Discover the best of Ecuadorian cinema, film, and television

Discover the definitive list of popular and critically-acclaimed movies and TV shows from Ecuador. Find your next binge-watch, streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

The cinema of Ecuador

Ecuadorian cinema is a film culture of stunning contrasts, a vibrant voice born at the crossroads of Andean peaks, Amazonian depths, and bustling city streets. Its modern story received a powerful jolt of urban energy with Sebastián Cordero's landmark film, Ratas, Ratones, Rateros (Rodents). This raw, stylish story of life on the margins of Quito announced a new, confident voice in Latin American film and put Ecuador firmly on the international cinematic map. But Ecuador’s cinematic soul is also found on the open road. The beloved hit film Qué tan lejos (How Much Further) captured the hearts of the nation, a charming road movie that beautifully showcases the country’s breathtaking journey from the mountains down to the coast. This success inspired a new generation of filmmakers to tell their own stories. This creative spirit also fuels a lively domestic television scene, with popular comedies and dramas finding a dedicated local audience. What makes Ecuadorian cinema so compelling is this profound sense of place. It is deeply connected to its unique geography and cultural identity, drawing on indigenous heritage and natural wonder. It’s a cinema that can be gritty and urban one moment, and sweepingly epic the next, always telling stories with a voice that is unmistakably its own.

Best Ecuadorian series

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    Enchufe.tv 2014

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  • 3 Families 2014

    The production focuses on three families of different social levels who must face the same theme, each one represented by their respective attitudes, behaviors and vocabulary, according to their economic, social, geographical, cultural and psychological situation. stories are linked by a common situation that affects each family and the solution they find.

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  • Poster for 3 Families: Beginnings of a Friendship

    3 Families: Beginnings of a Friendship 2019

    Beginnings of a Friendship, is a web series by Ecuavisa Digital about the adventures and the beginning of friendship, by La Chama (Valentina de Abreu) ​​and El Kevin (Kevin Chapin) out of 3 Families.

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  • Yo vendo unos ojos negros 2004

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  • Poster for Mortal Glitch

    Mortal Glitch 2020

    Mortal Glitch tells the story of a girl who feels that her destiny is much more of what she does now, but has to fight with the status quo in order to save the world. Through unique humor, and surprising storytelling the creators of enchufe.tv take the hero's journey and give it a contemporary approach.

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Best Ecuadorian movies

  • Poster for Dedicated to my ex

    Dedicated to my ex 2019

    The film tells the story of Ariel, a 21-year-old who decides to form a rock band to compete for a prize of ten thousand dollars in a musical band contest, this as a last option when trying to get money to save their relationship and reunite with his ex-girlfriend, which breaks due to the trip she must make to Finland for an internship. Ariel with her friend Ortega, decides to make a casting to find the other members of the band, although they do not know nothing about music, thus forming a band with members that have diverse and opposite personalities.

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  • Poster for How Much Further

    How Much Further 2006

    A cynical college student and an optimistic tourist, stranded on a bus by a national strike, form an unlikely bond as they decide to hitchhike together to reach their individual destinations, discovering shared lessons and unexpected friendship along the way.

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  • Poster for 3-03 Rescate

    3-03 Rescate 2018

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  • Poster for Pescador

    Pescador 2011

    Blaquito is thirty years old and lives with his mother in El Matal, a small fishing village on the coast of Ecuador. One day, the beach turns up filled with cocaine packets. Blanquito, along with his friend Lorna, decide to travel to Guayaquil, where people will pay five times more per package. Little does Blanquito realize that in the days that follow he will be staring at death in the eye and losing his head for love.

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  • Poster for Torero

    Torero 2019

    Mariano Cruz Ordóñez is an Ecuadorian bullfighter at the end of his artistic career. Mariano was a figure of bullfighting in Ecuador and participated in the most important bullrings of his country and the world. The glory years have passed and prohibitions have arisen regarding bullfighting shows, and the only thing left is, with tenacity and faith, to fight against various adverse circumstances looking for a chance to move foward.

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  • Poster for Eyes Wide Open

    Eyes Wide Open 2009

    In 1971, Uruguayan journalist and writer Eduardo Galeano published his landmark work Open Veins of Latin America, in which he comprehensively described the centuries of economic exploitation of Latin America. Almost 40 years later, filmmaker Gonzalo Arijon reevaluates the situation. His search takes him from the soybean plantations of the Brazilian Amazon to the tin mines of Bolivia to the deep jungles of Ecuador. Arijon’s politically committed film allows the local populations to speak for themselves, interspersing this with archival footage of speeches by Hugo Chávez, Lula da Silva and Evo Morales. Galeano himself also speaks—sometimes in poetic language— about how the rise of socialist governments in the early 21st century is benefitting Latin America, and what more can be done.

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