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Chile: Hasta Cuando?
π¨π± Chile The 1980sA portrait of a brutal Pinochet military dictatorship made during a three month visit to Chile in 1985 by David Bradbury. The footage reveals a country torn with civil strife and political unrest; military intimidation of the population; indiscriminate arrests: murder torture and disappearances were facts of Chilean life.
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Miss Mary
π¦π· Argentina The 1930sA young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a fascist movement is preparing to install itself in power.
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Les longs manteaux
π§π΄ Bolivia π¦π· ArgentinaA reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia.
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The Emerald Forest
π§π· BrazilWhat kind of man would return year after year for ten years to rescue a missing boy from the most savage jungle in the world? His father. β For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
π§π· BrazilLuis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a gay man, is found guilty of immoral behaviour and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he's in. During the time they spend together, the two men come to understand and respect one another.
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Waiting for the Hearse
π¦π· ArgentinaAn out of the ordinary weekend in the life of an Argentine family β Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her?
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Code of Silence
π¨π΄ ColombiaEddie Cusack's a good cop having a very bad day. β A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
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The Official Story
π¦π· Argentina The 1980sA truth too frightening to ignore β Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
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Cut and Run
π»πͺ VenezuelaThe one story you won't be seeing on the 6 o'clock news! β A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.
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Massacre in Dinosaur Valley
π§π· BrazilA journey into the cannibal inferno! β A plane crashes in the Amazon jungle, and its passengers must battle their way through cannibals, slave traders, wild animals and murderous piranha fish to safety.
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Oriana
π»πͺ VenezuelaA young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana.
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The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
π¦π· Argentina1985 Argentine documentary film directed by Susana Blaustein MuΓ±oz and Lourdes Portillo about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
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Double Trouble
π§π· BrazilA stuntman and a saxophonist stand in for two billionaires threatened by killers.
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Romancing the Stone
π¨π΄ Colombia The 1980sShe's a girl from the big city. He's a reckless soldier of fortune. For a fabulous treasure, they share an adventure no one could imagine... or survive. β Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
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Blame It on Rio
π§π· BrazilShe's the hottest thing on the beach. She's also his best friend's daughter! β Matthew Hollis is man on holiday in Rio with his best friend. Both men have teenage daughters with them. When Matthew falls for his best friend's amorous daughter named Jennifer, they embark on a secret, if slightly one-sided relationship. Jennifer's father is furious when he finds out about the 'older man' in his daughter's life, and sets out to hunt him down with the aid of Matthew!
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Camila
π¦π· Argentina The 1840s The 1820sLove against all odds β In Buenos Aires of the 1840s, a young Jesuit and a wealthy socialite fall in love and begin a torrid affair. They escape from the city, and, in disguise, set up house in a village, assuming they are safe and beyond the cares of anyone. However, both the church and Camila's family are enraged, vowing to hunt down the lovers for a capital crime. Based on a true story.
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The Evil That Men Do
πΈπ· SurinameProfessional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a Latin American journalist, is killed. The murderer, Doctor Clement Molloch, is the master sadist behind the political torture of innocent victims. Posing as a journalist, Holland lures Molloch out of his fortress-like headquarters by using his murdered friend's wife and daughter as bait. When Holland kidnaps Molloch's sister, the doctor is led on a wild chase that takes him to an abandoned opal mine where he finally comes face to face with Holland.
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Asesinato en el Senado de la NaciΓ³n
π¦π· Argentina The 1930sHistorical film that focuses on political and social events took place in Argentina during the beginning of the 30s. Santafecino Deputy Lisandro de la Torre complaint in Congress Argentine meat business with England.
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Quilombo
π§π· Brazil The 17th CenturyQuilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a safe harbor for other outcasts of the world, including Indians and Jews. Ganga Zumba (Toni Tornado) becomes president of Quilombo, the first freely elected leader in the Western Hemisphere. Naturally, the ruling Portuguese want to subjugate Zumba and his followers, but the Quilombians are ready for their would-be oppressors. The end of this Brave New World is not pleasant, but the followers of Zumba and his ideals take to the hills, where they honor his memory to this day. Writer/director Carlos Diegues takes every available opportunity to compare the rise and fall of Quilombo with the state of affairs in modern-day Brazil.
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Dulce Patria
π¨π± ChileFilmed during hard and decisive years of the democratic struggle against the regime of Augusto Pinochet, it is the first film in which a group of Chilean filmmakers, without anonymity try to give a global account of the Chilean situation of those days. The film reflects the vision and personal testimony of its director about his country at that moment.
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CaΓn
π¨π΄ Colombia The 1950sMid-1950s. Don PoloΒΈ rich and influential landedΒΈ has two children: legitimate and spoiled AbelΒΈ and CaΓnΒΈ born from the relationship with an employee of the ranchΒΈ and who since childhood has been treated as any pawn. Despite its conditionΒΈ brothersΒΈ maintain a good friendship until that appears the restless MargaritaΒΈ whose love face. The girl is forced to marry AbelΒΈ who dies at the hands of his older brother. Cain flees with Margarita to join the group commands the Bandit Pedro Palos. Violence is merciless in their lives.
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Scarface
π§π΄ Bolivia The 1980sThe world is yours... β After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
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Superman III
π¨π΄ Colombia The 1980sIf the world's most powerful computer can control even Superman...no one on earth is safe. β Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects in the third installment of the 1980s Superman franchise. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.
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Diary
π§π· Brazil The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1950s The 2000sA film diary in which Perlov films the minutiae of his and his family's day-to-day life. From these small bits, he builds up a broad picture of life in Israel in the '70s and '80s.
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The Honorary Consul
π¦π· ArgentinaFirst they betrayed him. Then they gambled with his life. β Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.
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Flesh of Your Flesh
π¨π΄ Colombia The 1950sTakes place in 1956 under a militant dictatorship, but an uncontrollable crisis is about to take place in part of the country as buildings are blown up, people exterminated and a hidden evil force is unleashed. The supernatural force released starts to turn innocent people into bloodthirsty killers (a combination of zombies and vampires) but the military and most who live in the countryside of Cali are unaware of this. There is also a little political subtext when incest becomes involved, though if they are possessed, does that take on a new meaning?
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Fitzcarraldo
π§π· Brazil π΅πͺ Peru The 1890sFitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
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Missing
π¨π± Chile The 1970sBased on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a right-wing military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the right-wing dictatorship.
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Love, Strange Love
π§π· Brazil The 1930sFor them, everything was permited. β Man remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a child, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by him, right before some important political changes in 1937 Brazil. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.
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Luz Del Fuego
π§π· Brazil The 1950sBiography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
π΅πͺ Peru The 1930sIndiana Jones - the new hero from the creators of JAWS and STAR WARS. β When Dr. Indiana Jones β the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist β is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
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Cannibal Ferox
π§π· BrazilBanned in 31 countries! β Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.
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Pixote
π§π· BrazilThey canβt outrun the law of the weakest. β 10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
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Time for Revenge
π¦π· Argentina The 1980sAn honest man is something very dangerous nowadays. β A union organizing demolition worker and a friend of his decide to blackmail the corrupt company they work for setting up a fake accident. Because of a miscalculation the friend dies, but he sticks with the plan and demands a big sum of money as indemnity. When the company refuses to pay, determined to prove the worker is lying, he is forced to make a tragic decision in order to win.
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High Risk
π¨π΄ ColombiaGetting in was easy... getting out was war!!! β Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid into a South American drug lord's compound.
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They Don't Wear Black Tie
π§π· Brazil The 1980sOtavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, TiΓ£o, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, TiΓ£o's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men.
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Cannibal Holocaust
π»πͺ Venezuela The 1970sCan a movie go too far? β A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
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Cabo Blanco
π΅πͺ Peru The 1940sCaboblanco. Where legends are born. β Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
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Gaijin: A Brazilian Odyssey
π§π· Brazil The 1900sBased on fact, this is the story of the struggles of Japanese immigrants who traveled to and settled in Brazil looking for a better life.
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Moonraker
π§π· Brazil The 1970sWhere all the other Bonds end, this one begins! β After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and outer space.
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Guyana: Crime of the Century
π¬πΎ Guyana The 1970sThe movie that dares to tell the truth behind the most shocking crime of the century! β This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman, who after years of evangelism and good deeds, begins his own church in the mid-western United States. When Jim Jones becomes increasingly obsessed with the belief that the CIA is "a wicked enemy" who is out to get him, he emigrates with his congregation to Guyana, where he plans to create a utopia. But Jim Jones' utopia consists of a society where he demands his followers turn their minds, bodies and possessions over to him, one that is rife with orgies, physical violence, mental torture, and sexual abuse of children and adults. Ultimately, Jim Jones' paranoia reaches a fevered pitch that culminates in him taking savage action against his own congregation. (VCI Home Video)
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The Power of Darkness
π¦π· ArgentinaCinema honored a great book! β A man becomes convinced that he is being persecuted by a conspiracy of blind people.
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Colonel Delmiro Gouveia
π§π· Brazil The 20th Century The 19th CenturyIn the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.
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The House on Garibaldi Street
π¦π· Argentina The 1960sWhen Israeli officials learn than Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
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The Boys from Brazil
π΅πΎ Paraguay The 1970sIf they survive β¦ will we? β Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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