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Uruguay Cinema
Top 19 films from Uruguay (out of 19 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| I'm Gilda | 2,016 | Lorena Muñoz | Drama, Music | 7.7 | 65 | Spanish | The life and death of the tropical singer Gilda. |
| Whisky | 2,004 | Juan Pablo Rebella | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 | 91 | Spanish | When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship. |
| The Last Train | 2,002 | Diego Arsuaga | Drama, Action, Western, Adventure, Comedy | 6.7 | 11 | Spanish | Three old men and a little boy try to preserve what they consider to be National Patrimony in the form of a locomotive nicknamed the "33" |
| 25 Watts | 2,001 | Juan Pablo Rebella | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 | 33 | Spanish | 24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo. Three teenage guys try to figure out what they're supposed to be doing with their lives in this drama from Uruguay that puts the emphasis on character over narrative. |
| Bad Day to Go Fishing | 2,009 | Álvaro Brechner | Drama, Comedy, Thriller | 6.6 | 25 | English | Jacob van Oppen, the former strongest man on earth, and his manager Orsini, who calls himself "the Prince", make a good living by traveling around small South American towns and organizing wrestling exhibitions. Arriving in Santa Maria, they are met with uncommon enthusiasm, the local newspaper wants to sponsor the fight, helping hands placard the town with posters, and an open call is made for a worthy adversary. Ever so resourceful, Orsini knows how to find the right combatant, but fishing in Santa Maria could lead to a bigger catch than he'd hoped for. |
| Christmas in the Caribbean | 2,001 | Walter Tournier | Animation | 6.5 | 13 | Spanish | The governor of a small Caribbean island is about to be visited by his European nephews, so he decides to treat them with the celebration a traditional Christmas day. This includes eating turkey for dinner, decorating the Christmas tree, and watching the snow fall. His subjects are willing to fullfil this task in order to improve the distribution and protection of drinking water that comes from a spring. |
| Togo | 2,022 | Adrián Caetano | Crime, Drama | 6.4 | 70 | Spanish | Togo just wants to watch his neighbors' homes, wash their cars and clean up their sidewalks. But the drug traffickers want more from him. |
| My Friend from the Park | 2,015 | Ana Katz | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 | 17 | Spanish | While her filmmaker husband works in Chile, harried young mother Liz struggles to take care of her infant son. Feeling out of place amongst the tight-knit group of other parents at the park, doubted by her husband, and judged by her newly hired nanny, Liz is drawn to factory worker Rosa, a plain-talking single mother she meets at the swings one day. Despite Liz’s liberation upon finding a bold new confidante, the friends’ increasingly apparent class differences, along with swirling rumors about Rosa’s motives and muddy family situation, feed Liz’s suspicions that her new pal might be a sinister influence on her already fragile life. |
| Severina | 2,017 | Felipe Hirsch | Drama | 6.4 | 14 | Spanish | A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts living in a kind of love delirium, on the border between fiction and reality. The closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes and he begins to wonder why she steals, what are her values and who is the older man she lives with. In the end, what is real and what isn’t? And will he find a place in her life as he moves away from his own? |
| D.F. (final destiny) | 2,008 | Mateo Gutiérrez | Documentary | 6.2 | 80 | Spanish | Documentary by Mateo Gutiérrez about the life of his father, Héctor "Toba" Gutiérrez Ruiz (1934-1976), which includes interviews with people who witnessed moments in the life of the former president of the House of Representatives, assassinated by the Uruguayan dictatorship |
| Panic Attack! | 2,009 | Fede Álvarez | Science Fiction | 6.2 | 59 | Spanish | Giant robots appear out of the mist and attack the city of Montevideo, Uruguay. |
| A Monster with a Thousand Heads | 2,016 | Rodrigo Plá | Drama, Thriller | 5.9 | 43 | Spanish | When Sonia receives the news that her husband’s cancer has progressed to a critical stage, she races to secure the insurance company’s approval for the care that can help him. |
| Grey Eyes | 2,018 | Santiago Ventura | Action, Science Fiction | 5.8 | 66 | Spanish | In a post-apocalyptic future, mankind is color blind. A brilliant scientist suddenly dies, leaving his precious briefcase-filled with a highly-addictive synthetic drug that allows people to see colors again-to Ana, a mere 12-year-old girl. Possession of the briefcase makes her the target of a doctor with wicked plans for the drug, and her only hope to escape his pursuit relies on the aid of the dead scientist's two devoted bodyguards. Together, their epic, perilous journey pivots on a tremendous secret: Ana herself could be the key to salvaging a world in ruins. |
| Seawards Journey | 2,003 | Guillermo Casanova | Adventure, Comedy | 5.6 | 10 | Spanish | The tale of five Uruguayan villagers who embark on a journey to see the ocean for the first time. They depart in a broken down freight truck, property of Rodríguez, a taciturn man who loves the sea. Their point of departure is a local bar, and at the last minute, an unknown man from the bar joins their adventure. |
| The Silent House | 2,010 | Gustavo Hernández | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.4 | 161 | Spanish | Laura and her father Wilson arrive at a cottage off the beaten path in order to repair it since its owner will soon put the house on sale. They will spend the night there in order to start the repairs the following morning. Everything seems to go on smoothly until Laura hears a sound that comes from outside and gets louder and louder in the upper floor of the house. Wilson goes up to see what is going on while she remains downstairs on her own waiting for her father to come down. The plot is based on a true story that occurred in the 1940s in a small village in Uruguay. La casa muda focuses on the last seventy eight minutes, second by second, as Laura tries to leave the house unharmed and discovers the dark secret it hides. |
| Life Beyond Me | 2,017 | Olivier Peyon | Drama | 5.3 | 13 | French | It's been four years since Sylvie's son Felipe was abducted by his father Pablo after their divorce. Having been let down by the French officials who had succeeded in tracking both them down, only to let them escape again, Sylvie has now decided to take matters into her own hands. |
| In the Quarry | 2,019 | Rafael Antonaccio | Thriller, Crime | 5.2 | 15 | Spanish | Four youngsters meet on a bayou after years and sordid things start to emerge. |
| Breadcrumbs | 2,016 | Manane Rodríguez | Drama | 4.9 | 12 | Spanish | When Liliana decides to return to Uruguay she will have to face up to a new dilemma, perhaps the last great dilemma of her life: To choose between supporting a collective case for female prisoners, raped during the time of the dictatorship, or to reconcile with her son and be able to live peacefully as a mother and a grandmother. |
| Mr. Balls | 2,005 | Fede Álvarez | Comedy, Crime | 4.5 | 13 | Spanish | A young city couple find themselves stuck at a rural gas station after their car breaks down. An old man, disturbed by their disrespectful behavior, starts telling them a story about the importance of respect: the cautionary tale of El Cojonudo. |
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