Best Filipino crime movies
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch crime films from Philippines, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
Give Up Tomorrow (2011)
Give Up Tomorrow (2011)
When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the test after years of alleged corruption.
Respect (2017)
Respect (2017)
Hendrix dreams of hip-hop greatness, but he’s spiraling down a rabbit-hole of crime and poverty until he meets Doc, an old poet still haunted by his martial law past. Can they turn each other’s lives around before they’re swallowed by their circumstance?
Mondomanila: Kung paano ko inayos ang buhok ko matapos ang mahaba-haba ring paglalakbay (2010)
Mondomanila: Kung paano ko inayos ang buhok ko matapos ang mahaba-haba ring paglalakbay (2010)
Mondomanila tells the story of teenage anti-hero Tony de Guzman and the rough neighborhood he calls home.
Call Her Ganda (2018)
Call Her Ganda (2018)
When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer's mother)--galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.
Eerie (2019)
Eerie (2019)
The unexpected and gruesome death of a student threatens the existence of an old Catholic school for girls. Pat Consolacion, the school guidance counselor, involves herself with the students in the hopes of helping them cope, and at the same time uncover the mysteries of the student’s death. Most students suspect of the strict and borderline abusive Mother Alice, who also threatened Pat’s tenure in the school because of her continuous meddling with the case. But Pat’s unusual talents lead her to knowing Eri, a former student who's been watching the whole school for years. Piece by piece, Pat uncovers the secret of the school and the monster that it nurtured for the past century.
Patayan Files: Ang Pinakamalalaking Murder Cases Ng Dekada '90 (2022)
Patayan Files: Ang Pinakamalalaking Murder Cases Ng Dekada '90 (2022)
Vizconde Massacre -the trial of the century, Flor Contemplacion's story, the case that outraged Filipinos, and more horrifying deaths. Cheche Lazaro's Probe Archives goes in-depth on the controversy behind the gruesome crimes that shocked the entire country during the 90s.
Batang West Side (2001)
Batang West Side (2001)
When a Filipino teenager is shot to death in New Jersey, a probe takes place and reveals the struggles of the Filipino community in the USA and the horrifying effects of methamphetamine on its youth.
My Lai Four (2010)
My Lai Four (2010)
My Lai Four, a movie about the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Here s the blurb: Freely adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Seymour Hersh, this film recounts the story of a platoon of American soldiers led by Second Lieutenant Wm. Calley. Falling into an ambush, they come under enemy fire and in the disastrous fight that ensues, two young soldiers lose their lives; a third is so badly injured that Sgt. Cowen is forced to put him out of his hopeless agony.
Antonio's Secret (2008)
Antonio's Secret (2008)
The story about a teenage boy, Antonio, whose emerging gay sexuality alienates him from his friends and family, until his libertine uncle, Jonbert, comes to live with him and his mother.
Kisapmata (1981)
Kisapmata (1981)
A retired police sergeant has an unnatural stranglehold over his wife and daughter. His claustrophobically enclosed world is threatened when his daughter Mila finds herself pregnant and was forced to marry Noel. He attempts to extend his influence over his son-in-law, who resists; there is a confrontation.
Daughters of Eve (1985)
Daughters of Eve (1985)
In the remote countryside of Ilongo, various women are sexually abused by local men. Two sisters meet Simon, the most attractive man in the village, and fight over him - one constantly haunted by Catholic dogma because of the abuse she suffered previously.
Tsikboy (2013)
Tsikboy (2013)
Another run-of-the-mill voyeur's delight and should never be taken seriously but merely for kicks.
Kinatay (2009)
Kinatay (2009)
A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman.
Beware: Bed Sins (1985)
Beware: Bed Sins (1985)
In acclaimed filmmaker Mario O'Hara's depiction of unabashed sexuality, Sarsi Emmanuelle plays Carla, a woman going through a traumatic experience that completely changed her life.
Black Fire (1986)
Black Fire (1986)
After suffering a concussion from a grenade blast in Vietnam, Sgt. Frank Johnson has been getting flashes of his childhood in which strangely he is a ninja. Because of this, he is given a codename: "Black Fire" by the US Army. He is sent to San Sebastian together with his buddy Sgt. Jim Anderson to work as U.S. military advisers. One night, Sgt. Johnson discovers Capt. Salcedo of the local corrupt army is trying to transport arms.
Dukot (2009)
Dukot (2009)
Junix Etrata and his girlfriend Maricel Salvacruz being abducted by military intelligence agents. Junix is a student activist who decided to dedicate all of his time to the movement. He takes refuge in the mountains to live with the indigenous people. Maricel, on the other hand, left the movement to lead a normal life. Their captors identified them as leaders of the New People's Army (NPA). In order to extract information from them, they were subjected to inhumane torture and despicable harassment.
Honor Thy Father (2015)
Honor Thy Father (2015)
Edgar's family is caught in a financial ruin after being involved in a Ponzi scheme. With their church's bishop refusing to return their donation, and his daughter subsequently kidnapped, he seeks the aid of his criminally inclined family.
Unfaithful Wife (1986)
Unfaithful Wife (1986)
The film concerns the attempts of Fidel to resume a normal life after the devastation wrought by his wife's death. He returns to his old friend Crispin and wife Irene. A tentative effort with another woman fails, and Fidel finds himself in Irene's arms. That same evening a young girl is brutally murdered. Fidel, unable to account for his whereabouts, is named the principal suspect, which later leads to his imprisonment. Crispin, meanwhile, learns of Irene's infidelity; his friendship is put to the test when Fidel escapes, gets wounded, and asks Crispin to kill him and put him out of misery.
Angustia (2013)
Angustia (2013)
Don Victorino Hernandez, a creole secular priest from Manila, has two passions: botany and the total conversion of the native population particularly the Agtas, who in spite of the rigorous undertakings of Spanish colonialism continue to live in the hinterlands, giving them a notorious reputation in the minds of the lowlanders as well as the colonizers.
Virgin Forest (2022)
Alas-Nuwebe (2025)
Alas-Nuwebe (2025)
When two contrasting detectives investigate the vanishing of a patient in an isolated asylum, they become entangled in conflicting testimonies where truth becomes a shifting dangerous terrain.
Jacqueline Comes Home: The Chiong Story (2018)
Jacqueline Comes Home: The Chiong Story (2018)
This controversial biopic recalls the events of the 1997 Chiong murder case told from the perspectives of the alleged victims and the Chiong family.
Norte, The End of History (2014)
Norte, The End of History (2014)
An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced into a harsh prison sentence; a mother and her two children wander the countryside looking for some kind of redemption.
Heist School (2019)
Heist School (2019)
A ragtag group of students try to steal from the faculty room as they save both their grades and friendship.
Alpha: The Right to Kill (2019)
Alpha: The Right to Kill (2019)
Set against the backdrop of the Philippines Government’s crackdown on illegal drugs, a SWAT-led police force launches an operation to arrest Abel, one of the biggest druglords in Manilla. Police Officer Espino and Elijah, a small-time pusher turned informant, provide the intelligence for the operation which quickly escalates into a violent and heavely-armed confrontation in the slums between the SWAT and Abel’s gang. Before the investigators arrive at the crime scene, Espino and Elijah walk off with Abel’s backpack full of money and methamphetamine.
Condemned (1984)
Condemned (1984)
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 and bleak existence in the underbelly of the tourist/fashion district of Manila. Escaping from a violent past from the provinces, the siblings world collide with Connie's gang when Yolly witnesses a rape and murder perpetrated by Connie's son and Efren decides to double cross Connie for her money.
Children's Show (2014)
Children's Show (2014)
A film based on a real life story of children ages 10-15 years old being used by a syndicate for underground wrestling.
Putik Sa Laman (2016)
Putik Sa Laman (2016)
A young woman Aileen returns to her hometown in the province after living in the city for several years. As she navigates her complicated relationships with her family and friends, Aileen must confront the harsh realities of her past and the secrets that have haunted her family for years. The film's title, which translates to "Dirt on the Skin," refers to the painful memories and secrets that the characters carry with them.