Best Uruguay Movies

This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Uruguay Movies" contains films with the following parameters. Style: captivating, realistic, semi serious, psychological, serious and humorous. Plot: family relations, society, friendship, flashback, violence, murder, cigarette smoking, death, blood and voice over narration. Genre: Drama, Comedy and Thriller. Country: Uruguay, Argentina and Spain.
Best Uruguay Movies
Best Uruguay Movies
TOP Movies: Society of the Snow (2023), Killer Bean Forever (2008), 25 Watts (2001), Miami Vice (2006), Bad Day to Go Fishing (2009), The Silent House (2010), Grey Eyes (2021), Togo (2022), I'm Gilda (2016), Porn for Newbies (2018), Utama (2022), A Twelve-Year Night (2018), Neon Bull (2015), Loveling (2018), Virus-32 (2022), Leo's Room (2009), Anina (2013), Monos (2019), Burnt Money (2000), A Useful Life (2010).

List of Best Movies

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Society of the Snow (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, Chile, Uruguay, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
Style: historical drama, period piece, period drama
Plot: snow, rugby, airplane crash, survival, airplane accident, desperation, crash, mountain, corpse, disaster, male nudity, rescue ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place: uruguay, chile, andes mountains, south america, latin america
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Killer Bean Forever (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Uruguay
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When things go bad in Beantown, top assassin Killer Bean is called to clean-up the mess. Detective Cromwell finds himself in the middle between Killer Bean and mob boss Cappuccino.
Style: semi serious, exciting, adult animation, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: tough heroes, urban, master warrior, mafia, hitman, crime boss, danger, chase, satire, gang, criminal's revenge, gang war ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 2K
25 Watts (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Montevideo, Saturday, 7 in the morning. El Leche, Javi, and Seba have not gone to sleep yet. Tired and bored, they sit in the usual wall fence to have a beer. On a lazy summer Saturday the three boys each with their own worries—studies, work, and, ...
Style: semi serious, psychological, realistic, humorous, contemplative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: street life, friendship, love and romance, friends, buddies, drug dealing, teenage life, mother son relationship, father son relationship, friend, boy, adolescence ...
Place: uruguay
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 123K
Miami Vice (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Paraguay, Uruguay
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Miami Vice is a feature film based on the 1980s action drama TV series. The film tells the story of vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs and how their personal and professional lives are dangerously getting mixed.
Style: intense, rough, serious, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, tough law enforcer, partners against crime, buddy cop, justice, vengeance, police detective, shootout, partner, mole, drug, law enforcement ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida, miami, south america, usa, havana cuba ...
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Bad Day to Go Fishing (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Uruguay, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Jacob van Oppen, the former strongest man on earth, and his manager Orsini, who calls himself "the Prince", make a good living by traveling around small South American towns and organizing wrestling exhibitions. Arriving in Santa Maria, ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, humorous, exciting, funny ...
Plot: wrestling, friendship, partner, friends, contests and competitions, escapades, unsuccessful, odd couple, ambition, rivalry, travel, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: uruguay, latin america
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The Silent House (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Uruguay
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Laura (Florencia Colucci) and her father Wilson (Gustavo Alonso) arrive at a cottage off the beaten path in order to repair it since its owner (Abel Tripaldi) will soon put the house on sale. They will spend the night there in order to start the ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, tense, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: domestic disturbance, home invasion, family in danger, found footage, danger, survival, family problems, escapades, ghost child, haunted, father daughter relationship, ghost ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: uruguay, latin america
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 5.2
 157
Grey Eyes (2021)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Uruguay
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a post-apocalyptic future, mankind is color blind. A brilliant scientist suddenly dies, leaving his precious briefcase-filled with a highly-addictive synthetic drug that allows people to see colors again-to Ana, a mere 12-year-old girl. ...
Style: crying
Audience: teens
Plot: archer, female protagonist, drug addiction, drug use, wilhelm scream, dying man, forest, blind woman, teenage girl, car chase, drawing, blindness ...
Is relevant ?
 5.3
 662
Togo (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Uruguay
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Togo just wants to watch his neighbors' homes, wash their cars and clean up their sidewalks. But the drug traffickers want more from him.
Style: suspenseful, dramatic, serious, tense
Plot: car, drug, neighbor, drug crime, fight, protection, criminal, rescue, society, territory
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Monolith's Whisper (2011)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Uruguay
Duration: 68 min.
Story: STALKER: Monolith's Whisper tells the story of Alexey Savchuk, an exiled victim of the 1986 Chernobyl accident who enters the Exclusion Zone to find his lost brother after "The Second Catastrophe" where a mysterious second explosion ...
Style: psychological, art house, philosophical, bleak
Plot: stalker, nuclear explosion, mercenary, freedom, loner, nuclear power plant, quest, dystopian future, ecology, nature, soldier, surrealism ...
Place: chernobyl, ukraine, uruguay
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 1K
I'm Gilda (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Argentina, Uruguay
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The life and death of the tropical singer Gilda.
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: romantic relationship, female protagonist, fame, female singer, direction and purpose, musician's life, desire for fame, historical character, music, price of fame, ambition, ambitious woman ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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Porn for Newbies (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Uruguay
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A porn director, a fugitive, a priest. The life of Victor X.
Style: semi serious, humorous, satirical, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: fiance fiancee relationship, porn actress, porn star, mission, satire, porn industry, in love, male female relationship, director, porn actor, escapades, relationship problems ...
Time: year 1980
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 2K
Utama (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia, Uruguay, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the Bolivian altiplano, Virginio and Sisa, an elderly Quechua couple who have lived a quiet life for years, face an impossible dilemma during an unusually long drought: resist or be defeated by the hostile environment and the relentless passage ...
Plot: farmer, camel, llama, husband wife relationship, homeland, couples, cemetery, death of husband, motorcycle, animal sacrifice, river, ritual ...
Time: 2020s
Place: bolivia
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A Twelve-Year Night (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Uruguay, Spain, Argentina, France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.
Style: captivating, psychological, realistic, tense, informative ...
Plot: military dictatorship, prison, politics, dictatorship, dictator, released from prison, political prisoner, violence, biopic, rivalry, society, criminal justice ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 1973
Place: south america, uruguay, latin america
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 3K
Neon Bull (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Iremar is part of a rodeo troupe that tours the Brazilian northeast. His task is to send bulls into the arena. Intensely exciting physical scenes alternate with contemplative episodes that sketch a painterly portrait of the members of the troupe. ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, sensual, eros ...
Plot: rodeo, mannequin, rags to riches, changing lives, ambition, fashion, lifestyle change, rodeo cowboy, minimalism, lgbt, gay, social realism ...
Place: brazil, northeast brazil
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 2K
Loveling (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil, Uruguay, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and renew her strength before sending her eldest son out into the world.
Style: satirical, entertaining, psychological, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: parents and children, husband wife relationship, lifestyle, mother son relationship, father son relationship, family relations, family life, grownups, satire, woman, domestic violence
Is relevant ?
 5.4
 2K
Virus-32 (2022)
Genre: Horror
Country: Argentina, Uruguay
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A virus is unleashed and a chilling massacre runs through the streets of Montevideo.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, slasher horror
Plot: zombie survival, zombie, zombie apocalypse, zombie outbreak, zombie attack, mother daughter relationship, zombie violence, deathtrap, survival, death threat, infected, post apocalyptic ...
Time: 2020s
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 1K
Leo's Room (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Uruguay, Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Leo, a young man coming to terms with his own sexuality, runs into Caro, a primary school friend he fancied when they were kids, who's now trying to ward off her own personal demons. This casual re-encounter will affect their personal conflicts ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: gay, gay love, friendship, self acceptance, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, lgbt, family relations, self discovery, therapy, couples, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: uruguay
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 908
Anina (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Uruguay, Colombia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Anina Yatay Salas is a ten-year-old whose name spells trouble: those three palindromes in a row are an ongoing source of teasing at school. When a playground fight results in mysterious punishment, Anina will learn to put her problems in perspective ...
Style: sincere, captivating, enigmatic, light, anime ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: daydreamer, imaginary character, self discovery, imaginary, mischievous children, friendship, schoolgirl, punishment, child, girl, broadway, circus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: uruguay, latin america
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 6.8
 19K
Monos (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Uruguay, USA, Switzerland, Denmark, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
Style: suspense, ambiguous ending, avant garde, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: child soldier, violence, chase, teenage boy, surrealism, rescue, teenage girl, hostage, coming of age, nude, murder, teenager ...
Time: year 2019
Place: colombia, latin america, south america
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 7K
Burnt Money (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, Uruguay
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Set in Argentina in 1965, the story follows the tumultuous relationship between two men who became lovers and ultimately ruthless bank robbers in a notoriously famous footnote in the annals of crime history. After a large-scale hold-up that turns ...
Style: sexy, erotic, intense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gay, heist, gay romance, obsession, lgbt, male nudity, betrayal, gay sex, gay erotica, couples, gay cruising, homoeroticism ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 90s
Place: argentina, latin america, uruguay, new york, buenos aires argentina ...
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A Useful Life (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Uruguay, Spain
Duration: 67 min.
Story: A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life after the cinema he worked at for over 25 years is forced to shut down.
Style: realistic, contemplative, sentimental, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: self discovery, theater, introspection, cinema, society, fired from the job, social problems, quitting job, social relations, loss of job, dialogue, filmmaking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, uruguay
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The Pope's Toilet (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay, Brazil, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's 1988 visit.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Plot: dishonesty, escapades, disorder, village life, farce, cons and scams, bicycle, poverty, cycling, bike, blue collar, anarchist ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: uruguay, latin america
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 470
Bad Christmas (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Uruguay
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A peaceful Christmas Eve is interrupted when a thief breaks into a villa. When the family’s little daughter mistakes him for Santa Claus and asks him to fulfill her Christmas wish, he will be forced to perform a miracle that will redeem secrets ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: adultery, infidelity, santa claus, cheating wife, christmas eve, thief, heist gone wrong, heist, mistaken identity, robbery, criminal, attempted robbery ...
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A Place in the World (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Uruguay
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: village life, anarchist, migration, exile, business, professor, nun, family relations, idealism, coming of age, spaniard, peasant ...
Time: year 1992, 70s, 90s
Place: argentina, latin america, madrid, spain, paris france ...
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 7K
Whisky (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Germany, Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship. the owner of a sock ...
Style: sincere, semi serious, realistic, humorous, comedy drama ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, factory, family relations, comedy of errors, hidden identity, couple relations, love and romance, disorder, family gatherings, farce, dishonesty, elderly ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: uruguay, latin america, argentina
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The Last Matinee (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 88 min.
Story: On a stormy night in Montevideo, an engineering student named Ana takes over the duties of her father, a projectionist at a declining movie theatre, due to his ill health. But, unbeknownst to her, the audience watching the film that she’s running ...
Style: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: maniac, underage drinking, male female friendship, studying, taxi, father daughter relationship, serial killer, survival, bloody violence, sadist, survival horror, murder ...
Time: 2020s, 90s, 21st century
Place: uruguay
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 970
Mr. Kaplan (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Uruguay, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America because of World War II. But now turning 76, he is grumpy and in need of adventure. An unexpected opportunity to achieve ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot: aging, investigation, amateur detective, partner, rivalry, old age, judaism, holocaust, voice over narration, cigarette smoking, jail, funeral ...
Time: 21st century
Place: uruguay, germany, south america, latin america
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 406
The Delay (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Uruguay, Mexico, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Agustín forgets things; he is aging and he knows it. María is never alone: she watches over everyone, sleeps very little, and works too much. She’s increasingly overwhelmed. One day, on impulse, María decides to abandon Agustín. The tightening ...
Style: touching, atmospheric, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, society, working class, family life, mental illness, single parent, urban ghetto life, poverty, old man, nursing, urban ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: uruguay, latin america
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Expiration Date (2023)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina, Uruguay
Duration: 106 min.
Story: María and Javi are two lifelong friends. Even though they have drifted apart over the course of the last year, when María suffers an accident that leaves her at the verge of dying, they reunite and discover that they have always been in love. Now ...
Style: semi serious, psychological, captivating, satirical
Plot: girlfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, race against time, friends, girlfriend, life, satire, fighting illness, female protagonist, women, female best friends
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 383
Incident Light (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Uruguay
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this poignant period drama set in 1960s Argentina, a young woman, struggling to raise her twin daughters alone after the tragic death of her husband, accepts the courtship of a charming but mysterious older suitor.
Style: black and white, period drama
Plot: jazz, death of husband, widow, singing, single mother, love, dancing, wedding, mother daughter relationship, loss of husband, loss of brother, death of brother ...
Time: 60s
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