Costa Rica Movies

Story of a peasant boy isolated from civilization, but with an idea stuck between his chest and back: to become a marathon runner

La Apuesta is a Costa Rican film for television, directed and produced by Miguel Salguero, from 1968. In this 16 mm feature film, the journalist...

Enrique is forced to leave highschool and get a job at a industrial company called La Mettrie. He starts working as operator but the methods of the...

Two housewives receive an unpleasant visit, while they prepare him something to eat, we learn about the history of violence they face internally.

Documentary that narrates the life of trans women who live on the Pacific Coast, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, one of the provinces most abandoned by the...

On the day of his wife's funeral, an absent father will come to realize how hard will it be to raise his kids alone.

After being harassed as a child for her fear of water, Esther's dream of being a "mermaid is saved. Years later, her friends accompany her to perform...

Two friends who are partners in home video production see an opportunity to make money in an eco-friendly video contest. In the process their...

Isolina is a beautiful woman who attracts Sabaneros. She has a kind of amulet that heals the men of the solitudes in the extensive Guanacaste pampas....

At the dawn of Independence, our society desperately seeks a way out of the economic and social confinement that the Spanish colony has imposed on...

Carlos, a married man with two daughters, dares to reveal his true sexual identity to his family; Ale, a trans woman manages to finally reconcile...

San José of Costa Rica, beginning of the XXI century. A man with the appearance of an office worker travels alone in a train car. He...

This film shows the experience of women coming from several sectors (indigenous, infected by HIV/AIDS, peasants, lesbians, fishing workers,...

Síncope explores the internal fantasy of a traffic officer in his everyday work

Mr. Pitters lives in a retirement home in Siquirres, a small town near Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. He is frail and blind, yet slings a guitar over...

Documentary Short

Built around the most popular name in the country, the documentary narrates the stories of five women who have the same name, but who are very...