Rustica Carpio
Rustica Cruz Carpio (August 9, 1930 – February 2, 2022) was a Filipino actress, scholar, playwright, philanthropist, and public servant. Most notably an actress, she performed on stage, film, and television. She received acclaim for her role as Lola Puring in Grandmother (Filipino: Lola), a film by Filipino director Brillante Mendoza which was selected to compete in various international film festivals, including Venice and Dubai. For her acting work in the said film, she was critically well-received, earning nominations and awards, winning the Gawad Urian for Best Actress, the Crystal Simorgh for Best International Actress at the Fajr International Film Festival in Iran, and the Las Palmas International Film Festival Best Actress award in Spain.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6809 |
| Birthday | 1930-08-09 |
| Place of Birth | Paombong, Bulacan, Philippines |
| Also Known As |
1982
Katas ng Langis
0/0
A sophisticated domestic comedy from Danny L. Zialcita about three wives coping with the absence of their husbands working in the Middle East.
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Katas ng Langis
1992
Mahal Kita, Walang Iba
9/1
Opposites attract when Trixie, a spoiled rich brat, asks Alex, a hardworking taxi driver, to be her boyfriend to appease her grandfather.
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Mahal Kita, Walang Iba
1980
Chicks
0/0
The story of three young women, Salome (Amy Austria), Bella (Rio Locsin) and Sylvia (Lorna Tolentino), are prostitutes who live together in one house.
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Chicks
1984
Where Love Has Gone
9/1
A young couple's blossoming love against an adult romance gone sour.
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Where Love Has Gone
1984
Bona
6.6/13
Bona, a middle-class student, becomes infatuated with a struggling actor, Gardo, and drops out of school to live with him. She becomes his unpaid maid...
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Bona
1979
Menor de Edad
3.667/3
A group of high school students navigate their lives and loves in this ensemble film from Ishmael Bernal.
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Menor de Edad
2013
Apparition
8/1
Tucked away in a remote forest, the convent of Adoration is inhabited by a group of nuns seeking a peaceful life of devotion and discipline, filling t...
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Apparition
1995
The Marita Gonzaga Rape-Slay: In God We Trust!
0/0
Sexually assualted to death by unknown gangs, which is led by Brando Legaspi's wild obsession.
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The Marita Gonzaga Rape-Slay: In God We Trust!
2013
Ano ang Kulay ng mga Nakalimutang Pangarap?
0/0
Teresa (Rustica Carpio) has worked for the Bautista family since she was seventeen. She was the nanny of siblings Stella, Vince and Andre (Jackie Lou...
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Ano ang Kulay ng mga Nakalimutang Pangarap?
2012
Vesuvius
6/3
You'll never look at a statue of the Virgin Mary the same way again. Based on the assertion that divine apparitions aren’t what they always appear to...
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Vesuvius
1992
Working Students
9/1
A 1992 Filipino comedy film directed by Ed Palmos.
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Working Students
1983
Of the Flesh
6.9/11
When Narcing brings home his wife Puring to their hometown Mulawin in the 1930s, it sets off a series of events that include parricide, infidelity, be...
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Of the Flesh
1982
T-Bird at Ako
5.75/10
Stern, intelligent Sylvia, a lawyer, finally met her match. Only that the person is a woman, and was convicted of murder.
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T-Bird at Ako
1994
Maligno
0/0
A couple takes a vacation on a secluded island and strange forces are at work that seems to keep them on that island.
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Maligno
1994
Shake, Rattle & Roll V
6/2
Three tales of unbridled terror follow a couple vacation on a secluded island where strange forces are at work to keep them there; a young woman whose...
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Shake, Rattle & Roll V
2009
Astig
3.8/4
Four men, four stories, all intersect in Manila. Episode one is about Ariel, a con-man. Episode two is about Boy, an expectant father. In the third ep...
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Astig
2009
Grandmother
7.2/16
Two elderly women bear the consequences of a crime involving their respective grandsons. One is the victim, the other is the suspect. Both weak and po...
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Grandmother
2010
Ika-Sampu
6/1
A story about a descendant of a rich hispanic family that lived in the Philippines in the 1800s (1896). Nine years ago, Alexa Nicole de la Vega starte...
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Ika-Sampu
1997
Totoy Mola
5.786/7
He was already different even before he was born. His eccentric mother took fancy on horses during her conception, and this led to his being born with...
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Totoy Mola
2015
Halik sa Hangin
6/1
A young woman is brought to Baguio by her new stepfather. While she struggles with her new family and surroundings, she finds herself torn between two...
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Halik sa Hangin
2015
Bahay Ampunan
0/0
A pair of brothers encounters violent forces inside the walls of an old orphanage.
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Bahay Ampunan
2010
Chassis
3.75/4
Single mother Nora lives with her daughter Sarah on a cardboard groundsheet and hammock tied to the undercarriage of a semitrailer in the parking lot...
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Chassis
1997
Rizal in Dapitan
7/2
Dr. Jose Rizal was exiled in Dapitan from 1892-1896. These were his last four years. Dapitan served as his prison cell. He always compared it to “a be...
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Rizal in Dapitan
1985
Ma'am, May We Go Out?
7/3
The lives of the three Soriano brothers, Dennis, Chip, and Jeff, changed when Atty. Aga Agaton informed them that they would inherit the fortune of th...
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Ma'am, May We Go Out?
1979
Pleasure
4.667/3
Ishmael Bernal's caustic drama about kept mistresses.
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Pleasure
1976
A Speck in the Water
8.333/3
Ferry owner Benjamin has a regular passenger, Chedeng, who is studying to become a midwife. Chedeng has a friend and neighbour, Maria, and without eit...
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A Speck in the Water
2011
Ang Panday 2
5/1
Ang Panday 2 begins with Flavio/Panday (Revilla) and Maria settling in the peaceful and quiet town of Matandang Kahoy. All is well until Lizardo retur...
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Ang Panday 2
2012
Captive
5.938/32
A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.
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Captive
1978
Pinagbuklod ng Pag-Ibig
9/1
Mina is a commercial model struggling to provide financial assistance to her ill mother when she meets the arrogant painter Dino. He offers her to be...
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Pinagbuklod ng Pag-Ibig
1977
Bawal na Pag-Ibig
10/1
Jun, an art student, moves away from his family after a fight with his father about his college program. He meets Menchu in class and they fall in lov...
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Bawal na Pag-Ibig
1977
Naked Hero
8/1
Hubad na Bayani explores the world of peasant revolts, cult organizations, talismans, and the fight for socio-economic reforms. The story revolves aro...
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Naked Hero
1977
Walang Katapusang Tag-araw
10/1
Walang Katapusang Tag-araw focuses on two strong-willed women, Matilde and Binyang, who clawed themselves up, in almost simultaneous and parallel asce...
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Walang Katapusang Tag-araw
2000
Arayyy!
5.5/4
Working student Lorena is left with no choice but to turn to prostitution when her the misfortunes of her family hit hard
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Arayyy!
1999
White Cheese
5.5/4
Ramon failed to get his inheritance just as his mother died. The last will testament asked that he be able to have a son. He and his girlfriend embark...
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White Cheese
2001
Harold Robbins' Body Parts
4.286/7
Ty's pal J.J. frames him in a murder and cocaine theft in Hong Kong in 1992. Ty's wife Rachel may be in on the con, so, when Ty gets early release fro...
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Harold Robbins' Body Parts
1982
Moral
7.4/10
The episodically connected lives of four college friends unfold throughout the incipient martial law years, as they struggle to define their sexual an...
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Moral
1986
Clown
9/2
St. Peter inadvertently lost his heavenly keys that the Almighty sends his jester planet earth of all places to search for the misplaced keys. Wanderi...
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Clown
1998
Mother Ignacia: Ang Uliran
10/1
This is the life story of Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, a Chinese-Filipina nun who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Religious of th...
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