1,473 Films & TV Shows Set In South America
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Song Without a Name
🇵🇪 Peru The 1980sPeru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story.
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Entierro
🇨🇱 ChileThis documentary was born with the idea of portray accurately and factually the story of the famous Chilean artist Carmengloria Morales through her art and her relationship with music.
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The Heist of the Century
🇦🇷 Argentina The 2000sThe Story Of The Theft That Made History — In 2006, a group of thieves performed what is considered one of the most famous and smart bank heists in the history of Argentina. How they robbed the Rio bank is as surprising as what happened afterwards. This is their story.
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SOL
🇦🇷 ArgentinaSol, a famous Argentine Tango performer, has lived in Buenos Aires for many years. Behind her excessive temper and her glowing smile, the Diva hides an injury from which she never really recovered: the loss of her only son, Raphaël.
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Aboard a cruise ship out at sea, a young sailor discovers a door mysteriously leading to an apartment in Montevideo. Meanwhile, a group of Asian farmers find an abandoned shed in the valley, attributing it supernatural powers.
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White on White
🇪🇸 Spain 🇨🇱 Chile The 1890sIn the prelude of the twentieth century, Pedro arrives in Tierra del Fuego, an hostile and violent territory, to immortalise the marriage of a powerful landowner. Fascinated by the beauty of the bride-to-be, he betrays the rules and is left to face the land, crawling with violence and marked by the genocide of the land indigenous.
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Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sBesieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last wish: to be the protagonist of his own death.
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Ensaio Sobre o Fracasso
🇧🇷 BrazilA projectionist at a porn cinema in downtown São Paulo, makes his first film in Super8, an essay about the failure of a lifetime. The scenes from the films you watched intersect with the new images they capture, fiction and reality blending together, weaving a bridge between the past and the present.
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Intuition
🇦🇷 ArgentinaEveryone is guilty. — Police officer Pipa works on her first big case while simultaneously investigating her boss, who is suspected of murder. The prequel to "Perdida".
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Burning Night
🇧🇷 BrazilDown on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support their ten-year-old son. He mostly works nights, so in addition to his encounters with a colourful variety of customers, colleagues, cops and others, he must cope with loneliness, fatigue and new faces in his life.
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Private Fiction
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇮🇹 Italy The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sOver several days and nights, an actor and an actress read the correspondence between Torcuato and Kamala, the film director's parents, he from Argentina, and she from India. The letters, encompassing the decades from the 50s to the 70s, refer to love and idealism, record world travels, talk about socialism and psychoanalysis, about pain and broken dreams. Their reading reveals a relationship between the actors, with similarities and differences. Meanwhile, with his own daughter, the director sets about solving the puzzle of the family memory, an intimate twentieth-century tale.
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And They Say I Am the Crazy One
🇧🇷 BrazilYoung, intense and authentic, Dani just wants a normal life. However, since she was a child, she has been misaligned with her world.
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Valentina
🇧🇷 BrazilA trans girl and her mother move to a new town in order to start fresh, but quickly face dilemmas when the local high school needs a second parental signature for enrollment.
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Death Doesn't Exist, and Love Doesn't Either
🇦🇷 ArgentinaEmilia is a young psychiatrist living in Buenos Aires with her boyfriend. She has a steady life but is not fully satisfied. She receives an invitation to go back to 28 de Noviembre, her hometown in Patagonia to spread Andrea's ashes, Emilia's best friend who died five years earlier. Emilia pauses her life in the city and travels for the ceremony. The cold and the snow of the hard winter in southern Argentina are the setting of her journey to the past. There, she revisits her friendship with dead Andrea and mourns her with her family. On the isolated routs of Patagonia, Emilia meets Julián, her first love, who has recently become a father.
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Overnight
🇨🇱 ChileIgnacio embarks on a trip driven by the coincidences that bring together the news that his young girlfriend is pregnant and an invitation to a seminar in Chile almost simultaneously.
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My Tender Matador
🇨🇱 Chile The 1980sAmong gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship.
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The Division
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990sLate 1990s. With hundreds of kidnappings, Rio de Janeiro is beset by violence.
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Once Upon a Time in Venezuela
🇻🇪 VenezuelaOnce upon a time, the Venezuelan village of Congo Mirador was prosperous, alive with fisherman and poets. Now it is decaying and disintegrating—a small but prophetic reflection of Venezuela itself.
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Rich in Love
🇧🇷 BrazilWorking incognito at his rich dad's company to test his own merits, Teto falls for Paula and tells her he grew up poor, a lie that spins out of control.
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Our Way To The Sea
🇦🇷 ArgentinaLiving in Tucumán, 75-year-old Julio Pereyra (Santiago Bal) has always dreamed of visiting the coast, and after seeing his doctor, he realizes it’s either now or never. He hopes to enlist his errant son, Marcos (Federico Bal, the star’s real-life son), to take him by motorcycle; both Marcos and his by-the-books sister (Anita Martínez) are opposed to the idea. But before he reaches his final destination, Julio will have the opportunity to check several things off his bucket list in this emotionally resonant road movie.
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Memories of My Father
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1970sPortrays the life of Héctor Abad Gómez, a prominent doctor and human rights activist in the polarized, violent Medellin of the 70s. A family man worried not only for his own children but those of the underprivileged classes as well, his home was imbued with vitality and creativity, the result of an education based on tolerance and love. Nothing could foretell that a terrible cancer would take the life of one of his beloved daughters. Driven by sadness and rage, Héctor devoted himself to the social and political causes of the time. But Medellin's intolerant society would harass him until he was finally silenced.
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Loco por vos
🇨🇴 ColombiaLucas and Simón, friends who work in a creative agency in Bogotá, throw a party as a favor to their boss, Johana. There, Lucas meets Lina, Johana's paisa cousin who travels to Bogotá to get a visa and go to study fashion design in the United States. Madly in love, Lucas travels to Medellin to try to conquer Lina, where he will realize that Before conquering her, she will have to conquer her paisa family.
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Días de temporada
🇦🇷 Argentina The 2010sJanuary 19, 2018. Santa Teresita, Buenos Aires. A mosaic (intimate and observational) about the typical workers of the coast. Each of their stories will be articulated throughout a working day: morning, afternoon and night, portraying the color and joy of a seasonal day.
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Lonely Rock
🇦🇷 ArgentinaThe hamlet of Condor lies in the Puna grasslands of the northern highlands of Argentina, at some four thousand metres above sea level, close to the border with Bolivia. Here, a lama herder lives with his family. He and his son sell lama meat and wool in the closest city, which is still a long trip on foot and by bus. When the herd is threatened by a puma, the herder goes in search of the predator. According to local custom, he has to make an offering to the beast.
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Make Life
🇦🇷 ArgentinaIn a downtown building, old and beautiful, of the turbulent Buenos Aires, stories of men and women who keep secrets behind solid walls are intertwined. For Lucy, it is the secret price for freedom; for the Ukrainian immigrant and the Tucuman teenager, it is a refuge; for Lorenzo, it is debauchery; for Gaby and Mariano, disagreement; for Mónica and Sergio, the promise of new life. The stories are intertwined. No one is the same after opening the door to their most intimate desire
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