Mario O'Hara Movies

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

Close friends Belle, Au and Claire are forced to take care of Baby Doll, a child borne of an affair between their friend and a club worker, after her...

An English-speaking manananggal (a malevolent, blood sucking monster) spreads terror in Manila. The manananggal is a Philippines mythical creature...

Alvaro plays Addon, the quintessential Filipino anti-hero, the bastard son of a corrupt police officer who purposely meddles in the very dirty...

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

Yolly, a flower vendor and her brother Efren, who works as a driver and hired hit man for ruthless money laundering lady Connie, live a hardscrabble...

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...

Mario O'Hara's melodrama about an aspiring singer and her ex-convict sweetheart.

A lyrically brutal tale of a pair of young lovers, Nena and Jose, doing their best to live and love in an increasingly hostile world.

A young, beautiful woman runs into an ugly beast named Johnny Tinoso and immediately judges him for his looks. However, she discovers that he...

Adapted from Mars Ravelo’s serialized “komiks,” this 1971 melodrama by Lino Brocka stars Rosemarie Sonora, Dante Rivero and Hilda...

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,...

Mario O'Hara's surreal debut film about a man recovering from mental illness.

Ang Paglilitis ni Andres Bonifacio is the untold story of the trial of Andres Bonifacio under the Revolutionary Government of Pres. Emilio Aguinaldo....

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

A film which dares to imagine an "alternative historiography" of Jose Rizal by working the figure of Rizal into the "society and sexuality" of Sisa,...

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...

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...

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

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