Movies Similar to Portraits in a Sea of Lies

Gamin(1977)

After an extensive immersion work on abandoned childhood, Ciro Durán presents, from his point of view, the life of street children, who have broken all family ties and have regrouped to survive in the concrete jungle.

Malamor(2004)

Troubled teen Lisa can't seem to find the joy in everyday things. Lashing out desperately, she falls in love with her mother's junkie boyfriend, which can't end well.

Clear and Present Danger(1994)

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.

Donnie Brasco(1997)

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

Collateral Damage(2002)

Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.

Love in the Time of Cholera(2007)

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

Karmma(2006)

In the plains of Latin America, Guaco, a humble landowner, witnesses a son's betrayal driven by greed, leading to the downfall of a respected family.

Rosario Tijeras(2005)

Rosario Tijeras has been abused by men all her life, initially by her stepfather. Years later, she works as a paid assassin, seducing men and killing them when they least expect it. She meets Emilio, a wealthy womanizer, and his best friend, Antonio, at a nightclub, and starts an affair with Emilio despite Antonio's growing feelings for her. But circumstances bring her closer to Antonio, until her past catches up with her in a devastating way.

The Black Virgin(2018)

Belisario's wife is very sick, a healer comes to meet her and gives him the mission to climb the Andes mountains to bring back an object buried in the snow to try to save her.

Killing Jesus(2017)

Paula, a young art student, witnesses the assassination of her father, a university professor. Frustrated by the local police she starts to investigate the murder herself. Driven by anger, frustration and sorrow, she commits fearless acts that put her and her family at risk.

Article 12(2021)

A young Colombian woman confronts her father and best friend, who resist her taking to the streets to protest for fear of the repression and violence that is taking place in the streets.

Maria Full of Grace(2004)

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.

Into reverse(2017)

It’s a typical morning in Cairo, and a clash erupts on a one-way street in a crowded neighbourhood. An angry face-to-face confrontation between two car drivers erupts, an apoplectic male driver screams at a frightened determined female driver. Who will win this battle of wills?

El Colombian Dream(2005)

A story as told by an aborted child who's now 14 years old, involving his mother, three teenagers (two twin brothers and their cousin) that make a love triangle, the twins' father and his new lover, a drug lord and his sidekicks, the drug lord's wife who doesn't know who's the father of her baby, a prostitute with bladder problems, a hit man (really a frustrated poet), and a huge missunderstanding

Los Actores del Conflicto(2008)

Three street mimes pretend to be guerrilla fighters who want to rejoin society thus obtaining permission from the government to go into exile in Spain in exchange for demobilizing...

McBain(1991)

Santos attempts to lead a people's revolt in Colombia to overthrow the Presidente. When his revolt fails and he is killed, his sister Christina goes to New York to find McBain, a lieutenant Santos rescued during the Vietnam War. McBain agrees to help, recruits his old war buddies, raises some cash by killing a few drug dealers, then leads an attack to topple the Colombian government.

Hábitos sucios(2003)

Satanás - Profile of a Killer(2007)

Based on the Mario Mendoza's book and inspired by true events, tells three interconnected stories happening in the eve of the infamous Pozzetto Massacre.

The Wind Journeys(2009)

After his wife's death, a vallenato singer from Majagual, Sucre, decides to quit music and return his allegedly cursed accordion to his master. He is joined by Fermín Morales, a teenage boy who admires him and wishes to follow his footsteps. Together, they start a journey throughout several towns in Northern Colombia to Taroa, in La Guajira desert, where the singer's master supposedly lives.

De amores y delitos: Bituima 1780(1995)