Best movies of Brillante Mendoza

Serbis(2008)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 56

A drama that follows the travails of the Pineda family in the Filipino city of Angeles. Bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest and bothersome skin irritations are all part of their ...



Ma' Rosa(2016)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Ma' Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor neighborhood of Manila where everybody likes her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small ...



Kinatay(2009)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 34

A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman.



Tirador(2007)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 32



Lola(2009)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two elderly women bear the consequences of a crime involving their respective grandsons. One is the victim, the other is the suspect. Both weak and poor, they laboriously solicit money in ...



Captive(2012)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Follows the hostage crisis of the Dos Palmas kidnappings in the southern Philippines, the life of the hostages whose survivors were freed after an awful year in captivity.



Alpha, The Right to Kill(2018)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Set against the backdrop of the Philippines Government's crackdown on illegal drugs, a SWAT-led police force launches an operation to arrest Abel, one of the biggest drug lords in Manila. ...



Masahista(2005)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0



Foster Child(2007)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A drama centered on the state of foster care in the Philippines.



Thy Womb(2012)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An infertile midwife and her husband find a surrogate mother so that they can have a child.



Taklub(2015)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After the Supertyphoon Haiyan, which changed the city of Tacloban in the Philippines into its horrendous state, the lives of Bebeth, Larry and Erwin intertwine. The survivors are left to ...



Kaleldo(2006)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story is set in Guagua, Pampanga a decade after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo which ravaged the province with lahar. It follows the lives of Rodolfo "Mang Rudy" Manansala, a woodcarver, ...



Pantasya(2007)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A digital feature has five episodes that all deal with wild gay fantasies involving men in uniform. It starts with "Biyahe," about a jilted taxi driver and his jealous passenger who find ...



Mindanao(2019)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Mindanao tells the story of Muslim woman Saima Datupalo (Judy Ann Santos). While taking care of her cancer-stricken daughter named Aisa Datupalo (Yuna Tangog) in a temporary home for ...