Emmanuel Dela Cruz

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Emmanuel Dela Cruz

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Bar Boys: After SchoolBar Boys: After School · 2025
Bar Boys: After School
2025
MovieDrama
Set ten years after the events of the first film, the story explores the impact of time on institutions, relationships, and individuals, delivering a poignant yet inspiring tale about the invisible costs of pursuing one's dreams.
HyphenHyphen · 2024
Hyphen
2024
MovieDramaRomance
While creating the subtitles of a film, a young Filipina translator and a middle-aged Japanese director test the limits of language and understanding.
ManongManong · 2026
Manong
2026
MovieDocumentary
For over forty years, Manong Edwin has scrubbed, swept, and served in the Malacañang of the North - witnessing the rise, fall, and return of the Marcos dynasty. In the quiet repetition of his labor lies a searing reflection of the Filipino worker: loyal yet forgotten, diligent yet dispensable, ever-present yet erased.
MelancholiaMelancholia · 2008
Melancholia
★ 7.22008
MovieDrama
Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies. Each attempts to process those they lost during the Marcos dictatorship while examining their own grief.
If You Are But a DreamIf You Are But a Dream · 2002
If You Are But a Dream
★ 3.72002
MovieDramaFamily
Rosalie rides the MRT everyday and she becomes infatuated with the handsome man on the billboard. She talks to his picture intently every day until to her surprise the image comes to life. At the same time she meets MRT driver Eric who she finds agreeable. Will she go for her dream or wake up to reality?
Zombadings 1: Patayin sa Shokot si RemingtonZombadings 1: Patayin sa Shokot si Remington · 2011
Zombadings 1: Patayin sa Shokot si Remington
★ 4.92011
MovieComedyHorror
A boy cursed to turn gay when he grows up must sort out his feelings for the girl he loves and the boy – his best friend – he is suddenly lusting after, come to terms with his homophobia, and escape a psycho gay killer on the loose.
KamadoraKamadora · 2023
Kamadora
★ 2.62023
MovieDrama
Ica works as a sales lady in a department store. With her charm and sex appeal, she gets the attention of her male boss. But unknown to everyone, a dark persona lies under her beautiful face.
CinemartyrsCinemartyrs · 2025
Cinemartyrs
2025
MovieDrama
A young filmmaker is bent on recreating forgotten massacres from Philippine history, but when she begins shooting at a site where 1,000 men, women, and children were slaughtered, angry spirits are awakened and the lives of her team and the local villagers are put in peril.

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If Only Love Has Chosen MeIf Only Love Has Chosen Me · 2003
If Only Love Has Chosen Me
★ 8.32003
MovieComedyRomance
Emmy and Vince started out as casual friends in their college barkada until parallel events in their lives drew them closer to later become the best of friends. This is despite their opposite personalities Emmy is driven in her career and domineering among her friends but possesses a heart of gold, while Vince is the ever-cool type of guy who has this laid-back attitude towards life. Although not being physically close to and not constantly communicating with each other for extended periods of time, they manage to affect and influence each other's lives over the years until they find themselves falling in love with each other. Fearful of losing the friendship they have invested much on, they choose not to let the other know of their true feelings.. until much later on.

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