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  • PoetryFlorante at LauraFrancisco Balagtas · 1838The great Tagalog poem of the nineteenth century, a story of love and betrayal in an imaginary Albania.Literature
  • NovelNoli Me TangereNoli me tángereJosé Rizal · 1887The novel that put the Spanish friars in the Philippines on trial, written in Spanish by a twenty-six-year-old doctor.Literature
  • NovelRadiance and SunriseBanaag at SikatLope K. Santos · 1906The first great Tagalog social novel, in which two friends, a socialist and an anarchist, debate Philippine society.Literature
  • TaleFilipino Popular TalesDean Fansler · 1921The tales of the Philippine provinces, recorded within their families by the students of an American professor at the beginning of the twentieth century.Literature
  • CinemaPakiusapOctavio Silos · 1940A sung melodrama produced by a Manila studio on the eve of the war, in which the distances between a landowner and the families who farm his land drive the whole plot.Cinema
  • CinemaThe Dawn of FreedomYutaka Abe · 1944A propaganda film commissioned under the Japanese occupation, which puts the fall of Corregidor at the service of the idea of an Asia freed from Westerners.Cinema
  • NovelAmerica Is in the HeartCarlos Bulosan · 1946The great account of Filipino emigration to the United States in the thirties, between autobiography and novel.Literature
  • CinemaGenghis KhanManuel Conde · 1950An epic shot in the Philippines in the early fifties, which takes the youth of a Mongol conqueror as its subject and treats it with the means of a local craft industry.Cinema
  • CinemaDalagang IlokanaOlive La Torre · 1954A studio comedy of the fifties, which takes a provincial girl from the north as its heroine and makes her bluntness the engine of its humour.Cinema
  • CinemaSalabusabCesar Gallardo · 1954An action film from the Manila studios of the mid-fifties, adapted from a comic strip series, as was then most of what its studios produced.Cinema
  • CinemaBlessings of the LandBiyaya ng lupaManuel Silos · 1959Twenty years in the life of a peasant family around its orchard, and the bandit who threatens it.Cinema
  • CinemaNoli Me TangereNoli me tángereGerardo de Leon · 1961José Rizal's foundational novel brought to the screen for the centenary of its author's birth.Cinema
  • NovelThe Woman Who Had Two NavelsNick Joaquin · 1961A woman who believes she has two navels, and the Filipinos exiled in Hong Kong, between Spain and America.Literature
  • CinemaA Portrait of the Artist as FilipinoLamberto V. Avellana · 1965An adaptation of a play written in English, in which prewar Intramuros serves as the setting for the end of a Hispanic world that its last heirs refuse to leave.Cinema
  • NovelThe Preying BirdsMga Ibong MandaragitAmado V. Hernandez · 1969The novel of the agrarian question in the post-war Philippines, which extends Rizal's two great novels.Literature
  • CinemaInsiangLino Brocka · 1976A young girl from Tondo caught between a blinded mother and the man she has installed in her home.Cinema
  • CinemaThe Rites of MayItimMike de Leon · 1976A gothic tale shot under martial law, in which the fervour of Lenten rites in a provincial town surrounds a disappearance that is never cleared up.Cinema
  • CinemaThis Is How We Were Before, How Are You Doing Now?Ganito kami noon, paano kayo ngayon?Eddie Romero · 1976A comic and bitter journey through the twenty years in which the Philippines passed from one colonizer to another, and in which the question of what a Filipino is was raised for the first time.Cinema
  • CinemaPerfumed NightmareMababangong bangungotKidlat Tahimik · 1977A jeepney driver fascinated by the conquest of space, between his village and Paris.Cinema
  • CinemaRelasyonIshmael Bernal · 1982A mistress and a married man, in the Manila of the Marcos years, where divorce does not exist.Cinema
  • CinemaMoralMarilou Diaz-Abaya · 1982A chronicle of four women's lives, filmed in the early eighties, a year after the official lifting of martial law, on subjects then considered unspeakable.Cinema
  • CinemaGold, Silver, DeathOro, plata, mataPeque Gallaga · 1982A war fresco shot on Negros, whose title takes up the formula recited when counting the steps of a staircase, and which gives the story its three movements.Cinema
  • NovelDekada '70Lualhati Bautista · 1983A mother of five sons facing the dictatorship: the great Tagalog novel of the seventies.Literature
  • NovelDuskPo-onF. Sionil José · 1984The exodus of an Ilocano family to land to be cleared, as the Philippine revolution is born.Literature
  • NovelState of WarNinotchka Rosca · 1988A festival, an attack and centuries of colonisation: a great Philippine novel about the Marcos years.Literature
  • CinemaSakayRaymond Red · 1993A general of the revolution whom the American occupier declares a bandit, at the beginning of the twentieth century.Cinema