137 Films & TV Shows Set In South America During The 21st Century
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The Contestant
🇨🇴 Colombia The 2010sIt’s 2011 in Colombia, a condiment company has made a promotion offering 2000 pressure cookers in exchange for their products´ empty containers. In Cartagena, Cristobal, a 24 year old guy whose mother is obsessed with the product, joins the queue the night before the promotion starts. He thinks he is at the beginning of the line, but soon realises he is barely in the middle. The fact that the promotion only consists of 2000 pressure cookers does not deter the over 12000 people queuing in Cartagena alone. Shy and unemployed, Cristobal tries to make the most of the time with his new ‘neighbours’.
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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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The Next Samba
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sA year of hard work, thousands of people involved, the choice of a great samba, the death of their official vocalist for 17 years, lots of sweat, tears and love, made Carnival 2016 extremely special. Behind the scenes of the biggest samba school on the planet, Estação Primeira de Mangueira, after 14 years without winning the contest, the entire universe created for Mangueira's parade, which is an international carnival icon, was documented for the first time, from the first step to the title of best samba school in 2016.
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Special Correspondents
New York 🇪🇨 Ecuador The 2010sFake news. Real disaster. — A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South America and hide out in New York instead.
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In Dog's Words
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2000sSão Paulo, 2007. Santana works as a dogcatcher, picking up stray animals. He is a friendly guy, averse to trouble, who has always kept violence away from the doorsteps of his home. One day, he catches a very big dog in a school. Some days later, comes the animal's owner: Babyface, a sociopath ex-cop. The man is furious, considering his dog to be "kidnapped", and demands immediate restitution of his pet. But the dog is not coming back: according to the law, the animal was put to sleep. In a misunderstanding, Babyface argue with Santana, blaming him for his pet's death. From this moment on, Santana's life will be completely changed.
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On Football
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sSergio and his father, Simão, haven’t seen each other for over 20 years. On the eve of the 2014 World Cup, Sergio returns to his hometown, São Paulo, hoping to watch the games with Simão, as they used to when he was a kid. It seems to be a perfect plan for a father-son reunion: a whole month together, their schedule based on the World Cup calendar. But as the days go by, their relationship starts to wander into unknown territory and their pact to watch the entire tournament together turns into a dangerous ritual…
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When Two Worlds Collide
🇵🇪 Peru The 2000sIn this tense and immersive tour de force, audiences are taken directly into the line of fire between powerful, opposing Peruvian leaders who will stop at nothing to keep their respective goals intact. On the one side is President Alan Garcia, who, eager to enter the world stage, begins aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas from untouched indigenous Amazonian land. He is quickly met with fierce opposition from indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, whose impassioned speeches against Garcia’s destructive actions prove a powerful rallying cry to throngs of his supporters. When Garcia continues to ignore their pleas, a tense war of words erupts into deadly violence.
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At the End of the Tunnel
🇦🇷 Argentina The 2010sRisk everything. — A paraplegic computer engineer that moves in a wheelchair and works in his basement starts hearing noises and voices of bank-robbers.
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My Annoying Brother
🇰🇷 South Korea 🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sSometimes brothers are no better than strangers. — A jailed swindler leaps at the chance to earn parole in return for taking care of his estranged brother, an athlete who recently lost his sight.
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2001: Mientras Kubrick estaba en el espacio
🇦🇷 Argentina The 2000sIn 2001, far from the space ships, Argentina suffers a social and economic crisis that rages the fury in the streets. Looting, violence and terror are part of the everyday landscape. Fear overflows the atmosphere and families are breaking down in a rarefied climate.
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The German Neighbor
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇮🇱 Israel The 1960s The 2010sIn 1960 Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped in Argentina and taken to Israel to face trial. In 2016, Renate -a young German translator who lives in Buenos Aires- is hired to translate it. Her work shows the unusual life and remarkable trial defense of Eichmann.
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Our Brand Is Crisis
🇧🇴 Bolivia The 2000sMay the best campaign win. — Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.
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The 33
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sHope Runs Deep — Based on a true story about the collapse at the mine in San Jose, Chile that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
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Landfill Harmonic
🇵🇾 Paraguay The 2010s"Landfill Harmonic" follows the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan musical group that plays instruments made entirely out of garbage. When their story goes viral, the orchestra is catapulted into the global spotlight. Under the guidance of idealistic music director Favio Chavez, the orchestra must navigate a strange new world of arenas and sold-out concerts. However, when a natural disaster strikes their country, Favio must find a way to keep the orchestra intact and provide a source of hope for their town. The film is a testament to the transformative power of music and the resilience of the human spirit.
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Last Conversations
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sMade from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (in February 2014), the film seeks to understand how teenagers think, live and dream nowadays. The footage was edited by Coutinho’s longtime partner, film editor Jordana Berg, and the final cut is signed by João Moreira Salles.
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Daughter of the Lake
🇵🇪 Peru The 2010sAt the height of the Peruvian gold rush, Nélida, an Andean woman able to communicate with water spirits, uses her powers to prevent a mining corporation from destroying the body of water she considers her mother. A gold deposit valued at billions of dollars lies just beneath Nélida’s lakes and leads farmers and Latin America’s biggest gold producer into conflict.
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O Dia do Galo
🇵🇾 Paraguay The 2010sThe documentary follows five fans of the Clube Atlético Mineiro, a Brazilian team that was about to play the most important match of its history: the decision of the Libertadores da América Cup.
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Family Vacation
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sThe Kellys are a bourgeois family that have fallen into hard times. Deprived of the bragging rights of their typical summer vacation at a posh Chilean beach resort town, they pretend that they are instead going to Brazil for their vacation. They feign leaving on vacation but instead spend the time locked up at home and avoiding the suspicions of a nosy neighbor.
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My Friend from the Park
🇦🇷 Argentina The 2010sWhile her filmmaker husband works in Chile, harried young mother Liz struggles to take care of her infant son. Feeling out of place amongst the tight-knit group of other parents at the park, doubted by her husband, and judged by her newly hired nanny, Liz is drawn to factory worker Rosa, a plain-talking single mother she meets at the swings one day. Despite Liz’s liberation upon finding a bold new confidante, the friends’ increasingly apparent class differences, along with swirling rumors about Rosa’s motives and muddy family situation, feed Liz’s suspicions that her new pal might be a sinister influence on her already fragile life.
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Safe Passage
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇪🇸 Spain The 1970s The 2010sTen minutes can change your life — In the present, in Spain, Miguel's mind, affected by a brain disease, seems cloistered in the past, in Argentina, in the seventies, when he risked his life for his ideals. He is obsessed with finding a woman named Diana. Mario, his son, who has been away from Miguel for a long time, now feels compelled to unravel the mystery of a name that, like a curse, pursues his father.
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Lusers
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sWhat happens when a Peruvian, a Chilean and a Argentinean get together? — Three guys from differents countries come together in a funny adventure through the jungle in order to get to the Final of the FIFA World Cup Brasil 2014.
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Kingsman: The Secret Service
Kentucky District of Columbia England 🇦🇷 Argentina 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990s The 2010sManners maketh man. — The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
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The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
🇪🇨 Ecuador The 1930s The 2010sDarwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands, which interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers. A gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, and Gustaf Skarsgard.
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Futuro Beach
🇩🇪 Germany 🇧🇷 Brazil The 2000s The 2010sA hero split in half. — Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.
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To Kill a Man
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sRevenge is sour — Jorge is a peaceful hard-working man who seeks a simple, quiet life for himself and his family. One day, he is mugged and humiliated by a gang of thugs led by Kalule, a delinquent from his neighborhood. This event infuriates his son as much for Jorge’s meek acceptance as for the act itself. The son, looking for retribution, ends up getting himself shot. Kalule is sent to jail and when he gets out 18 months later, begins a campaign of terror against Jorge and his family. The authorities do nothing, so Jorge decides to take matters into his own hands.
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