Best Colombian Films of all time
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- DirectorSergio CabreraStarsFausto CabreraFrank RamírezDelfina GuidoA group of tenants living in an old house are confronted with having to move out due to a renovation project the city has undertaken, but decide to unite and come up with a strategy.
- DirectorSimon BrandStarsMichelle O'QuinnLouis ArcellaAngelica BlandonLove drives two young lovers from Medellin, Colombia to seek fortune in New York City, only to find a harsh reality that will put to test their true love for one another.
- DirectorCiro GuerraStarsNilbio TorresJan BijvoetAntonio BolívarThe story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
- DirectorLaura Mora OrtegaStarsCarlos Andrés CastañedaDavison FlorezBrahian AcevedoFollows five young men and about the marginalized, excluded humanity who seeks a place in the world.
- DirectorJulian Diaz VelosaStarsSebastian VelasquezFelipe VillamilMaría Luisa LópezThe conflict crosses destinies, SEebastian, a young rebel who dreams of being an artist, is forced to go to the army, where he meets ANDRÉS, a young guerrilla who is infiltrated.
- DirectorCiro GuerraStarsMarciano MartínezYull NúñezAgustin NievesA musician travels a great distance to return an instrument to his elderly teacher.
- DirectorJoshua MarstonStarsCatalina Sandino MorenoGuilied LopezOrlando TobónA pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately-needed money for her family.
- DirectorAndrés Ramírez PulidoStarsJhojan Estiven JimenezMaicol Andrés JimenezMiguel VieraEliú is incarcerated in a minors' center in the heart of Colombian forest, for a crime he committed with his friend El Mono. The teenagers perform manual labor and intense group therapy. One day, El Mono is transferred to the same center.
- DirectorCarlos César ArbeláezStarsHernán Mauricio OcampoNolberto SánchezGenaro AristizábalManuel, 9, has an old ball with which he plays football every day in the countryside. He dreams of becoming a great goalkeeper. His wishes seem set to come true when Ernest, his father, gives him a new ball. But an unexpected accident sends the ball flying into a minefield. Despite the danger, Manuel refuses to abandon his treasure... He convinces Julián and Poca Luz, his two friends, to rescue it with him. Amid the adventures and kids' games, the signs of armed conflict start to appear in the lives of the inhabitants of 'La Pradera'.
- DirectorAndrés BaizStarsMarcela ValenciaBlas JaramilloLucia RengifoBased on the Mario Mendoza's book and inspired by true events, tells three interconnected stories happening in the eve of the infamous Pozzetto Massacre.
- DirectorVíctor GaviriaStarsRamiro MenesesCarlos Mario RestrepoJackson Idrian GallegoRodrigo and his friends are bored teenagers living in Medellin. Rodrigo wants to start a punk band. The youths mainly loaf around the hillside shanty towns and, for kicks, steal a bike or car, or shoot someone.
- DirectorFelipe AljureStarsÁlvaro RodríguezJennifer SteffensRobinson DíazThis is a dark comedy that takes place in an urban jungle, where everyone has to ensure their own survival. No one is evil, but everyone acts for their own benefit and without considering whether their actions hurt others. Former Sergeant Diogenes Hernandez owns Universal, a precarious private detective agency in the Centre of Bogotá, which is based in the same apartment where he and his wife Fabiola live. His nephew, Clemente Fernández, who works at the Agency, maintains a romance with Fabiola, without trying to hurt his uncle's feelings, but driven by the need to alleviate the empty urban and anonymous man.
- DirectorFrancisco NordenStarsFrank RamírezIsabela CoronaVictor Hugo MorantIn Colombia, from the second half of the nineteenth century, two political parties; The traditional liberal and conservative ¸ fought a series of civil wars for almost one hundred years of bloodshed in the country. The last of these To know as "La Violencia" ¸ began following the assassination of popular leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan ¸ The April 9, 1948. That day began a dark period that lasted a decade in which met the key role hired murderers ¸ called "Pajaros" ¸ such as Leon Maria Lozano ¸ The most notorious of all. "The Condor."
- DirectorVíctor GaviriaStarsLeidy María 'Lady' TabaresMarta CorreaMileider Gil13-year-old Monica leads a street life, making her living by selling flowers to couples in local nightspots, she is joined by 10-year-old Andrea who runs out of her house after her mother beats her.
- DirectorCarlos MorenoStarsMarlon MorenoÓscar BordaÁlvaro RodríguezIn the crime world of Colombia, there is an unwritten code. When Víctor and Eusebio, two hoods who bungle a shake-down job, break that code, they unwittingly sign their own death sentence.
- DirectorDiego Felipe GuzmanStarsSergio BorbosaFabian BlancoJessica HerreraA dialogue-free futuristic film, an intriguing trip through a hallucinatory world.
- DirectorMario Ribero FerreiraStarsHugo GómezOlga Lucía AlviraJosé María ArzuagaJaime Florez, an astute provincial, and malicious, is involved in a misunderstanding: the notable people of a Colombian city confuse it with the diplomatic representative of India. Without much effort he decides to take advantage of the situation and deceives the whole world, until they discover him.
- DirectorAndrés BaizStarsQuim GutiérrezMartina GarcíaMaría Soledad RodríguezShattered by the unexpected news of their irreversible break-up, an aspiring orchestra conductor is puzzled by his girlfriend's mysterious and seemingly inexplicable case of disappearance. But can he look beyond the facts?
- DirectorCarlos MayoloLuis OspinaStarsLuis Alfonso LondoñoCarlos MayoloRamiro ArbeláezFictional film that simulates being a documentary about filmmakers who exploit the misery with mercantilist purposes. It is a scathing criticism "porno-misery" and the opportunism of the dishonest documentary making "socio-political documentaries" in the third world to sell them in Europe and win prizes.
- DirectorSergio CabreraStarsEmma SuárezNicolás MonteroCésar MoraAn oil company has set up a camp for geological research in a small village in Colombia that has been named New Texas so it becomes the target of the guerrillas. The confrontation is altered in the interest of the sides of continuing the transmission of the World Cup qualifiers of U.S. 94 on the only TV working in the town.
- DirectorJuan Sebastián MesaStarsEsteban AlcarazMaria Camila CastrillónMaria Angélica PuertaCamilo, Mechas, Manu, Ana and Pipa are five friends going through that blended trance of intense unrest, astonishment, contained tenderness and manifested rage that is typical of the end of adolescence. They survive at the edges of a city, Medellin, that simultaneously attracts and excludes them, that lure them with promises but rejects them with hostility. Nevertheless, they want to embrace the city and fight against its logics of fear. Music, street art and friendship are their weapons of resistance, hoping for a rite of passage that could transform them into someone else.
- DirectorLuis OspinaStarsGilberto ForeroCarlos MayoloFlorina LemaitreRoberto Hurtado, a rich old man suffers from a blood disease, so he requires transfusions of a rare type of blood from young men. His son Adolfo blackmails the nurse and two drivers, involved in a sexual crime, to get the blood kidnapping, killing and stealing the blood of their victims, which raises terror throughout Cali.
- DirectorJorge NavasStarsAndrés CaicedoLuis OspinaSandro Romero ReyAndres caicedo's obsessions with Gothic literature, with fate and violence were the center of his life and his work, and contributed to shape a particular aesthetic universe which helped create what came to be called "Tropical Gothic"
- DirectorMike SleeStarsJulio Sanchéz CristoA wonderful country full of amazing creatures in America called Colombia , seen as never before, accompanied by incredible shots , make it a must-see place for adventurers and wildlife lovers this natural paradise.
- DirectorJorge Alí TrianaStarsRobinson DíazAmparo GrisalesJairo CamargoA soap opera actor wants to finish Bolivar's dream of a "Great Colombia": a super-state of 5 Latin-American countries to stop institutional chaos, lack of opportunity and ignite the rebuilding of the region after 160 years of internal war.
- DirectorRaúl GarcíaStarsRobinson DíazJuana AcostaJuan Carlos VargasA group of friends have a screenplay ready for filming, and they only need financing. After trying in vain to find someone who will give money for their production, they plan to rob a bank in order to obtain the money for their picture.
- DirectorCésar Augusto AcevedoStarsHaimer LealHilda RuizEdison RaigosaAfter having left a long time ago, a humble country sugar cane worker returns home to meet his grandson and deal with the hardships his family has been put into.
- DirectorMarta RodríguezAn experimental documentary that dares to gather diverse and plural audiovisual archive materials, which gives itself the possibility of creating an imaginary, but concrete, intense and profound conversation between the filmmaker Marta Rodríguez and the indefinable Camilo Torres Restrepo. A film that invents the opportunity to talk to a dead man, why yes, Camilo died, but his questions, his ideas and his effective love remain strong and powerful in Marta's life and political and artistic reflection. Who was Camilo Torres Restrepo? The documentary attempts to answer this question by looking at Colombia today, analyzing it, understanding it, perhaps a little more, in its inequalities and its constant violence. Perhaps this is the greatest legacy that Camilo left to those who are still alive.
- DirectorManolo CruzCarlos del CastilloStarsJorge CaoManolo CruzVicky HernándezA man yearns to go in to the ocean across the street from his house, but suffers from an illness that prevents hims from doing so.
- DirectorFelipe AljureStarsAlfredo AguilarEva AhenJuan Miguel AnzolaA psychedelic multiple-storyline around a disco called "El Colombian Dream".
- DirectorCristina GallegoCiro GuerraStarsCarmiña MartínezJosé AcostaNatalia ReyesDuring the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
- DirectorVíctor GaviriaStarsJuan Carlos UribeFabio RestrepoFredy York MonsalveDuring the 1980s in Medellín, Santiago, an engineer, gets involved in drug traffic to make a quick buck.
- DirectorMarta RodríguezJorge SilvaThis film documents the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, using the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva worked on this documentary from 1966 to 1972, establishing a relationship with the family which allows the viewer an intimate look at their hardships.
- DirectorFranco LolliStarsBrayan SantamariàCarlos Fernando PérezAlejandra BorreroEric, 10, finds himself almost overnight living with Gabriel, his father, who he barely knows. The man has trouble keeping their heads above water and building a relationship with his son. Maria Isabel, the woman Gabriel works for as a carpenter, decides to take the child under her wing.
- DirectorMaria GamboaStarsCarlos HernándezFelipe BoteroSamuel LazcanoAt the impressionable age of 16, young Mateo faces a dilemma about the direction his life will take when his corrupt uncle asks him to infiltrate a local Barrancabermeja theatre group to uncover its members' political activities.
- DirectorCarlos MorenoStarsÁlvaro RodríguezJorge HerreraMartha MarquezSalvador is a peasant who one day wakes up as usual to work on his land but instead finds a pile of corpses in the middle of his crops. He runs to notify the authorities but is Sunday and Election Day so the dead ones end up being a nuisance that nobody wants to deal with.
- DirectorLaura Mora OrtegaStarsNatasha JaramilloGiovanny RodríguezCarmenza CossioAfter the murder of her father, a young art student Paula searches for the contracted killer who carried out the crime, a young man named Jesús.
- DirectorJosé Luis RugelesStarsCarlos ClavijoAnderson GomezCarmenza GonzálezA vision of Colombia's inhuman armed conflict, seen through the eyes of a young - and pregnant - girl soldier.
- DirectorSpiros StathoulopoulosStarsHugo PereiraDaniel PáezGilberto RamirezShot in real time, PVC-1 is based on the true story of a woman who is turned into a human time bomb in a bizarre act of terrorism.
- DirectorJavier MejíaStarsFelipe Andrés EchavarríaPedro Pablo OchoaRamón MarulandaFive friends in their 20's struggle to live without hopes and dreams in the harsh times of Colombian drug trafficking reality, trying to keep the only thing they can save from this, their friendship.
- DirectorSimón Mesa SotoStarsSandra Melissa TorresDiego Alejandro TobónLuciana GallegoIn 1998, single mother Amparo races to save her teenage son after is he drafted and deployed by the Colombian army.
- DirectorJorge NavasStarsRosa Esther Mosquera AramburoDuván ArizalaMiguel Ángel BanguelaIn Buenaventura-Colombia, Harvey and his three friends are doomed to a life of poverty and uncertainty. While attempting to escape their reality, they use music and urban dance to overcome and defy their violent destiny.
- DirectorGustavo Nieto RoaStarsCarlos BenjumeaRosa Gloria ChagoyánDelfina GuidoA taxi driver in Bogota suffer hardship for the state of his old vehicle, the limit of almost unable to work. Every day the situation is more desperate until he accidentally gets involved with bank robbers and their booty, everything is complicated but its honesty is foolproof. Well and triumphs in the end it will be rewarded.
- DirectorRafa LaraStarsAntonio MerlanoGuillermo IvánMónica GómezEduardo is a young upper-class Colombian who is kidnapped by a guerrilla group, and becomes trapped in the middle of the crossfire between the military, paramilitary and guerrilla groups. His outlook on life and his own country, will change radically after the traumatic experience that lives along several months, in which he risks his life in multilple transfers to different camps, as well as armed clashes, along with the extreme loneliness that puts him on the brink of madness.
- DirectorDavid DavidStarsAlejandro AguilarNelson CamayoSheila MonterolaAmid a political crisis, on the border between Colombia and Venezuela, an Andean woman, her husband, and brother live on looting travelers. However fate pushes her to the brink of illusion and getting lost in mysterious dreams.
- DirectorJuan Felipe CanoStarsJulieth RestrepoAngie CepedaChristian TappanA human rights attorney's murder while probing a high-ranking soldier's involvement in civilian disappearances prompts her detective partner to pursue the dangerous case, undeterred by threats.
- DirectorNatalia SantaStarsVictoria HernandezMaia LandaburuMartha LealThis is the story of three old friends in downtown Bogotá. A chess player and small-time gambler, a watch maker, and a Spanish homeopath obsessed with poker. Finding comfort in the confines of their routines, they avoid facing failure at all costs. When this comfort is put at risk, each man will have to figure out that in life, as in love, it's never too late to take a chance.
- DirectorJuan Felipe OrozcoStarsNoëlle SchönwaldJulieth RestrepoSilvia De DiosAfter a traumatic situation that makes Vega become an agoraphobic person, she decides to live like a hermit in an apartment because of her father's recommendation. But some strange things start happening, she sees visions, and hears noises and voices. She starts to worry about the dark past of that apartment, and the bizarre obsession of her neighbor.
- DirectorFabian HernándezStarsDilan Felipe Ramírez EspitiaJesus Alberto CueroDiego Alexander MayorgaCarlos lives in a youth shelter in the center of Bogota, a kind of refuge trying to mitigate the harshness of life. Its Christmas and Carlos longs to spend the day with his mother and sister, who are lost in the spiral of urban violence. As he leaves the shelter, Carlos is confronted with the rigor of the streets in his neighborhood, where the law of the strongest, the alfa 'macho', rules. As he seeks for a family reunion, Carlos must show he can be one of them. While deep inside him, he must face decisions, contradicting these expressions of masculinity.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsJavier CámaraNicolás Reyes CanoJuan Pablo UrregoAn author recalls life with his father, a university professor who fought against oppression and social inequality in Colombia in the seventies.