Uruguayan Movies

During New Year's Eve, three lonely characters travel to a small town lost in the Uruguayan countryside. Cesar, a divorced man, arrives to the town where he will have dinner with his ex-wife's new family to win back his little daughter's love. Antonio, a small-time magician, is trying to get to town to perform his routine at the community center, but his car breaks down. Stranded in the middle of the deserted road he meets Laura, a woman working at the toll station. Miguel, a performer, prepares his musical return to sing at the community center's New Year party. Following these paths, the characters will have a chance to turn around their destiny.

Stephania is a transvestite born in Nicaragua. As a boy, he was adopted by a couple of Uruguayan leftist activists in the midst of the Sandinista revolution. At the moment, Stephania earns her living watching parked cars in Montevideo. The film follows Stephania in her journey to rediscover her home country, where she was once a son, a brother and a boy who taught literacy and where she now wants to be accepted as the woman she is.

HD. A grumpy old man sees opportunity when he learns of a mysterious German man he suspects is a Nazi in hiding.

Two Uruguayan journalists embark on a journey of secrets, simulations, furtive encounters and paranoia when a mysterious informant contact them with the intention to reveal evidence of crimes by the military dictatorship that have never been investigated. The delivery is postponed repeatedly, patience runs out and anxiety grows, but the possibility of obtaining the information is stronger than any suspicion.

After living through some tragic events, a rock band composed by twenty-year-old, immerse themselves in a conceptual project that winds-up becoming a three track album that deals largely with their guilts, fears and traumas.

A group of girlfriends gather almost everyday to sunbathe on the terrace of a building, in an age where getting the perfect tan was everything.

Julieta is 17 years old and lives with her mother and her siblings in a small town. Her boyfriend, Gabriel, gets her work with various clients, from truck drivers to government officials. Sofía is a 16-year-old student at a private high school in the capital city. With her best friend, they enter the advertising world and receive a tempting offer. Like threads in a web, Julieta and Sofía converge in a world where everything can be bought and everything can be sold, where certainty is as frail as a second.

A German actor lands in Montevideo. After his arrival, he gets lost and runs into a group of young men who try to rob him. He meets Pedro, an ex-addict in his forties and Nelson, a laconic security guard whose wife has left him.

The Citroen Méhari is a lightweight all-terrain vehicle: 600 cc, two-cylinder and 28 HP, with a maximum speed of 60 kilometers (37 miles) per hour. Divorced and lonely, a Uruguayan named Mario Sabah decided to realize a longtime dream for his 50th birthday and tour the world in this car. So he quit his job and fixed up the blue Méhari that once served as the family wagon. Together with a camera and his two sons, he then embarked on a 150,000-kilometer (93,000-mile) journey across 45 countries and five continents. Once on the road, it doesn't take long for tensions to mount. After a clash of personalities halfway through Latin America, Mario continues alone, all the way to Canada. Sometimes he drives 600 kilometers at a stretch without even realizing it. "Do not ask me what happened in the middle, because I cannot tell." Once he is way up north, he puts the Méhari on the boat to Spain, and from there he travels through Europe, Asia and even Australia, defying heat, rain, dirt and all forms of chaos along the way - with plenty of stamina, far too little money and at a speed that's crucial to the story. In the words of his son Mattias, "At 60 kilometers per hour, you're like a chameleon. You go slowly, transforming along with the landscape you're going through."

Andres and Elias get together one evening for their last summer joint. On his way home, Elias finds a hidden case containing 5 different types of drugs. The next morning, Elias calls Andres to catch up on his discovery. He tells him he wants to gather round with some friends to perform an experiment: each should take a different drug and see what happens. The experiment takes a sudden turn when Andres girlfriend calls him to say her grandma has died.

A fantastical journey into the world of a ten-year-old girl who, following a playground skirmish, is given the weirdest punishment in the history of weird punishments.

Álvaro Recoba and Antonio Pacheco are captains and referents of Nacional and Peñarol, respectively. These rivals on the soccer field and friends in life became co-directors, along with Rafael Perrone (father-in-law of Recoba), of a group of the Montevidean carnival. They live a passion in common and show us how family and friendship are above their love of football and the colors they have worn. Patented players tell the lives of these two idols by drawing a parallel between the worlds of football and the carnival, the two passions of the Uruguayan people.

Three women - a single girl, scared of being alone forever, another whose boyfriend is still attached to his ex-wife and an old lady who has nobody left - will learn from each other that it's always possible to shift and get out of one's current existence.

Alberto, a divorced father, takes his two children for a vacation at a thermal resort in Salto. Things don't turn out as planned as the non-stop rain forces them to stay indoors, away from the pools and with no TV. Alberto's efforts to entertain his children are met with indifference by Federico, his youngest son, and Lucía, his teenage daughter.

A young man is informed of his father's death.

Gastón works with computers, is very attached to technology and is still in love with an ex-girlfriend who left him. When you inherit an old house from your grandfather, in the interior of the country, you must travel to visit it. He is accompanied by Americo, a clerk somewhat depressed because he feels that he is entering his third age. The driver and owner of the truck in which they travel is Beto, a freight forwarder with a somewhat murky past. The trip takes longer than anticipated, partly due to the truck's mechanical failures, but also due to conflicts between the three; They are people who are very aware of the past and the future, and this trip will teach them to appreciate the present and take a step forward in their own evolution.

Five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods.

A film about Club Atletico Peñarol's history, from 1891 to 2011, told by actual and former players.

'El Bella Vista' is the story of a house started as a football club, becoming a successful transvestite brothel and changes at last to a Catholic Chapel, all in a small conservative village in Uruguay. Two transvestites, one brothel's Madame, a brickmaker, ex football player, and a nun will bring to life this battle for control of a single physical space, home to mutually antagonistic institutions, driven by the same motivation: passion.

A swashbuckling adventure aboard a pirate ship, turns into a battle for survival when Selkirk and Pupi, find themselves captive and marooned on a deserted island after the crew steals their treasure map and discovers their true identities.

A couple invites their 4 children for a barbecue back at their farm by the seaside. A Sunday barbecue; endless toasts; a family like any other, yet a family like none other.

A middle-aged, single mother of three cares for her eighty year old father, and they are pushed to the breaking point.

Flacas Vacas is an ironic comedy about unhealthy friendship among women. Olga, Teresa and Magdalena have been friends since they were born. After a few years of not seeing each other, a casual meeting leads to a weekend at the beach. Soon it becomes obvious that almost everything they used to share is long gone. To make things more awkward, Olga's crazy sister and her girlfriend show up and decide to stay with them. Everything is a disaster, and they all end wondering what it means to be friends.

Fifteen years ago, when our national soccer team entered the field for the Americas Cup final, the successful coach, the Engineer Erramuspe, never showed up. Two days later he resigned his position for "personal reasons". Since then journalists have been trying to interview him and to know about what happened but they have all failed. When everybody assumes the truth will never be known, a young reporter who was only a child when the Engineer lead the team to a World cup final, finally gets the interview....