Costa Rica Movies

In 1982 when she arrived in Paris, my Costa Rican mother sent a series of letters to her parents. Forty years later, I revisit these letters to have...

Domingo’s house in the Costa Rican mountains is about to be expropriated for the construction of a highway. But his land hides a secret: the...

Federico and German were best friends, fighting the dictatorship and looking for freedom together. Years later Federico and his wife are movie...

A young New Yorker finds herself caught between her longing to honor her late mother's love for Christmas and her grandfather's deep-seated aversion...

An experimental film that weaves the intimate thoughts of one woman (Ikwé) with the teachings of her grandmother, the Moon, creating a surreal...

Eric tries to keep alive a memory in which his life is questioned during a dream trip with a friend. Through a rustic mechanism built in his back...

Samuel is a soon-to be young priest, while visiting his distant family in the countryside and as he seeks to define his faith, will face his bond...

Following the 1973 coup, Clea's family had to leave Chile. Her mother ends up living in Costa Rica and her uncle in Germany. Both built their lives...

Recently divorced, 72-year-old Violeta lives alone in her childhood house, tending to her lush tropical garden and making plans to turn her property...

Two car shop mechanics fall in love with each other but must keep their love a secret.

This film shows the general aspects of the school garden program carried out by the Ministry of Public Education in the country's schools. In its...

What do the Phoenix Islands in the Pacific Ocean, the Wadden Sea in the North Sea and Cocos Island National Park in Costa Rica have in common? These...

short Costa Rica drama

Aliens? Extraterrestrial life? UFOs? Is it real or is it a myth? Luis, a journalism student, decides to look for answers to the out-of-this-world...

A writer who recently lost his wife goes on a retreat where his story begins to intersect with Andrew, a shy young man who experiences the awakening...

Iraqi theater director Mohsen Sadoon Yasin has spent much of his life in involuntary exile. His daughter, Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez, has...

Abril's whimsical quest to find what is love?

Francisco Coto was born in Alajuela in July 1924. A century later, he recalls some of his photographs in the studio he founded decades ago....