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Malen is the stubborn daughter of Chayong, a prayer woman who complements her trade with selling rosaries and scapulars. She is soon seduced by Mike, a wily tourist driver and absentee father to a sickly son, who moonlights as a callboy to lonely matrons. Fr. Tony is a troubled priest who seeks sanctuary in Quiapo and is silent witness to Malen's waywardness. When she runs away with Mike, Chayong falls ill and dies of heartbreak.

Malen returns and halfheartedly takes over her mother's job. Much to everyone's surprise, her prayers get answered. Her fame spreads and she begins to earn good money. As for Mike, a customer who avails of his extra services refuses to pay. Furious, he gets involved in a traffic accident turned shootout. He runs to Malen, but when the heat is off, goes to visit his dying son. Meanwhile, after serious illness, Malen's prayer power grows and she gains more believers. She is at once terrified, humbled, and led to repentance by her gift.

But now comes her biggest test. Mike's son has died and he demands of Malen to pray for the impossible. For the first time, she finds herself praying and trusting with all her heart. Can she bring him back to life? Will God grant her this prayer?

Kuya (DVD) Meet Ferdi, Ted, Ditto, KN and Vincent, a happy bunch of guys who love hanging out, shouting 'Nekinerks! Haw! Haw!' and simply making the most of their youth. Life becomes more wonderful when they have beautiful and smart girls like Chloe, Jill, Grace, Barbs and the most mysterious Ms. 'X' as inspirations. Then Noy, who is Ted's cousin, arrives from the U.S. and questions the barkada's ways and rules. Ferdi, the self-appointed leader of the group, isn't too happy. Animosity builds up between Ferdi and Noy, and tension brews in the barkada. Little do they know that this is just the start of their problems...

Format DVD
Director Dominic Zapata
Categories Drama, K-O, Romance
Movie Time Unknown
Language Tagalog
Multi-angle
Release Date 12/01/2003

Starring Angel Locsin, Aubrey Miles, Chynna Ortaleza, Cogie Domingo, Danilo Barrios, James Blanco, Maxene Magalona, Oyo Boy Sotto, Railey Valeroso, Richard Gutierrez

Eternity (DVD) is an epic romance about a pair of star-crossed lovers Crisanto (Dingdong Dantes) and Milagros (Iza Calzado) and how true love transcends different lifetimes. In the face of family hostilities and atrocities, the two continue to fight for their love until the bitter end. Cholo (Mark Herras) and Maegan (Jennylyn Mercado) are two different people with different backgrounds, finding each other as if by fate. It’s as if they’ve known each other all their lives! But the young lovers’ romance is thwarted by their respective families’ deep-rooted dislike for each other. Will history repeat itself? Or will love finally conquer all the odds this time around?

Format DVD
Director Unknown
Categories A-E, Drama, Romance
Movie Time Unknown
Language Filipino, Tagalog
Multi-angle N
Release Date 11/29/2006

Starring Bobby Andrews, Ding Dong, Iza Calzado, Jennylyn Mercado, Mark Herras, Ms. Hilda, Ms. Jacklyn

FACES OF LOVE

Released Date: NOV 2007
Label: REGAL
Genre: Drama
Format: DVD Movies
Running Time: 1hr 20mins
Cast: Christopher de Leon, Angel Aquino, Alfred Vargas, Juliana Palermo
Director: EDDIE ROMERO

Don Arcadio Silvestre (Christopher de Leon) surprises his partners in a special meeting with a unique agenda. He wants to find the person who has been writing him anonymous letters over the past 10 years after the death of his beloved wife.
Toby Villamor (Alfred Vargas), a criminal defense specialist with a police background, is tasked to do the job.
Don Arcadio’s brother Mariano (Chinggoy Alonso) talks to his wife, Olivia (Chanda Romero). He expresses concern over his brother’s foolish quest. Their daughter Skip (Juliana Palermo), who is more attached to her Uncle Arcadio than any of them, refuses to hear any of it. She walks out on them.
The road to finding the identity of the letter writer leads to many twists and turns. Toby, who is joined by Skip, tracks down Ligaya (Angel Aquino), who is the object of an obsessive policeman’s attention. Major Zabala (Bembol Roco) gets in their way. Ligaya, who served as nurse to Don Arcadio’s late wife, seems to have insurgent connections as seen through her deceased husband and a friend (Jackie Aquino) who is also the wife of a detainee.
When Maj. Zabala arrests Toby for ‘obstruction of an investigation’, Skip brings her gay lawyer-friend (Mon Confiado) to the rescue.
As if all is not complicated enough, Skip’s fiancé Hector (Rodel Velayo), a rich scion, gets jealous of Toby.
All’s well that ends well. The quest for a letter writer becomes a quest for love, which Don Arcadio and Ligaya, Toby and Skip, find in the end.

Tuli centers on Daisy (Desiree del Valle), daughter of the town's manunuli or circumciser who has questions about her sexuality. Bethrothed to a man whom she has no feelings for, she feels trapped in this relationship and wishes to break free from it. But in a town steeped in customs regarding the respective roles of the sexes. Daisy realizes she's up against a brick wall. Desperate, she gets her self pregnant by another man who is octracized for being the town's remaining uncircumcised male. What happens from hereon is a tests of wills with Daisy's compromised action putting a dent on the towns views regarding manhood.

* Desiree Del Valle
* Carlo Aquino
* Vanna Garcia
* Luis Alndy
* Eugene Domingo
* Bembol Roco

Starring : Jayson Abalos , Gerald Anderson , Geoff Eigenmann , Kim Chiu , Maja Salvador , More

Synopsis: The journey is solving the geatest mysteries of life begins on the first day of school. Brainy Indi (Kim), MVP MJ2 (Gerald), Sosy Page Rankingè (Maja), Rebel Gael (Geoff) and Nice Guy Nathan (Jason) are college freshmen who enter FDH University without knowing what college life will bring them. Until they all got involved in the biggest mystery the university has ever encountered - B.W.C.A. or Basketball Water Contamination Accident. Initial investigation shows that the water drank by the players during the game was contaminated by a mysterious substance. But the more surprising finding was that the culprit is from the same school. Who is responsible for all this?!

Adapted from Orlando Nadres award-wining one-act play about homosexuality, Hanggang Dito Na Lamang At Maraming Salamat is the story of a closet gay and repressed pawnshop owner, "Uncle" Fidel, who has been supporting and sending Efren to school. Although they are not even blood-related, Fidel treats him more than a real son... because he is secretly in love with him.

Nobody in town knows about Fidel's secret except for his best friend, the flamboyant Julie, the town's beautician, who is more open with his sexuality. He advises Fidel to come to terms with his true nature. Julie believes that Fidel should be able to get something in return from Efren by way of affection for all the things he has done for him and the money he spends for his schooling.

However, things turn for the worse when Efren drops a bomb: He has decided to marry his school sweetheart. The announcement devastates Fidel and strains his frienship with Julie.

After the dust has settled, there is clearly no winner, only two souls left empty and hurting.

Screen heartthrob Cogie Domingo plays a young man coming to grips with his own mortality. This he gleans from the point of view of a soul in transit struggling with the task of giving closure to unfinished business in the mortal world from where he has just passed on, although in a manner so untimely.

In the process, getting down to the very core of love, life and the meaning of existence as he hovers angel-like over those he has left behind, his angst-ridden mom, played by Dina Bonnevie; a belligerent younger brother, essayed powerfully by newcomer Alwyn Uytingco; and his teenage girlfriend, Maxene Magalona.

When Cogie meets up with another wandering soul, played by Jiro Manio, who reveals to him the redemptive power of acceptance; helped along by a spirit guide, fleshed out in the movie by Paolo Ballesteros, a new dimension to humanity becomes clear to Cogie and the loved ones he has left behind, especially his family.

Dina Bonnevie
Ricky Davao
Cogie Domingo
Maxene Magalona
Jiro Manio
Paolo Ballesteros