9 Films & TV Shows Set In South America During The 18th Century
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Zama
🇵🇾 Paraguay The 18th CenturyIn a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.
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Joaquim
🇧🇷 Brazil The 18th CenturyBrazil, 18th century. The colony of Portugal endures a decline in gold production. A Portuguese minority rules over a corrupt and autocratic society. Joaquim is an efficient soldier, famous for capturing gold smugglers. While waiting for his promotion to Lieutenant, he leaves for a risky mission in search of new gold mines - the only way to buy the freedom of Blackie, a slave he is in love with. Inspired by the true story of Tiradentes, the first leader of the Brazilian revolutionary movement.
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The Price of Sugar
🇸🇷 Suriname The 18th CenturyTwo half sister, bound by slavery, divided by love — A story about two half-sisters life in the eighteenth century Suriname. There is Lynda, a white colonial and slave owner, and her slave Mini-Mini's. While Lynda is slowly embittered by the hard life in the colony, Mini-Mini gets a chance at her own happiness. The question is, if she dares to seize that chance, as this happiness is at the expense of her mistress and half sister?
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
🇵🇪 Peru The 18th CenturyFive lives bound by one fate. — The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge.[ A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928.
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Brave New Land
🇧🇷 Brazil The 18th CenturyDiogo is a cartographer and artist who is encharged to set the new frontiers of Portuguese Colonies in South America. When he reaches the center of the continent, finds apparently nothing but wilderness and ‘uncivilized’ natives with strange ways of living. But Captain Pedro, the rude scout who guides him through the jungle, involves Diogo in an involuntary act of violence which will tie him in an unusual way to that far away country. At the same time, the Portuguese colonists are trying to make peace with Guaicuru Indians (one of the few natives with horse-riding abilities). But peace doesn’t ever have a low price.
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The Mission
🇧🇷 Brazil 🇵🇾 Paraguay The 18th CenturyOne will trust in the power of prayer. One will believe in the might of the sword. — When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
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The Golden Coach
🇵🇪 Peru The 18th CenturyA viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 16th-century Peru.
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El corsario negro
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 17th Century The 18th CenturyThis Mexican drama features murder, revenge, ruling power and romance in Eighteenth century Maracaibo.
