Uruguayan Cinema

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

A successful football player suffering media harassment and the pressure of his surroundings seeks escape from the hell his life has turned into.

Ana, an enterprising teenager, is living through a decisive moment in her life. Her divorced parents seem at a turning point as well. 3 is a comedy about three people doomed to the same absurd fate: being a family.

24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo.

Emiliano is a poor windshield cleaner at a corner in Montevideo. Carina is wealthy. One day something happens at his intersection that can change their lives

1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: "As we can't kill them, let's drive them mad."

A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life after the cinema he worked at for over 25 years is forced to shut down.

With a poetic nod to Fellini, Leonardo Ricagni uses the carnival atmosphere to transport the viewer to a magical place where realism and surrealism live side by side in Uruguay - and what a wonderful place to be.

A whole class of savage teenagers celebrate the disappearance of their high school principal by throwing a house party. The night gets hotter when a couple of outlaws show up with her corpse wrapped up and ready to come back to life

A fierce rock'n'roll band (OLGAS) decides to lock themselves up in a haunted house for songwriting inspiration. A cascade of voodoo shenanigans, zombie vomit and drug-fueled killings ensues.

Rafa, a teenage boy who is just edging into his teens tries to unravel the mysteries of love and sex in this coming-of-age story. He is mired in the lower depths of adolescence; his skin is breaking out, he feels incredibly awkward, and he can't get women off his mind. While his older brother tries to help by arranging him to lose his virginity to a cooperative neighborhood woman, he is still mortified after the big seduction that he hasn't actually kissed a girl, and he and his pals Andy and Rony struggle to make sense of the fair sex. While they occasionally visit a neighborhood brothel where the working girls offer various forms of sympathy, they'd rather be spending time with the girls from their school, and Rafa sets his sights on Nicole, who is pretty enough that nearly everyone is convinced he doesn't stand a chance with her.

The death of their father causes three dysfunctional siblings to fight over their beloved childhood home.

34-year-old Pamela is a small and shy woman. She works at the cash register of a supermarket. She attends a religious temple led by a Brazilian minister. She periodically visits her autistic mother. She is an anonymous character, leading a meaningless life. Suddenly, a miracle occurs. Messages of a marvelous destiny start to reach Pamela in unusual ways: a client, a gentle and charismatic transvestite, her own mother, dreams, bar codes, real and imaginary signals. The Savior of the Next Millennium is apparently on his way and everything indicates that she, being a virgin, is carrying him on her entrails. Impelled to face herself, Pamela undertakes an inner voyage. A paradoxical voyage: the more mystic she grows to be, the more human she becomes.

The plot revolves around a love triangle: Nela, the lead character, falls in love with Jorge, who in turn is seduced by Clarisa, the daughter of a doctor who treats Nela's tuberculosis.

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.