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Costa Rica Cinema
Top 18 films from Costa Rica (out of 18 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| War | 2,023 | Catherine Chalmers | Drama | 9.4 | 22 | XX | Mini-gladiators locked in an epic battle. |
| Keylor Navas, Hombre de Fe | 2,017 | Dinga Haines | Drama | 8.1 | 36 | Spanish | The story of real life Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas, from his humble beginnings in his home town to his rise to greatness as an elite soccer player. |
| Maikol Yordan 2: La Cura Lejana | 2,018 | Daniel Moreno | Adventure, Family, Comedy | 7.9 | 17 | Spanish | After having rescued her family's farm in the first film, Maikol Yordan faces a difficult situation. His beloved grandmother Dona Mila suffers a strange illness and, in his quest to find the cure, embarks on a new journey through the Netherlands, Greece and Egypt, where he will live amusing adventures. François, Cordero, Greivin, his beloved family and friends will accompany him in this new story full of healthy and familiar humor. |
| One Step from Me | 2,021 | José Mario Salas Boza | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 6.8 | 63 | Spanish | Tatiana is a journalist with a routine life in all its aspects and a recently failed love relationship. Motivated by her best friend, she decides to make a stop and travel around Costa Rica to find herself and inner peace. |
| Aurora | 2,021 | Paz Fábrega | Drama | 6.6 | 36 | Spanish | Thoughtfully, lovingly, Aurora tells the story of an unwanted pregnancy. Alongside her work as an architect, 40-year-old Luisa gives inspirational creative workshops to children. One day, she comes across 17-year-old Julia by the school toilets; it turns out she has unintentionally become pregnant. Luisa decides to help her – in the process manoeuvring herself into a difficult position somewhere between friend, teacher and mother figure. Or does she secretly enjoy playing this role? |
| The Awakening of the Ants | 2,019 | Antonella Sudasassi | Drama | 6.2 | 21 | Spanish | Isa has more than enough on her plate with two children and the household, which she manages on her own. When her husband persists with his wish for a third child, she realizes that something must change. |
| Irene | 2,014 | Alexandra Latishev | N/A | 6 | 21 | Spanish | Irene is a single mother who works in a photocopying business. She lives with Santiago, her seven year old son, and her controlling mother Dinia. Then she meets Diego. They go out, she gets drunk, and the failed date triggers in Irene a crisis concerning her sexuality, her motherhood, and the relationship with her mother. |
| Porcelain Horse | 2,012 | Javier Andrade | Drama | 5.9 | 16 | Spanish | Paco Chavez's life is careless and charming. It's a life of illicit drugs and a forbidden love affair he carries with Lucia, his former high school sweetheart, now married to another man. One night, Paco and his younger brother Luis, enter their parent's home to steal a porcelain horse to pawn in order to score more drugs. Their father catches them and a fight ensues. The consequences of that fight will haunt both brothers forever. |
| The Return | 2,011 | Hernán Jiménez | Drama | 5.9 | 10 | Spanish | After a decade abroad, Antonio returns to Costa Rica for a short visit. Unable to run away as usual, he is confronted with everything he has desperately struggled to put in the past: a broken family, an ailing father, a violent country and long lost friends. |
| The Accursed | 2,010 | Ramiro García Bogliano | N/A | 5.8 | 12 | English | Surprised by an unexpected witness, robbers murder a woman who curses them. Little do they know of her connection with a treacherous sect indeed. Their chosen location to hide the loot turns out to be an adventure lodge where the owners are offered a talisman that supposedly grants wishes. Naively, they wish for a sum of money. Next day their beloved son unexpectedly dies. The exact sum they wished for is offered in accident insurance. Coincidence, or fate? The event lures the couple into a downward spiral. Meanwhile, the robbers are drawn to members of the sect who succeed in seducing and hideously murdering two of them, but one escapes. The owner comes upon the loot. It is again the exact same amount that he has rejected from the insurance company. Now convinced of the power of this amulet and incapable of escaping the consequences of their wish, the mother, gone mad, forces her husband to make a final wish: to bring their son back to life. |
| Caribe | 2,004 | Esteban Ramírez | Drama | 5.7 | 11 | Spanish | Vicente and Abigail run a banana plantation in Limon Province, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Abigail's half-sister Irene, about whom Abigail knew nothing, comes to introduce herself. Banana prices start falling, threatening the plantation's finances. An oil company works with the government to get off-shore drilling rights, over local objection. Vicente is at the center of each cross-current. Will he fall for Irene? Can he save the plantation? Will he sell out to corporate offers? |
| A Trip | 2,015 | Paz Fábrega | Drama, Romance | 5.5 | 13 | Spanish | After meeting at a party, Luciana and Pedro... embark on a spur of the moment journey together that takes them to the forest. Asthey explore the beauty in the nature that surrounds them, they camp out under the stars, go on hikes, indulge in the passions of their encounter, and discuss their personal beliefs surrounding love, obligations, and attraction. Lensed in lush black-and-white cinematography amidst the gorgeous backdrop of the Costa Rican forest, an honest and genuine relationship story unfolds, lending a feeling of realism to their storybook romance in a refreshing and youthful way. |
| Alsino and the Condor | 1,982 | Miguel Littín | Drama, War | 5.2 | 21 | Spanish | Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict. |
| After Words | 2,015 | Juan Feldman | Drama, Adventure | 5.2 | 18 | English | Jane Taylor, a librarian, has lost her job. Depressed and suicidal, she decides to take a final wonderful trip to Costa Rica before swallowing a bottle of pills. Once there, she meets a younger man, Juan, a vibrant tour guide who takes her on an unexpected journey filled with adventure and romance. |
| Lightning Falls Behind | 2,017 | Julio Hernández Cordón | Drama | 5 | 10 | Spanish | Hernandez had already made films in Guatemala and Mexico and this time found inspiring locations, unusual atmosphere and enthusiastic young people in Costa Rica. In this consciously unpolished film, the rebellious girls Sole and Ana open the trunk of a car in grandma’s garden and find something they’d rather immediately forget. |
| Prime Orbit | 2,023 | Gustavo Cosenza | Science Fiction, Drama | 4.9 | 16 | Spanish | When humanity evacuates the planet because of the imminent collision with an asteroid, Manuel is set apart and left behind. Now he will have to survive an automated last resort mission to save the Earth. It’s the only option to reunite with his brother. |
| The Sanatorium | 2,010 | Miguel Alejandro Gomez | Horror, Comedy | 4.9 | 15 | Spanish | A group of friends decide to make a documentary about the ghosts that are supposed to be haunting The Sanatorium in Costa Rica, things get creepy when the arrive to the place. |
| Surf School | 2,006 | Joel Silverman | Comedy | 2.6 | 37 | English | A rag-tag bunch of seniors, complete outsiders at their surf-crazed Laguna Beach High School, decide to crash the biggest team surf contest. In order to prevail, however, they must do one important thing...learn to surf! We're taking your classic Cinderella story into the world of surfing, complete with hi-jinx and the aesthetic beauty of surf mecca Costa Rica, our spectacular set location |
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