Phillip Salvador Movies

One atrocity after another, as well as screaming, yelling, and crying, catapults this exploitation film into a level of excess that kills off the story itself. When a young man gets married and brings his wife home to meet his family, her resemblance to his dead mother is so strong that it causes a violent reaction -- especially in his father. In a fit of emotion, he tries to rape his daughter-in-law, an act which enrages his son so much that he cuts his father's head off. That murder precipitates other tragedies and killings, all in gory detail. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Ellis (Christopher de León) and Lorens (Phillip Salvador) are two quarreling brothers set to inherit their large ranch one day from an overbearing mother. The older brother Ellis is an errant womanizer who long ago turned his back on schooling -- and whose main pursuit in life is incidentally fathering the offspring that result from his seductions of various housemaids, while remaining married to his wife. His younger brother is also married, but he is not of the same profligate temperament, and he certainly does not share his brother's streak of cowardice. Events conspire to get each brother involved in local gangs, and if they continue on their collision course, their future may be much shorter than their mother's. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Graves (Leonard Urso) is an American soldier stationed in the Philippines who meets Lydia (Hilda Koronel) an attractive Filipino woman, and a relationship begins. Unfortunately, Graves accidentally kills a young boy while on guard duty at the American base, and the boy happens to be the little brother of Lydia's former romantic interest, Sidro (Phillip Slavador) - a hit man for the top mobster Gómez. Instead of taking action against Graves for this incident, the military brass hush it up, preferring to frame Graves as a drug dealer as an excuse to "extradite" him to another country. Before they can do so, Graves escapes the base, knowing he will have to outmaneuver the military police and mobsters, Sidro included, who want his head on a platter. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

In this film noir from the Philippines, Poldo (Philip Salvador), a poor man, becomes a security guard in a posh apartment house to help his family. Trouble ensues after he saves resident Sonny (Mengie Colarribias) from a corrupt nightclub owner's attack. The grateful resident offers Poldo a job as his bodyguard. Unbeknownst to Poldo, his new employer publishes porno magazines and is just as corrupt as his attacker. He soon discovers that the men were fighting over Cristy (Amy Austria) a woman whom Poldo is now supposed to protect. Poldo and Cristy feel a sexual attraction and act upon it. Not long after that, a gang war erupts into violence and Poldo kills a man. Later his boss offers to save him and his family in exchange for his silence. With its main character trapped in an amoral world, Jaguar has a true noir sensibility and mood of grim determinism. This is one of the few Filipino films to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was well-received. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi