El Salvador Movies

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.

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

Eugenia is a Brazilian girl who lives in El Salvador trying to complete her activities in a crazy day.

Social hotspots can be found everywhere. Recognizing this, rapper Carlos Zamora started his project Rapflektion in Braunschweig and the surrounding...

Produced by the Radio Venceremos System, chronicles the first decade of the guerrilla broadcaster that became a crucial communication tool for the...

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

At the end of the 1970s, German Dominican priest Gerhard Pöter began working with Salvadoran civil war refugees. In the parish of 22 April in...

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

A documentary about the rival gangs Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha, originating in Los Angeles but terrorizing El Salvador. It explores their origins...

Angela takes a walk in San Salvador, and discovers that there are places where you can't escape walking. On these places you need wings.

Filmed by Guillermo Escalón in July 1981, it shows daily life in territories under guerrilla control in the Francisco Sánchez...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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.