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- Alyas Baby Tsina/Alias Baby China (1984) is based on the true legal story of Evelyn Duave Ortega, aka Baby Tsina (She was called this in court documents because she looked Chinese. Otherwise there are no references to anything Chinese in her story or the film.) Duave was found guilty of murder in 1971 and several appeals while on death row culminated in a Supreme Court decision seven years later that declared her innocent and released her from prison.
- Kristine is a teenager living an affluent life with her mother and auntie. Her mother is the only one managing the hacienda of her late father. Since her mother is not used to managing the business, the hacienda, which was made as a collateral in a bank, has a risk of getting confiscated by the bank due to unpaid debts. Meanwhile, high-schooler Kristine meets Mark at school and they start going together. She introduces him to her mother--who realizes that Mark is the son of her former boyfriend, whom she dumped in favor of a wealthy man. Mark's father is also the manager in the bank where Kristine's mother's hacienda is mortgaged. So the mother suspects that her former boyfriend is using his son Mark in his revenge, so she secretly tries to break up Kristine and Mark, and later she forbids Kristine to see or talk to Mark. Kristine gets confused, and her aunt tells her about her mother's past with Mark's father. Kristine feels that her mother's attitude towards Mark is unfair. Kristine leaves her house to spend some time in their hacienda. The mother realizes that she shouldn't do to Kristine what her parents did to her; she never fought for her true love, the small-time businessman who is now the high official in a bank and wealthier than her parents. In front of her husband's tomb, the mother gives Kristine and Mark her blessing.
- A family's source of joy becomes the cause of all their grief. After years of trying to have a son, a couple finally decides to adopt one. While Shayne their only child is receptive at first, she finds herself getting increasingly jealous of Joel who has become the couple's center of attention. Shayne realizes that her adopted brother is no threat at all when he demonstrates his affection for her. But just when harmony is restored in the family, tragedy strikes during a beach excursion. Acting on a dare by Joel, Shane's father drifts afar from the shore and drowns. Shane's mother suffers a breakdown and blames Joel for the tragedy. Albeit Shane tries to hold the family together, the mother becomes inconsolable and demands that she return the boy to the orphanage. Now, Shayne must make the painful choice whether to keep her brother or submit to her mother's wishes.
- Two women are in love with the same man: one is his wife, the other is his mistress, and between them is the man whose love and time they share. But even the most discreet of affairs can be laid open, and even the most submissive of wives can lost her patience. Vilma Santos, Hilda Koronel and Dindo Fernando lend their thespic talents to this moving tale of love, betrayal, and retribution.
- Forced by her father to marry a man she does not love in order to save him from financial ruin, Raffy runs away. Left with no choice but to fend for herself, she takes a secretarial job in a mining company. There she meets Bullet, an adventurous young man who, like her, has left home in order to save himself from a loveless arranged marriage. Together, Raffy and Bullet go through life, coping with its ups and downs, learning about forgiveness, and discovering love in the process.
- A persistent suitor is stabbed to death by Salome, the wife of a coconut farmer. From the simple crime of passion three conflicting versions of the truth are given - by Salome herself, by the people of the small fishing village, and by her own husband. Each version contributes a piece and facet of the truth, and slowly reveals to us the real character of Salome and her husband, and the true nature of their relationship.
