Manila in the Claws of Light
Manila in the Claws of Light

Manila in the Claws of Light

Watch TrailerWatch Movie
1975
2h 7m
7.3(70 votes)
Drama
Mystery

Overview

Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.

Links & Resources

WebsiteIMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Videos & Trailers

4 videos

Cast & Crew

49 members
Acting

Bembol Roco

Julio Madiaga

Bembol Roco
Acting

Hilda Koronel

Ligaya Paraiso

Hilda Koronel
Acting

Lou Salvador Jr.

Atong

Lou Salvador Jr.
Acting

Tommy Abuel

Pol

Tommy Abuel
Acting

Lily Gamboa Mendoza

Perla

Lily Gamboa Mendoza
Acting

Joonee Gamboa

Omeng

Joonee Gamboa
Acting

Pio De Castro III

Imo

Pio De Castro III
Acting

Joe Jardi

Frank

Joe Jardi
Acting

Spanky Manikan

Gido

Spanky Manikan
Acting

Danilo Posadas

Benny

No Image
Acting

Pancho Pelagio

Mr. Balajadia

Pancho Pelagio
Acting

Bobby Roldan

Call Boy

Bobby Roldan
Acting

Jerry O'Hara

Call Boy

Jerry O'Hara
Acting

Rudy Hermano

Call Boy

No Image
Acting

Rikki Jimenez

Rikki

No Image
Acting

Chiqui Xerxes-Burgos

Cesar

No Image
Acting

Tommy Yap

Ah Tek

Tommy Yap
Acting

Juling Bagabaldo

Mrs. Cruz

Juling Bagabaldo
Acting

Joe Gruta

Man

Joe Gruta
Acting

Nina Lorenzo

Prostitute

No Image
Acting

Mely Mallari

Shopkeeper

No Image
Acting

Fred Capulong

Policeman

No Image
Writing

Orlando Nadres

Discotheque Owner

No Image
Acting

Estrella Kuenzler

Woman

Estrella Kuenzler
Acting

Edwin O'Hara

Mr. Kadyo

No Image
Acting

Lorli Villanueva

Woman in Rizal Park

Lorli Villanueva
Directing

Mario O'Hara

Activist Leader

Mario O'Hara
Acting

Sibyl Santiago

Girl in the Plaza

No Image
Acting

Edipolo Erosido

Eddie

No Image
Acting

Purita Yap

Ligaya's Mother

Purita Yap
Acting

Josephine Gutierrez

Ligaya's Brother

No Image
Acting

Gina Zegui

Ligaya's Brother

No Image
Acting

Ronnie Magalong

Ligaya's Brother

No Image
Acting

Anna Marie Nicolas

Young Ligaya

No Image
Acting

Victor Diendo

Young Julio

No Image
Acting

Abelardo Reyes

Father

No Image
Costume & Make-Up

Julie de Guzman

Wife

No Image
Acting

Brenda Fajardo

Woman

No Image
Acting

Cita Javellana

Store Buyer

No Image
Acting

Ellen Cacho

Command

No Image
Acting

Sabrina

Sabrina

No Image
Acting

Pitay

Pitay

No Image
Acting

Veronica

Veronica

No Image
Acting

Jun Macapinlac

Gay

No Image
Production

Ricardo de Guzman

Discotheque Customer

No Image
Production

Socrates B. Jose

Discotheque Customer

No Image
Acting

Greg Llenado

Discotheque Customer

No Image
Production

Arturo Soquerata

Pickpocket

Arturo Soquerata
Acting

Jojo Abella

Bobby

No Image

Similar Movies

Sugar
4.8
2004

Sugar

Cliff receives an unusual 18th birthday gift from his younger sister — marijuana, alcohol, a subway token and the mission to lose his virginity. This results in Cliff meeting a young street hustler named Butch. At first, as Butch introduces Cliff to gay street life in Toronto, Cliff is excited by his new relationship. But as the two grow closer, he finds that Butch has problems, including drug addiction, that are cause for serious concern.

Movie
Born in Flames
6.1
1983

Born in Flames

In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.

Movie
No Skin Off My Ass
6.3
1991

No Skin Off My Ass

A lonely hairdresser watches the title sequence of "That Cold Day in the Park" then visits a local park to invite a down-and-out skinhead to his apartment. He draws the silent man a bath and talks to him as he soaks. He locks his guest in a bedroom. Next day, the skinhead leaves through the window and visits his sister, who's making a film called "Sisters of the SLA." He helps with a screen-test. The hairdresser has dreams and fantasies involving the skinhead, the skinhead returns to visit him, and then the filmmaker pays a call on the two men, exposing her brother as faking his silence and pretending a lack of sexual interest. Fantasies can come true.

Movie
Total Eclipse
6.4
1995

Total Eclipse

Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.

Movie
Fireworks
7.4
2023

Fireworks

The troubled relationship between Gianni and Nino, set in the narrow-minded and prejudicial Sicily of 1982.

Movie
The Bitch Who Stole Christmas
4.7
2021

The Bitch Who Stole Christmas

A workaholic big-city fashion journalist is sent to a Christmas-obsessed small town to dig up a story when she finds herself in the middle of cut-throat housewives, a high-stakes “Winter Ball” competition, and a sinister plot that could destroy Christmas fore-evah!

Movie
School Trip
6.6
2005

School Trip

The class of a normal German school travel to a small village in Poland near the sea where no action of any kind can take place. Due to this fact they focus on themselves. Especially one girl, Isa, has to choose between two boys who are fighting against each other. Then a final "test" is made to come to a decision... a test with final results.

Movie
Lookin' Italian
6.5
1994

Lookin' Italian

After an unfortunate incident causes him to leave the "family business" and move to Los Angeles, Vinny Pallazzo is living a quiet life. When his nephew, Anthony, moves in with him, Vinny slowly learns to live life to the fullest again. However, Anthony is young, and is living life in the fast lane. He brings out the demons from Vinny's past. Now Vinny must try to stop Anthony from making the same mistakes that changed his life forever.

Movie
Heaven's Prisoners
5.3
1996

Heaven's Prisoners

A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash draws him back into the fray when his family is viciously threatened.

Movie
3 Guys, 1 Girl, 2 Weddings
4.3
2004

3 Guys, 1 Girl, 2 Weddings

Romance meets farce against the backdrop of a quiet campaign to legalize gay marriage. Laurent loves his roommate Dan, who's straight and a playboy. Laurent can't bring himself to tell Dan, but is content to share a flat and to party with him. Then Camille comes along, Dan falls hard, and Laurent is beside himself: he tries to sabotage the relationship, but each effort backfires. After Dan moves in with Camille, Laurent enlists the help of Sam, his new lesbian flatmate, and Nick, a long-time gay friend. As the lovers head toward marriage, Laurent becomes more desperate. His efforts may be having an effect, if not on Dan, then on Camille. Which love will triumph?

Movie
The Graduate
7.6
1967

The Graduate

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

Movie
Remotely Killed: Behind the Scenes of Murder
10.0
2020

Remotely Killed: Behind the Scenes of Murder

This is the 58 minutes Hulu version which contains spoiler/reveals throughout the special.

Movie
Parasite
8.5
2019

Parasite

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

Movie
Bolero
6.9
1981

Bolero

The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.

Movie
The Senator
7.0
2024

The Senator

Senator Arthur Alencar leads a double life. In the media and to his constituents, he portrays himself as a family man and a defensor of morals and good values. However, behind the spotlight, he is entangled in corruption schemes and maintains his sexual toy, the young Renan. But everything changes when Renan meets Victor, a daring journalist who will stop at nothing to expose the senator.

Movie
Out to Kill
2.4
2014

Out to Kill

When private investigator Jim Noble moves into a beautiful loft complex in Tampa, he never expects to find his first case literally right outside his door - the corpse of one of his neighbors, right in the middle of the complex's courtyard. When he's hired to solve the crime, Jim quickly learns that everyone in the complex has secrets, and that someone was willing to kill to keep their secrets hidden.

Movie
The Big Night
6.7
1951

The Big Night

A young man zigzags through the sordid vortex of downtown Los Angeles while seeking vengeance on the man that beat his father.

Movie
FAQs
5.1
2005

FAQs

After living on the tough streets of LA for a while, India hopes that every gay basher will meet his destiny. In this case Destiny is a black, 6 foot, high heel wearing, gun toting, drag queen with an attitude and a soft place in her heart for homeless gay boys.

Movie
Lamat
3.0
2014

Lamat

Complicated relationship between a straight couple and a gay boy.

Movie
Esprit de Corps
5.3
2014

Esprit de Corps

Many have been aspiring for the position of Major Mac Favila, who is every cadet's ideal officer considering he is sharp, snappy, witty, and most of all, the most masculine among the school's many officers. Private Abel Sarmiento, who was abused when he was a child and Cain Fujika, a Filipino-Japanese whose mother worked abroad as a japayuki are the top contenders for his position.

Movie

Recommended Movies

The Childe
7.2
2023

The Childe

Han, a Filipino-Korean boxer hits the final punch against his opponent at an illegal game and returns home with a few dollars to pay for his mother's surgery.

Movie
Close Your Eyes
7.1
2023

Close Your Eyes

Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.

Movie
Metro Manila
7.3
2013

Metro Manila

Looking for a brighter future in metropolitan Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family leave their miserable life in the rice terraces of Banaue, in the northern Philippines. In the sweltering capital, where all kind of perils lurk in every corner, Oscar catches a lucky break when he is offered a steady work for an armored truck company and the senior officer Ong takes him under his wing.

Movie
A Ghost Story
7.1
2017

A Ghost Story

Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.

Movie
Òlòtūré
6.3
2019

Òlòtūré

In Lagos, Nigeria, young, naive Nigerian journalist Òlòtūré goes undercover to expose the shady underworld of human trafficking. Unused to this brutal environment, crawling with ruthless traders and pimps, Òlòtūré finds warmth and friendship with Blessing, Linda and Beauty, the prostitutes she lives with. However, she gets drawn into their lifestyle and finds it difficult to cope. In her quest to uncover the truth, she pays the ultimate price - one that takes her to the verge of no return.

Movie
Long Day's Journey Into Night
7.0
2018

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years ago. He begins the search for the woman he loved and whom he has never been able to forget.

Movie
Radiance
6.5
2017

Radiance

The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.

Movie
Moonlight
7.4
2016

Moonlight

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

Movie
Dear Ex
7.2
2018

Dear Ex

When Sanlian's ex-husband passes away, she discovers he has altered his insurance policy, cutting out their son in favor of a stranger named Jay.

Movie
Houseguests
5.9
2020

Houseguests

A sudden tragedy hits a wealthy middle-class family from North-East Italy. Tensions, hidden secrets and small hypocrisies emerge.

Movie
Tom at the Farm
6.8
2014

Tom at the Farm

A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.

Movie
Worlds Apart
6.4
2015

Worlds Apart

Three separate narratives each following a love story between a foreigner and a Greek. Each story represents a different generation falling in love during a time of socioeconomic turmoil that dominates Southern Europe as a whole, only to connect as a single story in the end.

Movie
Kaili Blues
7.1
2016

Kaili Blues

Chen Sheng goes off in search of his nephew who has been abandoned by his father. Along the way, he encounters numerous people from his past and also those from his future.

Movie
Green Butterflies
7.1
2017

Green Butterflies

Mateo is an intelligent boy who falls in love with Daniel, but when everyone reveals that relationship, Mateo is at a crossroads, and he will have to decide between fighting his adversities or giving up everything, even his life.

Movie
Lola and the Sea
6.4
2019

Lola and the Sea

Just when Lola, 18 years old and transgender, learns that she can finally have surgery, her mother, who is her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her mother’s last wishes, Lola and her father, who are permanently in conflict and have not seen each other for two years, undertake a journey all the way to the Belgian coast. They realize the outcome of the journey may not be the one they were both expecting...

Movie
The Last Match
7.2
2013

The Last Match

Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier falls in love with a mate in the slum soccer field in their neighbourhood in Havana. Although obsessed with moneymaking to hold up his baby, teen wife, and wife's grandma, gambler Reinier always fails to get the stroke of luck he looks for. At the same time he cannot help being infatuated by Yosvani. Handsome Yosvani will give up his older, wealthy girlfriend (whom he hooked up to pay for a lavish life in the big city), and the work he does for her father, a loan thug, so much in love he is with Reinier. But the boys would fight hard to keep this love in the reckless Havana streets.

Movie
4 Moons
7.1
2014

4 Moons

Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.

Movie
Forever First Love
7.1
2020

Forever First Love

Paul is an international photographer who travels the world to capture the perfect photographic moment. Amid the colour and chaos of a crowded Filipino market, destiny intervenes when Paul’s first love, Anna appears in his lens. The travellers spend the day exploring the beauty of the 16th century town and whilst passions reignite, their principles on relationships, religion and morality clash. The night they spend together will change everything.

Movie
In the Grayscale
6.2
2015

In the Grayscale

Bruno is an architect who has a perfect life: A nice family and a good job. Anyway, Bruno has a deep sense of unease. He decides to leave his wife to be alone and have time to find him self. A business man offers him to build an iconic landmark in Santiago city. Motivated by this professional challenge, Bruno feels he can find a twist in his life by a vocational route. He start working with a young history teacher named Fer who is agile, energetic, captivating and gay. Starts between them an unexpected and intense romance. At this point he must decide his path. The biggest learning: simplicity is the best way to get up again.

Movie
The Firefly
6.8
2013

The Firefly

After her estranged brother's sudden death, young wife Lucia bonds with his fiancée through their shared grief and finds herself falling in love.

Movie