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Ecuador Cinema
Top 17 films from Ecuador (out of 17 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| With My Heart in Yambo | 2,011 | María Fernanda Restrepo | Documentary | 8.2 | 22 | Spanish | Filmmaker María Fernanda Restrepo reconstructs events that led to her older brothers' murders at the hands of Ecuadorian police. |
| Misfit | 2,021 | Orlando Herrera | Comedy, Romance | 8 | 212 | Spanish | Julia, a teenager from Latin America, has lived in the U.S. most of her life. She is popular, a successful Youtuber and wants to become prom queen. Everything changes abruptly when her family has to return to Ecuador. What will she have to face? Getting used to a new culture and a catholic high school will not be easy. The "gringa" becomes the target of "La Reinas", three popular bullies who rule the school. Julia is now a misfit who will have to earn her new friends' affection in order to survive. |
| Enchufe sin visa | 2,016 | Christian Moya | Comedy | 7.9 | 19 | Spanish | Six Latinos traveling to the United States for different reasons soon find themselves immersed in the most ridiculous and embarrassing situations. From an inexperienced boy traveling as an exchange student to a naive actress trying to make it in Hollywood, each of them will experience unexpected adventures that will make them question whether leaving their country was the best decision. |
| A Son of Man | 2,018 | Jamaicanoproblem | Drama, Adventure, Family | 7.9 | 12 | Spanish | Pipe is invited to join his mysterious father on a quest for the lost Inca gold. But as they journey deeper into the jungle, he understands that they cannot escape the family demons that are traveling with them. |
| Pescador | 2,011 | Sebastián Cordero | Drama | 7.3 | 10 | Spanish | Blaquito is thirty years old and lives with his mother in El Matal, a small fishing village on the coast of Ecuador. One day, the beach turns up filled with cocaine packets. Blanquito, along with his friend Lorna, decide to travel to Guayaquil, where people will pay five times more per package. Little does Blanquito realize that in the days that follow he will be staring at death in the eye and losing his head for love. |
| Maria Full of Grace | 2,004 | Joshua Marston | Drama, Thriller, Crime | 7.2 | 419 | Spanish | A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family. |
| How Much Further | 2,006 | Tania Hermida | Drama | 7 | 22 | Spanish | A cynical college student and an optimistic tourist, stranded on a bus by a national strike, form an unlikely bond as they decide to hitchhike together to reach their individual destinations, discovering shared lessons and unexpected friendship along the way. |
| Between Marx and a Naked Woman | 1,996 | Camilo Luzuriaga | Drama, Comedy | 6.7 | 18 | Spanish | Between Marx and a Naked Woman is the adaptation of a novel written by Ecuadorian Poet, Jorge Enrique Adoum. The scenes of this film insert us into Ecuador in the sixties, when the electoral struggle, convoked by the military government for a new return to democracy, is in full force. Galvez’s left-wing party must elect its candidate, but he is shoved to one side because of the criticism of the party’s political leadership. While his struggle becomes bitter, he must withstand the frustration of not being able to offer full love to Margaramaría, another party member. |
| Such Is Life in the Tropics | 2,016 | Sebastián Cordero | Thriller | 6.7 | 13 | Spanish | Two families dispute a land with a land dealer. |
| Rodents | 1,999 | Sebastián Cordero | Action, Drama, Crime | 6.5 | 34 | Spanish | The world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, an ex-convict in search of easy money, and with a hideout. Salvador gets wrapped up in Angel's twisted dealings in an attempt to escape from his suffocating family, dragging along his family and friends, in his criminal path. Where will this all lead? |
| Asier ETA biok | 2,014 | Aitor Merino | Documentary, History | 6.4 | 11 | Spanish | Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. But one day he disappeared, later I found out he had joined ETA. |
| Los canallas | 2,009 | Nataly Valencia | Drama | 6.3 | 18 | Spanish | A neurotic and suicidal schoolgirl, a boxer who loses everything, and a security guard who dreams of being a musician, all young people, too young, without jobs, without family, without love, find in love something that could change their lives. Three segments about youth loneliness, the freedom that solitude implies, and also the fun that freedom implies. |
| Shaman | 2,025 | Antonio Negret | Horror | 5.9 | 34 | Spanish | A Missionary converting an Indigenous Community in a remote Ecuadorian volcano must come to terms with her own Faith when her son is possessed by dark forces older than her own religion. |
| Lo Invisible | 2,021 | Javier Andrade | Drama | 5.7 | 10 | Spanish | When Luisa, 45, returns from a psychiatric clinic after a bout with severe postpartum depression, she enters a new confinement in her dazzling home, surrounded by family members and a brigade of servants who expect her struggles to remain invisible. Unable to continue playing the role of the perfect housewife, Luisa's only escape is to waltz elegantly into madness. |
| The Longest Night | 2,019 | Gabriela Calvache | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 5.6 | 33 | Spanish | A beautiful woman turns to prostitution. She must surrender her income to the leader of a human trafficking ring, but her daughter’s illness and a drug addiction prevent her from delivering her usual share. An unexpected event will give her the opportunity to stop obeying and take justice into her own hands. |
| A | 2,017 | Joe Houlberg | Comedy, Drama | 5.5 | 18 | XX | A world like ours, limited by language. |
| The Swamp of the Ravens | 1,974 | Manuel Caño | Horror | 4.3 | 18 | Spanish | Dr. Frosta dumps body parts and corpses in the marsh, where they rise up again for vengeance. |
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