78 Films & TV Shows Set In South America During The 1980s
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Copacabana Papers
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sSergio de Loof created the most relevant and groundbreaking night venues of the late 80s, 90s and early 00s. Places where everyone could find the more inner and cherished self. To be oneself, without fear or rejection. Then, Argentina got struck by a financial crisis and Sergio tackled his own personal breakdown through drug abuse and the consequences of being a politically incorrect character.
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Parakultural: 1986-1990
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sThe Parakultural is a mark, a lost dream, a battlefield. Those who never attended the Parakultural, shelter of original artists, home of an orphan audience and a cursed monument of reconquered democracy, do not know what they missed. The film is the portrait of a generation that doesn’t forget.
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🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sDuring the Malvinas war, more than a thousand Argentine soldiers were wounded. Many were cared for by 14 nurses in a mobile hospital located in Comodoro Rivadavia. After 37 years of silence, three of them return to the place to tell their stories.
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Dos Gringos
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sThe photographer and filmmaker Guillermo Cantón premiered “Dos Gringos”, a one-hour documentary on the history of the last 100% Argentine automaker: Industrias Eduardo Sal-Lari (IES). Based on Citroën products, IES manufactured low-cost vehicles in the Buenos Aires town of Mercedes, between 1983 and 1990.
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The House in Argüello
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970s The 1980sAfter the appearance her uncle’s remains, disappeared in Argentina military dictatorship, Valentina (documentary’s director, born in jail) explores the stories of her grandmother-Mother of Plaza de Mayo and her mother-political prisoner- to find those memories that her mind does not seem to find.
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Song Without a Name
🇵🇪 Peru The 1980sPeru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story.
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My Tender Matador
🇨🇱 Chile The 1980sAmong gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship.
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Todas as Melodias
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s"Todas as Melodias" is a sensible journey throught the life and works of one of Brazilian music's biggest artists, Luiz Melodia. Featuring archive footage that goes back to the 1970s, the film presents the musician's cronology from his youth in the neighborhood of Estácio, Rio de Janeiro to his estabilished success.
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The Traitor
🇧🇷 Brazil 🇮🇹 Italy The 1980s The 1990sThe true story about the man who brought down the Mafia — Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.
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Héroxs del 88
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sIn the year 1988, Chuchu Fasanelli and Walter Kolm, two 24- and 20-year-old young men, founders of the Radio Trípoli label, released Invasión 88, the first punk and hardcore compilation in Argentina. This documentary tells that story, that of the birth of a cry of freedom in the shape of translucent vinyl.
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O Barato de Iacanga
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970s The 1980sParticipants recall a series of festivals held on a farm in Brazil during the '70s and '80s that evolved into liberating celebrations of music.
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La última frontera
🇨🇱 Chile The 1980sSantiago 1984. Carmen, former JJCC, after being tortured by the CNI, works as an undercover agent. Francisco, an agent obsessed with her, infiltrates her in an advertising production company, meets Gastón, creative director. He discovers that he is planning a commercial in the mountains as part of an escape operation for a political prisoner. Carmen manipulates both of them, lying to Francisco and approaching Gastón, in order to join the operation and thus achieve her own escape.
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1982
🇫🇰 Falkland Islands Malvinas The 1980sIn 1982, the Argentine military dictatorship invaded the Malvinas Islands, located 500 kilometers off the country’s coast. The dictatorial government left no stone unturned in using propaganda to convince the people of their mission. Consisting almost entirely of excerpts from the TV program 60 minutes, 1982 summarizes the media campaign that took place over the 74 days of war, when Argentine troops tried to take their island back from the British. We watch TV anchormen ask viewers to donate money for weapons, inspire them to sing the national anthem at home, and welcome government leaders as heroes as they “spontaneously” show up at the studio to celebrate the importance of the mission for the motherland.
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Identidad
🇵🇪 Peru The 1980s“Identidad” is an introspective journey about what it means to be born in Peru in the early 1980s, when the worst economic, social and political crisis in its history began. This trip results in a look, perhaps hopeful, about a recent moment of social change and transformation whose essence was reflected in what happened around the return of the Peruvian Selection to the World Cup after 36 years of failures.
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Bohemian Rhapsody
New York Scotland Wales England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970s The 1980sFearless lives forever — Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.
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Sapo
🇨🇱 Chile The 1980sJeremías Gallardo, a prominent Chilean journalist who, on January 29th, 1986, covers the last death sentence in the country, which was carried out in the prison of Valparaiso. That same day, his wife is giving birth to her first child at a clinic in the capital. Gallardo's return to Santiago becomes an inner journey where he will relive moments from his dark past, linked to the intelligence services of that time.
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They Were Coming to Get Me
🇨🇱 Chile The 1980sDocumentary about the horrors of the Chilean 80's dictatorship from the perspective of a son who has lost his fathers and goes into the quest of finding out more about them
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Cirqo
🇨🇱 Chile The 1980sTwo prisoners escape execution by the police and become successful circus clowns in Pinochet's Chile.
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La Casa Rosada
🇵🇪 Peru The 1980sAdrian Mendoza (52) has become a widow due to the effects of the war and together with his children, Juan de Dios (12) and Maria del Carmen (10), confronts the fatal situation that prevails in the convulsed city of Ayacucho. Adrian is returning to his home with Juan de Dios when a police patrol stops him for a routine search. Tthe police take him into custody as a presumed terrorist on the basis of subversive messages coming from the radio. He is branded as a terrorist and a fugitive from the law. In the days that follow more than a dozen soldiers raid his home and he is taken to the dreaded Pink House where he will be cruelly tortured.
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Você Não Sabe Quem Eu Sou
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1980sNasi was always a controversial guy. Since his times with Ira! in the early 1980s, his name was among the most talented and also the most troublesome artists on the Brazilian scene.
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Cola de mono
🇨🇱 Chile The 1980sDrink responsibly — It's Christmas Eve, 1986, and Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for film. As his family comes together to celebrate the holiday, the combined forces of the suffocating Chilean heat, free-flowing drinks, and repressed desire contribute to the eruption of long-held secrets. Both an enticing family melodrama and an explicit erotic thriller, this is a story about the ways that passion and desire control our lives - from pop-culture tastes to sexual fantasies.
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Hoy y no mañana
🇨🇱 Chile The 1980sDuring Chilean dictatorship an exceptional group of women emerges and they will leave a unique legacy in history. It's the "Women for Life" movement. Female figures almost forgotten that in times of military dictatorship, when few dared to go out into the street, they organized by calling thousands of women who courageously manage to make art actions and lightning and unprecedented acts for the time.
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American Made
Arkansas Louisiana 🇨🇴 Colombia The 1970s The 1980sBased on a True Lie — The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
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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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Loving Pablo
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1980sA gangster. A princess. The true story of a most unlikely love affair. — The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.
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