The best Joey Paras’s drama movies

Joey Paras

Joey Paras

If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Joey Paras’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 Joey Paras.

Bwakaw

Bwakaw
7.1/10
Bwakaw is a drama-comedy about growing old, and everyone's fear of growing old alone. Rene is a gay man who came out of the closet at age 70. Ailing in his twilight years, he thinks it is now too late for love, even companionship, and that all there is to look forward to is Death. He has made a will, bequeathing his few possessions to his even fewer friends. Everything is packed and labeled, ready for distribution. He has even paid for a coffin, taking advantage of a funeral home's Summer Sale. Nowadays the only companion Rene has is Bwakaw, a stray dog that hangs around his house and follows him wherever he goes. As Rene waits for the day of his death, he gets the surprise of his life when it is Bwakaw who suddenly falls ill and is diagnosed with cancer.

Working Girls

Working Girls
4.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/04/2010
  • Character: Connie's Production Staff (uncredited)
Continuing the tradition of national artist Ishmael Bernal's benchmark film Working Girls after 25 years, Working Girls of 2010 depicts the role of women in the new millennium. Seven women of different backgrounds, stories and personalities entwined in a colorful story of family, love and life.

Bahay Bata

Bahay Bata
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/07/2011
  • Character: Don
Sarah is a nurse at a Public Maternity Hospital. The hospital is abuzz with pregnant mothers of all shapes and sizes in different stages of labor. The hospital is short on staff on Christmas Day so Sarah is forced to put in a double shift. Sarah observes the women coming and going in her ward, noting who is a first-timer and who is a veteran. Meanwhile, the wards are overcrowded : two women and their babies sharing single beds while those in labor are spilling unto the hallways. Sarah takes these all in stride, her heart and mind laboring over her own personal pains.

I Do

I Do
6.2/10
Mayumi is a girl with a happy disposition in life who dreams of meeting her "the one" someday. She has been dreaming of meeting her "the one" and having the perfect wedding ever since she was a little girl. When she meets Lance, a Chinese descendant, in a wedding, she immediately knows that he is "the one" she is waiting for, her faith and destiny. The two of them become lovers despite the unwillingness of their families to their relationship.

The Spider's Lair

The Spider's Lair
7/10
An Internet scammer falls in love with a wealthy old maid while trying to swindle her using a fake Facebook profile.

Sisterakas

Sisterakas
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/12/2012
  • Character: Bonbon
A man takes revenge on his sister by hiring her as his personal assistant.

Fetch

Fetch
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/08/2020
In the arid, scanty and poverty-stricken world, fetching water is the only way an old woman named Josa can do just to muster the fare that will bring her second family to Manila from an island in Batangas which is devastated by the eruption of the Taal Volcano.

Maria, Leonora, Teresa

Maria, Leonora, Teresa
5.1/10
After a tragic incident, a psychiatrist offered Faith, Julio, and Stella life-sized dolls to look after to help cope from the loss of their respective daughters: Maria, Leonora, and Teresa. But the toys appears to be controlled by sinister.

Girl, Boy, Bakla, Tomboy

Girl, Boy, Bakla, Tomboy
5.3/10
Quadruplet siblings (two boys and two girls) played by Vice Ganda were separated after birth when their grandmother steals two of the siblings (a boy and a girl) away from their mother. The stolen siblings lived a comfortable life in the US, not knowing that their mother and siblings, a gay and a lesbian, struggled to make ends meet in the Philippines. When the boy develops hepatitis that requires him to have a liver transplant from a compatible donor, their father tells them about their siblings in the Philippines, who may be possible candidates as donors. But once the siblings finally meet, pent up resentment and animosity between the girl and the gay siblings, has threatened the chances of the boy sibling's survival.

Last Supper No. 3

Last Supper No. 3
9.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 14/08/2009
  • Character: Wilson Nañawa
Assistant Production Designer Wilson Nañawa is tasked to look for a Last Supper to use as a prop for a TV commercial. He finds three, but loses the one owned by Gareth Pugeda. What happens next changes Wilson forever as he spends the next two years entangled in bureaucracy and red tape facing estafa and serious physical injury charges. How will this ordinary man fare against a system he knows nothing about? Will justice prevail for Wilson? Or will he be imprisoned for the loss of Last Supper No. 3?

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