Costa Rica Movies

A young couple lost their baby by apparent sudden death

What motivates a cock-fighter to fight a rooster he loves? In Costa Rica, cockfighting is considered a crime and has been banned for 99 years. A...

The story tells about an older adult, who presents some health problem related to her mobility and for which she has to travel to the hospital to do...

In the early 1980s, Viviana Gallardo is a teenager growing up in a traditional middle-class family in Costa Rica. Motivated by the context of...

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Costa Rica, 1987. Amidst state violence and the HIV crisis rattling diverse communities, a 33-year-old prepares to debut as a drag queen at one of...

In the middle of a criminal act, a young thief faces an elderly woman with a particular obsession, unleashing an unexpected confrontation.

Alejandra and Joaquín are a couple marked by his ups and downs. His emotional instability has left him unemployed again, which has made the...

Federico and German were best friends, fighting the dictatorship and looking for freedom together. Years later Federico and his wife are movie...

A teenager faces overwhelming absurdism.

Years after immigrating to the United States, Matt (Gabriel Berm) grapples with the notion of family. A call from his sister, Callie (Callie Morken),...

A blind old lady threads an endless thread while her house floats in the sea. Sometimes, she asks her god to wake her up from the dream of being...

The murder of Indigenous leader Jerhy Rivera exposes the threats facing Costa Rica’s Land Back movement.

This film was originally made for the International Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT) which was held in Vancouver, Canada. Taking as an...

It is the year 2025, and Alejandro tells his grandson Josue a story from a book that he is reading about a singer and a dancer who fell in love in...

A group of women and men flee and protect themselves from what is out there that is stalking them. Locked up without water or food, they will have to...

Mr. Pitters lives in a retirement home in Siquirres, a small town near Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. He is frail and blind, yet slings a guitar over...

While visiting an aunt and uncle in the exotic countryside of Costa Rica, a young southern belle from Alabama accepted a ride on the back of a...