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Abandoned by his American lover, a handsome teenager from the mountains journeys to Manila in an effort to support his family. With a popular call boy as his mentor, Paul enters the glittering world of male strippers, prostitution, drugs, sexual slavery, police corruption and murder. Teeming with sex and Asian beefcake, Macho Dancer is a searing indictment of the hypocrisy and police corruption rampant under both the Marcos and Aquino regimes.

Three poor girls from the provinces of the Philippines are lured to the big city. In Manila they are tricked to work in the sex trade.

In 1985, in the obscure town of Santa Filomena, the Orapronobis, a cult under the leadership of Kumander Kontra (Roco), murders a foreign priest who gave the last rites to an alleged rebel, who was also executed by the same group. At the success of the 1986 EDSA revolt, political detainees, led by Jimmy Cordero (Salvador), celebrate the fall of the dictatorship. All political prisoners are released, including Jimmy, an ex-priest-turned-underground revolutionary. Not long, after, Jimmy marries a human rights activist, Trixie (Bonnevie). Jimmy becomes an advocate of human rights. Despite Trixie's protests, her brother, Roland (Lorenzo), and Jimmy go on a fact-finding mission to Santa Filomena to investigate the latest crime committed by the Orapronobis. Jimmy meets Esper (Alajar), his ex-girlfriend. He finds out that he has a son with her, Camilo (Herrera). They agree to keep Jimmy's true identity a secret form the boy. Conniving with the military, the Orapronobis step up their acts of terror. Jimmy's group helps evacuate the townspeople to the town church, then later to Manila. Back in Manila, Jimmy turns down a friend's invitation to rejoin the underground movement. Later, he and Roland are ambushed. Jimmy survives, but Roland does not. He recovers and shortly after that, Trixie gives birth to their child. Soldiers raid the refugee center with a masked man who identifies several of the barrio folk as rebels. The refugees and the human rights activists complain to the government. Esper and her son are abducted by the Orapronobis who accuse Esper of helping the rebels. She is raped and beaten up by Kumander Kontra in front of Camilo. Fighting back, she shoots at Kontra. In a hysterical rage, Kontra goes on a shooting rampage, killing Esper, Camilo and the captured barrio men. Later, the military bring the casualties to the town where Jimmy weeps over the bodies of Esper and his son. The film ends with Jimmy contacting his old colleague from the underground.

When does a family stop laughing and start crying? Economic depression takes its toll on Mello's family when he's laid off and forced to go to Saudi Arabia to find work, leaving his wife to find work herself. She can hardly make ends meet so she gets involved with other men, something which disastrously affects her family.

This movie takes a comic look at turn-coatism in Philippine society.

Dolphy the king of comedy has a dual role here.Baldo (Dolphy) the "Goat Buster" upon the request of the police to get rid of criminal elements disguised himself as his brother Bogart who heads a notorious syndicate and who was injured when his rogue companions tried to kill him in a struggle for leadership.Baldo now the crime buster had a tragic confrontation with his brother and in the insuing drama Bogart succumbed from bullets inflicted by Jane (Gloria Diaz) his former girlfriend now Baldo's fiancee thus putting an end to the crime syndicate.

Four law offenders were recruited, trained and then organized into a vigilante group to take down a crime syndicate.

THE HAPPY, HARMONIOUS LIFE OF A LOVING COUPLE IS THREATENED WHEN A BOY - THE HUSBAND'S LOVE CHILD WITH A PREVIOUS LOVER - ENTERS INTO THEIR LIVES.