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51. Last Plane Out (1983)
PG | 92 min | Action, Thriller, War
An American journalist covering the civil war in Nicaragua falls in love with a beautiful Sandinista rebel.
Director: David Nelson | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Julie Carmen, Mary Crosby, David Huffman
Votes: 192 | Gross: $0.16M
52. Blood Money (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Clinton is desperate to find his brother's murderer. To do so, he enlists the aid of Nadine, an expensive call girl. Clinton and Nadine get sucked into a plot to smuggle guns to the Contra forces in Nicaragua.
Director: Jerry Schatzberg | Stars: Andy Garcia, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Michael Lombard
Votes: 773
53. A Girl in Every Port (1928)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young women come between them?
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong, Louise Brooks, Maria Alba
Votes: 824
54. The Blue Butterfly (2004)
PG | 97 min | Adventure, Drama
A dramatic adventure about courage, redemption and love being filmed in the rain forests of Costa Rica, and in Montreal.
Director: Léa Pool | Stars: Marc Donato, William Hurt, Pascale Bussières, Raoul Max Trujillo
Votes: 1,639
55. The Firing Line (1988)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action
An American military advisor becomes disillusioned by the brutality and corruption of the Central American government which hired him. When his shift in sympathies becomes known, he's ... See full summary »
Director: Jun Gallardo | Stars: Reb Brown, Shannon Tweed, Kahlena Marie, Mel Davidson
Votes: 388
56. Missing Kenley (2022)
Documentary
This is the heartbreaking story of the 1992 missing Canadian college student, Kenley Matheson. He disappeared from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, without a trace. Years later, suspects emerge, stories surface, and the RCMP does nothing.
Stars: Erin Smith, Sandra Fraser, Kayrene Willis
Votes: 165
57. Torrid Zone (1940)
Passed | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Plagued by revolutionaries that harass his plantation in a banana republic, fruit company exec Steve Case rehires former nemesis Nick Butler to restore order and profits.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Andy Devine
Votes: 1,498
58. Exiled in America (1992)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama
A Central American revolutionary is captured and tortured by government forces. He escapes and flees to the US, hiding out in a rural area where he is sheltered by a Christian sanctuary ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Leder | Stars: Maxwell Caulfield, Edward Albert, Viveca Lindfors, Kamala Lopez
Votes: 66
59. Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dracula and the Wolf Man (1973)
TV-14 | 90 min | Action, Crime, Horror
Después de ser derrotado por el mago Cristaldi, Drácula regresa para vengarse del Santo y Blue Demon contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo. Con la ayuda del Hombre Lobo y sus seguidores, la ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: Santo, Alejandro Moreno, Aldo Monti, Agustín Martínez Solares
Votes: 452
60. 8 Ball Bunny (1950)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Bugs helps a penguin go home via New Orleans, Martinique, the Panama Canal and finally the South Pole. But the penguin's home is in New Jersey.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Dave Barry, Norman Nesbitt, John T. Smith
Votes: 1,483
61. Delta Force Commando (1987)
R | 89 min | Action
Latin American revolutionaries invade a military base on Puerto Rico, and steal a nuclear bomb, killing a pregnant woman in the process. Captain Beck (Fred Williamson) is assigned to track ... See full summary »
Director: Pierluigi Ciriaci | Stars: Brett Baxter Clark, Fred Williamson, Mark Gregory, Bo Svenson
Votes: 406
62. Brothers in Blood (1987)
R | 92 min | Action, Adventure, War
War is Hell... especially NAM. A group of battle weary soldiers in Vietnam are trapped behind enemy lines. There is no way back. No help on the way. It's only a matter of time and these ... See full summary »
Director: Tonino Valerii | Stars: Bo Svenson, Carlo Mucari, Peter Hooten, Werner Pochath
Votes: 175
63. Active Stealth (1999 Video)
R | 99 min | Adventure, Action, Crime
After Captain Murphy lost some of his men on his last mission to Mexico to bring back a US Senator, he has been plagued with unhappiness and bad dreams. When Murphy is given orders to go ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Daniel Baldwin, Hannes Jaenicke, Lisa Vidal, Chick Vennera
Votes: 582
64. Countdown to Esmeralda Bay (1990)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Drama, War
A priest secretly leads rebels in their struggle against the corrupt military dictatorship of the Central American country of Puerto Santo.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Robert Forster, George Kennedy, Fernando Rey, Ramon Estevez
Votes: 166
65. The Ballad of Hugo Sánchez (2018)
TV-MA | 36 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Hugo Sanchez is tasked with leading the Cuervos into the Duel of the Birds tournament despite his personal life pulling him back toward the family business.
Stars: Jesús Zavala, Mauro Mauad, Ianis Guerrero, Raúl Briones
Votes: 891
66. TimeSplitters 2 (2002 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Mystery
In 2401, humanity is at war with relentless aliens, TimeSplitters. Space marines Cortez and Hart travel through time to stop the aliens in various spots, including Wild West, zombie-infested Gothic church and Blade Runner-esque future.
Directors: David Doak, Stephen Ellis | Stars: Heidi Andrews, June Andrews, Kevin Bullock, Michelle Bullock
Votes: 847
67. The Panama Deception (1992)
91 min | Documentary, History, War
A film about the true reasons for the 1989 US invasion of Panama and big media complicity in these activities.
Director: Barbara Trent | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Carlos Cantú, Diviana Ingravallo, Abraham Alvarez
Votes: 1,168 | Gross: $0.31M
68. Marie Galante (1934)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Marie is kidnapped and taken aboard ship, then thrown off at Yucatan. She winds up singing in a café in the Panama Canal zone. There she gets involved in a plot to destroy the canal and runs into American intelligence officer Crawbett.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Ketti Gallian, Ned Sparks, Helen Morgan
Votes: 412
69. Mastergate (1992 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Comedy
Based on a satirical play about the U.S. Senate Watergate hearings in 1973-74.
Director: Michael Engler | Stars: Tim Reid, Marcia Strassman, Buck Henry, Richard Kiley
Votes: 78
70. Operation Just Cause (2019)
95 min | Drama, War
Operation Just Cause was the largest and most complex U.S. combat operation since the Vietnam war. Nearly 26,000 combat troops deployed in Panama, this is the story told by the Panamanians who lived it that Christmas of 1989
Directors: Luis Franco Brantley, Luis Pacheco | Stars: Patricia De Leon, Arian Abadi, Aída Morales, Anthony Anel
Votes: 118
71. Coronado (2003)
PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An American woman, in search of her fiancé, becomes involved in a revolution of a Central American country.
Director: Claudio Fäh | Stars: Kristin Dattilo, Clayton Rohner, Michael Lowry, John Rhys-Davies
Votes: 1,591
72. Virgin Sacrifice (1960)
Approved | 67 min | Action, Adventure
A white hunter in South America falls in love with a native girl and must save her from becoming a virgin sacrifice.
Director: Fernando Wagner | Stars: David DaLie, Antonio Gutiérrez, Angélica Morales, Fernando Wagner
Votes: 149
73. The Return of Monte Cristo (1968)
90 min | Adventure
Edmond Dantès, who was active in the resistance against the Nazis, is accused for being a Nazi collaborator and is imprisoned in the fortress of Sisteron.
Director: André Hunebelle | Stars: Paul Barge, Claude Jade, Anny Duperey, Pierre Brasseur
Votes: 205
74. Sandino (1990)
135 min | Biography, Drama
The US tried to occupy Nicaragua in 1927. General Cesar Augusto Sandino and his guerrillas begin armed resistance.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Joaquim de Almeida, Dean Stockwell, Ángela Molina
Votes: 130
75. A Devil with Women (1930)
Passed | 64 min | Adventure
Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the country's richest man, try to end Morloff's banditry but just barely escape a firing squad. They become rivals for Rosita.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Mona Maris, Humphrey Bogart, Luana Alcañiz
Votes: 97
76. The Assassin (1990)
R | 91 min | Action
A CIA agent protecting a senator who falls under suspicion when his charge is shot by an assassin. In investigating the killing, the agent discovers a government conspiracy.
Director: Jon Hess | Stars: Steve Railsback, Elpidia Carrillo, Nicholas Guest, Xander Berkeley
Votes: 91
77. Soldier's Fortune (1991)
R | 96 min | Action, Drama
A rich young girl is kidnapped by masked terrorists. Her mother's ex-husband, a former mercenary, gathers some of his former comrades and goes off to rescue her.
Director: Arthur N. Mele | Stars: Gil Gerard, Johann Benét, Barbara Bingham, Janus Blythe
Votes: 75
78. Killing Down (2006)
R | 108 min | Action, Thriller
An army vet searching for the truth comes face to face with the man he thinks tortured him seven years ago. But how can he be sure? With limited resources and few details he must take down his torturer and expose the unsettling truth.
Director: Blake Calhoun | Stars: Sheree J. Wilson, Matthew Tompkins, Natalie Raitano, Burton Gilliam
Votes: 192
79. Lost on Paradise Island (1975)
G | 64 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Jimmy War Eagle is a basketball superstar flying disaster relief money to flood victims in Central America when his plane crashes in a storm. he buries the cash, and is eventually rescued ... See full summary »
Director: George Leszkay | Stars: George Bryson, Maria Grimm, Freddie Roberto, Jorge Cervera Jr.
Votes: 18
80. I Like Your Nerve (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
Young man (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) attempts to break up an engagement between a woman (Loretta Young) and an older man (Edmund Breon).
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Henry Kolker, Claud Allister
Votes: 328
81. Escape to Costa Rica (2017)
180 min | Documentary
Science writer and explorer Gaia Vince visits Costa Rica to discover how this remarkable little republic has become the happiest and most sustainable country on earth.
Stars: Gaia Vince, Luis Guillermo Solís
Votes: 14
82. Lost! (1986)
95 min | Action, Drama
Bob and his wife Linda accompany his brother Jim on a sailing cruise to Costa Rica, where Jim will start as a missionary. In a terrible storm their boat flips over. Jim believes the ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Rowe | Stars: Kenneth Welsh, Helen Shaver, Michael Hogan, Linda Goranson
Votes: 68
83. Bad City Blues (1999)
R | 116 min | Drama, Crime
In the aftermath of a violent robbery, a New Orleans doctor, Eugene Grimes, wakes to find a wounded woman and $2 million in cash on his doorstep. In pursuit of the thieves, police captain ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Stevens | Stars: Michael Massee, Michael McGrady, Judith Hoag, Jim Metzler
Votes: 191
84. Mercenary II: Thick & Thin (1998 TV Movie)
R | 100 min | Action
Mercenary Captain "Hawk" is in Acion again to save a hostage. But he and his team are betrayed. Nothing is as it seems...
Director: Philippe Mora | Stars: Robert Townsend, Olivier Gruner, Nicholas Turturro, Claudia Christian
Votes: 222
85. Caribe (1987)
R | 90 min | Adventure, Thriller, Drama
Helen is an amateur illegal arms trader to Central American terrorists. After a deal goes bad she is on the run and has to trust Jeff, a British Intelligence Agent.
Director: Michael Kennedy | Stars: John Savage, Kara Glover, Stephen McHattie, Sam Malkin
Votes: 163
86. Fandango at the Wall (2020)
TV-14 | 92 min | Documentary, Music
Fandango at the Wall follows Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra founder/conductor Arturo O'Farrill to the remotest regions of Veracruz, Mexico, where he meets and jams with the masters of son ... See full summary »
Director: Varda Bar-Kar | Stars: Douglas Brinkley, Villalobos Brothers, Regina Carter, Jorge Francisco Castillo
Votes: 113
87. Adventure Girl (1934)
Approved | 69 min | Adventure, Drama
Young adventurer, Joan Lowell, with her elderly father, Nicholas Wagner, and two crew members, ex-marine William Sawyer and Otto Siegler, sail from New York to the Caribbean in their 48-... See full synopsis »
Director: Herman C. Raymaker | Stars: Joan Lowell, Ula Holt, Bill Sawyer, Otto Siegler
Votes: 162
88. Days of Light (2019)
88 min | Drama, Thriller
A solar storm hits Central America. Its inhabitants must face life disconnected from technology. Fear, friendship and love emerge as they come together with others, while the skies are lit by lights never seen before.
Directors: Gloria Carrión Fonseca, Julio López Fernández, Enrique Medrano, Mauro Borges Mora, Enrique Pérez Him, Sergio Ramírez | Stars: Zenith Gálvez, Cloty Luna, Joel Davaz, Gustavo Gómez
Votes: 38
89. La segua (1985)
102 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
La segua, a mythical woman with the face of a horse, appears to the travelers in colonial Costa Rica. A young and beautiful woman is tortured by the apparitions, as the man she loves gets crazy when he sees this mythical monster.
Director: Antonio Yglesias | Stars: Isabel Hidalgo, Blanca Guerra, Óscar Castillo, Ana Poltronieri
Votes: 35
90. Canal Zone (1942)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A conceited, reckless society playboy, Harley Ames, arrives at Ginger Bar, a former banana-shipping depot on the edge of the Panama Canal, that has been converted to a training-and-relay ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Chester Morris, Harriet Nelson, John Hubbard, Larry Parks
Votes: 58
91. Pictures from a Revolution (1991)
93 min | Documentary, History
In 1981, Susan Meiselas published "Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979," 70 photographs she took documenting the Sandinista revolution. Ten years later, Meiselas returns looking for the ... See full summary »
Directors: Alfred Guzzetti, Susan Meiselas, Richard P. Rogers | Star: Susan Meiselas
Votes: 65
92. Destination Nicaragua (1986)
58 min | Documentary
Documentary about a group of Americans who go to Nicaragua to learn about the conflict between the Contras and the Sandinistas.
Director: Barbara Trent | Stars: Tyne Daly, Daniel Ortega, Ronald Reagan
Votes: 9
93. Lo Que Ocultan Las Tinieblas (2019)
11 min | Short, Horror, Thriller
After surviving the threat that almost wipes the entire human race, a couple struggles to maintain their relationship without destroying each other after the unwelcome visit of a stranger.
Director: Romeo López Aldana | Stars: Alexandra Flores, Mirza Garcia, José Mario Massella
Votes: 6
94. Immokalee U.S.A. (2008)
Not Rated | 77 min | Documentary
Every season, tens of thousands of migrant farmworkers converge on small communities like Immokalee, Florida where they plant and harvest the food that Americans consume. A vast majority of... See full summary »
Director: Georg Koszulinski
Votes: 36
95. Roses in December (1982)
Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary
Detailing the rape, torture and murder of four American missionaries in El Salvador by members of the El Salvador National Guard, as well as the subsequent attempts by the government to cover up the story.
Directors: Ana Carrigan, Bernard Stone | Stars: John Houseman, Douglas Cable, Maura Clarke, Eldon Cummings
Votes: 25
96. Train to Nowhere: Inside an Immigrant Death Investigation (2010)
TV-PG | 59 min | Documentary, Crime
When the bodies of 11 Central Americans and Mexicans were found inside a railcar in Denison, Iowa, the nation took notice. The documentary offers an honest, yet compassionate look at the 2002 deaths of the 11 undocumented immigrants.
Director: Paul Kakert | Stars: Eliseo Acevedo, Norma Acevedo, Sixto Antonio Acevedo, Rosemary Amerena
Votes: 20
97. Chac (1975)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Drama
Unique story of a village's attempts to solve drought by appealing to the powers of a mysterious mountain-dwelling diviner.
Director: Rolando Klein | Stars: Pablo Canche Balam, Alonzo Mendez Ton, Sebastian Santis, Pedro Tiez
Votes: 195
98. 'Herra ja ylhäisyys' (1944)
113 min | Adventure, Comedy, Western
Lieutenant general T. J. A. Heikkilä (Tauno Palo) is sent to Sierranueva on a secret mission with his adjutant Silvio (Jorma Nortimo). In Sierranueva, they get mixed up in a political ... See full summary »
Director: Jorma Nortimo | Stars: Tauno Palo, Regina Linnanheimo, Jorma Nortimo, Eine Laine
Votes: 89
99. Thunder on the Mountain (2010)
G | 27 min | Documentary, Short
The the generally dormant volcanic mountain chain which lies between North and south America is filled with beauty and life. In the 1400's wooden ships were seen approaching and the changes... See full summary »
Director: Cap Averill II
Votes: 7
100. A Man's Man (1917)
50 min | Adventure, Romance
John Stuart Webster having prospecting in Death Valley prosperously, boards a train for Denver and rescues Dolores Ruey, a beautiful Central American girl who was reared in the United ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Apfel | Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Kenneth Harlan, Edward Coxen
Votes: 26