1,473 Films & TV Shows Set In South America
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Cantareira
🇧🇷 BrazilBento, a worker and resident of downtown São Paulo, returns to the place where he grew up, his grandfather’s house in Serra da Cantareira, seeking not only peace, but also a job.
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Doutor Gama
🇧🇷 BrazilBased on the biography of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history, a black man who used the laws and courts to free more than 500 slaves. Born of a free womb, Gama was sold into slavery at the age of 10 to pay off his father's gambling debts. Even as a slave, he became literate, studied and earned his own freedom, becoming one of the most respected lawyers of his time. An abolitionist and republican who inspired an entire country.
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Valley of the Righteous
🇧🇷 Brazil The 19th CenturyIn the 19th century Minas Gerais hinterland, an outsider discovers a mysterious bar.
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Migliaccio: O Brasileiro em Cena
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sThe documentary Migliaccio - O Brasileiro em Cena follows the path of those who take risks for the art, either as directors, as writers, as scenographers and even as costume designers. The Oscarito trophy received by Flávio Migliaccio in 2014 Gramado Film Festival crowns a career enmeshed by many threads. Since Migliaccio has performed in different fields of art - from cinema and theater to literature and drawing -, the documentary creates varied visual interventions to enchain the narrative, in addition to the interviews and archive pictures, such as a shadow play to represent his humble childhood, and to the cartoons the artist drew to portray his existential questions in his ranch in Rio Bonito (State of Rio de Janeiro). Images and stories that aim to show a professional and personal life pervaded by possibilities and attitudes, both artistic and political.
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Un País Llamado El Pez que Fuma
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1970sDocumentary that has unpublished testimonies from Román Chalbaud, director of El pez que fuma, an emblematic Venezuelan film from the 1970s; as well as funny conversations with the actors, 40 years after the premiere of the film. Made from a solid video-newspaper investigation, the film has unpublished stills and behind-the-scenes scenes, as well as incredible technical anecdotes, explanations about the montage and the rehearsal of scenes.
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A Suspeita
🇧🇷 Brazil"A Suspeita" is a thriller of police investigation, that tells the story of Dolores do Nascimento, a renowned police investigator. At age 50, has dedicated her entire life to her profession and is a respected name among her peers. Everything changes during an investigation, a writer that was writing the memoir of one of the drug trafficking lord, and had his phone tapped illegally by Dolores, is assassinated and she is under investigation by her superiors. At the same time, she finds out she has Alzheimer.
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Homem Onça
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990sPEDRO was a child in the small town of Barbosa during the 50s. He was 11 when he first heard the story of a jaguar turning up during the night in the nearby farms. One night, a farmer prepared a trap and killed the jaguar. The next day all the kids went running to see this beautiful creature, lying dead, with its yellowish skin full of black dots all dirty of blood. This image stayed with Pedro for the rest of his life. Fast-forward to the 90s and Pedro (55) now lives in Rio de Janeiro with his family. He works as Environmental Projects Manager at Gas Brasil (GB), a state-owned company. His wife SONIA (45) is an economist who has just lost her job of many years at a multinational company. ROSA (20), their daughter, is studying Journalism at university. PAULA (40), KATIA (39) and GUTO (35) form Pedro's team at Environmental Projects. DANTAS (53), also a manager at the company since the 70s, is Pedro's best friend.
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En el nombre del litio
🇦🇷 ArgentinaIt is a documentary about the struggle of the original communities of northern Argentina to prevent their salt flats, where one of the largest lithium reserves in the world are found, from becoming a “sacrifice zone” to reduce global warming.
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Sobre Olhares
🇧🇷 BrazilThe feature film that brings together 12 shorts by youngsters of the suburbs of São Paulo, addressing issues such as the lack of work perspective, racism, right to housing and homophobia.
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O Dia da Posse
🇧🇷 BrazilBrendo wants to be president of Brazil. Until that day, he studies law, makes videos for the networks, dreams of new achievements and imagines himself in a reality show during the pandemic.
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Reação em Cadeia
🇧🇷 BrazilA peaceful accountant, after find again a love of youth, discovers a big embezzlement in the company where he works. Thanks to the fact, he ends up involving in a corruption network that supplies the Brazilian politician system .
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Quem Saiu Para Entrega?
🇧🇷 BrazilA vertical documentary, directed remotely. — Five delivery workers tell stories during COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.
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Honoris Causa
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sHonoris Causa is an essay documentary that records Jacques Rancière's visit to the University of Valparaíso in 2017. The city is transformed into an open place that welcomes the philosopher and the images interweave to give shape and tension to a political narrative that speaks to us of the university, knowledge, philosophy, art and friendship.
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The Aftermath
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2020sBrazil, 2022. Luiza is a veterinarian whose life is torn apart after a global data leak exposes private user content from major social networks. A reflection on technology, friendship and solitude.
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[O vazio que atravessa]
🇧🇷 BrazilCrossed by greed, two hundred and seventy-two people were buried by tailings from the Vale mining company in Brumadinho (MG), Brazil. The emptiness that now crosses those who try to carry on will never be filled. This tribute film is dedicated to the victims of the irresponsible mining tragedy that continues to take its toll with blood and devastation.
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Sweet River
🇧🇷 BrazilUnder pressure from a back pain and being constantly short of money, Tiago (played by Okado do Canal) experiences an encounter that will reshape everything he knew about his own father, instilling an imminent crisis in his way of being. Set amid the outskirts of Olinda and the Recife middle class, the film contrasts both worlds without ignoring or overlooking the complexity of human relationships. In this universe where rap beats and community life thrive, we glimpse through the cracks of a disintegrating family model the construction of another masculinity.
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Protests against the violence of security guards and shopping mall employees in Brazil have mobilized thousands of people in recent years. This form of protest showed the barriers imposed by racial discrimination and social exclusion. Follow in this documentary the lives and memories of three black characters that went through traumatic racism situations and took part in the protests which recently took place in shopping malls. Discover the dreams, beauty, poetry, art and politics of a generation that has found new ways of dealing with violence by promoting an intense debate across the Brazil about how black lives matter.
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Suriname
🇸🇷 SurinameWhen Winston Righter decides eligible to stand for the presidency in Suriname, he is confronted with his criminal past. A chess breaks loose as he competes with justice and the underworld.
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The Cotton Wool War
🇧🇷 BrazilDora is a German-raised teenager visiting her enigmatic Brazilian grandmother for the first time. While trying to return to Germany at all costs, she discovers the incredible history behind the women of her family.
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Cosas de hombres
🇨🇱 ChileSantiago comes out of the closet to his 2 long life friends at the age of 50. The reaction is not very positive from one of them, Raul. Who tries by all means, to convince Santiago that he is only going through a moment of sexual confusion, and there's no way he is gay.
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Adoniran - Meu Nome é João Rubinato
🇧🇷 BrazilAdoniran Barbosa bears the title of São Paulo's greatest samba singer of all time. Through the artist's personal collection, rare archive images and testimonials from friends and family, discover a multifaceted character who portrayed his São Paulo in songs and radio characters. Having the city as an auxiliary, the documentary draws a parallel between today's metropolis and the one lived by Adoniran.
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Kill Chain
🇨🇴 ColombiaA hotel room shootout between two assassins kicks off a long night where bodies fall like dominoes, as we follow a chain of crooked cops, gangsters, hitmen, a femme Fatale and an ex-mercenary through a relay of murder, betrayal, revenge and redemption.
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The House in Argüello
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970s The 1980sAfter the appearance her uncle’s remains, disappeared in Argentina military dictatorship, Valentina (documentary’s director, born in jail) explores the stories of her grandmother-Mother of Plaza de Mayo and her mother-political prisoner- to find those memories that her mind does not seem to find.
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Las cruces
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sIn September 1973, 19 paper mill workers were imprisoned and taken to the Laja police station. Six years later, their bodies were found in Yumbel’s cemetery. After almost 40 years, one of the policemen involved broke the pact of silence they had made the night of the killing, revealing the participation of the Paper Manufacturing Company (CMPC) in the murder. Today, the case is still open and awaiting sentence.
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The Imaginary State
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇨🇱 ChileA Chilean man travels to Sweden searching for the answer to a crime that involves his family.
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