Lav Diaz Movies

"Right now, I’m working on a film that discourses on false ideologies and false prophets.” – Lav Diaz

Ricardo accidentally kills his lover and requests his friend Mando, to serve the punishment. Meanwhile, the latter discovers that his friend ordered...

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...

A man appears to a female reporter and claims he is the famous kidnapper that has the world astir and promises to turn himself in if she listens to...

Lav Diaz stated in an interview that this spin-off to his 2025 film Magellan focused on the navigator's wife, Beatriz, is set to last 9 hours and...

A sequel to "Heremias Book One: The Legend of the Lizard Princess" (2006).

Galvez seeking for justice.

To this day, Ishmael Bernal's movie Himala is still in our town, in our world. This will be reflected in the broader perspective of the majority, of...

After three decades' wrongful incarceration for murder, a woman discovers that her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder of which she was...

A poet hearkens back to his Philippine village after years abroad in Europe. Horrified to discover that the community has been buried under...

A third film in Lav Diaz's The Hermes Trilogy.

'Noli Me Tángere' (Latin for Touch Me Not) is an adaptation of Filipino writer José Rizal's national epic, which helped inspire the...

Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.

A journalist investigates a woman with the name of China Doll. Soon, he discovers his knowledge of her turns out to be dangerous.

Faced with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody murders and brazen lies, ethically conflicted police lieutenant Hermes Papauran...

Black and white historical drama

In dreary Porac Pampanga, a young man, Daniel, abandons his motherland after winning the biggest cash prize in the history of Philippine lottery....

For the 30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille about thirty directors have done us the honor of offering us some very beautiful short films.

Hilarion Zabala has a mysterious, recurring olfactory problem. A psychiatrist suspects a lingering case of phantosmia, a phantom smell, and possibly...