The best Jess Mendoza’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jess Mendoza’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Jess Mendoza.
My Amanda
5.8/10
Two unusually close friends share every aspect of their lives together. As their lives evolve, their bond remains the only constant.
Barber's Tales
7.7/10
In the 1970s, a widow in a remote village takes over her husband’s barber shop. She becomes the laughing stock of the male-dominated community and in the process discovers freedom and liberation.
Neomanila
6.6/10
Toto, a teenage orphan, is recruited by a notorious death squad. Irma, the groups leader, soon becomes a maternal figure to the young boy. As the two form a familial bond, their loyalties will be put to the test when one of their targets turns out to be a familiar face.
Bato
2.4/10
The dramatization of the life of General Ronald dela Rosa.
Smaller and Smaller Circles
6.5/10
A serial killer in Payatas leaves the bodies of young boys in the dump as two Jesuit priests try to solve the murders.
Watch List
6.9/10
Set against the drug wars in the Philippines, Maria's husband is murdered in mysterious circumstances and is left to fend for her three children in a police state. As she delves into Manila’s dark underworld of cops, criminals, and drugs to find answers, she realizes the truth is never black and white, and that she must explore her own darkness to keep her family safe.
The Girl and the Gun
5.8/10
A department store saleslady has had enough of being an underdog. One night, she discovers a peculiar-looking gun right on her doorstep. Her life drastically changes as she discovers how much power owning a gun can give her.
Tres
It is a trilogy which follows the story of three individuals must go through desperate measures to hide their secrets.
Purgatoryo
5.5/10
A story of Ilyong, recently-dead man killed by the police, after he was caught stealing. This is the beginning of his story, his death. Soon after, he was brought into a sleazy funeral home, run by Violet, a greedy homosexual who has learned to survive by renting out the dead bodies in his funeral home to Simon. Along for the ride is Jojo, a police officer who is under the payroll of Simon and who supplies the dead bodies for Violet to take care of and make money from. Violet has two workers, On-on and Dyograd.
Historiographika Errata
7.9/10
A disillusioned and suicidal Rizal, a cross-dressing Bonifacio gripped with paranoia, an ex-Katipunero who joins the US army to save his own neck, and a widow whose sex-for-food errands lead her to become the first ever Makapili. These are the historical mosaics that will form a singular hypothesis as to why we are like this as a people and up to now still reeling from our damaged culture.
Pedicab
A tragic-comic portrait of a dysfunctional family and the disquieting blind faith they invoke as they dream of going home.
Violator
5.1/10
Manila is besieged by the worst typhoon to hit the country. Talk of the world coming to an end hangs in the air. And five men find themselves stranded inside a police station with a prisoner who may o may not be the devil. It's going to be a long night.
As One
7.3/10
A thriller about a never-ending war, a town ravaged by a devastating storm, and the woman caught in between.
Once A Princess
4.3/10
A high school princess is cursed by the geek whose affections she toyed with.
Tenement 66
Teban, a troubled teen who recently got out of jail for petty theft, moves to tenement 66 with his older brother Tony and cousin Ron-ron, hoping to start a new life away from the people who influenced him to commit crimes. But soon find out that there are far more sinister figures at the tenement whose crimes are worse than they could have imagined.
Ben & Sam
6.8/10
A college heartthrob meets a college newbie - a challenge, a tension, a discovery, and a love that will change everything between them.
Pektus
The story of a day in the lives of two men in the city -both proud, indifferent, and bound by the confines of their milieu and their choices in life- and their incidental yet preordained meeting in a one-way alley that would change their lives thereafter. Raising questions of how far people have control over what happens in their lives, the film seeks to explore circumstance versus choice, breaking points, and second chances.
Bamboo Dogs
5.4/10
This is not a film by Khavn. A crime-thriller retro-road movie based on the Kuratong Baleleng Rubout Massacre of 1995.
Baconaua
5.6/10
After a turbulent squall in the night, villagers wake up to the astonishing sight of the sea that has turned red.
We Will Not Die Tonight
5.8/10
Kray, an underappreciated and underpaid stuntwoman, takes on one last job with her former gang only to be trapped in a hellish underworld.
