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Sampalan, sabunutan, bugbugan: 4 Star Cinema movies with classic catfights!

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<div><em>[Editor’s note: This story, first published on August 8, 2018 and updated today, is brought to you from our Star Cinema Archives.]</em></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><p>Mahirap, mayaman, maging sino ka man, this fact remains true: no one can resist a good catfight.</p><p>We look back on <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/studios/films" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Star Cinema</a>’s best and brightest, and most memorable movies marked by fiery verbal tussles, or sampalan and sabunutan scenes, between the two kinds of characters who most often get into these kinds of conflict: the legal and the illegal. Some are emotional, some are tragic, but each one is downright entertaining!  </p><div> </div><div><strong>‘No Other Woman’</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p46Z0Tgczb0?si=kKhYSl-89Ps8a1XA" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><br/></div><p>The movie that perhaps started the craze for mistress movies, “No Other Woman” (2011) presents us with a masterpiece of a fight between Anne Curtis and Cristine Reyes, whose characters are wrestling for the love of Ram, played by Derek Ramsay. Let’s just say Cristine did not hold back in this movie. Sampal kung sampal, suntok kung suntok! </p><div><br/></div><div><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/1jbbqlMSpqubEZ1gQ2" width="480" height="298" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br/></div><div><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/1k4T6WsNWq44yjskBI" width="480" height="298" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br/></div><div> </div><div><strong>‘Sin Island’ </strong></div><div><br/></div><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XmEbGRBkgeI?si=Gvwyc0MCXUqYfs96" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><br/></div><p>The super steamy 2018 movie “Sin Island” has one of the most entertaining catfights in this list, mostly because a psycho stalker being dragged by the hair by a woman in a moving vehicle just scratches an itch inside us that we just can’t put a finger to. Without further ado, here’s Coleen Garcia and Nathalie Hart showing us that with the right cinematography, crazy can be raised to an art.  </p><div>  </div><div><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/cCalvEmeM3lNwO25ul" width="480" height="298" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br/></div><div><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/XKwHqxbv2TJapCjW56" width="480" height="298" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br/></div><div><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/51UtV8ku3H1z8L2fGN" width="480" height="298" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/3FiM4JmhwlJ3FAP8T2" width="480" height="298" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>‘One More Try’ </strong></div><div><br/></div><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XHSu9KHyMUs?si=GJJ0CjOm_SwWkyvd" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><br/></div><p>Tragic by nature, the sampalan between Angelica Panganiban and Angel Locsin in this movie was already pretty controversial when we first saw it in 2011, but it still continues to shock as the years go by. Less of a catfight and more of a full-on violent confrontation, this scene will thrill you, upset you, and finally, put tears in your eyes. </p><div><br/></div><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GYP4nJevj2E?si=Fhfi93K45C18VACp" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><br/></div><div><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/3iCtwe8yTfJDx54EJi" width="480" height="298" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/jygbDZDwm5gg5ZOrAO" width="480" height="298" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br/></div><div><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/deHsIOnIZlH50Lr3wx" width="480" height="298" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>‘</strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLalQNACgOUSeGyBgoM_JWQkJ6_f35JwVN" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Four Sisters and a Wedding</strong></a><strong>’</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jEMONSVbnRw?si=dSe8h0XCBB5ijhWT" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><br/></div><p>Ending this list on a lighter note is this kaladkaran moment between Angel Locsin and Mocha Uson, a little gem towards the end of the Cathy Garcia-Molina classic “Four Sisters and a Wedding”. This is a cautionary tale: ‘wag mong tawaging desperada ‘yung girlaloo na inaagawan mo. Echosera ka!</p><div><br/></div><div><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/9xvgdFgD3SvSTyBsub" width="480" height="298" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/1qcjquV1xXDMHw4FPj" width="480" height="298" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br/></div><div><br/></div><p>Watch more of these irresistible catfight encounters in Star Cinema’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@ABSstarcinema" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">official YouTube channel</a>! </p><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mVZ6OBLIbLw?si=7XXLhExUAB2dK-OW" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEOS: </strong></div><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8iV9aaHEAtM?si=8kCPv-Ym4It65WX7" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pwYg2SMeEpk?si=WG2opwB_egjps-Gu" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED STORIES: </strong></div><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/studios/films/2025/5/19/charo-santos-dingdong-dantes-ponder-great-loves-in-only-we-know-official-trailer-1711" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charo Santos, Dingdong Dantes ponder great loves in ‘Only We Know’ official trailer</a></div><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/studios/films/2025/5/14/charo-santos-dingdong-dantes-give-a-peek-into-their-own-little-world-in-only-we-know-poster-1159" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charo Santos, Dingdong Dantes give a peek into their own little world in ‘Only We Know’ poster</a></div>

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Sampalan, sabunutan, bugbugan: 4 Star Cinema movies with classic catfights!

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Published May 26, 2025 06:48 PM PHT

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