08.3 Nica’s Tales
Stories writing, directing or performing by Nicaraguans or which plot line are set in Nicaragua.
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- DirectorChester M. FranklinStarsMonte BlueDorothy BurgessNoah BeeryA man whose wife has deserted him winds up saving a beautiful girl from the clutches of a murderous bandit on a Nicaraguan coffee plantation.
- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsRock HudsonBarbara CarreraDiane LaddA scientist (Rock Hudson) doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days. All is not well though as the child begins to exhibit some horrific tendencies.
- DirectorDon TaylorStarsBurt LancasterMichael YorkNigel DavenportA shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.
- DirectorCharles JarrottStarsMichael CrawfordOliver ReedBarbara CarreraCartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West.
- CreatorAnthony YerkovichStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra Santiago-Resplendent with authentic 1980s music, fashion, and vibe, "Miami Vice" follows two undercover detectives and their extended team through the mean streets of Miami, Florida.
- StarsTania NavarroAbdel LargaespadaRicardo ZambranaAnything can happen to Nicaragua's youth. Here's a tiny preview of their realities, their dreams and experiences. Everything was built from real Nicaraguan young men and women.
- StarsWayne LeGetteJimena ArayaMario CimarroA man comes back from death only to discover dark secrets about his widow.
- StarsMariangelica CuervoDidier Van den HoveRicardo ChavezThe hour-long series features impassioned people thrust into amorous adventures and pushed to their breaking points.
- StarsLorena RojasMauricio IslasCatherine SiachoqueA dramatic story will be revealed to the viewers - Natalia and Adrian, whose love will be revived by the ashes of two failed marriages. On the one hand, Natalia desperately tries to get out of touch with her current husband, Rohelio, who insults her humiliates.
- DirectorJuan FraustoStarsSalvador PinedaFrancisco GattornoAlpha AcostaThe story follows Phoenix attorney, Eduardo, who is trying to move his family up from Mexico. Trouble arises, however, when Eduardo's father is denied a visa and decides to make the border crossing illegally. Further trouble comes when Eduardo realizes his father's only hope may be a U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of killing a young boy.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsJohn LeguizamoAsia ArgentoSimon BakerThe living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation.
- DirectorDavid A. PriorStarsWilliam Frederick KnightDavid ParryStephen QuadrosAn American reporter covering a civil war in Nicaragua discovers that four soldiers that he used to know during World War II are there and they are actual vampires fighting their own personal war against an evil Nicaraguan general and his own personal army of vampires terrorizing the country.
- DirectorRoger SpottiswoodeStarsNick NolteEd HarrisGene HackmanThree journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somoza regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.
- DirectorMichael CuestaStarsJeremy RennerRobert PatrickJena SimsJournalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsRobert CarlyleOyanka CabezasScott Glenn1987, love in time of war. Bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly-sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her family dispersed; she's suicidal. George takes her to Nicaragua to find out what has happened to them and help her face her past.
- StarsJuan Carlos GutierrezFatima LazoSanta Ines RivasA rural community called Loma Verde will be shock while their residents worked through domestic struggles and family life, facing the secrets, crimes and mysteries hidden behind the doors.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyLinda LoredoStan lies to his wife about going to a nightclub with Ollie but Mrs. Laurel overhears the plot and outsmarts them both.Brisa Nocturna
- DirectorDouglas CushnieStarsWalder Casco LópezNorman FloresTwo childhood friends from a small village in the north of Nicaragua briefly reunite one day in the city. One, a University student, and the other, a dropout, have a slight misunderstanding regarding a motorcycle, which leads to some petty drama in their similarly uneventful day-to-day lives.
- DirectorFlorence Jaugey
- DirectorMercedes Moncada Rodríguez
- DirectorDavid DownesStarsBenjamin B. SmithJake D. SmithGeneración Pirata
- DirectorFlorence JaugeyStarsPilar AguirreWhen Rosa came to this place the earthquake had just happened and the building was one enormous ruin. People say it was a cinema, but Rosa, who has lived here for many years, has never seen a film in her life. So many things happen in "Cinema Alcazar" that it's all Rosa can do to keep up.
- DirectorDeborah ShafferStarsOmar Cabezas
- DirectorRobin SpryStarsLen CariouJayne EastwoodCarol LazareA crusading TV reporter finds his life ripped apart as he investigates a story about a company's deadly criminal negligence.El Hombre de una sola nota
- DirectorFrank PinedaStarsPilar AguirreMauricio AlvaradoFlorence JaugeyA small shoe shiner who meets a newlywed couple, an Army captain and his beautiful wife. When the troops go mountain under Captain, He decides to follow them . But the war is not as he was imagined.
- DirectorFlorence JaugeyFrank PinedaStarsAlan BoltFlorence Jaugey
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsDean StockwellAlan EsquivelCarmen BunsterAlsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.
- DirectorDavid NelsonStarsJan-Michael VincentJulie CarmenMary CrosbyAn American journalist covering the civil war in Nicaragua falls in love with a beautiful Sandinista rebel.
- DirectorAlan LoweryStarsJohn PilgerXavier GorostiagaNéstor SánchezA historical account of Nicaragua in the context of US interventions in Latin America.
- DirectorHerbert WiseStarsAlbert FinneyMichael CromptonRobert AustinBio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland, to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic Church.Papa Juan Pablo II en Nicaragua
- DirectorDavid BradburyStarsMark AaronsLaurie AndersonTomás BorgeA documentary on the Nicaraguan revolution.
- DirectorHaskell WexlerStarsRobert BeltranAnnette CharlesAmérico GonzálezSet in the context of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and their battle with the U.S.-backed Contra rebels. Eddie Guerrero (Robert Beltran) is a Vietnam War veteran sent to help U.S. Special Forces train Contra rebels. Eddie falls for a local girl, Marlena (Annette Cardona). However, when her father is killed by the Contras, things change.
- DirectorPeter WeirStarsHarrison FordHelen MirrenRiver PhoenixAn inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.
- DirectorAlex CoxStarsEd HarrisRichard MasurRene AuberjonoisAn unconventional retelling of the life of William Walker, a 19th century American mercenary leader who became the president of Nicaragua.
- DirectorEnzo G. CastellariStarsFrank ZagarinoMelonee RodgersJohn SteinerJohn Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandanista prison in Nicaragua. He teams with Marta, a local woman, to carry out this mission, but then he's captured, tortured, and forced to deal with the fact that he's been betrayed.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsKris KristoffersonJoaquim de AlmeidaDean StockwellThe US tried to occupy Nicaragua in 1927. General Cesar Augusto Sandino and his guerrillas begin armed resistance.
- DirectorAlfred GuzzettiSusan MeiselasRichard P. RogersStarsSusan MeiselasIn 1981, Susan Meiselas published "Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979," 70 photographs she took documenting the Sandinista revolution. Ten years later, Meiselas returns looking for the people who appear in the photographs: where are they now, what do they remember, what do they think of their country and of the revolution? She finds a woman who buried her husband when she was 14; she talks to those who fought the Guarda Nacional - some are disillusioned, some still have the fervor of revolution; she talks to mothers about their sons; she finds a Guarda member who became a Contra. And she offers her own reflections on time and history and on the moment and meaning of a photograph.
- DirectorBob MisiorowskiStarsMichael ParéBarbara CarreraMichael IronsideJack David (Pare) is a tough, outspoken cop who finds himself wrongly accused for the death of a fellow agent by the depraved and power hungry chief of Miami Customs, Martin Cullen (Ian Yule). Disgraced and dismissed, Jack swears revenge and goes to work for Roberto Largo (Ironside), a rich, evil Cuban crime boss, as bodyguard for his smoldering wife, Eva (Barbara Carrera). Jack knows Largo is connected to his old boss Cullen and is determined to learn the secret that will bring him down. Trapped in a deadly game of cat and mouse, held captive by his passionate affair with Eva, Jack must figure out the significance of the mysterious Spanish Rose to survive.Spanish Rose
- DirectorMichael TavernaStarsLouis Gossett Jr.Assumpta SernaRobert BeltranA retired U.S. soldier is sent to Managua, the capital of war-torn Nicaragua, to recover the body of his friend, a U.S. journalist killed on the job. Once there, he becomes suspicious. A local woman helps him untangle the web of conspiracy.Showdown in Managua
- DirectorFlorence JaugeyStarsAlma BlancoRigoberto MayorgaGabriel BenavidesThis is the story of Yuma a strong-willed and rebellious girl from the poor neighborhoods of Managua who dreams of being a boxer.
- StarsJeff ProbstBrenda LoweBen HenryA battle erupts over a clue to the hidden immunity idol and one fearless competitor makes a bold move that earns them the upper hand, but the bad behavior doesn't go unnoticed by their tribe mates.
- DirectorCarlos TroncosoStarsEdgar Barraza
- Nicaragua en mi Sazon
- DirectorKarel LamacStarsAnny OndraKarel LamacWolfgang ZilzerAn unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.Evas urbanas
- StarsAna García LozanoPilar RaholaAlfonso CabezaMi Vida Mi Historia
- StarsLuis CardenasNNN: Nicaraguan News Network
- DirectorGabriel GauchetStarsJorge AlíSamuel ClaxtonLuis Alberto GarcíaEXN
- StarsLadka NergesováLibor BoucekMarcela BaldasEl Bar de Patico
- DirectorMikael Kristersson
- DirectorEsther PodemskiStarsVictoria ParkerLas Espectaculares Casas de Nicaragua
- DirectorAngela TrevinoStarsJonathan FlorezTaylor RiggsCara Loften
- DirectorAndrés PulidoMexico City was built on a lake, but today it faces serious water scarcity. This film leads us across diverse places that allow us to reflect on this contradiction. It's also a journey through time, to the moment when a huge monolith representing Tlaloc - a pre-Hispanic aquatic deity - was transported to the center of the city. At the same time, the biggest lake of the valley was being drained.