Best Bolivian comedy movies
A curated collection of popular comedy movies from Bolivia.
The Day Silence Died (1999)
The Day Silence Died (1999)
A handsome and mysterious stranger, played by Darío Grandinetti, walks into the town square of Villaserena one day and strategically places loudspeakers around the town, blaring a variety of musical tunes. Soon, he begins to sell airtime to the various locals, who broadcast their own personal love dedications and (more frequently) insults for all to hear. A subplot evolves between Abelardo (the stranger), Celeste (a young woman who is chained inside her father's house to stop her running away), and José (a young man).
El pecado de la carne (2012)
El pecado de la carne (2012)
It narrates the life of an old man who suffers from Alzheimer's and before all his memory is erased he wants to remember, for the last time, the love story that he lived with Margarita.
Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of My Village (2022)
Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of My Village (2022)
Sistu and her small community in the Andes discover the magic of cinema. This meeting causes a stir but also confronts them with their culture and highlights the limitations of the community to understand and read Spanish. As a solution, they choose Sistu so that every week he goes to town to see a movie and tells it to everyone in the square.
My Partner (1982)
My Partner (1982)
The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.
My Cousin the Sexologist (2016)
My Cousin the Sexologist (2016)
Two cousins began to discover their sexuality together in adolescence and they reunite after ten years: he only recently returned to bachelorhood, and she returned from Buenos Aires, where she opted to specialize in Sexology.
Who Killed the White Llama? (2007)
Who Killed the White Llama? (2007)
Jacinto and Domitila are two indigenous Bolivians, happily married... and the most notorious criminals in the country. When they are paid to transport 50kg of cocaine to the Brazilian border, they embark on a journey that will take them through the jungles, mountains, deserts and cities of Bolivia on a riotous adventure that will test their relationship and make them question their future as criminals.
