El Salvador Movies

A poet and a spirit have an ongoing deal: Haiku for life.

It shows the participation of Salvadoran women in the revolutionary struggle, through different functions they perform, from armed combatants to...

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

Filmed by Guillermo Escalón in July 1981, it shows daily life in territories under guerrilla control in the Francisco Sánchez...

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

Produced by the Radio Venceremos System, chronicles the first decade of the guerrilla broadcaster that became a crucial communication tool for the...

Set in the coffee fields of Latin America, the movie unfolds through the eyes of Josefina Moreno, an 18 year-old coffee picker, with a rare and...

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

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

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

Documents the destruction caused by American bombings. Compares the cities of Torola and Morazán, and Berlín and Usulután.

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

Luis has lived peacefully in Santa Esperanza, one of the most dangerous cities in the Federal Republic of Central America, until the day he witnesses...

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

At the end of the 1970s, German Dominican priest Gerhard Pöter began working with Salvadoran civil war refugees. In the parish of 22 April in...

Iván travels to a deserted island to reunite with his boyfriend, but tragedy strikes. In search of answers, he takes part in a ritual with a...

Social hotspots can be found everywhere. Recognizing this, rapper Carlos Zamora started his project Rapflektion in Braunschweig and the surrounding...

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

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...