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Maalikaya (2025)

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Maalikaya (2025)

Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Positive
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
6.9

Overview

Maalikaya is a 2025 Filipino prison drama directed by Roman Perez Jr. Aliya Raymundo stars as Kara, a young inmate who explores her desires and forms an intense connection with fellow prisoner Lila, played by Jenn Rosa, while navigating incarceration. Sheena Cole portrays Bugs in this Viva Films production.

Starring Cast

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

The film centers on inmates navigating desires and connections in a penal setting, with no evident political ideology or societal critique driving the narrative. This apolitical focus on personal themes determines its neutral rating.

The film presents visible diversity via its Filipino female ensemble depicting queer prison dynamics, alongside indirect commentary on gender exploitation without centering traditional identity critiques.

Secondary

Maalikaya centers on a lesbian romance between inmates Kara and Lila, depicting their explicit intimacy and emotional bond as empowering and purposeful despite the prison environment. The narrative validates queer desire without ridicule or stereotypes, focusing on personal discovery and connection.

The film includes only peripheral references to family, such as the protagonist's imprisonment for killing her husband and brief involvement of her father, but centers on prison dynamics and personal desires without exploring family structures or norms.

Maalikaya offers no portrayal of transsexual characters or themes. It examines desire and intimacy between female inmates Kara and Lila within a prison environment, highlighting their relationship without addressing gender transition.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Maalikaya presents original characters Kara and Lila as female inmates in a prison drama, without any adaptation of prior source material or recasting of established figures across genders.

Maalikaya presents original characters in a fictional prison setting with no prior canonical or historical racial depictions, resulting in no race swaps.

Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.9

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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5.9
The Movie Database logo
7.8

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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N/A

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