Movies by Crisaldo Pablo

Hinala
Cris discovers that his five years relationships is about to end when his live-in boyfriend Michael leaves him supposedly for an out of the country business trip. He then embarks on a long journey to catch his lover and the third party, passing by his boyfriend's maternal home, his boyfriend's best friend, his own best friend and a mysterious acquaintance. Will Cris catch his boyfriend and will he be able to prevent their relationship from its inevitable ending? Not until someone dies so another can move on. Hinala is not only about fidelity...
Freshboys Asia: Campus Heartthrob (Go Wild)
Freshboy's Asia launches its series with a take on the heartthrobs of the campus often fantasized by gay men. The varsity hunk, the charismatic student leader, the cute geek, the neat guy and, the not ordinary guy are but variations to the ideal boy that young college gays want to win their hearts.

Campus Crush
Cris is a nerd college student who is at peace with his sexuality and yet maintains his virginity. His best friend, Chamyto, on the other hand, is determined to get every campus hunk that he can afford to validate himself. When three gorgeous hunks start a contest to befriend a loser for a week, both Chamyto and Cris become easy targets.

Bathhouse
One night while at the baths, young campus nerd Rico meets heartthrob Cris, the chemistry between them is immediately hot and intense. Once that fire cools Rico thinks he has found the ideal man but finds himself on a roller coaster ride of love, jealousy and infidelity as Cris continues his conquest of the baths. Made in the same guerrilla style of his earlier film, Cris Pablo once again uses striking images and strong characters to tell the story of gay life in the Philippines.

Metlogs (Metrosexual Adventures)
Metrosexual jologs (or country bumpkins) Joven, Rodel and Cris move to Manila to make it in the big city in this comedy that pokes fun at modern Filipino society. At odds with almost everyone they meet, the outsiders struggle to fit in no matter how hard they try. Luckily their gay hairdresser Vitarich is there to dole out pearls of wisdom.
Pitong Dalagita
When six girls and a guy all teenagers are found with their wrists slit on a high school playground, it's left to their guidance counselor to try to make sense of the mystery behind the apparent suicide pact. Told in nonlinear fashion, the story uses a multitude of perspectives interconnected flashbacks from surviving students to illuminate the desires, fears and insecurities that led to the devastating act.

Boylets
School friends who pass the time stealing copper electric wires and steel, betting cash in online computer games and doing sexual services to gay patrons. Krys’ best friend Joef is the leader of the pack and he is turning eighteen and is leaving the next day. Krys tries to control Joef’s last day and birthday celebration as he attempts to stop him from his plans. But will Krys be able to stop the guy he likes from leaving?

Discreetly
Cris and Nico has just recently celebrated their first year anniversary and Cris has decided to introduce him to his mother who live just outside the city. It's been a year since Cris last visited his mother. He intends to bring along his bestfriend Chamy so that he can slowly hint to his mother that he is gay and that Nico is his partner. Cris thinks that his plan will be perfect. What he does not know is that his mother has discovered that her son is gay and has sought the help of her congregation to exorcise him on the night of his vi...

Manong Konstru
A young man struggles with his burgeoning homosexuality. As his best friend starts to drift away, he develops a crush on a laborer that works for his father. He pursues his affections, to dangerous results.

Moreno
When Chris arrives at the village of T'boli in lake Sebu, South Cotabato, he thought he has left his dark recent past behind. He is working on commission as a video documentarist to make a profile on the women T'boli and their changing views on multiple marriages. The most affluent men, called Datu, marry more than once and each time pays dowry to the family of the women they marry. When a young T'boli woman, Ngapon, tells Chris that she wants to be free from a marriage that was set by her parents and to go to Manila, Chris begins to confron...

M2M Eyeball 2
The fun of one-time meet-ups with strangers you encounter. This is the second of the M2m Eyeball series, and the titillating and daring young men who bare give us a glimpse of the fun side of man-to-man dating… and sex.

Koverboyz Fantasies
They are the male bodies and faces that covered several boy magazines in the past and they have been objects of gay men’s fantasies. From models, pageant titlists to the ordinary male, Koverboyz brings you to sensual realms as we feature the models in situations where they try to satisfy themselves in order to satisfy you. The scenes are funny and campy in order to remind us that these are just fantasies and are not real. Still, the boys are hot!

Boarders
Young Jonard is a discreet gay who works as a caretaker for his cousin's (Muhjang) boarding house for students and young male professionals. Muhjang always maltreats Jonard who is always there for him when he needs him and is always there too for the boarders, who are just too happy to have him serve them and satisfy their special needs. One day, Muhjang finds out that the best way to be truly happy and loved by his boarders, specially by his long time crush Rusty, is to show them how he can respect his lowly cousin Jonard.

Swerte Ni Maxin
Maximo (Roseller Kempis), a fatherless adolescent, who nurtures whimsical attraction with Joewel (Joeffrey Javier), a kanto boy who’s the object of affection of the neighborhood’s fledgling prepubescent gay boys. Maxin and his friends spy on the amused Joe even when he’s bathing. One day, Maxin gets word that Joe is holding a contest (a really ludicrous, albeit campy one involving “long hair” and money) and whoever wins gets to spend a night with Joe. But a gang war erupts and Joe finds himself running for cover – straight into Maxin’s house...

Showboyz
The manager of a failing gay bar and his macho dancer boyfriend are having relationship troubles as their business collapses around them. But things turn around when a provincial young man arrives looking for a childhood friend and becomes a part of their lives.

Haba
Two parallel lives: a young man who has no interest in finding a job and a young gay man who tries to make his poor living condition a happy place to be.

Dose, Trese, Katorse
A short film trilogy of pubescent love: Slow Motion, Swerte Ni Maxin and Luv U Tol.

Luv U Tol
Sieg (Joshua Domingo) and Gene (Alvin Notarte) grew up best friends. Gene is courting Ritz (Kathleen Empleo) and requires Sieg’s help to summon the girl’s attention. Inside a dingy pad they call “tambayan” - an empty room with a single mattress plopped down the floor and nothing else – the three characters exchange their awkward flirtations (if you could call it that). Unknown to Gene, Ritz is really attracted to the bashful Sieg who in turn seems more interested with his best friend than with Ritz. Released on compliation: Dose, trese, ka...

Quicktrip
Four couples who met through the Internet experience funny, sad, bittersweet and poignant situations that reflect how the Filipino romantic has adapted to the World Wide Web.

Slow Motion
Follows the ministrations of best friends Miguel (Jaycob Bulaong) and Edel (Edel Santiago) who are poles apart in their high school’s social strata. While Miguel is popular (he’s running for class governor), Edel is diffident and reluctant. And Miguel pushes Edel to come out of his introverted shell. They devise a plan meant to derail the political ambitions of school rival Maria. But their conspiratorial plan bogs down when they’re eventually found out. That Edel, who’s wooing Maria, is actually gay! What’s a young man to do when he’s more ...