

La Llorona
The past will haunt you.
Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.
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6.4/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $294.4K
- Language
- Spanish
- war crimes
- dictator
- trial
- genocide
- guatemala
- war criminal
- indigenous peoples
- guatemalan civil war
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IndiaIN
- PremiereKolkata International Film Festival10 Nov 2019
United StatesUS
- PremiereChicago International Film Festival19 Sept 2019
- Digital / OTTNRShudder6 Aug 2020
United KingdomGB
- PremiereLondon Film Festival8 Oct 2019
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival6 Aug 2020
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival5 Sept 2019
BelgiumBE
- Premiere12Gent International Film Festival10 Oct 2019
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1223 Sept 2021
EgyptEG
- PremiereEl Gouna Film Festival21 Sept 2019
FranceFR
- Theatrical22 Jan 2020
GreeceGR
- PremiereThessaloniki International Film Festival7 Nov 2019
- Digital / OTTCinobo23 Feb 2021
ItalyIT
- PremiereVenice Days30 Aug 2019
JapanJP
- PremiereTokyo International Film Festival31 Oct 2019
- Theatrical10 Jul 2020
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La Llorona was released on 25 July 2019.
Audience reviews
4- T8/10
tmdb28039023
8/30/2022
"The fantastic level and the realistic level are the two levels upon which we live," Richard Burton said in The Night of the Iguana. La Llorona — not to be confused with the Curse/Legend of La Llorona — operates equally well on both levels, which in this case we might re-label the legendary level and the historical level. Enrique Monteverde (Julio Díaz) is an aging, infirm, and paranoid Guatemalan dictator (but th…
- R6/10
r96sk
2/22/2025
<em>'La Llorona'</em> is too slow paced for my liking, it most certainly isn't a bad film though. I just couldn't lock on to what I was watching, every now and then it would hook me in but then I mostly detached again not long later. That's a shame, because there is goodness in this. It's more political drama than horror, not that the latter element is absent but I was anticipating more supernatural to this. That'…
- P6/10
patient1
10/19/2025
Quite the Haunting introduction to the film. This telling of the story is horrific and quite heartbreaking, as any who watch will have to hear to believe. 1st Guatemalan telling for me and its story is beyond distressing, I can only imagine the Horror to come into play soon. The pain of guilt or pure hysteria, either are giving off such a horrifically haunting vibe. Either Madness has set in or the mystical is…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
11/23/2025
Set as Guatemala emerges from a period of military dictatorship, we are taken to the palatial home of ailing, retired and complicit general “Enrique” (Julio Diaz). He has been convicted then cleared of being atop a pyramid of abuse, murder and corruption but his associates are determined to keep him further from the hands of the courts and the people. If he falls, so do many of them. His trial has attracted a great d…
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