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Best Colombian Films of all time

by albertfilmcritic • Created 1 year ago • Modified 1 year ago
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  • La estrategia del caracol (1993)

    1. La estrategia del caracol

    19931h 56m
    7.7 (3K)
    A 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.
    DirectorSergio CabreraStarsFausto CabreraFrank RamírezDelfina Guido
  • Paraiso Travel (2008)

    2. Paraiso Travel

    20081h 56mR
    7.0 (2.3K)
    Love 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.
    DirectorSimon BrandStarsMichelle O'QuinnLouis ArcellaAngelica Blandon
  • Nilbio Torres in Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

    3. Embrace of the Serpent

    20152h 5mNot Rated82Metascore
    7.8 (25K)
    The 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.
    DirectorCiro GuerraStarsNilbio TorresJan BijvoetAntonio Bolívar
  • The Kings of the World (2022)

    4. The Kings of the World

    20221h 43mTV-MA
    7.0 (2.6K)
    Follows five young men and about the marginalized, excluded humanity who seeks a place in the world.
    DirectorLaura Mora OrtegaStarsCarlos Andrés CastañedaDavison FlorezBrahian Acevedo
  • Somos Ecos (2023)

    5. Somos Ecos

    20231h 23m
    7.1 (162)
    The 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.
    DirectorJulian Diaz VelosaStarsSebastian VelasquezFelipe VillamilMaría Luisa López
  • The Wind Journeys (2009)

    6. The Wind Journeys

    20091h 57mNot Rated
    7.4 (2.6K)
    A musician travels a great distance to return an instrument to his elderly teacher.
    DirectorCiro GuerraStarsMarciano MartínezYull NúñezAgustin Nieves
  • Catalina Sandino Moreno in Maria Full of Grace (2004)

    7. Maria Full of Grace

    20041h 41mR87Metascore
    7.4 (37K)
    A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately-needed money for her family.
    DirectorJoshua MarstonStarsCatalina Sandino MorenoGuilied LopezOrlando Tobón
  • Néstor Vélez Ruiz and Néstor Andrés Velez Ruiz in The Pack (2022)

    8. The Pack

    20221h 26m
    6.5 (411)
    Eliú 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.
    DirectorAndrés Ramírez PulidoStarsJhojan Estiven JimenezMaicol Andrés JimenezMiguel Viera
  • The Colors of the Mountain (2010)

    9. The Colors of the Mountain

    20101h 30mNot Rated
    7.1 (1.8K)
    Manuel, 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'.
    DirectorCarlos César ArbeláezStarsHernán Mauricio OcampoNolberto SánchezGenaro Aristizábal
  • Satanás (2007)

    10. Satanás

    20071h 35mR
    7.2 (1.9K)
    Based on the Mario Mendoza's book and inspired by true events, tells three interconnected stories happening in the eve of the infamous Pozzetto Massacre.
    DirectorAndrés BaizStarsMarcela ValenciaBlas JaramilloLucia Rengifo
  • Rodrigo D: No futuro (1990)

    11. Rodrigo D: No futuro

    19901h 33m
    7.0 (1.2K)
    Rodrigo 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.
    DirectorVíctor GaviriaStarsRamiro MenesesCarlos Mario RestrepoJackson Idrian Gallego
  • The People at Universal (1991)

    12. The People at Universal

    19911h 50m
    7.6 (810)
    This 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.
    DirectorFelipe AljureStarsÁlvaro RodríguezJennifer SteffensRobinson Díaz
  • A Man of Principle (1984)

    13. A Man of Principle

    19841h 30m
    7.3 (620)
    In 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."
    DirectorFrancisco NordenStarsFrank RamírezIsabela CoronaVictor Hugo Morant
  • The Rose Seller (1998)

    14. The Rose Seller

    19981h 56m
    7.4 (2.3K)
    13-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.
    DirectorVíctor GaviriaStarsLeidy María 'Lady' TabaresMarta CorreaMileider Gil
  • Dog Eat Dog (2008)

    15. Dog Eat Dog

    20081h 46mTV-MA
    6.6 (1.9K)
    In 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.
    DirectorCarlos MorenoStarsMarlon MorenoÓscar BordaÁlvaro Rodríguez
  • The Other Shape (2022)

    16. The Other Shape

    20221h 39m
    6.7 (174)
    A dialogue-free futuristic film, an intriguing trip through a hallucinatory world.
    DirectorDiego Felipe GuzmanStarsSergio BorbosaJessica HerreraFabian Blanco
  • El embajador de la India (1987)

    17. El embajador de la India

    19871h 25m
    6.4 (146)
    Jaime 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.
    DirectorMario Ribero FerreiraStarsHugo GómezOlga Lucía AlviraJosé María Arzuaga
  • Clara Lago in The Hidden Face (2011)

    18. The Hidden Face

    20111h 37mR
    7.3 (48K)
    Shattered 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?
    DirectorAndrés BaizStarsQuim GutiérrezMartina GarcíaMaría Soledad Rodríguez
  • The Vampires of Poverty (1978)

    19. The Vampires of Poverty

    197828mNot RatedShort
    7.6 (1.1K)
    Fictional 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.
    DirectorsCarlos MayoloLuis OspinaStarsLuis Alfonso LondoñoCarlos MayoloRamiro Arbeláez
  • Golpe de estadio (1998)

    20. Golpe de estadio

    19982h
    6.7 (453)
    An 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.
    DirectorSergio CabreraStarsEmma SuárezNicolás MonteroCésar Mora
  • Alejandro Pérez Ceferino, Esteban Alcaraz, Maria Angélica Puerta, Luis Felipe Álzate, and Maria Camila Castrillón in Los nadie (2016)

    21. Los nadie

    20161h 24m
    7.1 (390)
    Camilo, 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.
    DirectorJuan Sebastián MesaStarsEsteban AlcarazMaria Camila CastrillónMaria Angélica Puerta
  • Pura sangre (1982)

    22. Pura sangre

    19821h 30m
    6.8 (316)
    Roberto 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.
    DirectorLuis OspinaStarsGilberto ForeroCarlos MayoloFlorina Lemaitre
  • Balada para niños muertos (A Ballad for Dead Children) (2020)

    23. Balada para niños muertos (A Ballad for Dead Children)

    20201h 20m
    7.4 (31)
    Andres 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"
    DirectorJorge NavasStarsAndrés CaicedoLuis OspinaSandro Romero Rey
  • Colombia: Wild Magic (2015)

    24. Colombia: Wild Magic

    20151h 34m
    8.2 (1.4K)
    A 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.
    DirectorMike SleeStarJulio Sanchéz Cristo
  • Robinson Díaz in Bolivar soy yo (2002)

    25. Bolivar soy yo

    20021h 33mR
    6.4 (359)
    A 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.
    DirectorJorge Alí TrianaStarsRobinson DíazAmparo GrisalesJairo Camargo

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