Best "central america" Movies of All Time

24 movies found (page 1/1):

Apocalypto(2006)

FSK: 18+ years

3.8/5 (with 2,389 votes)

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.

Directed by Mel Gibson - With Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Dalia Hernández, Mayra Sérbulo, Morris Birdyellowhead, Israel Contreras, ...

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Monsters(2010)

1h 34min | Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction

3.1/5 (with 720 votes)

Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and half of Mexico was quarantined as an infected zone. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures," while a journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.

Directed by Gareth Edwards - With Whitney Able, Scoot McNairy

Walker(1987)

FSK: 18+ years

| 1h 34min | Drama, History, Western

3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.

Directed by Alex Cox - With Ed Harris, Peter Boyle, Richard Masur, René Auberjonois, Keith Szarabajka, Xander Berkeley, ...

Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee(2022)

1h 45min | Documentary

3.4/5 (with 19 votes)

Through raw, revealing footage and interviews with fugitive tech pioneer John McAfee, this documentary uncovers new layers of his wild years on the run.

Directed by Charlie Russell

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The Wrath of God(1972)

1h 51min | Adventure, Drama, Western

2.6/5 (with 9 votes)

Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.

Directed by Ralph Nelson - With Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Frank Langella, Victor Buono, John Colicos, Ken Hutchison, ...

Relentless(2018)

1h 35min | Thriller

2.3/5 (with 8 votes)

An American mother searches for her daughter who was kidnapped by human traffickers in Central America.

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The Fugitive(1947)

1h 44min | Drama, History

3.0/5 (with 18 votes)

Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.

Directed by John Ford, Emilio Fernández - With Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Ward Bond, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Armstrong, ...

Torrid Zone(1940)

1h 28min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.

Directed by William Keighley - With James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Andy Devine, George Tobias, George Reeves, ...

Marie Galante(1934)

1h 28min | Thriller, Drama, Romance / Love

2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt leaves Marie high and dry in the Yucatan, she takes work as a nightclub singer to earn her safe passage to the Canal region. But Marie faces bigger problems when she gets mixed up in a destructive plot against the U.S. Naval fleet, and so she accepts the kindly assistance of secret agent Dr. Crawbett.

Directed by Henry King - With Ketti Gallian, Spencer Tracy, Leslie Fenton, Sig Ruman, Arthur Byron, Frank Lanning, ...

Caribe(1987)

1h 27min | Drama, Adventure, Thriller

1.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Prepare to get tangled in the jungles of Belize when an arms smuggler loses her partner in a deadly shootout and finds herself on the run in the tropics of Central America. Helen is an amateur, making her money as an illegal arms trader to Central American terrorists. And as she runs for her life after the deal goes bad, she has no choice but to trusts Jeff, a British Intelligence Agent - it's a life and death chase, where passion and loyalty are easily confused...

Directed by Michael Kennedy - With John Savage

Treasure of the Moon Goddess(1987)

1h 30min | Adventure, Drama

2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

A minor jungle adventure in which a singer (Linnea Quigley) is held captive by whitewashed Central American natives who worship her because she looks like their idol. Or maybe it's because she also looks a little like Goldie Hawn. At any rate, she is rescued by her friends and they outleg the tribesmen and a horde of pirates to stumble across, what else, a lost treasure.

Directed by José Luis García Agraz - With Linnea Quigley, Don Calfa

Bananas!*(2009)

1h 27min | Documentary

3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it?

Directed by Fredrik Gertten - With Juan Dominguez

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Maximón - Devil or Saint(2014)

1h 6min | Documentary

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

MAXIMÓN - Devil or Saint (66min.) is a documentary about the controversial Maya deity, also known as San Simon or the drinking and smoking saint of Guatemala. He is a mixture of ancient Maya beliefs and Christianity. The movie concentrates on the people who surround Maximón with their strong personalities, opinions and faith. The documentary gives us a rare view into the rituals and fiestas honoring Maximón. The cult of Maximón is flourishing because he performs miracles. He is also feared and despised because he is used to cast curses that can result in death. Ultimately, Maximón transcends the duality of good and evil, reflecting the Maya cosmovision in which everything in the universe co-exists.

Exiled in America(1992)

1h 24min | Drama

A Central American revolutionary is captured and tortured by government forces. He escapes and flees to the US, hiding out in a rural area where he is sheltered by a Christian sanctuary movement. His wife gets a job at a local diner run by one of the town's shadier women, and soon a CIA assassination team shows up, looking for him.

Directed by Paul Leder

When the Mountains Tremble(1983)

1h 23min | Documentary, History, War

4.8/5 (with 3 votes)

A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú.

Directed by Pamela Yates, Newton Thomas Sigel - With Rigoberta Menchú

Mystery of the Maya(1995)

38min | Documentary, History

2.0/5 (with 5 votes)

Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his ancestors. The crew travelled to over 15 locations in Mexico and Guatemala, including Tulum and Chichén Itzá.

Mayan Renaissance(2012)

1h 8min | Documentary

Mayan Renaissance is a feature length film which documents the glory of the ancient Maya civilization, the Spanish conquest in 1519, 500 years of oppression, and the courageous fight of the Maya to reclaim their voice and determine their own future, in Guatemala and throughout Central America. The film stars 1992 Nobel Peace Laureate and Maya Leader Rigoberta Mencu Tum. All of the images, voices, expert commentary and music in the film come directly from Central America, the heart of the Mayan World.

Directed by Dawn Gifford Engle - With Rigoberta Menchú, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Rosalina Tuyuc, Jody Williams

Granito: How to Nail a Dictator(2011)

1h 20min | History, Documentary, War

2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

A story of destinies joined by Guatemala's past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation's turbulent history emerges as an active player in the present.

Alguien tiene que morir(1979)

1h 33min | Action

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A man murders the person who killed his wife, so he flees to Central America, where he finds love again.

Río Sucio(2020)

1h 16min | Drama

Vítor is a hermit who desperately searches for a cow that has disappeared from his small farm. He suspects a neighbor with whom he has had problems. When Ricardo, his 12-year-old grandson arrives at the place, the ghosts of Vítor's childhood begin to appear, which confuses the past with the present. Vitor finally must face this terrible ghost when he was a child.

Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired(2017)

1h 4min | Documentary, History

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This is the story of a tiny country that made a decision to do something that no other country had ever done -- it decided to abolish its army and declare peace to the world. And this is the story of a young boy who grew up in that country, and how he ended up challenging -- and sometimes even convincing -- the greatest powers in the world to follow Costa Rica's example. "Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired" is a Don Quixote-like saga with great historical touchstones -- Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Cold War politics and Communism, Central American War and Peace. It follows a slight, academic, and most unlikely hero over the course of more than fifty years, as he travels the world in a quest to stop the spread of the weapons of war. In the end, it is a story about the triumph of reason, of the sparrow triumphing over the eagle, and how the impossible dream can sometimes come true.

Wild Caribbean(2007)

50min | Documentary

3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Wild Caribbean is a four-part BBC nature documentary series exploring the natural and cultural history of the Caribbean Islands and Sea. 1. "Treasure Islands" 2. "Reefs and Wrecks" 3. "Hurricane Hell" 4. "Secret Shores".

Modern Guatemala City(1945)

8min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

This FitzPatrick Traveltalk short visits Guatemala City, touching upon its sights, customs, and history.

1932: Scars of Memory(2005)

54min | Documentary

January 22, 1932. An unprecedented peasant uprising erupts in western El Salvador, as a group of Latino and indigenous peasants cut army supply lines, attack a military garrison, and take control over several towns. Retribution is swift. After three days, the army and militias move in and, in some villages, slaughter all males over age 12. Elsewhere, they summarily execute anyone suspected of having a link to the Communists. Over the next few weeks, 10,000 people are massacred.

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