Kasalĭirector: Antoinette Jadaone | Starring: James Reid, Nadine Lustre, Yayo Aguila | Genres: Romance, Drama Want to learn more? Check out our review of BuyBust here. Packed with dramatic fight sequences and tense foot chases, BuyBust received accolades internationally for its timely political commentary and action-packed cinematography. Meanwhile, local slum residents tired of the collateral damage inflicted on their homes attack both the agents and narcos. However, their operation goes wrong when someone inside the narcotics agency betrays them to the drug cartel.Īs the agents try to escape, they engage in countless gunfights with the drug dealers. A squad of anti-narcotics agents infiltrate a slum and attempt to capture a drug lord. BuyBust dramatizes a police raid on a drug deal in a slum, in a brutally realistic depiction of the human toll of the drug war. The Filipino drug war has been the topic of numerous conversations, both in the Philippines and internationally.
Director: Erik Matti | Starring: Anne Curtis, Brandon Vera, Victor Neri, Arjo Atayde | Genre(s): Action, Crime, Thriller