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- A man reads a letter on a bus, surrounded by people. He discovers that even with so many so near, he is all alone.
- The story of an alley. Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama and Colombia all have something in common and in this story you will see how similar they are.
- Tatiana (Johanna Solano) is a journalist with a routine life in all its aspects and a recent failed love relationship. Motivated by her best friend, she decides to make a stop and travel around Costa Rica to find herself and inner peace.
- Based on Gabriel García Márquez's novel, this is the unsettling story of 13-year-old noble Sierva and the dog bite that changes her life forever. Abandoned, displaced, in the midst of a sexual awakening and finally exorcised, Sierva finds an unlikely ally in a young priest and together they discover passion.
- In the middle of paradise, the cross section between cop and criminal, the "haves and have nots", and the ones in charge get muddied. Weaving the story of Antonio and Verónica, will karma seal their fate? A drama-action by sophomore Writer/Director David Mondin.
- Documentary on Tokyo's work culture through the salaryman, an anonymous cog in Japan's immense labor force, via interviews analyzing their role.
- Isa has more than enough on her plate with two children and the household, which she manages on her own. When her husband persists with his wish for a third child, she realizes that something must change.
- The story of real life Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas, from his humble beginnings in his home town to his rise to greatness as an elite soccer player.
- Elena dreams being a model but in her attempt to achieve it she meets Christofer a renowned photographer who seems to be her path to success, he meets her to a photoshoot, after meeting she begins to feel suspicious of something bad.
- After Dr. Olman's escape from prison, the path of two brave masked women come together as they take the reins of justice with their own forces to try to capture him. However, they must face their own fears and desires of revenge.
- * Erotic Thriller (2004) A tropical vacation goes sordid when Corrine learns her husband is a crook who's plundered his parents.
- Passion: of people for the land and sea, of corporations for riches, and of men and women for each other. Vicente and Abigail run a banana plantation in Limon Province, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Abigail's half-sister Irene, about whom Abigail knew nothing, comes to introduce herself. She is 21 and beautiful. Meanwhile, banana prices fall, threatening the plantation's finances. An oil company works with the government to get off-shore drilling rights, over local objection. Vicente is at the center of each cross-current. Will he fall for Irene, can he save the plantation, will he sell out to corporate offers? What of the coast: can its beauty be saved?
- Through landscapes fueled by silence, resentment and brief moments of joy, Ale, a seventeen-year-old woman, will try to protect her two younger siblings from the seething truth, their mother has left them and is not coming back.
- 'Buscando a Marcos Ramírez' is about a Costarican from the countryside that loses his mother and start living with his grandfather. He starts going to a new high school which means new challenges. As he tries to achieve his life goal of becoming a professional soccer player. In the meantime, he looks for himself, for what he really is, and want to do with his life.
- By sharing his experience and discoveries through a lifelong itinerary of music teaching and research in Central America, the writer/director seeks to challenge the audience with the question: Do you know who you are in music? The goal is to highlight how social structures in the Western music establishment alienates us from our relationship with music. The film was possible with the support of Cátedra Humboldt and IIArte (University of Costa Rica), and the Latin American Studies Program of the University of Toronto (Canada).
- Born into the Chinese community in Costa Rica, filmmaker Nicole Chi Amén was never able to communicate with her grandmother Guián, who couldn't speak Spanish. After her death, Nicole heads to China to rediscover her roots.
- Light comedy about a boarding house in San José, where all kind of weird things can happen unexpectedly.
- What is the worst shark attack ever? Why it's the mass slaughtering of sharks. We decimate 100,000,000 sharks a year = 190 sharks a minute = 3 sharks every second. Sharks are headed towards extinction within a decade which would throw the ecosystem so off balance that humans may not survive this catastrophe, since sharks were around long before trees or birds. What, if anything, can be done to stop this cataclysmic trajectory? Leonardo DiCaprio, The Cure, Veronica Grey & MGMT offer possible solutions to salvage this threatened planet.
- Melissa, a photographer, gets in wacky situations to keep both her and her cousin Ricardo, a journalist, from losing their TV Network jobs.
- A solar storm hits Central America. Its inhabitants must face life disconnected from technology. Fear, friendship and love emerge as they come together with others, while the skies are lit by lights never seen before.
- An in depth look at the world of Parrot Heads, the loyal fan base of Jimmy Buffett.
- Life in an small Costa Rican urban neighborhood. Common situations and problems between friends, that are not always friendly, and enemies looking for their own selfish interests. Despite the intrigues, solidarity always makes its way in the end.
- In the early 1980s, Viviana Gallardo is a teenager growing up in a traditional middle-class family in Costa Rica. Motivated by the context of political revolutions in Central America, Viviana nurtures a strong interest in social justice and becomes involved in a radical political organization. To the surprise of her nearest people, Viviana is accused of participating in a shootout and murdering several police officers. While awaiting trial and defenseless in a cell, she is gunned down by a police officer. Years after her murder, several people close to her allege Viviana's innocence and a conspiracy involving high-ranking figures of power to commit the crime.
- A smart poor girl and a inmature rich boy get their life twisted when they accidently have a baby.
- Manuel got separated from his brother during the evacuation of the Earth and got left behind. He now has to survive an automated mission to save the planet, hoping to find his brother again.
- On New Year's holidays, Mariana (21) and Rodrigo (30) drive to the coast where he has to sell a property. There, they find Karina (7), late at night and in the middle of nowhere. She tells then she ran away from home.
- After a decade abroad, Antonio returns to Costa Rica for a short visit. Unable to run away as usual, he is confronted with everything he has desperately struggled to put in the past: a broken family, an ailing father, a violent country and long lost friends.
- After meeting at a party, Luciana and Pedro spark up a spontaneous rendezvous. Eschewing the fraudulent nature of traditional relationships, the pair embarks on a spur of the moment journey together that takes them to the forest. As they explore the beauty in the nature that surrounds them, they camp out under the stars, go on hikes, indulge in the passions of their encounter, and discuss their personal beliefs surrounding love, obligations, and attraction. Lensed in lush black-and-white cinematography amidst the gorgeous backdrop of the Costa Rican forest, an honest and genuine relationship story unfolds, lending a feeling of realism to their storybook romance in a refreshing and youthful way. This is a story about attraction and commitment for a generation whose understandings of personal freedoms and traditional limitations are more open to interpretation.
- It is the year 2025, and Alejandro tells his grandson Josue a story from a book that he is reading about a singer and a dancer who fell in love in 1985, but love represents much more than only sharing life together.
- Selva (13) lives in a coastal town in the Caribbean. After the sudden disappearance of her only motherly figure, she is left to take care of her grandfather who doesn't want to live. Between shadows and wild games, she must decide if she will help her grandfather die, even though that means going through her last moments of childhood alone.
- A Costa Rican farmer, when faced with the prospects of losing his farm, embarks in a journey to Europe to raise enough money to pay his debts meeting new acquaintances, lost relatives and himself.
- Diego, a hopeless romantic desperately trying to salvage his relationship with long time girlfriend Sofía, plans a beach getaway to propose and clear the air. A 'chance' encounter with Sofía's old friend Malena will cast doubts on his relationship and skewed understanding of love, quickly turning a perfect weekend in paradise into Diego's worst nightmare.
- Aby, a 15-year-old Honduran immigrant, navigates life in the US alongside her newly-arrived cousin. On Thanksgiving Day, Aby's rebellious spirit clashes with her caregiver's expectations, intensifying her desire to escape the home life.
- Helmut is a private detective that is force to face his wounds and deepest secrets of the past when he wants to unravel the strange circumstances that surrounds the severe accident of his daughter Ambar, for whom he has failed as a present father.
- A group of friends decide to make a documentary about the ghosts that are supposed to be haunting The Sanatorium in Costa Rica, things get creepy when the arrive to the place.
- A drama that center's around 5 soccer players from Costa Rica, that qualifies for the first time to a World Cup. With no support, they must face the most important challenge ever, prepare themselves to play the first official World Cup match.
- The town Domingo lives in is being threatened by thugs hired by a developer to expel its inhabitants and pave the way for the construction of a highway. But his land hides a secret-the ghost of his wife who visits him within the mist.
- A group of friends embark on a road trip into the unknown.
- A young New Yorker finds herself caught between her longing to honor her late mother's love for Christmas and her grandmother's deep-seated aversion to embrace the holiday spirit when she returns to her family's house after many years away.
- In Costa Rica, a centralized system for street addresses does not exist, so people use landmarks as reference points in giving out directions. A short documentary by María Luisa Santos and Carlo Nasisse attempts to figure out why.
- As a magical moon appears, different timelines entwine in the mysterious and stagnant town of Manzanillo.
- A brightly shot carefree movie where problems and reality are kept just on the fringe of the storyline. Two best friends are having fun riding their bikes in San Jose. When they can pick out an old car from one of the friends family lot they are in for a nasty surprise. However as adolescents do they deal with the situation by having more fun with their friends. Meanwhile they turn one of the old cars into an Uber taxi.
- Dancing with the Stars Costa Rica is a Costa Rican dance reality show that premiered on August 24, 2014 on Televisora of Costa Rica. The show is the Costa Rican version of the British television series Strictly Come Dancing. The format of the program consists of couples formed by a celebrity with a professional dancer. Each couple performs predetermined dances and competes against the others for the judge's scores and the public's votes. The couple that receives the lowest combined score from the jury scores and the public votes is eliminated each week until one couple is crowned champion. Costa Rica became the 49th country to adapt the format and the second in Central America after Panama. In February 2014, the BBC's purchase of the show's format from Teletica was announced. A total of 60 celebrities have appeared in all 6 seasons of the show. For each season, celebrities are paired with a professional partner who instructs them in the different dances each week and competes alongside them in the televised competition. A total of 19 professional dancers have appeared alongside celebrities, some for just one season. The show is hosted by Randall Vargas, alongside Shirley Álvarez, who is the co-host. Boris Sossa was a co-host in season 2. Mauricio Hoffamn was a co-host in season 3. Bismarck Méndez co-hosted season 4 and 5. Natalia Carvajal is the co-host in season 6 of the program. The regular judges are David Martínez, who serves as the main judge, Flor Urbina and Álex Costa. Actor and singer César Meléndez (+) served as a judge in seasons 1 and 2 (2014-15). The actor and comedian Álex Costa, who was the winner of season 1, joined, permanently, the panel of judges from season 3, due to the deterioration of health (and subsequent death) of Meléndez. During a season 5 gala (2018), the prestigious Spanish dancer Isaac Rovira joined the team as a guest judge. In gala 4 of season 6 (2019), the winner of the fourth season (2017), the presenter Víctor Carvajal, served as third judge, due to the absence of Álex Costa.
- Based on true events, is the first christian movie filmed in Costa Rica. Katherine, a young girl was abused in childhood, her life was perturbate since that particular event, even today she remember that moment and afford a new reality. In the other side, Alfonso and Rosario have a dificult marriage. They meet for first time their son's girlfriend, but inmediately Alfonso starts a secret relationship with that girl. On the worst moment, Jesus Christ come on and save their life showing them a new hope, love and forgiveness.
- Irene is a single mother that works in a photocopying business. She lives with Santiago, her seven year old son and her controlling mother Dinia. One day she meets Diego, they go out, she gets drunk and the failed date triggers in Irene a crisis concerning her sexuality, her motherhood and the relationship with her mother. Irene's new attitude provokes new conflicts with her mother and Santiago's claims for attention. One night she gets back from work and discovers that Santiago isn't sleeping in her room anymore and she confronts her mother. She leaves the house in desperation and accidentally arrives to a fair. There, she finds a carousel, and riding on a horse, she experiences her first orgasm.
- Un asesinato, dos torpes detectives, seis sospechosos, mil carcajadas. Con su investigación Sánchez y Mejía nos llevan por un mundo de corrupción, amores, traición y sexo. Película costarricense nominada para el "Golden India Catalina" como mejor película 2002 en el Festival de Cine de Cartagena.
- "Dos Fridas" is inspired by the relationship between Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and her Costa Rican nurse Judith Ferreto - Judith cared for Frida during the final years of her life. In her memories, Frida was cared for by Judith in her Blue house in México. As a mirror, Judith was cared for by a woman in Costa Rica. In Judith's inner world, reveries, myths, imagination and reality intertwine.