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Ishmael Bernal

Ishmael Bernal

Directing

Biography

Ishmael Bernal (September 30, 1938 – June 2, 1996) was a Filipino film, stage and television director, actor and screenwriter. Noted for melodramas with feminist and moral themes, he directed many landmark Filipino films such as Pagdating sa Dulo (1971), Nunal sa Tubig (1976), Manila by Night (1980), Himala (1982), and Working Girls (1984). Bernal was declared a National Artist of the Philippines in 2001.

Known For

Noli Me Tangere
N/A

Eddie Romero's miniseries adaptation of the novel from Filipino writer and activist Jose Rizal, published during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines in 1887. Noli Me Tángere (Latin for "Touch Me Not") explores perceived inequities in law and practice in terms of the treatment by the ruling government and the Spanish Catholic friars of the resident peoples in the late nineteenth century.

Noli Me Tangere

1993
Broken Marriage
8.4

Trapped in a world of hectic schedules, pressure, and little time for each other, married couple Ellen and Rene decide to have a temporary separation.

Broken Marriage

1983
Wating
6.5

The first team-up of Richard Gomez and Carmina Villaruel, playing Ardo and Rosel in this action flick, which is at the same time Ishmael Bernal's last film that is an attack on the religious establishment. Together, they become a part of Manila's petty underworld. After all the ordeals they encounter, they realize that they lost their innocence as they brush with evil and corruption. But they still survive the ordeal and make a new life somewhere else.

Wating

1994
Boy Kodyak
N/A

Boy Kodyak is detective Teo Rosa, a young plainclothesman still embued with idealism. When he finds out that a small-time punk named Rogel is fighting the syndicate, he decides to track him down, both to arrest and to support.

Boy Kodyak

1979
El Vibora
N/A

A re-telling of Artemio Ricarte, a Filipino patriot who fought against the Spanish and later Americans. He was later supported by the Japanese during WWII. Nickname was "El Vibora" (the Viper).

El Vibora

1972
An Affair
6.4

In a time in the Philippines when the concept of divorce does not exist, a young woman has an affair with a married man. Eventually, they move in together, and that is when the problems start.

An Affair

1982
Manila by Night
7.2

The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Lovers and families conflict with each other as they live on the streets, which are rampant with drugs and prostitution.

Manila by Night

1980
Miracle
8.0

When plain orphan Elsa begins having visions of the Virgin Mary, the rest of the residents of her isolated village find themselves questioning their own beliefs and values. Soon, Elsa is healing people with a variety of ailments. As word of this phenomenon spreads, tourists, pilgrims, patients and a documentary filmmaker all arrive on a quest to partake in the miracle.

Miracle

1982
Salawahan
5.0

A witty sex comedy about two young cousins who trade places for their courtship strategies which end up hilarious.

Salawahan

1979
Tisoy!
7.7

Tisoy is a bohemian balikbayan searching for his father. He gets help from his friends as they scour the immaculately clean Metro Manila as well as reunite with his high school sweetheart.

Tisoy!

1977
Shake, Rattle & Roll
5.8

An anthology of three violent stories: three friends perform Spirit of the Glass and discover a tragic love triangle; a refrigerator seems to be 'alive'; and a teenager who courts a barrio lass without his knowledge that this lass is a monster, which eventually causes chaos to his family.

Shake, Rattle & Roll

1984
Pabling
8.0

A playboy and a simple girl from the provinces try to make it in the big city.

Pabling

1981
To Live Another Day
10.0

A determined single parent, she manages to raise a child while remaining successful in her career as an advertising executive. Everything in her life seems to go well until she is diagnosed with a terminal disease. For her son’s sake, and without revealing her condition, she is forced to resolve her most important life relations: rekindling first her connections with her parents, and then with the very man who fathered her son.

To Live Another Day

1989
Himala Ngayon
9.0

A 2012 documentary about the making and the legacy of the 1982 drama masterpiece directed by Ishmael Bernal that ended up being one of the greatest Asian films of all time. The revelations about the theory of "Who killed Elsa?" will be answered and also, the impact of the film to the Filipino culture and society.

Himala Ngayon

2012
The Graduates
7.5

Follows a group of young adults as they navigate life after college.

The Graduates

1986
Mahal Kita, Walang Iba
9.0

Opposites attract when Trixie, a spoiled rich brat, asks Alex, a hardworking taxi driver, to be her boyfriend to appease her grandfather.

Mahal Kita, Walang Iba

1992
Annie Batungbakal
8.3

The story of Annie Batungbakal, who dances in a disco bar.

Annie Batungbakal

1979
You Are Mine
7.1

Horticulturist Teresita and Rex, a skydiving enthusiast and passenger jeep manufacturer, have been together for five years. Rex then meets the vivacious but fidgety Sandra, who is obviously smitten with him. Rex is then unsettled by his conflicting feelings for the two.

You Are Mine

1978
Bilibid Boys
3.3

=The movie portrays seven wayward men who suffer within the walls of the national penitentiary. They serve their sentences as if they are living their regular free, luxurious lives outside the cold bars of the prison, in open air, able to go where they want when they want. Four of the men - Nandong, Noel, Butch, and Caloy - are gay men who feel attracted to Steve Guanzon and eventually sodomize and rape him.

Bilibid Boys

1981
Envy
8.0

The story follows Angeli, an orphan girl raised by a wealthy widower, Diony. Angeli's hardships as a child left her to be a possessive and selfish woman. Diony has only one son, Efraim. Angeli has adored Efraim since childhood. Efraim and his dad have made Angeli the apple of their eyes. Santina comes later in the picture and leaves Angeli vying head-to-head for the attention of his dad and the man he loves. Will Angeli win over Santina's delicate charm? Or will she be forced to accept where she really came from? Will Efraim pick Angeli over Santina?

Envy

1987