1,473 Films & TV Shows Set In South America
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The Friendly Man
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sOn the night of the return to the stage of a famous rock band from the 1980s, a video that involves the band`s lead singer Aurélio Sá in the death of a military policeman, goes viral.
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First Act
🇧🇷 BrazilTheatre students André and Gabriel drum up support for resistance against the dismantling of culture policies in Brazil.
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Maternal
🇦🇷 ArgentinaLu and Fati are teen mums living in a religious shelter in Buenos Aires. Sister Paola arrives there to take her final vows. But the girls’ impending motherhood faces her with a challenging situation.
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Killing the Dead
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sParaguay 1978, during Stroessner’s dictatorship, Pastor and Dionisio work burying bodies illicitly. In Argentina, the World Cup is being held. One morning, among the bodies, they find Mario, who is still alive. They know they must kill him but the problem is: in spite of what they are doing, they have never killed anyone before. A storm indicates that the winter is coming while the destiny of the three men is determined during the World Cup final. Both Pastor and Dionisio are the last link of a chain in the terrible system that has as a result in all the missing people.
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Perros sin cola
🇨🇱 ChileRosario is a wandering teenager who believes that her mother, does not really love her and she's apparently right. The young woman has found refuge in the dance and in her friend Jonathan, a young street vendor who helps raise money for the wedding of his sister Jenny: Rosario's silent and platonic love. On the day of the party the revelry and excesses revealing Rosario can't leaver her family's fate behind.
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My Mom is a Character 3
🇧🇷 BrazilDona Hermínia will have to rediscover and reinvent herself because her children are forming new families. This supermom will have to deal with a new life scenario: Marcelina is pregnant and Juliano is getting married.
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The Moneychanger
🇺🇾 UruguayHumberto Brause takes advantage of Uruguay’s poor economy by specializing in offshore money laundering. Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the film follows Humberto as he gets increasingly in over his head with multiple shady book-cooking schemes throughout South America, leading to an ultimate life-or-death decision.
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The Good Intentions
🇦🇷 ArgentinaAn aging slacker finds his comfortable status quo and family dynamic disrupted when his ex-wife and her current partner decide to move from Argentina to Paraguay and take his children with them.
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El maestro Humberto Maturana
🇨🇱 ChileThis documentary explores the impact and life of one of the most internationally recognized Chilean scientists, an inspiring human being who at his 90 years is more lively than ever.
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Borderless Love
🇧🇷 BrazilBorderless Love is a romantic comedy about two couples - Pedro and Joana, Brazilians; Martin and Pilar, Argentines - involved in an involuntary couples exchange. Pedro and Joana turn a blind eye to each other's infidelity. Their daughter, Paula, a jealous teenager, distrusts the father and ends up discovering his case with Pilar. Pedro opts for the family, but without his lover, he becomes a burden at home. Tired of her husband's depression, Joana asks Pilar to return to be Pedro's lover. In the end, everyone's life takes on new paths, but they remain united. Borderless Love is a fun and romantic journey of self-knowledge in the lives of these characters.
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Harley Queen
🇨🇱 ChileA woman yearns to find her identity through her character:a supervillain, dancer and mother, in the Mena sector, or what they call "the largest ghetto in Chile", in Puente Alto, Santiago.
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Pasco, avanzar más allá de la muerte
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sOn March 21, 1975, Triple A kidnaps, tortures, shoots and dynamite eight popular militants in the San José de Temperley neighborhood. This traumatic event is known as the Pasco Massacre and is part of a terrifying rehearsal room that pre-announces the so-called State Terrorism.
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Pacified
🇧🇷 BrazilTati, an introspective 13 year old girl struggles to connect with her estranged father, Jaca, after he is released from prison in the turbulent wake of the Rio Olympics. As Brazilian Pacification Police battle to maintain a tenuous occupation of the surrounding Rio favelas, Tati and Jaca must navigate the clashing forces threatening to derail their hope for the future.
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Morgue
🇵🇾 ParaguayOn his first day as a security guard, Diego Martinez is assigned to the night shift at the Hospital Regional. On his rounds, he notices the hallways can be unsettling at night until he accidentally notices he’s trapped inside the morgue.
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Amigo lindo del Alma
🇺🇾 UruguayA movie about Eduardo Mateo — The words and music of renowned artists tell us about Eduardo Mateo, decisive uruguayan musician in the second half of the 20th century.
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The Surge
🇦🇷 ArgentinaMatia, a marginal young man, escapes to an island in the River Paraná. In an uncomfortable atmosphere that is not his own, he tries to start a new life, but the tensions his arrival cause take him back to his criminal past and to the idea of having to flee in order to survive.
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GIG - A Uberização do Trabalho
🇧🇷 BrazilThe work mediated by digital apps and platforms is growing worldwide. But the advance of the “gig economy”, called in Brazil “uberization”, has aroused debates about the precariousness and intensification of work.
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Norte
🇵🇪 PeruAlejo, an archaeologist from Lima, Peru, travels to Newmarket, Canada, where his Peruvian family migrated years ago. It is his first time back in two decades and since the death of his mother.
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The Journey of Javier Heraud
🇵🇪 PeruThe life of the Peruvian poet Javier Heraud, who sadly passed at the young age of 21, told by his great-niece Tania through letters, poems and tales of shared times.
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Cadet Amarilla, My Son
🇵🇾 ParaguayA documentary about the death of Cadet Marco Amarilla in a military academy in Paraguay, a death that was initially reported as a suicide, but was revealed to be a cover-up in a country where dozens of other young men have died in military facilities.
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Todo por el ascenso
🇦🇷 ArgentinaNestor is extremely superstitious. This year, his team plays the ascent in Mendoza and prepares to travel with Rafa, his friend. But Fabian appears, a mufa. The ascent is in danger, unless they can prevent Fabian from reaching the stadium.
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Alelí
🇺🇾 UruguayThe death of patriarch Alfredo sends his heirs into a downward spiral. With the pending sale of their beach house, a repository of childhood memories, three siblings’ long-simmering resentments are brought to a full boil. Alternating between moments of laugh-out-loud absurdity and stirring beauty, Alelí is a knowing black comedy about a dysfunctional family that seems willing to set everything on fire.
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Carta Para Além dos Muros
🇧🇷 BrazilHIV and AIDS in Brazil — This documentary reports, through interviews with specialists and activists, the chronology of the AIDS epidemic in Brazil, from the beginning of the discovery of the disease to the present day.
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Gunman
🇦🇷 ArgentinaPistolero is a fiction that in a certain way is an essay on violence. The story follows the criminal raid of Isidoro Mendoza and his brother Claudio in the rural Argentina during Ongania’s dictatorship, and how the violence of his criminal deeds begins to leave a mark in them. A teacher from Buenos Aires arrives to Isidoro’s life, and love is the possibility to open himself to a new life, but even as he tries, he can not escape the entropy generated by his own drives and actions.
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La embajada
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sCarmen Castillo reconstructs what life was like at the French Embassy in Chile from September 1973 to July 1974, through the writings of Françoise de Menthon, wife of the ambassador, and the testimonies of both embassy officials from that time andr some of its hundreds of refugees. A story about how humanistic values and ethics can be imposed at critical moments to bureaucracy, formalisms and, especially, fear.
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