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Bolivia Cinema
Top 26 films from Bolivia (out of 26 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| La bicicleta de los Huanca | 2,007 | Roberto Calasich | Comedy | 9 | 56 | Spanish | |
| My Partner | 1,982 | Paolo Agazzi | Comedy, Drama | 8.9 | 65 | Spanish | The story of the friendship between a truck driver and a shoeshine boy who occasionally becomes his assistant when they travel together from the agro-industrial area of Santa Cruz to the high Andean basin of La Paz in a truck named "Mi Socio". |
| The Secret Nation | 1,989 | Jorge Sanjinés | Drama | 8.4 | 14 | Spanish | In this Bolivian story, a man remembers his life while on a journey which will help him expiate his sins and which will result in his death. The focus on the story is on a man who has betrayed everyone he knows. He is planning to perform an ancient ritual dance which will end with his life being taken. He journeys from where he was living back to the village where most of the people he wronged still live. As he journeys, carrying his distinctive dance costume, his story is told in flashbacks. Once he gets there, he gets involved in the affairs of the villagers once more. |
| Pseudo | 2,020 | Luis Reneo | Thriller, Crime | 8.1 | 10 | Spanish | A taxi driver from La Paz, out of work and desperate for money, assumes the identity of a passenger — a photographer — and takes his next assignment, not knowing he is actually a hit-man whose next target is a top-ranked government official. He gets caught up in a terrorist operation where nobody is what they claim, including the source financing the assassination plot. |
| Chuquiago | 1,977 | Antonio Eguino | Drama | 8 | 17 | Spanish | Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories. |
| Women of the Mine | 2,014 | Malena Bystrowicz | Documentary | 7.7 | 14 | Spanish | Portraits of three women who live and work in the infamous mines of El Cerro Rico in Bolivia. Work inside the mines has been limited to men, while the women are forced to work outside searching for mineral scraps on the side of the mountain. The film highlights the women's strength, determination and resilience in the face of struggle and hardship. |
| The Goalkeeper | 2,018 | Rodrigo Patiño | Thriller | 7.6 | 11 | Spanish | A former soccer player whose son is in the hospital waiting for an organ transplant and, in his desperation to get money to access a quick surgery, he gets involved in a case of human trafficking. |
| The Courage of the People | 1,971 | Jorge Sanjinés | Drama, History | 7.3 | 15 | Spanish | A documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners and their families at the Siglo XX Mines in 1967 in Bolivia. |
| Utama | 2,022 | Alejandro Loayza Grisi | Drama | 7.2 | 62 | Spanish | In the Bolivian altiplano, Virginio and Sisa, an elderly Quechua couple who have lived a quiet life for years, face an impossible dilemma during an unusually long drought: resist or be defeated by the hostile environment and the relentless passage of time. |
| Blood of the Condor | 1,969 | Jorge Sanjinés | Crime, Drama | 7.1 | 24 | Spanish | A community reacts against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women. |
| Daughter of the Lake | 2,015 | Ernesto Cabellos | Documentary | 7 | 10 | Spanish | At the height of the Peruvian gold rush, Nélida, an Andean woman able to communicate with water spirits, uses her powers to prevent a mining corporation from destroying the body of water she considers her mother. A gold deposit valued at billions of dollars lies just beneath Nélida’s lakes and leads farmers and Latin America’s biggest gold producer into conflict. |
| El atraco | 2,004 | Paolo Agazzi | Drama | 6.8 | 17 | Spanish | |
| Averno | 2,018 | Marcos Loayza | Fantasy | 6.8 | 16 | Spanish | Young bootblack Tupah embarks on a frantic quest to find his uncle, Jacinto, lost in the Averno. In a dangerous journey through the underworld, myth and reality get endlessly intertwined and the death-loaded night in La Paz unveils the darkest and most surreal face of the imaginary of the Andes. |
| I Miss You | 2,019 | Rodrigo Bellott | Drama, Romance | 6.7 | 31 | Spanish | Following his son Gabriel’s death, Jorge travels from conservative Bolivia to New York City to confront Gabriel’s boyfriend Sebastian. While the two battle over Jorge’s inability to accept his son, Sebastian channels his grief into a bold new play in honor of his lost love, in which Gabriel’s inner turmoil is transformed into an eye-popping gay fantasia. |
| Blackthorn | 2,011 | Mateo Gil | Adventure, Action, Western | 6.6 | 285 | English | In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike. |
| American Visa | 2,005 | Juan Carlos Valdivia | Romance, Crime, Drama | 6.6 | 26 | Spanish | After being denied an American visa, a Bolivian professor becomes involved in a web of criminal activities, holds-up the American consulate and falls for a beautiful prostitute from the Bolivian lowlands. |
| The Day Silence Died | 1,999 | Paolo Agazzi | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 14 | Spanish | A handsome and mysterious stranger, played by Darío Grandinetti, walks into the town square of Villaserena one day and strategically places loudspeakers around the town, blaring a variety of musical tunes. Soon, he begins to sell airtime to the various locals, who broadcast their own personal love dedications and (more frequently) insults for all to hear. A subplot evolves between Abelardo (the stranger), Celeste (a young woman who is chained inside her father's house to stop her running away), and José (a young man). |
| And So It Is | 1,966 | Jorge Sanjinés | Drama | 6.5 | 10 | AY | While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge. |
| Wara Wara | 1,930 | José María Velasco Maidana | Drama, Romance | 6.2 | 11 | AY | Set in the 16th century, a peaceful Inca community is massacred by a group of conquistadors, and the survivors including Wara Wara flee into the mountains. Later, Wara Wara is assaulted by two Spanish soldiers, and rescued by a conquistador with a noble heart. The two fall in love, but are confronted with the mutual hatred between their peoples. Sentenced to death, they escape, and live happily ever after. |
| Southern District | 2,009 | Juan Carlos Valdivia | Drama | 6 | 18 | Spanish | In La Paz -as opposed to many other cities- the rich live below, which is the Southern District. Life goes on without major mishaps in a large house surrounded by a beautiful garden. It is a wonderful world, a great bubble of comfort, where different personal spheres coexist: the mother, along with her three children and the Aymara inhabitants of the house. The drama surfaces slowly, without narrative ploys, observing day-to-day activities until internal and external forces make the bubble burst. The film relates the story of the final days of an upper-class family, at a time when the country is undergoing social changes. |
| A Matter of Faith | 1,995 | Marcos Loayza | Drama | 5.9 | 19 | Spanish | Cuestión de fe es un largometraje producido en Bolivia en 1995, dirigida por Marcos Loayza. En esta película participa Jorge Ortiz y Elías Serrano. La película trata de una imagen sagrada que debe ser trasladada por encargo desde una región altiplánica hacia el oriente del país. Pero durante el viaje, la virgen es robada en uno de los pueblos de las regiones andinas y llevado a la región de los Yungas, los protagonistas tratan de recuperar la imagen sagrada, pero al final, llegan a un acuerdo con los pobladores en los Yungas y la imagen se queda en un pueblo de dicha región. |
| The Great Movement | 2,022 | Kiro Russo | Drama | 5.9 | 13 | Spanish | A symphony of the city in the heights, the illness of a worker, the nightmare and his redemption. |
| Sexo | 2,001 | Rodrigo Bellott | Comedy | 5.3 | 29 | English | This film skewers the audience's prejudices when the subtitles abandon their usual chore of translating what is said and start talking directly to the audience. |
| Salt and Fire | 2,016 | Werner Herzog | Drama, Thriller | 4.9 | 80 | English | A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster. |
| Jonah and the Pink Whale | 1,995 | Juan Carlos Valdivia | Drama | 4.6 | 11 | Spanish | A schoolteacher in the small city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra has a passionate affair with his frigid wife's sister—despite the risk of having to confront not only his wife, but also his dubious father-in-law. |
| Sexual Dependency | 2,003 | Rodrigo Bellott | Drama, Romance | 4.3 | 10 | English | A poor girl, a rich stud, a university student and a model -- nothing in common, except the desire to experience true intimacy. Their stories unfold and overlap as each becomes victim to their own sexual dependencies, self-perceptions and illusions. Thematically structured around issues of femininity, masculinity, virginity, rape and sexuality, each teen struggles to make sense of their own identity, reaching for ideals that represent everything they feel they are supposed to be, but are not. |
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