Best award winning movies with a gripping drama from Guatemala
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a gripping drama from Guatemala! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a gripping drama 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
6.417
2 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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5.56
3 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
Cast
- Juan Pablo Olyslager, María Telón
Rating
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6.6
4 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
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5 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
6 Gunpowder Heart (2019)
Claudia and Maria are a young couple in Guatemala City who dream of all-night dance parties in the land of plenty. When they're attacked by three circus workers, level-headed Claudia tries to deter the more foolhardy Maria from plotting revenge.
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- 2019-11-19 | Drama
Cast
- Vanessa Hernández, Andrea Henry
Rating
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5.7
7 Gasolina (2010)
Three middle-class teenagers out on a high-octane ride to hell outside the safety of their "colonia"
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- 2010-07-16 | Drama
Cast
- José Andrés Chamier, Carlos Dardon
Rating
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6.4
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8 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
9 Puro Mula (2011)
Joel is a 28 year old slacker who gets up every morning to drink beer and play his guitar. His older sister interrupts his daily routine by asking him to take care of her 6 year old kid. Joel thinks he can handle it, but things get complicated when the kid disappears from the house.
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- 2011-04-01 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Domingo Lemus, Daneri Gudiel
Rating
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8.5
10 Ovnis en Zacapa (2015)
UFO sightings are reported in northeastern Guatemala. Rober Daneri a frustrated college professor along with the production team of a sensationalist TV show embark on a supernatural journey across the thin boundary between blind faith, self-delusion and the unknown in search of truth.
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- 2015-10-30 | Comedy / Science Fiction
Cast
- Daneri Gudiel, Domingo Lemus
Rating
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5.4