Movies: Mario O'Hara

This comedy-romance fantasy is essentially a contemporary, Filipino adaptation of the Cinderella story....

A bride commits suicide on her wedding night. Years later, she is reincarnated as an actress-producer and tries to reveal her true story to the world....

Based on an actual case, Fatima Buen Story mixes tabloid sensationalism with paranormal symbolism and features O’ Hara’s trademark qualities: sudden violence and heroic love against a background of cinematic magic....

"Tatlo, Dalawa, Isa" is a compilation of three intimate stories directed by Filipino cinema legend Lino Brocka. The films show the perseverance of hope despite a sense of despair. Featuring a drug addict, an abandoned daughter and a repressed catho...

Alice, Benjie and Andro are bank robbers who go into hiding in the jungle after one of them kills a civilian during a heist....

A classic dramatic piece on poverty and prostitution is transformed into a poignant take on failed celluloid dreams. A son of a late actor notorious for womanizing in his heyday aspires to be a big star someday but can't get past beyond being a stunt...

Vivid Mario O'Hara film noir, about a young woman turned prostitute....

Diego and Gabriela Silang are landed Ilocos natives disaffected with the imposition of the indulto de comercio (a law giving right to Spanish officials to buy rice and tobacco at the price they prefer). The year is 1762 and the British invade Manila,...

Because his mother is too poor to feed her young children, Empoy is sent to work for his exploitative and cruel aunt....

Two brothers migrate to a city to escape the violence in their village, but the city's leader has other plans in mind for them....

Babette Gomez and her family just moved to the city. Meeting the neighbors, a man instantly hooked her. She is insterested. Only then that she discovered that he's mentally ill. He is being chained by his family....

A stage mother drives her younger son to his ‘stardoom’ to make up for her downward slide from her bourgeois origins....

Lino Brocka's adaptation of Mars Ravelo's "komiks" melodrama about a successful businessman who is terrified of being exposed as a homosexual....

This is an adaptation of the Palanca award-winning play written by Maria Angela Barrios about a mother and her Amerasian daughter....

Fragile as a teardrop - Powerful as a God-given Right....

Three mothers fight over one child...

Marcelino Pan y Vino is a Filipino TV movie from 1979 directed by Mario O'Hara. The film is a remake of Ladislao Vajda's 1955 film of the same title, about a boy brought up by monks and encountering Divinity. The story revolves around Marcelino, an o...

A woman becomes the object of obsession of a man who will stop at nothing to possess her....

Alvaro plays Addon, the quintessential Filipino anti-hero, the bastard son of a corrupt police officer who purposely meddles in the very dirty political war between the governor (Elvira Manahan) and a town mayor (Celso Ad Castillo) in an unnamed prov...

Sindak is a movie about four guys, security guards by night, sex maniacs by day, and in weekends, regular dudes who like to shoot the shit with gin and pulutan (gleaned from their weekend monkey-hunting trips). Unbeknownst to them, they live in a wor...