7 Best Bolivian Movies to Watch

By Vlad Zakh · October 31, 2026

Bolivia Drama thought provoking

Bolivian cinema is small but distinctive, its best films often built around the country’s Indigenous Andean communities and the slow encroachment of modern life on traditional ways of living.

Utama (2022) 01

Utama (2022)

IMDb ★ 7.2

An elderly Quechua couple in the Bolivian highlands face a devastating drought that threatens their way of life.

Zona Sur (2009) 02

Zona Sur (2009)

IMDb ★ 6.6

A wealthy La Paz family clings to its old status as their fortune and privilege quietly collapse.

Chuquiago (1977) 03

Chuquiago (1977)

IMDb ★ 6.8

Four residents of La Paz from different social classes navigate the same city in radically different ways.

American Visa (2005) 04

American Visa (2005)

IMDb ★ 6.3

A retired teacher's desperate attempt to get a US visa pulls him into a criminal scheme.

Land Without Evil: Ivy Maraey (2013) 05

Land Without Evil: Ivy Maraey (2013)

IMDb ★ 6.2

A filmmaker retracing a controversial anthropologist's steps confronts Bolivia's fraught Indigenous history.

The Secret Nation (1989) 06

The Secret Nation (1989)

IMDb ★ 6.8

An Indigenous Bolivian filmmaker treks into the highlands to fulfill his grandfather's dying ceremonial wish.

Los Andes no creen en Dios (2007) 07

Los Andes no creen en Dios (2007)

IMDb ★ 6.6

A Bolivian mining engineer and a French woman fall into a forbidden affair in 1920s colonial society.

Vlad Zakh

Vlad Zakh

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