Oro, Plata, Mata (Spanish: Gold, Silver, Death) is a 1982 Philippine historical war drama film co-written and directed by Peque Gallaga.

The screenplay written and adapted by José Javier Reyes was based on the story developed by Gallaga, along with Mario Taguiwalo and Conchita Castillo.

"[3] The title refers to the traditional Spanish Filipino architectural superstition saying that design elements in a house (particularly staircases) should not end in a multiple of three, in keeping with a pattern of oro (gold), plata (silver), and mata (bad luck).

The film is structured in three parts that depict this pattern played out in the lives of the main characters, from a life of luxury and comfort in the city ("oro/gold"), to a still-luxurious time of refuge in a provincial hacienda ("plata/silver"), and finally to a retreat deeper into the mountains, where they are victimized by guerilla bandits ("mata/bad luck").

[2] Produced and released by Experimental Cinema of the Philippines, it was filmed on location in the whole province of Negros Occidental, primarily in Bacolod and the Mt.

The decade of disaster fell into three unequal parts: the two years before the war; the period of the Japanese occupation; and the liberation era.

So vast now seems the difference between what we have become and what we were before disaster struck that, in the Philippine vernacular term "peacetime" means exclusively all the years before December 8, 1941.

The Ojeda patriarch, Don Claudio, and his fellow landowners talk about the impending war as some of the young able-bodied men enlist.

As the Japanese approach, the Ojedas accept the invitation extended by the Lorenzos, their old family friends, to stay with them in their provincial hacienda.

Nena Ojeda and Inday Lorenzo try to deny the realities of war by preserving their pre-war lifestyle.

Miguel endures more comments of the same kind when he fails to take action against a Japanese soldier who comes upon the girls bathing in the river and is killed by Hermes instead.

They raid the food supplies, slaughter the servants, rape Inday, and chop off Viring's fingers when she does not take off her ring.

The film's audio was restored by Post Haste Sound Inc. in Los Angeles, California, United States.

[11] The movie won the 1982 Gawad Urian awards for Best Picture, Direction, Cinematography, Production Design, Musical Score, and Sound.