Best Ecuadorian thriller movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch thriller films from Ecuador, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for 3-03 Rescate

    3-03 Rescate 2018

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  • Poster for Such Is Life in the Tropics

    Such Is Life in the Tropics 2016

    Two families dispute a land with a land dealer.

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  • Poster for Submersible

    Submersible 2020

    A handmade narco sub is on the verge of sinking and losing its precious cargo due to a mechanical failure. The three crew members are forced to open the forbidden cargo cabin to distribute the weight and save the ship. Next to the cargo they find a special “gift“ for the buyer: a young girl, gagged and in terrible shape. The boat, barely big enough for three to begin with, becomes a steaming powder cake of fears, desires and greed.

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  • Poster for Hept

    Hept 2025

    In a post-apocalyptic world, a famished man encounters an abandoned house containing a bountiful feast.

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  • Poster for Chuzalongo

    Chuzalongo 2024

    At the end of the 19th century, a boy appears in an Andean village. Nicanor, the village priest, discovers that the child’s blood causes the crops to bear fruit magically, but for the boy to live, he must be fed human blood.

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  • Poster for Thirst

    Thirst 2016

    Sara is 23 years old and is blind. One morning she goes to her country house accompanied by her boyfriend Jose Luis, her cousin Carolina and her boyfriend Pedro. At first the trip seems to be quite fun, but there is a strange energy in this country house as a result of a very dark past. As time goes by, the truth begins to unfold, and the intentions of each of the characters engages them in unexpected carnal desires. All this happens around Sara's blindness.

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  • Poster for Island of the Dolls

    Island of the Dolls 2018

    In 1957, murders occurred upon the infamous, 'Island of the Dolls', in Mexico. A modern-day British journalist, Emily, deceitfully takes an assignment in London to research and uncover the truth of the unspoken event. With the assistance of her photographer friend and several Mexican locals, they travel to the mysterious island, and soon discover the danger of which awaits them. Despite some spooky, sometimes threatening incidences, Emily is determined to crack the case. Will she accept the truth, before she too remains a doll.

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  • Poster for Quito 2023

    Quito 2023 2014

    Is the year 2023. Quito has been walled by Leonardo Ponce, a military dictator that took control of the city in the early 2010's. A group of revolutionaries led by Marcos and Santiago are on the verge of giving a coup d'état. Just hours before the strike, Santiago steps forward and starts asking tough questions that led everybody to rethink why are they really doing this. Meanwhile at Ponce's palace, he is trying to decipher what is going on at the city wall. There's unusual movement and one of the revolutionaries is captured. Ponce tries to get as much information as he can from him. Confined to just 2 locations, Quito 2023 shows the human side of the revolution, the internal conflicts of their leaders and the hopelessness of a region that cannot be governed.

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