Cinematography: Barbara Alvarez

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Barbara Alvarez. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


7.3

27 votes

The Second Mother

2015 · Movie · 108 min. · Brazil

Direction Anna Muylaert

Cast Regina Casé · Camila Márdila · Karine Teles · Lourenço Mutarelli

Plot Having left her daughter, Jessica, to be raised by relatives in the north of Brazil, Val works as a loving nanny in São Paulo. When Jessica arrives for a visit...

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

Utama

2022 · Movie · 87 min. · Bolivia

Direction Alejandro Loayza Grisi

Cast Luisa Quispe · José Calcina · Santos Choque

Plot In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and his wife Sisa face a dilemma:...

6.9

511 votes

6.9

511 votes

25 Watts

2001 · Movie · 92 min. · Uruguay

Direction Juan Pablo Rebella · Pablo Stoll

Cast Daniel Hendler · Jorge Temponi · Alfonso Tort · Valentín Rivero

Plot Does stepping in dog turd bring you 24 hours of good luck, or bad? That's the kind of question debated by three slackers in this very funny portrait of aimless...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Fever

2019 · Movie · 98 min. · Brazil

Direction Maya Werneck Da-Rin

Cast Regis Myrupu · Rosa Peixoto · Kaisaro Jussara Brito · Johnatan Sodré

Plot Justino, a 45-year-old Desana native, is a security guard at the Manaus harbor. As his daughter prepares to study medicine in Brasilia, Justino is taken over by a mysterious fever.

6.8

83 votes

6.8

83 votes

Whisky

2004 · Movie · 105 min. · Uruguay

Direction Juan Pablo Rebella · Pablo Stoll

Cast Andrés Pazos · Mirella Pascual · Jorge Bolani · Ana Katz

Plot Montevideo, Uruguay. Jacobo, a 60-year-old man, lives alone since the death of his mother, of whom he took care up to her last day. All he has in life is...

6.7

8K votes

6.7

8K votes

A Trip to the Seaside

2003 · Movie · 78 min. · Uruguay

Direction Guillermo Casanova

Cast Hugo Arana · Diego Delgrossi · Julio César Castro · Julio Calcagno

Plot A group of men travel across Uruguay to watch the sea.

6.6

364 votes

6.6

364 votes

Amsterdam (TV Series)

2022 · Series · 35 min. · Mexico

Direction Gustavo Taretto

Cast Naian González Norvind · Sebastián Buitrón · María Evoli · Hoze Meléndez

Plot Nadia and Martín live in the historical "Condesa" in Mexico City. Both are artists and share their home with a stray dog, Amsterdam. Beautiful Mexican scenery and portrayal of life...

6.4

28 votes

6.4

28 votes

Puzzle

2009 · Movie · 87 min. · Argentina

Direction Natalia Smirnoff

Cast María Onetto · Arturo Goetz · Gabriel Goity · Mirta Wons

Plot It’s Maria’s fiftieth birthday and her family give her a jigsaw puzzle as a present. She is highly delighted and pleasantly surprised, because Maria has made an astonishing discovery: not...

6.2

621 votes

6.2

621 votes

The Life of Fish (La vida de los peces)

2010 · Movie · 84 min. · Chile

Direction Matías Bize

Cast Santiago Cabrera · Blanca Lewin · Francisca Cárdenas · Pedro del Carril

Plot At a house party, a handsome man wanders around catching up with friends he has not seen for some years. A travel writer now based in Berlin, Andre appears to...

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

Thursday Till Sunday

2012 · Movie · 96 min. · Chile

Direction Dominga Sotomayor

Cast Santi Ahumada · Emiliano Freifeld · Paola Giannini · Francisco Pérez-Bannen

Plot This Chilean road movie is set entirely in and around the car belonging to a middle-class family on a four-day trip to the north of Chile. It will be their...

6.0

318 votes

6.0

318 votes

The Custodian

2006 · Movie · 93 min. · Argentina

Direction Rodrigo Moreno

Cast Julio Chávez · Osmar Nuñez · Elvira Onetto · Osvaldo Djeredjian

Plot A bodyguard of a top politician is so dedicated that he's in danger of losing his own identity.

5.9

660 votes

5.9

660 votes

The Headless Woman

2008 · Movie · 87 min. · Argentina

Direction Lucrecia Martel

Cast María Onetto · Claudia Cantero · César Bordón · Daniel Genoud

Plot A woman is driving on the highway. She becomes distracted and runs over something. On the days following this incident, she fails to recognize the feelings that bond her to...

5.9

2K votes

5.9

2K votes

The Intruder

2020 · Movie · 95 min. · Argentina

Direction Natalia Meta

Cast Érica Rivas · Nahuel Pérez Biscayart · Daniel Hendler · Cecilia Roth

Plot Inés (Érica Rivas) is a dubbing artist and sings in a choir in Buenos Aires. Ever since a traumatic experience on holiday, she has been suffering from insomnia and is...

Max

5.8

345 votes

5.8

345 votes

3

2012 · Movie · 119 min. · Uruguay

5.7

54 votes

5.7

54 votes

Don't Call Me Son

2016 · Movie · 88 min. · Brazil

Direction Anna Muylaert

Cast Naomi Nero · Daniel Botelho · Daniela Nefussi · Matheus Nachtergaele

Plot Pierre is seventeen and in the middle of puberty. He plays in a band, has sex at parties and secretly tries on women’s clothing and lipstick in front of a...

5.7

291 votes

5.7

291 votes

Jesús

2016 · Movie · 85 min. · Chile

Direction Fernando Guzzoni

Cast Sebastián Ayala · Nicolás Durán · Alejandro Goic · Esteban González

Plot A film about the fragility of a father-son relationship. Two characters, two generations, one journey. A search for redemption, friendship. A story of violence, betrayal and guilt.

5.5

207 votes

5.5

207 votes

Good Trip (S)

2008 · Movie · 13 min. · Uruguay

5.5

30 votes

5.5

30 votes

Operações Especiais

2015 · Movie · 99 min. · Brazil

Direction Tomas Portella

Cast Fabrício Boliveira · Olivia Araújo · Jonathan Azevedo · Amélia Bittencourt

Plot A group of honest police is sent to a country town to solve the problem of high crime. Soon they solve the problem while newcomer Francis (Cléo Pires) must overcome...

5.4

67 votes

5.4

67 votes

Boa Sorte

2014 · Movie · 89 min. · Brazil

Direction Carolina Jabor

Cast Luisa Arraes · Edmilson Barros · Fabrício Belsoff · Felipe Camargo

Plot After several behavior problems, João, a teenager (João Pedro Zappa) is admitted to a psychiatric clinic by his family. There he meets Judite (Deborah Secco), for who he soon falls...

5.3

26 votes

5.3

26 votes