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Ricardo Lee
Writer, Producer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn March 19, 1948 (78 years)
Ricardo Arreola Lee (b. March 19, 1948), also known as Ricky Lee, is a profilic Filipino screenwriter, journalist, novelist, and playwright. Starting in 1973, he has written more than 180 film screenplays and collaborated with many of the Philippines' most notable filmmakers, including Lino Brocka, Marilou Diaz-Abaya, and Ishmael Bernal. Many of his films he written have been screened in international film festivals, including Cannes, Toronto, and Berlin, among others. In 2022, Lee was conferred as National Artist of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts.
Filmography
| 2026 | |
| 2024 | Green Bones · as Screenplay |
| 2024 | Isang himala · as Screenplay |
| 2024 | |
| 2024 | Rita · as Screenplay |
| 2023 | |
| 2023 | |
| 2023 | |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | A Tale of Filipino Violence · as Screenplay |
| 2022 | |
| 2021 | My Husband, My Lover · as Screenplay |
| 2021 | Nerisa · as Screenplay |
| 2020 | |
| 2019 | |
| 2017 | Bes and the Beshies · as Screenplay |
| 2016 | Deliver Us · as Screenplay |
| 2014 | |
| 2013 | Lihis · as Screenplay |
| 2013 | Lauriana · as Screenplay |
| 2012 | Shake Rattle and Roll Fourteen: The Invasion · as Screenplay |
| 2010 | Mamarazzi · as Screenplay |
| 2009 | Fuschia · as Screenplay |
| 2006 | 'Wag kang lilingon · as Screenplay |
| 2006 | Twilight Dancers · as Screenplay |
| 2005 | Dubai · as Screenplay |
| 2005 | Only You (TV Series) |
| 2005 | Wherever You Are · as Screenplay |
| 2004 | So... Happy Together · as Screenplay |
| 2004 | Aishite imasu (Mahal kita) 1941 · as Screenplay |
| 2004 | |
| 2004 | Sabel · as Screenplay |
| 2004 | I Will Survive · as Screenplay |
| 2003 | It Might Be You (TV Series) |
| 2003 | I Wish It Would Never End (TV Series) |
| 2002 | Kung ikaw ay isang panaginip · as Screenplay |
| 2001 | |
| 2001 | Tatarin · as Screenplay |
| 2001 | Mila · as Screenplay |
| 2001 | |
| 2000 | Lagarista · as Screenplay |
| 2000 | Anak · as Screenplay |
| 1999 | Bulaklak ng Maynila · as Screenplay |
| 1999 | Muro-ami · as Screenplay |
| 1999 | Burlesk King · as Screenplay |
| 1999 | Sidhi · as Screenplay |
| 1998 | José Rizal · as Screenplay |
| 1998 | I Love You, If That's Okay · as Screenplay |
| 1998 | Soft Hearts · as Screenplay |
| 1997 | Ipaglaban mo II: The Movie · as Screenplay |
| 1997 | Calvento Files: The Movie · as Screenplay |
| 1997 | NBI: The Mariano Mison Story · as Screenplay |
| 1996 | |
| 1996 | Madrasta · as Screenplay |
| 1996 | |
| 1996 | Utol · as Screenplay |
| 1996 | In My Own Hands · as Screenplay |
| 1996 | Madonna and Child · as Screenplay |
| 1995 | |
| 1995 | Mangarap ka · as Screenplay |
| 1995 | Kill Barbara with Panic · as Screenplay |
| 1995 | The Flor Contemplacion Story · as Screenplay |
| 1995 | Redeem Her Honor · as Screenplay |
| 1994 | Separada · as Screenplay |
| 1994 | Midnight Dancers · as Screenplay |
| 1994 | Yesterday's Promise · as Screenplay |
| 1994 | Minsan lang kitang iibigin · as Screenplay |
| 1994 | |
| 1991 | Memories (TV Series) |
| 1990 | |
| 1990 | |
| 1990 | Mundo man ay magunaw · as Screenplay |
| 1990 | Dirty Affair · as Screenplay |
| 1990 | |
| 1990 | Started with the Heart · as Screenplay |
| 1990 | Dyesebel · as Screenplay |
| 1988 | Macho Dancer · as Screenplay |
| 1985 | |
| 1984 | Baby Tsina · as Screenplay |
| 1983 | Of the Flesh · as Screenplay |
| 1982 | |
| 1982 | The House in the Woods · as Screenplay |
| 1981 | |
| 1980 | |
| 1980 | |
| 1980 | |
| 1979 | Jaguar · as Screenplay |
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