El Salvador Movies

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

A hangover is the least of Giovanni's problems when his wild bachelor party and a stripper give him the biggest headache of his life.

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...

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

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...

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

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

Between 1980 and 1992, El Salvador was at war. Two Venezuelans joined the guerrilla movement in that Central American country and participated in...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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