John Torres Movies

A family moves into a secluded mansion where they soon find themselves being targeted by an entity taking the form of a giant spider.

After a popular teen falls to her death, her best friend basks in the glow of the social media attention, while their rival seeks to avenge the past...

A couple wakes up and talks about a dream.

After discovering a hidden clause in his work insurance, CELSO, a factory worker, goes extreme and faces a life-altering decision, challenging...

Filmmaker John Torres describes his childhood and discusses his father's infidelities.

A small town in the Philippines is turned upside down by the arrival of a film crew that has everyone excited. Meanwhile, 13-year-old Lukas finds his...

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

A news team investigating rumors of aswang killings in a remote barrio are attacked by a group of soldiers, forcing them to run for their lives in...

Stories of Filipino men and women, and other living things passing through similar objects, familiar spaces, non-linear time and dreams...

Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as...

Rooted in Filipino realities – both concrete and cinematically reimagined – John Torres’ meticulous yet generous approach is a...

Five years after their late brother's death, three siblings reunite in their hometown to celebrate her birthday with their 7-year-old niece who no...

John Torres repurposes documentary footage captured from the sets of various Filipino productions (including the likes of Lav Diaz and Erik Matti)...

Village miracles caught on tape: images of a river that must be crossed to erase heartaches, imagined with a boy who has never experienced sorrow.

BIG BOY is a coming-of-age tale about a boy and his family in 1950s Mindoro, Philippines, and how he is groomed into becoming the poster boy for his...

An examination of poverty and violence and the influence it has on two boys who live in a slum.

Sarah is a debt collector who lives among the inhabitants of the village of Guimbal on the island of Panay. She wants to find the young man who...

A half-black half-Filipino Michael Jordan wanna-be sets his way towards his “hoop dreams.”

During the World War 2, Japanese soldiers raid houses in the Philippines. Thousands of men were shot and killed while women were brought to the Bahay...

Black-and-white sequence of contemporary urban life, jittery images recorded by a 1940s motion-picture camera, and a sleepy narration of words,...