19 Films & TV Shows Set In Guatemala
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Terminator: Dark Fate
Texas Ciudad de México 🇬🇹 Guatemala The 1990s The 2020s The 2040sWelcome to the day after judgement day — Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.
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Our Mothers
🇬🇹 Guatemala The 2010sGuatemala, 2018. The country is riveted on the trial of the military officers who started the civil war. The victims’ testimonials keep pouring in. Ernesto, a young anthropologist at the Forensic Foundation, identifies people who have gone missing. One day, through an old lady’s story, Ernesto thinks he has found a lead that will allow him to find his father, a guerillero who disappeared during the war.
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Ixcanul
🇬🇹 GuatemalaMaría, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a place she cannot even imagine. And so she seduces a coffee-harvester who wants to escape to the USA. When this man leaves her behind, María discovers her own world and culture anew.
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The Golden Dream
🇬🇹 Guatemala 🇲🇽 Mexico ArizonaA group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California.
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Living on One Dollar
🇬🇹 Guatemala56 DAYS | 56 DOLLARS | HOW DO YOU SURVIVE? — How do 1.1 billion people around the world live on less than one dollar a day? Four young friends set out to research and live this reality. Armed with only a video camera and a desire to understand, they spend just 56 dollars each for 56 days in rural Pena Blanca, Guatemala. They battle E.Coli, financial stress, and the realization that there are no easy answers. Yet, the generosity and strength of their neighbors, Rosa, Anthony and Chino gives them resilient hope. They return home transformed and embark on a mission to share their new found understanding with other students, inspiring and challenging their generation to make a difference.
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Mayan Renaissance
🇬🇹 Guatemala The 14th Century The 15th Century The 16th Century Ancient HistoryMayan Renaissance is a feature length film which documents the glory of the ancient Maya civilization, the Spanish conquest in 1519, 500 years of oppression, and the courageous fight of the Maya to reclaim their voice and determine their own future, in Guatemala and throughout Central America. The film stars 1992 Nobel Peace Laureate and Maya Leader Rigoberta Mencu Tum. All of the images, voices, expert commentary and music in the film come directly from Central America, the heart of the Mayan World.
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Sin Nombre
🇲🇽 Mexico 🇬🇹 Guatemala 🇭🇳 Honduras The 2000sThe greatest sin of all is risking nothing. — Sayra, a Honduran teen, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same American-bound train.
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The Fountain
🇪🇸 Spain 🇬🇹 Guatemala The 2000s The 16th CenturyDeath is the road to awe — Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
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Apocalypto
🇬🇹 Guatemala The 16th CenturyNo one can outrun their destiny. — Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.
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Aro Tolbukhin in the Mind of a Killer
🇭🇺 Hungary 🇬🇹 GuatemalaAfter a strict upbringing and the death of his beloved sister, Aro Tolbukhin leaves Hungary for Guatemala. Taken in as a political refugee at a mission, Aro grows close to Sister Carmen and becomes part of the community, but a series of misfortunes drive him to arson and murder. Now on death row, Aro is interviewed about his life and motivations by a film crew trying to understand what made him snap.
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Across the Line
🇲🇽 Mexico Texas 🇬🇹 GuatemalaIn America, every dream has a price. — Across the Line (2000) is a truthful representation of both hope and corruption, focusing on critical events transpiring at America's border with Mexico and known both to those who live on the "line" (physical and metaphorical) and to those with the courage to cross it. Further it is a fine example of the filmmaker's art, featuring convincing portrayals underpinned by a convincing script and the directorial talent of Martin Spottl.
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The Juror
New York 🇬🇹 Guatemala The 1990sThere is no defense. — With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as "the Teacher" tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verdict, implying that he'll kill her son Oliver if she fails. She manages to do this, but, when it becomes clear that the mobsters might want to silence her for good, she sends Oliver abroad and tries to gather evidence of the plot against her, setting up a final showdown.
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Predator
Central America - General 🇬🇹 Guatemala The 1980sSoon the hunt will begin. — A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
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The Evil That Men Do
Ciudad de México 🇬🇹 Guatemala 🇸🇷 SurinameProfessional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a Latin American journalist, is killed. The murderer, Doctor Clement Molloch, is the master sadist behind the political torture of innocent victims. Posing as a journalist, Holland lures Molloch out of his fortress-like headquarters by using his murdered friend's wife and daughter as bait. When Holland kidnaps Molloch's sister, the doctor is led on a wild chase that takes him to an abandoned opal mine where he finally comes face to face with Holland.
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El Norte
Baja California California 🇬🇹 GuatemalaBrother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
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When the Mountains Tremble
🇬🇹 Guatemala The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sA documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú.
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You Only Come at Night
🇸🇻 El Salvador 🇬🇹 GuatemalaTourist gets involved with mother and daughter without realizing they're related, runs afoul of husband/father. It ends badly.
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Treasure of the Golden Condor
🇫🇷 France 🇬🇹 Guatemala The 18th CenturyA nobleman searches for a hidden treasure in Guatemala.
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The New Adventures of Tarzan
England 🇬🇹 GuatemalaA feature film. Tarzan, who has returned to Africa after living in England, sets off to Guatemala in search of an old friend who may have survived a plane crash there. Also in Guatemala are Ula Vale and Major Martling who are out to find the riches of the Green Goddess. They join forces after they learn that a competitor, Raglan, has already set out ahead of them. Tarzan has to rescue everyone after they are taken prisoner. When they get to the hidden city, Tarzan finds his friend alive and the fabulous treasure.
