1,473 Films & TV Shows Set In South America
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Terrible Jungle
🇬🇫 French GuianaFrench Guyana, not so long ago. Eliott, a young and naive anthropology researcher, goes on an expedition to study the Otopis, a mysterious tribe from the Amazon rainforest. It is also an opportunity for him to get away from the grip of his possessive mother, Chantal de Bellabre, an ethnologist hated by the profession for her biased and cold-hearted practices. Arriving in the forest Elliot realizes the Otopis are not the “good savages” he had imagined. Alcoholic, violent, crooked: they will turn his expedition into real hell in the jungle. Fortunately, Chantal, consumed by remorse and worried about her son, decides to abandon her own expedition and goes looking for him in the jungle, with the help of the not so helpful Lieutenant-Commander Raspailles and his men.
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Bernarda is the Homeland
🇦🇷 ArgentinaDuring the last dictatorship and in the first years of return to democracy in Argentina, the under movement suffered attacks, exiles, arrests, ridicule and disqualification for a large part of society and applause from a minor group of people. In that underworld, Transformism was located as a form of expression cultural and artistic. Bernarda is the homeland, deconstructs the gender binary from Lorca and those movements of culture of the 80 '.
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Ecosistemas de la Costanera Sur
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA documentary about the Costanera Sur (south boardwalk) of Buenos Aires, Argentina, including Super 8 filmmakers, conspiracies, choripanes and myths.
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Las mujeres de mi casa
🇨🇱 ChileA family composed of three generations of women live in an old house in the neighborhood of Ñuñoa. On one hand, Leonor must decide her future, on the other hand, Monica must decide if she sells the house in which they have lived their entire lives while Emilia, must face her Alzheimer’s disease.
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Cracks in the Patriarchy
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA documentary told by seven protagonists, who share their personal and political point of view by expressing the reasons and the purposes for their advocacy as members of the Buenos Aires LGBTQI+ Community. Each one of them narrates personal processes and experiences which constitute their social and political identity as well as the motivation for their struggle for an equal and fairer future.
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#ChileDespertó
🇨🇱 ChileAfter the rise of 30 pesos on the Metro fare in Santiago (Chile), Chilean people rise up against the repressive measures of the government to stop the protests. With a scarf on the face and a camara, I’ll show the real upset of the social outbreak that woke up a country that was sleeping for 30 years amongst an illusion of democracy
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Carmen Vidal, mujer detective
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 2010sCarmen Vidal is a private detective addicted to pizza, beer and marijuana who fights against a criminal senator to avenge the death of her best friend.
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Onkel Günter
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010s The 1940sA Chilean family of German descendants must confront a painful episode dating back to World War II. Silence gives in when one of its members moves to Berlin and begins to research the disappearance of his grandfather’s twin brother, who was a pilot in the German Army. Back and forth, between Chile and Germany, the director turns into his own history to reflect on how his family’s memory has been shaped, and how past behaviors of the Nazi times have echoes in present generations in Chile.
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Soldier's Woman
🇪🇨 Ecuador... They were scarred forever — Unspeakable events occurred in the town of Manta. Several young women had to flee from there and were despised forever. They were condemned without anyone asking why they did it. Thirty years later, Magda decides to return to rediscover her past, now that she is facing a judicial process that can restore the dignity and honor that her people have denied her. She feels watched, judged in this frozen place in time, until her friends come to accompany her and a little light appears again.
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Caperucita roja
🇦🇷 Argentina The 2010sTwo women, granddaughter and grandmother, discuss the stories and contradictions of our gender and class, while sewing. Outside, a new generation of feminists takes the streets.
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The Last Matinee
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1990sNo talking. No texting. No breathing. — On a stormy night in Montevideo in 1993, an engineering student named Ana takes over the duties of her father, a projectionist at a declining movie theatre, due to his ill health. Unbeknownst to her, the audience watching the film that she is running are being murdered by a mysterious killer.
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The Rabbits' House
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sArgentina, 1975. Laura is only eight years old, but she knows that to survive you have to keep quiet. She shares her days with her mother and the other activists in a house where the clandestine printing of the Evita Montonera is hidden.
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Las razones del lobo
🇨🇴 Colombia The 2010sThe memories of an atypical family, in a typical and conventional place of Medellin-Colombia, make a portrait of the last 50 years of violence in the country. These memories, narrated in first person by the documentary filmmaker, range from the emergence of the M-19 guerrilla group in 1970 to the votes in the plebiscite for peace, the result of negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla group in 2016. The atypical family is made up of a conservative father who was the mayor of Medellín and a mother who is an academic, intellectual, and researcher of violence, threatened with death and exiled as a result of her ideas and research. The typical place, is a social and sports club of the elite of Medellín about to turn 100 years, and from where the political destinies of the whole country are still decided.
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Vilca, the Magic of Silence
🇦🇷 ArgentinaRicardo Vilca was one of the most transcendent artists in the Argentinean north-west. However, his person and his music remained in the shadows to bigger audiences for years. Like a work of destiny, his songs arrived to Buenos Aires through the voice of important musicians such as León Gieco and Divididos. With unknown archival footage, Vilca is a journey through his story and a tribute, trying to better understand the sources of inspiration that sustain his music.
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Nheengatu – The Language of the Amazon
🇧🇷 BrazilNheengatu – The Language of the Amazon takes us on a journey along the Negro River, on the trail of this language imposed on indigenous people by the first Portuguese colonialists who landed in Brazil in the 15th century. Throughout the various encounters with local communities that still speak this language, the director faces the different cultural, historical and social issues that confront tradition and future.
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Atravessa a Vida
🇧🇷 BrazilWhile a group of high school seniors from an impoverished area of Brazil prepare for an exam that can change the course of their lives, a journey of anxiety and personal drama unfolds before the camera.
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Secrets from Putumayo
🇧🇷 BrazilDocumentary about the man who is currently considered the father of violation of human rights inquests, Roger Casement (1864-1916). The actions during the time he spent in Africa, Brazil and in his native Ireland still echo in our days.
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Mal vecino
🇨🇱 ChileMaule Sur is in struggle, the company Coexca S.A. dedicated to the breeding, slaughter and export of pig meat, decided to install in the rural area of the commune of San Javier a mega pig breeding plant, which would reach a total of 144 thousand animals, fear and mistrust, a series of irregularities that also adds to the current pollution that this plant is generating in the daily lives of the residents of San Javier and Cauquenes.
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Chico Rei Among Us
🇧🇷 BrazilChico Rei was an enslaved Congolese king who freed himself and his subjects during the Gold Cycle in Minas Gerais. His story is the starting point to explore the various echoes of Brazilian slavery in the lives of black people today, understanding their movement of self-affirmation and freedom from a collective perspective.
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In My Skin
🇧🇷 BrazilA doctor mistaken for a thief. A cleaning lady treated as a slave. A mother who lost her son murdered by the police. A Trans employee who is never promoted. What do these people have in common? Their skin color. A human and poetic documentary sewn together with various narrative threads – characters, music, slams and black intellectual thinking – that unveil the racism rooted in Brazilian society.
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Mosca
🇨🇱 ChileOnda corta, underground press and solidarity. Two old revolutionaries cross their lives in a sonic journey thanks to the news broadcast by Radio Moscow and its program Escucha Chile, violating Pinochet's iron censorship and revealing to the world through short wave the deep economic and social transformation that was hidden behind the violent repression.
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Frontera
🇨🇱 ChileJuan Carlos is a lonko who has fought in defense of Mapuche autonomy. Many question him because he agreed to work for the government in order to improve conditions in his community. At home he shares his concerns, while his animals watch the tension grow and the seasons advance.
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Madre Baile
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1950s The 1940sThe story of Leonor Marzano, creator of the cuarteto — After composing the theme that gives its name to her second solo album, “Madre baile”, Vivi Pozzebón becomes interested in the ethno-musical origins of the cuarteto and the figure of Leonor Marzano, who knew how to mix the tarantella and the paso doble on her piano to give rise to the characteristic rhythm of Córdoba: the cuartero. From here comes this record about the origin of the cuarteto from the 1940s to the present.
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1960sIn 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
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Dente por Dente
🇧🇷 BrazilA thriller set in São Paulo Brazil, about a private security agent who starts to dream of his teeth falling. Somehow those dreams might be related to a string of mysterious deaths around him. Tormented by his dreams he sets on a journey to investigate, his life, his memory and his subconscious.
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