Movies & TV Shows from Uruguay

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.

In the midst of the Nguyễn Dynasty, a reluctant wife's life takes a dramatic turn when a chance encounter with her childhood lover sparks a series of unexpected events.

Montevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa moves out of her mother's house with her two children and breaks up with Garcia, her boss and lover who has infuriated her by not wanting to get married. So, in the space of twenty-four hours, Elisa finds herself without a roof over her head, without a man, without a job and without money. Her best friend Loulou finds her a job - in the brothel run by Dona Jacqueline. And without really being aware of it, Elisa slides into prostitution, which leads her to Barcelona. She falls in love, she is exploited, she gets involved in transvestite gang wars, and meanwhile just dreams of earning enough money for her little beauty salon back home.

Gripped by the blind faith of her father, Reverend Pearson, Leni accompanies him on his evangelical mission. A banal accident forces them to stop at El Gringo's garage. When the Reverend becomes obssessed with saving the soul of Chango, the mechanic's son, Leni realises the time has come to take her fate into her own hands.

In 1998, a small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's upcoming visit for the business opportunities that it will provide. While most of the residents plan to sell food at the parade, a smuggler family man decides to build a pay toilet.

After being expelled for a flagrant foul during a match in Primera C (the fourth division in Argentinian football), Patón Bonasiolle, the captain and midfielder from Talleres de Escalada, realizes his career as a footballer has come to an end. At the age of 35, this means the end of a world he has known since he was a child. Together with Ale - his wife - he looks for a fresh new start.

Simon is 21 years old. He introduces himself as a mover's helper. He claims not to know how to cook or clean the bathroom, but he does know how to make a bed. Recently, he seems to have become a different person…

David is a dopey hopeless romantic with a hippy mother and a best friend who also works for him. After fifteen years of living together, on an impulse, he decides to ask his partner to marry him in Las Vegas. His anticipation for the dream wedding and trip is crushed when his partner answers ‘No’. David decides to power through with his plans and now he has ten days to find the knight in shining armor that will marry him in Las Vegas.

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 family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.

The tale of five Uruguayan villagers who embark on a journey to see the ocean for the first time. They depart in a broken down freight truck, property of Rodríguez, a taciturn man who loves the sea. Their point of departure is a local bar, and at the last minute, an unknown man from the bar joins their adventure.

Silvia and Andrés, two siblings who live with their grandfather in a house in the middle of the forest, unleash the wrath of a dark entity that will relentlessly pursue them until it catches them, during the course of one night. The children must use the entity's weaknesses to survive until dawn and get rid of the curse.

A virus is unleashed and a chilling massacre runs through the streets of Montevideo.

The life and death of the tropical singer Gilda.

Three old men and a little boy try to preserve what they consider to be National Patrimony in the form of a locomotive nicknamed the "33"

When Sonia receives the news that her husband’s cancer has progressed to a critical stage, she races to secure the insurance company’s approval for the care that can help him.

A surgeon from Buenos Aires, wearied by personal problems and the endless cycle of work, leaves for a week's skiing vacation in the south. Instead, on impulse, he follows a young hitchhiker to a small fishing village, Devil's Point, in the north, on the coast of Uruguay. He makes fleeting acquaintance with some of the villagers, and learns that "the only thing to do in winter is to wait for summer".

A documentary on the life of Uruguayan politician and former guerrilla fighter José Mujica.

Buenos Aires, during the summer heart, in gated communities surrounded by wastelands covered with trash. The barking of stray dogs, repeated power outages, and uncontrollable clouds of smoke drive the inhabitants to confront their most primitive instincts.

Santiago, an Argentine police corporal, crosses the border into Uruguay fleeing from other police officers who are looking for him. Using his uniform, he inspects regional food stalls, sampling dairy products and cold cuts to survive, while trying to go unnoticed among the locals. Without money or lodging, but with empathy and cunning, he begins to plot a new life, receiving help from local characters he meets along the way and even finding what he believes to be the love of his life.

Margarita tells the story of an orphaned teenager with a life like a movie, with many doubts and almost no certainty about her story, who, following her wish, will arrive at a very magical place where she can live and fulfill her dreams, without knowing that this house was the place where she was born and that the perfidious Delfina usurped it to build her empire.

Two socially-awkward thirty-somethings and a young con woman start a rock band that takes the Buenos Aires music scene by storm.

After vicious infighting, two brothers are expelled of their beloved team’s gang. Alone, without money or political protection, they start a war that puts their brotherhood to the test.

Natalio Arenas is a hypnotist who can put people into a trance and make them reveal their innermost secrets. But Natalio suffers from insomnia, which hides a secret of his own.

Masterchef Uruguay is a Uruguayan gastronomic television program that seeks the best amateur chef in the country. It premiered on April 3, 2017 on Channel 10. This program is an adaptation of the British format of the same name, is hosted by Diego González and is recorded at Estudio 9, located in the La Aguada neighborhood. On May 8, 2017, it was announced that a second season would be held, which premiered on August 21 of the same year.

In this amazing weekly review with segments as funny as they are witty - like Mystery of the Week and Analyzing Things- you'll see the most outrageous and hilarious moments in the everyday life of your beloved characters.

Uruguayan gastronomic television program that seeks the best professional chef in the country. It premiered on August 20, 2018 on Channel 10. An adaptation of the British format of the same name.

"¿Por qué Uruguay?" offers a journey through the lives, aspirations, successes and failures of the new immigrants who come to our country. Persons from sixteen different communities open the doors of their houses and use the food as a way to tell how they see Uruguay and what it means to be an emigrant in our society.

An animated series of short episodes featuring two little birds with opposite personalities. Both friends and rivals, they always find themselves in absurd and comical situations, where each tries to outdo the other. Created by Alfredo Soderguit and Alejo Schettini, the series combines visual humor and poetry to appeal to both children and adults.

The story recounts the life of Guillermo, who due to isolation meets his other versions, which flourish inside his house. The death of one of them unleashes a police investigation that will make us get to know them even more thoroughly and see their looks from the other versions of him.

On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the start of operations of the underground transportation system of the city of Montevideo, the head of public relations of the Montevideo Metro Corporation, which manages the tunnels and trains, decides to make an institutional video, with interviews with staff managerial.