Uruguay Movies

Humberto Brause takes advantage of Uruguay’s poor economy by specializing in offshore money laundering. Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the film follows Humberto as he gets increasingly in over his head with multiple shady book-cooking schemes throughou...

Alcira Soust Scaffo is a Uruguayan poet who became a legend by hiding in a bathroom for the 12 days that the Mexican army occupied a university in 1968. A woman whose life oscillated between delirium and sanity, between rooftops, trees and houses. A forgotten...

A young man recalls the afternoon in his childhood when he discovered religion and sex.

This is a documentary about the Uruguayan boxer Alfredo Evangelista, who at height of his career even fought against Mohammad Ali. A considerable part of the film is a long interview with him in Carabanchel prison in Madrid. Alfredo, one of Uruguay's last spor...

Pía, a writer recovering from a psychiatric crisis, organizes a reunion with former colleagues. Everything changes when Martín arrives, whom no one remembers and whom she believes to be dead. Paranoia or truth? What seemed like delusion could be hiding somethi...

The discovery of audio tapes recorded by Eugenio Berríos, known as the "chemist of Augusto Pinochet", forms the basis for reconstructing his rise and fall. His life traces a thin black line through Chile's recent history—dictatorships, lethal poisons, and moun...

A YouTuber disappears while investigating a New Age guru who apparently contacts extraterrestrial intelligence.

"Traslados" is a compelling documentary that investigates the notorious "Death Flights" conducted during Argentina's last civic-military dictatorship (1976-1983). Through powerful testimonies from former detainees, victims' families, and experts, along with ar...

In this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent -- French vocalist Laure Constant (Laurence Cote) goes to Montevideo, Uruguay, to see her old lover Colossus (Jose Olivera),but when he's a no-show, she...

A documentary on the life of Uruguayan politician and former guerrilla fighter José Mujica.

A devoted butler inherits his late employer's mansion - but only until her cherished Afghan Greyhound dies. As he settles in with the dog, greedy relatives scheme to disrupt their peaceful arrangement.

Lucía, a 27-year-old woman, returns to her childhood home in order to sell it. While waiting for the results of a pregnancy test, an unexpected encounter forces her to confront past wounds.

An average Sunday in the life of the filmmaker.

Karina was just 12 years old when she was trafficked into sex work. Now 45, she has no standard education qualifications, but what she has witnessed and experienced, in a society that has been hostile to her ‘kind’, has resulted in a new career path opening up...

During fishing season, two men share a ranch and a closeness neither can name. The tension between them grows until it shatters the fragile peace that binds them together.

Tristán is navigating his teenage years in an exceptional way: navigating his gender transition alongside his mum Virginia, his friends, his school and the Argentine State, whilst discovering his passion for drawing. But when the pressures of adulthood begin t...

Alan, a young Uruguayan fed up with his job in a hamburger restaurant, takes a trip to Buenos Aires to sell his most prized collectible toy so he can dedicate himself to his true vocation: his podcast. A series of wrong decisions lead to a bag of cocaine explo...

Joaquín is a film student who is frustrated by his insecurities as an artist. In the process of writing his debut, a series of eccentric characters from the world of independent cinema are revealed to him, challenging his principles, his relationships and his...

Soledad loses the ability to orgasm after a strange man she met on a dating app bites her on their first date. Following the traumatic experience, she realizes that now she, too, needs to bite in order to feel pleasure.

A friendship between a girl and two boys who spend their evenings roaming the streets. They circle around each other and the changing tension between them is tangible. They do not speak. When she finally seems to choose one of the boys, the inevitable question...