33 Films & TV Shows Set In Bolivia
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My Partner 2.0
🇧🇴 BoliviaVito (at present 70 years old) continues in his random adventures: blackmailed by the Patron, a fearsome drug trafficker who Vito managed to lock up in a maximum security prison, now lives hidden in a small Amazonian town. Gone are the glorious days of truck driver with his truck "My Partner". When Vito finally is placed by the son of the Patron, and is in serious trouble, he has no choice but to seek the help of his former assistant Brillo through his daughter Camila. Will Vito return to travel the roads of Bolivia with his old truck "MY PARTNER"? —Paolo Agazzi
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Sirena
🇧🇴 Bolivia The 1970sLake Titicaca, 1984. Renowned La Paz engineer Morgan Cabrera drowns in a boating accident. An unfruitful search for his body comes to a halt when confirmation arrives from a faraway island. A task group sets off to retrieve the corpse
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Averno
🇧🇴 BoliviaYoung bootblack Tupah embarks on a frantic quest to find his uncle, Jacinto, lost in the Averno. In a dangerous journey through the underworld, myth and reality get endlessly intertwined and the death-loaded night in La Paz unveils the darkest and most surreal face of the imaginary of the Andes.
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Still Burn
🇧🇴 BoliviaGeneral Alfredo Ovando Candia was a decisive figure in 20 th century Bolivian history. Through old home movies and institutional footage, Mauricio Ovando goes in search of the figure (and the shadow) of his grandfather, interweaving his history and History while going after an uncomfortable truth.
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Sangre blanca
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇧🇴 BoliviaMartina and Manuel cross the border from Bolivia as «mules». Manuel dies with the cocaine capsules inside his body. Martina turns to her father, who she never met before, for help.
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Hermanos de sangre, compañeros de ideas
🇧🇴 BoliviaJuan Martín Guevara travels to Bolivia on the 50th anniversary of the murder of his brother Ernesto “Che” Guevara. The encounter with people strengthens him, but he does not stop questioning the ways of evoking his figure and asking himself what do we do with this myth?
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The Lost City of Z
England 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇫🇷 France 🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sA man's reach should exceed his grasp... or what's a heaven for? — A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
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Jungle
🇧🇴 Bolivia The 1980sNature has only one law - Survival — In 1981, an enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Bolivian Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past. Their journey quickly turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wilderness lead to an all-out fight for survival.
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Eugenia
🇧🇴 BoliviaEugenia, a young Bolivian middle-class woman, decides to separate from her husband, leave her job and move to her father's house in another city. She wants to start a different life. As time goes by she gets disappointed with her surrounding environment until one day she receives a notice that will put her long-awaited independence at risk.
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Salt and Fire
🇧🇴 BoliviaSometimes redemption is out of reach — A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster.
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Our Brand Is Crisis
🇧🇴 Bolivia The 2000sMay the best campaign win. — Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.
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Sealed Cargo
🇧🇴 Bolivia The 1990sIn 1995, several cargo containers are discovered high in the Bolivian Andes. Inside are potentially toxic chemicals, and local policeman Mariscal soon becomes charged with the task of smuggling the containers into neighboring Chile. He recommissions an old train to haul the toxic waste out of Bolivia, but encounters one mishap after another, beginning with the local townspeople who know what's inside, halting the train's path.
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Blackthorn
🇧🇴 Bolivia The 1920sNo destiny — In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorne) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
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The Losers
California 🇮🇳 India 🇧🇴 BoliviaAnyone Else Would Be Dead By Now. — A tale of double cross and revenge, centered upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. The team-Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar -find themselves the target of a lethal betrayal instigated from inside by a powerful enemy known only as Max. Presumed dead, the group makes plans to even the score when they're joined by the mysterious Aisha, a beautiful operative with her own agenda. Working together, they must remain deep undercover while tracking the heavily-guarded Max, a ruthless man bent on embroiling the world in a new high-tech global war.
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Even the Rain
🇧🇴 Bolivia The 2000sSpain Conquered the New World for Gold 500 Years Later, Water is Gold Not Much Else has Changed... — As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
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Che: Part Two
🇧🇴 Bolivia New York The 1960sA revolutionary life. — After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.
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Quantum of Solace
🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇴 Bolivia England 🇭🇹 Haiti 🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇺 Russia The 2000sFor love, for hate, for justice, for revenge. — Quantum of Solace continues the adventures of James Bond after Casino Royale. Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
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The Fighting Cholitas
🇧🇴 Bolivia The 2000sSeeking Justice in the Ring — The Fighting Cholitas is a documentary short about a group of bold and fierce female Bolivian wrestlers. These indigenous Indian women jump into the ring every Sunday in their traditional vibrant mulitlayered skirts and perform the acrobatic maneuvers of Lucha Libre (a blend of Mexican and American professional wrestling). The Fighting Cholitas documents this weekly fight and goes behind the scenes to find out who these women are and what draws them to this unusual sport.
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Lord of War
New York 🇩🇪 Germany 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇱🇷 Liberia 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇸🇴 Somalia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sWhere there's a will, there's a weapon — Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.
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Our Brand Is Crisis
🇧🇴 Bolivia The 2000sA documentary on American political campaign marketing tactics and their consequences.
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Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
🇫🇷 France 🇧🇴 Bolivia The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1940sWinner of a Best Documentary Academy Award, Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in occupied France during World War II, Barbie would escape--with U.S. help--to South America in 1951, where he lived until a global manhunt led to his 1983 arrest and subsequent trial.
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Les longs manteaux
🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇦🇷 ArgentinaA reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia.
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Scarface
🇧🇴 Bolivia Florida New York The 1980sThe world is yours... — 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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