27 Films & TV Shows Set In Ecuador
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Emptiness
🇪🇨 EcuadorLEI and WONG clandestinely arrive to Ecuador, on their way to the port city of Guayaquil. From here LEI plans to continue her journey to New York, but CHANG, a bipolar mobster will decide her fate. WONG unwillingly gets entangled in the web of corruption that operates the encroachment of Chinese immigrants. His only objective is to bring his twelve-year-old son from China.
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Soldier's Woman
🇪🇨 Ecuador... They were scarred forever — Unspeakable events occurred in the town of Manta. Several young women had to flee from there and were despised forever. They were condemned without anyone asking why they did it. Thirty years later, Magda decides to return to rediscover her past, now that she is facing a judicial process that can restore the dignity and honor that her people have denied her. She feels watched, judged in this frozen place in time, until her friends come to accompany her and a little light appears again.
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The Sum of the Circles
🇪🇨 EcuadorA visual –and poetic– tour of "Wild Cathedral", a poem by César Dávila Andrade. — Fifteen locations are the stage where fifteen performers, among artists, poets, students etc., one per location, perform a fragment of “Wild Cathedral”, a poem by the mythical Ecuadorian poet César Dávila Andrade. A sum of portraits where the poem becomes a bridge to access the character and his respective surroundings. The poem as a regulating and critical voice between the character and the different territorialities.
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Espíritu del 98
🇪🇨 Ecuador The 1990sAt the end of the 90's, when unconventional musical proposals were lost in the “underground”, “Punk Union” arose by chance. The collective of teenage bands brought together many young people from different social strata in countless concerts for more than 10 years. Through the eyes of its protagonists and promoters, the documentary tells how the movement managed to become one of the most important independent music producers in Guayaquil.
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From Core to Sun
🇪🇨 EcuadorEcuadorian athlete Millán Ludeña, embarks on his new adventure to be the first athlete to register a new Guinness World Record for his beloved country.
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Luz de América
🇪🇨 EcuadorFrom the light that falls on the backyard of his house on the day of the equinox without shadow in Quito, and inspired by the "Theory of colors" of Goethe, the director takes us to several cities in America to reflect on the influence that the light has in the understanding of our surroundings.
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Tierra de mujeres
🇪🇨 EcuadorThe reality of four rural women in the Metropolitan District of Quito. Despite their pain and difficulties, they have managed to forge a life that in maturity unfolds all the beauty of wisdom.
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Quebrada
🇪🇨 EcuadorThe documentary portrays the everyday way of life of a group of young people from Quito, who being fans of hardcore and for different personal reasons decided to become Straight Edge. The Straight Edge is an urban culture, young people who together or separately make the decision not to consume psychotropic substances, alcohol or tobacco.
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Gartelmann la memoria
🇪🇨 EcuadorKarl Dieter Gartelmann, a German photographer and filmmaker, arrived in Ecuador in the seventies, in the midst of the oil boom, with an old 16mm Bolex video camera, and began a journey through the Ecuadorian jungle, collecting the visual testimony of a life that is dying. This documentary brings together the director's permanent concerns: culture and nature wasted by extractivism. A conversation between two directors about the creation of memory through cinema.
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Snatched
🇨🇴 Colombia 🇪🇨 Ecuador The 2010sMess with me, mess with my mother. — When her boyfriend dumps Emily, a spontaneous woman in her 30s, she persuades her ultra-cautious mom to accompany her on a vacation to Ecuador. When these two very different women are trapped on this wild journey, their bond as mother and daughter is tested and strengthened while they attempt to navigate the jungle and escape.
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Las mujeres deciden
🇪🇨 EcuadorMaria, a young Spanish doctor, works in a maternity hospital in the Ecuadorian rain forest. She is shocked about the premature pregnancies and the violence women in Ecuador have to face. She meets Mishell, an adolescent abused by her father, and Yanina, a woman who decides to perform a clandestine abortion. Maria discovers that behind unintended pregnancies often hides sexual violence.
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Special Correspondents
New York 🇪🇨 Ecuador The 2010sFake news. Real disaster. — A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South America and hide out in New York instead.
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Vengo Volviendo
🇪🇨 EcuadorVengo Volviendo tells the story of Ismael, who was raised by his grandmother and seeks to leave Ecuador in order to migrate to the United States. Along the way, he encounters a host of interesting people and learns of some interesting tales.
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The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
🇪🇨 Ecuador The 1930s The 2010sDarwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands, which interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers. A gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, and Gustaf Skarsgard.
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Galapagos with David Attenborough
🇪🇨 EcuadorTwo hundred years after Charles Darwin set foot on the shores of the Galápagos Islands, David Attenborough travels to this wild and mysterious archipelago. Amongst the flora and fauna of these enchanted volcanic islands, Darwin formulated his groundbreaking theories on evolution. Journey with Attenborough to explore how life on the islands has continued to evolve in biological isolation, and how the ever-changing volcanic landscape has given birth to species and sub-species that exist nowhere else in the world. Encompassing treacherous journeys, life-forms that forge unlikely companionships, and survival against all odds, Galápagos tells the story of an evolutionary melting pot in which anything and everything is possible.
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The Facilitator
🇪🇨 EcuadorElena comes back to Ecuador to help her father overcome his illness. She spends most of her time between drugs and alcohol. While visiting her grandpa in the Andes Elena gets involved in the fight for water access in an indigenous community. She gradually understands that among family secrets, corruption and dark perversions commitment and beauty can emerge.
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Strange Wilderness
🇪🇨 EcuadorThis ain't March of the Penguins. — With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search of Bigfoot.
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End of the Spear
🇪🇨 Ecuador The 1990s The 1950sDare to Make Contact — "End of the Spear" is the story of Mincayani, a Waodani tribesman from the jungles of Ecuador. When five young missionaries, among them Jim Elliot and Nate Saint, are speared to death by the Waodani in 1956, a series of events unfold to change the lives of not only the slain missionaries' families, but also Mincayani and his people.
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The sequel to the 2001 BOX OFFICE HIT — An epic story of survival and the power of true friendship, set against an Arctic backdrop. In this new adventure the little polar bear, Lars tries to help the singing penguin Caruso. But the evil polar bear Kalle wants to get rid Caruso. During their rescue of Lars, his friend Robby and Caruso end up in a train heading south. The turbulent journey eventually leads the trio to a tropical island. There, the friends meet a variety of strange and funny animals. While a scientist is trying to catch a new specimen, one of Lars' friends, the little polar bear needs to come up with something to prevent it.
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Crónicas
🇪🇨 EcuadorIf It's On TV, It Must Be The Truth. — A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
🇪🇨 Ecuador Pacific Ocean The 1800sThe courage to do the impossible lies in the hearts of men. — After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.
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Iguana
🇪🇨 Ecuador The 19th CenturyA grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he escapes and takes up residence on a remote island. He makes himself ruler of the island and declares war on mankind. Anyone unfortunate enough to wind up on the island with Iguana is subjected to his cruel tyranny.
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Dawn in Pichincha
🇪🇨 EcuadorA tragedy based on first love.
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Se conocieron en Guayaquil
🇪🇨 Ecuador1949 Ecuadorian film.
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