El Salvador Movies

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

In the capital of El Salvador, the drivers of a bus, a taxi, a minibus and a private car confront the ravages of 12 years of civil war that continue...

A documentary about Sistema Radio Venceremos, an underground radio network of the anti-government Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front...

A poet and a spirit have an ongoing deal: Haiku for life.

Filmed during the Salvadoran civil war, La luz que te decía documents the struggles of the country’s labor and trade union movement amid...

Israel Ticas is El Salvador's only criminologist. In one of the world's most dangerous countries, his job is to unearth the hundreds of missing...

A Salvadoran comedy about a group of friends who travel to the United States in search of a better life, but are scammed and forced to undertake a...

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

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...

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

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

In an attempt to evoke the past, Guillermo innocently gets involved in drug dealing to get his hands on Angel Dust. Caught in family conflicts and...

This documentary narrates the causes and revolutionary process in Central America, primarily in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Produced in 1985, it comes...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

A young woman in El Salvador wishes to hear the village bell before she joins a caravan to the US, but the antique bell hasn't rung in 25 years and...