El Salvador Movies

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.

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

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

It shows the participation of Salvadoran women in the revolutionary struggle, through different functions they perform, from armed combatants to...

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

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.

Set in the coffee fields of Latin America, the movie unfolds through the eyes of Josefina Moreno, an 18 year-old coffee picker, with a rare and...

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

Iván travels to a deserted island to reunite with his boyfriend, but tragedy strikes. In search of answers, he takes part in a ritual with a...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Documents the destruction caused by American bombings. Compares the cities of Torola and Morazán, and Berlín and Usulután.

This documentary examines the formation of labor unions in El Salvador and the systematic violations of workers’ rights that characterized the...

It narrates the development of this guerrilla group, a member of the historic FMLN. At the beginning, Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa Barrios...