Feature Films

We’ve compiled an extensive Colombian film industry database ready for consultation. You’ll find information on features and short films in every genre and stage of development, and you can check the data sheets, synopses, cast and crew, related news, clips, audio and trailers for Colombian films.

LETTERS FROM EL GORDO

LETTERS FROM EL GORDO

Director: Darío Armando García "Dago", Juan Carlos Vásquez

Colombia, 2006

Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Carlos Julio, or “Chubby”, has dedicated his life to his friend Alfredo, “Skinny”. They grew up in the same neighborhood and were playmates during childhood, but life separated them and took them to different worlds. However, a bittersweet circumstance changes their paths once again, and thrugh Chubby’s unquestionin...
AT THE END OF THE SPECTRUM

AT THE END OF THE SPECTRUM

Director: Juan Felipe Orozco

Colombia, 2006

Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Vega is forced to spend some time away from her work and social life after a traumatic experience triggers a crisis of agoraphobia. Following her father’s recommendation, she moves to a new apartment where she begins to live like a hermit. Her life changes radically. She starts seeing things that cannot be explained and listening to voices...
EL COLOMBIAN DREAM

EL COLOMBIAN DREAM

Director: Felipe Aljure

Colombia, 2006

120 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Dos jóvenes con más ambición que sensatez se lanzan a la delincuencia en esta comedia negra colombiana. Pepe y Enrique son hermanos gemelos enamorados de la misma mujer, Rosita. Con la esperanza de dejar su pequeño pueblo y llevarse a Rosita con ellos, los hermanos buscan la manera de enriquecerse rápidamente. ...
A TON OF LUCK

A TON OF LUCK

Director: Rodrigo Triana

Colombia, 2006

100 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

“Shit! We are rich!”, Perlaza screams when he finds a bag with over 46 million dollars from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) buried in the middle of the jungle. A true story based on actual events in Colombia in May 2003. The story describes the dreams and adventures of Porras, Venegas, Lloreda and Perlaza, four sold...
CURSO 29

CURSO 29

Director: Cristian Corradine, Juan Mauricio Piñeros

Colombia, 2005

67 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

In Bogotá, a city where the majority of inhabitants are unaware of the work done by the Fire Department, a group of young men and women begin Class 29 in the hope of becoming professional firefighters. Each one has a different idea about the job, and most are motivated primarily by the possibility of a steady job. Throughout the course, t...
LOS MONOS DE LOS ANDES

LOS MONOS DE LOS ANDES

Director: Talía Carolina Osorio Cardona

Colombia, 2004

65 min minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

MY GRANDFATHER, MY FATHER AND I

MY GRANDFATHER, MY FATHER AND I

Director: Darío Armando García "Dago", Dago García, Juan Carlos Vásquez

Colombia, 2005

95 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

My grandfather, my father and I is a romantic comedy that narrates simultaneously the sentimental lives of three men of the same family, Jaime Barbini (the grandfather) Miguel Varoni (the son) and Juan Fernando Sánchez (the grandson), who, while they belong to different generations have the same frustrations and joy in love. ...
ROSARIO TIJERAS

ROSARIO TIJERAS

Director: Emilio Maillé

Colombia, México, España, Francia, Brasil, 2005

126 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

After a night at the discotheque, Antonio and Emilio, two wealthy friends from Medellín, Colombia, succumb to the sensuality of the beautiful but shady Rosario. The intense menaje a trois that eventually unfolds, will prove to be at the same time healing and destructive to all three. Meanwhile, fate has been lurking around waiting to catc...
ADDICTIONS AND SUBTRACTIONS

ADDICTIONS AND SUBTRACTIONS

Director: Victor Gaviria

Colombia, 2004

105 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Medellín, Colombia, 1980s, when the drug cartels were at their peak. A middle-class engineer, married and from a good family, Santiago has serious money problems. A childhood friend introduces him to the garage-owning drug lord, Gerardo. Fascinated by the atmosphere of decadent parties, drugs and women, Santiago is caught up in whirlpool ...
THE WANDERING SHADOWS

THE WANDERING SHADOWS

Director: Ciro Guerra

Colombia, 2004

91 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Mañe is going through hard times. Having lost a leg, he is unable to find work nor pay his rent, and is the laughing stock of hi neighbors. As he wanders the streets trying to get by, he meets an unusual character, a “silletero”, a man who carries people on a chair strapped to his back, charging 500 pesos a ride. They discover...
WITHOUT AMPARO

WITHOUT AMPARO

Director: Jaime Osorio Gómez

España, Venezuela, Colombia, 2005

80 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

A sudden death will reveal a secret love in this critically acclaimed drama. Bereft at the loss of his wife Amparo, Rodrigo is stunned to find flowers from an unknown admirer at her grave. But when he tracks them back to Armando, apparently “very close” to Amparo, no duel ensues. Instead the flashbacks unroll, as Amparo’s two loves pool their me...