Lav Diaz

All Movies of Lav Diaz

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  Magellan
  Follow the incredible journey of Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese explorer who, in 1519, led the expedition that accomplished the world's first circumnavigation. Driven by the ambition to reach the East Indies, he set sail from ...
  Director of the film

   2025

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  Phantosmia
  Hilarion Zabala’s mysterious olfactory problem has recurred; a counselor/psychiatrist suspects it to be a lingering case of phantosmia, a phantom smell, and possibly caused by trauma, a deep psychological fracture. One recommend...
  Director of the film

   2024

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  5.0
  Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
  A bored office worker may have accidentally sparked a revolution in a bizarre dystopian world.
   2024

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  5.0
  Taxibol
  Driving through the streets of Cuba, acclaimed Filipino director Lav Diaz and spirited Cuban taxi driver Gustavo Flecha engage in profound discussions covering politics, emigration, social conditions, and love. Their personal anec...
  Character: Self

   2023

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  7.0
  Kapag Wala Na Ang Mga Alon
  Lt. Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators of the Philippines, is in a deep moral crossroad, being a witness to his institution's being a party to a murderous anti-drug campaign, which is spearheaded by no less than the pr...
  Director of the film

   2022

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  8.0
  The Halt
  Madmen control Manila in 2034 after massive volcanic eruptions have plunged Southeast Asia into darkness.
  Director of the film

   2019

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  7.3
  Season of the Devil
  An anti-musical musical, a rock opera, that delves into mythology.
  Director of the film

   2018

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  The Woman Who Left
  For Horacia Somorostro, living has become a veritable reclusión perpetua, an imprisonment. Life’s spins and randomness have been very difficult, vicious and inexplicable for her. The year is 1997. Princess Diana dies in a viole...
  Director of the film

   2016

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  7.3
  A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery
  This is the chronicle of the search by Gregoria de Jesus - one of the few women leaders of the Philippine resistance against Spain - for the body of her husband, Andres Bonifacio, who was executed on a mountain by a rival faction
  Director of the film

   2016

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  8.0
  Norte, the End of History
  A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country's never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison mor...
  Director of the film

   2013

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  5.5
  Venice 70: Future Reloaded
  70 short movies about cinema and its future.
  Director of the film

   2013

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  The Great Cinema Party
  A group of friends, sharing a passion for cinema, assemble in Corregidor, a small island in Manila Bay that has preserved relics from the Pacific War as its foremost attractions. There, they explore the island and retire in a rust...
   2012

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  7.0
  Melancholia
  Lav Diaz's Melancholia is an eight-hour meditation of sorts on the maddening persistence of sadness in this world, can logically be divided into three parts and an epilogue. The first part details the experiences in Sagada of Juli...
  Director of the film

   2008

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  Evolution of a Filipino Family
  Director of the film

   2005