# List of Uruguayan films

A list of films produced in Uruguay.

## 1923-1940

| Title | Director | Genre | Notes |
| 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 | | |

## 1950s

| Title | Director | Notes |
| 1950 |||||
| 1951 |||||
| 1952 |||||
| 1953 |||||
| 1954 |||||
| 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 |

## 1960s

| Title | Director |
| 1960 |||||
| 1961 |||||
| 1962 |||||
| La Burrerita de Ypacaraí | Armando Bó |
| 1963 |||||
| 1964 |||||
| 1965 |||||
| 1966 |||||
| 1967 |||||
| 1968 |||||
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## 1970s

| Title | Director |
| 1970 |||||
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| 1973 |||||
| 1974 |||||
| 1975 |||||
| 1976 |||||
| 1977 |||||
| 1978 |||||
| O Amante de Minha Mulher | Alberto Pieralisi |
| 1979 |||||

## 1980s

| Title | Director | Notes |
| 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 |||||

## 1990s

| Title | Director |
| 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 |

## 2000s

| Title | Director | 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 | | |

## 2010s

| 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 | | | |

## 2020s

| 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 |||||
| The Door Is There | Facundo Ponce de León, Juan Ponce de León | | Documentary | Nominated - Best Documentary at the 79th CEC Awards Selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards |
| 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 |
| Women on the Edge | Azul Lombardía | Carla Peterson, Julieta Díaz, Salvador del Solar, Esteban Lamothe, Eugenia Guerty, Celina Font, Jazmín Rodríguez, Martin Garabal, Lalo Rotavaria, Brenda Kreizerman, Alfonso Tort, Cecilia Dopazo, Nancy Dupláa, Fito Páez, Claudia Fernández, Maitina De Marco, Nazarena Nobile | Comedy | Premiered on September 28 |