Soliman Cruz

On her first day working as an assistant to a pathologist, a young woman is stuck in the morgue as the dead begin to manifest signs of resurrection.

In the northern Philippine province of Luzon, a law school dropout commits a horrific double murder, a gentle family man takes the fall and receives a life sentence, leaving behind a wife and two kids. At their best, Lav Diaz’s marathon movies reveal just how much other films leave out. In his devastating twelfth feature (at over four hours in length, one of his shortest), the broad canvas accommodates both the irreducible facts of individual experience and the cosmic sweep of time and space. A careful rethinking of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment shot in blazing colour, this tour de force offers a masterful recapitulation of Diaz’s longstanding obsessions: cultural memory, national guilt, and the origin of evil. The wounds and defeats of Filipino history loom large in each of Diaz’s films. Fabian, the tortured anti-hero superbly played by Sid Lucero, may well be his most indelible creation, a haunting embodiment of the dead ends of ideology.

After her daughter's sudden engagement, single mother Joy plots to stop the wedding. But first, she must reconnect with Ced, her ex — and first love.

After a woman gets murdered, her boyfriend and two other suspects recount what happened from their point of view, revealing a shocking truth.

Like some of the best 19th-century novelists, Lav Diaz is a genius at interweaving multiple stories to create a truly expanded canvas of characters, landscapes and social and political struggle. In this masterpiece, three strands oppose each other and then, in an impressive arc, fall into parallel.

Angie (Judy Ann Santos) and Jed (Ryan Agoncillo) are the two most unlikely people to fall in love with each other. She is a no-nonsense provincial girl turned television producer, while he is a laid-back, rich bachelor. When Jed's parents force him to migrate to the States, he does the unimaginable by proposing to Angie. Hasty wedding preparations and conflicts between their families almost drive them crazy. This is when they realize that marriage life isn’t always “happily ever after."

In two prisons in the Pacific Northwest, incarcerated men and women watch nature videos on loop, prompting reflections on isolation and the wilderness.

Hoping to make a fresh start overseas, a young man refuses to leave until he finds the right partner for his widowed mother, who has no one else but him.

An adaptation of Korea's blockbuster romantic drama directed by Nuel Naval, the director of Miracle in Cell No. 7. K and Cream believe they're soulmates. When K finds out that he's dying, he thinks setting her free would be best for her.

At risk of not graduating, Sixto explores the dangerous world of online dating for his thesis and gets involved with Winona, Nieves and Nanette.

When a pair of newlywed musicians get trapped in a storm on their island honeymoon, they must face difficult truths that could tear their marriage apart.