Cirio H. Santiago Trailers
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Producer/director Cirio H. Santiago is the son of Dr. Ciriaco Santiago, who founded Premiere Productions in Manila in 1946. He has two siblings. After starting out as a producer he started directing english-language movies in the early 70s. Santiago became one of the pioneers of the "Blaxploitation" genre by being one of the first to cast black actors and especially actresses as strong action heroes. Movies like TNT Jackson (1974) became instant cult classics. In the 80s, Santiago became known for his numerous low-budget Vietnam war movies such as Firehawk (1993) which gave him a reputation as the "master of the Vietnam war genre". A long running production partnership with Roger Corman assured proper distribution of his movies in the USA. Many of today's hottest filmmakers such as Jonathan Demme, Joe Dante or Carl Franklin got their first directing jobs with Santiago. In 1995 he was named president of the Philippines Film Development Funds by President Ramos. The organization strives to uplift the quality of Filipino filmmaking to new, higher standards and to encourage production of foreign movies on location in the Philippines. Premiere Productions, headed by Cirio H. Santiago, still remains one of the biggest studios in the Philippines and went public in 1997.
Most Popular Cirio H. Santiago Trailers
Total trailers found: 95
15 November 1974
A compilation of film clips featuring dance and song performances culled from various films of the so-called big three - Sampaguita, LVN, Premiere.
05 November 1958
In the Nineteenth century a were-cat is cursed to live nine lives unless he can perform an act of sacrifice.
08 February 1958
With hate locked deep in his heart and fear in his holster, he walked on to keep a rendezvous with danger and death.
01 November 1976
A band of female pirates go undercover at a prison camp on a coffee plantation to rescue their leader's sister.
01 January 1986
A man from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to prevent the coming nuclear holocaust and enlists the help of a young couple.
05 September 1970
A Filipino immigrant travels the American west searching for his relatives. Although he doesn't speak much English, he winds up getting involved with Chinese immigrants, and a beautiful blonde American girl and finds himself appointed sheriff of a small town that's having trouble with an outlaw gang.
01 May 1981
Femme fatale martial arts expert teaches the mafia a lesson.
07 October 1958
Two against a world on tyranny and greed.
19 October 1971
Carol Jeffries is a naive American woman staying in the Philippines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy.
27 December 1957
A Filipino re-edit of the original Godzilla. Appears to have been edited in a similar fashion to the American King of the Monsters!, with the use of Filipino actors.
25 December 2003
Captain Barbell has the human form of Enteng. One day Enteng received a mysterious barbell given by a hermit after he saved his life.
28 June 1957
An omnibus seven-part movie.
01 January 1994
King Lim is the oppressive ruler of a country on the verge of revolution. The CIA arranges a fake assassination to get him safely out of the country, but his daughter is captured in the ensuing melee and sent to The Rock, an island penitentiary known for its harshness.
01 January 1994
Deep inside the nation's top chemical weapons facility, a brilliant terrorist takes a Congresswoman hostage.
12 May 1978
Eddie, a hot-blooded cop, after surviving a fatal accident was forced to undergo plastic surgery and eventually faked his own death.
30 April 1971
Female prisoners in a Philippine jail are being subjected to sadistic torture. Five of the women, along with the help of two men, plot an escape.
03 October 1995
It has been 23 years since a world war during which combatants unleashed a lab-created virus that has made life no fun at all.
26 February 1993
An American colonel will pay any price to defeat the Viet Cong. When his unauthorized fighting force in Cambodia is discovered, he becomes a one man army, fighting a war of his own for a cause he knows is just.
28 January 1993
Jason Kirby and Vickie Evans encounter something other than paradise when their tropical vacation unwittingly meets up with a terrorist force.
28 July 1966
The biggest anti-crime picture of the year.
28 May 1992
Don "The Dragon" Wilson is back and forced to take on the greatest legends of the martial arts world.
05 June 1971
Obscure Philippine romance featuring appearances by Davy Jones and Don Johnson.
01 May 1988
For America, the Vietnam War is over. Johnny doesn't see it that way. This Special Forces soldier battles vicious Vietcong, a sadistic Russian advisor and his own peacenik girlfriend as he embarks on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.
22 August 1990
Silk, the smoothest, toughest, and sexiest cop in Honolulu is hot on the trail of ruthless art smugglers who are after a priceless Asian Scroll.
01 January 1987
"The Lost Command," a bunch of notorious renegades, terrorize South Vietnam, forcing Sgt. Zack Skinner, HQ's best man to hunt down the Command to stop its killing spree.
01 July 1972
Women rebel against slave labor in a filthy jungle prison where they feed sugar cane to a mechanical maw.
01 December 1986
Silk, the toughest cop in Honolulu, busts small time smugglers only to reveal a larger syndicate smuggling Asian mobsters into the States by buying the identities of Hawaiian citizens.
16 June 1954
Set in the Cordillera mountains, this film is one of first films to focus on the lifestyle of the Ifugao mountain tribe with authenticity.
25 July 1984
When his family are murdered Vietnam War veteran, Vince Deacon, tracks down the man responsible for the murders and to get his revenge.
03 July 2014
Catastrophic war, destroyed ecosystem, brink of extinction. War for the most valuable treasure of the time: water.
17 January 2006
A group of US Marines are sent to rescue captured a US Marine and a Filipino Captain while stopping a group of Al-Qaeda-backed local rebels from launching biological weapons.
02 April 1977
A love story set in the blissful serenity of a small barrio laced with comical situations as Badong, a poor farmer, goes about trying to win the hand of the barrio's prettiest lass, Lagring.
10 May 1974
A trilogy featuring Nora Aunor giving life to the stories of 3 women: Fe - an emerging movie Superstar who has an invalid husband, Esperanza - a young wife living in a middle class neighborhood in the city & Caridad - a young novice who was seduced by the devil himself.
07 September 1959
The movie, set in a remote volcanic island, tells of the friendship between a little boy named Bentot
28 September 1960
4 Stories of chilling, shocking, hair-raising horrors.
25 December 2002
Rudolf is imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. He attempted to escape many times but was unsuccessfull, he realizes that he is in for the long haul and decides that his wife Sandra should remarry for the sake of their children Melody and Mark who have been made to believe anyway that he is already dead.
10 March 1966
Love-ful, Romance-ful ,Laugh-ful, Alive with Songs and Dances.
18 January 1991
After the end of the world, Earth is a thirsty planet ruled by vicious warlords. One woman is brave r
13 June 2000
Aladdin and his new friend Paige visit English kings, Egyptian queens, come face to face with a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and walk the gangplank with Blackbeard the Pirate, in search of a stolen magic lamp.
01 July 1978
A sinister vampire sends out a horde of undead beauties to bring back victims for his dinner.
14 July 1988
Captain Baronski, assigned a squad of misfit soldiers, trains them into a fighting powerhouse "The Expendables.
01 January 1988
CIA Colonel Harper's men are robbing military armories in order to supply South American rebels. They hide near Granite Lake, a small town policed by sheriff Jack Steiger.
01 January 1988
The year is 2021 AD. Women have been enslaved by a brutal army of men who survived the nuclear holocaust.
01 June 1979
The staff and vacationers at a first-class resort on the island of Maui are beginning to mysteriously disappear.
22 September 1989
To avenge the brutal murder of his brother, Jake Ray journeys to the Philippines, where his search for truth finds him battling both in and out of the ring.
10 July 1980
Ancestral home to a wealthy family is being haunted by malevolent spirits. On other side of town, evil creatures are lurking.
12 October 1990
Jake Ray gives up his title after killing a man in the ring. When Jake goes to Manila to help an old friend, trouble awaits him! After fending off multiple attacks, Jake is finally captured and chained to a half a dozen martial arts champions.
12 May 1993
An assassination in the Philippines is caught on film by kickboxer Christy, which leads to her death at the hands of radicals intent on disrupting peace talks.
04 January 1988
In a bleak, postnuclear future world, warring factions struggle to claim the Equalizer 2000, the one weapon powerful enough to guarantee survival.
15 October 2010
In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased.
10 November 1961
A bloodthirsty killer is stalking a woman. But who is the maniac?
07 July 1989
Lt. Vance Calhoun takes on a dangerous rescue mission of American P.O.W.s in the treacherous Darloc Valley in Vietnam.
11 October 1994
Undercover cop Jo Alwood is out to avenge her sisters death at the hands of a serial killer.
01 January 2003
An elite group of American soldiers are in a race against time in this action thriller from director Cirio H.
01 September 1978
James Iglehart is Doug Russell, an American who steals a shipment of gold in the Philippines with two Vietnam War buddies, who cut his throat and throw him overboard.
11 April 1985
The Future is now. There are no rules and no place to hide from the deadly Highway Warriors who ravage the roads in machines of destruction.
20 December 1985
After witnessing her husband's brutal murder, Carla travels to her parents' home in a small mountain town to start over.
