Boots Anson-Roa Movies

Filipino horror movie from 1976.

The film tells a story of large rural families suffering from economic insecurity in a remote part of the town of Magdalena, Laguna, where major life events are punctuated by the tollling of the church bells, and the coastal community of Dalahican, Quezon. Both places are homes of large families...

A story about a Filipino religious leader.

Nick Deocampo looks into the life of Filipino visual artist Victorio C. Edades. Recognized as the father of Philippine modernism, Edades is known for his formative influence among local artists with strong modernist leanings. In 1976, Edades was conferred National Artist for Visual Arts for his...

Hubad na Bayani explores the world of peasant revolts, cult organizations, talismans, and the fight for socio-economic reforms. The story revolves around Ruben a peasant who dreams of saving enough money to pay for the treatment of his sick mother, the education of his sister Pilar, as well as his...

Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1976 directed by Jose Yandoc and starred Ramon Revilla, Sr., Boots Anson-Roa, George Estregan, Rodolfo 'Boy' Garcia, Rez Cortez, and Max Alvarado

Drawing from his personal adventures, film director, Elwood Perez veers away from standard-issue plot conventions in this paradoxically moral tale of a young man en route to becoming a creative artist.

An ambitious policeman and his journey from the ranks and his struggle to balance love and his duties.

The Philippines is being geared up to be interconnected through a system called One Wired Nation (OWN). This would allow faster and easier access to information across the country, from the smallest barangay to Malacañang. With OWN, progress is inevitable, says Bert Javelo from Prime Connections,...

About a young painter who arrives at an island made of garbage. He uses the island and its denizens as his canvas and fights to protect the island from forces that threaten it.

Drama among family and friends unfold in Villa Miranda, a town in the world of false glories and true defeats.

A confused and angry farm boy brought up under the strict and seemingly unforgiving guidance of an exacting and domineering father gains initiation to both romance and heroism during the Philippine Revolution of 1896.