El Salvador Movies

A young woman struggles with getting a good night sleep after being haunted by a ghost of her past.

This documentary juxtaposes scenes of El Salvador's opposition factions, including U.S. government advisors and government troops, and guerrillas and...

An experimental short film centering on a circus performance in San Salvador.

January 22, 1932. An unprecedented peasant uprising erupts in western El Salvador, as a group of Latino and indigenous peasants cut army supply...

Huachindango is the small capital of a small Central American country. In this city, women must enter rooms managed by “The System” at...

A production by Radio Venceremos in 1992. The documentary's central objective is to showcase Radio Venceremos' new role after the end of the armed...

Join affable presenter Nigel Marven as he explores El Salvador, the volatile land of volcanoes with a colorful culture and natural history. Follow...

El Salvador's most dramatic landscapes unfold all around you in this sensory-driven flight experience that captures the nation's soul from above....

Loosely inspired by Shakespeare's Othello, La Palabra de Pablo (Pablo's Word) tells the story of a broken contemporary Salvadorian upper middle class...

A portrayal of the harsh conditions faced by Salvadorans in the 1960s and 70s.

Salvadoran documentary about the revolutionary movement, produced by the Centro de Producciones Audiovisuales de Guazapa.

A free adaptation of the short story “Why Saint Anthony Lost His Virtue” by the Salvadoran writer Salvador Salazar Arrué...

For Lourdes, a writer of the Salvadoran diaspora, returning to her native country means having to face complex emotions around a misogynistic...

Olivia is a disturbed woman who shows some signs of amnesia and madness. Accompanied only by Esther, she fantasizes that some day her beloved Julio...

Presents the game in which El Salvador classified to the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.

A cleaning woman steals a Salvadoran Civil War map and hunts for a treasure in the hopes of reuniting with her son.

A monologue about the meaning of being art, delivered by the last character you’d expect: a pair of pants. A short film by Ponchi Simán.

A fresh, free-wheeling look at the mothers, daughters, teachers, and political prisoners in El Salvador and their struggle to come to terms with...

A Salvadoran comedy about a group of friends who travel to the United States in search of a better life, but are scammed and forced to undertake a...

A meditation on the intersection of Afro-Caribbean and Indigenous American existence.