Mike de Leon
May 24, 1947 · 79 years old
Miguel Pamintuan de Leon (May 24, 1947 – August 28, 2025), also known as Mike de Leon, was a Filipino film director, cinematographer, scriptwriter and film producer. De Leon's films are a full reflection of the Filipino psyche that sought answer for questions on social class belonging, political abs…
Known For
4 titles
Manila in the Claws of Light
Júlio Madiaga, a 'provinciano', arrives in Manila to search for his beloved, Ligaya.
Chambre 666
During the '35th Cannes International Film Festival' (14th-26th May 1982), German director Wim Wenders asked a sample of 15 other international film directors to get, each one at a time, into the same hotel room to answer in solit...
In the Wink of an Eye
A crime-drama-suspense genre film not often seen in Philippine cinema. A controlling patriarch loses it over his daughter's marriage and her attempts to escape from their incestuous household.
Will Your Heart Beat Faster?
The film revolves around two couples who find themselves in conflict with the foreign commercial giants that control the Philippine economy, the Japanese and the Chinese.