Mario O'Hara Movies

A tale of two unwed sisters whose lives have been imprisoned by their father.

Diego and Gabriela Silang are landed Ilocos natives disaffected with the imposition of the indulto de comercio (a law giving right to Spanish...

A stage mother drives her younger son to his ‘stardoom’ to make up for her downward slide from her bourgeois origins.

A bride commits suicide on her wedding night. Years later, she is reincarnated as an actress-producer and tries to reveal her true story to the world.

Mario O'Hara's melodrama about an aspiring singer and her ex-convict sweetheart.

An English-speaking manananggal (a malevolent, blood sucking monster) spreads terror in Manila. The manananggal is a Philippines mythical creature...

Alice, Benjie and Andro are bank robbers who go into hiding in the jungle after one of them kills a civilian during a heist.

Marcelino Pan y Vino is a Filipino TV movie from 1979 directed by Mario O'Hara. The film is a remake of Ladislao Vajda's 1955 film of the same title,...

A story about a family whose mother passed away and the father whose an inventor who built a time machine in search of a new mother for his children.

A woman becomes the object of obsession of a man who will stop at nothing to possess her.

This is an adaptation of the Palanca award-winning play written by Maria Angela Barrios about a mother and her Amerasian daughter.

A classic dramatic piece on poverty and prostitution is transformed into a poignant take on failed celluloid dreams. A son of a late actor notorious...

Yolly, a flower vendor and her brother Efren, who works as a driver and hired hit man for ruthless money laundering lady Connie, live a hardscrabble...

Based on an actual case, Fatima Buen Story mixes tabloid sensationalism with paranormal symbolism and features O’ Hara’s trademark...

Three mothers fight over one child

A 1983 Filipino drama starring Gloria Romero, Snooky, Maricel Soriano. Janice de Belen, Julie Vega, William Martinez and Manilyn Reynes.

Fragile as a teardrop - Powerful as a God-given Right.

This comedy-romance fantasy is essentially a contemporary, Filipino adaptation of the Cinderella story.

Adapted from Mars Ravelo’s serialized “komiks,” this 1971 melodrama by Lino Brocka stars Rosemarie Sonora, Dante Rivero and Hilda...

Babette Gomez and her family just moved to the city. Meeting the neighbors, a man instantly hooked her. She is insterested. Only then that she...