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Swallowtail Butterfly

7.7

An industrial section of Japan is known as Yentown, as many immigrants come to make money and hope to go home rich. A small group of people in Yentown try to work together to survive. There is a girl named Ageha who…

The Woman in the Septic Tank

7.7

Jocelyn, Rainier, and Bingbong are three film school graduates who are dead-set on making an Oscar-worthy film. They set out to do a quick pre-production as a courtesy call to their lead actress played by Eugene Domingo,…

Insiang

7.6

After a teenager is raped by her mother's boyfriend, she sets out to exact revenge on anyone who has hurt her. (Source: Wikipedia)

Yunbogi's Diary

7.6

Yunbogi is a child who lives in a slum on the outskirts of Daegu, South Korea. Abandoned by his mother, Yunbogi must care for his two sisters and brother by taking on a series of small jobs. Consisting of a series of…

Dodesukaden

7.5

The film focuses on the lives of a variety of characters who happen to live in a rubbish dump. The first to be introduced is a mentally challenged boy who lives in a world of fantasy in which he is a tram conductor.…

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros

7.4

A Filipino coming-of-age film about a gay teen who is torn between his love for a young cop and his loyalty to his family. (Source: IMDb) -- Release dates: Jul 13, 2005 (Festival) || Nov 30, 2005 (Cinema)

Holiday

7.4

Ji Kang-hun is imprisoned after taking part in a protest against the government for clearing out their neighborhood to make way for the 1998 Seoul Olympics. After being repeatedly beaten by prison officials, Ji Kang-hun,…

Watch List

6.9

After her husband is mysteriously killed in the drug wars of the Philippines, a widowed mother of three must confront her own darkness to protect her children from further harm. (Source: IMDb)

Neomanila

7.3

Toto, a teenage orphan, is recruited by a notorious death squad. Irma, the group's leader, soon becomes a maternal figure to the young boy. As the two form a familial bond, their loyalties will be put to the test when…

Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember

8.3

A bunch of 10-year-old kids rob pedestrians and kill without mercy. But after a failed bank robbery, the dangerous game comes to an end with twenty years of imprisonment. After two decades, they are released but soon…

Emotions of the End of the Century

A woman who used to be a lesbian is now in a nominal marriage. She, who is well off but feels empty at heart, finds out that her husband often visits a prostitute and decides to go and see what's going on. The woman…

Mondomanila

7.1

Tony de Guzman is an anti-hero living in the grim slums, surrounded by a corrupt underworld. He believes life is short and brutal, and the only way to survive is by seizing opportunities, settling scores, and defying…

Jao Sao Salum

6.0

Kamathep is a rich man who has already been betrayed in love three times. This caused him to become wary and hostile towards women as he thinks they're only after his money. His aunt, who's worried about his well-being,…

Kinkyu Yobidashi: Emergency Call

Adapted from the novel of the same name by Yasuyuki Ota, which was written based on his medical experiences in a foreign country. The North General Hospital in the Tondo district of Manila was as busy as a battlefield.…

Look For Someone Ugly!

7.2

Three boys from the slums of Manila find their luck has changed when one of them learns he's the heir of a rich man. (Source: TMDb)

People in the Slum

6.7

In the poor district of town, there lived a woman known as the Black Glove. Taking her young son, she remarries a man named Tae-sub whom nobody knows anything about. Tae Sub has an enormous secret. He relies on the Black…

Wolves, Pigs & Men

6.7

A lonely gangster tries recruiting men to plunder a respected and powerful gang. (Source: MUBI)

Blood Relation

5.0

On a border mountain slope, defectors from North Korea try to eek out a measly living family selling cheap knickknacks. Geo Buk faces pressure from his father, Kim Duk Sam, to go work for the U.S. military base, while…

Rosa Rossini

From childhood, Rosa had dreamed to be a ballet dancer. Donya Isabel and Don Enrico promise their daughter that she would be sent to the best ballet school in Europe. But war broke out and her boyfriend Briccio disappears.…