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- During the Second World War, the allies' key objective was to crack the German army's encrypted communications code. Without a doubt, the key player in this game was Alan Turing, an interdisciplinary scientist and a long-forgotten hero.
- She is the perfect woman until she decides to be free.
- '3 familias' tells the stories of 3 families from different social classes in different situations in Ecuador.
- The internet came to change everything, even love. These are 5 stories that show us that although love has changed, it continues to make us do the same crazy things.
- It is the story of four women who, for reasons of fate, come to live in the rental rooms of a villa located in a popular neighborhood of Guayaquil. These four women have a common denominator, they all have a past marked by heartbreak and disappointment and they all seek to get ahead to become winning women. Intrigue, heartbreak, romance and comedy, will be the main ingredients of this story of broken hearts, a story of human beings, all with one characteristic: they are the empty glass that will seek to fill up little by little.
- A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."
- Salvador's life takes a dark turn when his ex-convict cousin, Angel, arrives seeking money and shelter. Together, they involve their loved ones in a dangerous criminal journey.
- The crew of a narco submersible has to take desperate measures or else they'll sink with their precious cargo.
- In 1980, the capture of the infamous serial killer Pedro Alonso López, also known as the Monster or the Strangler of the Andes, seemed to end his nearly decade-long reign of terror. However, Ecuadorian laws benefited the murderer by giving him a shorter sentence and even the option of leaving in less time. When the Monster's release draws near, a group of family members struggle to find ways to keep him in jail, while he, from the inside, searches through a series of letters to clear his name and unmask the real killer: Jorge Patiño. The problem is that Jorge Patiño exists only in his mind.
- Alba, an 11 year old girl, has to move to her father's house due to her mother's illness. She barely knows him and sharing time with him at home feels weird. Both are shy, both feel lonely but they can't find a way to approach each other.
- Loner Sara is in her last year of high school and is miserable. Shunned by the girls in her class for being "weird," she spends her lunches smoking in secret behind the school. That is, until the new girl, Andrea, finds her.
- Esperanza and Tristeza both have to get to Cuenca. However, by an unlucky turn of events, the bus they are on gets delayed due to a worker strike. Taking their journey into their own hands, they decide to hitchhike to Cuenca. Along the way they meet interesting characters who help them re-evaluate the purpose of their journey.
- Pipe is invited to join his mysterious father on a quest for the lost Inca gold. But as they journey deeper into the jungle, he understands that they cannot escape the family demons that are traveling with them.
- A troubled teenager becomes obsessed with a mysterious hole in the ground, leading to a journey of self-discovery and the confrontation of inner demons.
- The statue of the Virgin that crowns "The Panecillo" looks and smiles to the north of the city, home to wealthier people, in the south, where most of its inhabitants are the most poor, they only see her back. "Behind Your Back" is the story of Jorge Chicaiza Cisneros (Jordi), a young man working at a bank in Quito and whose main concern in life is to forget and hide his humble origins in the poor neighborhoods of the south city and his mestizo racial reality. His economic capacity, as a son of a migrant mother allows, him to change his name to Jordi Lamotta Cisneros, likewise change his home residence and activities. He likes wearing designer clothes, partying and spends all his moderate salary to car tuning. All this in order to impress the middle class of the northern part of the city and gain their acceptance, yet he knows he will never become part of the high social circles because as a mestizo. Jordi meets Greta by coincidence, a Colombian girl who has come to Ecuador to make a living, and later her corruptive best friend Yahaira. Greta has a secret affair with the nephew of the owner of the same bank where Jordi works, Luis Alberto Granada de la Roca, an ordinary marketing engineer which hides a series of dirty deals behind the work assigned by his uncle. Jordi, Greta, Yahaira, Luis Alberto, a strange lawyer, The Progressive Bank and the Virgin of The Panecillo, casually intertwine their lives in search of money, power and acceptance; in the process, they'll discover hidden realities and other accepted with resignation by Ecuadorian society.
- As Cotopaxi spews ash, issuing an eerie penumbra over Quito, a young woman confronts dormant familial conflicts. Desperate for a place to store her things as volcanic disaster looms, Caridad turns to her long-estranged father Galo for help. Galo abandoned Caridad's mother long ago and is eager to make amends, but questions concerning the nature of his transgressions linger, straining communication between father and daughter and casting grave doubts over the possibility of reconciliation.
- The series portrays the life of Julio Jaramillo, Ecuadorian singer and composer.
- 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.
- It shows the life of sea lions in their unique environment.
- Legend has it that on July 7, each 100 years in "enchanted lake", a mysterious girl will test her charms to help the people of good heart and punish people corrupt.
- A drama set in turbulent, turn-of-the-millennium Ecuador and centered on a young man who begins to develop complicated feelings for Juano after he saves him from a beating.
- Three friends, longing for a higher status in society, put their lives and those of their families on the line, the day they receive a strange business proposal that promises to turn them into millionaires overnight.
- Man develops a reputation as a great bedroom athlete after publishing a 'spicy' novel.
- From the creators of Enchufe.TV, this is the story of JULIA, a teenager from Latin America who has lived in the U.S. most of her life. She is popular, a successful Youtuber and wants to become prom queen. Everything changes abruptly when her family has to return to Ecuador. What will she have to face? Getting used to a new culture and a catholic high school will not be easy. The "gringa" becomes the target of "La Reinas", three popular bullies who rule the school. Julia is now a misfit who will have to earn her new friends' affection in order to survive.
- Legend tells of a girl named Palmira. A teenager, becoming a beautiful woman, her normal small town life took an unexpected turn. A demon expelled from paradise falls in love with her, causing great misfortune; only one can defeat him.
- Iván Vallejo, the first Ecuadorian to conquer Everest (in 1999), decides to make a film commemorating his journey and invites Sebastián Cordero, an Ecuadorian filmmaker who premiered his debut feature in Venice the same year Iván achieved his feat. Together, they embark on a journey to Nepal where they realize they share many life coincidences but have opposing views on how to envision the documentary. Conversations about mountains and cinema will lead to an exchange of philosophical reflections. As the days pass, the increase in altitude and decrease in oxygen will elevate the debate to transcendental inner territories, challenging both their trajectories and personal significance in the face of the mountain's ancient magnitude and depth.
- An author gets lost between the book he is writing and the reality and a love that does not exist and the ideals of revolution.
- A ruined man comes back to his childhood house when his father dies, however, his stay will revive an old trauma driven by his odd mother who will make him take a dark decision.
- It's the summer of 1976. Manuela is a nine year old girl who's caught in between her communist and atheist father and her grandmother, a catholic and conservative woman. They both dispute the right to define her name and, with it, her role inside the familiar universe. It will be her encounter with with her crazy uncle, hidden in the library of the family's farmhouse (where he has dedicated himself to freeing the words) that will wake up her need to go through mirrors, transforming forever her relationship with language and names, including her own.
- Blaquito is thirty years old and lives with his mother in El Matal, a small fishing village on the coast of Ecuador. One day, the beach turns up filled with cocaine packets. Blanquito, along with his friend Lorna, decide to travel to Guayaquil, where people will pay five times more per package. Little does Blanquito realize that in the days that follow he will be staring at death in the eye and losing his head for love.
- Paco Chavez's life is careless and charming. It's a life of illicit drugs and a forbidden love affair he carries with Lucia, his former high school sweetheart, now married to another man. One night, Paco and his younger brother Luis, enter their parent's home to steal a porcelain horse to pawn in order to score more drugs. Their father catches them and a fight ensues. The consequences of that fight will haunt both brothers forever.
- Follow a mythological Andean creature which is said to take the form of a child and then turns into a monster that feeds on the blood of young women.
- A Hungarian explorer claims to have discovered a "Gold Library" inside a cave. Lacking evidence, he tries to get the recognition he believes he deserves but struggles to get support from the local governments and religious leaders.
- Iris and Ariel are 14 year old twins who live with their mother and their older sister Lia on a beach filled with mollusks and reptiles. Their relationship goes beyond the limits of common intimacy.
- "Raspando coco" documents the health impacts and cultural and culinary traditions surrounding coconut as remembered and experienced by Afro-Ecuadorians in the northern coastal region of Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
- Leonardo is a policeman who finds a homicide on the road that reminds him something of the past. He goes in search of the murderer but he meets with his former boss, Johnny, who will try to prevent him from achieving his goal.
- Lei and Wong clandestinely arrive to Ecuador, on their way to the port city of Guayaquil. From there Lei plans to continue her journey to New York, but Chang, a bipolar mobster will decide her fate. Wong unwillingly gets entangled in the web of corruption that operates the encroachment of Chinese immigrants. His only objective is to bring his twelve-year-old son from China. Chang falls in love with Lei, whereas she becomes conscious that her "China dream" of reaching New York is in jeopardy. Víctor, a local young man becomes a possible escape. Mr. Lu, an older calligrapher, helps the young immigrants. Lei's rejection of Chang uncovers his ruthless personality. When a smuggling scheme sets Lei and Wong at a crossroads, they can only rely on each other to reach their freedom. The film recounts the anguish of the immigrant, where deep emotions are subject to masculine power relations and where individuals struggle to maintain their dignity.
- The arrival of some strange people to a distant population begins a series of macabre events, habitants and authorities of the place will do their best to make the guilty pay for his actions, without knowing, that could possibly discover a terrifyin truth.
- In a quiet and humble town in Ecuador, Neisi Dajomes and her siblings see weightlifting as a way of life and their ticket to an Olympic medal.
- Julio considers himself a Messiah and wants to end a group of depressants from Guayaquil, including himself.
- Everything begins with a stray bullet... And a wealthy young man trying to evict 250 families who are squatting on the land he inherited from his father. The leader of the squatter settlement is ready to negotiate, knowing that an eviction will not happen without blood. Suspecting a betrayal, the dwellers voice their concern. SIN MUERTOS NO HAY CARNAVAL portrays the city of Guayaquil through all its social strata, full of latent tensions that can only be resolved through violence. SIN MUERTOS NO HAY CARNAVAL (2016) is Sebastián Cordero's sixth feature film. It's an Ecuadorian-Mexican- German co-production, entirely shot on location in Guayaquil, Ecuador.