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Mario O'Hara Movies

1999  
 
With a plot taken straight from Filipino gossip papers, this trashy melodrama concerns a muscle-bound stuntman who takes his child bride to live in a Manila cemetery with other movie veterans. Woman on a Tin Roof was screened at the 1999 Vancouver Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

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Starring:
Nike MagatAya Medel, (more)
 
1978  
 
In a slum in Manila, gentle Insiang washes clothing for a living, while enduring non-stop harassment by her mother. When she is raped by her disagreeable mother's equally disagreeable lover, she sets herself on a subtle course of revenge. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi

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Starring:
Hilda Koronel
 
1974  
 
This Filipino film is in the Tagalog dialect of that country. The story concerns the coming-of-age of a young boy and his discovery of sexual love. His entirely natural activities are endangered by his town's gossiping busybodies. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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1974  
 
This is an anthology film, containing three separate stories. One, "Hello Soldier," deals with drug addiction in the slums, another deals with a poor mother trying to raise a GI baby, the last one concerns a spinster who is saddled with an invalid mother to care for. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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Starring:
Hilda KoronelJay Ilagan, (more)