1,473 Films & TV Shows Set In South America
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Última Cidade
🇧🇷 BrazilJoão, mounted on his horse Cruzeiro, and in the company of a wanderer named Tahiel, enters a large city in northeastern Brazil to face the one who took his lands and ended up with his family.
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Los Errantes
🇧🇷 BrazilPedro and Simón travel to a village on the border with Brazil. They work on a yerba mate plantation, where they also live. One night they enter the forest and get into a fight with smugglers.
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Femme Fatale
🇨🇱 ChileAn anthology of three shorts. In Pájaro negro, Stella has her first date on Halloween night in an isolated area filled with superstitions. In La matanza fallida de los chitrulos subnormales, the Luna brothers, three women killers, make an appointment with their new prospective victim, but nothing will go as usual. Finally, in Suburbios del terror, some youngsters roam through the streets of Valparaíso closely followed by a journalist who is on the trail of a cruel killer who slaughters young people to preserve his own youth.
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Aliena
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2040sPorto Alegre, 2041. The negligence of the mining company Flora Rica results in the imminent breaking of their dam and puts people in danger. Amidst this announced catastrophe, six youngsters get together for a last moment of celebration.
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Fixed Shot - 100 Recordings around Dignity Square
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sOn October 18, 2019, Chile lives the most important social uprising since its return to democracy. “Italy Square” (neuralgic center of the capital), is re-baptized by the protesters as “Dignity Square”, transforming it into an iconic place of social demands.
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Peregrino
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970s The 2020sRicardo Soulé, 67 years old, Argentine musician from the mythical band Vox Dei who released "La Biblia" in the 70s, a conceptual work in the key of progressive rock, achieving immediate recognition. At present, Soulé records an album with his new band, goes on tour invited by a very convincing band, practices the training of falcons, plays the violin every day. Still, 4 of her 5 children live in Europe and their place in the world is still debated.
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Digamos
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA look at the current poetic scene — In Buenos Aires every week a large number of poetry dates are held with varied proposals: readings, slams, cycles, etc. Independent publishers continue to bet on expanding their catalogs. The authors use social networks so that their verses are consumed and shared by people who otherwise would not have accessed them. In Digamos, the protagonists of the scene contribute their voices and reflections on the world, exalting beauty in simplicity and reconfiguring the poetic concept that today is in full swing and transformation.
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Okinawa/Santos
🇧🇷 BrazilDuring World War II, many Japanese immigrants in Santos, Brazil, were forced to move to another place. Matsubayashi draws attention to the fact that 60% of the immigrants were from Okinawa. Based on testimonies from interviewees, this film reveals the hidden historical relationship between Okinawa and Brazil.
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The Sum of the Circles
🇪🇨 EcuadorA visual –and poetic– tour of "Wild Cathedral", a poem by César Dávila Andrade. — Fifteen locations are the stage where fifteen performers, among artists, poets, students etc., one per location, perform a fragment of “Wild Cathedral”, a poem by the mythical Ecuadorian poet César Dávila Andrade. A sum of portraits where the poem becomes a bridge to access the character and his respective surroundings. The poem as a regulating and critical voice between the character and the different territorialities.
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Me Cuidem-se!
🇧🇷 BrazilThe lives of eight people, of different ethnicities, creeds, professions and social groups, living in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, São Gonçalo and Nova Iguaçu during the first 9 months of the pandemic.
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Massacre: En el cinerama (En vivo Mandarine Park)
🇦🇷 Argentina The 2020sMassacre live show on Sunday, November 1, 2020, in what was the seventh date of the Renault Drive In show cycle at the Mandarine Park Drive-in - Punta Carrasco (Buenos Aires). New format for shows with the protocols adjusted to the Covid-19.
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Coreografías de la transgresión
🇵🇪 PeruFrom Lima to Cusco (Peru), the protagonists of this documentary bring us closer to the space of the transfeminine. The life experiences of each of them weave together a story of struggle and vindication, in which the religious-traditional, dance or activism become spaces of resistance, of individual and collective empowerment.
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De Senegal hacia España y Argentina
🇦🇷 ArgentinaDocumentary about sub-Saharan immigration in Spain and Argentina focusing especially on the Senegalese community
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The singer and songwriter Florencia Núñez is from Rocha, a coastal department in southeastern Uruguay. Her first compositions took place at her parents' house, in the classes she shared with the composer Enrique Cabrera, or on the shores of the ocean when she spent the summer in Costa Azul, her usual beach town. Today, she lives in Montevideo, she listens to her songs and wonders: what is the origin of all these melodies? This film is her desire to relive that music that made her grow. A tribute to the music of her department through the reinterpretation of five songs that marked her songbook. With that map in mind, Florencia goes out in search of answers in conversations with authors, interpreters or actors from the Rochense scene who were witnesses or protagonists of the construction of the local folk. A journey through the essence of a department that traces a route between melodies and landscapes, poetry and culture, and voices and roots.
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Todo mejora
🇵🇾 ParaguayImages and stories from the early years of LGBTIQ+ activism in Paraguay until today, in the middle of the pandemic. It's a quest that tries to generate audiovisual memory with voices from the main players of local activism and their accurate analysis of human rights and the political situation in Paraguay.
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The short-film documentary shows the trajectory and work of the photographer from Porto Alegre, distinguished by the black and white aesthetic that marks his artistic production.
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Quem Precisa de Identidade?
🇧🇷 BrazilEvery day they have to fight to exist. Immigrants and Afro-descendants in Brazil - one of the most racist countries in the world - move to overcome the struggle of existence and have a better place with respect and rights. But how to guarantee one's identity if racism is such a perfect crime that the culprit always ends up being the victim of a victim?
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An Officer and a Spy
🇫🇷 France 🇬🇫 French Guiana The 1890sIn 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil's Island penal colony.
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Triple Frontier
🇧🇷 Brazil 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇵🇪 PeruYou can’t go this far without crossing every line — Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.
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Monos
🇨🇴 Colombia The 2010sSurvival is a cruel game. — On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
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Bacurau
🇧🇷 BrazilSe for, vá na paz — Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
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Gemini Man
Georgia Virginia 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇨🇴 Colombia The 1990s The 2010sWho will save you from yourself? — Henry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict his every move. To his horror, Brogan soon learns that the man who's trying to kill him is a younger, faster, cloned version of himself.
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Charlie's Angels
California England 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇹🇷 Turkey 🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sUnseen. Undivided. Unstoppable. — When a systems engineer blows the whistle on a dangerous technology, Charlie's Angels from across the globe are called into action, putting their lives on the line to protect society.
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Long Shot
New York District of Columbia 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇪🇸 Spain 🇷🇺 Russia 🇵🇭 Philippines 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇨🇴 Colombia The 2020s The 2010s The 1990sUnlikely but not impossible. — Journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field, now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter—much to the dismay of her trusted advisers.
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Resistance
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1960sBrazil, 1961. In the underground of the Piratini Palace, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Leonel Brizola, awaits a bombing by the Brazilian armed forces. The country is on the verge of a civil war, following the resignation of president Jânio Quadros and the movement to keep vice-president João Goulart from taking office. Using the radio transmitter from his improvised bunker, Brizola sets up the Legality movement, to ensure Goulart's right to the presidential chair. Caught in the crossfire, two brothers who are in love with the same woman unite to fight alongside Brizola.
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