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Genres / International / Americas / South American
SUB-GENRES · Argentine · Brazilian · Chilean · Colombian · Ecuadorian · Peruvian · Surinamese · Uruguayan · Venezuelan
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Animalada
Argentinean writer/director Sergio Bizzio directs ANIMALADA, the extremely bizarre and horrific black comedy about a man who falls in love with Fanny, a sheep at his family’s vacation ranch. Distracted and unhappy with his current marriage, Alberto (Carlo Roffe) seeks comfort with Fanny in a nearby barn. He tries to hide his...Start your free trial to watch
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La boda
Luciano, twice her age, wants desperately to marry Iluminades, one of the village's beautiful young available daughters. They call him the "Black Man," the "Outsider," and most of the town does not want the wedding to take place. A very rich man, Luciano made his money as a black slave trader but still manages to win over...Start your free trial to watch
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Brazil: An Inconvenient History
As Brazil prepares to celebrate its 500th anniversary in the year 2000, it will display to the rest of the world its most brilliant features: heady carnivals, samba, football and a bewildering ethnic diversity. But behind this glittering facade, lies a much more disturbing story; the history of the biggest...Start your free trial to watch
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Brutes and Savages
Fascinated by forbidden rituals and ceremonies, world explorer Arthur Davis takes a crew with hidden cameras to Africa and South America to secretly record the beauty and horror of the law of the jungle. BRUTES AND SAVAGES is the filmed document of his death-defying adventures. Shocking, brutal and...Start your free trial to watch
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Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
In the middle of northeastern Brazil in 1942, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought. Although their personalities and lives are worlds apart, the two men develop a deep friendship, as...Start your free trial to watch
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Craft
Bianca manages a precarious living as a talented but underemployed actress in Rio de Janeiro, performing for private events dressed as female movie icons. Troubled by the thought she has missed her chance at a “big break,” she perseveres with single-minded dedication to her craft until an audition leads to a rare opportunity,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Custodian
As a bodyguard for a high profile politician, Ruben is reduced to a mere shadow of a man. Every action in his life is regulated by a series of mundane routines. Everywhere his boss goes he must follow, watching but never speaking. Resigned to his invisibility, his life is a series of days without meaning, punctuated only by...Start your free trial to watch
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Embodiment of Evil
After serving a forty-year prison term, Zé do Caixão (aka Coffin Joe) is finally released from the Mental Heath wing of the São Paulo State Penitentiary. Back on the streets, the sadistic undertaker is set upon fulfilling the goal which sent him to jail in the first place: find a woman who can give him the...Start your free trial to watch
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Fat, Bald, Short Man
Lonesome, middle-aged virgin Antonio Farfán is picked on and ridiculed as a matter of course, whether by coworkers or his bullying mooch of a brother (who only calls when he needs money). An employee of a notary’s office, his status improves a bit when his new boss (and strangely affable doppelganger)...Start your free trial to watch
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The Finger
After seven years of dictatorship, a remote village in Argentina formally becomes a town with the birth of its 501st inhabitant. Hidalgo, a slick and ingratiating scion, is eager for the new post of mayor. Smelling a rat, Baldomero (a beloved natural leader with a habitually tapping digit) opposes him with his own candidacy...Start your free trial to watch
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Fuerza aérea sociedad anónima
This film shows behind-the-scenes footage of the disastrous state of civil aviation in Argentina, which is greatly due to it being entirely militarized and under the control of the Air Force since the last military coup, thirty years ago. It is based on the real life experiences of director Enrique...Start your free trial to watch
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Happy Together
Winner of the Best Director Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Wong Kar-Wai's HAPPY TOGETHER is a cinematic balancing act, a stunning display of filmmaking style and a touching love story evenly mixed into one film. Hong Kong and world cinema have never seen anything quite like it. Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung, two of...Start your free trial to watch
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I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You
José Renato, geologist, thirty-five years old, is sent on a field-trip to the scrublands of the Sertão, a semi-arid isolated region in the Northeast of Brazil. The goal of his survey is to assess possible routes for a water canal from the region's only voluminous river. For many of the region's...Start your free trial to watch
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The Invisible Eye
Set against the backdrop of Argentina’s military regime of the 1980s, Diego Lerman’s engrossing and beautifully acted exploration of the totalitarian urge opens with a portrait of María Teresa, a lonely and deeply repressed assistant teacher at an elite Buenos Aires private school. Obedient and willing,...Start your free trial to watch
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A Jail in Columbia
A look inside La Modelo prison in Bogota, Colombia. Called a "model" prison by Colombian officials, the prison in reality is controlled more by the prisoners than the guards (with 5,000 prisoners for 2,400 spots, and not more than 150 security guards assigned to La Modelo). The prison is awash in violence...Start your free trial to watch
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The Joy
THE JOY is a fairy tale about youth and courage. THE JOY tells the story of sixteen year old Luiza. She is tired of hearing about the end of the world. On Christmas Eve, her cousin João is shot in a poor neighborhood and disappears in the middle of the night. A few weeks later, while alone in her apartment in a middle class...Start your free trial to watch