Best movies like Ang Araw sa Likod Mo
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Magic Temple
The magical world of "Samadhi" is threatened by the evil forces of Ravenal and Sifu sends out three teenage boys to journey on the Magic Temple. Jubal, Sambag, and Omar, each with their own unique power battle the threat to the world of Samadhi and along the way face many extraordinary things. The boys are sure to face a huge battle ahead of them but with the help of magical creatures they met along their journey, evil is eliminated and they learn the true value of camaraderie and believing in themselves to face any problem.
Cavite
After arriving in Manila to attend his father's funeral, a Filipino-American is lured into a conspiracy by a mysterious voice on the other end of his cellphone. In order to save the lives of his surviving family members, the expat must perform a series of dangerous tasks amid the labyrinth of the Filipino underworld.
Across The Crescent Moon
The story revolves around a SAF exemplary Agent, Abbas Misani a Muslim who is married to Emma, whose parents with strict Christian upbringing would not accept both Abbas and Emma to their family.
Under Two Flags
Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends Victor on dangerous assignments to be rid of him. He falls in love with Lady Venetia Cunningham, a visitor to the garrison
Humble Beauty: Skid Row Artists
A story about talented homeless and formerly homeless fine arts painters in the worst section of Los Angeles known as Skid Row. People will create art no matter how humble the circumstances.
Manila Calling
During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.
A Royal Seaside Romance
A real estate agent helps a prince who keeps his identity a secret buy property in his magical seaside hometown. After seeing the houses and spending time together, they become friends and then team up to stop the rebuilding of the town's port. But will the prince's true identity prevent a romance between them?
Mistah: Mga Mandirigma
Witness the soldiers who risk their lives for the protection of the people. Giving up their personal hapiness to respond to the call of duty, the dedicated servicemen encounter tremendous excitement in the battlefield as the conflict between Christians and Muslims soar in Mindanao. A heartwarmng story about camaraderie and dedication.
New Moon
Ahmad belongs to the Bangsamoro people. While many of his kind are bent on fighting, thinking that Mindanao is only for the Muslims, Ahmad prefers to live a simple and peaceful life. He works as a doctor in Manila while his wife, Fatima, and his only son, Ibrahim, stay in Mindanao with his mother, Farida. Ahmad is shocked and devastated when Fatima breaks the confounding news. Ibrahim was killed by a stray bullet when vigilantes indiscriminately fire at their village. Ahmad goes back to where he came from Mindanao. Ibrahim’s death did not cause Ahmad to stop striving to live a peaceful life, much to the consternation of his brother, Musa. His brother takes an exactly opposite stand. Musa believes in waging a war against all the Kaafir (unbelievers) who may impede the Moro’s goal of independence. He even trains his young son, Rashid to a Muslim warrior’s life.
You and Me Against the World
Paolo Guerrero is a former criminal who is trying to live a peaceful life in Mindanao. He gets entangled again in a web of crime when he comes back to Manila.
Batong Buhay
Friendship as strong rocks, love as enduring as the heavens sacrifice without any parallel in a story with hardly an equal.
Kris Commando
Muslims and Christians clash in this thoughtful Filipino war movie. Kiram Sali and his Muslim rebels launch a series of attacks on the army but his brother Omar would just rather see his country in peace. Following the rebel's murder of Army General Basco, holy war follows. Omar turns to violence and ends up in a showdown with General Basco's best man Captain Reyes.
Diligin Man Ng Dugo
Anthony Alonzo is an idealistic army captain who believes in the government’s reform programs for the people of Mindanao.
Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War
Crucible of Empire demonstrates how and why the Spanish-American War constitutes such an important milestone in U.S. history. This program examines the events and attitudes that led to war, followed by an exploration of the conflict and its outcome. Early film footage and stills of battle scenes, plus rich visuals, a compelling story, and intriguing analogies to current foreign policy make Crucible of Empire a riveting documentary.
Bedtime Stories
A trilogy about desire, obsession and ultimately, redemption. The film explores the dark and bizarre possibilities of love and relationships, while depicting the plight of women as they are empowered in a world where discrimination and violence against women persist
Maria Labo
A popular urban legend about a woman "aswang" who cooked and ate her two children. The legend is popular in the Visayas and in Mindanao
Jungle Love
Jungle Love follows a handful of people who have disappeared into the jungle: a woman who has kidnapped her sister's child; an urbane couple and their indigenous guide; a bored and horny platoon; and a nameless tribe. Disappearance has another meaning in Sanchez’s native Mindanao, where a decades-old conflict between the government and secessionists fighting for an Islamic state has made the region infamous for its kidnappings. Sanchez took inspiration from an incident in which a friend living abroad visited an exhibition, and found a photo of him labeled as one of the disappeared. Jungle Love is permeated with this sense of the uncanny, as narratives and identities fracture and fuse into one another in the reckless, lonely places people go to escape themselves.
Shadow Behind the Moon
The armed conflict between the Philippine military and the communist resistance at the beginning of the 1990s forms the backdrop to this study of three individuals who, for different reasons, are trying to resolve an untenable situation.
Banaue: Stairway to the Sky
Amidst the background of the rice terraces, the story of an Igorota and daughter of a chieftain is told as she underwent trials to keep another tribe from conquering her own.
Sana, Bukas Pa Ang Kahapon
Three friends made their way in the big city. One ended up the mistress of a rich married man. Another became a suicidal prostitute. And the third found true love where it had always been all along despite her long fruitless search. In the end they all thought of the things they should never have done, wondering what might have been had these tomorrows been their yesterdays.
The Mission: A Marawi Siege Story
"Ang MISYON" (A Marawi Siege Story) is a socio-political, action-packed narrative drama movie that showcases the current events in Mindanao, specifically in Marawi City. But the film deals more on the characters rather than the place, exposing another vantage point of interpreting the real story that occurred during the siege in the entire place. It highlights the complicated world of the protagonist-antagonist Muslim Registered Nurse SAJID TUMAWIL, who gets into the socio-political turmoil, instead of just being a staff nurse helping the ill and the sick in his hometown, only to be discovered by the military men that he belongs to the Extremist groups of Maute Islamiyah having a bipolar personality.
Ave
A princess seeks refuge in a Convent to escape an arranged marriage. A young prince tries to make sense of his station. A giant bird mysteriously appears after centuries of absence. MASLA A PAPANOK (AVE) mixes history, myth, memory and magic to reimagine the Spanish colonial period in Mindanao like never before.
Escape to Mindanao
Two American POWs break out of a Japanese jungle prison camp with their captors' secret decoding device and try to reach freedom despite being slowed by an opportunistic sea captain, his pretty daughter, and a black marketeer.
When I Fall in Love
A story about Fely and Armando, a year before their 40th wedding anniversary, Armando, a doctor, is diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Resigned to the fact that his chances of recovery are slim, he chooses to spend the little time he has left with Fely and his three children: Ricky, Nica, and Louie.
The Blind Soldiers
Set in a rural Mindanao, as the Japanese invasion intensifies, five men from the Teduray tribe of Cotabato enlisted in the United States of Armed Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) during the World War Two. What starts as a noble intention soon turns out to be a nightmare when they realized the magnitude of the war they signed up for, compounding their struggle is the fact that they are illiterates.
A story about the heroism, redemption, and sacrifice of both sides of the Mindanao conflict.
A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like Ang Araw sa Likod Mo Starring Ping Medina, Bong Cabrera, Mike Liwag, Bernard Laxa, and more. If you liked Ang Araw sa Likod Mo then you may also like: Banal, Ina Ka ng Anak Mo, Magic Temple, Cavite, Sheika and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
Banal
It is a story of friends that were trapped while hiking in a haunted forest.