Mara Lopez

Actress

May 20, 1991 (35 years)

San Pablo, California, USA

Biography

Mara Lopez (born Mara Isabella Lopez on 20 May 1991) is a Filipino actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Palitan (2012), BuyBust (2018), and Ang Hupa (2019).

Filmography

2.7

Palitan

An erotic, psychological drama-thriller set on the gritty streets of Raon, Quiapo, Manila - a third world commercial avenue where everything from dildos, car parts and home accessories is available for a price. It is against this backdrop that the shrewd Ramiro, owner of an electronics shop, through a process of bartering and bargaining, convinceshis ill-tempered and non-too-bright employee Nestor to give him videos of his naked wife in exchange for the erasure of his debts.

5.3

The Killer Bride

Agnes

Las Espadas is a superstitious town that has been haunted by the ghost of The Killer Bride for years. Almost all Las Espadas residents have stories of encountering the woman in the bloody wedding dress and veil. They say that the ghost is biding her time to exact revenge on the people who had hurt her in the past.

N/A

Sleepless

Sleepless is the TV-series spinoff of the popular 2015 indie movie of the same title. It is about three pairs of twenty-somethings who work the night shift at a call center. It is all about lonely people who are living in the city and trying to find connection. Their stories are about bonds that go beyond romance and happily ever after.

N/A

Hush

Andy

An erotic-drama anthology featuring the lives of different people and their universe of intimacy, pleasure, and pain.

6.9

Miss Granny

Mia

Fely is an elderly woman who finds second chance at youth after a visit to a mysterious photo studio.

6.0

BuyBust

Loren Santos

A special forces team is sent to snuff out a drug den, but find themselves trapped inside it after being set-up and betrayed.

N/A

Dama

Our senses are how we experience life: We understand the world based on what we see, hear, taste and touch. However, what is these primary senses lead us to something else? Worse, to our very own danger? When we take our senses for granted, sometime, we see, hear, smell, taste, and feel things we shouldn't.

5.0

Santa Mesa

Sel

Following his mother's death, Hector arrives in Manila to live with his grandmother. Unable to speak Tagalog, Hector falls in with a street gang before a photographer takes him under his wing. Haunted by memories of his mother, Hector photographs an anonymous woman when suddenly, these seemingly disconnected lives collide.

6.3

The Halt

Marissa Ventura

Madmen control Manila in 2034 after massive volcanic eruptions have plunged Southeast Asia into darkness.

6.0

Signal Rock

Gina

Intoy was left to take care of his parents when his sister Vicky leaves to work overseas. Eventually, like many women in the island, Vicky married a foreigner thinking it will solve all her family’s problems. Living in a remote area, Intoy can only get in touch with his sister by scrambling atop strange rock formations on the island.

1.0

Toto

When a young Filipino room service attendant's schemes to attain a U.S. visa put the lives of his loved ones in danger, he is forced to question the extremity of his actions and re-evaluate the cost of fulfilling his dreams.

N/A

Flotsam

A young woman running away from a volatile relationship ends up in a small beach resort where it seems everyone is falling in and out of love.

N/A

Jesusa

Beth

Jesusa, a barren woman comes to her wit’s end when her philandering husband moves in with his latest mistress. Left only with her stepdaughters, she succumbs to the sordid ways of the neighborhood drug addicts

3.5

Haunted Mansion

Teacher

A group of high school students who are spending the night in a old mansion. When they learn that the house is haunted they set to look out for ghosts just for fun , but they find out soon enough that the urban legends are real.

0.8

Kabaro

“Kabaro” tells of same-sex relationships, between lesbians (Mara and Krista) and gays (Aldrich and Rockwell).

N/A

Unveiling The Horse Demon

Ayumi

A young man searches for his father and encounters natural and supernatural forces, which ultimately lead him to unveil his true identity.

N/A

Never Forget

Vera

Vera, a Filipino-American New Yorker hires Jhason, a Filipino nurse, to help take care of her estranged father, Pablo, when he is diagnosed with dementia. As his memory fades, a dark secret that he has been trying to forget resurfaces.

4.8

T.P.O.: Temporary Protection Order

Teresa

Miguel is an abusive husband to Teresa, a former town-beauty queen. They have an eight-year old son, JR. Their small family lives with Miguel’s parents. The family is shattered by the vicious cycle of domestic abuse. After a night of beating, Teresa, goaded by a friend, seeks TPO (Temporary Protection Order) from the court. TPO is a legal remedy that a woman can avail of under Republic Act 9262 (Violence Against Women and Children Law) to protect her and her child against anyone harming them. Teresa is granted the TPO against Miguel. But in this legal tug-of-war of familial rights, their son ,JR, is ignored. Until, he shows aggression in school.But Miguel’s parents coax Miguel to file for Child Custody.

N/A

Underground

Portrait of a marginalised group of people living illegally in a cemetery in the Philippines, through the life of a couple with a sick child.

N/A

Riding in Tandem

Jonard is an angry young man out to take revenge on his sister's killer. Miguel is an old and jaded ex-convict and a former hired killer looking for his wife. Together, they will be drawn into a violent world of killing and easy money, testing their friendship, and the values they hold dear as humans.