01 A middle-class builder's single bad decision pulls him into Medellín's cocaine trade.
13 Best Colombian Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · September 5, 2026
Colombia Drama thought provokingintense
Colombian cinema’s international breakout came through Ciro Guerra’s mystical, black-and-white Amazon epics, but the range underneath spans drug-war sagas, child-soldier fables, and unflinching street-level realism.
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02 A crew of Cali hitmen turn on each other after a botched, cursed job.
03 An accordion player treks across Colombia to return his cursed instrument to its origin.
04 A gold-panning mother in a poor Pacific-coast village goes to desperate lengths to buy her daughter a birthday cake.
05 Tenants facing eviction devise an elaborate scheme to take their entire building with them.
06 A young Medellín drummer drifts through poverty and violence in the years before the cartel wars peaked.
07 A homeless street girl selling roses on Christmas Eve navigates Medellín's brutal underworld.
08 A teenage guerrilla unit guarding a hostage in the mountains slowly descends into chaos.
09 An indigenous family's entry into the marijuana trade curdles into a generational tragedy.
10 An Amazonian shaman guides two explorers decades apart, each searching for the same sacred plant.
11 A struggling father in Buenaventura gets pulled into smuggling drugs beneath the waves as a human submarine pilot.
12 A displaced Afro-Colombian teenager tries to build a new life on the streets and beaches of Cartagena.
13 A group of boys try to retrieve a soccer ball from a landmine-strewn field near their war-torn village.
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