Lav Diaz Movies

A dreamer with a calm and minstrel attitude lays on the grass, recites a poem and makes an offer to a tree. Is he dreaming, or is he a part of a...

In the remote Philippines, the economic crisis has taken over and a group of men don't do much apart from drink. That is, until the return of a local...

To this day, Ishmael Bernal's movie Himala is still in our town, in our world. This will be reflected in the broader perspective of the majority, of...

'Noli Me Tángere' (Latin for Touch Me Not) is an adaptation of Filipino writer José Rizal's national epic, which helped inspire the...

With the imminent death of his autocratic grandfather, coinciding with the burgeoning oppressive regime of Ferdinand Marcos, Servando Monzon III,...

Ricardo accidentally kills his lover and requests his friend Mando, to serve the punishment. Meanwhile, the latter discovers that his friend ordered...

A young woman recalls how her father (a fallen priest), her mother (a woman with a secret past) and her teenage sister returned with her to live in...

A man appears to a female reporter and claims he is the famous kidnapper that has the world astir and promises to turn himself in if she listens to...

In Frankfurt, Lailani, now 65, awaits a plane to Manila. She's returning home to the Philippines for the first time in 30 years. En route, she delays...

A poet hearkens back to his Philippine village after years abroad in Europe. Horrified to discover that the community has been buried under...

"Right now, I’m working on a film that discourses on false ideologies and false prophets.” – Lav Diaz

A young filmmaker is bent on recreating forgotten massacres from Philippine history, but when she begins shooting at a site where 1,000 men, women,...

A sequel to "Heremias Book One: The Legend of the Lizard Princess" (2006).

Galvez seeking for justice.

Lav Diaz stated in an interview that this spin-off to his 2025 film Magellan focused on the navigator's wife, Beatriz, is set to last 9 hours and...

Black and white historical drama

A journalist investigates a woman with the name of China Doll. Soon, he discovers his knowledge of her turns out to be dangerous.

A princess seeks refuge in a convent to escape an arranged marriage. A young prince tries to make sense of his station. A giant bird mysteriously...

A third film in Lav Diaz's The Hermes Trilogy.

Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.