61 Films & TV Shows Set In Uruguay
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Preso
🇺🇾 UruguayWhile working at Uruguay's largest prison construction site, Miguel is leading a double life. When he realizes that he has become a prisoner of his own lies, Miguel struggles to find the courage to disclose the truth to his loved ones.
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Behind the Myth
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 19th CenturyAt the beginning of the 20th century, Uruguay was looking for its identity. Blanes, the "pintor de la patria", invented the images of the heroes that until today are exhibited as real. But everything can change when the world's most recognized forensic artist reveals the true face of the national hero.
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Crowds
🇺🇾 UruguayCrowds is a feature documentary that records popular events of Uruguay where thousands of people gather spontaneously, called by faith, passion, celebration and memory. What happens when we set aside our individuality to act collectively? This documentary observes the passions that draw thousands of people close in order to join in a choral character. It discovers the crowd while it transgresses and experiences catharsis, while it seeks miracles and hopes; in continuous movement it splits and rejoins... until they dissipate and individuals re-emerge in their own solitude.
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Breadcrumbs
🇺🇾 UruguayWhen Liliana decides to return to Uruguay she will have to face up to a new dilemma, perhaps the last great dilemma of her life: To choose between supporting a collective case for female prisoners, raped during the time of the dictatorship, or to reconcile with her son and be able to live peacefully as a mother and a grandmother.
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Dolphins Go East
🇺🇾 UruguayAn almost family comedy — Miguel Ángel García Mazziotti, a Río de la Plata's decadent showbiz gay figure, receives the visit of his daughter Virginia, of whom he has been distanced for years. "The Fat", as everybody calls him in Punta del Este, openly rejects her visit, but when realizes will become a grandfather he can't help getting thrilled and celebrate Virginia's happiness. As a result they share a real familiar weekend that, as many families, to be happy it has to be fake.
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Welkom
🇺🇾 UruguayThe tragic story of Sarah Mulder in Montevideo — An audiovisual producer in crisis receives the host of a Dutch travel program in Montevideo. Hidden emotional problems and an old debt to the local underworld threaten to derail the expedition.
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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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3
🇺🇾 UruguayDissatisfied with his new life (and wife), a man tries to insinuate himself back into the home of the ex-wife and daughter he left ten years before, in this heartwarming and hilarious comedy-drama from Uruguayan director Pablo Stoll Ward (25 Watts, Whisky).
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Norberto's Deadline
🇺🇾 UruguayAfter being fired from his job, Norberto tries his luck as a real estate agent, but he doesn't tell his wife right away. His new boss advises him to take an assertiveness course to overcome his shyness, and Norberto starts taking classes in an acting workshop for beginners. While he works toward the quarterly festival, Norberto fails to get his wife and clients to believe anything he says, but he finds out he is very good at lying to himself.
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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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A Useful Life
🇺🇾 UruguayA Tale of Cinema — A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life after the cinema he worked at for over 25 years is forced to shut down.
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Leo's Room
🇺🇾 UruguayOpen the door — Leo, a young man coming to terms with his own sexuality, runs into Caro, a primary school friend he fancied when they were kids, who's now trying to ward off her own personal demons. This casual re-encounter will affect their personal conflicts without either truly grasping the other's problem.
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The City of Your Final Destination
🇺🇾 Uruguay28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund - his brother, widow, and younger mistress - so he can get authorization to write the biography.
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Panic Attack!
🇺🇾 UruguayGiant robots appear out of the mist and attack Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. Accompanied by a squadron of spacecraft, they fire weapons at the city and destroy key buildings, leading to mass panic. The military fights back to little avail. At the end of the film, the robots fuse together to form a giant sphere, which then detonates and engulfs the city in a fireball. No explanation is given for the attack.
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Blindness
🇧🇷 Brazil 🇺🇾 UruguayYour vision of the world will change forever. — When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
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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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XXY
🇺🇾 UruguaySex makes us men and women. Or both things. — Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her gender, she meets both hostility and compassion.
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Submerged
🇺🇾 UruguayHe found the enemy... on the wrong side. — Chris Kody, imprisoned member of the US military, is released from prison and reunited with his old team in order to pursue a renegade scientist. The catch, the scientist has developed mind control technology that can make even your friends into heartless killers.
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Whisky
🇺🇾 UruguayWhen his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.
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In This Tricky Life
🇪🇸 Spain 🇺🇾 UruguayMontevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa moves out of her mother's house with her two children and breaks up with Garcia, her boss and lover who has infuriated her by not wanting to get married. So, in the space of twenty-four hours, Elisa finds herself without a roof over her head, without a man, without a job and without money. Her best friend Loulou finds her a job - in the brothel run by Dona Jacqueline. And without really being aware of it, Elisa slides into prostitution, which leads her to Barcelona. She falls in love, she is exploited, she gets involved in transvestite gang wars, and meanwhile just dreams of earning enough money for her little beauty salon back home.
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25 Watts
🇺🇾 Uruguay24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo. Three teenage guys try to figure out what they're supposed to be doing with their lives in this drama from Uruguay that puts the emphasis on character over narrative.
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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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