Ernie Zarate Movies

The story about a teenage boy, Antonio, whose emerging gay sexuality alienates him from his friends and family, until his libertine uncle, Jonbert,...

In 1985, in the obscure town of Dolores, the Orapronobis, a cult under the leadership of Kumander Kontra, murders a foreign priest who gave the last...

Filipino-American high school student Ben works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined...

A privileged teenager, disillusioned with the hypocrisy he witnesses in his small town, forms a bond with a lonely man with leprosy and a mentally...

This is the true story of Arsenio Cayanan, a Black Asian American whose challenges in his youth led him into a life of crime.

A teenage boy befriends a starlet who is having an affair with an ambitious mayor. As the elections are coming up, the mayor's wife wants him to get...

Barbara loves her little sister Ruth deeply. When Ruth becomes devilishly manipulative by threatening to kill herself if her sister doesn't break up...

In a time in the Philippines when the concept of divorce does not exist, a young woman has an affair with a married man. Eventually, they move in...

A cop and a corrupt judge clash continues. The judge, Valderama, seeks revenge against Lieutenant Guerrero after putting him in prison.

The story follows a neighborhood hero who champions the helpless children in a predominantly adult world.

A 1990 Filipino action film starring Phillip Salvador as Guiller Sta. Romana, a dedicated member of the police force.

An accident at a pharmaceutical lab turns the mild-mannered and unassuming Junie, an ice cream vendor, into a superhero. Junie finds out that being...

A nun is ostracized by her superiors after a brutal encounter with a rapist leaves her pregnant.

The plot concerns a small group of people who are forced to flee from their base (which happens to be a Mission) in an old school bus when the VC...

The melding together of two separate stories that share a similar premise - each detail the account of a young Filipino woman who becomes a victim of...

Only son, Carlitos, suddenly finds himself the man of an all-female household when his father dies of a heart attack. He falls in love with an...

Two lovers are separated but in a twist of fate, find themselves in a care of a syndicate leader. He is the bodyguard and she is the wife.

As the country’s most popular singer, Sarah has it all – beauty, wealth and fame. However, there remains a dark void in her life as she...

This second feature film based on the popular television series features two true legal cases. The first is of a nanny accused of kidnapping the...

When it is time for her to give birth, Andrea, a communist insurgent seeks refuge in the city to her best friend Joyce. When Andrea's husband is...