Thriller in Manila (2008), Don King: Only in America (1997), I Was an American Spy (1951), BuyBust (2018), Yamashita (2001), Pound of Flesh (2015), Insiang (1976), Showdown in Manila (2016) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Manila, Philippines movies.
Storyline: The intense rivalry between American heavyweight boxers Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier is examined in this documentary. Smarting from his earlier defeat by Frazier, Ali fueled a bitter feud in the media, leading up to 1975's "Thrilla in Manila," the much-hyped Philippines-set rematch of the two titans. The film depicts the landmark fight, which lasted 14 rounds, and also reveals what was happening outside of the ring as Ali and Frazier relentlessly pummeled each other.
Plot Keywords: boxer, rival, trainer, brutal, intense, manila, philippines, boxing ring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Don King (Ving Rhames) is involved in two fistfights that result in the deaths of his combatants, and, after serving prison time, enters the world of professional boxing. Chatty, with a memorable head of hair, King becomes the promoter for Muhammad Ali (Darius McCrary) and other champions, and he stages lucrative boxing spectacles in the Philippines, Zaire, Atlantic City, Reno and Las Vegas. Despite King's success, he's beset by critics who say he cons his fighters out of their ring earnings.
Plot Keywords: athlete, muhammad ali, boxer, promoter, journalist, fascinating, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Begins in documentary style when U. S. Army General Mark Clark authenticates Claire Phillips' adventures and achievements, as an American citizen who rendered invaluable services to her country in Manila during the Japanese occupation, and at the end, when she is presented a medal by a Presidential representative: Claire Phillips, a café entertainer in Manila, marries a U.S. soldier on December 8, 1941, after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, and when he is killed fighting the Japanese invasion of the Phillipines, she returns to her calling as a means of obtaining and transmitting to the American and Filipino guerillas information, supplies and services which the Filipino underground uses in its aid to the Allied forces fighting the Japanese invaders. She has narrow escapes from detection and detention, until she is finally exposed as a spy, arrested, convicted and imprisoned.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: secret agent, dancer, spy, soldier, tense, thrilling, manila, philippines ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After surviving the slaughter of her entire squad in a drug raid compromised by dirty cops, anti-narcotics special operative Nina Manigan (Anne Curtis), is eager to go head-to-head with the drug cartels that hold a bloody grip on Manila. But when her new mission in the city's most dangerous slum goes south, the angry civilians turn on her squad. Trapped between a brutal drug gang and hordes of bloodthirsty citizens, their only option is to fight their way out, turning one claustrophobic street at a time into a symphony of apocalyptic violence.
Plot Keywords: drug enforcement agent, drug dealer, villager, gang leader, gang member, intense, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Aging Carmelo likes telling his grandson, Jobert about his youth in the Philippines. Jobert especially likes the stories about Carmelo's time in World War II, where he helped bury the legendary Yamashita treasure. When Carmelo is kidnapped, it is left to Jobert to go to Manila, using his grandfather's diary to find the treasure and save Carmelo before a Japanese crime boss steals the fortune.
Plot Keywords: old man, grandson, son, friend, crime boss, government official, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man's heroic attempt to help a woman in distress ends up with him waking up the next day without a kidney and plotting his revenge.
Plot Keywords: agent, secret agent, man, niece, brother, criminal, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a teenager is raped by her mother's boyfriend, she sets out to exact revenge on anyone who has hurt her.
Plot Keywords: young woman, mother, daughter, boyfriend, love interest, uncle, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Private detectives who live and work in Manila begin working on a murder investigation, which leads them to the jungle camp of an international terrorist.
Plot Keywords: police officer, russian, soldier, teammate, gangster, detective, brutal ...
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