Celso Ad. Castillo (Directing)
Little is known about Celso Ad. Castillo, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Seksi: Pantasya at Pelikula
A documentary on the rise and fall and recent return of sexy movies in Philippine cinema. Featuring interviews from the sexy movie icons of the past and the rising sexy stars of the present.
Release Date:2024-01-28
Vote Count:1
Kailan Ba Tama ang Mali?
Release Date:2015-02-09
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Bahay ng Lagim
Taking place in a convent, we follow the story of Sister Sofia whose life takes a grave turn upon the arrival of, the troubled and haunted, Fatima. (Shown in the Sineng Pambansa National Film Festival) A masters' master tribute seeks to honor the memory of Celso Ad. Castillo with the showcase of the last film he directed.
Release Date:2013-09-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
666
The thief"s comes only to steal , to kill and to destroy. Stay away from devil so that the devil will stay away from you. Always remember that the only powerful in this world is the god who made and create everything. Love god above all and place him in our hearts and we must make stronger and tightened our relation to god and respect .
Release Date:2010-07-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Clash
"Engwkentro" follows two teenage brothers attempting to escape an unnamed city controlled by an iron-fisted mayor. They must first break away from the cycle of crime, while trying to run from rival gang leaders and the state's murderous vigilantes.
Release Date:2009-07-18
Character:Mayor Danilo Suarez
Vote Count:4
Sineserye Presents: Maligno
Maligno was an ABS-CBN primetime horror-thriller which was the second installment of Sineserye Presents: The Susan Roces Cinema Collection. The show is adapted from the 1977 movie of the same name which starred Susan Roces who makes a guest appearance in the television program.
Release Date:2008-04-28
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Patayin Sa Sindak Si Barbara
Patayin Sa Sindak Si Barbara was an ABS-CBN primetime mini-series adapted from the movie, Patayin Mo Sa Sindak Si Barbara, originally starring Susan Roces in 1974 and later by Lorna Tolentino in 1995. It was supposed to be aired weekly in a mini-series format on January 12, 2008, but it was later placed in ABS-CBN's primetime Bida. This is the first installment of Sineserye Presents: The Susan Roces Cinema Collection.
Release Date:2008-01-07
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Rotonda
Beginning at the break of dawn and ending the next morning, the story, set around a rugged city intersection, follows the path of a marked one-thousand-peso bill as it transfers from one character to another, returning to its originator in the end, blood-tainted. The money leads us to each of the five offbeat characters, all in desperate need of their soul's redemption: a disillusioned tabloid reporter planning to commit suicide in a motel, a nightclub dancer con prostitute who has avowed to give her kid sister a better life, a fallen henchman resurfacing to score big time, a chronic runaway teenage girl held captive as sex slave by a cop, and a long-suffering son bearing a sadomasochistic relationship with his brutish, half-paralyzed father who behaves like a mad dictator in his wheelchair.
Release Date:2006-07-18
Vote Count:1
Sanib
Melissa is a young woman blessed with great fortune she has a blossoming career in fashion design, a slew of adoring friends, and a fiancé who is no less than the man of her dreams. Everything seems favorable until the night of her engagement party, for she is suddenly beset by visions of her dead sister, Magda. Soon, Melissa realizes that Magda's soul wishes to claim her life, believing that it was the life meant for Magda, had she not died. As Magda takes control of her body, Melissa sees her perfect life crumble.
Release Date:2003-06-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Nympha
A re-imagination of the Celso Ad Castillo classic, "Nympha" tells the story of an orphan woman named Nympha living in a backward province with a narrow minded aunt who is a religious fanatic.
Release Date:2003-04-05
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1
Itlog
A film with Diana Zubiri.
Release Date:2002-04-03
Vote Count:2
Virgin People 3
Virgin People 3
Release Date:2002-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Eliseo
Vote Count:7
Aswang ng Santa Barbara
Filipino horror television movie from 1999.
Release Date:1999-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Mananayaw
A 1997 adult drama starring Rita Magdalena and Eddie Gutierrez.
Release Date:1997-04-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Secrets of Madonna
A surreal melodrama about a deranged woman raising a child.
Release Date:1997-02-21
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:3
Isla: The Young Version
A story of an innocent young lass desperate to leave her homeland to escape her adoptive father's lustful desires.
Release Date:1996-07-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Ang Pinakamagandang Hayop sa Balat ng Lupa
A strange but beautiful young woman washed ashore on an island becomes the desire of all men. Her presence causes jealousy, intrigue, and a series of deaths in the town.
Release Date:1996-01-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Virgin People 2
Virgin People 2
Release Date:1996-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Patayin sa Sindak si Barbara
Barbara loves her little sister Ruth deeply. When Ruth becomes devilishly manipulative by threatening to kill herself if her sister doesn't break up with her boyfriend Nick . The sisters end up engaging in black magic to get back at each other.
Release Date:1995-07-12
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:3
Comfort Women: A Cry for Justice
This is a compeling story of 2 sisters both raped, assaulted and held captives during the Japanese occupation. A Makapili (Japanese informer) rounded up women of Sta. Monica forced and used them as "sex slaves" by Japanse soldiers
Release Date:1994-09-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Kapag Iginuhit Ang Hatol Ng Puso
The serial tells the tragic love story of Vina, a single woman who wants to have a baby despite her advanced age. With the help of her best friend, she met Dave, the man she will eventually fall in love and have a child with. Unknown to Vina, Dave was her best friend's lover, and in the end, Vina would discover that her best friend and the man she loved plotted together to ruin her and her son's lives.
Release Date:1993-02-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Tag-araw, Tag-ulan
A woman who was running away from the pain of a broken love affair. A young man who was looking forward to a fun filled summer and his first sex experience.
Release Date:1992-07-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Mga Lihim ng Kalapati
THIS IS A SEX-DRAMA FROM THE DIRECTOR WHO STARTED THE "WET LOOK".
Release Date:1987-07-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Payaso
Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1986 directed by Celso Ad. Castillo and starred German Moreno and the All-Star Cast
Release Date:1986-12-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Ang Daigdig ay isang Butil na Luha
The World Is a Drop of Tear
Release Date:1986-09-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Kailan Tama Ang Mali?
A women in the underbelly of the city of Manila where making a living is always difficult for the poor and material things do not guarantee happiness. This is a place for adultery as Pilar kept her trysts with her lovers, for prostitution as Elizabeth descends into degradation, for excitement as Chat, the lonely wife keeps up her relationship with hired killer Edu and rape and death for the young sampaguita vendor, Lala. Amidst all these some ray of hope as Rio accepts the affections of her Chinese master.
Release Date:1986-01-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Paradise Inn
Paradise Inn is more than a watering hole, a gambling den cum-brothel frequented by the menfolk. It is a notorious landmark. Ester Paraiso, a retired prostitute, runs the place with help from her own daughter, Daria, whom she is preparing for the job, and from influential politicos. Her daughter, however, decides to run away but is later spurned by her suitor and his offer of a respectable life. Even the timely arrival of a two-beat magician, Rey, who hastily proposes marriage, fails to prevent the escalating tension as the mother-daughter conflict takes its worst turn culminating in the characters' fiery destruction.
Release Date:1985-12-25
Department:Writing
Job:Screenstory
Vote Count:2
Perfumed Garden
Eroticism and passion characterize the romance between a filipino and an american woman.
Release Date:1985-10-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Blasting Bullets
When his mother and father are murdered by the evil Don Benito, farm boy and amateur gunsmith Daniel sets off on a quest to exact bloody justice.
Release Date:1985-06-05
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Isla
Isla, a island maiden who has all the males, including her father, lusting after her. Her dream was to leave her primitive surroundings and find another life in the big city. However, it would not be easy. To be able to escape, she must use her body to pay off all the men who would help her.
Release Date:1985-04-25
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:2
Sampung Ahas ni Eva
On a remote island, a plane wreck leaves a woman alone with ten men who are willing to kill to fulfill their desires for her.
Release Date:1984-08-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:
Vote Count:1
Virgin People
Three sisters live in a paradise where men are metaphorically and literally serpents of temptation.
Release Date:1984-01-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:10
Snake Sisters
Three human females born of snake eggs on a secluded island are integrated into a nearby village but are soon showing their true colors.
Release Date:1984-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:2
Pedro Tunasan
THE FOLKS REGARD HIM AS THEIR HERO, BUT THE AUTHORITIES SEE HIM AS A MERE BANDIT.
Release Date:1983-08-11
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Brown Emmanuelle
Emma (Myrna Castillo) could hope for salvation in Tony (Gil Guerrero), a creep and his offer of marriage, the film ends up not just a big joke but also an abomination worse than smut.
Release Date:1982-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Totoy Boogie
Owners of an old dance studio's and veterans in vodaville. Failure to reach their dreams of becoming a famous dancing duo, poured all the desired gain sole son Sonny. Due to the inherited skills from parents, became a dance instructor in their studio.
Release Date:1980-08-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:
The Legend Of Julian Makabayan
Celso Ad. Castillo's film about villagers retelling the story of their hero and the revolt he waged in the countryside.
Release Date:1979-12-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Aliw-iw
The story of an indigenous Igorot woman who traverses the complex path of life to the playful line of destiny.
Release Date:1979-09-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:
Bakit May Pag-ibig Pa?
This drama offers a rare chance to compare the styles of two major Filipino filmmakers. The first episode is about a chance encounter between a spirited ex-nun and a dispirited architect played by Nora Aunor and Christopher de Leon. The second episode from his own screenplay, tells the story of another chance encounter this time between Solly and Chris, two former lovers.
Release Date:1979-05-15
Department:Writing
Job:Screenstory
Vote Count:1
When the Crow Turns White, When the Heron Turns Black
"Pag-puti ng Uwak, Pag-itim ng Tagak" is a pulsating love story that recaptures the nostalgic fifties, the exciting era of mass hysteria, and the golden years of the rock and roll fever inflicted by screaming, wiggling hip-shaking foreign pop idols dominated by Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Pat Boone, Doris Day and the Platters. It is more than a love story. It is also a commentary - a satire rich with humor injected into a moral, psychological, sociological, and cultural aspect, outlook, and values of the said bygone era. It is a poignant rich-girl-meets poor boy love story of Julie Monserat and Candido Ventura - two love-struck starry eyed youths who fought for their right to love each other, here is a story that touches social conflict - the perennial clashes and discrimination between the rich and the poor.
Release Date:1978-07-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Burlesk Queen
To support her paralytic father, Chato works as a utility girl for a burlesque star Virgie Nite. But when Virgie gets drunk on the night of her scheduled show, Chato pitches in for her. And she becomes an instant sensation. Enthused by the initial acceptance of the audience, she defies her father's admonitions and presents herself to the manager. And thus, becoming the new burlesque queen.
Release Date:1977-12-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Attorney Adolfo
Vote Count:6
Maligno
A blood-curdling motion picture about witchcraft, Satan's disciples, witches and warlocks to steal a beautiful maiden's soul.
Release Date:1977-06-23
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:2
Ihalik Mo Ako sa Diyos!
A Celso ad Castillo film.
Release Date:1976-08-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Tag-ulan sa Tag-araw
A young co-ed falls in love with her first-degree cousin, who stays with her family while studying in Manila. Their forbidden affair, which they keep secret from their family, is revealed when she becomes pregnant. For the scandalized family, abortion is the only solution left, which the two lovers resist.
Release Date:1975-10-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
The Most Beautiful Animal in the World
One stormy night, in a sea side village, a childless couple finds a mysterious beautiful woman in the beach without any consciousness. The next day, the girl wakes up and introduces herself as Isabel.
Release Date:1974-10-26
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Kill Barbara with Panic
Barbara has always been overly indulgent of her little sister, Ruth's every whim. Her past comes back to haunt her when Barbara receives news that her younger sister has killed herself and was witnessed by Ruth's only daughter Karen. Barbara immediately returns to the Philippines to mourn her sister and comfort her unstable niece. Upon Barbara's return, she learns the reason surrounding Ruth's mysterious death.
Release Date:1974-08-16
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:3
Return of the Dragon
Ramon Zamora trades in his usual cheap yuks for a more restrained and almost mythic performance in this uniquely Pinoy tale of death and retribution.
Release Date:1974-04-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Why Blood is the Color of the Night
The poster promises visions of Satan's altar, an underground black mass, blood rituals of the undead, the birth of Satan's messiah, a dead village of the damned, the assassination of the Prince of Darkness and a zombie attack. Why isn't this available for viewing again?
Release Date:1974-01-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Ang Mahiwagang Daigdig ni Pedro Penduko
In his numerous incarnations, Pedro Penduko is an ordinary human being with no superpowers. He is, however, resourceful and quick-witted in battling evil forces. He is aided by a magical amulet.
Release Date:1973-12-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Ang Alamat
Release Date:1972-12-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Santo Domingo
Release Date:1972-07-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Ang Gangster At Ang Birhen
An adaptation of the same title serialized in Pilipino Komiks.
Release Date:1972-02-23
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Asedillo
In the era of American occupation in the Philippines, Fernando Poe Jr. stars as Teodoro Asedillo, a nationalistic school teacher who transforms into a revolutionary leader. Asedillo's unwavering belief in social justice and workers' rights leads him to challenge the oppressive system. Dismissed from his position as a police chief due to his principles, he forms the Anak Pawis movement, fighting for the rights of the oppressed.
Release Date:1971-09-03
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Nympha
Nympha begins and ends with a scene in the cemetery where a group of people are standing around a tomb under the rain. The movie as a whole is an exposition of the events in Nympha’s life that lead to this scene. Nympha is a young girl reared and morally sheltered by a hypocritically pious elder female relative. The girl’s blind piety, however, is ripped apart by her sudden awareness of the sexually-charged environment and by her own first love affair. Eventually, she goes from man to man, driven by her demonic desires. Her unwanted pregnancy finally leads to a gory, fatal abortion.
Release Date:1971-02-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Dr. Yes
Release Date:1965-03-04
Department:Writing
Job:Story