Best award winning movies with a hot potato from Ecuador

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a hot potato from Ecuador! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a hot potato from Ecuador, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Crónicas (2004)

A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."

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2004-05-16 | Crime / Drama

Cast

John Leguizamo, Damián Alcázar

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #68 for
    morally bankrupt
  2. Ranked #98 for
    cinema verite
  3. Ranked #101 for
    emotional rollercoaster

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2 Yasuni Man (2020)

YASUNI MAN is the award winning documentary feature about a conflict raging deep within the Ecuadorian Amazon. It's a real-life Avatar story. Once under siege by missionaries seeking to civilize them, the Waorani people battle industry operatives and their own government in a fight to survive. Join filmmaker Ryan Patrick Killackey and his Waorani friend Otobo as they embark on an expedition into the most biodiverse forest on Earth. Witness what may be lost as oil companies encroach, human rights violations run rampant, and a forest Eden is destroyed - all for the oil that lies beneath Yasuni.

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2020-08-25 | Documentary

Cast

Ryan Killackey

Rating

rating icon 8.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #63 for
    didactic
  2. Ranked #398 for
    timely reminder
  3. Ranked #462 for
    heavy-handed

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3 Pescador (2011)

Blaquito is thirty years old and lives with his mother in El Matal, a small fishing village on the coast of Ecuador. One day, the beach turns up filled with cocaine packets. Blanquito, along with his friend Lorna, decide to travel to Guayaquil, where people will pay five times more per package. Little does Blanquito realize that in the days that follow he will be staring at death in the eye and losing his head for love.

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2011-03-13 | Drama

Cast

Andrés Crespo, María Cecilia Sánchez

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #170 for
    fish out of water
  2. Ranked #401 for
    city slicker
  3. Ranked #508 for
    filling in gaps

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4 With My Heart in Yambo (2011)

Filmmaker María Fernanda Restrepo reconstructs events that led to her older brothers' murders at the hands of Ecuadorian police.

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2011-10-14 | Documentary

Cast

María Fernanda Restrepo, Pedro Restrepo

Rating

rating icon 8.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #4100 for
    foster father
  2. Ranked #4731 for
    like The Final Girls
  3. Ranked #5350 for
    professional directing

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5 How Much Further (2006)

A cynical college student and an optimistic tourist, stranded on a bus by a national strike, form an unlikely bond as they decide to hitchhike together to reach their individual destinations, discovering shared lessons and unexpected friendship along the way.

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2006-09-09 | Drama

Cast

Cecilia Vallejo, Tania Martínez

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #4117 for
    travelogue
  2. Ranked #5389 for
    like a postcard picture
  3. Ranked #6343 for
    free-wheeling character

Trailer

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6 The Preacher (2022)

A precarious con artist manipulates the family of a “miracle girl” and creates a business so large and lucrative that it will inevitably get out of hand.

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2022-04-08 | Thriller

Cast

Andrés Crespo, Carlos Valencia

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #153 for
    barely intelligible
  2. Ranked #259 for
    for Catholic contemplation
  3. Ranked #261 for
    garbling

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7 Rodents (1999)

The world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, an ex-convict in search of easy money, and with a hideout. Salvador gets wrapped up in Angel's twisted dealings in an attempt to escape from his suffocating family, dragging along his family and friends, in his criminal path. Where will this all lead?

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1999-09-12 | Action / Drama

Cast

Carlos Valencia, Marco Bustos

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #736 for
    hard-nosed
  2. Ranked #2035 for
    violent
  3. Ranked #2264 for
    freak show

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8 Between Marx and a Naked Woman (1996)

Between Marx and a Naked Woman is the adaptation of a novel written by Ecuadorian Poet, Jorge Enrique Adoum. The scenes of this film insert us into Ecuador in the sixties, when the electoral struggle, convoked by the military government for a new return to democracy, is in full force. Galvez’s left-wing party must elect its candidate, but he is shoved to one side because of the criticism of the party’s political leadership. While his struggle becomes bitter, he must withstand the frustration of not being able to offer full love to Margaramaría, another party member.

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1996-01-01 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Felipe Terán, Aristides Vargas

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3828 for
    travelogue
  2. Ranked #5769 for
    magic realism
  3. Ranked #5778 for
    crisper

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9 The Swamp of the Ravens (1974)

Dr. Frosta dumps body parts and corpses in the marsh, where they rise up again for vengeance.

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1974-04-29 | Horror

Cast

Ramiro Oliveros, Marcelle Bichette

Rating

rating icon 4.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #583 for
    made fool of themselves
  2. Ranked #853 for
    unsatisfying
  3. Ranked #904 for
    sloppy

Trailer

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10 Prometeo Deportado (2009)

In an unknown first world airport the arrival of an ecuadorian flight is heard. The 'members of the European Union' passby migration, while the 'others', in the other line, wait. In the middle of the claims, a group of ecuadorians is arrested. They are taken to the Room, where they wait to be deported. Seems like everyone hides something, like PROMETEO the youn magician with his hands tied like a delinquent who has a 'magical' trunk as luggage. Time passes, a way of being, Ecuador happens in this waiting room. Seems like there is no possible exit. Meanwhile, a different but well-known way of life takes place. The only thing left as a promising way out is illusion.

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2009-04-17 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Carlos Gallegos, Alejandro Fajardo

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #5531 for
    jingoistic
  2. Ranked #6955 for
    freak show
  3. Ranked #7667 for
    carny ride

Trailer

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