el salvador movies

Salvador (1986)
7.023 / 10

Drama, War, Thriller

In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing...

The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)
4.87 / 10

Drama, Thriller

At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts...

Innocent Voices (2005)
8.183 / 10

Drama, War

A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to...

The Crazy Life (2008)
6.4 / 10

Documentary

Reflects a depressing and hopeless reality by following some of the members of "la dieciocho", the so-called 18th Street gang in a poor San Salvador...

The Confession (2024)
0 / 10

Thriller, Crime

A catholic priest in Monte Bello, El Salvador has created a clandestine operating room inside the church to extract the human organs of kidnapped...

Fireflies at El Mozote (1969)
0 / 10

Action, Drama, History, War

During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio...

Cuerpos juzgados (2022)
0 / 10

Documentary

The Tiniest Place (2011)
8.2 / 10

Documentary

Years after the Salvadoran military destroyed the village of Cinquera in that country’s civil war, survivors have returned to rebuild their...

One, the Story of a Goal (2010)
7 / 10

Documentary

In the early 1980s, at the beginning of what would become a 12-year-long civil war, El Salvador's talented football team was one national institution...

Maria's Story (1990)
0 / 10

Documentary

It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader...

El Salvador: The People Will Win (1980)
5 / 10

War, Documentary

The battle of El Salvador and its revolutionary history, from the time of the Spanish conquest and colonization, to the insurgency of the 80s,...

Seeing El Salvador (1945)
0 / 10

Documentary

This Traveltalk series short starts in San Salvador, El Salvador's capital, emphasizing the Spanish architectural heritage. We then go to the Izalco...

The Crow's Nest (2014)
6 / 10

Drama

The life of a simple piñata salesman named Don Cleo is turned upside down when he falls victim to an extortionist he can’t possibly afford to pay....

A Fish Out of Water (1969)
5.7 / 10

Drama

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...

Today (2020)
0 / 10

Drama

In the capital of El Salvador, the drivers of a bus, a taxi, a minibus and a private car confront the ravages of 12 years of civil war that continue...

1932: Scars of Memory (2005)
0 / 10

Documentary

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

Little Birds (2023)
0 / 10

Documentary, Animation

Through dances and games, migrant boys and girls who live in a shelter in Reynosa, on the US-Mexico border, shared their dreams and stories of hope...

Topiltzin (1975)
0 / 10

Documentary

An experimental short film about a day in the life of a barefoot boy who sells newspapers in San Salvador.

The Houses Are Full of Smoke (1987)
5.7 / 10

Documentary, History

A powerful three-part documentary studying the US involvement in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The differing factions - Sandinista leaders,...

Saturday Fuego Diablo (2022)
2 / 10

Drama

In 1981 Montreal, four Salvadoran siblings, new to Canada, seek distance from the uprisings occurring in their home country by hitting a night club,...