Costa Rica Movies

Síncope explores the internal fantasy of a traffic officer in his everyday work

costa rican short

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...

Bernie, Manuel, and Nestor just graduated from high school, and have no plans for the future. Unsatisfied with the opportunities Costa Rica presents,...

Olman, an elderly man, has just found out that he has terminal cancer. Jimena, a 17-year-old girl, wants to go to a her favorite band's concert....

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...

A football coach is frustrase by his team's performance in a cup final.

Francisco Coto was born in Alajuela in July 1924. A century later, he recalls some of his photographs in the studio he founded decades ago....

During a sweltering summer in Costa Rica in the early 2000s, Laura, a preteen soccer fan, must move to a conservative mountain town where a femicide...

In 1974, the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) began work on the Arenal hydroelectric project. As a result, two towns, Arenal and...

In 1977, the workers of the INAVE vehicle assembly company went on strike. This strike was declared legal, one of the few registered in the country. ...

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...

The film presents various aspects of prostitutes' lives in Costa Rica. Several prostitutes and some "protectors" agreed to offer a confession about...

“Man will reach the moon first, before the highway reaches here, to Limón,” said the governor of the province of Limón, in...

A grieving witch escapes to a cabin alone to give birth.

This film shows the general aspects of the school garden program carried out by the Ministry of Public Education in the country's schools. In its...

A young woman responds to her grandmother's call for help, but when she arrives at her house, everything seems to be normal.

The film gives us an idea of how the Youth Symphony Orchestra operates, which was created taking into account a young member and a future violinist...

This document shows the solidarity of the people and government of Costa Rica towards the people of Nicaragua in their fight against one of the most...

This documentary, filmed at Christmas 1973, "searches" for the causes of malnutrition in the slums, in the unemployed population, in the living...