Costa Rica Movies

The story of a homeless woman who no longer wants to live on the streets so she can see her beautiful daughter again.

The movie addresses the theme of euthanasia. A couple meets, gets married, and lives happily until he suffers an accident and falls into a state of...

"S T A I N S" is a short film composed of five short videos that use dance as a language to tell the story of a family and the generational traumas...

To the east of San José, in the midst of marginality, poverty and social and institutional indifference, a community of over 35,000 struggles,...

Built around the most popular name in the country, the documentary narrates the stories of five women who have the same name, but who are very...

Shadow Dwellers is a poetic wildlife documentary that explores the elusive world of Costa Rican salamanders. Through stylized cinematography and...

According to the words of J.L. Borges in his work “A History of Eternity”, “eternity is a simpler and more magical thing: it is the...

In 1982 when she arrived in Paris, my Costa Rican mother sent a series of letters to her parents. Forty years later, I revisit these letters to have...

Aurora fights against the absurd and terrifying obstacles of a day in a life with mental illnesses. Guilt, shame, vulnerability, fear and especially...

More than 70 years ago Giorgio Motta's grandfather and uncle arrived in Costa Rica from Italy. With their hands they built the building that houses...

A night in the life of Juan, a middle-class man from San José, Costa Rica, accustomed to his urban, civilized life in the capital. He has to...

Two Dominican taxi drivers plan to travel illegally to Puerto Rico in search of two high-class women they met and fell in love with.

Banalities and trivialities become fodder for the distraction from the true value of life, as seen by our main character who struggles to reach the...

An upcoming documentary.

From a virtual space, two young people seek connection in the middle of a city confined during the pandemic. Subject to the exposure of their private...

A young couple is walking along the trails of the humid tropical forest, when a minor accident causes them to touch on existential issues.

Two young women are alone at home and must rehearse for an important audition that they have in the next few days, to help each other in the process,...

Juan Morales and his family tell us about the struggle of the artisanal miner from Abangares, popularly called Coligallero.

An elderly pianist mourns a relative for many years of his adult life. After the loss of his son Jorge, he seeks to overcome the guilt he has felt...

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