Best award winning movies with an overarching theme from Guatemala
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with an overarching theme from Guatemala! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with an overarching theme from Guatemala, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 La Llorona (2019)
Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.
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- 2019-07-25 | Thriller / Horror
Cast
- María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz
Rating
6.457
2 Ixcanul (2015)
María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a place she cannot even imagine. And so she seduces a coffee-harvester who wants to escape to the USA. When this man leaves her behind, María discovers her own world and culture anew.
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- 2015-01-20 | Drama
Cast
- María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón
Rating
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6.8
3 José (2020)
José lives with his mother in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world's most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. José is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is going to church and selling sandwiches. He spends his days on crowded buses and in the streets delivering food. Resigned and aloof, in free moments he plays with his phone and looks for random sex. When he meets Luis, José is thrust into a dimension of passion and pain and self-reflection that was previously unimaginable.
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- 2020-01-31 | Drama
Cast
- Enrique Salanic, Manolo Herrera
Rating
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5.5
4 Tremors (2019)
A family man torn between the love for his family, the boundaries of religion and the freedom to choose whom to love.
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- 2019-02-08 | Drama
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- Juan Pablo Olyslager, María Telón
Rating
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6.6
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5 Five Years North (2020)
Five Years North is the coming-of-age story of Luis, an undocumented Guatemalan boy who just arrived alone in New York City. He struggles to work, study, and evade Judy - the Cuban-American ICE officer patrolling his neighborhood.
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- 2020-06-15 | Documentary
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10.0
6 Our Mothers (2019)
Guatemala, 2018. The country is riveted on the trial of the military officers who started the civil war. The victims’ testimonials keep pouring in. Ernesto, a young anthropologist at the Forensic Foundation, identifies people who have gone missing. One day, through an old lady’s story, Ernesto thinks he has found a lead that will allow him to find his father, a guerillero who disappeared during the war.
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- 2019-10-04 | Drama
Cast
- Armando Espitia, Emma Dib
Rating
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5.4
7 Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2011)
A story of destinies joined by Guatemala's past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation's turbulent history emerges as an active player in the present.
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- 2011-09-14 | History / Documentary
Cast
- Pamela Yates, Rigoberta Menchú
Rating
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4.5
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8 The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935)
A serial in 12 chapters. Tarzan goes to Guatemala to find his lost friend, D'Arnot. On the way he helps Major Matling search Mayan ruins for hidden jewels and an idol containing the formula for a powerful explosive. D'Arnot and the idol are rescued, but the idol falls into the clutches of the explorer Raglan.
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- 1935-05-21 | Action / Adventure
Cast
- Bruce Bennett, Ula Holt
Rating
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4.5
9 Triumph of the Champions of Justice (1974)
Mano Negra sends a group of alien dwarves led by Aker to the state laboratory to kidnap the professor Arego and obtain the formula for the cultivation of microorganisms. The formula is divided among his four daughters and most work at a circus. The aliens take capsules that make themselves invisible, kidnap the girls and are eventually revealed to be blue-skinned, red-eyed monsters who are reduced to a puddle of green goo when killed.
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- 1974-02-07 | Action / Adventure
Cast
- Alejandro Moreno, Superzan
Rating
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5.5
10 Without Direction (2012)
Sin Ruta is a two-way narrative attempting to open up the discussion on illegal migration across two worlds and reflect on social issues in smaller countries. Teo is a gay musician from the southeastern region of Guatemala, who longs to go to America. On his way to Mexico he is brutally attacked after a group of men discover he's gay and ends up in the hospital of a small town. There he meets Ray, an American doctor, who abandoned his country after accidentally killing one of his patients. The fate of each of the characters is altered after they meet, challenging their beliefs about the ideal country and questioning their decisions for fleeing. While Teo wonders whether things will actually be better for him in the US, Ray finds himself having to flee once again after almost killing another patient.
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- 2012-08-10 | Drama
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- Dereck Garner, Oscar Clavería
Rating
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4.0