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Apocalypto
Apocalypto () is a 2006 epic historical action-adventure film produced and directed by Mel Gibson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Farhad Safinia. The film features a cast of Indigenous and Mexican actors consisting of Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Sérbulo, Dalia Hernández, Gerardo Taracena, Jonathan Brewer, Rodolfo Palacios, Bernardo Ruiz Juarez, Ammel Rodrigo Mendoza, Ricardo Diaz Mendoza, and Israel Contreras. Set in Yucatán around the year 1511, Apocalypto portrays the hero's journey of a young man named Jaguar Paw, a late Mesoamerican hunter and his fellow tribesmen who are capt
Terminator: Dark Fate
2019 film by Tim Miller
The Fountain
2006 film directed by Darren Aronofsky
The Juror
1996 film by Brian Gibson
Salem's Lot
1979 film directed by Tobe Hooper
Ixcanul
Ixcanul (, Kaqchikel for "volcano") is a 2015 Guatemalan drama film written and directed by Jayro Bustamante in his directorial debut. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Alfred Bauer Prize. The film was selected as the Guatemalan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but was not nominated. It is the first film produced in the Kaqchikel language of the Mayan family.
Sin Nombre
2009 film directed by Cary Fukunaga
El Norte
1983 film by Gregory Nava
The Evil That Men Do
1984 film by J. Lee Thompson
La Llorona
2019 film directed by Jayro Bustamante
The New Adventures of Tarzan
1935 film by Edward A. Kull
Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino
2002 film by Agustí Villaronga
Rita
2024 Guatemalan dark fantasy horror film directed by Jayro Bustamante
Treasure of the Golden Condor
1953 film by Delmer Daves