Ecuador Films 2010-2019
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1. Virus tropical (2017)
97 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
Paola is born in a traditional Colombian family, or at least that is what they try to be. Her father is a priest, her mother is a "psychic" and her sisters are not what their parents ... See full summary »
Director: Santiago Caicedo | Stars: María Cecilia Sánchez, Martina Toro, Alejandra Borrero, Diego León Hoyos
Votes: 1,123
2. Dedicada A Mi Ex (2019)
TV-PG | 94 min | Comedy
A band of misfits enter a music video contest in order to win a cash prize, but don't realize they actually have to be good at playing music.
Director: Jorge Ulloa | Stars: Mariana Treviño, Alina Lozano, Jorge Enrique Abello, Carlos Alcántara
Votes: 718
3. Alba (2016)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Family
Alba, an 11 year old girl, has to move to her father's house due to her mother's illness. She barely knows him and sharing time with him at home feels weird. Both are shy, both feel lonely but they can't find a way to approach each other.
Director: Ana Cristina Barragán | Stars: Macarena Arias, Pablo Aguirre Andrade, Amaia Merino, Isabel Borja
Votes: 479
4. Holiday (2014)
TV-G | 82 min | Drama
A drama set in turbulent, turn-of-the-millennium Ecuador and centered on a young man who begins to develop complicated feelings for Juano after he saves him from a beating.
Director: Diego Araujo | Stars: Juan Arregui, Elena Vargas, Cristina Morrison, Peki Andino
Votes: 436
5. Pescador (2011)
100 min | Drama
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, ... See full summary »
Director: Sebastián Cordero | Stars: Marieta Castillo, Andrés Crespo, Alejandro Fajardo, Antonio Santos
Votes: 377
6. The Porcelain Horse (2012)
100 min | Drama
Paco Chavez's life is careless and charming. It's a life of illicit drugs and a forbidden love affair he carries with Lucia, his former high school sweetheart, now married to another man. ... See full summary »
Director: Javier Andrade | Stars: Francisco Savinovich, Victor Arauz, Leovanna Orlandini, Andrés Crespo
Votes: 265
7. Sin muertos no hay carnaval (2016)
PG-13 | 100 min | Thriller
Everything begins with a stray bullet... And a wealthy young man trying to evict 250 families who are squatting on the land he inherited from his father. The leader of the squatter ... See full summary »
Director: Sebastián Cordero | Stars: Daniel Adum Gilbert, Victor Arauz, Diego Cataño, Andrés Crespo
Votes: 223
8. The Longest Night (2019)
95 min | Drama, Thriller
She is the perfect woman until she decides to be free.
Director: Gabriela Calvache | Stars: Noëlle Schönwald, Cristian Mercado, Jaime Tamariz, Ariana Freire
Votes: 243
9. A Son of Man (2018)
93 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Pipe is invited to join his mysterious father on a quest for the lost Inca gold. But as they journey deeper into the jungle, he understands that they cannot escape the family demons that are traveling with them.
Directors: Jamaicanoproblem, Pablo Agüero | Stars: Luis Felipe Fernandez-Salvador y Campodonico, Luis Felipe Fernández-Salvador y Bolona, Lily van Ghemen, Dontworrybehappy
Votes: 210
10. A tus espaldas (2011)
76 min | Comedy, Drama
The statue of the Virgin that crowns "The Panecillo" looks and smiles to the north of the city, home to wealthier people, in the south, where most of its inhabitants are the most poor, they... See full summary »
Director: Tito Jara | Stars: Jenny Nava, Gabino Torres, Lily Alejandra, Israel Montenegro
Votes: 154
11. Prometeo Deportado (2011)
112 min | Comedy, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Mieles | Stars: Peki Andino, Andrés Crespo, Alejandro Fajardo, Carlos Gallegos
Votes: 150
12. Take Me for a Ride (2016)
67 min | Drama
Loner Sara is in her last year of high school and is miserable. Shunned by the girls in her class for being "weird," she spends her lunches smoking in secret behind the school. That is, until the new girl, Andrea, finds her.
Director: Micaela Rueda | Stars: Samanta Caicedo, Maria Juliana Rangel, Diego Naranjo, Patricia Loor
Votes: 174
13. No Autumn, No Spring (2012)
115 min | Drama
The portrait of an invisible generation. A punk ballad told from the point of view of 10 youngsters with stories that interconnect, not with their destinies but with their concepts: the ... See full summary »
Director: Iván Mora Manzano | Stars: Enzo Macchiavello, Andres Troya Holst, Paola Baldion, Alejandro Fajardo
Votes: 141
14. In the Name of the Girl (2011)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
It's the summer of 1976. Manuela is a nine year old girl who's caught in between her communist and atheist father and her grandmother, a catholic and conservative woman. They both dispute ... See full summary »
Director: Tania Hermida | Stars: Eva Mayu Mecham Benavides, Markus Mecham Benavides, Martina León, Sebastián Hormachea
Votes: 141
15. Agujero Negro (2018)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Afraid to face upcoming parenthood and the ultimate deadline for his long-awaited novel, a once-promising writer develops a crush on a defiant muse, the 16-year-old girl next door, and ... See full summary »
Director: Diego Araujo | Stars: Victor Arauz, Daniela Roepke, Marla Xaviera, Alejandro Fajardo
Votes: 106
16. Cenizas (I) (2018)
80 min | Drama
As Cotopaxi spews ash, issuing an eerie penumbra over Quito, a young woman confronts dormant familial conflicts. Desperate for a place to store her things as volcanic disaster looms, ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Sebastian Jacome | Stars: Samanta Caicedo, Diego Naranjo, Juana Estrella, Estela Álvarez
Votes: 98
17. Short Plays (2014)
105 min | Sport
Football seen through the eyes of directors from several parts of the world.
Directors: Pedro Amorim, Karim Aïnouz, Abner Benaim, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Sebastián Cordero, Matias Cruz, Rune Denstad Langlo, Doris Dörrie, Fernando Eimbcke, Pablo Fendrik, Vincent Gallo, Daniel Gruener, Marcelo Gómez, Mascha Halberstad, Duane Hopkins, Yang Ik-joon, Bobo Jelcic, Buthina Canaan Khoury, Victor Kossakovsky, Luca Lucini, Carlos Moreno, Koen Mortier, Emnet Mulugeta, Gaspar Noé, Carlos Reygadas, Jaime Rosales, Pablo Stoll, Kiki Sugino, Juan Carlos Valdivia, Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Star: Sami Samir
Votes: 100
18. Open Wound (2013)
85 min | Drama
Believing that military experience will make him a strong and respected man, Jorge, a young Ecuadorian, joins the armed forces in the midst of his country's 1941 border war with Peru. ... See full summary »
Director: Alfredo León León | Stars: Pamela Cortes, Alfredo Espinosa, Paul Lalaleo, Lider Medranda
Votes: 79
19. The River (III) (2018)
TV-MA | 95 min | Drama
An introvert city teenager is sent to his father's timber ranch. While trying to figure out his place as the son of the boss he finds himself in a world packed with naturalized violence.
Director: Juan Pablo Richter | Stars: Santiago Rozo, Valentina Villalpando, Fernando Arze Echalar, Julia Hernandez
Votes: 96
20. Quito 2023 (2013)
TV-14 | 90 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Quito 2023 is a thriller/Sci-Fi feature film that focuses on the Ecuadorian capital, some years from now. After several internal political problems, a coup has left the country under ... See full summary »
Directors: César Izurieta, Juan Fernando Moscoso | Stars: Silvio Villagómez, Jose Luís Vergara, Enrique Carvajal, Elvira Durango
Votes: 67
21. Translucido (2016)
86 min | Drama
Rubén has three months to live or, probably, one year and a half with treatment. After a very complex process he decides to kill himself, before the cancer start showing symptoms. In "Translucido" we will be witnesses of his fate.
Director: Leonard Zelig | Stars: María Elisa Camargo, Erin Fogel, Roberto Manrique, Marisa Román
Votes: 67
22. Final Minute (2018)
68 min | Thriller
Leonardo is a policeman who finds a homicide on the road that reminds him something of the past. He goes in search of the murderer but he meets with his former boss, Johnny, who will try to prevent him from achieving his goal.
Director: Luis Avilés | Stars: Ricardo Velasteguí, Alberto Pablo Rivera, David Saavedra, Shany Nadan
Votes: 62
23. Silence in Dreamland (2013)
94 min | Drama
After the death of her husband, silence and loneliness reign in this old lady's house. She made routine her best friend and faith her shelter. Only in her dreams she runs away from those ... See full summary »
Director: Tito Molina | Stars: Bertha Naranjo, Ney Moreira, Martín Rodríguez, Yeliber Mero
Votes: 47
24. María y el Araña (2013)
90 min | Drama, Romance
MARIA AND SPIDER is the story of Maria, a thirteen year old girl who lives in a Buenos Aires shantytown whit her grandmother and her obscure partner. Candidate for a scholarship to continue... See full summary »
Director: María Victoria Menis | Stars: Pablo Aguirre Andrade, Emanuela Gavazza, Lucía Ruiz Ortiz, Mirella Pascual
Votes: 44
25. Emptiness (2019)
94 min | Drama, Thriller
Lei and Wong clandestinely arrive to Ecuador, on their way to the port city of Guayaquil. From there Lei plans to continue her journey to New York, but Chang, a bipolar mobster will decide ... See full summary »
Director: Paúl Venegas | Stars: Jing Fu, Lidan Zhu, Day Min Meng, Ricardo Velasteguí
Votes: 52
26. Ochentaisiete (2015)
88 min | Drama
Pablo, Andres and Juan, get into their biggest teenager adventure, when Juan decides to run away from home. He is not willing to go back because his father, an old fashioned policeman, ... See full summary »
Directors: Daniel Andrade, Anahí Hoeneisen | Stars: Andres Alvares, Andres Alvarez, Nicolás Andrade, Estefano Bajak
Votes: 42
27. On the Line (2013)
76 min | Comedy, Drama
Aurora, a divorced woman, receives a call from her 14 year old son's principal to let her know that he is being expelled on the last day of class. In an attempt to reach her son, she fights... See full summary »
Director: David Nieto Wenzell | Stars: Nicolás Andrade, Anahí Hoeneisen, Noelia Noto
Votes: 43
28. No robarás... (a menos que sea necesario) (2013)
R | 95 min | Drama
In order to help her brothers and mother, Lucia is forced to thieve.
Director: Viviana Cordero | Stars: Vanessa Alvario, Ana María Balarezo, Nadia Acevedo Cordero, Erick Sheen
Votes: 41
29. Ruta de la luna (2012)
80 min | Drama
Tito, a lonely albino decides to travel across Central America to participate in a bowling tournament. His stubborn and ill father insists on accompanying and supporting him for the first ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Sebastian Jacome | Stars: Jimmy David Suarez, Luis Antonio Gotti, Victoria Greco, Ernesto Leonardo Fields
Votes: 35
30. Panama (2019)
75 min | Drama
Two former classmates from Ecuador run into each other in Panama City in 1985. One is a banker, while the other poses as a journalist, but is really a guerrilla member.
Director: Javier Izquierdo | Stars: Diego Coral López, Jorge Alejandro Fegan, María Josefina Viteri
Votes: 34
31. Saudade (II) (2013)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama, Family, History
Miguel is a 17 year-old boy that sees the future as a distant horizon, immersed in his bubble of friends and a sketchbook full of sentimental poems. 'Saudade' is the portrait of a threshold... See full summary »
Director: Juan Carlos Donoso Gómez | Stars: Pia Aguirre, Gloria Arcos, Jessica Barahona, Paula Castelo
Votes: 31
32. Sexy Montañita (2014)
77 min | Comedy, Thriller
Two best friends take a trip to Montanita where they have an epic party. The events later that night will change them forever.
Director: Alberto Pablo Rivera | Stars: Axel Amador, Andres Garzon, Alberto Pablo Rivera, Laura Schinca
Votes: 28
33. El Secreto de Magdalena (2015)
Drama
Miranda, a lesbian photographer from Guayaquil living in Buenos Aires returns to Ecuador for an exhibition of her work. Magdalena, a simple girl after a big fight with her boyfriend decides... See full summary »
Director: Josué Miranda | Stars: Patricia Guillén, Michelle Prendes, Celeste Santillán
Votes: 28
34. Vengo Volviendo (2015)
120 min | Family
Twenty two year old Ismael only thinks about traveling to the US. He grows up with the love and care of his grandmother Mariana, a midwife and ancestral healer, after his parents emigrated ... See full summary »
Directors: Gabriel Paez Hernandez, Isabel Rodas León | Stars: Carolina Lozada Calle, Carolina Lozada, Rosario Macas, Doris Naula
Votes: 27
35. Bushwick (2010)
71 min | Action, Crime, Drama
With the murder and investigation of a runaway Mexican-American teen in the down and out town of Bushwick, Brooklyn, Det. John Mejia must see that justice is done.
Director: Luis Landivar | Stars: Diego Kelman Ajuz, Tina Alexis Allen, Edgar Caraballo, Peter Di Senna
Votes: 25
36. El duende sátiro (2016)
88 min | Drama, Horror
Legend tells of a girl named Palmira. A teenager, becoming a beautiful woman, her normal small town life took an unexpected turn. A demon expelled from paradise falls in love with her, causing great misfortune; only one can defeat him.
Director: Jorge Bastidas | Stars: Jorge Cabrera, Valeria Mosquera, Axel Ortega, Vicente Sánchez
Votes: 31
37. Safe by My Side (2010)
96 min | Action, Drama, Family
Surviving on the edge of poverty in the pristine jungles of the upper Amazon, Sergio and his younger brother Micos scrounge a living, dreaming of sailing. Faced with separation by adoption,... See full summary »
Directors: David Williams Lamb, Joshua Lamb | Stars: Ben Andrews, Mauricio Cruz, Cindy Lemos, Lenin Ushinia
Votes: 20
38. Zuquillo Expres (2010)
93 min | Comedy
Director: Carl West | Stars: Martha Salas, Marcela Campos, Mabel Cabrera, Tania Salas
Votes: 21
40. El Facilitador (2013)
TV-MA | 83 min | Drama
Elena, daughter of a businessman, returns to Ecuador at the request of her sick father. There he meets a childhood friend, Galo, and begins to collaborate with him in tasks of organization of human rights for the indigenous communities.
Director: Víctor Arregui | Stars: Christoph Baumann, Francisco Febres Cordero, María Gracia Omegna, Juan Carlos Terán
Votes: 18
41. Tinta Sangre (2013)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Mateo Herrera | Stars: Rosa Bodero, Alex Cisneros, Alfredo Espinosa, Jorge Alejandro Fegan
Votes: 16
42. Amy and Sophia (2017)
Drama, Fantasy
Two troubled girls, who come together as friends through their imagination of art, creating their own fantasy world where they can finally be free.
Director: Adam Lipsius | Stars: Julian Glover, Isla Blair, Joseph Millson, Denise Van Outen
Votes: 18
43. A estas alturas de la vida (2013)
86 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two inseparable friends. Martin is a bureaucrat who seeks to overcome every day, even though deep down he knows he will never leave his office desk. Daniel is a womanizer unstable without goals, but with a mathematical gift.
Directors: Manuel Calisto, Alex Cisneros | Stars: Manuel Calisto, Alex Cisneros, Sonia Valdez
Votes: 17
45. Ciudad sin sombra (2014)
TV-MA | 110 min | Thriller
Set in the impressive mountain and coastal scenery of the Andean region, this film tells the story of Ana helping her grandfather escape from a psychiatric hospital to fulfill his last wish.
Director: Bernardo Cañizares Esguerra | Stars: Alejandro Buenaventura, Juan Ricardo Gomez, Carolina Piechestein
Votes: 17
46. Medardo (2015)
94 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Inspired by the brief and yet intense life of Ecuadorian poet Medardo Ángel Silva, this movie reveals intimate details of one of the most important Guayaquilean writers of 19th century: his... See full summary »
Director: Nitsy Grau Crespo | Stars: Jose Andres Caballero, Paoming Camchong, Edison Carrera, Scarlette Cordova
Votes: 13
47. Thirst (II) (2015)
75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sara is 23 years old and is blind. One morning she goes to her country house accompanied by her boyfriend Jose Luis, her cousin Carolina and her boyfriend Pedro. At first the trip seems to ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Houlberg | Stars: Ivan Alzate, Ana Cristina Barragán, Fernanda Barragán, Enzo Macchiavello
Votes: 12
48. The Law of the Swindler (2012)
88 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
Bernardo lives under the shadow of his mother. Kurt proposes to him to rob Bernardo's bank to buy the Third Reich's currency. On the same day that Bernardo does it, Hitler's regime falls and its currency becomes worthless.
Directors: Alex Schlenker, Diego Coral López | Stars: Christoph Baumann, Gonzalo Estupiñan, Jorge Alejandro Fegan, Vincent Kerschbaum
Votes: 12
49. Chuquiragua (2016)
87 min | Drama
Agustín needs solitude to finish his graduate thesis. He spends his days writing, eating and taking strolls in a landscape of cliffs and hidden chasms. All changes when Lucía and her boyfriend Sebastian camp next to him.
Director: Mateo Herrera | Stars: María Alché, Roberto Sempértegui, Stefano Bajak, Enrique Acosta
Votes: 12
50. Santa Elena en Bus (2012)
65 min | Drama
A day in the life of Severino, young bus driver who is on his way more than a contract that prevents him from reaching his final destination. Four stories that intertwine in a wonderful journey to the heart of Santa Elena.
Director: Gabriel Páez Hernandez | Stars: Fabian Asencio, Ana Lugo, Xavier Saltos, Xavier Saltos Yagual
Votes: 11
51. The Lady in the Veil (2018)
92 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Isabel's fiancé, Roberto, suffers a misterious accident that puts him in a coma without explanation. Aniel, an ex-priest expert on exorcisms, helps Isabel find out the real reason of ... See full summary »
Director: Josué Miranda | Stars: Michelle Prendes, Santiago Carpio, Fabo Doja, Antonella Valeriano
Votes: 11
52. Entre Sombras: Averno (2016)
115 min | Thriller
Director: X.B. Ruiz | Stars: Juan Pablo Asanza, Carlos Valencia, Marlon Pantaleón, Daniela Vallejo
Votes: 11
53. Las Mujeres Deciden (2017)
Drama
Maria, a young Spanish doctor, works in a maternity hospital in the Ecuadorian rain forest. She is shocked about the premature pregnancies and the violence women in Ecuador have to face. ... See full summary »
Director: Xiana Yago | Star: Maria Carnicer
Votes: 10
54. Island of the Dolls (2018)
78 min | Horror, Thriller
A reporter investigates Island of the Dolls (Mexico) where several unsolved murders took place in the 1950s.
Director: Sebastian Mantilla | Stars: Isela Vega, Dayleigh Nelson, Paul Lincoln Alayo, Fernando Gaviria
Votes: 19
55. An Ocean between Us (2016)
95 min | Drama, Family | Completed
Its not about secrets, is hiding them.
Director: Pablo Arturo Suarez | Stars: Alfredo Espinoza, Beatriz Vergara, Ferran Herrera, María Josefina Viteri
Votes: 9
56. Instantánea (2017)
75 min | Family
Antonia is a little photographer. She likes to capture special moments with her camera and she will spend her vacations with her grandparents. Although she go to the beaches with her dog ... See full summary »
Director: Catalina Arango Cadavid | Stars: Gabriel Ampuero, Giovanna Andrade, Cielo Mendoza Apolo, Alejandro Fajardo
Votes: 12
57. Death in Berruecos (2018)
102 min | History, Thriller
Ten years after General Antonio José de Sucre - Grand Marshal of Ayacucho- was murdered in the Berruecos jungle, Colombia. The inquiry into his death is reopened, Captain Alejandro Godoy ... See full summary »
Director: Caupolican Ovalles | Stars: Augusto Nitti, Luis Gerónimo Abreu, Laureano Olivares, Malena Gonzalez
Votes: 9
58. Club Habana (2010)
80 min | Drama
Barbara is about to travel to Spain for an exhibition of her paintings. The night before starting her journey there is a hurricane and she has to stay in a nightclub until the morning. ... See full summary »
Directors: Jorge Herrera, Jorge Herrera | Stars: Yoraisi Gómez, Luis Alberto García, Lourdes Torres, Enrique Molina
Votes: 11
59. Verano No Miente (2023)
120 min | Comedy, Romance
In a countryside house located in the Ecuadorean Andes Mountains lives Christine, a paralytic old woman who has decided to be isolated from the world. In that place, she found refuge in old... See full synopsis »
Director: Ernesto Santisteban | Stars: Pilar Tordera, Juan Carlos Rey de Castro, Pamela Sánchez, Nando Romero
Votes: 10
60. With Elizabeth in Mount Dora (2012)
83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Edilson's car had broken down in a beautiful little town (Mount Dora) on his way to a cousin's wedding where he will meet a lot of explosive, original, funny and weird characters. But ... See full summary »
Director: Jhonny Obando | Stars: Julio Coutinho, Scarlet Gruber, Karin Farfan, Ernesto Reyes
Votes: 9
61. Killa (2017)
61 min | Drama
KILLA is the fight for the land, the corruption of the elite, the magic of the towns and the nationalities created from the Kichwa feeling.
Director: Alberto Muenala | Stars: Sherman Cabascango, Marcela Camacho, Carlos Guerrón, Alejandro Cabascango
Votes: 8
62. Azules turquesas (2019)
83 min | Drama
Addiction has made 28-year-old Isabella a living hell, and her family is desperate to pull her out of it. Rehab centers are apparently the best option, but she will soon realize that she has to fight in order to gain her freedom.
Director: Monica Mancero | Stars: Ernesto Albán, Tomás Ciuffardi, Paty Loor, Monica Mancero
Votes: 10
63. Muerte en Berruecos (2018)
102 min | Thriller
Bogotá 1840. Ten years after General Antonio José de Sucre - Grand Marshal of Ayacucho- was murdered in the Berruecos jungle, Colombia. The inquiry into his death is reopened, Captain ... See full summary »
Director: Caupolican Ovalles | Stars: Luis Gerónimo Abreu, Antonio Delli, Malena Gonzalez, César Enrique Hernández
Votes: 9
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