Connection
New Moon is a Philippin film of genre Drama directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya with Cesar Montano
New Moon (2001)
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listThis movie is about the Muslim rebellion in Mindanao, Philippines and its effect on civilians.. The film is set to be restored by ABS-CBN Film Archive.
Synopsis
Ahmad (Cesar Montano) belongs to the Moro people people. While many of his kind are bent on fighting, thinking that Mindanao is only for the Muslims, Ahmad prefers to live a simple and peaceful life. He works as a doctor in Manila while his wife, Fatima (Amy Austria), and his only son, Ibrahim, stay in Mindanao with his mother, Farida (Caridad Sanchez). Ahmad is shocked and devastated when Fatima breaks the confounding news. Ibrahim was killed by a stray bullet when vigilantes indiscriminately fire at their village. Ahmad goes back to where he came from --- Mindanao.Actors
Cesar Montano
(Ahmad Ibn Ismael)
Jericho Rosales
(Lt. Ricarte)
Carlo Aquino
(Rashid)
Amy Austria
(Fatima)
Jiro Manio
(Francis)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to New Moon
There are 61 films with the same actors, 8 films with the same director, 70009 with the same cinematographic genres (including 719 with exactly the same 3 genres than New Moon), 3314 films with the same themes (including 157 films with the same 2 themes than New Moon), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked New Moon, you will probably like those similar films :
Reef Hunters (1999)
, 1h50Directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Origin Philippines
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Cesar Montano, Amy Austria, Pen Medina, Jhong Hilario, Rebecca Lusterio
Rating69%
Fredo (Cesar Montano) is a fisherman who has endured more than his share of hardship in life; his wife and child both perished in a boating accident, and today Fredo approaches each trip to the sea with the angry determination of a man out for revenge. Fredo commands a crew of young people from poor families as he takes his rattletrap ship into the ocean in search of fish that live along the reefs, snaring catch with an illegal netting system. Not all of Fredo's youthful sailors are willing to put up with his abusive arrogance, however, and even his father Dado (Pen Medina) and close friend Botong (Jhong Hilario) have grown weary of Fredo's tirades. Fredo's body is beginning to betray him as well, and as he and his crew damage the sea's reef beds in search of fish, no one is certain how much longer he will be able to continue.
Reef Hunters (1999)
, 2hDirected by Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Origin Philippines
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Cesar Montano, Pen Medina, Amy Austria, Jhong Hilario, Rebecca Lusterio
Rating69%
Fredo (Cesar Montano) is a fisherman who has endured more than his share of hardship in life; his wife and child both perished in a boating accident, and today Fredo approaches each trip to the sea with the angry determination of a man out for revenge. Fredo commands a crew of young people from poor families as he takes his rattletrap ship into the ocean in search of fish that live along the reefs, snaring catch with an illegal netting system. Not all of Fredo's youthful sailors are willing to put up with his abusive arrogance, however, and even his father Dado (Pen Medina) and close friend Botong (Jhong Hilario) have grown weary of Fredo's tirades. Fredo's body is beginning to betray him as well, and as he and his crew damage the sea's reef beds in search of fish, no one is certain how much longer he will be able to continue.
José Rizal (1998)
, 2h58Directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Origin Philippines
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Actors Cesar Montano, Joel Torre, Gardo Versoza, Mickey Ferriols, Pen Medina, Chin-Chin Gutierrez
Rating75%
José Rizal was imprisoned in Fort Santiago under the abusive Spanish colonization. José Rizal was approached by a young uneducated Austronesian peoples asking the importance of education during his life. Meanwhile, in Balintawak, Andrés Bonifacio and his fellow secret organization of Katipunan commenced the uprising against the tyranny created by the Spaniards by tearing their cedula as a sign of Spanish slavery.
Then and Now (2003)
, 2h6Directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Origin Philippines
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Dina Bonnevie, Eula Valdez, Jean Garcia, Cherry Pie Picache, Jericho Rosales, Marvin Agustin
Rating62%
Joey comes home after nearly a decade of living in the States. With Joey back, the four friends find themselves complete again—they reminisce on the good old times, marvel at the changes in each other’s lives. Indeed, a lot of things may have changed through the years, but some things remain constant. The ever-effervescent Kathy gives up on her girlhood dream of becoming a singer—something which her sparklingly vivacious teenage daughter, Bernadette, seems to have inherited. Sylvia brings up her son Bobby (Marvin Agustin) in ways that are more liberal, than most, ironically recoils at her grown son’s only flaw: his infertility. Maritess, a widow, contends with the complexities of being a mother to independent, self-asserting young adults: Guia, who chooses to remain single despite her pregnancy; Bryan, who’s gay and proud of it; and Levi, whose floater’s ways hint at a yearning for something beyond what his present life can offer. Joey’s stay in the States changes her a great deal; the untamed child of twenty years ago has matured into a woman who has come to embrace humanity and life. But pain and death may be realities that Joey has yet to learn to accept---because of her mother Maggie, who is fighting a losing battle with cancer, and the main reason why she has come home. Bernadette persistently courts Bryan despite his openly gay orientation, only to have her heart broken by the futility of her feelings Guia staunchly refuses to get back together with the father of her child in her desire to assert her self-sufficiency, but later realizes that needing people is not necessarily a sign of weakness. Bobby and wife Miriam are torn between religion and science as they try to find a solution to their childlessness, while Levi finds love in the personification of Joey—the woman who loves the father he never got to know. As the four women try to reconcile past with present to cope with the changing times, the children come to terms with themselves, with the people they love, and with life on the whole.
In the Navel of the Sea (1998)
, 1h54Directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Origin Philippines
Genres Drama
Actors Jomari Yllana, Chin-Chin Gutierrez, Jhong Hilario, Elizabeth Oropesa, Pen Medina, Ronnie Lazaro
Rating64%
In a remote fishing island in the 50's, Pepito (Jomari Yllana) grows up learning the trade of his mother, Rosa (Elizabeth Oropesa), the only midwife capable of delivering the newborn babies of their community. At first, the young son doesn't mind the unusual arrangement, but as he grows older, he begins to resist the role traditionally meant only for women.
Lion of the Desert (1981)
, 2h43Directed by Moustapha Akkad
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about Islam, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, Raf Vallone, Irène Papas, John Gielgud
Rating81%
In 1929, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (Rod Steiger) is still faced with the 20-year-long war waged by patriots in the Italian colony of Libya to combat Italian colonization and the establishment of "The Fourth Shore"—the rebirth of a Roman Empire in Africa. Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani (Oliver Reed) as his sixth governor to Libya, confident that the eminently accredited soldier and fascist Grande can crush the rebellion and restore the dissipated glories of Imperial Rome. Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn) leads the resistance to the fascists. A teacher by profession, guerrilla by obligation, Mukhtar had committed himself to a war that cannot be won in his own lifetime. Graziani controls Libya with the might of the Italian Army. Tanks and aircraft are used in the desert for the first time. The Italians also committed atrocities: killing of prisoners of war, destruction of crops, and imprisoning populations in concentration camps behind barbed wire.
The Kingdom of Solomon (2010)
, 1h50Directed by Shahriar Bahrani
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films about Islam
Actors Amin Zendegani, Elham Hamidi, Mahmoud Pak Niat
Rating61%
Solomon is a wise prophet selected as the crown prince by his father King David (Dawud in Islamic texts) when he was 9. Following Prophet David's death, Solomon succeeds to the crown and God appoints him as a prophet. Requesting from God the establishment of a divine kingdom, Solomon takes the wind under his command and jinns and demons under his control. Inviting rulers of the neighbouring lands to the monotheistic religion, Prophet Solomon continues his divine mission in as much as Balqis, the Queen of Sheba professes monotheism. At the end, while leaning on his cane, Solomon bids farewell to the world, and the jinns and demons get out of reign and return to their own world.
Jodhaa Akbar (2008)
, 3h33Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about religion, Musical films, Political films, Films about Islam, Bollywood, Films about royalty
Actors Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai, Sonu Sood, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Suhasini Mulay, Raza Murad
Rating74%
Jodhaa Akbar is a sixteenth-century love story about a political marriage of convenience between a Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a Rajput princess, Jodhaa.
Kristo (1996)
Origin Philippines
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Films about virginity
Actors Jeorge "E.R." Ejercito Estregan, Mat Ranillo III, Amy Austria, Conrad Poe, Gabby Concepcion, Paquito Diaz
Rating71%
Hinugot sa Langit (1985)
Directed by Ishmael Bernal
Origin Philippines
Genres Drama
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality
Actors Maricel Soriano, Al Tantay, Charito Solis, Amy Austria, Dante Rivero, Pen Medina
Rating69%
The center of the drama is the young unmarried but pregnant Carmen Castro (Maricel Soriano) who during the first few minutes of the film informs her cousin Stella (Amy Austria). Stella scoffs and recommends abortion. The father of the child, Jerry, also recommends abortion. Her over religious landlady Juling (Charito Solis), who is busy juggling her religious aims and her legal quarrel with the poor families illegally living in her land, however strongly suggests that she keep the baby on the grounds that having an abortion would be a sin against God.