Best award winning movies with wasted potential from Guatemala

1 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.

2 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.

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.

4 Gasolina (2010)

Three middle-class teenagers out on a high-octane ride to hell outside the safety of their "colonia"

5 Deadly Nightmare (1980)

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.

7 The Garden of Steven (2012)

Steven Crosby, a small town missionary in a strange land, stumbles upon the low road to salvation with the help of a little Mayan girl, a black magic woman and a saint with a cigar.