El Salvador Movies

In the Name of the People is a 1985 documentary film directed by Frank Christopher about the Salvadoran Civil War. The film follows four filmmakers...

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...

Compilation of 18 animated short films made by Spanish-speaking artists from around the world for the Filmoteca Maldita Short Film Festival. This...

Salvadoran documentary about the revolutionary movement, produced by the Centro de Producciones Audiovisuales de Guazapa.

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

Alicia is a painter who gives art therapy workshops to women who have suffered different types of violence. Luz is a young plant lover who was...

It narrates the development of this guerrilla group, a member of the historic FMLN. At the beginning, Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa Barrios...

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

A free adaptation of the short story “Why Saint Anthony Lost His Virtue” by the Salvadoran writer Salvador Salazar Arrué...

Loosely inspired by Shakespeare's Othello, La Palabra de Pablo (Pablo's Word) tells the story of a broken contemporary Salvadorian upper middle class...

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...

After a tragic death, a family of three is forced to move to a desolated part of the country only to be haunted by mythical creatures.

This documentary juxtaposes scenes of El Salvador's opposition factions, including U.S. government advisors and government troops, and guerrillas and...

This film aims to describe the agony of a biology teacher who finds himself in a place of limits, at the edge of life and death. Set in the years...

January 22, 1932. An unprecedented peasant uprising erupts in western El Salvador, as a group of Latino and indigenous peasants cut army supply...

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

Huachindango is the small capital of a small Central American country. In this city, women must enter rooms managed by “The System” at...

The central objective of the documentary is to show the social situation of the peasant communities in the department of Morazán. The...

A modern retelling of the infamous War of the Worlds broadcast that changed history. Televised from a closed set in the midst of a global pandemic....

In the early 1980s, at the beginning of what would become a 12-year-long civil war, El Salvador's talented football team was one national institution...