El Salvador Movies

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

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.

In the 1970s, the 1500 organized workers of Puerto el Triunfo - mostly women - thanks to their struggles were amongst the more privileged laborers in...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The latest documentary from Salvadoran director Marlén Viñayo (CACHADA: THE OPPORTUNITY) profiles Geovanny, a ruthless hitman for the...

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

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

This film aims to describe the agony of a biology teacher who finds himself in a place of limits, at the edge of life and death. Set in the years...

In the Name of the People is a 1985 documentary film directed by Frank Christopher about the Salvadoran Civil War. The film follows four filmmakers...

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

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...

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...

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.