Álvaro Marenco

Las simples cosas (2024)

Gonzalo has decided to die, but before leaving he calls his son Jorge for a final movie night. There, father and son will discover the simple things they kept hidden for many years. ...

En algún sitio (2023)

Christian and Antonio have been inseparable since their youth, bound by a deep friendship that hides something more. But at eighteen, a painful betrayal tears them apart, sending their lives in different directions. Years later, fate intervenes, giving the ...

The Year I Was Born (2022)

Gustavo is a 33-year-old psychologist who takes care of Gerardo, his father. Pedro is a 36-year-old history teacher who comes to the country to meet his family for the first time in his life. None of them are ready for what comes ahead in the next forty-ei ...

Volvió (2022)

Cuando me dé la gana (2022)

Abdulio is an elder man, who lives with the guilt of his daughter's death. One night he must face those fears. ...

Paroniria (2021)

Keyla is a beautiful young woman trying to get over a disturbing episode from her past. Unfortunately, her step dad's visits and the usual male harassment she suffers generate something dark within her. By the time her psychologist covers her secret, it is ...

La Mexicana (2020)

Days of Light (2019)

This beautifully integrated, multi-threaded narrative seamlessly interweaves six stories set in radically different locations across Central America, ranging from the tropical forests of Guatemala to the skyscrapers of Panama City. When a solar storm leave ...

Te presento a mi novio (2019)

Apego (2019)

A 35 year old Chilean exiled mom reconnects an old college love through Facebook, that moments sets dilemma: she might turn into the woman she swore she will never be: her mother. ...

The Gazelle's Dance (2018)

As a soccer star back in the day, Eugenio used to be known as "The Gazelle" for his speed and dexterity in the field. He retired young, unable to score a trophy. Now 72 and living in a retirement home, Eugenio is determined to win a dance contest with the ...

Violeta at Last (2017)

Recently divorced, 72-year-old Violeta lives alone in her childhood house, tending to her lush tropical garden and making plans to turn her property into a boarding house. When she discovers the bank is about to take away her house, she breaks all the rule ...

Todos somos Óscar (2017)

Lightning Falls Behind (2017)

Hernandez had already made films in Guatemala and Mexico and this time found inspiring locations, unusual atmosphere and enthusiastic young people in Costa Rica. In this consciously unpolished film, the rebellious girls Sole and Ana open the trunk of a car ...

Red Princesses (2013)

The Nicaraguan border in the eighties. Eleven-year-old Claudia and her younger sister experience the street fighting at first hand outside their car window. Their parents are Sandinista activists and, although the family is now escaping to neighbouring Cos ...

Alma raíz (2012)

Sod, an aspirant inventor, creates a pigment for a virtuoso painter. However, this pigment causes a tragedy that confronts Sod with extreme decisions. ...

The Sanatorium (2010)

A group of friends decide to make a documentary about the ghosts that are supposed to be haunting The Sanatorium in Costa Rica, things get creepy when the arrive to the place. ...

The Last Commander (2010)

In the eve of the 30th anniversary of the triumph of Nicaragua's revolution a long forgotten Sandinista commander appears: Paco Jarquin. Contrary to the most of his former FSLN colleagues, he prefer to deny his glorious past to live anonymously in the neig ...

Melcochita del Toboso (2005)

On the 400th anniversary of The Quixote this presents a new take on the encounter between Don Quixote and Dulcinea ...

Variaciones sobre un mismo crimen (1999)

A cinephile falls asleep during a projection and reality starts to confuse with dreams ...

El Moto (1998)

In a rural Costa Rican village, José Blas—known as "El Moto"—falls in love with Cundila, the daughter of a powerful landowner. As their secret romance grows, class barriers, manipulation, and misfortune conspire against them. ...

Teatro Nacional: Un siglo para soñar (1997)

A documentary about the National Theather of Costa Rica, in the anniversary of the Costa Rican architectural landmark ...

A Scent of Paradise (1997)

Stockholm 1956. The Swedish botanist, candidate and lieutenant Nils von Ekelöw, presents his research to a panel of professors. ...

Eulalia (1987)

A naive village girl leaves for city during transitional times for Costa Rica. ...

El hombre de la pierna cruzada (1983)

Costa Rican short drama ...

Añoranzas del viejo Cartago (1976)

A Costa Rican film ...

Mektoub (1970)

Ahmed, an Algerian laborer and young father, leaves his country and arrives in France, hoping to find a job through Salah, a friend who has been living in the Paris suburbs for several years. He is disappointed when he arrives in Nanterre, where Salah live ...

The Desperate Ones (1967)

In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their tail. ...

Special Mission Lady Chaplin (1966)

Lady Chaplin is a beautiful woman, she is a fashion stylist and she owns an atelier in Paris. Zoltan is a rich American specialized in submarine researches. Dick Malloy is an American secret agent. What have the three in common? Perhaps a sunk American ato ...

Lost Command (1966)

After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts ...

The Year I Was Born (2022)

Gustavo is a 33-year-old psychologist who takes care of Gerardo, his father. Pedro is a 36-year-old history teacher who comes to the country to meet his family for the first time in his life. None of them are ready for what comes ahead in the next forty-ei ...