Movies by Tony Santos

Kampanerang Kuba

Kampanerang Kuba

Vilma Santos is Andang, a kind, honest, and devout hunchback who lives in the church's bell tower.

The Tenants

The Tenants

It proceeds to document the stages of sugar production once in the mill then shifts to the unrest outside where a sakada was shot to death by one of the hacienda's guards. A sakada is a farmer who works in a sugarcane field, harvesting it during the months of October to December.

Child of Sorrow

Child of Sorrow

A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila.

The Sea Gypsies

The Sea Gypsies

Hassan, the son of a tribe chief of the Badjaos, a pagan, sea-dwelling Filipino tribe, meets and falls for Bala Amai, the niece of the chief of the Tausugs, an Islamic, land-dwelling tribe. Although the Hassan is willing to give up his lifestyle for Bala Amai and vice versa, the Tausugs plot to break up the union of the happy couple.

Blessings of the Land

Blessings of the Land

Maria and Jose, a young married couple begin life together in an orchard in the countryside. It isn't long until they have four children: Miguel, Arturo, Angelita, and Lito. The eldest, Miguel, is a deaf-mute. Life is good for the family and the children grow up and bring joy to the community. But trouble enters their lives when Jose makes an enemy of Bruno, a widower, much feared in the village.

Doctor X

Doctor X

Madman or Scientist? See this amazing comedy-mystery teeming with giant animals, and tiny human beings. A thousand and one thrills and laughs.

Prinsipe Teñoso

Prinsipe Teñoso

Prince Teñoso who is exiled by his father, the king after freeing the pitiful giant from jail. In gratitude, the giant gives Teñoso a magic handkerchief that can tame animals and can give him his wishes. As a beggar, Teñoso is despised by the princes, the king's soon-to-be sons-in-law, but eventually is recognized as the hero responsible for curing the king's illness, and winning the king's battles against the moors.

Huwag Mong Itanong Kung Bakit

Huwag Mong Itanong Kung Bakit

Aning is a maid in the Cuevas household. She is raped by an unknown assailant and comes home to the province pregnant. Her older sister Dinya serves the Cuevas household to search for the culprit. She catches the culprit but at the cost of her own vitrue.

Joyful Mystery

Joyful Mystery

The fortunes of three impoverished friends and their families abruptly change after an airplane crashes in a nearby mountain. They rush to the crash site along with all the villagers, not to help the victims but to plunder their valuables. A dead American passenger carried a large amount of money in his briefcase which Mesiong, Ponsoy, and Jamin find and avariciously keep for themselves. But the town mayor gets greedy and with his hirelings abducts the three to divest them of their booty.

Dagohoy

Dagohoy

Dedicated to the valiant Boholano hero Francisco Dagohoy, this film shows the real causes that impelled the Dagohoy Uprising.

Kontrabando

Kontrabando

Lieutenant Diego, a government intelligence officer, a G-2, becomes a double agent to gain entry into the sinister world of the smugglers of firearms, jewelry, and opium.