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A list of films produced in the Philippines in Filipino and in English. For an A-Z see Category:Philippine films.
The Philippines, which as one of Asia's oldest film industries, remains undisputed in terms of the highest level of theater admission in Southeast Asia. Over the years, however, the film industry has registered a steady decline in movie viewership from 131 million in 1996 to 63 million in 2004.
The following is a list of highest grossing Philippine films. Color key – is an entry film for Metro Manila Film Festival.
The main article for this category is List of Philippine films. Films are also subcategorized by language and industry within the Philippines, but this should not affect the principal Filipino film category in any way. For more information, see Cinema of the Philippines.
The following list shows Filipino films (released in 2019) which were nominated or won awards at international industry-based awards and FIAPF-accredited competitive film festivals.
Local film-making began in 1919 with the release of the first Filipino-produced feature film: Dalagang Bukid (A Girl from the Country), directed by Jose Nepomuceno.: 8 Production companies remained small during the silent film era, but sound films and larger productions emerged in 1933. The postwar 1940s to the early 1960s are considered a high ...
The Cinema of the Philippines ( Filipino: Pelikulang Pilipino; Spanish: Cine Filipino) began with the introduction of the first moving pictures to the country on August 31, 1897, at the Salón de Pertierra in Manila.
