El Dorado is a 1988 Spanish film written and directed by Carlos Saura. It was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.
The film is about an expedition down the Amazon and Orinoco rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado. Taking some followers and family along on the journey, they descend into madness and battle the environment and each other.
A two-hour version of the film was screened in New York at the Festival of Films from Spain on October 28, 1988, with around 30 minutes cut from the version screened at Cannes.