342 Films & TV Shows Set In South America During The 20th Century
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Black God, White Devil
π§π· Brazil The 1940sCowherd Manoel and his wife are on the run in the drought-plagued and violent Brazilian badlands of 1940 after he kills a rich grazier. Moving credulously from one allegiance to another, they finally learn that the land belongs neither to God nor the Devil, but to the people.
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The Guns
π§π· Brazil The 1960sA group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
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Barren Lives
π§π· Brazil The 1940sIn vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of new hope and destiny.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
π«π· France π¦π· Argentina The 1940sFrom Ibanez' immortal classic, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents an unforgettable motion picture β Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. Marcelo and his children Julio and Chichi became Argentinean citizens but later returned to Paris. Karl became a general with a son (Heinrich) in the SS and in WWII he got a high job within the occupation administration in France.
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Faja Lobbi
πΈπ· 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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Fin de fiesta
π¦π· Argentina The 1930sThis routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both cases. The grandfather in the family has a rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home. But as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy, the grandfather comes under well-deserved fire at last.
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Araya
π»πͺ 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.
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The Battle of the River Plate
πΊπΎ Uruguay Atlantic Ocean The 1930sIn the opening years of World War II the Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open and the British Isles supplied. Of great danger were the numerous surface/commerce raiders that had slipped out of German waters just before war was declared. Supplied by axis cargo ships or tankers, they primarily attacked and sank merchant shipping, and they could and did strike anywhere and everywhere. This is the story of one such ship β the 'Admiral Graf Spee' β and how 3 lightly armed Royal Navy cruisers with mere 6 and 8 inch guns boldly took on this powerful 'pocket battleship' armed with 11 inch guns.
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The Naked Jungle
π§π· Brazil The 1900sThe picture about the Marabunta! β The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
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Notorious
π§π· Brazil The 1940sNotorious woman of affairs... Adventurous man of the world. β In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
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Strange Cargo
π¬π« French Guiana The 1940sM-G-M's Mighty Thrill-Romance for 1940 ! β Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
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Green Hell
π§π· Brazil π΅πͺ Peru The 1930sA group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
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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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The Prophecy of the Lake
π§π΄ Bolivia The 1920sSet in contemporary Bolivia, a love story between an Aymara man and the daughter of a white landowner. The film was censored and cancelled by the authorities, due to its "social critique" (highlighting the condition of indigenous Bolivians) and the controversial idea of a white woman falling in love with an indigenous man.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
π«π· France π¦π· Argentina The 1910sSet in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.