This is a list of films produced in Bolivia from the 1920s to present.
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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1925 | ||||||
Corazón Aymara | Pedro Sambarino | black and white, silent drama | considered to be the first Bolivian fiction feature film [1] [2] | |||
The Prophecy of the Lake | José Maria Velasco Maidana | black and white, silent romance | Bolivia's second completed fiction feature film; banned by the authorities for its social critique and its portrayal of a white woman in love with an indigenous man; never released [1] |
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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1930 | ||||||
Wara Wara | José Maria Velasco Maidana | Juanita Taillansier, Martha de Velasco, Arturo Borda, Emmo Reyes | black and white, silent, historical romance | the only known surviving work from Bolivia's silent-film era [3] | ||
1931 | ||||||
Hacia la Gloria [1] | José Maria Velasco Maidana |
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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1953 | ||||||
Vuelve Sebastiana | Augusto Roca & Jorge Ruiz | Luis Ramiro Beltrán, Sebastiana Kespi, Eduardo Lafaye, Esteban Lupi, Jean Vellard | Drama | |||
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1959 |
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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1966 | ||||||
Ukamau | Jorge Sanjinés | Vicente Veneros Salinas, Elsa Antequera, Néstor Cárdenas, Benedicta Huanca | First feature film to use both Spanish and a native language (Aymara) [4] | |||
1967 | ||||||
1968 | ||||||
Mina Alaska | Jorge Ruiz | Hugo Roncal, Chrysta Wagner, Charlie Smith | First Latin American film to be restored by the AMPAS Film Archive. [5] | |||
1969 | ||||||
Yawar mallku | Jorge Sanjinés |
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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1970 | ||||||
1971 | ||||||
El Coraje del pueblo | Jorge Sanjinés | |||||
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1975 | ||||||
Andean Women | Norman Miller | |||||
1976 | ||||||
Chuquiago | Antonio Eguino | |||||
La chaskañawi | Hugo Cuellar Urizar, Jorge Cuellar Urizar, José Cuellar Urizar | |||||
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1979 |
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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1980 | ||||||
1981 | ||||||
El celibato | Hugo Cuellar Urizar, José Cuellar Urizar | |||||
1982 | ||||||
Mi socio | Paolo Agazzi | Entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
1983 | ||||||
1984 | ||||||
Amargo mar | Antonio Eguino | |||||
Aymara Leadership | Hubert Smith | |||||
Los Hermanos Cartagena | Paolo Agazzi | |||||
1985 | ||||||
1986 | ||||||
Café con pan | Alfredo Ovando | |||||
1987 | ||||||
1988 | ||||||
1989 | ||||||
La chola Remedios | Liliana De la Quintana, Alfredo Ovando | |||||
La nación clandestina | Jorge Sanjinés |
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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2010 | ||||||
En Busca Del Paraiso | ||||||
2011 | ||||||
The Old People | Martín Boulocq | |||||
2012 | ||||||
Insurgentes | Jorge Sanjinés | |||||
Las bellas durmientes | Marcos Loayza | |||||
2013 | ||||||
Once Upon a Time in Bolivia | Patrick Cordova | Luis Caballero, Miguel Angel Mamani, Ivan Nogales, Raul Beltran, Reynaldo Yuhra, Miguel Estellano | Drama | |||
El olor de tu ausencia | Eddy Vázquez | |||||
Yvy Maraey | Juan Carlos Valdivia | |||||
Olvidados | Carlos Bolado | |||||
2015 | ||||||
Sealed Cargo | Julia Vargas-Weise | |||||
2016 | ||||||
Dark Skull | Kiro Russo |
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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2020 | ||||||
Chaco | ||||||
Pseudo | Gory Patiño, Luis Reneo | Drama, Thriller | ||||
2021 | ||||||
2022 | ||||||
The Ones from Below | Alejandro Quiroga | Fernando Arze Echalar, César Bordón, Luis Bredow, Sonia Parada | Western, Drama | |||
Utama | Alejandro Loayza Grisi | Luisa Quispe, José Calcina, Santos Choque | Drama | |||
The Visitor | Martín Boulocq | Enrique Araoz, Svet Mena, César Troncoso, Mirella Pascual, Teresa Gutierrez, Romel Vargas | Drama | |||
Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of My Village | César Galindo | Víctor Acuario, Hermelinda Luján, Melisa Álvarez, Alder Yaurisaca, Cosme Flores, Bernando Rosado, Juan Ubaldo Huaman | Comedy-drama |
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