Paquito Diaz Movies

Joseph Estrada plays an informer for the landlords who throws in his lot with the peasants, constantly upbraiding them for their lack of will for freedom and lack of will to till the soil. He also refuses to join a revolutionary army because he does not believe that violence will solve anything. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Whether he is a one-man Coast Guard, or a sort of anti-pirate, it is clear that the fisherman in this movie does much more than catch fish. In his latest exploits he is taken captive when he goes after a female pirate who has already captured the other men of his village. The lady buccaneer falls in love with him, and the men are eventually released. Unfortunately, such behavior is not part of the other pirates' code, and the couple become the focus of a death-dealing manhunt. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

In this film, a young man from the countryside rescues his lady friend from a difficult situation and exacts vengeance upon those who have caused it. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

In this fantasy action adventure movie, a man working for an underdog political candidate gets beat up by a rival politician's thugs. In defending himself, he discovers a new identity; he becomes Bergado (Johnny Delgado), who is invisible when he chooses to be, which is usually when he is fighting his enemies. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

A slumming young heir runs into an amiable pair of pickpockets and learns the tricks of their trade. When a local mobster kidnaps the boy for his millions, he learns what true friendship means as the pickpockets come to his rescue. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

This movie is an interweaving of several true events into a coherent story line which was intended to point out the inherent corruption in the government of the Philippines at all different levels. Delayed by censors while they tried to find a way to keep the movie from being released, eventually some sex scenes from Manila's live sex shows were cut and the film allowed out. It wasn't until the furor the movie caused at the Cannes Film Festival that the government realized how critical the movie was of the current regime and arrested Brocka. He was later released. The movie takes a strike that paralyzed Manila, the kidnapping of a businessman and the shoot-out between the kidnappers and police, all true events, and winds them into a coherent story that ably shows the corruption prevalent in the Manila governmental system. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi