Discover the best of Colombian cinema, film, and television
Discover the definitive list of popular and critically-acclaimed movies and TV shows from Colombia. Find your next binge-watch, streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
The cinema of Colombia
Colombian cinema tells a story of remarkable transformation, a film culture that has bravely stared into its complex past to forge a vibrant, new creative identity. For years, its storytellers have grappled with the nation's turbulent history, a theme that has fuelled some of its most powerful films. But out of this has emerged a stunning artistic renaissance. This revolution reached a global audience with the Oscar-nominated masterpiece, Embrace of the Serpent (El Abrazo de la Serpiente). Directed by Ciro Guerra, this breathtaking black-and-white journey into the heart of the Amazon announced a new, poetic, and powerful voice in world cinema. But Colombia's screen magic also has a wonderfully popular side. It is the nation that gave the world Yo soy Betty, la fea (Ugly Betty), arguably the most successful telenovela in history, adapted in dozens of countries and proving its storytelling could conquer hearts globally. This legacy continues today, with slick, high-budget series produced for international streaming platforms, earning critical acclaim and huge audiences. What makes Colombian cinema so captivating is this very blend of magical imagination, reminiscent of its literary giant Gabriel García Márquez, and raw reality. It is a cinema reborn, telling stories with incredible soul and a spirit as resilient as the country itself.
Best Colombian series
One Hundred Years of Solitude 2024
In the mythical town Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past — and their fate.
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Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord 2012
Pablo is a man with a natural ability for business. Early in his life, Pablo is introduced to the business of cocaine and the power it yields. A young life of crime lands Pablo in and out of jail as he builds his criminal empire. Pablo expands his power through politics but it is not long before his conflicts as a Congressman and a drug lord collide. Pablo has his enemies executed, but not before the United States activates its own war on the Medellin cartel.
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Fake Profile 2023
Camila meets her Prince Charming through a dating app. After an idyllic romance, she plans to surprise him — only to end up trapped in a false paradise.
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Medusa 2025
Somebody wants to kill CEO Bárbara Hidalgo. Can she find the culprit as her family schemes ruthlessly for control of their Colombian business empire?
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Always a Witch 2019
A young 17th-century witch time travels to the future to save the man she loves, but first must adjust to present-day Cartagena and defeat a dark rival.
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The Marked Heart 2022
A man hell-bent on exacting revenge on the organ trafficking organization that murdered his wife becomes involved with the woman who received her heart.
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Best Colombian movies
Monos 2019
On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
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Embrace of the Serpent 2015
The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
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Orbiter 9 2017
Helena, a young woman on a deep space mission, has been alone for 20 years. Her parents abandoned ship after a technical malfunction made it impossible for all three of them to reach their intended destination. Alex, an isolated engineer, is about to enter her life and turn her world upside down.
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Maria Full of Grace 2004
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
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Birds of Passage 2018
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
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Memoria 2021
After hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, a Scottish woman begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.
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