43 Films & TV Shows Set In South America During The 1950s
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End of the Spear
🇪🇨 Ecuador The 1990s The 1950sDare to Make Contact — "End of the Spear" is the story of Mincayani, a Waodani tribesman from the jungles of Ecuador. When five young missionaries, among them Jim Elliot and Nate Saint, are speared to death by the Waodani in 1956, a series of events unfold to change the lives of not only the slain missionaries' families, but also Mincayani and his people.
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The Game of Their Lives
Missouri 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1950sBased on a true story, this film tells the tale of the 1950 US soccer team who, against all odds, beat England 1 - 0 in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Although no US team has yet won a World Cup title, this story is about the family traditions and passions which shaped the lives of the players who made up this team of underdogs.
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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 Motorcycle Diaries
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇨🇱 Chile 🇵🇪 Peru 🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1950sBased on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
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Blow
New York Massachusetts California 🇨🇴 Colombia The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950sBased on a True Story. — A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.
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Evita
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sThe Most Anticipated Motion Picture Event of The Year. — The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
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Eva Perón
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1950s The 1940sDrama based on the life of Eva Peron, an obscure actress, who rose to become wife of Argentine strong-man President Juan Peron and one of the most powerful figures in Argentina until her death in 1952 at age 33.
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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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Caín
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1950sMid-1950s. Don Polo¸ rich and influential landed¸ has two children: legitimate and spoiled Abel¸ and Caín¸ born from the relationship with an employee of the ranch¸ and who since childhood has been treated as any pawn. Despite its condition¸ brothers¸ maintain a good friendship until that appears the restless Margarita¸ whose love face. The girl is forced to marry Abel¸ 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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Diary
🇮🇱 Israel 🇧🇷 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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Flesh of Your Flesh
🇨🇴 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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Luz Del Fuego
🇧🇷 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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Papillon
🇬🇫 French Guiana 🇭🇳 Honduras The 1930s The 1940s The 1950sThe greatest adventure of escape! — A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
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Operación Masacre
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1950sIn 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina, are killed several suspected to be part of the civil uprising. However survive seven people manage to tell the story.
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Che!
🇨🇺 Cuba 🇧🇴 Bolivia The 1950s The 1960sChe Guevara...The Doctor Turned Fighter. The Fighter Turned Revolutionary. The Revolutionary Turned Martyr To Some, Murderer To Others. — Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro in his struggle against the corrupt Batista regime, eventually resulting in the overthrow of that government and Castro's taking over of Cuba. The film covers Guevara's life from when he first landed in Cuba in 1956 to his death in an ambush by government troops in the mountains of Bolivia in 1967.
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Faja Lobbi
🇸🇷 Suriname The 1950sThe film shows the interior of Suriname. Central to this is the Marowijne River with its villages, and how the rich society of Creoles (Afro-Surinamese), Hindustani, Javanese, Chinese, Boeroes (descendants of Dutch farmers' immigrants), Indians and Maroons live together. Wide rivers flow through the jungles of Suriname, mostly peaceful, but sometimes furiously against the rocks. Indians hunt for fish, while Marons prove that they are masters of driving their narrow boats. The Surinamese are sensitive musicians when they play their flute, which is shaped like bamboo. The jungle is a vibrant sea of green and there are flowers of every color that you can imagine. This is the interior of Suriname. The majority of the population lives on the coast, where the capital Paramaribo is also situated, a city that is lively and contains many different population groups, with their own clothing and language.
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Araya
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1950s"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. In images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.