Costa Rica Movies

Half parody,. half homage of the drama genre

Two classmates decide to make a short film about drugs to enter their school’s Arts Festival; however, things don’t go as they planned.

My grandfather, married for 57 years in Costa Rica, died in a fire in 2019. My father revealed to me that, like myself, my grandfather was gay. After...

While on a midnight stroll Bonnie encounters a mysterious masked figure commiting a heinous act. The fear of this confrontation leads her to look for...

To be announced.

In 1974, the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) began work on the Arenal hydroelectric project. As a result, two towns, Arenal and Tronador...

A studio photographer in the midst of a complicated divorce tells stories of heartbreak, drinking and loss to his teenage son, slowly revealing his at...

María Finojosa, wife of Spanish settler Juan de Cervantes, tunes into the fragile memory of the exact moment when her husband became obsessed with fou...

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

For Alejandro, judo is more than just a sport: it’s a chance to represent Costa Rica at the Olympic Games. As he trains to face his rivals on the mat,...

A short Costa Rican film

The film gives us an idea of how the Youth Symphony Orchestra operates, which was created taking into account a young member and a future violinist na...

Francisco Coto was born in Alajuela in July 1924. A century later, he recalls some of his photographs in the studio he founded decades ago. Photograph...

Surprised by an unexpected witness, robbers murder a woman who curses them. Little do they know of her connection with a treacherous sect indeed. Thei...

Deborah didn't plan to become a famous blues, jazz and rock singer in Argentina, but she did, yet ironically in her home country Costa Rica, hardly an...

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...

Recently divorced, 72-year-old Violeta lives alone in her childhood house, tending to her lush tropical garden and making plans to turn her property i...

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

It is based on real testimonies of six women from different social strata that reflect the misery, anger, repressed and silent suffering, as well as t...