54 Films & TV Shows Set In South America During The 19th Century
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Camila
π¦π· Argentina The 1840s The 1820sLove against all odds β In Buenos Aires of the 1840s, a young Jesuit and a wealthy socialite fall in love and begin a torrid affair. They escape from the city, and, in disguise, set up house in a village, assuming they are safe and beyond the cares of anyone. However, both the church and Camila's family are enraged, vowing to hunt down the lovers for a capital crime. Based on a true story.
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Fitzcarraldo
π§π· Brazil π΅πͺ Peru The 1890sFitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
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Colonel Delmiro Gouveia
π§π· Brazil The 20th Century The 19th CenturyIn the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.
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The Two Missionaries
π»πͺ Venezuela The 1890sTwo missionaries (Bud Spencer and Terence Hill) come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parrot farm. The Bishop of Maracaibo calls them his 'black sheep' and the Monsignore has been called to check on their behavior. Like usual, our heroes help the poor to defend themselves and provoke some funny fist fights in the process. (from Wikipedia)
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Juan Moreira
π¦π· Argentina The 19th CenturyIn the late nineteenth century, the mule driver Juan Moreira is a good gaucho and worker who, like many others, is subjected to abuse and humiliation by the powerful, either the police or landowners.
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The Proud and Damned
π¨π΄ Colombia The 1870sThe most explosive action since that Wild Bunch hit the screen! β A group of five Confederate mercenaries led by Sergeant Will Hansen must choose sides carefully in a small village where they find themselves trapped in the middle of a rebellion. The group is torn as to whether they should honor the powerful military dictator who forces them to spy for him or help the local village fight for its independence. Follow Sergeant Hansen and his men as they make a decision that could cost them their lives.
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The Light at the Edge of the World
π¦π· Argentina π¨π± Chile The 1860sJules Verne Takes You Over the Edge of the World! β Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.
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GΓΌemes, la tierra en armas
π¦π· Argentina The 19th CenturyThe story of the wars of independence in Northern Argentina during the 19th Century.
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The Knight of the Sword
π¦π· Argentina The 1820s The 1810sThe life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Wyoming π§π΄ Bolivia The 1890s The 1900sNot that it matters, but most of it is true. β In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot 'Sundance Kid'. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to make their way to South America in hopes of evading their pursuers once and for all.
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SimΓ³n BolΓvar
π¨π΄ Colombia π΅πͺ Peru π»πͺ Venezuela The 1820s The 1810sSimon Bolivar is the true-life story of the leader of the 1817 Venezuelan revolution.
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Bloody Nitrate
π΅πͺ Peru The 1870sChilean soldiers try to survive in the desert after they are attacked by Peruvian troops. The 17 survivors are held together by the Captain. The Lieutenant is a civilian attorney who clashes with the Captain as he pursues the valuable rights to nitrate deposits in the area. When the fighting was over, 25,000 soldiers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia had perished while trying to secure the coveted mineral rights for foreign companies.
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Savage Pampas
π¦π· Argentina The 19th CenturyAn Army captain (Robert Taylor) in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw's (Ron Randell) gaucho gang.
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Legacy of the Incas
π΅πͺ Peru The 1870sDuring the 1800s, Peru's government sends 2 envoys to negotiate peace with the rebellious Incas but a treasure-hunter bandit shoots the Inca ruler and his son, leaving the 2 envoys to take the blame for it.
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The Fenouillard Family
π§π· Brazil π―π΅ Japan The 19th CenturyThe Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-JosΓ© RuΓz are the daughters) are shopkeepers with higher aspirations. The Monsieur wants to run for mayor of their town, but the family acknowledges he has little experience of the real world -- and so they all take off to experience it together. After starting out by getting lost, the family goes through an odyssey that takes them to Brazil, the Antarctic, and Japan in a series of episodic adventures.
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Way of a Gaucho
π¦π· Argentina The 1870sSurging with the fury and romance of the Argentine Pampas! β In 1875 Argentina, after killing a man, a gaucho is sentenced to harsh army duty but he deserts the army and becomes a bandit leader.
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Guarany
π§π· Brazil The 1870s The 1850s The 1840s The 1860sBased on JosΓ© de Alencar's novel, directed by Riccardo Freda.
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The Return of Monte Cristo
π¬π« French Guiana The 1860sLouis Hayward, star of 1940's Son of Monte Cristo, returns to Alexandre Dumas territory in Columbia's Return of Monte Cristo. This time, Hayward plays the grandson of his namesake Edmond Dantes, who, it will be recalled, was cheated out of his fortune and falsely imprisoned, only to escape and wreak vengeance on his betrayers by assuming the guise of the Count of Monte Cristo. Just like grandpa, the younger Dantes is framed by a trio of connivers and shipped off to Devil's Island. Escaping with a fellow convict, political radical Bombelles (Steven Geray), Dantes adopts the bearded guise of an elderly man in order to destroy his enemies and reclaim his birthright. One of his principal antagonists - at least during the first half of the film - is haughty aristocrat Angele Picard (Barbara Britton), who because she wasn't a part of the original conspiracy genuinely believes that Dantes is a criminal.
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Savage Pampas
π¦π· Argentina The 1830sIn a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for deserting soldiers.
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AllΓ‘ en el setenta y tantos
π¦π· Argentina The 1870sThe life of Γlida Passo, pioneer of medicine of the Buenos Aires of the XIX century. By 1870, the first women tried to practice medicine in an area reserved for men; and through sacrifice and struggle, they begin the path towards a more egalitarian society.
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The Gaucho War
π¦π· Argentina The 1810sThe story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.
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SimΓ³n BolΓvar
π¨π΄ Colombia π΅πͺ Peru π»πͺ Venezuela The 1820s The 1810sBiopic of the revolutionary SimΓ³n BolΓvar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
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The Life of Emile Zola
π«π· France π¬π« French Guiana The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1860sHe'll hold you in silence as deep as your emotions! β Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
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