El Salvador Movies

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

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

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...

This documentary juxtaposes scenes of El Salvador's opposition factions, including U.S. government advisors and government troops, and guerrillas and...

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...

Salvadoran documentary about the revolutionary movement, produced by the Centro de Producciones Audiovisuales de Guazapa.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

During the early 1970s, hundreds of peasants in a remote region of El Salvador began to emulate the early Christians, working the land together and...

January 22, 1932. An unprecedented peasant uprising erupts in western El Salvador, as a group of Latino and indigenous peasants cut army supply...

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

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

For Lourdes, a writer of the Salvadoran diaspora, returning to her native country means having to face complex emotions around a misogynistic...

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...