Costa Rica Movies

A man confined to a rehabilitation center struggles for his daily food.

Four young people from different backgrounds move from elementary school to high school. At a school party, their innocence ends, and they begin to...

Damaris Gonzales is a pioneer who defies tradition. In the town of Barva, Heredia—the birthplace of Costa Rican masquerades—she broke the...

At the dawn of Independence, our society desperately seeks a way out of the economic and social confinement that the Spanish colony has imposed on...

In a small mountain house, under the law of the Christian Holy Family, a mother and her two children live in confinement forced by her husband, but...

"S T A I N S" is a short film composed of five short videos that use dance as a language to tell the story of a family and the generational traumas...

Adan and Byron, two indigenous people of Terraba in Costa Rica, show us the daily life and resistance of current Native American peoples, between the...

While the city remains taciturn and unmoved by those who traverse it, Felipe and Marta navigate it as best they can, slowly learning to inhabit this...

San Jose, Costa Rica: a city behind bars. The obsession with home safety reaches unimaginable levels in this country. Doble llave y cadena probes for...

This documentary tells the story of eight characters who narrate how they escaped and fled their country

It's been 7 years after their farewell. Each of the characters: Manuel, Bernie, Néstor and El Gordo have continued on with their lives. Older...

Gustavo is a 33-year-old psychologist who takes care of Gerardo, his father. Pedro is a 36-year-old history teacher who comes to the country to meet...

The Nicaraguan border in the eighties. Eleven-year-old Claudia and her younger sister experience the street fighting at first hand outside their car...

Following the 1973 coup, Clea's family had to leave Chile. Her mother ends up living in Costa Rica and her uncle in Germany. Both built their lives...

In a rural Costa Rican village, José Blas—known as “El Moto”—falls in love with Cundila, the daughter of a powerful...

The silent majority is the Costa Rican peasantry, which has been the object of traditional contempt and which has manifested itself in various forms:...

An intimate portrait of those who preserve the past and present of the Guarqueña culture, fighting against a globalizing modernity that...

An altar boy and a gardener decide to break a long and painful silence by denouncing the Catholic priest who abused them as minors. This...