Costa Rica Movies

In the nineteenth century, while a young girl is walking in the countryside, and a unexpected encounter with a familiar face unearths a secret.

This documentary, filmed at Christmas 1973, "searches" for the causes of malnutrition in the slums, in the unemployed population, in the living...

Motherly love and the unbreakable bond of family fuse the lives of director Laura Ángel Córdoba, her mother Liliana and autistic...

Following an clever plan to emigrate to the United States, a group of boys from peasant families in the southern part of Costa Rica pretends to be a...

A young couple lost their baby by apparent sudden death

Alejandra and Joaquín are a couple marked by his ups and downs. His emotional instability has left him unemployed again, which has made the...

One hundred years of the cinematic memory of a small country told through motion graphics. A brief tour of previously unseen images and forgotten...

By 1911, Amando Céspedes Marín and Manuel Gómez Miralles became pioneers of Costa Rican cinema. Céspedes was hired by the...

"La Sequía" describes the relationship of an indigenous couple living in the aridity of the northern countryside. The climatic factor is...

After years studying in Europe, Elsa returns to Costa Rica to reunite with her family. She finds her younger sister living alone in the family home,...

El Fin is comedy about the end of the world. Depressed by the recent death of his parents and losing his job, Nico; an ordinary 26 year old, decides...

The film offers us the other side of the prison problem and questions the often simplistic prejudices with which we normally approach this problem.

A group of women and men flee and protect themselves from what is out there that is stalking them. Locked up without water or food, they will have to...

After being harassed as a child for her fear of water, Esther's dream of being a "mermaid is saved. Years later, her friends accompany her to perform...

In Costa Rica, the family of Melba (65) and Víctor (70) has sheltered over 130 children in the last 40 years. Today, some of them seek paths...

In the middle of a criminal act, a young thief faces an elderly woman with a particular obsession, unleashing an unexpected confrontation.

The lives of Matias family as they struggle with illness and his brother boxing career

Three women over 65 defend their right to feel alive and to enjoy pleasure and desire.

Federico and German were best friends, fighting the dictatorship and looking for freedom together. Years later Federico and his wife are movie...