342 Films & TV Shows Set In South America During The 20th Century
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Lamb of God
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960sA boarding school where they are all wicked, except the priests. — North Argentina, 1961. Only a few priests and interns remain in a secluded run-down boys religious boarding school. Arrives Father Martin, who's intentions are not as clear as he claims they are.
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Condor Operation
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sOperation Condor recounts the multinational scheme for the elimination of leaders of the South American left devised and executed by the dictatorships of the Southern Cone of America with the support and ideological inspiration of the CIA, which reached its climax in the 1970s. The Latin American military that They seized power and imposed on their peoples a regime of terror based on the disappearance of people, torture, murder and psychological warfare.
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Algo con una mujer
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1950sIt’s 1955. Rosa a skillful seamstress becomes the only witness of a murder. In a time of political tension in Argentina, the crime’s investigation will trigger the final resolution of the conflict and sealed Rosa’s destiny for good. A typical crime film with the exception that the detective is a housewife.
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Onkel Günter
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010s The 1940sA Chilean family of German descendants must confront a painful episode dating back to World War II. Silence gives in when one of its members moves to Berlin and begins to research the disappearance of his grandfather’s twin brother, who was a pilot in the German Army. Back and forth, between Chile and Germany, the director turns into his own history to reflect on how his family’s memory has been shaped, and how past behaviors of the Nazi times have echoes in present generations in Chile.
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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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The Rabbits' House
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sArgentina, 1975. Laura is only eight years old, but she knows that to survive you have to keep quiet. She shares her days with her mother and the other activists in a house where the clandestine printing of the Evita Montonera is hidden.
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Madre Baile
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1950s The 1940sThe story of Leonor Marzano, creator of the cuarteto — After composing the theme that gives its name to her second solo album, “Madre baile”, Vivi Pozzebón becomes interested in the ethno-musical origins of the cuarteto and the figure of Leonor Marzano, who knew how to mix the tarantella and the paso doble on her piano to give rise to the characteristic rhythm of Córdoba: the cuartero. From here comes this record about the origin of the cuarteto from the 1940s to the present.
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1960sIn 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
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Sobradinho
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970sIn the 1970's, the dam and hydroelectric power plant of Sobradinho, one of the most impressive works carried out during the military regime, was built in the north of Bahia. Four cities and dozens of villages were submerged. About 73,000 people were displaced, shaping up as one of the largest forced migrations in the history of Brazil. Pilão Arcado Velho was the only town in the area that has not been completely flooded. Dona Pequenita was the only former resident to return to her hometown. She lives solitarily in Pilão Arcado Velho until the present day, amongst the ruins. We went to Pilão Arcado Velho with Thereza Batalha, Fátima Massimo and Francisca Xavier, old ladies that worked as social assistants in the 70's. Their work was to inform the inhabitants they needed to go out
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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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La Conmemoración
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sA week before the 1973 Chilean coup d'état 46th commemoration, Miguel and Gaston, electricians, come in aid of Victoria, the widow of an ex CNI agent, to fix a malfunction in her mansion. There, by chance, they will discover a big treasure hidden in the basement. The only problem is to get away with it unnoticed
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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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50 Anos do Tri
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970sIn 2020, we celebrated 50 years of winning the Tri, won at the Mexico World Cup in 1970. The film portrays the backstage of that title, the political and social context of Brazil at the time and how that selection of superstars marked the lives of many people. To tell the story of this achievement, different names in different spheres of Brazilian and Mexican society.
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Espero que Esta te Encontre e que Esteja Bem
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1950sA batch of 110 love letters exchanged by two lovers in the 1950s, discovered in Mato Grosso do Sul, is the starting point for this film.
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Peregrino
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970s The 2020sRicardo Soulé, 67 years old, Argentine musician from the mythical band Vox Dei who released "La Biblia" in the 70s, a conceptual work in the key of progressive rock, achieving immediate recognition. At present, Soulé records an album with his new band, goes on tour invited by a very convincing band, practices the training of falcons, plays the violin every day. Still, 4 of her 5 children live in Europe and their place in the world is still debated.
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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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Resistance
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1960sBrazil, 1961. In the underground of the Piratini Palace, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Leonel Brizola, awaits a bombing by the Brazilian armed forces. The country is on the verge of a civil war, following the resignation of president Jânio Quadros and the movement to keep vice-president João Goulart from taking office. Using the radio transmitter from his improvised bunker, Brizola sets up the Legality movement, to ensure Goulart's right to the presidential chair. Caught in the crossfire, two brothers who are in love with the same woman unite to fight alongside Brizola.
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Simonal
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1960sA phenomenon of popularity in the 1960s, Wilson Simonal saw his meteoric career fall apart when he was accused of collaborating with the Brazilian military dictatorship.
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Unremember
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970sTeenager Joana feeds her soul with literature and rock. In 1979, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, she's forced to move with her family from Paris back to the country she barely remembers. Back in the city she was born in, and where her father was forcedly disappeared, she recovers pieces of memory from a fragmented childhood in Rio de Janeiro. Not everything is real, not everything is imagination. And as she remembers, Joana must write her own story in the present tense.
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Invisible Life
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1950sA tropical melodrama — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.
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The Two Popes
🇻🇦 Holy See 🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970s The 1950s The 2000s The 2010sFrustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.
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Buenos Aires al Pacífico
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sThere was once, in 1910, a train able to cross the wild territories between Argentina and Chile, making possible a mythical journey, joining two oceans with a single ticket, from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso. The last trip of the BAP was in 1979; in the nineties, its various branches were permanently abandoned. Since then, travelers have been inhabiting the railway landscape as they dream, desire, remember or yearn: as part of their own being and national history.
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The Prince
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sChile, 1970. During a night of heavy drinking, Jaime, a lonely 20-year-old young man, is sentenced to prison. There, he meets “The Stallion”, an older and respected man in whom he finds protection, and from whom he learns about love and loyalty. But as their relationship grows stronger, “The Stallion” faces the violent power struggles within the prison.
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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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