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A list of films produced in Uruguay .
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A list of films produced in Uruguay .
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1923 | ||||||
| Souls on the Coast | Juan Antonio Borges | Drama | ||||
| 1926 | ||||||
| Catástrofe de Encarnación | Hipólito Carrón | |||||
| 1928 | ||||||
| 1929 | ||||||
| El pequeño héroe del arroyo de oro (The Golden River's Little Hero) | Carlos Alonso | silent | 24th Festival des 3 Continents Nantes | |||
| 1930 | ||||||
| 1932 | ||||||
| 1936 | ||||||
| Two Destinies | Juan Etchebehere | Drama | ||||
| 1938 | ||||||
| 1940 | ||||||
| 1942 | ||||||
| 1945 | ||||||
| 1949 | ||||||
| Pupila al viento (A Pupil in the Wind) | Enrico Gras | poetic documentary | 24th Festival des 3 Continents Nantes | |||
| The Detective Goes the Wrong Way | Adolfo L. Fabregat | |||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1950 | ||||||
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| 1955 | ||||||
| Codicia | Catrano Catrani | |||||
| 1956 | ||||||
| 1957 | ||||||
| 1958 | ||||||
| 1959 | ||||||
| La ciudad en la playa (The City at the Beach) | Ferrucio Mussitelli | 24th Festival des 3 Continents Nantes | ||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1960 | ||||||
| 1961 | ||||||
| 1962 | ||||||
| La Burrerita de Ypacaraí | Armando Bó | |||||
| 1963 | ||||||
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| 1969 | ||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1977 | ||||||
| 1978 | ||||||
| O Amante de Minha Mulher | Alberto Pieralisi | |||||
| 1979 | ||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1980 | ||||||
| 1981 | ||||||
| 1982 | ||||||
| 1983 | ||||||
| 1984 | ||||||
| 1985 | ||||||
| 1986 | ||||||
| Cariñoso | Manuel Cuenca Luis Ughelli | |||||
| 1987 | ||||||
| El Caso de Luis | Reinaldo Martinez Marcial Ruiz Diaz | TV film | ||||
| Caños | Marilyn Maciel | |||||
| Cerro Corá | Guillermo Vera | |||||
| 1988 | ||||||
| 1989 | ||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | ||||||
| 1991 | ||||||
| 1992 | ||||||
| 1993 | ||||||
| 1994 | ||||||
| The Dirigible | Pablo Dotta | |||||
| 1995 | ||||||
| 1996 | ||||||
| 1997 | ||||||
| Abuso sexual | Manuel Cuenca | |||||
| Asunción a cuatro tiempos | Manuel Cuenca | |||||
| Cachorros de león, la batalla de Boqueron | Manuel Cuenca | |||||
| Caireles de sangre, 23 de octubre de 1931 | Manuel Cuenca | |||||
| 1998 | ||||||
| 1999 | ||||||
| El chevrolé | Leonardo Ricagni | |||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | ||||||
| Ácratas | Virginia Martínez | |||||
| 2001 | ||||||
| Llamada para un cartero (A Call for a Postman) | Brummell Pommerenk | 24th Festival des 3 Continents Nantes | ||||
| 25 Watts | Pablo Stoll Juan Pablo Rebella | 24th Festival des 3 Continents Nantes | ||||
| In This Tricky Life | Beatriz Flores Silva | |||||
| 2002 | ||||||
| The Last Train | Diego Arsuaga | |||||
| La espera (The Wait) | Aldo Garay | 24th Festival des 3 Continents Nantes | ||||
| 2003 | ||||||
| Candida | ||||||
| Seawards Journey | Guillermo Casanova | |||||
| 2004 | ||||||
| La Cajita feliz | Jorge Pettengill | |||||
| Whisky | Juan Pablo Rebella Pablo Stoll | |||||
| 2005 | ||||||
| O Amigo Dunor | José Eduardo Alcázar | |||||
| Cándido López - Los campos de batalla | José Luis García | |||||
| Cenizas | ||||||
| Alma Mater | Álvaro Buela | |||||
| 2006 | ||||||
| 2007 | ||||||
| El Baño del Papa | César Charlone Enrique Fernández | |||||
| 2008 | ||||||
| Tren Fantasma | Dario Nuñez | Short film | ||||
| Acne | Federico Veiroj | |||||
| 2009 | ||||||
| Ataque de pánico! | Fede Álvarez | Short film | ||||
| Giant | Adrián Biniez | |||||
| Bad Day to Go Fishing (Mal día para pescar) | Alvaro Brechner | |||||
| Leo's Room | Enrique Buchichio | |||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | ||||||
| The Silent House | Gustavo Hernández | Horror | ||||
| A Useful Life | Federico Veiroj | Drama | ||||
| 2012 | ||||||
| 7 Sea Pirates | Walter Tournier | |||||
| 3 | Pablo Stoll | Humberto de Vargas, Sara Bessio, Anaclara Ferreyra Palfy, Inés Bortagaray, Néstor Guzzini, Santiago Pedrero, Matías Ganz, Carolina Centurión, Fabián Arenillas | Comedy-drama | |||
| The Delay | Rodrigo Plá | |||||
| 2013 | ||||||
| Anina | Alfredo Soderguit | Federica Lacaño, María Mendive, César Troncoso, Cristina Morán, Petru Valensky, Roberto Suárez | Comedy | Selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards | ||
| 2014 | ||||||
| A Moonless Night | Germán Tejeira | Roberto Suárez, Daniel Melingo, Marcel Keoroglian, Elisa Gagliano | Drama | Selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards | ||
| Mr. Kaplan | Álvaro Brechner | Héctor Noguera, Rolf Becker, Néstor Guzzini, Nidia Telles | Comedy-drama | Selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated; joint win for Best Actor (Héctor Norguera & Néstor Guzzini) at 15th Havana Film Festival New York | ||
| Portrait of Animal Behavior | Florencia Colucci & Gonzalo Lugo | Florencia Colucci, Gonzalo Lugo, Rocío Piferrer, Jorge Bolani | Romantic comedy, Road movie | |||
| Zanahoria | Enrique Buchichio | César Troncoso, Martín Rodríguez, Abel Tripaldi, Nelson Guzzini, Mónica Navarro, Victoria Césperes, Carlos Vallarino, Ana Rosa, Martín Pavlovsky | Drama | |||
| 2015 | ||||||
| The Apostate | Federico Veiroj | |||||
| 2016 | ||||||
| Breadcrumbs | Manane Rodríguez | Cecilia Roth, Justina Bustos, María Pujalte, Margarita Musto, Stefanía Crocce, Sonia Méndez, Nuria Fló, Patxi Bisquert, Sergio Quintana, Ernesto Chao, María Vidal, Artur Trillo | Drama | Selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards | ||
| 2017 | ||||||
| Another Story of the World | Guillermo Casanova | Alfonsina Carrocio, Susana Castro, Nicolás Condito, Cecilia Cósero, Christian Font, Jenny Goldstein | Comedy | Selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards | ||
| Get the Weed | Denny Brechner, Alfonso Guerrero & Marcos Hecht | Denny Brechner, Talma Friedler, Gustavo Olmos, José Mujica, Ignacio Roqueta, Barack Obama, Sean Penn, Steven Tyler | Mockumentary, Comedy | |||
| 2018 | ||||||
| Belmonte | Federico Veiroj | |||||
| Porn for Newbies | Carlos Ameglio | Martín Piroyansky, Nicolás Furtado, Carolina Mânica, Daniel Aráoz, Nuria Fló, Roberto Suárez, Denny Brechner, Jorge Bazzano | Comedy | |||
| Super Crazy | Martino Zaidelis | Comedy | ||||
| A Twelve-Year Night | Álvaro Brechner | Historical drama | Selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards | |||
| 2019 | ||||||
| The Sharks | Lucía Garibaldi | Coming-of-age, Drama | ||||
| Alelí | Leticia Jorge | Comedy-drama | Selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards | |||
| The Moneychanger | Federico Veiroj | Comedy | Selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards | |||
| Cook with the book | Emanuel K. Miranda | |||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||||||
| Carmen Vidal Female Detective | Eva Dans | Eva Dans, Roberto Suárez, Luciano Demarco, Nicolás Luzardo, Leonor Courtoisie, Gimena González, Bruno Contenti, Gustavo Cabrera, Enrique Bastos | Neo-noir, Comedy thriller | |||
| The Last Matinee | Maximiliano Contenti | Horror | ||||
| Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine | Alex Piperno | Daniel Quiroga, Inés Bortagaray, Noli Tobol as Noli | Experimental, Fantasy, Romantic comedy | |||
| 2021 | ||||||
| The Broken Glass Theory | Diego Fernández | Comedy | Selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards | |||
| The Employer and the Employee | Manolo Nieto | Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Justina Bustos, Cristian Borges, Fátima Quintanilla, Jean Pierre Noher | Drama | Selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards | ||
| 2022 | ||||||
| 9 | Martín Barrenechea Nicolás Branca | Enzo Vogrincic, Rafael Spregelburd, Horacio Camandulle, Rogelio Gracia, Roxana Blanco, Lara Sofía, Santiago Sanguinetti | Sports, Drama | |||
| The Visitor | Martín Boulocq | Enrique Araoz, Svet Mena, César Troncoso, Mirella Pascual, Teresa Gutierrez, Romel Vargas | Drama | Selected as the Bolivian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards | ||
| 2023 | ||||||
| Family Album | Guillermo Rocamora | Diego Cremonesi, Franco Rizzaro, Valeria Lois, Alfonso Tort, Vicente Pieri, Roberto Suárez, Ángela Torres | Comedy | Selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards | ||
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