PickFlick
Balangiga: Howling Wilderness

Balangiga: Howling Wilderness

2017•2h 0m•9.0/10
HistoryDramaAdventure

Ratings

🎬TMDb
9.0/10(2)

1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order. He finds a toddler amid a sea of corpses and together, the two boys struggle to survive the American occupation.

Open in PickFlick

Production

Kamias Overground, QCinema International Film Festival, Quezon City Film Development Commission

Language

TL

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Justine Samson

Kulas

Pio del Rio

Apoy Buroy

Warren Tuaño

Bola

Daniel Palisa

Daniel Palisa

Lieutenant Manchus

Althea Vega

Althea Vega

Kulas' Mother

Lourd De Veyra

Lourd De Veyra

Banduria Bandolero

Roxlee

Roxlee

Father Puray

Lolita Carbon

Biringan Bird

Jean Judith Javier

Jean Judith Javier

Biringan Bird

Henry Strzalkowski

Henry Strzalkowski

Biringan Bird

Don Gordon Bell

Don Gordon Bell

Biringan Bird

Unicorn Belmonte

Melchora

Bounty Bautista

Salvi

Milagros Balintay

Yuyay

Danny Capawa

Pandoy

Zeus Bascon

Zeus Bascon

Faceless Family

Kim Perez

Kim Perez

Faceless Family

Mark Dela Cruz

Faceless Family / Banduria Bandolero's Son

Donel Lijauco

Kulas' Paternal Uncle

Dexter Dulla

Samaritan

Recommended

Schramm

Schramm

5.8
1993
Movie

Lothar Schramm is a simple man with complex problems, yet he seems like such a nice guy. He works as a taxi driver and lives by himself where he is happy to answer his door to strangers and kill them outright. As with many shy loner types he has a problem dealing with women so he drugs them and photographs their nude bodies for sexual stimulation. He then murders his helpless victims and so goes the life of a deranged serial killer.

Schramm

1993
5.8
Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction

8.5
1994
Movie

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

Pulp Fiction

1994
8.5
American Beauty

American Beauty

8.0
1999
Movie

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

American Beauty

1999
8.0
Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan

8.2
1998
Movie

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

Saving Private Ryan

1998
8.2
The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight

8.5
2008
Movie

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.

The Dark Knight

2008
8.5
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

8.2
2010
Movie

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Shutter Island

2010
8.2
Fight Club

Fight Club

8.4
1999
Movie

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

Fight Club

1999
8.4
Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket

8.1
1987
Movie

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Full Metal Jacket

1987
8.1
Metropolis

Metropolis

8.1
1927
Movie

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Metropolis

1927
8.1
The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others

8.0
2006
Movie

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.

The Lives of Others

2006
8.0
Fargo

Fargo

7.8
1996
Movie

Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!

Fargo

1996
7.8
12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

8.6
1957
Movie

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

12 Angry Men

1957
8.6