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- DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsHarrison FordWillem DafoeAnne ArcherCIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
- CreatorAndrés LópezStarsPaulina GálvezVivian OssaJesus ChaverTwo good friends join the underground world of drug trafficking to make quick money and improve their lifestyles.
- DirectorCarlos MorenoJuancho CardonaStarsManolo CardonaJuana AcostaDiego CadavidThe life of Andres Lopez Lopez during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle".
- DirectorJuan Felipe OrozcoStarsEdgar RamírezRicardo VélezCarolina GómezA former guerrilla is reluctantly drawn into the vengeance scheme of one of his victims.
- CreatorCarlo BernardChris BrancatoDoug MiroStarsPedro PascalWagner MouraBoyd HolbrookA chronicled look at the criminal exploits of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, as well as the many other drug kingpins who plagued the country through the years.
- StarsCecilia NaviaVicky HernándezChristian TappanThe exploits of the notorious drug lord, Pablo Escobar.
- DirectorAndrew DavisStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerJohn LeguizamoFrancesca NeriAfter his family is killed by a terrorist act, a firefighter goes in search of the one responsible.
- CreatorCristian ContiStarsCristina UmañaJuan Pablo RabaNicolás Quiroga PinedaJhon Jeiver, a lethal guerrilla fighter who escapes from the jungle after the signing and referendum of the Colombian Peace Agreements, arrives in Bogotá escaping from his past, and tries to reinsert himself into society.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsJavier CámaraNicolás Reyes CanoJuan Pablo UrregoAn author recalls life with his father, a university professor who fought against oppression and social inequality in Colombia in the seventies.
- DirectorGuillermo NavarroStarsCatherine Zeta-JonesJenny PellicerAlejandro EddaThe real life of Colombian drug lord, Griselda Blanco, who reportedly masterminded more than 200 murders. This film presents her life story from the time she was a young girl to the end of her life.
- DirectorOlivier MegatonStarsZoe SaldanaMichael VartanCallum BlueA young girl in Bogotá witnesses her parents' murder and grows up to be a stone-cold assassin.
- DirectorJuan José LozanoThe peaceful resistance; against the guerrilla, police, military and paramilitary; by a group of peasants in the Uraba region of Colombia.
- StarsJuan ÁngelGerardo CaleroEdgardo RománFrom the point of view of a tailor, the story of a generation of national heroes is told. Their lives, risks and hardships to achieve the independence of the New Kingdom of Granada (today Colombia) and how their rivalries made that struggle was in vain and they became martyrs for the freedom of a nation.
- StarsCristina GarcíaPaola MorenoNerea CamachoIn Colombia in 1821, a Spanish plantation gets burned down, and only the planters' baby is spared. She gets sent to Spain, but concocts a plan to return home and become an abolitionist.
- DirectorAndrea Di StefanoStarsBenicio Del ToroJosh HutchersonClaudia TraisacIn Colombia, a young surfer meets the woman of his dreams - and then meets her uncle, Pablo Escobar.
- DirectorBrad FurmanStarsBryan CranstonJohn LeguizamoDiane KrugerA U.S. Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
- DirectorKenneth HartfordHerbert L. StrockStarsJames MitchumJohn CarradinePhilip CareyA rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
- DirectorFelipe EchavarriaStarsDiego CadavidPaola MendozaMark SchardanArmed-conflict journalist, Juan Gaviria, escapes after four years in captivity at the mercy of Colombian Guerillas. He is portrayed as a national hero for supposedly having killed the head of the rebel organization. Gaunt, muddy, and tormented Juan returns to his home in Bogota, only to discover an altered version of the life he once lived. Juan's best friend and college roommate, Daniel, an American who was once a Latin America correspondent, has found himself unemployed and in the midst of a divorce. More unsettling, Juan has received confirmation of rumors regarding his marriage. His wife, Andrea, has admitted having an affair with Daniel in her husband's absence. Yet, not being free of sin, Juan decides to forgive. At Juan's insistence, to prove that there are no hard feelings, he and Andrea accompany Daniel to Key Largo on a scuba diving weekend, a trip that was once a tradition between old friends. In an isolated, dive motel, Heili, a local teenager wiser than her years, intersects the triangle and forces Juan to relive his relationship with Cindy, a fifteen-year-old guerrilla soldier who died because of his escape. Juan's recklessness and jealousy drives Andrea towards Daniel. However, Daniel, fed up with of her previous rejections decides not to play her game. Wanting to put an end to the trip, Andrea lies to Juan about Daniel's intentions. Juan realizing that his wife is not longer in love with him, is pushed to take drastic measures. The film takes you over Colombian mountains, underwater, out to sea, and into the tormented psyche of a master manipulator as he struggles to assimilate and understand his role in a series of love triangles.
- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsRichard TysonBobbie PhillipsAdriano GonzálezA clean family movie of action, humor, and love. Pilot Dan's mission: rescue a woman working a jungle clinic in midst of warfare. She and another are willing to sacrifice their lives for villagers. A daring rescue results in a changed life. Planes, helicopter, explosions, and Samaritan's Purse are elements.
- DirectorLeopoldo PinzónStarsJuly PedrazaCarlos BarbosaConsuelo LuzardoA beautiful young peasant emigrates to Bogota to become the servant of a middle class family with acute internal problems. She has experienced firsthand the rigors of the violence in the camps and as a maid look closely the deterioration of a marriage relationship subjected to attempts to seduce the head of household. It is the story of many women who, having been thrown brutally field never able to heal their wounds in the big city.
- DirectorCésar Heredia CruzStarsEdgar Durán Jr.Héctor GarcíaFabiana Medina1985. Bogota. The city lives its day to day of militarized streets and suspicions. In the center, the tailor Salvador follows his routine until one day Isabel arrives in his life.
- DirectorFrancisco NordenStarsFrank RamírezIsabela CoronaVictor Hugo MorantIn Colombia, from the second half of the nineteenth century, two political parties; The traditional liberal and conservative ¸ fought a series of civil wars for almost one hundred years of bloodshed in the country. The last of these To know as "La Violencia" ¸ began following the assassination of popular leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan ¸ The April 9, 1948. That day began a dark period that lasted a decade in which met the key role hired murderers ¸ called "Pajaros" ¸ such as Leon Maria Lozano ¸ The most notorious of all. "The Condor."
- DirectorJenni KivistöJussi RastasStarsErnestoJuan Manuel SantosPachoThe peace agreement between FARC guerrillas and the Colombian Government throws the country into chaos. What happens to a fragile peace in an unequal country if doing the 'wrong' thing may easily be justified as the only means of struggle?
- DirectorSalma TafurAgamenon QuinteroStarsRubén GuevaraRuz Mary MoralesSalma TafurAt the end of the 1940s in Colombia, Calixto, a powerful landowner, buys the virginity of Angela, a thirteen-year-old peasant girl. From that day until the day she dies, Angela suffers Calixto's abuse based in this social practice.
- DirectorJaime ChávarriStarsDarío GrandinettiAitana Sánchez-GijónJuan EchanoveA woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of Gardel, dumps her boyfriend Gustavo for Renzo, a singer who looks like Gardel. She insists that his trio performs Gardel's tangos, which leads to Renzo recording a Ford commercial when Gardel himself is overbooked. The trio, with Joanna in tow, goes on an ill-fated tour of points north. The couple breaks up: she goes home and he tries to get to New York. Fate steps in, and once again he's called upon to pose as Gardel. Then, legend and a bracelet take over.
- DirectorLuis Hernan ReinaStarsRuddy RodríguezZharick LeónConstanza CameloA group of friends, around a bonfire, tell stories about destiny and death.
- DirectorAntonio NegretStarsRoberto UrbinaAmerica FerreraDavid SutcliffeDeals with 90 minutes in a kidnapped hostage's life, and the frustration his family, a special ops team, and a man in charge of delivering the ransom money all feel as they rush to save him.
- DirectorCarlos MayoloStarsAdriana HerránDavid GuerreroSantiago GarcíaAugust 6, 1956 during the military dictatorship of Rojas Pinilla. Explosions in central Cali military convoy destroy much of the traditional buildings of the city and exposing the roots of some houses which for years had kept the secret stories of its inhabitants: Proprietary notable families of Manors sugar mills and surrounding. One such family is visited by a girl, who has lived for years in the U.S., and is half sister of our young protagonist. It is knowledge, dig into the past of the family¸ attracted to each other¸ and are immersed in a delirium in which they appear as mythical ancestors who also starred in stories of incest and violence.
- DirectorRaphael D. SilverStarsKevin AndersonPedro Armendáriz Jr.Roger CudneyA Peace Corps volunteer, bubbling o'er with idealism, learns to his delight that he has been assigned to a remote, backward Colombian village. When he arrives, he is confused by the cynical attitude of his predecessor (In HD).
- DirectorJoseph CasteloStarsThomas MannLucy FryLogan HuffmanA student at a private school uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network there.
- DirectorDanilo G. SantosStarsNorma CalixGuillermo QuintanillaFernando GaviriaVictoria. a fearless Latina in a narco-cartel world falls for her bodyguard and stepsister, Katy, leading to a risky love triangle. Amidst the danger, she must make tough choices for her survival.
- DirectorJulian HigginsStarsRobert ThorneTom SizemoreBertie Higgins1976 is a dangerous year in the Straits of Yucatan. Jack Hooks, a former cop set up by his corrupt partner is sent to jail for a drug crime he didn't commit. After being yanked out of prison with an early-release deal offered by the DEA, he is sent on a do-or-die mission to bring down the drug trade of his former partner Frank Rossi and his contacts. Hooks has no choice but to plunge into the marijuana-smuggling underworld by making one big run through "The Eye": the narrow channel that flows between Cuba and Mexico, and into the heart of a violent Colombian drug ring. At the head of the ring is Carlos Huerta, the ruthless drug lord who is Rossi's supply source and Jack's final objective--if he can escape the Colombian jungles before his clandestine relationship with Huerta's young courtesan is discovered and threatens his freedom and the lives of himself and his crew. By Bertie Higgins, Julian Higgins, and Larry Madill.
- DirectorRodrigo TrianaStarsDiego CadavidJuan Sebastián AragónManuel José ChavesBased on a true story, a group of 147 overworked and underpaid Colombian soldiers find the treasure they didn't seek; $46 million. The film is a surreal black comedy and follows 4 of the 147 soldiers who were part of the anti-guerrilla "Destroyer" battalion, and tells of their story leading up to and after finding the money. The soldiers decide to divide the money between themselves instead of giving the money to the Colombian government. The soldiers don't have food, water or toilet paper, but instead use their bags full of money as pillows. As the soldiers are recalled and taken back into civilization, they start to use their money for bad things, spending it on brothels, alcohol and prostitutes. The discovery the soldiers made changed their lives. They no longer live in poverty and now are capable of achieving their dreams. Now they hope to return to civilization and make their dreams come true.
- DirectorJoshua MarstonStarsCatalina Sandino MorenoGuilied LopezOrlando TobónA pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately-needed money for her family.
- DirectorHans PosStarsThekla ReutenKim van KootenDaniël BoissevainThe gripping true story of a Dutch girl who made an amazing career in the international narcotics world.
- DirectorTaylor HackfordStarsDamian ChapaJesse BorregoBenjamin BrattBased on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo.
- StarsAlex McArthurDennis FarinaJulie CarmenA D.E.A. Agent goes to Columbia to take on the Cartel. He learns that the Cartel is not above killing anyone who opposes them, like judges and Police. Eventually a man who worked for the Cartel, who is in an American prison, offers to help them take down the Cartel. So another Federal Agent poses a money launderer and the try to take the Cartel down.
- DirectorAlberto ArveloStarsEdgar RamírezErich WildpretMaría ValverdeSimon Bolivar fought over 100 battles against the Spanish Empire in South America. He rode over 70,000 miles on horseback. His military campaigns covered twice the territory of Alexander the Great. His army never conquered -- it liberated.
- DirectorFernando León de AranoaStarsJavier BardemPenélope CruzPeter SarsgaardA journalist strikes up a romantic relationship with notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar.
- DirectorTed DemmeStarsJohnny DeppPenélope CruzFranka PotenteThe story of how George Jung, along with the Medellín Cartel headed by Pablo Escobar, established the American cocaine market in the 1970s in the United States.
- DirectorCristina GallegoCiro GuerraStarsCarmiña MartínezJosé AcostaNatalia ReyesDuring the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
- DirectorCiro GuerraStarsNilbio TorresJan BijvoetAntonio BolívarThe story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
- DirectorMichael NoerStarsCharlie HunnamDamijan OklopdzicChristopher FairbankWrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter, Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.
- DirectorCarlos SamperioStarsHoracio CasteloMario ZaragozaJuan RíosA low-level drug dealer decides to adopt the nickname of one of the bloodiest drug lords in history.
- DirectorStuart RosenbergStarsMichael SchoefflingTom WilsonFidel AbregoWhen Colombian revolutionaries kidnap an American engineer, his brother and friends, faced with official inaction, hire a mercenary and mount the rescue operation themselves.
- DirectorJames GlickenhausStarsChristopher WalkenMaria Conchita AlonsoMichael Joseph DeSareA former Vietnam War lieutenant reforms his old team in order to help a revolutionary's sister overthrow a ruthless dictator.
- DirectorCinzia TH TorriniStarsJohn SavageRachel WardMassimo TroisiMarco Venieri receives word that his brother Luca, an ex-terrorist turned state's evidence, has killed himself in Columbia. Marco takes the journey to Columbia only to find a country permeated with poverty, corruption, racism and crime.
- DirectorSergio CabreraStarsEmma SuárezNicolás MonteroCésar MoraAn oil company has set up a camp for geological research in a small village in Colombia that has been named New Texas so it becomes the target of the guerrillas. The confrontation is altered in the interest of the sides of continuing the transmission of the World Cup qualifiers of U.S. 94 on the only TV working in the town.
- DirectorJean-Marie PoiréStarsChristian ClavierJean RenoIsabelle RenauldSquale, an ace spy, is called back from South America to carry out a tough operation. Goal: dismantle an international arms traffic masterminded by an important French government official. Squale triggers off a squall that blasts away everything in its wake: people, cars, and helicopters. The Lemercier, Clavier and Reno trio steal the thunder in this uproarious operation.
- DirectorElia SchneiderElia K. SchneiderStarsRoque ValeroEdgar RamírezRamiro Meneses"Punto y raya" is the story of a young Colombian recruit who, while patrolling his country's border, is befriended by a Venezuelan adversary, and the tragic consequences of their relationship.
- DirectorRafa LaraStarsAntonio MerlanoGuillermo IvánMónica GómezEduardo is a young upper-class Colombian who is kidnapped by a guerrilla group, and becomes trapped in the middle of the crossfire between the military, paramilitary and guerrilla groups. His outlook on life and his own country, will change radically after the traumatic experience that lives along several months, in which he risks his life in multilple transfers to different camps, as well as armed clashes, along with the extreme loneliness that puts him on the brink of madness.
- DirectorCamila LoboguerreroStarsMaría Eugenia DávilaFrank RamírezMagusoColombia 1920's. The country receives compensation for the separation of Panama and is open to foreign credit to undertake major development works. Growing mass of workers but not improve their conditions as still subject to the place since colonial times. The climate is more conducive to that industrial strife and the emergence of leaders who are: Maria Cano was one of the Highlights. His work on behalf of the workers were also given for the woman confronted the powerful toured the country and raided the literature. She and her colleagues do this story.
- DirectorMiguel CourtoisStarsLuis TosarAntonio FerreiraEileen MorenoA thriller centered on a family taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
- DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsRupert EverettOrnella MutiGian Maria VolontèIn a small village in Latin America, Santiago Nasar is killed in the morning, which surprises nobody. The Vicario brothers were openly declaring they would kill him to regain the lost honor of their young sister, Angela. It's the way and custom of the country. Nothing and nobody would have prevent it. It was a foretold death . Let see how and why.
- DirectorF. Gary GrayStarsVin DieselTimothy OlyphantLarenz TateA man known as Diablo emerges to head a drug cartel after the previous leader is imprisoned.
- DirectorDoug LimanStarsTom CruiseDomhnall GleesonSarah WrightThe story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.
- DirectorCiro DuránStarsJsu GarciaMadeleine StoweDavid CarradineNew York is the dream city of Tavo and Marina, where the lovers hope to start a better life; at home in Bogota they have to work as pocket pickers at the airport to support their families. Dealer Oskar can persuade them to smuggle drugs in their stomachs on plane to New York - although both know of the risks, since Marina's sister died on a similar journey. However on arrival at the airport in New York they show nerves and all their dreams start to shatter...
- DirectorSergio CabreraStarsDaniel Giménez CachoMartina GarcíaCésar MoraThe best Colombian thriller of the last decade. The discovery of an impaled corpse near Bogota, prostitutes, a real-estate fraud scheme, emerald hunters, and corrupt politicians reflect the actuality of the conflicting country.
- DirectorJorge NavasStarsRosa Esther Mosquera AramburoDuván ArizalaMiguel Ángel BanguelaIn Buenaventura-Colombia, Harvey and his three friends are doomed to a life of poverty and uncertainty. While attempting to escape their reality, they use music and urban dance to overcome and defy their violent destiny.
- DirectorJorge Alí TrianaStarsGustavo AngaritaSebastián OspinaJorge Emilio SalazarA man is released from prison, and after 18 years, returns to his "pueblo" (village). But in this village, time, in many ways, has stood still. The time served by Juan complied with the court's justice, but not with some villagers. There are some who still seek true justice.
- DirectorJulian Diaz VelosaStarsLiliana CalderónJuan Sebastián CasanovaFelipe CorreaThe conflict crosses destinies, SEebastian, a young rebel who dreams of being an artist, is forced to go to the army, where he meets ANDRÉS, a young guerrilla who is infiltrated.
- DirectorClaudio FähCarl GoldsteinStarsChad Michael CollinsDanay GarciaBilly ZaneFor the first time, Brandon Beckett, Richard Miller and Sgt. Thomas Beckett join forces in Colombia to take down a brutal drug cartel.
- DirectorCarlos PalauStarsNelly DelgadoIrene ArcilaAlejandro MadriñánThe tribute of a generation to its adolescence. The student jokes, the boarding school, adolescence at its best. The views of both sexes with their own questions and the human need to know the answers. The story focuses on a mixed group of teenagers in the second half of the sixties: music, how they related and how life developed in those days in a small Colombian city
- DirectorEmilio MailléStarsFlora MartínezUnax UgaldeManolo CardonaTwo friends meet and are seduced by sensuous hit woman Rosario Tijeras. Full of hatred, violence is her way of life. The trio loose themselves in a passionate love triangle where the pain of love will be confused with that of death.
- DirectorTaylor HackfordStarsMeg RyanRussell CroweDavid MorseAlice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
- DirectorBarbet SchroederStarsGermán JaramilloAnderson BallesterosJuan David RestrepoThe writer F. Vallejo returns to Medellin after an absence of over 30 years. He meets 16-year-old Alexis. Alexis is the kind of killer who knocks people off on command. The two are immediately attracted to each other.
- DirectorKiyotaka TsurisakiStarsFroilan OrozcoA Documentary about the grim work of an embalmer in one of the poorest and most dangerous parts in Colombia.
- DirectorFerde Grofé Jr.StarsChuck ConnorsAron KincaidCesar RomeroIn 1870, five ex-Confederate soldiers get embroiled in a foreign civil war south of the border.
- DirectorMike NewellStarsJavier BardemGiovanna MezzogiornoBenjamin BrattFlorentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.
- DirectorCarlos MorenoStarsMarlon MorenoÓscar BordaÁlvaro RodríguezIn the crime world of Colombia, there is an unwritten code. When Víctor and Eusebio, two hoods who bungle a shake-down job, break that code, they unwittingly sign their own death sentence.
- DirectorJaime Osorio GómezStarsVicky HernándezGustavo LondoñoMaría Cristina GálvezThe action is situated in Colombia on April 9, 1948, date in which took place the famous "Bogotazo". It is a story of love frustrated by political circumstances. Laura, a spinster schoolteacher, lives to Josefina and Santiago, public employee. The three characters will be besieged by 24 hours, targeted by snipers, will be forced to show such which are or they would have liked to be.
- DirectorRodrigo TrianaStarsJairo CamargoAlina LozanoPatricia MaldonadoThe neighborhood La Estrella, in Bogotá, is inhabited by families displaced by the violence. Before the event which is the arrival of the electric light, that night there is a celebration. Cristancho and Brochero families, neighbors, friends and leaders of La Estrella, will be involved in a series of incidents and jokes.
- DirectorTim MathesonStarsJoe ManganielloKen AndersonChannon RoeNavy SEALS mount an attack on Colombian special forces to clear their names and rescue a hostage.
- DirectorFelipe GuerreroStarsMarleyda SotoLuisa VidesVerónica CarvajalOscuro animal tells the story of three women forced to flee their homes in a war torn region in Colombia. .
- DirectorIván GaonaStarsRené Diaz CalderónWillington GordilloCristian HernándezWillington's only love, Mariana, is about to get married to his cousin. While Willington tries to get her back, the rumor of a thief in town and a series of violent murders remind them of a fearful past, that will endanger Mariana.
- DirectorAndrew MartonStarsStewart GrangerGrace KellyPaul DouglasIn Colombia, mining engineer Rian Mitchell discovers Carrero, the lost emerald mine of the Conquistadors, but has to contend with notorious local bandit El Moro's gang and with coffee planter Catherine Knowland's love.
- DirectorLaura Mora OrtegaStarsCarlos Andrés CastañedaDavison FlorezBrahian AcevedoFollows five young men and about the marginalized, excluded humanity who seeks a place in the world.