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Rustica Carpio

Rustica Carpio

Acting

Biography

Rustica Cruz Carpio (August 9, 1930 – February 2, 2022) was a Filipino actress, scholar, playwright, philanthropist, and public servant. Most notably an actress, she performed on stage, film, and television. She received acclaim for her role as Lola Puring in Grandmother (Filipino: Lola), a film by Filipino director Brillante Mendoza which was selected to compete in various international film festivals, including Venice and Dubai. For her acting work in the said film, she was critically well-received, earning nominations and awards, winning the Gawad Urian for Best Actress, the Crystal Simorgh for Best International Actress at the Fajr International Film Festival in Iran, and the Las Palmas International Film Festival Best Actress award in Spain. (Source: Wikipedia)

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
Totoy Mola
5.8

He was already different even before he was born. His eccentric mother took fancy on horses during her conception, and this led to his being born with animal appeal. As he grew up, he became the object of people's curiosity. But the moment he became a full grown man, his strange physical endowment turned him into an object of desire. Girls and even gays fell under his incredibly wild sex appeal, and he got himself the reputation of being a ladies' man. Until he met the woman who would change his life forever.

Totoy Mola

1997
Astig
3.8

Four men, four stories, all intersect in Manila. Episode one is about Ariel, a con-man. Episode two is about Boy, an expectant father. In the third episode, Ronald goes to Manila to sell a building. And in the fourth story Baste saves his sister from Ariel.

Astig

2009
Arayyy!
5.5

Working student Lorena is left with no choice but to turn to prostitution when her the misfortunes of her family hit hard

Arayyy!

2000
Of the Flesh
6.9

When Narcing brings home his wife Puring to their hometown Mulawin in the 1930s, it sets off a series of events that include parricide, infidelity, betrayal, guilt and redemption.

Of the Flesh

1983
Captive
5.9

A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.

Captive

2012
Vesuvius
6.0

You'll never look at a statue of the Virgin Mary the same way again. Based on the assertion that divine apparitions aren’t what they always appear to be, Vesuvius is an interesting take on the psychopath with Catholicism smacked against the background. Gio Alvarez provides a convincing portrayal of a madman, and people can even argue if this short inclines toward the supernatural or the psychological. Whereas Grave Torture uses darkness impeccably, Vesuvius plays with light so well.

Vesuvius

2012
Shake, Rattle & Roll V
6.0

Three tales of unbridled terror follow a couple vacation on a secluded island where strange forces are at work to keep them there; a young woman whose boyfriend is ill meets a handsome young man in the woods who seems to exhibit magical powers that can cure her sick friend, on the condition that she stay with him forever; and a family who move into a new apartment, unaware of a supernatural tragedy that occurred there.

Shake, Rattle & Roll V

1994
White Cheese
5.5

Ramon failed to get his inheritance just as his mother died. The last will testament asked that he be able to have a son. He and his girlfriend embarked on a quest to find the perfect pair to give them a baby.

White Cheese

1999
T-Bird at Ako
5.8

Stern, intelligent Sylvia, a lawyer, finally met her match. Only that the person is a woman, and was convicted of murder.

T-Bird at Ako

1982
Bahay Ampunan
N/A

A pair of brothers encounters violent forces inside the walls of an old orphanage.

Bahay Ampunan

2015
Bona
6.6

Bona, a middle-class student, becomes infatuated with a struggling actor, Gardo, and drops out of school to live with him. She becomes his unpaid maid, performing chores and enduring his relationships with other women, in the hopes of reciprocation.

Bona

1984
Ma'am, May We Go Out?
7.0

The lives of the three Soriano brothers, Dennis, Chip, and Jeff, changed when Atty. Aga Agaton informed them that they would inherit the fortune of their grandfather, who was based in the United States. However, to claim their inheritance (according to the will), the brothers must graduate from high school, and if not, the lawyer would claim it instead.

Ma'am, May We Go Out?

1985
Moral
7.6

The episodically connected lives of four college friends unfold throughout the incipient martial law years, as they struggle to define their sexual and professional desires and how best to attain them.

Moral

1982
Clown
9.0

St. Peter inadvertently lost his heavenly keys that the Almighty sends his jester planet earth of all places to search for the misplaced keys. Wandering the streets, the petulant clown is greatly grieved by poverty and the moral degradation of man.

Clown

1986
Grandmother
7.3

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 the midst of a storm, one for the victim's burial, the other for the suspect's bail bond.

Grandmother

2009
Halik sa Hangin
6.0

A young woman is brought to Baguio by her new stepfather. While she struggles with her new family and surroundings, she finds herself torn between two young men who bring passion into her life.

Halik sa Hangin

2015
Harold Robbins' Body Parts
4.3

Ty's pal J.J. frames him in a murder and cocaine theft in Hong Kong in 1992. Ty's wife Rachel may be in on the con, so, when Ty gets early release from prison as a gesture of good will from the city's new Mainland government, he doesn't bother to look her up. But she finds him in Southern California to warn him that J.J. wants him dead. Whack J.J. first, she tells Ty, so he heads for Manila where J.J. runs a lucrative business under the cover of exporting tropical fish. But what is that business and who's pulling the strings? With the help of Inez, a young Filipina prostitute, Ty gets to the heart of the matter even after Inez no longer has the stomach to pursue the guilty ones.

Harold Robbins' Body Parts

2001
No image
5.0

Ang Panday 2 begins with Flavio/Panday (Revilla) and Maria settling in the peaceful and quiet town of Matandang Kahoy. All is well until Lizardo returns and captures Maria. On his quest to save his lady love, Flavio crosses paths with Ariana whose father had been killed by Lizardo. As the two join forces, Ariana finds herself falling for Flavio. All this happens in a magical world filled with dragons, fairies and other mythical beings. According to Director Carlo J. Caparas who penned the story, the King of Philippine Movies himself, the late Fernando Poe Jr., would be impressed with the production of Ang Panday 2. FPJ had starred in the original Panday films, and had long been associated with the beloved Pinoy komiks character.

Ang Panday 2

2011
Ano ang Kulay ng mga Nakalimutang Pangarap?
N/A

Teresa (Rustica Carpio) has worked for the Bautista family since she was seventeen. She was the nanny of siblings Stella, Vince and Andre (Jackie Lou Blanco, Bobby Andrews and Ryan Agoncillo), and their mother. The three have all moved abroad in their adulthood, but all reunite back at home with the passing of their mother. With no one left to stay in the country, it is decided that all of their properties will be sold, including the house they grew up in. But they are faced with the problem of what to do with the elderly Teresa, who has no money saved, and little contact with her relatives.

Ano ang Kulay ng mga Nakalimutang Pangarap?

2013