Ciro Guerra (born 6 February 1981) is a Colombian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards, and for The Wind Journeys, selected as the Colombian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ciro Guerra, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- February 6, 1981 (45)
- Río de Oro, Colombia
- Director, writer and producer
- 5 on MovieCove · 7 credits in all
What are Ciro Guerra's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Power and Society.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
Light 0 · Serious 1 · Dark 3
Grounded 1 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 1
Gentle 0 · Charged 1 · Intense 3
Steady 3 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 3
Resolved 0 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet3
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Ciro Guerra's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).
Subscription and free streaming for Ciro Guerra's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
7 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films
Frontera Verde(2019)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows
Birds of Passage(2018)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
Embrace of the Serpent(2015)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
The Wind Journeys(2009)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Wandering Shadows (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Alma (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Career shape
A full career of 7 titles from 2000 to 2020.
Biggest box office
Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Highest rated
Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Most popular right now
Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Ciro Guerra's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 93rd percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 91st percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
None of their 5 titles divides audiences: 3 are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved2
- Crowd Pleaser3
Reviewers score the atmosphere 81/100 and the pacing 35/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Ciro Guerra's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 4 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Ciro Guerra work with?
People who share at least 2 of Ciro Guerra's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Cristina Gallego shares the most, 4.
Writers
- Cristina GallegoShared titles: Waiting for the Barbarians (2019), Birds of Passage (2018), Embrace of the Serpent (2015), The Wind Journeys (2009)See all 4 shared titles with Cristina Gallego
- Jacques Toulemonde VidalShared titles: Frontera Verde (2019), Birds of Passage (2018), Embrace of the Serpent (2015)See all 3 shared titles with Jacques Toulemonde Vidal
- Maria Camila AriasShared titles: Frontera Verde (2019), Birds of Passage (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Maria Camila Arias
Actors
- Antonio BolívarShared titles: Frontera Verde (2019), Embrace of the Serpent (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Antonio Bolívar
- Miguel Dionisio RamosShared titles: Frontera Verde (2019), Embrace of the Serpent (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Miguel Dionisio Ramos
Cinematographers
- Paulo PerezShared titles: Frontera Verde (2019), The Wind Journeys (2009)See all 2 shared titles with Paulo Perez
- David GallegoShared titles: Birds of Passage (2018), Embrace of the Serpent (2015)See all 2 shared titles with David Gallego
Producers
- Dago GarcíaShared titles: Birds of Passage (2018), Embrace of the Serpent (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Dago García
