Sunshine Cruz

Acting

Sunshine Cruz

Born July 18, 1977 · Manila, Philippines (age 49)

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Known For

The Color of AshThe Color of Ash · 2019
The Color of Ash
10.02019
MovieDramaRomance
A pessimistic uninspired middle-aged artist finds spark with a millennial photographer who leads her on a path of creative and sexual reawakening.
The HeiressThe Heiress · 2019
The Heiress
2.92019
MovieHorror
The Heiress centers on the story of Luna, a mambabarang or a powerful demon sorceress, who will stop at nothing to keep to herself her young niece, Guia.
Greatest PerformanceGreatest Performance
Greatest Performance
MovieDramaMystery
During a film shoot where abuse is disguised as artistic direction, a comeback actress commits a devastating performance to survive, exposing how cinema can construct and legitimize violence. In Ang Lihim ni Teresa (Teresa's Secret), she enters a set where authority is absolute and cruelty is framed as discipline. As production unfolds, she loses control over body, emotion, and authorship, where survival is mistaken for consent. When violence escalates, she chooses to live, burying the truth as the director’s collapse is rewritten as myth. The set becomes a crime scene without witnesses. In the aftermath, she is praised for her “courage” while a sound technician retreats into silence. At a commemorative screening, celebration fractures, revealing cinema’s ability to transform violence into narrative and absolution. The myth of the Kataw appears briefly through Ang Lihim ng Kataw (The Secret of Kataw).
EkisEkis · 1999
Ekis
3.71999
MovieDramaAction
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.
Sex In Philippine Cinema 1Sex In Philippine Cinema 1 · 2004
Sex In Philippine Cinema 1
4.92004
MovieDocumentary
Arouse your curiosity. Take off your inhibitions. Disrobe your desires. Soak up in the most steamy scenes ever to scorch the screens. Revel on Rosanna, Sizzle with Sunshine. Jack it up with Joyce. Risk it with Rica. Mash it with Maui. Pant over Patricia. Go booba over Rufa. This is raunchfest at its best with the flaming femmes of the Philippine moviedom.
An Affair to ForgetAn Affair to Forget · 2022
An Affair to Forget
3.62022
MovieDramaThriller
A wife seeks the help of a young woman to find out if her husband is having an affair. The plot thickens when the young woman falls for the husband instead
BiktimaBiktima · 2012
Biktima
2012
MovieThrillerDrama
A female TV reporter, Alice is thought dead from an ambush in Southern Philippines. Just when her husband Mark moves on with his life, Alice is found alive.
Init ng LamanInit ng Laman · 1998
Init ng Laman
3.31998
MovieDrama
Init ng laman: Directed by Tata Esteban. With Sunshine Cruz, Toffee Calma, John Apacible, Melissa Mendez.

Filmography

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Greatest Performance
MovieDramaMystery
During a film shoot where abuse is disguised as artistic direction, a comeback actress commits a devastating performance to survive, exposing how cinema can construct and legitimize violence. In Ang Lihim ni Teresa (Teresa's Secret), she enters a set where authority is absolute and cruelty is framed as discipline. As production unfolds, she loses control over body, emotion, and authorship, where survival is mistaken for consent. When violence escalates, she chooses to live, burying the truth as the director’s collapse is rewritten as myth. The set becomes a crime scene without witnesses. In the aftermath, she is praised for her “courage” while a sound technician retreats into silence. At a commemorative screening, celebration fractures, revealing cinema’s ability to transform violence into narrative and absolution. The myth of the Kataw appears briefly through Ang Lihim ng Kataw (The Secret of Kataw).

Yvonne Rivera

El PresidenteEl Presidente · 2012
El Presidente
6.52012
MovieActionWar
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

Gregoria de Jesús

Pure LovePure Love · 2014
Pure Love
10.02014
SeriesDramaComedy
This is the story of Diane (Alex Gonzaga), an optimistic rich girl who seems to have everything; and Ysabel (Yen Santos), an average working girl who led a rather ‘lifeless’ life since her boyfriend died. One day, because of an accident, Diane and Ysabel’s fates became entwined. In her state of coma, Diane discovered through the mysterious “Scheduler” (Matt Evans) that she was not destined to die yet. Then she will be given a second chance at life, that is, after completing a special task–to gather three “pure” teardrops shed out of pure love by three people outside her family within the next 40 days. To help her accomplish her task, Scheduler gives Diane the chance to inhabit the body of Ysabel. Will Dianne and Ysabel succeed in bringing their lives back after the 40-day ordeal fate has put them through?

Lorraine Santos

Kapag Nahati ang PusoKapag Nahati ang Puso · 2018
Kapag Nahati ang Puso
2018
SeriesDrama

Rosario "Rio" Matias-del Valle / Rio Fonacier-del Valle