Family patriarch Fernando Poe,Jr. on the cusp of leaving his family for the woman he truly loves, only to find out that his soldier-son (Jay Ilagan) was made paraplegic in battle in Eddie Romero's epic drama Aguila.
Vic Silayan getting the most horrifying response from an upset son (Philip Salvador) who found out what the former did to the latter's wife in Marilou Diaz-Abaya's gothic period drama Karnal.
Freedom fighter Philip Salvador silently holding the body of his young son who was killed by vigilantes in Lino Brocka's provocative political piece Orapronobis.
Downtrodden Johnny Delgado's sad situation made even worse by a son (Marvin Agustin) expressing his own grudges over dinner in Laurice Guillen's religious melodrama Tanging Yaman.
Stoic patriarch Manny Ojeda, all the while silently suffering thoughout the harrowing events around him, extends help to future grandson-in-law Joel Torre, in Peque Gallaga's epic war drama Oro,Plata,Mata.