8 Films & TV Shows Set In South America During The 1910s
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Jungle Cruise
England 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1910s The 16th CenturyDr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for an ancient tree that holds the power to heal – a discovery that will change the future of medicine.
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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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Love in the Time of Cholera
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sHow long would you wait for love? — In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.
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The House of Sand
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1960s The 1940sA woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.
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The Forest
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1910sYoung man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman.
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Anarchists
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1910s The 1920s The 1930sArmed based on photography, period films, archival materials and testimonies of survivors, family members and historians, the documentary accurately and exquisitely reconstructs the course of the “expropriating anarchists” in the Río de la Plata and specifically in Montevideo del First third of the 20th century.
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I Escaped From Devil's Island
🇬🇫 French Guiana The 1910sHe's the devil they named the island for! — In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
🇫🇷 France 🇦🇷 Argentina The 1910sSet in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
