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Watch Award Winning Local Movie 'Cleaners' on UPSTREAM

Each month, GMovies adds a brand-new lineup of international and local titles so you can have something new to look forward to—including this 2019 film

There's just something about watching new movies—in all their cinematic glory—in theaters that can bring so much joy. It's been close to two years now since we've been able to do so—and only heaven knows how much longer we will have to wait until we can again. Since this problem arose, streaming and video on demand options have popped up—helping us access this simple joy within the four walls of our home.


Well, here's some good news. GMovies, a movie ticketing app, and UPSTREAM.PH, a new online transactional video on demand (TVOD) platform have partnered up to provide a prime alternative source of entertainment, especially for the string of new releases we just won't be able to see on the big screen. Thanks to this, we can still sit back, relax, and enjoy these fresh titles, movies, shows, documentaries, and streaming media, fresh off the festival circuit, as well as arthouse films and local indie movies we’ve never seen before.


Each month, they add a brand-new lineup of international and local titles so you can have something new to look forward to, including the 2019 award-winning local movie, Cleaners.

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Award-winning local film 'Cleaners' is now available on UPSTREAM


In this anthology coming-of-age film, director Glenn Barit navigates the trying times of assigned cleaners in a rural catholic high school during the noughties. These students struggle with different societal pressures of being clean, proper, and pure while they discover that the world is dirty and superficial, to begin with. The movie, starring Ianna Taguinod, Leomar Baloran, Julian Narag, Carlo Mejia, Gianne Emira Rivera, Allan Gannaban, Charise Mabbonag, and Andrei Marquez, is now on UPSTREAM.


The strong social media anticipation for Cleaners grows out of the movie’s off-kilter yet distinctive cinematography process shown in the trailer. The team behind the film uses 30,000 photocopied materials and funky highlighters to create a retro stop-motion animation as it brings together relics of a bygone era such as awkward jeje speak and GM texts while the local emo anthem, Typecast’s "Will You Ever Learn", plays in the background. In fact, Cleaners has garnered a Famas Award for Best Screenplay, five “Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino” awards including Best Picture and Best Director, among others, and three awards, including Best Picture, in the QCinema International Film Festival.


To watch the film, you just need to download the GMovies app on your smartphone or visit gmovies.ph, select the movie, tap the “Pay” button and choose your payment option, click stream now on UPSTREAM, then sit back. For a one-time payment, the entire household can even see it together for five days.


Excited? Aside from Cleaners, check out UPSTREAM’s roster of drama, action-thriller, documentary, coming-of-age, and international films you can book and watch below:


1. Nobody, streaming now

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From the writer of 'John Wick' comes 'Nobody'—streaming now on UPSTREAM

Hutch is a nobody. As an overlooked and underestimated father and husband, he takes life's indignities on the chin and never rocks the boat. But when his daughter loses her beloved kitty cat bracelet in a robbery, Hutch hits a boiling point no one knew he had. What happens when a pushover finally pushes back? Hutch flips from regular dad to fearless fighter by taking his enemies on a wild ride of explosive revenge. The writer of John Wick showcases Emmy winner Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) as fans have never seen him before: an average family man who becomes a lethal vigilante, unlike any ordinary action hero. Starring Bob Odendirk, Connie Nielsen, RZA, Alexei Serebryakov, and Christopher Lloyd.



2. Call It What You Want (Thai BL Series), streaming September 30, 2021

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BL series from Thailand, 'Call It What You Want', is available now on UPSTREAM

The story of BL director, James, who has a secret on-set romance with one of his actors, Ait. The series explores the darker side of the entertainment industry, and the pressure actors receive from talent agencies, revealing the corrupted BL industry that is indeed far from perfection. Starring Time Dhamawat Suntanaphan, Michael Kiettisak Scofield, Kaprao Pongkorn Wongkrittiyarat, Daniel Chang, Benz Panupun Vongjorn.


3. Spirit Untamed, streaming October 15, 2021

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Much-awaited sequel to 'Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron', 'Spirit Untamed' is coming soon on UPSTREAM

Spirit Untamed is the next chapter in the beloved franchise full of adventure, family, and friendship. Free-spirited Lucky Prescott moves to Miradero to join her estranged father. She is decidedly unimpressed with the sleepy town until she discovers a unique tie to her late mother, who was a fearless horse-riding stunt performer. She quickly forms a bond with a wild mustang named Spirit and makes two new pals who love horses as much as she does. When a heartless wrangler plans to capture Spirit and his herd, Lucky and her friends set off on an epic journey to rescue the horse who has given her an unbreakable connection to her mother's legacy. Starring Isabela Merced; Marsai Martin; Mckenna Grace; Julianne Moore; Jake Gyllenhaal; Walton Goggins; Andre Braugher.


4. The Forever Purge, streaming October 29, 2021

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Looking for a chilling Halloween watch? 'The Forever Purge' arrives on UPSTREAM just in time for the spooky holiday

Members of an underground movement who are no longer satisfied with the annual night of anarchy and murder, decide to overtake America through an unending campaign of mayhem and massacre. On the morning after The Purge, a masked gang of killers attacks a wealthy Texas ranching family and their workers. Exposed by daylight, the two families are forced to band together and fight back as the country spirals into chaos and the United States begins to disintegrate around them. Starring Jason Blum; Michael Bay; Andrew Form; Brad Fuller; James DeMonaco; Sebastien K. Lemercier.


Together, Upstream and GMovies ushers in a new world of cinema and recreate the experience into something unforgettable—yes, even at home. Go to https://bit.ly/GMovies-Shows to book your tickets.