Movies & TV Shows from Costa Rica

A grieving witch escapes to a cabin alone to give birth.

In a remote village in Costa Rica, Clara, a withdrawn 40-year-old woman, experiences a sexual and mystical awakening as she begins a journey to free herself from the repressive religious and social conventions which have dominated her life.

A woman becomes embroiled in a life-or-death struggle after kidnappers spirit her away to a remote area of Costa Rica.

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?

L'Hermite returns and will seek his revenge in the sequel to Piratas en el Callao

Tokyo work culture's most compelling and complex protagonist; the Salaryman. A nameless, voiceless, over-worked and under-valued cog in the labour pool, expected to compromise home and social lives. Late nights and intense drinking sessions leave many of them passed out in the city streets. This slick, incisive documentary raises questions around the ethics of our global working practices in a capitalist society.

A naive village girl leaves for city during transitional times for Costa Rica.

Federico and German were best friends, fighting the dictatorship and looking for freedom together. Years later Federico and his wife are movie producers looking for funding. German, on his part, is living away from the city and spend his days painting and mourning his late wife

A teenager faces overwhelming absurdism.

Eva a 16-year-old girl lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but wants to move in with her estranged father. Clinging onto him, she tries to balance between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life.

Three strangers wake up in a windowless, mirrorless room with no way out. As they reveal their secrets and confront their truths, they discover that the real torment isn’t the place — it’s each other. A psychological game where hell has no flames, only self-awareness.

María is in conflict with herself. While putting on some make-up she struggles with the beauty canons and the way she sees herself.

What are the social climate and cultural traditions in Costa Rica which nurture "machismo" and allow the domination of women to continue in Latin America?

In the middle of a criminal act, a young thief faces an elderly woman with a particular obsession, unleashing an unexpected confrontation.

Rosmeri is the last inhabitant of a ghost town evicted by the constant eruptions of a volcano in Costa Rica. He has found a new way of life taking care of the animals that were left in the area and working in his cafeteria. The pressure from her family and the authorities is not enough to make her leave her home. Rosmeri says that the volcano is her friend and will keep her safe; and that relationship is the force that will help her resist.

In the eve of the 30th anniversary of the triumph of Nicaragua's revolution a long forgotten Sandinista commander appears: Paco Jarquin. Contrary to the most of his former FSLN colleagues, he prefer to deny his glorious past to live anonymously in the neighbor Costa Rica as a dance teacher.

A Costa Rican film

Gonzalo has decided to die, but before leaving he calls his son Jorge for a final movie night. There, father and son will discover the simple things they kept hidden for many years.

Maikol Yordan (Mario Chacón) realizes his family farm is about to be sold by the bank to the evil G.F. Malavassi (Adal Ramones). So, in order to raise money to pay the debt, Maikol Yordan takes part in contests and promotions, and wins a travel to Europe, where his big adventure begins

Super Model Centroamérica is a reality documentary that features contestants from the participating countries Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama that are living in a villa in Heredia, Costa Rica and do a variety of model-business-based competitions to determine who will win title Super Model Centroamérica. The show followed the format of America's Next Top Model, with Costa Rican model Leonora Jiménez taking the role of Tyra Banks in the original series as the head of the search as well as a mentor for the finalists. Cycle one premiered in August 2007, and was won by Lisseth Cáceres from Panama. In its second year, the show became a beauty-pageant style search where all significant factors of a typical "Next Top Model" show were removed. Instead, each country had its own model search where all of the national winners got a ticket for the Super Model of the World contest.

Costa Rican game show based on the original British format of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?".