El Salvador Movies

The story between two women, María, an immigrant Salvadoran living in Spain, where she losses her job, and she has to take care of an elderly...

Breaking down the colonial tradition of piñatas, this personal film probes into a loss of faith while retracing a family history.

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

Paraphrase between the face of man and the face of the earth. It has a fundamental question: Who owns whom? The earth, man or man, earth?

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....

After going throughout a depressing job interview, Manuel must face his mother and his friends, who offer different perceptions about the current...

Two friends decide to spend the last vacation together, before parting their ways forever in a journey they never will forget.

Luis has lived peacefully in Santa Esperanza, one of the most dangerous cities in the Federal Republic of Central America, until the day he witnesses...

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

Between 1980 and 1992, El Salvador was at war. Two Venezuelans joined the guerrilla movement in that Central American country and participated in...

The title refers to the legacy of Archbishop Oscar Romero who was assassinated in his cathedral in March 1980.

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

Eliseo Alberto (aka Lichi) was a scion of one of the most renowned families in Cuban arts and letters. He fled to Mexico City in 1990 where he lived...

A monologue about the meaning of being art, delivered by the last character you’d expect: a pair of pants. A short film by Ponchi Simán.

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

In this powerful hybrid documentary, filmmaker Julio López Fernández carefully combines the testimony of victims of sexual violence...

Cinematic documentary made in 1982, which reveals the life and organization of some camps in the eastern zone of El Salvador. It shows images of...

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