Best mind-bending Filipino movies in India
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
14 movies in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 6.0. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity.
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1. From What Is Before (2014)
Movie · Filipino · 5h 39m · Drama · IMDb 7.6 (1.0K votes)
Cold & detachedDark & grittySlow-burnTwisty
The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad, and houses are burned. Ferdinand Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081, putting the entire country under martial law.
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2. Melancholia (2008)
Movie · Filipino · 7h 27m · Drama · IMDb 7.3 (659 votes)
Slow-burnTwistyMatureCold & detached
Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies. Each attempts to process those they lost during the Marcos dictatorship while examining their own grief.
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3. The Missing (2023)
Movie · Filipino · 1h 31m · Animation, Drama · IMDb 7.2 (454 votes)
TwistyDark & grittyMatureEdge-of-seat
When an alien comes back to take him, a mouthless young man's life twists and turns as his memories untangle.
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4. My Future You (2024)
Movie · Filipino · 1h 49m · Romance, Comedy · IMDb 7.2 (431 votes)
TwistyHeartwarmingLight-hearted
Karen and Lex meet on a dating app, only to discover they're living fifteen years apart, connected by a comet. As they unravel the mystery of their unique situation, they work together to change the past and alter their fates.
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5. Century of Birthing (2011)
Movie · Filipino · 5h 59m · Drama · IMDb 7.4 (361 votes)
Slow-burnTwistyCold & detachedDark & gritty
An artist struggles to finish his work while a storyline about a cult plays in his head. As the cult spirals towards a fundamentalism that will destroy the world, the artist decides to destroy his muse to redeem the world.
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6. And the Breadwinner Is... (2025)
Movie · Filipino · 2h 3m · Comedy, Family · IMDb 6.0 (650 votes)
TwistyFunnyHeartwarming
When Bambi discovers that her family has squandered their savings, they devise a plan to cover their debts — but first, she must fake her death.
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7. Love You Long Time (2023)
Movie · Filipino · 1h 44m · Drama, Romance · IMDb 6.3 (205 votes)
TwistyLow-stakesDialogue-drivenHeartwarming
While recovering from heartbreak, a screenwriter finds new inspiration when she makes an unexpected connection with a man via an old walkie-talkie.
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8. Elegy to the Visitor From the Revolution (2011)
Movie · Filipino · 1h 20m · Drama · IMDb 6.2 (217 votes)
Slow-burnTwistyDark & grittySerious
Structured and less beholden to its narrative, a 19th-century woman visits present-day Philippines and observes three interwoven stories: those of a prostitute, a group of criminals, and a musician.
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9. The Kingdom (2024)
Movie · Filipino · 2h 13m · Action, Adventure · IMDb 5.8 (289 votes)
Fast-pacedEdge-of-seatVisually stunningTwisty
In an alternate, contemporary Philippines where the islands were never colonized, the Kingdom of Kalayaan sees a ruler’s favored child kidnapped, leading to a failed rescue and a deadly duel.
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10. P77 (2025)
Movie · Filipino · 1h 43m · Thriller, Horror · IMDb 4.9 (206 votes)
TwistyDark & grittyCold & detachedMature
A cruise ship chambermaid has to quit her job to attend to her sick brother. Only to find out their mother's gone missing and her brother's condition is getting progressively worse. The siblings desperately sneak into an empty condo unit but soon discover that Penthouse 77 is not what it seems...
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11. The Time That Remains (2025)
Movie · Filipino · 1h 56m · A · Drama, Romance · IMDb 4.8 (276 votes)
TwistySerious
Surrounded by a string of deaths, an older woman relives her romance with a mysterious, ageless lover as an inspector closes in on their dark secret.
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12. Shake, Rattle & Roll: Evil Origins (2025)
Movie · Filipino · 2h 28m · Horror · IMDb 4.1 (433 votes)
TwistyDark & grittyCold & detachedMature
In 1775 during the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines, nuns attempts to survive the night after an unknown evil was set free in their cloister. Meanwhile in 2025, a group of friends attend a Halloween masquerade ball which was attacked by a serial killer. Fast forward to the future in 2050, a post-apocalytic Ph
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13. Eerie (2019)
Movie · Filipino · 1h 41m · Horror, Crime · IMDb 4.7 (3.1K votes)
Dark & grittyCold & detachedTwistyMature
The unexpected and gruesome death of a student threatens the existence of an old Catholic school for girls. Pat Consolacion, the school guidance counselor, involves herself with the students in the hopes of helping them cope, and at the same time uncover the mysteries of the student’s death. Most students suspect of th
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