El Salvador Movies

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

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

José Antonio Sistiaga is one of the greats in Basque contemporary art. Through lively exchanges begun in 1993 with his Salvadoran friend...

Solentime (2020), directed by Carlos Henríquez Consalvi and Camilo Henríquez, revisits the memory of poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal and...

Roque Dalton was the Bertolt Brecht of Central America. His political struggle against the Salvadorian dictatorships brought him into jail various...

Forbidden Stories of Pulgarcito is a film produced in 1980 by the FAPU, a mass organization of the National Resistance, one of the five organizations...

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

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

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

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

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 hangover is the least of Giovanni's problems when his wild bachelor party and a stripper give him the biggest headache of his life.

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...

Presents the game in which El Salvador classified to the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.

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...

A portrayal of the harsh conditions faced by Salvadorans in the 1960s and 70s.

Join affable presenter Nigel Marven as he explores El Salvador, the volatile land of volcanoes with a colorful culture and natural history. Follow...

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