El Salvador Movies

Through fleeting moments of song, discovery, and dance, Pueblo Chúcaro portrays the living spirit of Ataco, the melody of a street singer, the...

Social hotspots can be found everywhere. Recognizing this, rapper Carlos Zamora started his project Rapflektion in Braunschweig and the surrounding...

A young woman struggles with getting a good night sleep after being haunted by a ghost of her past.

At the end of the 1970s, German Dominican priest Gerhard Pöter began working with Salvadoran civil war refugees. In the parish of 22 April in...

Torn between love and faith, a monk goes on a pilgrimage looking for a sign.

In 2008, Teodora Vásquez was convicted of aggravated homicide and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having had a late-term miscarriage.

Set in the coffee fields of Latin America, the movie unfolds through the eyes of Josefina Moreno, an 18 year-old coffee picker, with a rare and...

A boy living in an abandoned cinema meets a young girl. As their friendship develops, the boy entertains the other cinema residents with stories and...

The latest documentary from Salvadoran director Marlén Viñayo (CACHADA: THE OPPORTUNITY) profiles Geovanny, a ruthless hitman for the...

It shows the participation of Salvadoran women in the revolutionary struggle, through different functions they perform, from armed combatants to...

For Lourdes, a writer of the Salvadoran diaspora, returning to her native country means having to face complex emotions around a misogynistic...

Filmed by Guillermo Escalón in July 1981, it shows daily life in territories under guerrilla control in the Francisco Sánchez...

An experimental short film about a day in the life of a barefoot boy who sells newspapers in San Salvador.

The story focuses on the resilience of a girl in the face of the loss of her grandfather.

Alejandro Cotto, a pioneer of Salvadoran cinema, celebrates his 63rd birthday in Suchitoto while the youth celebrate the end of the civil war. He...

An insomniac man and his wife try to find the meaning of a strange nightmare that has interrupted the peace of their rest.

During the early 1970s, hundreds of peasants in a remote region of El Salvador began to emulate the early Christians, working the land together and...

Olivia is a disturbed woman who shows some signs of amnesia and madness. Accompanied only by Esther, she fantasizes that some day her beloved Julio...

A castaway and an eccentric sailor hunt down an ancient creature that may or may not be real.

A narcissistic comedian wakes up in the opposite sex body following an automobile accident.