Movies by Mario Escudero

Impaktita
The people of a small village believe they have an evil creature called an Impaktita living among them.

Kastilyong Buhangin
Mario O'Hara's melodrama about an aspiring singer and her ex-convict sweetheart.
Lucia
A strong-willed matriarch and her family leave their fishing village for Manila after an oil spill.

When the Crow Turns White, When the Heron Turns Black
"Pag-puti ng Uwak, Pag-itim ng Tagak" is a pulsating love story that recaptures the nostalgic fifties, the exciting era of mass hysteria, and the golden years of the rock and roll fever inflicted by screaming, wiggling hip-shaking foreign pop idols dominated by Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Pat Boone, Doris Day and the Platters. It is more than a love story. It is also a commentary - a satire rich with humor injected into a moral, psychological, sociological, and cultural aspect, outlook, and values of the said bygone era. It is...

Ang Panday IV
Fernando Poe, Jr. is back for the fourth time as Panday Flavio to combat evil once more.
Diegong Bayong
Simple living yet peaceful. First was his brother, a balut vendor.... next was his father who was just happy watching a mock-fight.... Followed by his mother. They were all killed without mercy and his beloved sister got raped. Diego a.k.a. Diegong Bayong had his revenge and put law on his hand and no one dares to blame.

Three Godless Years
A woman fell in love with a Japanese soldier, during the Japanese Occupation in the Philippines. The whole town turned against her.

Boatman
An erstwhile boatman wants to do a little more than paddle his own canoe in the town famed for its waterfalls. He leaves the village of his roots for the city and lands a job as a live-sex actor called toro in street lingo derived from the Spanish term for bull. Quick successes in his newfound profession delude him into regarding that the measure of a man is in his trousers. He has a partner on stage and off. Despite her cynicism and tough veneer, she sees in him a way out of the slums and the red light district.

Gaano Kadalas Ang Minsan?
They are two women in love with one man. One is the wife, the other is the mistress. And between them, the man whose love and time they share. But even the most discreet of affairs can be laid open, and the most submissive of wives can lose her patience. Vilma Santos, Hilda Koronel and Dindo Fernando lend their thespic talents to this moving tale of love, betrayal and retribution.

The Most Beautiful Animal in the World
One stormy night, in a sea side village, a childless couple finds a mysterious beautiful woman in the beach without any consciousness. The next day, the girl wakes up and introduces herself as Isabel.

Cobrador

Ang Dayuhan
A mysterious gunslinger came to town and was mistaken by Donya Isabel to be the person she hired to help her problem with Don Jose, her second husband. Greed consumed Don Jose, enlisted a band of notorious gunslingers to eliminate the daughter to claim the family's wealth.

Baril Sa Aking Kamay
Ariel is pursued by two groups the first one, is a group of three notorious gunslingers headed by Rufo and his two men, Labuyo and Mario. The fanatical Rufo was too obsessed to face Ariel to determine who between them was the fastest gun in the land after Ariel gunned down Diegong Kidlat, known for his fast draw; the second one, a posse led by a sheriff named Hepe also keen to find and arrest him on Diegong Kidlat’s death. Diegong Kidlat was the one responsible for the death of Ariel’s wife named Erlinda. Ariel had Erlinda’s name engraved on...

...At Sila'y Dumating
A story about a lone gunslinger and a bounty hunter who teams up to fight a deranged gang leader.