Johnny Delgado Movies

An ambitious young Filipino wants to come to the United States but is foiled at every turn in this comedy. Jess (Robin Padilla) has been trained as a nursing assistant, but he's currently making ends meet as a taxi driver. Jess would like to go to America and start his career over again, but his attempts to get a visa have been repeatedly unsuccessful. And as much as Jess wants to leave, he's torn by his responsibilities to his father, Mang Sancho (Johnny Delgado), who despite poor health still has en eye for the ladies, and his affection for his former girlfriend Mara (Rufa Mae Quinto), who impersonates a mermaid at a circus midway and has an eight-year-old son who may have been fathered by Jess. Jess may have found a way into America when he's hired to drive a limousine for Nigel Adams (Paul Holme), an American television producer working for a reality TV show specializing in bizarre behavior from around the world. Nigel can get Jess papers to work in the United States if he helps him get the right kind of footage, but is Jess willing to be literally crucified as part of a local Holy Week ceremony in order to pursue his dream? ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

A down-and-out artist by the odd name of Ding (Johnny Delgado) is living alone in a hovel, alone except for the cockroaches, that is. Ding's landlady is breathing down his back for the three month's rent he owes, but his paintings at a friend's gallery are still unsold and when he asks his well-to-do brother for a loan, the answer is negative. Just when he is about to give up, the landlady's daughter Socorro (Nora Aunor) slips him some cash, and the two become lovers. When the landlady finds out, she evicts both of them. Ding's fortunes take a turn for the better and before long, he and Socorro are doing quite well. But success has effects on the artist's life that he could not have predicted - he loses a chance to use his paintings to save his friend's gallery from bankruptcy because of an iron-clad contract he had signed, and the pregnant Socorro begins to fade out of his life when he falls in love with a high-class call girl whose demands for royal treatment may quickly drain his earnings. It seems Ding might find success just as difficult to handle as poverty. ~ 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

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

After they were left to die on a garbage dump, twin infant brothers are rescued and separated, one adopted by a wealthy family, the other brought up by a jeep driver. At age four, the two meet, and after many adventures they are eventually reunited. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi