Movies by Althea Vega

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.

Diablo
Every night, Nana Lusing lies on her bed sleepless because she sees a dark figure looming in her room. Who is this shadow? Is this the devil? Her late husband? A manifestation of her anxieties? Or simply a figment of her imagination?

Love and Death
An erotic 16th Century period drama, the film examines the initial encounter between the Indios (natives) and their colonizers (Spaniards) and their conflicting views on love, passion, religion and sexuality.
Big Night
A group of male and female prostitutes make preparations for a big event happening at a shady club where audiences will come to watch them perform sexual acts on stage. As the big night looms, they begin to feel the consequences of their profession.
Malinak Ya Labi
It is a custom in some towns in Pangasinan to offer a life of an animal when constructing buildings, but one day during the town’s fiesta they discover the body of a young boy that leads to a chain of story and a chain of deaths.

I Love Dreamguyz
Film about the struggles of Filipino dancers who want to make it big in Japan.
Law Law Gang
Law Law Gang is about a group of petty thieves who found themselves incarcerated for petty crimes they did trying to survive their respective hard lives. While inside the jail, the five men find resolve and bonded together with common conviction never again to commit anything illegal when they get the chance to get out. Instead, they all feel they should be doing their share in improving the lives of their brethren, especially the poor people they meet along the way.