Costa Rica Movies

History, work, sex, cinema, death and my older brother. An essay on what swimming pools mean in culture and the collective memories we have about...

A young New Yorker finds herself caught between her longing to honor her late mother's love for Christmas and her grandfather's deep-seated aversion...

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...

What motivates a cock-fighter to fight a rooster he loves? In Costa Rica, cockfighting is considered a crime and has been banned for 99 years. A...

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

It is the year 2025, and Alejandro tells his grandson Josue a story from a book that he is reading about a singer and a dancer who fell in love in...

After his alcoholic father's death, a young man decides to sell the last memory of him — his taxi.

A 2017 animated film directed by Julian Gallese. The film screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2018.

Follows soccer player Shirley Cruz, who returns to Costa Rica to play with Liga Deportiva Alajuelense, her childhood team. After living abroad for...

After her husband passed away, Elvia finds herself feeling lonely for the first time in nearly 60 years of marriage. At first, she struggles with...

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...

Childhood memories resurface through the heat, the sounds, and the overwhelming nostalgia of coming home to the City of Mangoes.

In the early 1980s, Viviana Gallardo is a teenager growing up in a traditional middle-class family in Costa Rica. Motivated by the context of...

low budget film from Costa Rica

Three days. Three images. Three places. Three lives that could be the same but are not. I know They approach and repel each other in a continuous...

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...

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...

Roxanna Bonilla-Giannini explores the religious myth of Latin America: the apparition of the Virgin.