Noun: "a commercial film that has a pornographic or erotic component"edit
2007 — Yeatter, Bryan L., Cinema of the Philippines: A History and Filmography, 1897-2005, McFarland & Company →ISBN
As the 1990s wore on, what seemed more and more to be keeping the industry afloat was its increasing reliance on bold films, the most recent variant on the bombas, and the new generation of sex stars that were emerging.
When bold films started to lose their box office appeal, Joy left the business for good and worked in Singapore, Dubai and the UK, taking jobs as varied as cleaner, caregiver, nanny and food server in order to support her two growing children.