1,473 Films & TV Shows Set In South America
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Yo no es otro
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA portrait of the everyday life of the great Argentinian painter Remo Bianchedi. We see him in his lonely house, spending time with a friend, always working in the most absolute of isolations—an author that perseveres in secret, like a monk, removed from the art world, its advantages and its whims.
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Crónicas de un exilio
🇵🇪 PeruDirector Octavio Getino is exiled in Lima. Through letters, archive footage and the protagonist’s voice, the feel tells of the director’s vast life experience in an in-depth study where the biographical outline is offered as a footnote to recent Argentine history.
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(upa) una pandemia argentina
🇦🇷 ArgentinaThe universe of Argentine independent cinema. The imposture. The unfulfilled dreams. Confinement—the capability for irony, the skill for comedy and the sagacity of UPA! Una película argentina (2007) are back, renovated, to explore the whims of a microworld still in turmoil.
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Channel 54
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960sAn investigation about a transmission parallel to that of man’s arrival to the Moon, captured by a radio ham from Avellaneda, confronts the director of Channel 54 with a series of conspiracy theories and mysterious figures. Doing so also means questioning the nature of the images.
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A fines de agosto
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA group of friendly characters get tangled in the streets of Buenos Aires between jobs, infidelities, plays, books and musical instruments. A young director takes refuge in movie theaters and declares a sudden muteness. Despite his own and other people's pressures, he refuses to direct a script that he hates. In the end, he makes an unexpected decision.
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Antarctic bear
🇦🇷 ArgentinaConnection between a statue and the history of Cordoba — A man and a woman walk through the night of the city of Cordoba following clues left by an old man in a series of small wooden boxes. The clues reveal information about the city's statues and their mysterious links to local history.
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The Good Cinema
🇧🇷 BrazilAn authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.
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Edna
🇧🇷 BrazilOn the edge of the Transbrasiliana highway, Edna lives in a land in ruins, built on massacres.
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Nosotras también estuvimos
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sDuring the Malvinas war, more than a thousand Argentine soldiers were wounded. Many were cared for by 14 nurses in a mobile hospital located in Comodoro Rivadavia. After 37 years of silence, three of them return to the place to tell their stories.
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Dos Gringos
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sThe photographer and filmmaker Guillermo Cantón premiered “Dos Gringos”, a one-hour documentary on the history of the last 100% Argentine automaker: Industrias Eduardo Sal-Lari (IES). Based on Citroën products, IES manufactured low-cost vehicles in the Buenos Aires town of Mercedes, between 1983 and 1990.
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Você Nos Queima
🇧🇷 BrazilA character who has a voice and a body narrates an interrupted love experience. This immersion in subjectivity, as well as some fragments of almost lost poems by Safo and Lucrécio and some musical paths, lead us through images of different bodies of other people in constant motion in the streets, at parties, at home or inside the subway, while they move from somewhere indefinite to another in the city of São Paulo - in an indeterminate mix between the most everyday concreteness of the gesture and the possible abstraction of dance.
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To the Sea
🇨🇱 ChileThe story of Ana and Diego, a couple who decide to go live on the coast in Chile. There, they meet Vicente, with whom Diego secretly begins a relationship. Ana, for her part, must decide if she wants to open up to a relationship that deconstructs the traditional ways of relating affectively.
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Vai!
🇧🇷 BrazilCorinthians has spent 23 years without winning a title. Its fanbase, however, only grew and became more and more present: both in the life of the team and in the political life of the country.
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Usina-Desejo Contra a Indústria do Medo
🇧🇷 BrazilBill and Penelope are filmmakers who live together during a terrible era in Brazil. After a disaster, Bill's job hangs in the balance. Penelope introduces him to Usina-Desejo, channel of the Tarlogue Oracle on Youtube, which introduces the duo to a world full of mysteries. The end of this misadventure you decide
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Nova Pasta, Antigo Baú
🇧🇷 BrazilA self-portrait short film by veteran Brazilian filmmaker Sylvio Lanna.
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4x100: Running for a Dream
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sThe women's athletics (4x100m relay) is about to win a gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games, the Brazilian victory is almost certain and the athletes are one step closer to what would be a milestone. If only one fatal error hadn't put off their dreams: the carelessness of the young Maria Lúcia causes the group to be disqualified. This changes Maria Lúcia and Adriana's lives forever, Adriana does not forgive her teammate after the final. Four years go by. Maria Lúcia is still the great promise in athletics while Adriana makes a living out of MMA fighting. A few months away from the Tokyo Olympics, they are called in to join the new 4x100 team. This time, Maria Lúcia and Adriana need to overcome the mistakes of the past. They count on the help of veterans Rita and Jaciara as well as newcomer Bia, athletes who rediscover their true power as a team, showing that the Brazilian women's athletics is stronger than ever.
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What I've Never Lost
🇧🇷 BrazilA feature documentary on the life of Alzira Espíndola and her impact and influence on different generations of Brazilian music. From her origins on Mato Grosso do Sul to her breakthrough as a instrumentist and composer in São Paulo, the movie explores her life, work and ventures with partners such as Itamar Assumpção, Ney Matogrosso and her sister Tetê Espíndola with irreverence and erudition.
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Muribeca
🇧🇷 BrazilFaced with the imminent transformation of their homes into a true ghost town, residents of the Muribeca Housing Complex express the physical death of a community still alive in memory and feelings. The disappearance of the neighborhood (in Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Pernambuco), due to structural problems, real estate speculation and a long and turbid imbroglio between residents and agencies responsible for the work, is witnessed through resilience and resistance, affective landscapes and memories , who sometimes seek shelter in nostalgia, sometimes rekindle the resolute flame of hope.
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Chico Mário - A Melodia da Liberdade
🇧🇷 BrazilYounger brother of Henfil and Betinho, Chico Mário became a great guitarist and discovered in music his way of expressing himself and looking at the world.
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Secos & Molhados
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970sThe founder of Secos & Molhados, João Ricardo, gives his version of the story of one of the main bands of the 1970s.
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Toada para José Siqueira
🇧🇷 BrazilA feature documentary on the life and work of Brazilian conductor, teacher, musicologist and composer José Siqueira. Founder of some of the most important Brazilian orchestras, including the Brazilian Symphonic Orchestra, Siqueira was part of the 3rd. nationalist generation of Brazilian composers who used folklore as a source of inspiration and emphasized their northeastern roots in their work. An artist and leader of the musical class who showed the world the strength and diversity of Brazilian culture and who remains unknown in his own country after having his history erased by the Brazilian military dictatorship.
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Brincando com Maracatu
🇧🇷 BrazilAline Morales is one of the main broadcasters of Maracatu in Toronto. From a meeting with members of Recife's Maracatu Estrela Brilhante Nação, she and her traveling companions reflect deeply on the different aspects of this genre, beyond music.
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Filme Hõkrepöj
🇧🇷 BrazilA deep dive into contemporary Brazilian music. Guided by the composer, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist Kilza Setti and the Hésperides Música das Américas nucleus, the documentary takes us to a world where contemporary music, the Guarani and Timbira peoples, the colonization of America and poetic professions meet.
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Sidereal
🇧🇷 BrazilThe historic launch day of the first Brazilian manned rocket affects the lives of Marcela, Marcos and their two children. — In Natal, on the Brazilian north coast, the country is preparing to launch its first manned space rocket into space. A couple lives with their two children near the space centre, she is a cleaner and he is a mechanic, but she dreams of other horizons.
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