Best Colombian thriller movies

On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.

An aspiring teen thieves learn what it takes to be successful pickpockets on the streets of Bogotá

Based on the novels by Colombian writer Mario Mendoza and on the character of detective Frank Molina, the filming of Los Initiados took place in Bogotá. In the saga of Frank Molina, which uses the books Lady Massacre, La melancolia de los feos, El diario del fin del mundo and Akelarre, the story of an alcoholic private investigator who unmasks sinister plots within the underworld of Bogotá is told.

When an up-and-coming stylist is found stabbed to death in his home, a young detective is given 20 days to solve the case. Inspired by true events.

In the crime world of Colombia, there is an unwritten code. When Víctor and Eusebio, two hoods who bungle a shake-down job, break that code, they unwittingly sign their own death sentence.

Based on the Mario Mendoza's book and inspired by true events, tells three interconnected stories happening in the eve of the infamous Pozzetto Massacre.

The formerly revered journalist Frank Molina finds himself in hiding, with his career shattered. However, he continues to write anonymously hidden in the shadows. Frank’s sense of calm is abruptly interrupted when a pair of severed eyes and a blood-soaked note appear at his door. As the number of victims increases, Frank will need to unblock his traumatic past if he seeks to find the killer.

The air is thick with tension as a military squad proceeds to the foot of a mountain base, where they're ordered to wait for backup and hold their position. The mountain is shrouded in fog and the men are exhausted. They've been fighting guerrillas on enemy turf for some time, and they're worn down by the stress and anxiety of battle. The men don't want to wait; they want to charge up the hill, fearing that their comrades in the base have been overrun by the guerrillas. The squad's leader tries futilely to keep his men in line while dealing with his insolent second-in-command.

A forty-year-old poet wakes up handcuffed to a hospital bed. Accused of his mother's murder, he claims it was an act of love: a plan to aid his mother's death and end his own life at the same time.

Esmeralda (Marcela Mar), a woman determined to uncover the truth behind the tragedy that destroyed her family, embarks on a desperate quest that leads her to unearth the darkest secrets of La Alameda, a small mining community in Colombia. With the help of Joaquín (Juan Pablo Urrego), a farmer who knows the land and its dangers well, she follows the last traces of her late husband, a high executive at a multinational mining company. Together, they slowly peel back the layers of something much more sinister and discover an ambitious society fighting for gold and territory. Esmeralda becomes trapped in a dangerous game of betrayal and power, where every step she takes brings her closer to the truth... but also to death.

Alicia is a 42-year-old-woman whose grief has caused her estrangement from society. Her world is turned upside down when 14-year-old Chief, a young boy who looks after people’s cars, stumbles into her house, bleeding.

A crime novelist receives a vital clue to the whereabouts of his long-missing fiancée.

A mysterious hero trapped in an Asylum decides to 'save' the unknown residents from the evil psychiatrist, Dr. Dog.

A man catches his girlfriend cheating on him with his boss, and gets fired because of this. When he finds his boss cheating on his ex-girlfriend, he blackmails him, but things will end up upside-down, when a murder shows up

In this silent style short, filmed in black and white with intertitles instead of spoken dialog, a precocious little girl surrounded by Tv violence and bloody church images of Catholicism, yearns to stay alive forever, as a vampire.

A precarious con artist manipulates the family of a “miracle girl” and creates a business so large and lucrative that it will inevitably get out of hand.

Eliú, a country boy, is incarcerated́ in an experimental minors' centre in the heart of the Colombian tropical forest, for a crime he committed with his friend El Mono. Every day, the teenagers perform strenuous manual labour and intense group therapy. One day, El Mono is transferred to the same centre and brings with him a past that Eliú is trying to get away from.

Maria del Rosario Duran, a human rights attorney investigating the participation of a top ranking military man in the disappearance of a group of young civilians, is mysteriously murdered. Detective Jorge Salcedo who was working with her on the case, gives himself to the task of discovering who's behind this crime, at risk of becoming the next victim.

A mother named Ana is celebrating her daughter's birthday when a strange man named Walter shows up asking about her husband, Ricardo. What seemed like an awkward visit quickly turns into a tense and dangerous situation, where Ana begins to uncover dark secrets about her husband's life.

Willington's only love, Mariana, is about to get married to René, Willington's cousin. While Willington is trying to get her back, a demobilization process concerning an illegal armed group is underway in the region, and new killings, besides rumors of a thief at large, will endanger Mariana's new family.

After witnessing the murder of a little girl's parents, a young woman becomes the child's protector and is forced to flee from the killers while trying to discover their motive.

Bogotá, 1980. During the government of President Turbay. An urban cell of the M-19 invades the Embassy of the Dominican Republic, taking 14 ambassadors as hostages. They demand that they be exchanged for political prisoners. The film focuses on the events that took place during those two months of captivity.

Joe Arroyo and his musicians will embark together on this psychedelic journey through various hotel rooms. Rebelión is the portrait of a genius in the depths of his intimacy, the throb of a soul in love and tormented by that great love: music. It is a timeless journey through his life, passing through the dark and lonely place where the creative act happens, where his talent is on the surface and his emotions are free, as well as his whims. The story takes place in hotel rooms, overflowing with chaos and the genius of Joe. A hotel room that are many and that, in turn, contains the agony of the genius who sabotages everything he loves to remain free.

A remote and lonely hotel holds a dark secret. La Patasola, a vengeful being marked by the loss of her son and her leg, seeks to punish the unfaithful. Rodrigo, an investigator, and Susana, his young lover, arrive at the hotel under the pretext of investigating an unsolved disappearance, but they will soon discover that they are locked in a deadly trap. La Patasola, thirsty for revenge, will unleash all her fury against the infidels and make them pay the price for their deceit, transforming their visit into a nightmare with no escape.

Set in Bogotá in 1996. In the darkness caused by power outages, the townspeople are terrified of the arrival of the antichrist. Thirteen-year-old Ana is deeply tormented by this rumor that secretly invades her daily life, by the existential crises of her school’s priest or by the animistic superstitions of the maiden.

Elias ran away from his village at the age of 13. Time has passed and he is now a doctor with a wife and son, who is also now 13.Miracles do not exist. The day that souls are reunited has come.

Viviana and Alicia have never met, but they're about to get intimately acquainted. One day, while tipping drinks back in a bar, the two women strike up a conversation that quickly turns personal, Viviana is locked in an abusive marriage, and Alicia's female lover, Lorena, has recently fallen for another woman. As the two women strangers find common ground in their lives, they enter into a secret pact to kill the people who have made their lives a living hell. Seductive, bloody and shocking events send them both plummeting down a destructive path from which there is no escape.

Four young friends are obsessed with cinema: watching it, tasting it and, above all, making it. However, financial difficulties repeatedly truncate their great illusion. Desperate, they decide to make a cinematographic plot come true: to rob a bank to finance their film.

Cali, Colombia. 2002. José, a systems engineer discovers in his skin the signs of 'lytomiasis' a non yet classified mysterious disease where the body is totally covered by a second skin of voracious bacteria. Horrified José discovers 'replicas' of himself, as if his burst sick ego had multiplied itself ad infinitum. All the replicas are infected with the same virus and equally intent on a merciless pursuit of each other and as decisively intent on killing.

Hilbert lives in two universes simultaneously. When something goes wrong in one, he kills himself and keep going.

A quarantined Girl is hungry. When she heads to the kitchen looking for a snack she faces an enemy as hungry as her.

After finding her boyfriend cheating on her, a woman becomes obsessed with a YouTuber to the point that she thinks he's the perfect man for her.

One night, a guy sees a face staring at him from his door. Scared, but intrigued, he decides to investigate.

A story that moves between reality and fiction, in which a family event unleashes a curse that falls on the three main characters. Insomnia, madness and an enigmatic character guide the outcome of this illusion.

Emilia and her mother, Lucia, are forced into isolation after her stepfather, The Turk, steals a highly coveted cargo of emeralds. The unexpected arrival of two hired assassins to the cabin where mother and daughter are hiding unleashes an imminent danger.

A father and his son have a vicious confrontation when the former returns after 5 years of absence.

View of the murder of her mother, Laura decides to talk to her spirit, to tell her who killed it. Therefore, leaving murder to find out in the afterlife.

A Drug gang in Colombia have planted Marijuana in a remote part of the countryside unaware of the curse that has been placed on the land. A snake attracted by the sweet smell of burning ganja attacks all who partake.