137 Films & TV Shows Set In South America During The 21st Century
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I Am Not Lorena
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sCaught in a world she didn't create — A case of mistaken identity becomes a living nightmare when a young actress finds herself relentlessly assailed by debt collectors.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
🇹🇷 Turkey 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇵🇭 Philippines 🇨🇱 Chile The 2000sTerror has two faces. — In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1820s The 2090s The 16th CenturyThe film narrates the love between Janaína and a native warrior who, when dying, takes the form of a bird. For six centuries, the story of the couple survives through four stages in the history of Brazil: 1500, when the country was discovered by the Portuguese explorers, 1800, in events during slavery; 1970, during the high point of the military dictatorship, and 2096, when there will be a war over water.
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General Cemetery
🇵🇪 Peru The 2010sSet in Iquitos, the story follows Andrea (Airam Galliani), a 15-years-ago teenage girl, who suffers the death of his father. With the help of his friends from school, encourage her to contact him using the ouija. However, this triggers a series of terrifying events.
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São Silvestre
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sThe São Silvestre Road Race is a famous long-distance running event held yearly in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, on December 31st. The movie recreates the experience of running the race in 2011.
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Neighboring Sounds
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sLife in a middle-class neighbourhood in present day Recife, Brazil, takes an unexpected turn after the arrival of an independent private security firm. The presence of these men brings a sense of safety and a good deal of anxiety to a culture which runs on fear. Meanwhile, Bia, married and mother of two, must find a way to deal with the constant barking and howling of her neighbour’s dog. A slice of ‘Braziliana’, a reflection on history, violence and noise.
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7 Boxes
🇵🇾 Paraguay The 2000sThe rules are simple: Deliver or Die — Víctor receives an unusual proposal, to carry 7 boxes of unknown content through the Market Number 4 but things get complicated along the way.
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
🇧🇷 Brazil Washington The 2000sForever is just the beginning — The new found married bliss of Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen is cut short when a series of betrayals and misfortunes threatens to destroy their world.
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Fast Five
Florida 🇲🇨 Monaco 🇩🇪 Germany 🇧🇷 Brazil The 2000sGet the Fifth Gear. — Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom.
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Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
Pennsylvania South America - General The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sAn urban mystery unfurls as one man pieces together the surreal meaning of hundreds of cryptic tiled messages that have been appearing in city streets across the U.S. and South America.
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Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
🇨🇴 Colombia The 2000sBefore Sam Axe teamed up with Michael and Fiona, he was Commander Axe, U.S. Navy SEAL. The Fall of Sam Axe tells the story of how Sam went from respected Naval Commander to the man of mystery we've come to know on Burn Notice. On what will turn out to be Sam's last military mission, he is sent to the jungles of Colombia to investigate claims of a vicious terrorist organization known only as the "Espada Ardiente" (Flaming Sword). His mission: to determine whether U.S. military aid is necessary to deal with the threat. But when he arrives, things are more complicated than he'd imagined. He receives word that the rebels have targeted a small civilian clinic deep in the jungle. Sam must now save the clinic's doctors and patients from certain death. However, nothing is as it seems and the Espada Ardiente may not be the biggest threat Sam Axe faces.
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03:34: Earthquake in Chile
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sSurvivors witness the terror and devastation brought by a massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Chile in 2010.
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Federal Bank Heist
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2000s"The Baron" wanted to commit the perfect heist involving 3 tons of money and no violence. For this he would need the right people willing to get 1 million dollars to take part in this job. Based on true events, in 2005, 168,000,000 Brazilian Real (almost 80,000,000 US dollars) were stolen from a Brazilian Central Bank (Federal Reserve), making it the biggest peace-time robbery in history. It was perhaps the most audacious bank heist ever.
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The Man from the Future
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990s The 2010sNothing will be like before. — Zero (Wagner Moura) is a brilliant scientist, but unfortunate because 20 years ago was publicly humiliated and lost in college Helena (Alinne Moraes) the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions makes him travel in time, more precisely, to the past. After the chance to change his story, Zero returns to this totally changed.
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Waste Land
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2000sWhat happens in the world's largest trash city will transform you. — An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
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Even the Rain
🇧🇴 Bolivia The 2000sSpain Conquered the New World for Gold 500 Years Later, Water is Gold Not Much Else has Changed... — As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
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Big River Man
🇧🇷 Brazil 🇵🇪 Peru The 2000sThe film documenting Martin Strel's historic swim down the Amazon — Follows Martin Strel as he attempts to cover 3,375 miles of the Amazon River in what is being billed as the world's longest swim.
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Time of Fear
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2000sThe day São Paulo stopped — Year 2006. There are riots in São Paulo. In the middle of the violent situation, widow Lucia is trying to get her young son Rafael from prison.
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From Beginning to End
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sTwo brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.
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The Incredible Hulk
Wisconsin New York Virginia British Columbia 🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010s The 2000sYou'll like him when he's angry. — Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face with a new, deadly foe.
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Quantum of Solace
🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇴 Bolivia England 🇭🇹 Haiti 🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇺 Russia The 2000sFor love, for hate, for justice, for revenge. — Quantum of Solace continues the adventures of James Bond after Casino Royale. Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
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The Appeared
🇦🇷 Argentina The 2000sHow Can You Save The Already Dead? — One night Malena and Pablo, a sister and brother traveling together in Argentina, discover a diary that details crimes committed twenty years ago.
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Last Stop 174
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990s The 1980s The 2000sA ride you'll never forget... — Sandro was a boy who loved to sing rap, to kiss, to stare the statue of Christ the Redeemer and dreamed to go visit Copacabana. Growing up on streets, the story culminates at the infamous episode of 12th June 2000, when Sandro hijacked bus 174.
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Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2000sManda Bala (Send a Bullet) is a cinematic bullet into the cerebral cortex, a documentary that unflinchingly exploring the cycles of violence that plague Brazil's upper and lower economic classes in fits of rampant corruption and violent kidnappings. The film chronicles these cycles by utilizing highly personalized stories that reflect the growing truth about Brazil's huge economic disparities.
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Alien Autopsy
Ohio California Florida England 🇦🇷 Argentina 🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1990s The 2000sPrepare To Be Stitched Up! — Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.
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