Mercedes Cabral

Desperada follows a deeply traumatized young woman rescued from the streets and brought to a shelter for the mentally ill, where—amid broken souls and painful pasts—she discovers healing and unexpected love that proves even the most damaged hearts can still hope.

A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend.

A suspicious wife follows her husband in Bali. She meets a dashing man who captures her heart. She soon wants her husband to really have an affair to alleviate the guilt she is feeling.

“Ang Bangkay” (The Embalmer) tells the story of the Corintho family who owns a funeral business. The story begins with the death of the matriarch, Milagros, leaving Isabel to deal with the responsibility of dealing with the errands in the family business and the household left behind by her mom.

Surrounded by a string of deaths, an older woman relives her romance with a mysterious, ageless lover as an inspector closes in on their dark secret.

A young woman finds work on a wealthy couple’s farm, but is asked to provide the ultimate service: to serve as a surrogate mother. As her pregnancy progresses, the husband’s growing sexual attachment intensifies.

A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.

To avoid losing custody of her six-year-old daughter in Manila, Luz, an undocumented Filipina cleaner working in a luxury Swiss ski resort, must earn money at any cost – even if it means transgressing her own moral limits.

A young couple's romance is cut short when the man learns that his woman is married. Meanwhile, an unhappily married husband meets a lonely teacher and they share an illicit affair.

A struggling family owns a Filipino porn theater where prostitutes conduct their business.

A Bajau midwife copes with the irony of her own infertility amid the deprivations of her gypsy community in Tawi-Tawi. A saga of island life stuck between the devil of passion and the deep blue sea of tradition.

It tells the story of Maria, a young woman who appears only during the full moon. She falls for a man named Danilo, and their love is tested through time, because for Danilo, decades have passed, but for Maria, it has only been a few moments.

Playtime’s cosmopolitan spectacle, presented in a kaleidoscopic montage across seven large screens, interconnects the lives of its archetypical characters—hedge fund managers and art world players in London; a photographer in Reykjavik; and a Filipina houseworker in Dubai—each of whom is based on a real-life individual directly affected by the market collapse.

Daniel and Cynthia, a young couple with a child on the way, experience some hard times in Manila. They head back to Baguio, where Daniel is originally from, to start over again. Through the kindness of Alex, Daniel's well-to-do childhood friend, they get to stay in a large house, rent-free; and he gets a job offer as well. Everything seems to be falling into place for them - or so they think - until strange things start to happen in their house.

When Elise falls in love, she decides to stop being an escort. But her manipulative mother won’t let her and would make her life more chaotic.

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.

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.

Gayuma is a magical love story going beyond the boundaries of social class, religious and superstitious beliefs, and urban-rural prejudices. A failed exorcism of a statue of the Child Jesus led a poor sacristan, Delfin, to concoct a love potion to make Carla, a rich girl, fall for him. After Carla drinks the potion and assents to his advances, Delfin couldn't believe his luck until he is no longer certain whether Carla really loves him. Delfin descends into a deep sleep of paranoia, from which medial science couldn't wake him. Carla goes on a pilgrimage to the heart of a mountain to overturn the potion. A possessed statue of a Child Jesus stands between them. Will their faith bring them together or keep them apart?

Actress Eugene Domingo plays a fictionalized version of herself as an actress who really wants to be a director. Unfortunately, she encounters the most enormous stumbling block of all: her ego.

A forbidden affair of a married sluttish girl named Maya and an equally promiscuous police officer named Virgo. They meet in an abandoned house not far from the city and undertake the forbidden act of sexual congress. Little did they know that Maya's husband Jake is nearby waiting for an opportunity to kill the lover of his wife.

Ma’ Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor section of Manila where everybody knows her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested. Rosa’s children are ready to do anything to buy their parents’ freedom from the corrupt police.

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.

In the 1940s, Anna, Doris, and Ditas are patients afflicted with Hansen’s Disease (or widely known as leprosy) who live in Culion at a time when the disease is practically a life sentence. No cure has yet been found, and no one is allowed to leave.

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.

A young man rises to be one of the biggest outlaws in the neighborhood while he navigates his way in life to survive in Quiapo. Hoping to earn the affection of his parents, his feat draws him closer to the truth about his identity.

One fateful night, two girls die in an accident but miraculously come back to life at the same time. Bro crosses the paths of Mira, a blind orphan girl, and Joy, a misunderstood teenager, and leads them to renew the faith community of a small town called Hermoso. In the course of their mission to rebuild the church, they also uncover the secret of their identity.

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.

A four-part erotic anthology series set in the streets of Manila.

Car mechanic Eloy makes a terrible first impression on Ali, who works for a real estate magnate. But both of them are hiding their true personas.

Cassandra: Warrior Angel is a horror fantasy series starring Gabby Concepcion, Eula Valdez, and Eula Caballero. It premiered on May 6, 2013 and will serve as the second season of Third Eye.

After years of estrangement, a mother and daughter find themselves on opposite sides of a bitter contest for what each believes is rightfully hers. Old wounds resurface as they weigh whether to confront the past together or let it drive them further apart.

Hiyas is an Philippine romantic-drama TV series aired by ABS-CBN that premiered on May 28, 2012 replacing Wako Wako on its Kapamilya Gold timeslot. The series is based on the Filipino romance pocket book Silang, The Fierce Warrior by Sofia. It is the 15th installment of the Precious Hearts Romances series. The series was marked for the third year anniversary installment of the Precious Hearts Romances television adaptations for giving Three Years of Many Top Rating Serials and is the first adaptation to have a Fantasy Action Adventure for Television under 'Precious Hearts Romances' television distribution.

Numerous wars were waged against Spanish colonizers who came to the Philippines in 1521. At the close of the 19th century, there was Andres Bonifacio's Katipunan.