Manuel Conde

Directing

October 15, 1915 — August 11, 1985

Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines

19 movies

Biography

Manuel Conde was a Filipino actor, writer, director and producer. He was taking up geological engineering and entering the movies was farthest from his mind, It was a bit player, stuntman, laboratory a ventriloquist (a puppet named Kiko). He made his first film, "Mahiwaggang Biyolin" in 1935 then signed a contract for LVN Pictures, where he made almost three dozen films, both as an actor and director. As an actor, he used the screen name Juan Urbano during the 1930s. His first directorial assign...

🎬 Manuel Conde's Filmography

19 movies sorted by popularity

A satire on the social foibles of Filipinos in and out of government, of society, and politics in general.

Si Juan Daldal: Anak ni Juan Tamad

1948

Visions Cinema: Film in the Philippines - A Report by Tony Rayns

6.6

Film critic Tony Rayns interviews Lino Brocka and other prominent Filipino filmmakers.

Visions Cinema: Film in the Philippines - A Report by Tony Rayns

1983

7.0

No description available.

Casa Grande

1958

9.0

Based on a true story about a valiant Vietnamese Military Officer whose family and fiancé fell victim to injustice and ruin during the Communist insurgency in Vietnam. The film was shot in two versions, a Vietnamese and a Tagalog version, and with each version's main characters played by its own set of native actors.

Krus na Kawayan

1956

9.0

Crispin is a soltero who has undergone several heartbreaks with women, broken family ties, and his own personal conflicts. In his evolution as a man, he shows his weakness, his strengths, his confusion.

The Bachelor

1984

6.6

Temujin, who later became Genghis Khan is wise, or sometimes cunning. He goes through several heroic episodes; competing at the Man of Men contest, falling in love with the enemy commander's daughter, and struggling to restore his demolished hometown. Meanwhile his steps guide him to be a great conqueror. Khan's witty, humorous side in his adolescent years before he takes the throne.

Genghis Khan

1950

No description available.

Prinsipe Paris

1949

6.4

The film depicts ten years of Catalan history, from 1899 with the defeat of the Spanish side in the Cuban War of Independence to the Tragic Week 1909.

The Burned City

1976

A story of a father who hires a woman to charm his son and tempers his wild ways. Unfortunately, the woman and his son fall in love which the father explicitly forbade.