Cartagena Film Festival: Best Films
by roxen_96 | created - 09 Jun 2019 | updated - 13 Jun 2019 | PublicEl Festival internacional de cine de Cartagena de Indias (Cartagena International Film Festival) takes place annually in Cartagena (Colombia) since 1959. It rewards the best film presented since 1961. Some years the award was not given (non-consecutive years will be indicated in notes).
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1. The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (1959)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance, War
The Cucaracha is a brave woman soldier who leads a group of similar women into the fray against the forces of the Villa colonel, Zeta.
Director: Ismael Rodríguez | Stars: María Félix, Dolores Del Río, Emilio Fernández, Antonio Aguilar
Votes: 285
1961
2. The Given Word (1962)
98 min | Drama
A simple yet devout Christian makes a vow to Saint Barbara after she saves his donkey, but everyone he meets seems determined to misunderstand his intentions. Will he be able to keep his promise in the end?
Director: Anselmo Duarte | Stars: Leonardo Villar, Glória Menezes, Dionísio Azevedo, Geraldo Del Rey
Votes: 3,937
1962
3. El dependiente (1969)
87 min | Drama
Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams...and her family.
Director: Leonardo Favio | Stars: Walter Vidarte, Graciela Borges, Nora Cullen, Fernando Iglesias 'Tacholas'
Votes: 560
1969
4. Juan Lamaglia y señora (1970)
88 min | Drama
An exploration of an unhappy marriage and the reasons that led to it.
Director: Raúl de la Torre | Stars: Pepe Soriano, Julia von Grolman, Milagros de la Vega, Cacho Espíndola
Votes: 28
1972
5. Mirage (1972)
82 min | Drama
A young man inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house.
Director: Armando Robles Godoy | Stars: Miguel Angel Flores, Helena Rojo, Hernán Romero, Orlando Sacha
Votes: 128
6. Los siete locos (1973)
118 min | Drama
After committing a fraud in the company where he works, a man meets a strange character who will introduce you to a group a terrorist attack plot.
Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Stars: Alfredo Alcón, Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Thelma Biral
Votes: 202
1974
7. Poachers (1975)
82 min | Drama
Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.
Director: José Luis Borau | Stars: Lola Gaos, Ovidi Montllor, Alicia Sánchez, Ismael Merlo
Votes: 905
1976
8. Cantata de Chile (1976)
119 min | Drama, History
An epic, revolutionary retelling of the events leading up to an infamous massacre of striking miners in Chile in 1907.
Director: Humberto Solás | Stars: Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román, Eric Heresmann, Alfredo Tornquist
Votes: 37
1977
9. El pez que fuma (1977)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez Que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon... See full summary »
Director: Román Chalbaud | Stars: Hilda Vera, Miguel Ángel Landa, Orlando Urdaneta, Haydée Balza
Votes: 235
1979
10. El otro Francisco (1974)
97 min | Drama
Based on the novel Francisco by Anselmo Suárez y Romero, "The Other Francisco" is a socio-economic analysis of slavery and class struggle through the retelling of the original novel. The ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Giral | Stars: Miguel Benavides, Alina Sánchez, Ramón Veloz, Adolfo Llauradó
Votes: 87
1980
11. Oriana (1985)
88 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana
Director: Fina Torres | Stars: Doris Wells, Daniela Silverio, Rafael Briceño, Mirtha Borges
Votes: 447
1985
12. Visa USA (1986)
90 min | Comedy
Visa USA tells the saga of a raunchy young man called Adolfo from a little town who is searching the "american dream". In order to achieve his goal he needs to obtain the American Visa. ... See full summary »
Director: Lisandro Duque Naranjo | Stars: Marcela Agudelo, Armando Gutiérrez, Gellver De Currea, Vicky Hernández
Votes: 83
1986
13. La tigra (1990)
80 min | Drama
The wild and wanton Francisca, known as the "The Tigress," is the eldest of three sisters, who are bosses of a farm in Ecuador. A medicine man tells Francisca and Juliana that their ... See full summary »
Director: Camilo Luzuriaga | Stars: Lissette Cabrera, Rossana Iturralde, Verónica García, Aristides Vargas
Votes: 74
1990
14. I, the Worst of All (1990)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
This fact-based film examines the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna), a Roman Catholic nun from Mexico City who, in the midst of the Spanish Inquisition, established herself... See full summary »
Director: María Luisa Bemberg | Stars: Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Héctor Alterio, Lautaro Murúa
Votes: 719 | Gross: $0.05M
15. High Heels (1991)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A singer returns after 15 years abroad to perform in Madrid and finds her 27 y.o. daughter married to one of her mom's ex-lovers.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé, Anna Lizaran
Votes: 17,449 | Gross: $1.71M
16. O Corpo (1991)
80 min | Comedy
Xavier, a pharmacist, lives peacefully in bigamy with his two women, Carmen and Beatriz, but the harmony breaks down when they find he has another lover, Monique, a nightclub dancer.
Director: José Antonio Garcia | Stars: Antônio Fagundes, Marieta Severo, Cláudia Jimenez, Sérgio Mamberti
Votes: 130
17. The Dead Mother (1993)
111 min | Drama, Thriller
A criminal, shoots and kills a painting restorer during a bungled burglary, and shoots her daughter as well. Twenty years later, the daughter has been left mute and with a mental age of a child, spending most of her time in a mental home.
Director: Juanma Bajo Ulloa | Stars: Karra Elejalde, Ana Álvarez, Lio, Silvia Marsó
Votes: 1,203
1994
18. Under Flag (1997)
109 min | Drama, Mystery
A Mayor has been sent to Patagonia to investigate the murder of a soldier. When the military seized power, he is forced to abandon the case. With the restoration of democracy, the case is reopened with a few consequences.
Director: Juan José Jusid | Stars: Miguel Ángel Solá, Federico Luppi, Omero Antonutti, Daniele Liotti
Votes: 118
1998
19. Garage Olimpo (1999)
R | 98 min | Drama
In the 70's, eighteen year-old Maria Fabiani lives with her French mother Diane in an old house in Buenos Aires, subletting rooms and giving classes to illiterate adults in the slums. One ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Bechis | Stars: Antonella Costa, Carlos Echevarría, Enrique Piñeyro, Pablo Razuk
Votes: 2,872
2000
20. Orfeu (1999)
110 min | Crime, Drama, Music
In a dangerous but human Rio's slum, rises the love affair betwen Orfeu and Eurídice, provoking jealousy and violence in times of carnival.
Director: Carlos Diegues | Stars: Toni Garrido, Patrícia França, Murilo Benício, Zezé Motta
Votes: 954 | Gross: $0.10M
2000
21. Me You Them (2000)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
Director: Andrucha Waddington | Stars: Regina Casé, Lima Duarte, Stênio Garcia, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
Votes: 1,870 | Gross: $0.32M
22. To the Left of the Father (2001)
Not Rated | 163 min | Drama
A young son who ran from his dominant family descends into decadence, then returns to the nest. Tyrannical fathers, incest, fierce family conflicts, and an intense visual style to match.
Director: Luiz Fernando Carvalho | Stars: Selton Mello, Raul Cortez, Juliana Carneiro da Cunha, Simone Spoladore
Votes: 2,047
23. City of God (2002)
R | 130 min | Crime, Drama
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | Stars: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen
Votes: 801,172 | Gross: $7.56M
24. Carandiru (2003)
R | 145 min | Crime, Drama
Stories of crime, revenge, love, and friendship at the Carandiru Penitentiary, the largest prison in Latin America.
Director: Hector Babenco | Stars: Enrique Diaz, Wagner Moura, Caio Blat, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
Votes: 21,935 | Gross: $0.21M
25. Addictions and Subtractions (2004)
108 min | Drama
During the 1980s in Medellín, Santiago, an engineer, gets involved in drug traffic to make a quick buck.
Director: Víctor Gaviria | Stars: Juan Carlos Uribe, Fabio Restrepo, Fredy York Monsalve, María Isabel Gaviria
Votes: 575
26. La Última Luna (2005)
105 min | Drama
Palestine 1914. One morning in July, Soliman, a young Palestinian Christian, and Jacob, his Jewish friend, begin to build a house in Beit-Sajour, in the Judean hills, with stones brought ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Aymann Abuloff, Tamara Acosta, Alejandro Goic, Francisca Merino
Votes: 84
27. The Silly Age (2006)
90 min | Drama
A drama about grandmother-grandson relationships.
Director: Pavel Giroud | Stars: Mercedes Sampietro, Iván Carreira, Susana Tejera, José Ángel Egido
Votes: 221
28. Lovesickness (2007)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A three-part look at the ironies of love, with stories that involve a young boy, a hostage situation, and a divorced elderly couple caught in a love triangle.
Directors: Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz, Mariem Pérez Riera | Stars: Luis Guzmán, Teresa Hernández, Fernando Tarrazo, Norman Santiago
Votes: 653
29. Lake Tahoe (2008)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A story of a teenager and the strange events that take place in his small town.
Director: Fernando Eimbcke | Stars: Diego Cataño, Hector Herrera, Daniela Valentine, Juan Carlos Lara II
Votes: 1,761 | Gross: $0.01M
30. Giant (2009)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama
A chronicle of a supermarket security guard's obsession with a late-shift janitor.
Director: Adrián Biniez | Stars: Horacio Camandule, Leonor Svarcas, Néstor Guzzini, Federico García
Votes: 2,188 | Gross: $0.01M
31. Post Mortem (II) (2010)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell, Amparo Noguera
Votes: 2,639
32. The Student (2011)
110 min | Drama
Roque starts University in Buenos Aires but he is not particularly interested in attending classes or working towards a degree. Instead, he dedicates his time to one of the many groups ... See full summary »
Director: Santiago Mitre | Stars: Esteban Lamothe, Romina Paula, Ricardo Felix, Valeria Correa
Votes: 1,222
33. Tabu (I) (2012)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Romance
A restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor's maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa.
Director: Miguel Gomes | Stars: Telmo Churro, Miguel Gomes, Hortêncílio Aquina, Américo Mota
Votes: 7,422
34. Dust on the Tongue (2014)
86 min | Drama
In his twilight years, Silvio Vega, a child of the destitution and violence of Colombia's countryside, takes a trip with his two grandchildren to force them to kill him instead of dying of old age.
Director: Rubén Mendoza | Stars: Richard Córdoba, Gabriel Mejía, Alma Rodríguez, Jairo Salcedo
Votes: 170
35. Ixcanul (2015)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
On the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.
Director: Jayro Bustamante | Stars: María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Manuel Antún, Justo Lorenzo
Votes: 3,264 | Gross: $0.29M
36. Neon Bull (2015)
Unrated | 101 min | Drama
Iremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck used to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region's booming clothing industry.
Director: Gabriel Mascaro | Stars: Juliano Cazarré, Maeve Jinkings, Josinaldo Alves, Roberto Birindelli
Votes: 3,474 | Gross: $0.03M
37. Aquarius (I) (2016)
Not Rated | 146 min | Drama
Clara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they've already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara's staying.
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho | Stars: Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos, Humberto Carrão
Votes: 20,758 | Gross: $0.29M
38. Cocote (2017)
TV-14 | 106 min | Drama
An Evangelical Christian man attends the funeral services of his father in his hometown, where he has to participate in religious rites that clash with his beliefs and finds himself pressured to take revenge on the murderer.
Director: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias | Stars: Vicente Santos, Jose Cruz, Yuberbi de la Rosa, José Miguel Fernández
Votes: 376
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