Costa Rica Movies

A mother lives with her daughter who has drug addiction problems, to the point that she steals items from the house to consume crack, in addition to...

Tokyo work culture's most compelling and complex protagonist; the Salaryman. A nameless, voiceless, over-worked and under-valued cog in the labour...

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,...

The story of a young man who finds himself involved in a crisis after an event plunges him into the depths of his subconscious

After being harassed as a child for her fear of water, Esther's dream of being a "mermaid is saved. Years later, her friends accompany her to perform...

Two classmates decide to make a short film about drugs to enter their school’s Arts Festival; however, things don’t go as they planned.

The film follows two 12-year-old girls who are forced to run away from their homes after a traumatic incident. Trapped in a spiral of escape,...

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

History, work, sex, cinema, death and my older brother. An essay on what swimming pools mean in culture and the collective memories we have about...

Because of his lower class status, Alberto is rejected by Elvira. He then travels to the capital city to study Philosophy and return worthy of...

Tonight, an ill man has to die in spite of his pregnant wife.

Scientists and philosophers work to understand animal vision in this multi textured rumination exploring our relationship to the nonhuman world.

This documentary, filmed at Christmas 1973, "searches" for the causes of malnutrition in the slums, in the unemployed population, in the living...

Anahí, a girl about to turn eighteen, tries to spend her day as usual; going to school, seeing his classmates… But his friends soon...

The film presents various aspects of prostitutes' lives in Costa Rica. Several prostitutes and some "protectors" agreed to offer a confession about...

After a family prayer, Sara and Elie return home with an object they stole from their aunt. This decision leads them to experience a night in which a...

Following an clever plan to emigrate to the United States, a group of boys from peasant families in the southern part of Costa Rica pretends to be a...

Raúl and Eugenio receive a financial proposition in exchange for recovering an object for Camila. The friends embark on a mission that quickly...