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Browse 11 movies from Pelikula Indiopendent
A seductive female garbage collector who embraces the life of an escort lady. Desperate to live a comfortable life, she leaves the dumpsite and enters the club. But can she also dump both her brother and her lover who remind her of her past?
Jun 2025
A timid staff member secretly fantasizes about the motel's alluring regular guest, who is a known hooker. He finds himself realizing his wildest fantasies when one encounter with his dream girl leads to nights of passion in the town's most sinful inn.
Dec 2025
Kara, a young inmate who unleashes her hidden sexual fantasies while serving time. After meeting Lila, a seductive inmate played by Jenn Rosa, Kara finds a new purpose in life. But her dark past still haunts her even behind bars.
Jul 2025
A young woman begins to unravel her stepfather’s dangerous obsession, pulling her into a seductive web of secrets that pits her against her own mother and spirals into a tense battle of desire and betrayal in this remake of the 2001 cult classic.
Nov 2025
A new girl in town uses seduction and mind games to tear a loving couple apart. Her motive: lust with a little bit of business.
A sexually frustrated woman purchases an antique vanity table that becomes an unexpected companion for her erotic fantasies.
Sep 2025
During a film shoot where abuse is disguised as artistic direction, a comeback actress commits a devastating performance to survive, exposing how cinema can construct and legitimize violence. In Ang Lihim ni Teresa (Teresa's Secret), she enters a set where authority is absolute and cruelty is framed as discipline. As production unfolds, she loses control over body, emotion, and authorship, where survival is mistaken for consent. When violence escalates, she chooses to live, burying the truth as the director’s collapse is rewritten as myth. The set becomes a crime scene without witnesses. In the aftermath, she is praised for her “courage” while a sound technician retreats into silence. At a commemorative screening, celebration fractures, revealing cinema’s ability to transform violence into narrative and absolution. The myth of the Kataw appears briefly through Ang Lihim ng Kataw (The Secret of Kataw).
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On a late-night train, seven passengers see a man harassing a woman but don’t intervene for various personal reasons. The woman, Michelle, is later assaulted. The passengers face personal misfortunes connected to the incident. Haunted by visions, Angel eventually decides to seek justice. With the help of Michelle’s ghost, the rapist is punished, and the passengers find some resolution.
Oct 2024
Richardson, Reggie and Melvin have have been friends for many years despite working in different fields. They decided to go on a vacation, finding themselves in hilarious situations, but at the same time, they are able to address some family issues. Everything’s going perfectly well until the night Reggie collapses. And then it all comes crashing down.
May 2023
When the local government threatens to evict her from her own land, a farmer renounces her Filipino citizenship and builds her own micronation.
May 2026
Two filmmakers, in need of money, witnessed the real colors of a corrupt politician when they accepted the project to shoot a campaign ad inside the Maximum Security Prison.
Sep 2022