El Salvador Movies

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

After nearly thirty years apart, three friends reunite at a funeral to reflect on life's trivialities and the inevitability of death.

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

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

Have you ever wondered what the day of your funeral will be like? Juanca is a ghost who visits his own funeral. He listens to conversations from the...

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

In the early 1980s, at the beginning of what would become a 12-year-long civil war, El Salvador's talented football team was one national institution...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Huachindango is the small capital of a small Central American country. In this city, women must enter rooms managed by “The System” at...