Blue

title: Telling Time

title: Midday Black Midnight Blue

title: Midday Black Midnight Blue

title: Mike & Seth

title: My Age Now

title: My Age Now

title: Soft Animal

title: Soft Animal

title: Birdwatching

title: Birdwatching

title: Like Lightning

title: Welcome to Tool Shed

title: Until the Time We Die

title: Until the Time We Die

title: Until the Time We Die


István Szabó

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

István Szabó (born 18 February 1938, Budapest) is a Hungarian film director.

Description above from the Wikipedia article István Szabó, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Through the Night with...

overview:
Durch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for Franco-German television channel ARTE. Locations are mainly in France or Germany.

The title of the French version is Au cœur de la nuit.

Two Celebrities spend an filmed evening together. One of them is the host who sets the location and the program. There is no moderator.

character: Self

original_name: Durch die Nacht mit …

original_language: de

German Film Award

original_name: Deutscher Filmpreis

Gero von Boehm begegnet...

original_name: Gero von Boehm begegnet...

The Oscars

overview: An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.

original_name: The Oscars

Lebensläufe

original_name: Lebensläufe

Deutsch

István Szabó

biography: István Szabó ist ein ungarischer Filmregisseur. 1982 wurde sein Spielfilm Mephisto mit dem Oscar in der Kategorie Bester fremdsprachiger Film ausgezeichnet.

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

한국어/조선말

iso_639_1: ko

iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

Magyar

iso_639_1: hu

iso_3166_1: HU

english_name: Hungarian

普通话

伊什特万·萨博

biography: 伊什特万·萨博（1938年2月18日生于布达佩斯）是一位匈牙利电影导演。

普通话

伊什特萬·薩博

biography: 伊什特萬·薩博（1938 年 2 月 18 日生於布達佩斯）是一位匈牙利電影導演。

title: Shem

overview: Daniel, an arrogant, restless young Londoner is bored with his meaningless life. He seeks sympathy from his old Jewish grandmother, who sends him on a mission to Europe to find the grave of her father who disappeared during World War II.

character: Elijah

original_title: Shem

title: Pictures of Europe

overview: What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between American independent and Hollywood movies and films from European directors.  Featuring luminary iconoclasts from European cinema such as Agnes Varda, Bernardo Bertolucci and Pedro Almodovar, as well as American counterpoints from Paul Schrader, and those who have crossed back and forth, such as Paul Verhoeven

original_title: Pictures of Europe

title: Stand off

overview: In a border town two sons of the local commander using stolen arms take hostages of eighteen girls in a dormitory, because they want to go West by plane.

original_title: Túsztörténet

original_language: hu

title: Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

overview: From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany. A look at the life and work of the couple without whom Arsenal and the Forum wouldn’t exist.

original_title: Komm mit mir in das Cinema – Die Gregors

title: The naked face

overview: István Szabó and Klaus Maria Brandauer talk about cinema, the repercussions of World War II, art and their films Mephisto (1981) and Colonel Redl (1985). Included in the extras of the DVD version of Mephisto.

character: Himself

original_title: The naked face

title: Franz Antel - Meister der Unterhaltung

overview: A documentary directed by Wolfgang Liemberger.

original_title: Franz Antel - Meister der Unterhaltung

title: Mephisto

overview: A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.

character: Theatre Party Attendant (uncredited)

original_title: Mephisto

title: CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

overview: An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.

original_title: CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

original_language: cs

title: I Served the King of England

overview: Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always discreet and use what he learns to his own advantage; but the turbulent tides of history will continually stand in his way.

character: Millionaire #7

original_title: Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále

title: To Make a Comedy Is No Fun

overview: Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica, István Szabó and others.

original_title: To Make a Comedy Is No Fun

title: Taking Sides

overview: One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.

original_title: Taking Sides

title: Mephisto

title: Mephisto

title: Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe

overview: The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. They don't want to lose their place and become village girls again.

original_title: Édes Emma, drága Böbe - vázlatok, aktok

title: Colonel Redl

overview: Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.

original_title: Oberst Redl

title: Hanussen

overview: A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?

original_title: Hanussen

title: Father

overview: When young Tako's father dies in Hungary in 1945, Tako is left with scant memories of him. Nurtured by his mother, the boy fantasizes about the man his father was, imagining him a hero. Grown into a man himself, Tako falls for a Jewish refugee, Anni. Burdened by her own heritage as a Jew, Anni sparks in Tako a desire to find out what his father was really like, and he delves into the role his father played in World War II.

original_title: Apa

title: Father

title: Sunshine

overview: The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

original_title: Sunshine

title: Sunshine

title: Confidence

overview: Janos and Kata are thrown together during the Second World War and forced to pose as husband and wife to hide from the Nazis. The intensity and suffocating intimacy of their new relationship and the circumstances in which they find themselves, forces them to confront past prejudices and assumptions and challenge what they truly believe.

title: Being Julia

overview: Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous.  She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye.  Julia finds exactly what she's looking for in a handsome young American fan, but it isn't long before the novelty fling adds a few more sparks than she was hoping for.  Fortuately for her, this surprise twist in the plot will thrust her back into the greatest role of her life.

title: The Door

overview: Emerenc, an elderly and private woman, is hired to be the housekeeper of a struggling writer, Magda. An event in the writer's life prompts Emerenc to disclose details of her traumatizing past, which will bond the two women forever. Based on the novel by Magda Szabó.

title: The Door

title: Lovefilm

overview: A story of two young people in Hungary, Jancsi and Kata. First they are good friends, later lovers. Soon after the 1956 Revolution Kata leaves Hungary, Jancsi stays there. After 10 years Jancsi is allowed to visit Kata in France, their love is reborn, but after a short, very happy period Jancsi has to return to Hungary and their love fades as years have gone by.

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

overview: Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth.

title: Meeting Venus

overview: Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Amidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love.

title: Budapest Tales

overview: "Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken down tram while trying to go to the city. The people band together and try to get the tram back on the train tracks and head towards the city.  Along this journey the passengers encounter many people who join them on the tram. What started out as only a handful of people has now turned into a small village.  As the people travel on to the city each person takes on certain roles and through the course of time these roles will change. Some people fall in love, others out of love, and a few even die. But life goes on. The people keep the tram going hoping to reach Budapest.

title: Budapest Tales

title: City Map

overview: Through the personal memories of István Szabó we can became the observers of the life of Budapest.

title: The Concert

overview: Koncert is a 1962 Hungarian short film directed by István Szabó. In the film, several beach-goers have a go at playing creating an impromptu concert. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

title: A Dream of a House

title: A Hetedik napon

overview: A young priest visits a barber's shop to get shaved. When he leans back and closes his eyes, the barbers decide to play a prank on him. Instead of a male barber they let a female hairdresser take care of the shaving. When the priest feels her soft fingers on his skin, he opens his eyes and sees the woman. He cannot do anything but stay in the chair, as he has shaving cream all around his chin. The woman continues the shaving in a rather sensual way. When the priest leaves the barber's shop, he looks disconcerted.

title: Rokonok

overview: Young honest public official is sworn in after his predecessor had to leave due to a corruption scandal. Soon, the young idealist discovers just how far-reaching the corruption is in his town and how easy it is to become corrupt yourself.

title: Age of Illusions

overview: Jancsi is part of a closely knit gang of young engineers. They see the older engineers as mediocre, and have grand ideas about developing new inventions together. With changing living conditions the five friends start to grow apart. At a party Jancsi suddenly meets Éva Halk. They fall in love, and find common memories in the engagement in The Pioneer Railway at the age of 12.

title: 25 Fireman's Street

overview: On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated for demolition restlessly revisit their haunted pasts as they face an uncertain future. In a gently turning kaleidoscope of dream imagery, regret-laden nostalgia and painstakingly intimate detail, the looming wrecking ball pales in significance to the accumulated experiences each dreamer revisits. Pre-war prejudice, occupying Nazis and Stalinist deprivations all come and go as each tenant’s backward glance yields moments of aching sensuality, infectious exuberance and catastrophic loss.

title: Age of Illusions

title: Lovefilm

title: Death Waltz

overview: From a policewoman broken leg seems completely slip out of the soil. Life-threatening love triangle mixed with her husband and their criminal friends.

title: Budapest, amiért szeretem

overview: István Szabó reveals a lesser-known side to the public in this work, which strings together eight shorts of Budapest into a single movie. In the piece interpretable as a declaration of love addressed to the capital there are numerous motifs that are also to be found woven through the director’s major features, first and foremost Szerelmesfilm (Love Film), Tűzoltó utca 25. (25 Fireman’s Street) and Budapesti mesék (Budapest Tales). Besides allowing the viewer to marvel at the cityscape from 50 years ago in a series of fast-moving images, the film is still primarily about Szabó’s Budapest: his observations, his impressions, his imagination.

title: You

overview: A playful portrait of a young woman who merrily roams the streets of Budapest. A New Wave love letter in motion.

title: Tér

title: Bali

title: Hanussen

title: Confidence

title: Confidence

title: Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe

title: The Green Bird

overview: The love story between a German cancer researcher and her Polish colleague that drags on for more than ten years. Both are married, which rules out marriage, but fuels their passion, as they only see each other a few days a year at medical congresses.

title: Dialogue

overview: The film depicts the period between 1945-60 through the life of a communist couple. Barna Judit, just released from a concentration camp and Horváth László, with an illegal past are brought together by the communist movement. They study and make plans together in the hope of a future that will make sense. The marriage they just entered, however, gets ruined soon by the events of history.

title: Sunshine

title: The Door

title: Ten Minutes After

overview: Hungarian director Istvan Szabo with "Ten minutes after" tells the family drama of a wife who is about to celebrate her husband's 40th birthday. Ten minutes later... the idyllic family atmosphere has completely changed.

title: The Green Bird

title: Cat's Game

overview: Erzsi, living alone in Budapest, keeps up phone and letter contact with her sister Gisa in Germany. Both elderly, they’ve long grown apart in how they face aging: Gisa accepts it, while Erzsi tries to hold on to youth, encouraged by her friend Paula and by Viktor, an aging opera singer and former lover.

title: Rokonok

title: A Theme with Variations

overview: This film of three parts recalls memories from World War II. The titles of the parts are: Impartially, Terrified and Like a scream.

title: A Theme with Variations

title: 25 Fireman's Street

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

title: Final Report

overview: A cardiologist is sent into retirement, but he feels at loss without his work. He returns to his home village to work as a general practitioner. This is the start of his ordeal: he's confronted with raw reality, which finally brings him to his knees. But music has the last word.

title: Final Report

title: Meeting Venus

title: A Dream of a House

title: Bali

title: You

title: You

title: Délibáb minden mennyiségben

title: Offenbach's Secret

overview: Academy Award winner Istvan Szabo brings to the screen Offenbach's operettas set against the backdrop of power and intrigue in 19th century Paris. Offenbach's Secret follows the staging of Croquefer and Les deux Aveugles at the Theatre des Bouffes-Parisiens founded by Offenbach in 1855. Limited by French law to one act  with no more than three singers, Offenbach's early operettas were filled with biting social commentary and poked fun at the moral ambiguity of France's Second Empire under Napoleon III. In addition to Offenbach's vivacious music, the film features lush costumes, period details, and striking set designs.

title: Kegyelet

title: From Europe Into Europe

overview: A collective film made by ten prominent Hungarian filmmakers to express what each of them wishes to bring with them of their own culture and personal experience with Hungary's accession to the European Union.

title: Embers

overview: Once inseparable friends, Henrik and Konrad reconnect decades after Konrad’s mysterious disappearance and uncovers over the course of one evening the secret that tore them apart—and the woman at the center of it.

title: Shem

title: Pictures of Europe

title: Stand off

title: The naked face

title: Franz Antel - Meister der Unterhaltung

title: Mephisto

title: CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

title: I Served the King of England

title: To Make a Comedy Is No Fun

title: Taking Sides

title: Mephisto

title: Mephisto

title: Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe

title: Colonel Redl

title: Hanussen

title: Father

title: Father

title: Sunshine

title: Sunshine

title: Confidence

title: Being Julia

title: The Door

title: The Door

title: Lovefilm

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

title: Meeting Venus

title: Budapest Tales

title: Budapest Tales

title: City Map

title: The Concert

title: A Dream of a House

title: A Hetedik napon

title: Rokonok

title: 25 Fireman's Street

title: Age of Illusions

title: Age of Illusions

title: Lovefilm

title: Death Waltz

title: Budapest, amiért szeretem

title: You

title: Tér

title: Bali

title: Hanussen

title: Confidence

title: Confidence

title: Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe

title: The Green Bird

title: Dialogue

title: Sunshine

title: The Door

title: Ten Minutes After

title: The Green Bird

title: Cat's Game

title: Rokonok

title: A Theme with Variations

title: A Theme with Variations

title: 25 Fireman's Street

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

title: Final Report

title: Final Report

title: Meeting Venus

title: Bali

title: A Dream of a House

title: You

title: You

title: Délibáb minden mennyiségben

title: Offenbach's Secret

title: Kegyelet

title: From Europe Into Europe

title: Embers