Foreign
Inventors
Inventors
Blinded as a child, this French educator invented a tactile system of raised dots in 1824 so visually impaired people could read and write.
Louis Braille
In 1975, this Filipino inventor patented the "Sing-Along System," which became the precursor to the modern, globally popular karaoke machine.
Roberto del Rosario
A family goes on vacation and leaves their eight-year-old child behind to single-handedly defend their suburban home using micro-machines, paint cans, and literal torture devices.
Home Alone
Four dramatic siblings unite to sabotage their brother's wedding, leading to a chaotic confrontation where one sister is famously dragged by her hair across the living room.
Four Sisters and a Wedding
This actor and comedian sparked massive internet outrage after publicly admitting that he does not give regular financial sustenance or sustento to his children, stating he only gives what he can.
Paolo Contis
He secured the first US patent for the telephone in 1876, famously telling his assistant, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
Alexander Graham Bell
The first female National Scientist of the Philippines, she designed a non-electric, bamboo medical incubator to help premature infants in rural communities.
Fe del Mundo
A low-income family expertly cons their way into wealthy estate jobs, completely forgetting that the house already came pre-furnished with a secret tenant in the basement.
Parasite
A 2015 historical epic about a short-tempered military general whose primary strategy for winning the revolution is screaming at his own government colleagues.
Heneral Luna
This global style icon sparked a massive, multi-year social media war involving stolen contacts, toxic work environments, and a missing Instagram account after her entire glam team abruptly left her to work for Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach.
Heart Evangelista
This Serbian-American engineer is famous for championing alternating current (AC) power and inventing a high-voltage induction coil that bears his last name.
Nikola Tesla
Decades before FaceTime or Zoom, this renowned physicist and engineer invented the two-way television-telephone, or videophone, in 1955.
Gregorio Zara
An office worker takes a sketchy pill from a stranger in a leather trench coat, only to discover his entire life is just a screensaver and his real job is being a literal AAA battery.
The Matrix
This gritty crime thriller showcases the ultimate side hustle, where real-life prison inmates are temporarily let out of jail just to moonlight as contract killers.
On the Job
This actor became the poster boy for modern relationship drama after popularizing the term "ghosting" when he allegedly cut off actress Bea Alonzo without any formal breakup.
Gerald Anderson
In 1923, this African-American inventor patented a three-position traffic signal, vastly improving road safety after witnessing a carriage accident.
Garrett Morgan
A pioneering food scientist and wartime hero, she invented banana ketchup, a sweet, red condiment created out of a local resource shortage during WWII.
Maria Orosa
A 10-year-old girl takes a wrong turn into an abandoned theme park, her parents instantly transform into literal pigs, and she is forced to work manual labor at a bathhouse for stinky gods.
Spirited Away
A desperate rice farmer moves his family to the big city, only to land a highly stressful job driving an armored truck where his senior partner’s retirement plan involves a literal inside heist.
Metro Manila
This former child star and comedian dominated the news cycles after getting arrested following a chaotic, viral street brawl outside a bar in Poblacion, Makati.
Awra Briguela
This 19th-century mathematician is widely celebrated as the world's first computer programmer for her work on Charles Babbage’s mechanical computer.
Ada Lovelace
This Cagayan-born engineer revolutionized computers by inventing the first single-chip graphical user interface (GUI) accelerator and the first 16-bit microchip.
Diosdado Banatao
Slum tenants just want to pay their rent in peace, but a local gang forces a chain-smoking landlady in hair rollers to weaponize her literal supersonic screaming voice.
Kung Fu Hustle
An elite anti-narcotics squad goes on a simple drug raid in a Manila slum and ends up in a literal, non-stop, 2-hour rain-soaked maze where every single resident tries to murder them with kitchen utensils.
BuyBust
This former beauty queen's bitter, highly public separation from her billionaire ex-husband led to wild online updates involving cut electricity, locked houses, and adultery charges.
Maggie Wilson