The Lost Children
2024 · Movie · PG-13 · 97 min · ★ 7.4
After a plane crash in the Colombian Amazon, four Indigenous children struggle to stay alive using ancestral knowledge while a massive search effort grows around them. As days pass, the rescue becomes a tense, emotional mission that brings together groups who don’t usually trust each other.
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Details
- Original title
- Los niños perdidos
- Years
- 2024
- Release date
- 2024-11-13
- Language
- Spanish
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- TMDB rating
- 7.4/10 (89 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a real-life survival-and-rescue story that also explores community tensions and Indigenous traditions; Not for you if you mainly want nonstop action or a child-focused survival breakdown like Midnight Family.
Pros: gripping true survival story; moving cultural insight; strong emotional pull | Cons: slow, dragged-out pacing; focus drifts to rescuers; missing key details
Themes
- amazon rainforest
- indigenous peoples
- plane crash
Cast & crew
- FM
Fátima Mucutuy
as Self - The Children's Grandmother
- YM
Yeritza Mucutuy
as Self - The Children's Aunt
- MO
Madadme Mendoza Ortiz
as Self - The Children's Teacher
- NO
Nicolás Ordóñez
as Self - Volunteer Searcher
- HG
Henry Guerrero
as Self - Volunteer Searcher
- EM
Eliécer Muñoz
as Self - Volunteer Searcher
- EM
Edwin Manchola
as Self - Volunteer Searcher
- PS
Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez
as Self - Commander Special Forces
- PO
Popeye
as Self - Lieutenant, Special Forces
- LE
Legionnaire
as Self - Captain, Special Forces
Directed by Orlando von Einsiedel, Lali Houghton, Jorge Duran