08.3 Nica’s Tales
by alex_new_age | created - 31 Jan 2011 | updated - 19 Mar 2017 | PublicStories writing, directing or performing by Nicaraguans or which plot line are set in Nicaragua.
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1. The Stoker (1932)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama
A man whose wife has deserted him winds up saving a beautiful girl from the clutches of a murderous bandit on a Nicaraguan coffee plantation.
Director: Chester M. Franklin | Stars: Monte Blue, Dorothy Burgess, Noah Beery, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 70
2. Embryo (1976)
PG | 104 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist (Rock Hudson) doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days. All is not well though as the child begins to exhibit some horrific tendencies.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, Diane Ladd, Roddy McDowall
Votes: 1,728
3. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
PG | 99 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera
Votes: 7,160 | Gross: $8.72M
4. Condorman (1981)
PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Cartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Barbara Carrera, James Hampton
Votes: 5,410
5. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
-Resplendent with authentic 1980s music, fashion, and vibe, "Miami Vice" follows two undercover detectives and their extended team through the mean streets of Miami, Florida.
Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Olivia Brown
Votes: 30,242
6. Sexto sentido (2001–2005)
27 min | Drama
Anything can happen to Nicaragua's youth. Here's a tiny preview of their realities, their dreams and experiences. Everything was built from real Nicaraguan young men and women.
Stars: Tania Navarro, Abdel Largaespada, Ricardo Zambrana, Salvador Espinoza
Votes: 6
7. El Cuerpo del Deseo (2005– )
45 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A man comes back from death only to discover dark secrets about his widow.
Stars: Wayne LeGette, Jimena Araya, Mario Cimarro, Lorena Rojas
Votes: 885
8. Decisiones (2005–2008)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Romance
The hour-long series features impassioned people thrust into amorous adventures and pushed to their breaking points.
Stars: Mariangelica Cuervo, Didier Van den Hove, Ricardo Chavez, Juan Pablo Shuk
Votes: 97
9. Pecados Ajenos (2007– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A dramatic story will be revealed to the viewers - Natalia and Adrian, whose love will be revived by the ashes of two failed marriages. On the one hand, Natalia desperately tries to get out... See full summary »
Stars: Lorena Rojas, Mauricio Islas, Catherine Siachoque, Lupita Ferrer
Votes: 99
10. Murder on the Border (2005)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The story follows Phoenix attorney, Eduardo, who is trying to move his family up from Mexico. Trouble arises, however, when Eduardo's father is denied a visa and decides to make the border ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Frausto | Stars: Salvador Pineda, Francisco Gattorno, Alpha Acosta, Siboney Lo
Votes: 68
11. Land of the Dead (2005)
R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Simon Baker, Dennis Hopper
Votes: 100,843 | Gross: $20.70M
12. The Lost Platoon (1990)
R | 86 min | Action, Horror, War
An American reporter covering a civil war in Nicaragua discovers that four soldiers that he used to know during World War II are there and they are actual vampires fighting their own ... See full summary »
Director: David A. Prior | Stars: William Frederick Knight, David Parry, Stephen Quadros, Michael Wayne
Votes: 258
13. Under Fire (1983)
R | 128 min | Drama, War
Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somoza regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy
Votes: 8,519 | Gross: $5.70M
14. Kill the Messenger (2014)
R | 112 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.
Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims, Robert Pralgo
Votes: 48,774 | Gross: $2.45M
15. Carla's Song (1996)
TV-MA | 127 min | Drama, Romance, War
1987, love in time of war. Bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly-sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Scott Glenn, Salvador Espinoza
Votes: 3,498
16. Contracorriente la serie (2011– )
Drama
Stars: Tamara Salas, Silvia Elena Balladares, Amarilis Soza, Ivonne García
17. Loma Verde (2010– )
23 min | Drama
A rural community called Loma Verde will be shock while their residents worked through domestic struggles and family life, facing the secrets, crimes and mysteries hidden behind the doors.
Stars: Juan Carlos Gutierrez, Fatima Lazo, Santa Ines Rivas, Jose Luis Torrez
18. La vida nocturna (1930)
38 min | Comedy, Short
Stan lies to his wife about going to a nightclub with Ollie but Mrs. Laurel overhears the plot and outsmarts them both.
Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Linda Loredo, Symona Boniface
Votes: 182
Brisa Nocturna
19. Volar en línea recta (2013)
22 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Two childhood friends from a small village in the north of Nicaragua briefly reunite one day in the city. One, a University student, and the other, a dropout, have a slight misunderstanding... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Cushnie | Stars: Walder Casco López, Norman Flores
22. Generation (2004)
13 min | Animation, Short
Director: David Downes | Stars: Benjamin B. Smith, Jake D. Smith
Votes: 12
Generación Pirata
23. Cinema Alcázar (1998)
10 min | Documentary, Short
When Rosa came to this place the earthquake had just happened and the building was one enormous ruin. People say it was a cinema, but Rosa, who has lived here for many years, has never seen... See full summary »
Director: Florence Jaugey | Star: Pilar Aguirre
Votes: 23
24. Fire from the Mountain (1987)
60 min | Documentary
Director: Deborah Shaffer | Star: Omar Cabezas
Votes: 12
25. One Man (1977)
PG | 87 min | Drama, Thriller
A crusading TV reporter finds his life ripped apart as he investigates a story about a company's deadly criminal negligence.
Director: Robin Spry | Stars: Len Cariou, Jayne Eastwood, Carol Lazare, Barry Morse
Votes: 75
El Hombre de una sola nota
26. Betún y Sangre (1990)
Short, Drama
A small shoe shiner who meets a newlywed couple, an Army captain and his beautiful wife. When the troops go mountain under Captain, He decides to follow them . But the war is not as he was imagined.
Director: Frank Pineda | Stars: Pilar Aguirre, Mauricio Alvarado, Florence Jaugey, Baltazar Lopez
27. Scared to Death (1992)
15 min | Short
Directors: Florence Jaugey, Frank Pineda | Stars: Alan Bolt, Florence Jaugey
28. Alsino and the Condor (1982)
R | 89 min | Drama, War
Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Alan Esquivel, Carmen Bunster, Alejandro Parodi
Votes: 359
29. Last Plane Out (1983)
PG | 92 min | Action, Thriller, War
An American journalist covering the civil war in Nicaragua falls in love with a beautiful Sandinista rebel.
Director: David Nelson | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Julie Carmen, Mary Crosby, David Huffman
Votes: 190 | Gross: $0.16M
30. Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive (1983 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary, War
A historical account of Nicaragua in the context of US interventions in Latin America.
Director: Alan Lowery | Stars: John Pilger, Xavier Gorostiaga, Néstor Sánchez
Votes: 32
31. Pope John Paul II (1984 TV Movie)
150 min | Biography, Drama
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland, to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic Church.
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Albert Finney, Michael Crompton, Robert Austin, Caroline Bliss
Votes: 233
Papa Juan Pablo II en Nicaragua
32. Nicaragua: No pasaran (1984)
74 min | Documentary
A documentary on the Nicaraguan revolution.
Director: David Bradbury | Stars: Mark Aarons, Laurie Anderson, Tomás Borge, Norma Helena Gadea
Votes: 10
33. Latino (1985)
105 min | Drama, War
Set in the context of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and their battle with the U.S.-backed Contra rebels. Eddie Guerrero (Robert Beltran) is a Vietnam War veteran sent to help U.S. ... See full summary »
Director: Haskell Wexler | Stars: Robert Beltran, Annette Charles, Américo González, Michael Goodwin
Votes: 207
34. The Mosquito Coast (1986)
PG | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Jadrien Steele
Votes: 31,223 | Gross: $14.30M
35. Walker (1987)
R | 94 min | Biography, Drama, History
An unconventional retelling of the life of William Walker, a 19th century American mercenary leader who became the president of Nicaragua.
Director: Alex Cox | Stars: Ed Harris, Richard Masur, Rene Auberjonois, Keith Szarabajka
Votes: 4,287 | Gross: $0.26M
36. Striker (1988)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Drama
John Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandanista prison in Nicaragua. He teams with Marta, a local woman, to carry out this mission, but then he's captured, ... See full summary »
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Frank Zagarino, Melonee Rodgers, John Steiner, Werner Pochath
Votes: 202
37. Sandino (1990)
135 min | Biography, Drama
The US tried to occupy Nicaragua in 1927. General Cesar Augusto Sandino and his guerrillas begin armed resistance.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Joaquim de Almeida, Dean Stockwell, Ángela Molina
Votes: 129
38. Pictures from a Revolution (1991)
93 min | Documentary, History
In 1981, Susan Meiselas published "Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979," 70 photographs she took documenting the Sandinista revolution. Ten years later, Meiselas returns looking for the ... See full summary »
Directors: Alfred Guzzetti, Susan Meiselas, Richard P. Rogers | Star: Susan Meiselas
Votes: 65
39. Point of Impact (1993)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jack David (Pare) is a tough, outspoken cop who finds himself wrongly accused for the death of a fellow agent by the depraved and power hungry chief of Miami Customs, Martin Cullen (Ian ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Misiorowski | Stars: Michael Paré, Barbara Carrera, Michael Ironside, Lehua Reid
Votes: 757
Spanish Rose
40. Managua (1997)
R | 108 min | Drama
A retired U.S. soldier is sent to Managua, the capital of war-torn Nicaragua, to recover the body of his friend, a U.S. journalist killed on the job. Once there, he becomes suspicious. A local woman helps him untangle the web of conspiracy.
Director: Michael Taverna | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Assumpta Serna, Robert Beltran, John Savage
Votes: 109
Showdown in Managua
41. La Yuma (2009)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Romance
This is the story of Yuma a strong-willed and rebellious girl from the poor neighborhoods of Managua who dreams of being a boxer.
Director: Florence Jaugey | Stars: Alma Blanco, Rigoberto Mayorga, Gabriel Benavides, Juan Carlos García
Votes: 255
42.
Legendary Nights (2003– )
Episode:
The Tale of Pryor: Arguello
(2003)
Documentary, Sport
Stars: Aaron Pryor, Alexis Arguello
Votes: 13
43.
Survivor (2000– )
Episode:
Glitter in Their Eyes
(2010)
TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Game-Show, Reality-TV
A battle erupts over a clue to the hidden immunity idol and one fearless competitor makes a bold move that earns them the upper hand, but the bad behavior doesn't go unnoticed by their tribe mates.
Stars: Jeff Probst, Brenda Lowe, Ben Henry, Alina Wilson
Votes: 94
45. En portada (1984– )
Documentary, History, News
Stars: Vicente Romero, Rosa María Calaf, François Ponchaud, Prakat You
Votes: 12
48. Sabor Latino (2007– )
30 min | Music, Talk-Show
Stars: Amanda Mariscal, Daisy Espinoza, Carolina Rojas-Gore, Stefanie Perez
50. Cooking with Love (2015– )
30 min | Talk-Show
A cooking show for diabetics featuring medical and other experts.
Star: Mother Love
Cocinando con Vos
51. Evas Töchter (1928)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.
Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: Anny Ondra, Karel Lamac, Wolfgang Zilzer, Steffie Vida
Votes: 28
Evas urbanas
52. Esta es mi historia (2001–2004)
50 min | Reality-TV, Talk-Show
Stars: Ana García Lozano, Pilar Rahola, Alfonso Cabeza, Laura García Agustín
Mi Vida Mi Historia
54. Efecto dominó (2010)
27 min | Short, Drama
Director: Gabriel Gauchet | Stars: Jorge Alí, Samuel Claxton, Luis Alberto García, Enrique Molina
Votes: 17
EXN
El Bar de Patico
Las Espectaculares Casas de Nicaragua
59. Mojado (I) (2008)
Short, Drama
Director: Angela Trevino | Stars: Jonathan Florez, Taylor Riggs, Cara Loften, Kimberly Bailey
Votes: 6
60. Tlalocan. Water Paradise (2016)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Mexico City was built on a lake, but today it faces serious water scarcity. This film leads us across diverse places that allow us to reflect on this contradiction. It's also a journey ... See full summary »
Director: Andrés Pulido
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