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La Llorona

The past will haunt you.

6.4(387)20191h 37m3

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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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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Behind the camera

Produced in

Guatemala, France

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Release dates

  • 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

Frequently asked questions

La Llorona was released on 25 July 2019.

Audience reviews

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    tmdb28039023

    8/30/2022

    8/10

    "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…

  • R

    r96sk

    2/22/2025

    6/10

    <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'…

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    patient1

    10/19/2025

    6/10

    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…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    11/23/2025

    6/10

    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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