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.

Torn between love and faith, a monk goes on a pilgrimage looking for a sign.

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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