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1. Problemista (2023)
R | 104 min | Comedy
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in NY. As time runs out on his work visa, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country.
Director: Julio Torres | Stars: Julio Torres, Tilda Swinton, RZA, Isabella Rossellini
Votes: 2,205
2. Crash (I) (2004)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Director: Paul Haggis | Stars: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandiwe Newton, Karina Arroyave
Votes: 448,934 | Gross: $54.58M
3. American Made (2017)
R | 115 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.
Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 208,042 | Gross: $51.34M
4. Bound by Honor (1993)
R | 180 min | Crime, Drama
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo.
Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Damian Chapa, Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt, Enrique Castillo
Votes: 34,004 | Gross: $4.50M
5. All About My Mother (1999)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, and overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan
Votes: 102,833 | Gross: $8.26M
6. High Crimes (2002)
PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A successful lawyer's husband is arrested for murdering nine villagers in El Salvador in 1988 as a US soldier under a different name. She decides to defend him in military court and find out the truth about what happened.
Director: Carl Franklin | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Adam Scott
Votes: 48,196 | Gross: $41.54M
7. Salvador (1986)
R | 122 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A burnt-out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: James Woods, Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage
Votes: 23,135
8. In the Valley of Elah (2007)
R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A retired military investigator works with a police detective to uncover the truth behind his son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Director: Paul Haggis | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Jonathan Tucker, Jason Patric
Votes: 75,086 | Gross: $6.78M
9. Born in East L.A. (1987)
R | 85 min | Comedy
When an L.A. born American citizen is mistaken for a Mexican illegal alien and deported to Mexico, he has to do everything he can to get across the border.
Director: Cheech Marin | Stars: Cheech Marin, Daniel Stern, Paul Rodriguez, Kamala Lopez
Votes: 6,557 | Gross: $17.36M
10. Prime (2005)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
Director: Ben Younger | Stars: Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, Bryan Greenberg, Jon Abrahams
Votes: 42,086 | Gross: $22.83M
11. Storytelling (2001)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
Director: Todd Solondz | Stars: Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Robert Wisdom, Maria Thayer
Votes: 18,324 | Gross: $0.91M
12. Innocent Voices (2004)
R | 120 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.
Director: Luis Mandoki | Stars: Carlos Padilla, Leonor Varela, Xuna Primus, Gustavo Muñoz
Votes: 8,194 | Gross: $0.84M
13. Faces of Death II (1981)
85 min | Documentary, Horror
This movie continues in the same vein as F.O.D. 1 with short scenes of death related material. Mortuarys, accidents, police work are filmed by TV crews and home video cameras. Some of the ... See full summary »
Director: John Alan Schwartz | Stars: Michael Carr, James Brady, Mickey Crowe, Thomas K. Delahanty
Votes: 2,097
14. Romero (1989)
PG-13 | 102 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.
Director: John Duigan | Stars: Raul Julia, Richard Jordan, Ana Alicia, Eddie Velez
Votes: 2,448 | Gross: $1.32M
15. Straight for the Heart (1988)
92 min | Drama, Romance, War
A war photographer returns home to Montréal to discover that his two partners have left him to be together. Alone in the city, he photographs what he sees, trying to heal both his war memories and a broken heart.
Director: Léa Pool | Stars: Matthias Habich, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Michel Voïta, Jean-François Pichette
Votes: 256
16. La Vida Loca (2008)
90 min | Documentary
"La Vida Loca" reflects a depressing and hopeless reality. The documentary, by photojournalist and filmmaker Christian Poveda, follows some of the members of "la dieciocho", the so-called ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Poveda | Stars: José Roberto Martínez, Silvia Portillo López, Ana Burgos Arévalo, José Luis Rosales
Votes: 945
17. Passed Away (1992)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy
A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral.
Director: Charlie Peters | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Jack Warden, William Petersen, Diana Bellamy
Votes: 1,468 | Gross: $4.03M
18. Borderland (2014)
Documentary
Six average Americans are confronted with the realities of illegal immigration while retracing the footsteps of dead border runners.
Stars: Gil Bellows, Lis-Marie Alvarado, Randy Stufflebeam, Alex Seel
Votes: 54
19. Which Way Home (2009)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
"Which Way Home" is a feature documentary film that follows unaccompanied child migrants, on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States. We follow children like ... See full summary »
Director: Rebecca Cammisa
Votes: 1,198
20. El lugar más pequeño (2011)
100 min | Documentary
The inhabitants of a small town in El Salvador relive their life experiences during the civil war while remembering their loved ones.
Director: Tatiana Huezo
Votes: 186
21. Choices of the Heart (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
The film tells the story of a young missionary girl from the United States who was killed in 1980 in El Salvador together with two other missionaries.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Peter Horton, Helen Hunt, Mary McCusker
Votes: 250
22. The Black Pirates (1954)
74 min | Adventure
Pirates searching for treasure take over a small town in Central America where they believe the loot is buried, but discover that a church has been built over the spot. They force the ... See full summary »
Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: Anthony Dexter, Martha Roth, Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Clarke
Votes: 78
23. Looking for Palladin (2008)
R | 115 min | Comedy
A young Hollywood player is drawn into a remote place looking for a quick deal and instead finds a sanctuary, a community, and ultimately himself.
Director: Andrzej Krakowski | Stars: Ben Gazzara, David Moscow, Talia Shire, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Votes: 199
24. The Engineer (2013)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Israel is El Salvador's only criminologist. In one of the world's most dangerous countries, his job is to unearth the hundreds murdered and buried by the rival gangs MS-13 and 18 Street.
Directors: Mathew Charles, Juan Luis Passarelli
Votes: 60
25. Roses in December (1982)
Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary
Detailing the rape, torture and murder of four American missionaries in El Salvador by members of the El Salvador National Guard, as well as the subsequent attempts by the government to cover up the story.
Directors: Ana Carrigan, Bernard Stone | Stars: John Houseman, Douglas Cable, Maura Clarke, Eldon Cummings
Votes: 25
26. Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary (1997 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary
Director: Laura Angelica Simon
Votes: 44
27. Monsenor: The Last Journey of Oscar Romero (2011)
97 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In the 1970s, as El Salvador moved irrevocably closer to civil war, one man was known as the voice of the poor, the disenfranchised, the disappeared. Appointed Archbishop in 1977, Monsenor ... See full summary »
Directors: Ana Carrigan, Juliet Weber | Stars: Pablo Alvarenga, Alberto Arene, Salvador Carranza, Marta Cerna
Votes: 31
28. No Dead Heroes (1986)
Not Rated | 86 min | Action
A US lieutnant is turned into a guinea pig for deadly KGB experiments.
Director: Junn P. Cabreira | Stars: Max Thayer, John Dresden, Nick Nicholson, David Anderson
Votes: 162
29. Trampa para un gato (1994)
90 min | Action, Drama, War
Director: Manuel de Pedro | Stars: Amado Zambrano, Alejandro Faillace, Gregorio Milano, Jazmín Hernández
Votes: 14
30. El Salvador: Another Vietnam (1981)
53 min | Documentary
Examines the origins of the civil war in El Salvador and the US involvement in it, echoing memories of the prior Eastern Asia wars and America involved conflicts in Korea and Vietnam.
Directors: Glenn Silber, Teté Vasconcellos | Stars: Enrique Alvarez, John A. Bushnell, Terence Cooke, Archbishop Rivera y Damas
Votes: 48
31. Cinema Libertad (2010)
PG | 25 min | Short, Drama
Nacho and Ela give life back to the old and abandoned Cinema Libertad with the use of a ray of light, they both tell stories to the people living inside the old cinema.
Director: Arturo Menendez | Stars: David Acuña, Edgar Aquino, Leandro Sanchez Arauz, Regina Cañas
Votes: 24
32. El puma de Quelepa (2017)
75 min | Drama
Filmed in stunning black and white, this immersive dive into the lives of the people of Quelepa, El Salvador, is a tour de force of experimentation along the lines of the work of Mexican ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Ruano | Star: José Miguel Escobar
33. Lucha (2009)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Drama, Romance
While President Reagan sends funds and arms to the Salvadorian military to kidnap, torture, and kill the people of El Salvador, Lucha and Isabella decide their fate. Does love of country trump romantic love?
Director: Maria Breaux | Stars: Eloisa Ramos, Maria Carolina Morales A., Samuel González
Votes: 22
34. The Offended (2016)
85 min | Documentary
"In the Salvadoran civil war, my father and thousands more were captured and tortured by the State. These are some of their stories. When I turned 33, my mother told me that my father, ... See full summary »
Director: Marcela Zamora
Votes: 24
35. Diplomatic Immunity (1992)
94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A female Canadian diplomat goes on a mission to El Salvador to try smooth relations between their government and the people of a small town who risk the loss of their home.
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Wendel Meldrum, Ofelia Medina, Michael Riley, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Votes: 49
36. The Front Line (1984)
78 min | Documentary
A documentary about the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980, told from the points of view of the rebels, the soldiers fighting them, and civilians who just want all the fighting and killing to end.
Directors: Jeff B. Harmon, Max Stahl | Stars: Alberto, Eduardo D'Aubuisson, Roberto D'Aubuisson, Jaime Ernesto Flores
Votes: 9
37. Bougainvillea
Romance | Announced
Marisol's wedding is unsettled when Salome shows up unexpectedly after years of their uncanny friendship being interrupted because of a mysterious love letter.
Director: Patricia Chica
38. The Path of the Shadows (2018)
58 min | Drama
Professor Carlos Mauricio finds himself persecuted by government death squads during the Salvadoran Civil War.
Director: Baltazar Lopez | Stars: Oscar Suncín, Mónica Aguilez, Leandro Sanchez Arauz, Javier Elenilson Arevalo
Votes: 13
39. Glass House (I) (2006)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, History, War
Twenty-five to thirty thousand Jews were issued life-saving certificates of Salvadoran citizenship thanks to the El Salvador Action and its officials: Consul General Jose Arturo Castellanos... See full summary »
Director: Brad Marlowe | Stars: James Foster Jr., Princess of Controversy, James J. Johnson, Anisha Newbill
Votes: 57
40. Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World (2003)
Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary
Documentary presenting the realities of coming out in lesser developed countries.
Director: John Scagliotti | Stars: Janeane Garofalo, Maher Sabry
Votes: 164
41. One, the Story of a Goal (2010)
102 min | 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 upon which both the left and the right ... See full summary »
Directors: Carlos Moreno, Gerardo Muyshondt
Votes: 38
42. Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements (1985)
29 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Documentary of Charlie Clements, a Vietnam War pilot who was convinced by his experiences in the war that he should become a doctor working behind enemy lines.
Director: Deborah Shaffer | Stars: Charlie Clements, Richard Nixon
Votes: 69
43. Surviving Guazapa (2008)
TV-14 | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Opposing forces, a government soldier and a guerrilla are trapped together in the heavily-bombed area around the Guazapa volcano. After a hostile meeting, an unlikely friendship develops ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto d'Avila Alegria | Stars: Roberto Josue Alegria, Geovanny Alvarado, Salvador Bermudez, Carlos Cruz
Votes: 38
44. Children of a Rape (2008)
66 min | Documentary
The infamous 18 are El Salvador's biggest gang. They battle with the rival MS13 for control of the drugs market. They charge 'renta' to local businesses and kill those who don't pay. They ... See full summary »
Director: Yorgos Avgeropoulos
45. American Passport (1999)
82 min | Documentary, War
A riveting travel odyssey of a 23 year old Seattle native Reed Paget who set out to visit the Seven Wonders of the World, but instead found himself capturing the images of 12 war zones.
Director: Reed Paget
Votes: 102
46. Return to El Salvador (2010 Video)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
17 years ago, U.N. peace accords marked the end of a brutal civil war in El Salvador. This film is the compelling story of vibrant Salvadoran individuals and communities and the intricate ... See full summary »
Director: Jamie Moffett | Stars: Hector Antonio Garcia Berrios, Dean Brackley, Monsenor Rosa Chavez, Deysi Cheyne
Votes: 16
47. La batalla del volcán (2018)
93 min | Documentary
A group of veterans "guerrilla and soldiers" faces hatred from the past and a prevailing grief when they return, 25 years later, to the neighborhoods of San Salvador where they fought the final battle of the Salvadoran Civil War.
Director: Julio López Fernández
Votes: 13
48. The Houses Are Full of Smoke (1987)
183 min | Documentary, History, War
A powerful three-part documentary studying the US involvement in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The differing factions - Sandinista leaders, Guatemalan campesinos, CIA operatives, ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Francovich
Votes: 16
49. Faces of War (1999 Video)
90 min | Documentary, History, War
This shockumentary is a collection of gruesome footage taken from wars throughout history, most of the material is lifted from "The Many Faces of Death" series.
Stars: Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, Bill Stewart
Votes: 20
50. Camión de Carga (2007)
9 min | Short, Drama
An ill Central American single mother risks her life in order to give her son a stable future in the United States.
Director: Juan Sebastian Jacome | Stars: Dolores Maldonado, Kevin Martínez, Antonio Barrera, Margarita Barrera
Votes: 31