The countries that integrate Latin American cinema don't have the same budget as Hollywood to produce science fiction films with great special effects. From the filmmaking point of view, the amount of money that is needed to produce a film that respects the canons of the genre far exceeds the kind of budget that is used for other genres that are usually made among the Latin American borders.
However, in this list there are films that don't count only on special effects. On the contrary, they are part of the genre through a screenplay that has its necessary elements, through characters that live in everyday life, intertextualities to other classic films of the genre, and also criticisms of dictatorships and oppression that haunted the history of Latin America along the years.
