Ronnie Lazaro Movies
- 2007
The unmarried owners and operators of a ramshackle funeral home specializing in coffin rentals must fight to keep their business afloat when the powers that be attempt to shut the shady business down in order to construct a new church. For Guido and Pining, death is a lucrative business. While their modest funeral parlor is a popular hangout for the dregs of society, owner Guido generally goes about his business embalming bodies while make-up specialist Pining ensures that the dearly departed have a pleasant appearance for their big sendoff. The back alley behind the mortuary is usually populated by prostitutes, ex-convicts, and other unsavory types, leading the municipal authorities to speclate that they might be able to neighborhood up if the current building were razed and a new church was erected in its place. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Joel Torre, Jaclyn José, (more)
- 2006
Lav Diaz's nine-hour drama Heremias stars Ronnie Lazaro as the title character. He is a traveling craftsman who, early in the film, decides to separate from the group of fellow merchants with whom he has been traveling. During his time alone, a vicious hurricane leaves him without his ox or any of his goods. As he wanders, he learns a great deal about the various people he meets upon his travels. He eventually sees a group of drug-fueled teenagers plan to rape a young woman. Although he attempts to tell several people about the plan, nobody listens. He eventually reaches an agreement with God that if he goes 40 days without food, the girl will not be harmed. Heremias is the first half of a two-part story. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ronnie Lazaro, Cid Lucero, (more)
- 2000
Ritualistic rapes and pagan sacrifices are at the center of this melodramatic Filipino film, directed by Carlos Siguion-Reyna. Thanks to an El Nino-inspired drought, a remote village's crop withers and dies. Villagers fear the re-emergence of a long-quiescent death cult that demands the oblation of young maidens. When newly-arrived priest Father Joey (Tonton Gutierrez) notices a marked decrease in his congregation, everyone fears the worst. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Eva Darren
- 2000
A family fights an uphill battle against poverty and the cruelties of fate in this drama. Lauro Pajaron (Joel Torre) has fallen on hard times after leaving the priesthood to have a family and start his own business. Bankrupt and with few options, Lauro and his emotionally fragile wife Clara (Elizabeth Oropesa) move back to their hometown to scrape together a living making charcoal. Uncle Domeng (Richard Joson), who is mildly retarded along with being unable to hear or speak, helps watch over Lauro and Clara's two daughters, Lerma (Klaudia Koronel), whose chronic sleepwalking led to her being sexually abused by a strange man, and Agnes (Isabel Granada), who stands witness to her family's trials. Hubad sa Ilaim ng Buwan was an entry at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Julio Diaz, Isabel Granada, (more)
- 1993
Blood, sweat, and betrayal in the South East Asian jungles is what drives this action thriller about sleazy Canadian diplomat Carl Pimmler (Michael Ironside), who sends Peter Kernan (Matt Salinger) and his wife Johanna (Sam Jenkins) into deepest, darkest Cambodia to deliver "medicine." When the two realize the true nature of the items they are toting, they struggle to flee for their lives. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- 1990
- R
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This confused sequel -- bearing many names in the credits: Delta Force 2, Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold, Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection -- to the first Delta Force movie lacks the nightmarish collection of guest stars gracing the first film, i.e. Hanna Shygulla, Martin Balsam, Shelley Winters, George Kennedy, and Joey Bishop. Chuck Norris, however, returns as Col. Scott McCoy, a man in a blue funk because notorious drug dealer Ramon Cota (Billy Drago) arranged to have McCoy's partner and his partner's wife and baby brother killed. Cota has also kidnapped three DEA agents to boot. Even without Lee Marvin, Col. McCoy wants to enact biblical vengeance upon Cota and his cartel. As a result, McCoy and his marines travel to the Latin American dictatorship of San Carlos. There they destroy half of the country's cocaine supply and proceed to search out and destroy the evil Cota and his minions. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Chuck Norris, Billy Drago, (more)
- 1989
This poorly received sequel to the classic 1957 movie The Bridge over the River Kwai, is also based on a true story, as told in the book by Joan & Clay Blair, Jr. This story begins where the previous one left off, with the blowing up of the marvelous bridge. Here, the Australian POWs are rounded up to be shipped by rail and sea to Japan to serve as slave laborers. They have many harrowing experiences and near-escapes. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Timothy Bottoms
- 1987
- R
Jillian Grey (Nancy Allen) is a television reporter who investigates the disappearance of young women in this routine action drama. She is kidnapped with three other woman from the streets of Los Angeles and sold into slavery in Southeast Asia. Martin Landau plays Cicero, the villainous head of the white slave trade, with Ted Shackelford as the heroic soldier of fortune Boone. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nancy Allen, Ted Shackelford, (more)
- 1986
In a fast action drama about vigilante justice, good-looking Bobby (Rudy Fernandez) is out to take matters into his own hands ever since his policeman father was killed by gangsters. Lucky for Bobby, he works at a gunsmith's and has developed a super-gun that gives him an edge against his enemies -- and those enemies are expanding to the police as well. Gun-toting, lead-slinging, bullet-happy Bobby shows no mercy as he goes after a gang lord and his henchmen. Firing him up to ballistic heights is the fact that his girlfriend was murdered by these same men. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rudy Fernandez, Donna Villa, (more)
- 1985
In this run-of-the-mill, sexually explicit film, Felipe (Ronnie Lazaro) is a young boatman who leaves for the big time in Manila to find his fortune but ends up working in the red-light district of the city as the male lead in sex plays called "toros." Playing opposite Felipe is Gigi (Sarsi Emmanuelle), and the two not only become lovers in real life, but also garner great success in their erotic shows and blue videos. In the meantime, Felipe has become the clandestine hired boy-toy of Emily (Suzanna Love), an American with a fairly nasty Filipino lover who is decidedly intolerant of bedroom competition. With this scenario in place, the future does not look very promising for the former boatman.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ronnie Lazaro, Sarsi Emmanuelle, (more)
- 1983
In this flawed and overly long film, an aristocratic Spanish family caught in the throes of World War II in the Philippines has to make an escape into the jungle to survive the invading Japanese. Their members include the grandfather, several women, many servants, and two young men. One of the mothers in the group is snobby about herself and her money and passes this attitude on to her daughter. Another woman and one young man demonstrate exceptional bravery, and even the young man's new girlfriend shows spunk. But in the end, it will be lucky if the family can survive their own internal conflicts, let alone the four years they must hide out during World War II. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Joel Torre
