68 Films & TV Shows Set In South America During The 1990s
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
New York 🇵🇪 Peru The 1990sThe origin story for Optimus Prime and how he became the leader of the Autobots, and introduces the Maximals, the Predacons, and the Terrorcons.
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Outcast Rockstar
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sDocumentary film about the life and career of Brazilian singer Chorão, leader of the "Charlie Brown Jr." band. From testimonies about his personal and professional life and archival footage, the film follows the story of one of the most important rock stars in Brazil. Beginning in the early 90's, when his band released their first album and hit the radio stations, Chorão lived two intense decades of national and international success, full of controversial moments, until his premature death, from drug overdose, in 2013. The film explores different facets over the years and tries to reflect: what is the price of fame?
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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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Homem Onça
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990sPEDRO was a child in the small town of Barbosa during the 50s. He was 11 when he first heard the story of a jaguar turning up during the night in the nearby farms. One night, a farmer prepared a trap and killed the jaguar. The next day all the kids went running to see this beautiful creature, lying dead, with its yellowish skin full of black dots all dirty of blood. This image stayed with Pedro for the rest of his life. Fast-forward to the 90s and Pedro (55) now lives in Rio de Janeiro with his family. He works as Environmental Projects Manager at Gas Brasil (GB), a state-owned company. His wife SONIA (45) is an economist who has just lost her job of many years at a multinational company. ROSA (20), their daughter, is studying Journalism at university. PAULA (40), KATIA (39) and GUTO (35) form Pedro's team at Environmental Projects. DANTAS (53), also a manager at the company since the 70s, is Pedro's best friend.
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The Division
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990sLate 1990s. With hundreds of kidnappings, Rio de Janeiro is beset by violence.
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The Last Matinee
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1990sNo talking. No texting. No breathing. — On a stormy night in Montevideo in 1993, an engineering student named Ana takes over the duties of her father, a projectionist at a declining movie theatre, due to his ill health. Unbeknownst to her, the audience watching the film that she is running are being murdered by a mysterious killer.
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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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Splinters
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1990sOn 3 November 1995, the Rio Tercero Military Factory exploded in Cordoba, prompting thousands of projectiles to fire and spread in the surrounding villages, in a tragedy that would leave seven dead and hundreds injured and affected. At the time, Natalia Garayalde was a twelve-year-old girl who lived with her family near the place, and he was still playing filming with the video camera her father had bought, when she recorded the immediate moments of the burst, while her family escaped the explosions, as well as the daily activities of the village in the days and weeks that follow. Twenty-five years later, that material captured from a girl's candid and surprised gaze it becomes a thoughtful and painful testimony about the family, the destruction of a city, the traces of horror, the sinister truth about the case.
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Gemini Man
Georgia Virginia 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇨🇴 Colombia The 1990s The 2010sWho will save you from yourself? — Henry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict his every move. To his horror, Brogan soon learns that the man who's trying to kill him is a younger, faster, cloned version of himself.
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Long Shot
New York District of Columbia 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇪🇸 Spain 🇷🇺 Russia 🇵🇭 Philippines 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇨🇴 Colombia The 2020s The 2010s The 1990sUnlikely but not impossible. — Journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field, now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter—much to the dismay of her trusted advisers.
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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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Macabre
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990sIn the 1990s, two brothers were accused of murdering eight women, one man and one child in the Serra dos Órgãos region. In the eyes of the suspects, Sergeant Téo realizes that the trial of the press, police and local society is fundamentally racist, and begins to have doubts about the conviction of one of them. Based on a true story, the film is a work of fiction about the famous case of the "Necrophil Brothers."
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Espíritu del 98
🇪🇨 Ecuador The 1990sAt the end of the 90's, when unconventional musical proposals were lost in the “underground”, “Punk Union” arose by chance. The collective of teenage bands brought together many young people from different social strata in countless concerts for more than 10 years. Through the eyes of its protagonists and promoters, the documentary tells how the movement managed to become one of the most important independent music producers in Guayaquil.
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O Banquete
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990sAn elegant dinner, which takes place in real time, brings together a group of intellectuals in the early 90s in São Paulo, Brazil: the hosts are the editor of the country's top news magazine and her husband, the company's lawyer, and the occasion is the wedding anniversary of the magazine publisher and his wife, a famous theater actress. The publisher has written an open letter to the president of the country, with serious denunciations, which will run in the upcoming issue. He risks being arrested this very evening. As tensions increase with the imminence of prison, secrets come to light revealing the conflict between the ethics sought in public life and the ethics practiced in private life.
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Cuando respiro en tu boca. La creación de Peces
🇨🇱 Chile The 1990sSantiago de Chile, 1994: financed by mysterious textile entrepreneurs, the rock band Lucybell enters the Sonus Studios to record their first album, by the hand of the famous Argentine producer Mario Breuer. The budget is enough for only eight days. Santiago de Chile, 2017: after being disappeared for twenty-three years, the videotapes with the chronicle of those eight days come to light. This was the creation of Peces, one of the most important Chilean records of the '90s.
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IKIGAI, La sonrisa de Gardel
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1990sMirta Regina Satz worked as chief of treasury of AMIA (Mutual Association Israelita Argentina), interspersing her love for art, until July 18, 1994. In the middle of the working day, a bomb completely destroyed the building. Mirta survived the catastrophe and left the AMIA to reinvent herself at work with her own artistic work. She got engaged and decided a new course, uncertain, but true. There she began his construction work for another life.
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Real: The Plan Behind History
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990sIn May 1993, Brazil experienced one of the worst economic crises in its history. The government then decides to set up a real task force to solve the problem. Confined to a bunker as a way of shielding the operations of growing political pressures, the special economic team will have to do its best to reach agreement and create the Plano Real.
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Sepultura Endurance
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990s The 2000sThe long awaited documentary about Sepultura's incredible journey from Brazil to the world.
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The Last Hour
🇵🇪 Peru The 1990sTwo Peruvian detectives must capture Abimael Guzman, the leader of terrorist organization Shining Path, but their intense and complex relationship will endanger their mission and their lives, in the midst of violent Lima of 1992.
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Legalize it!
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990sThe meeting between two young guys, Marcelo —in the future, Marcelo D2— and Skunk , who sold t-shirts and cassette tapes in the center of Rio de Janeiro to survive, resulted in one of the most popular bands in Brazil in the 1990’s, Planet Hemp. Suppressed by a prejudiced society, the two made of their music a cry of alertness and resistance, conquering the hearts and minds of an entire generation.
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Una Fabula Muy Trillada: The Legacy Of Dermis Tatú
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1990s The 2020sAn historic Venezuelan rock album... 20 years later — Two decades ago, Venezuela's power trio Dermis Tatú released their only album, "La violó, la mató y la picó" ("Raped her, killed her and cut her"). The band was an offspring from the separation of Sentimiento Muerto, and was formed by Carlos "Cayayo" Troconis (voice and guitar), Héctor Castillo (bass) and Sebastián Araujo (drums). The record is still considered by many as the most influential in the Venezuelan rock scene. Twenty years later, Castillo and Araujo remember the stories behind the recording, as a group of the current generation of Venezuelan rockers, not only explain its influence and impact, but also play all the songs from the album, making them their own.
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Cemento: The Documentary
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sCEMENTO lived for nineteen years that spanned three key decades for the democratic history of Argentina. How much of relevance is the rock in this adventure of living in real democracy is difficult to estimate, but rock denounced, rock was containment, rock was a source of pride. Rock is culture and had a house where it developed, CEMENTO. We make CEMENTO - The Documentary - because we think that a people that forgets its milestones is a people destined to fail. We want to reflect in audiovisual format what CEMENT was, its origins, its facilities, the public opinion, its anecdotes and its imprint in the culture, narrated by musicians, producers and workers who gave it life.
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Hostages
🇵🇪 Peru The 1990sWitnesses recount the shocking 1996 hostage crisis in Lima, Peru, where rebels held scores of high-level figures captive at an ambassador's residence.
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Narcos: Season 3
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1990sSeason three shifts its focus to Pablo Escobar’s real-life successors in the drug trade: Colombia’s Cali Cartel, "the biggest drug lords you’ve probably never heard of."
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JL's Passion
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990sIn January 1990, at the age of 33, the artist José Leonilson starts registering an intimate journal in a tape recorder. His views on events that shook both Brazil, such as the resignation of former president Collor, and overseas, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, permeate his confessions. He also talks about his impressions on the various movies he used to watch. The records of this sensitive artist in tune with modern life did not intend, at first, anything more than register the harmony that existed between his life and his peculiar and intimate work. However, J.L. suffers the unexpected blow of the discovery that he himself is HIV positive. The uncertainty and urgency in his life begin to permeate his reports.
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