16 Films & TV Shows Set In Uruguay During The 20th Century
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Straight to VHS
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1970sThe search for the ghost that filmed the enigmatic and unique cult film of Uruguayan cinema — “Acto de violencia en una joven periodista” is a film shot and released on VHS in 1989. A mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about its creator, Manuel Lamas, about whom nothing is known.
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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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Only Noise - Las 65:45 horas de gloria de Les Renards
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1960sONLY NOISE is a documentary that tries to rescue from oblivion a tale with Les Renards as protagonists, one of the many bands from the 60s that was a key witness and pioneer in the first big explosion of Uruguayan Rock. It might look like a tale from an ordinary band, but in 1968 this band managed to break a world record.
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A Twelve-Year Night
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1970sEndless darkness. Limitless courage. — Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.
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Absence of Me
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1970sHundreds of boxes left by the famous uruguayan musician and political activist Alfredo Zitarrosa (1936-1989) who run away the dictatorship in the 70s, have not been touched since his death 27 years ago. Now his wife and daughters are trying to save the memories, tapes, music and sound recordings that the boxes contain to the posterity.
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78 Revoluciones
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 2010s The 1940sMarcel Keoroglian, a public figure in Uruguay thanks to his works in carnival, television, radio and cinema, has at home eighteen records of the 1949 carnival that have never been heard. These records were recorded by José Goglian, an Armenian immigrant, who in the 1940s lived in Villa del Cerro (a Montevidean neighborhood made up of many immigrant groups) and who invited his neighbour carnival musicians to his apartment to record them with a phonograph. This documentary is focused on Marcel's passionate bond with the murga genre, as he writes the lyrics for a group that is preparing for the next carnival, while looking for a way to revive the music of these albums that awaited sixty-eight years to be heard.
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Sangre de Campeones
🇫🇷 France 🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1920s1924: a group of men, amateur footballers of diverse professions and humble origins, set out on a journey towards the greatest adventure of their lives. They depart from Uruguay for Europe to disembark in Paris in its "Crazy Years" where, against all odds, Olympic glory and the amazement of the whole world awaited them. This feat would be the first of others to come in 1928 and 1930.
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See You in Montevideo
🇷🇸 Serbia 🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1930sA football team from Belgrade, former Republic of Yugoslavia gets a chance to go to the First World Football Championship, but things get complicated along the way.
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United Passions
🇫🇷 France 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1900sEvery dream has its own rules — An epic, untold story that brings to life the inspiring saga of the World Cup and the three determined men who created it. Driven by their vision and passion, three men, overcame their doubts and fought obstacles and scandals to make the World Cup a reality. Spanning the tumultuous 20th Century, this timeless saga celebrates the event that became the most popular sporting event in the world.
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Montevideo, God Bless You!
🇷🇸 Serbia 🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1930sWhen a dream becomes a legend. — A story about one team that decides to follow a dream that takes them on a journey to the First World Football Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. A dream that allows them to become true stars and living legends.
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The Pope's Toilet
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1980sA small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's 1988 visit.
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Burnt Money
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1960sBased on a true story that for 35 years was kept secret... — Set in Argentina in 1965, the story follows the tumultuous relationship between two men who became lovers and ultimately ruthless bank robbers in a notoriously famous footnote in the annals of crime history. After a large-scale hold-up that turns bloody, the two men must flee. It is not long before the police are surrounding the building they are in and they must confront their demons to survive.
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Anarchists
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1910s The 1920s The 1930sArmed based on photography, period films, archival materials and testimonies of survivors, family members and historians, the documentary accurately and exquisitely reconstructs the course of the “expropriating anarchists” in the Río de la Plata and specifically in Montevideo del First third of the 20th century.
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State of Siege
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1970sUsing the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.
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The Battle of the River Plate
🇺🇾 Uruguay Atlantic Ocean The 1930sIn the opening years of World War II the Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open and the British Isles supplied. Of great danger were the numerous surface/commerce raiders that had slipped out of German waters just before war was declared. Supplied by axis cargo ships or tankers, they primarily attacked and sank merchant shipping, and they could and did strike anywhere and everywhere. This is the story of one such ship – the 'Admiral Graf Spee' – and how 3 lightly armed Royal Navy cruisers with mere 6 and 8 inch guns boldly took on this powerful 'pocket battleship' armed with 11 inch guns.
