87 Films & TV Shows Set In South America During The 1970s
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π¨π± Chile The 1970s The 1980sIn 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote βYesβ or βNoβ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the βNoβ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, RenΓ© Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despotβs minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
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Clandestine Childhood
π¦π· Argentina The 1970sJuan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets MarΓa, who only has one name. Based on true events, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love.
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Lula, the Son of Brazil
π§π· Brazil The 1970s The 1960s The 1940s The 1950sThe true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in Brazilian history.
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Post Mortem
π¨π± Chile The 1970sIn Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
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The Secret in Their Eyes
π¦π· Argentina The 1970s The 1990sA retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
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Dawson Isla 10
π¨π± Chile The 1970sAfter the 1973 coup that deposed Allende and brought Pinochet to power in Chile, the former members of his cabinet are imprisoned on Dawson Island, the world's southernmost concentration camp. Here these men are determined to survive and provide history with their testimony.
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El diario de AgustΓn
π¨π± Chile The 1970sExposΓ© of the CIA-financed efforts of the Edwards family of Chile to cover up the human rights abuses of the Pinochet dictatorship through its newspaper 'El Mercurio'.
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The Black Pimpernel
π¨π± Chile The 1970sOne man made a difference β The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973.
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Jonestown: Paradise Lost
π¬πΎ Guyana The 1970sJonestown: Paradise Lost is a documentary on the final days of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple, and Jim Jones. From eyewitness and survivor accounts, it recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978.
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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
π§π· Brazil The 1970sA boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
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Chronicle of a Escape
π¦π· Argentina The 1970sAn Inside View of Political Detainees β The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.
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Baptism of Blood
π§π· Brazil The 1970s The 1960sIn SΓ£o Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the guerrilla group Ação Libertadora Nacional, commanded by Carlos Marighella.
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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
π¬πΎ Guyana The 1970sFeaturing never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.
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Machuca
π¨π± Chile The 1970sTwo boys observe a political coup in their native Chile. β Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.
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Almost Brothers
π§π· Brazil The 1970s The 2000sWe all have two lives: the one we dream of and the one we live. β The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was there for political reasons, and Jorge, as a common criminal.
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City of God
π§π· Brazil The 1970s The 1960s The 1980sIf you run, you're dead... if you stay, you're dead again. β BuscapΓ© was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes...
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Kamchatka
π¦π· Argentina The 1970sThe movie shows us how life was in Argentina for dissident people, in the seventies, under the military government.
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Blow
New York Massachusetts California π¨π΄ Colombia The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950sBased on a True Story. β 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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Of Love and Shadows
π¨π± Chile The 1970sSurrounded by danger, they'll risk everything for freedom! β Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground resistance movement, Francisco opens her eyes and her heart to the atrocities being committed by the state.
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Alive
π¨π± Chile The 1970sThe triumph of the human spirit β The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.
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Deep Cover
California π¨π΄ Colombia The 1970s The 1990sThere's a thin line between catching a criminal... and becoming one. β Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LAβthe Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.
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The Girlfriend
π¦π· Argentina The 1970sSince childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentine military coup of 1976, Maria's oldest son Carlos is abducted. Desperate, Maria turns to her prominent friend for help. Yet the more Raquel gets involved in the search for Carlos, the more she becomes herself a target of the junta. Finally, she flees from Argentina to Berlin. Meanwhile Maria joins a group of women who investigate the fate of their disappeared relatives. In 1983, after the fall of the dictatorship, the two friends meet again.
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HΓ΄tel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
π«π· France π§π΄ 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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Sweet Country
π¨π± Chile The 1970sAn American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
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Chile: A Genral Record
π¨π± Chile The 1970sIn 1985, Miguel Littin returned clandestinely to Chile and made this documentary divided in four parts about the political reality of the country. The parts are titled, Miguel Littin: Clandestine in Chile; The North of Chile: When I Fled to the Pampa; From the Frontier to the Interior of Chile in Flames; and Allende: the Time of History, the film features testimony from Garcia Marquez, Fidel Castro and Hortensia Bussi. Also shown is the Chile of Augusto Pinochet and Salvador Allende. When Littin returned to Spain and finished his work, Gabriel Garcia Marquez set out to write the story of the film, published under the title Clandestine in Chile: the Adventures of Miguel Littin, which quickly became a best seller.
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