El Salvador Movies

The military dictatorships, which held power in El Salvador, instituted a way of governing the country that became unsustainable. Electoral frauds...

This documentary examines the formation of labor unions in El Salvador and the systematic violations of workers’ rights that characterized the...

A young woman struggles with getting a good night sleep after being haunted by a ghost of her past.

For Lourdes, a writer of the Salvadoran diaspora, returning to her native country means having to face complex emotions around a misogynistic...

Olivia is a disturbed woman who shows some signs of amnesia and madness. Accompanied only by Esther, she fantasizes that some day her beloved Julio...

Huachindango is the small capital of a small Central American country. In this city, women must enter rooms managed by “The System” at...

Filmed on the war fronts of Chalatenango and Guazapa, the film is based on the construction of Local Popular Powers (PPL) in areas under guerrilla...

The award-winning writer Claribel Alegría tells the story of her life, her influence in a new generation of poets and prizes like Premio Reina...

In 2024 El Salvador declared a marine sanctuary at the richly biodiverse and beautiful, Maculís Reef. This vibrant ecosystem is vital not only...

Documents the destruction caused by American bombings. Compares the cities of Torola and Morazán, and Berlín and Usulután.

Israel Ticas is El Salvador's only criminologist. In one of the world's most dangerous countries, his job is to unearth the hundreds of missing...

Difosatv presents in a live concert with LA SONORA DE MAY VELASQUEZ, performing the hits that made La Sonora Dinamita famous. A mix of pure Colombian...

Documentary about the massacre committed by the Atlacatl Battalion against a thousand civilians in December 1981, Morazan Department.

Diana develops a deep interest in the sound of the sirens that roam her city every night, until she starts to talk to them in her dreams.

Two friends decide to spend the last vacation together, before parting their ways forever in a journey they never will forget.

El Salvador at the height of the civil war in the La Praviana neighborhood, transgender woman Viento seeks revenge for the murder of her partner and...

War correspondent Don North's film revisits the origins of the war to historically contextualize the country's contemporary challenges to achieving...