Movie

Baby Tsina
1984 · 110 min
A somber, emotionally charged drama that traces a woman's harrowing journey through love, imprisonment, and redemption, anchored by a powerful lead performance.
- Directed by
- Marilou Diaz-Abaya
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Vilma Santos, Phillip Salvador, Dindo Fernando
- Tagline
- Is Baby Tsina a woman worth loving and dying for?
- Overview
- A woman develops feelings for a gang leader and is subsequently jailed for murder. While in prison, she undergoes a transformation, eventually leading her fellow inmates in a movement for penal system reform. Seven years later, she is declared innocent. Based on the true story of Evelyn Duave Ortega, also known as Baby Tsina.
- How it feels
- Dark, melancholic, tense and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Justice, love, betrayal, survival
- Content
- Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Marilou Diaz-Abaya
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Vilma Santos, Phillip Salvador, Dindo Fernando














