“Goyo,” for our readers unfamiliar with Filipino history, is none other than General Gregorio “Goyo” del Pilar. Goyo the Boy Generalĭirector: Jerrold Tarog | Starring: Paulo Avelino, Carlo Aquino, Arron Villaflor | Genre(s): Historical, WarĪlas, something that’s not a romance! If war and history are more your thing, look no further than Goyo: The Boy General. The film also contains some great cinematography that’ll make you want to visit London. Never Not Love You also did quite well at 2018’s Filipino box office, and brought the JaDine love team more accolades for their increasing maturity. Balancing romance with career prospects, Gio and Joanne’s love story becomes so realistic that it almost feels like real life.

However, when Joanne leaves a marketing brand manager position in Manila to work as a cafe server in London, the two start encountering the constraints of real life. Young couple Gio (James Reid) and Joanne (Nadine Lustre) start off Never Not Love You in a carefree relationship. I hope you like romances, because there’ll be more on this list! (OK, don’t worry, there are non-romances too.) As our seventh entry, Never Not Love You offers a pragmatic look at modern romance courtesy of the “JaDine” (James Reid and Nadine Lustre) love team. Kasalĭirector: Antoinette Jadaone | Starring: James Reid, Nadine Lustre, Yayo Aguila | Genres: Romance, Drama Want to learn more? Check out our review of BuyBust here. Packed with dramatic fight sequences and tense foot chases, BuyBust received accolades internationally for its timely political commentary and action-packed cinematography. Meanwhile, local slum residents tired of the collateral damage inflicted on their homes attack both the agents and narcos. However, their operation goes wrong when someone inside the narcotics agency betrays them to the drug cartel.Īs the agents try to escape, they engage in countless gunfights with the drug dealers. A squad of anti-narcotics agents infiltrate a slum and attempt to capture a drug lord. BuyBust dramatizes a police raid on a drug deal in a slum, in a brutally realistic depiction of the human toll of the drug war.

The Filipino drug war has been the topic of numerous conversations, both in the Philippines and internationally. Director: Erik Matti | Starring: Anne Curtis, Brandon Vera, Victor Neri, Arjo Atayde | Genre(s): Action, Crime, Thriller

Romance movies from 2017 and 2018