1,473 Films & TV Shows Set In South America
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Emptiness
🇪🇨 EcuadorLEI and WONG clandestinely arrive to Ecuador, on their way to the port city of Guayaquil. From here LEI plans to continue her journey to New York, but CHANG, a bipolar mobster will decide her fate. WONG unwillingly gets entangled in the web of corruption that operates the encroachment of Chinese immigrants. His only objective is to bring his twelve-year-old son from China.
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Dry Wind
🇧🇷 BrazilThe area around Catalan in Brazil’s state of Goiás is dry, very dry. Sandro’s life here is somewhat monotonous. He works in a fertiliser factory, goes swimming and spends his evenings doing jigsaw puzzles of landscapes. When Maicon, a man straight out of a Tom of Finland illustration, shows up in their small town and flirts with Ricardo, Sandro’s burgeoning feelings of jealousy set a change in motion.
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Andrés Carrasco: Ciencia disruptiva
🇦🇷 ArgentinaIn full swing of the agro-export model in Argentina, Andrés Carrasco, renowned Argentine scientist, denounces the harmful effects of agrotoxins on human health. While putting the state-subsidized scientific system in check in collusion with companies, it became a benchmark for the victims of the model.
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Aurora
🇧🇷 BrazilEverything starts in a dream in which I told my mother that I was going to look for the hundreds of children that my grandmother helped coming into life. She was a midwife and a healer for over forty years in the deep desertic Sertão of Northeast Brazil. Her name was Aurora. I did not get to know her. From one encounter to another, with the alive and the dead, the film follows the traces of Aurora’s ghost and confronting the structural violence, gender and racial wise, present in Brazil’s historical formation.
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Mariposas Violeta
🇨🇴 ColombiaThis short 40-minute documentary collects the testimony of twelve women survivors of sexual violence in Colombia. They were victims of the paramilitaries, the FARC and ELN guerrillas and agents of the State. Their heartbreaking testimony is the imprint of the deepest pain and, at the same time, the greatness of transforming it. Each of them agreed to speak after a process of more than five years with the No Time to Callar campaign, which has accompanied them and worked alongside them, at different times. Violet Butterflies, in addition to a journalistic short, is an act of memory.
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Los Andes Symphony Orchestra
🇨🇴 ColombiaThe North of Cauca is the region of Colombia most affected by the internal armed conflict since 1940. There is an orchestra of ancestral music composed of young indigenous people of the Nasa ethnic group who, with their instruments, their voice and their poetry, remember Maryi Vanessa Coicue, Sebastian Ul and Ingrid Guejia, three of the hundreds of indigenous children who have died because of this eternal and useless war between leftist guerrillas, armed groups of the extreme right, drug traffickers and the Colombian State.
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La chancha
🇦🇷 ArgentinaPablo and Miguel, from Las Varillas, see each other after many years in La Cumbre when they are both on vacation with their partners. Secrets will come to light when Pablo's wife discovers why Miguel's presence bothers her husband so much.
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O Cemitério das Almas Perdidas
🇧🇷 BrazilCorrupted by the power of Cipriano's Black Book, a Jesuit and his followers begin a reign of horror in colonial Brazil, until they be cursed to live forever trapped under the graves of a cemetery. Now, centuries later, they are ready to break free and spread their evil all over the world.
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Lamb of God
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960sA boarding school where they are all wicked, except the priests. — North Argentina, 1961. Only a few priests and interns remain in a secluded run-down boys religious boarding school. Arrives Father Martin, who's intentions are not as clear as he claims they are.
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My Partner 2.0
🇧🇴 BoliviaVito (at present 70 years old) continues in his random adventures: blackmailed by the Patron, a fearsome drug trafficker who Vito managed to lock up in a maximum security prison, now lives hidden in a small Amazonian town. Gone are the glorious days of truck driver with his truck "My Partner". When Vito finally is placed by the son of the Patron, and is in serious trouble, he has no choice but to seek the help of his former assistant Brillo through his daughter Camila. Will Vito return to travel the roads of Bolivia with his old truck "MY PARTNER"? —Paolo Agazzi
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De patitas a la calle
🇵🇪 PeruA group of a dog patrol fights with traffickers to free their friends. — A dog named Lasmi lost herself in the city of Lima. A group of dog patrol help her to find her family. But a group of traffickers are kidnaping dogs, so they have to found out them and cought them.
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The Frogs
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA woman visits her boyfriend, locked up in a prison a few hours’ drive away from Buenos Aires. Each week, she manages as best as she can to accomplish her mission: provide her boyfriend food, drugs and love. In an exercise of visceral realism, Edgardo Castro constructs a harrowing love story with Las Ranas.
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El Father Plays Himself
🇻🇪 VenezuelaA father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself. — A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle (La Fortaleza, Jorge Thielen Armand). He casts Father to play himself. What starts as an act of love and ambition — filmmaking to more deeply understand the self, and the other — spirals into a process which confronts Father’s struggles with addiction and his life devoid of his son. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF holds a steady lens to the way the act of cinema unearths, binds, heals and destroys.
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Condor Operation
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sOperation Condor recounts the multinational scheme for the elimination of leaders of the South American left devised and executed by the dictatorships of the Southern Cone of America with the support and ideological inspiration of the CIA, which reached its climax in the 1970s. The Latin American military that They seized power and imposed on their peoples a regime of terror based on the disappearance of people, torture, murder and psychological warfare.
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Southern Sorceresses
🇧🇷 BrazilThrough artistic manifestations, a group of LGBTQIA+ people performs public stagings that raise debates on issues of gender, social inequality and prejudice in the streets of downtown São Paulo. Messing with the popular imagination and providing debates, the artists explain their daily struggles to anyone who is interested in acquiring a new perspective on the most subtle layers of intolerance.
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Skull: The Mask
🇧🇷 BrazilA killer hunt for revenge. — The story of an ancient mask that possesses the human form to commit visceral sacrifices of vengeance for the incarnation of its God.
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Nahuel and the Magic Book
🇨🇱 ChileNahuel lives with his father in a fishing town, yet he has a deep fear of the sea. One day, he finds a magical book that seems to be the solution to this problem, but a dark sorcerer is after it and captures Nahuel's father. This is where his journey to rescue his father and overcome his fears begins.
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Reset, volver a empezar
🇦🇷 ArgentinaThe film that tells what is after the Golden Generation. — The Argentine basketball player Fabricio Oberto narrates in first person, along with other former teammates, how they live after belonging to that mythical team.
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Lemonade, lemonade
🇨🇴 ColombiaA coming of age set in Bogotá. — A young woman, in the limbo of finishing college and embracing adulthood, wanders around different places in Bogotá and encounters different people while she deals with the uncertainty of the future and a certain nostalgia for the present.
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An Ocean Blue
🇦🇷 ArgentinaAlthough she fulfills the role of perfect wife and mother, Lola is not satisfied with the fantasy of happiness during a family vacation in Mar del Plata.
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Algo con una mujer
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1950sIt’s 1955. Rosa a skillful seamstress becomes the only witness of a murder. In a time of political tension in Argentina, the crime’s investigation will trigger the final resolution of the conflict and sealed Rosa’s destiny for good. A typical crime film with the exception that the detective is a housewife.
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Los versos salvados
🇦🇷 ArgentinaEach year Celina crosses the Argentinean Pampa in her car to visit her daughter Fernanda. Among hundreds of disappearances, they were the only two who made it out alive from the dictatorship’s delivery room. For mother and daughter the only possible truth and justice is to move forward with their lives.
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Señales de humo
🇦🇷 ArgentinaIn Amaicha del Valle, a small native community in Northern Argentina, Internet service is often interrupted because of the strong winds. Mario Reyes, the native community's wrangler and park ranger, will have to take the Internet provider's engineer, Mercado, up the mountain to fix the problem.
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