South American
see all genres ›From the highs of the Andes and Venezuela's Angel Falls to the arid lows of Chile's Atacama Desert, South America offers no end of spectacular settings for filmmakers, not to mention an enormous diversity of cultures, histories and political struggles.
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Genres / International / Americas / South American
SUB-GENRES · Argentine · Brazilian · Venezuelan · Chilean · Ecuadorian · Uruguayan · Peruvian · Colombian · Surinamese · Bolivian · Trinbagonian
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Behind the Sun
In the brutal Brazilian badlands of 1910, two families are locked in a bloody, generations-old feud. The oldest remaining son of one family, distressed by the prospect of death and encouraged by his younger brother, begins to question the cycle of violence. When a beautiful young woman crosses...Watch Movie
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
The first collaboration between director Werner Herzog and star Klaus Kinski, this freely-imagined yet fact-inspired tale of Spanish conquistadors searching for a mythical "city of gold" in 16th-century Peru was a career landmark for both Herzog and Kinski and an artistic...Watch Movie
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The Pearl Button
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of a mysterious...Watch Movie
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The Maid
After twenty-three years working as a devoted maid in an upper class Chilean household, embittered and ailing Raquel can no longer care for the family alone. Trapped by guilt, matriarch Pilar refuses to let Raquel go, even though it is clear their longtime maid is slowly unraveling. Instead,...Watch Movie
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Fitzcarraldo
Werner Herzog's most epically-scaled film was inspired by an actual historical incident of stranger-than-fiction curiosity. In the late 1800s Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald had an entire steamship laboriously transported over a mountain in order to open a trade passage from rubber-rich...Watch Movie
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Sons of Benkos
An entertaining documentary that explores the African culture of Colombia through music. The film presents the music of the Sons of Benkos, one of the most important Black leaders in the fight for freedom during the times of slavery in Colombia. The film also shows the evolution of Afro-Colombian...Watch Movie
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Nostalgia For the Light
For his new film master director Patricio Guzmán, famed for his political documentaries travels ten thousand feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky...Watch Movie
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Neighboring Sounds
One of the most acclaimed films of the year, NEIGHBORING SOUNDS is the thrilling debut from filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho. On a quiet block in the coastal city of Recife, ruled by an aging patriarch and his sons, a recent spate of petty crime has rattled the nerves of the...Watch Movie
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Casa Grande
Coming-of-age as rude awakening: one high school senior's dawning sexuality is shadowed by the discovery of his upper-class family's looming financial ruin. Polished and penetrating, CASA GRANDE renders a sharp social canvas of contemporary Brazil through the eyes of young Jean, who struggles...Watch Movie
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Whisky
Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismäki seem to haunt this deadpan comedy from Uruguay about an over-sixty "love" triangle between a grumpy sock factory owner, his faithful assistant and his excessively cheerful, far more successful brother. Realizing he should at least pretend to have a life beyond the...Watch Movie
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Cobra Verde
Werner Herzog’s final collaboration with Klaus Kinski was, like FITZCARRALDO and AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD before it, a fact-inspired saga of exotic physical adventure whose production was nearly as arduous as the events depicted. Based on Bruce Chatwin’s novel "The Viceroy of Ouidah" (which was,...Watch Movie
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True Beauty
Joao is a decadent photographer, looking for a new model to restart his career. He goes to the South of Brazil, where he shoots hundreds of teens, until he gets captivated by the beauty of Maria, who he wants to make a top model. However her father, Pedro, doesn't allow her to follow the career....Watch Movie
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Goodbye Momo
Obdulio is an eleven-year-old Afro-Uruguayan boy who lives with his grandmother and sells newspapers for a living, though he cannot read or write. Obdulio is not interested in going to school until he finds out that the night watchman of the newspaper's office is a charismatic magical "Maestro"...Watch Movie
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OSS 117: Lost in Rio
The pride of French intelligence, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (code named OSS 117) has a new mission that takes him to the Bossa Nova Brazil of the 1960’s. Teaming up with a sexy Mossad agent, he has to capture a Nazi blackmailer with an embarrassingly long list of World War...Watch Movie
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On the Way to School
2014 Cesar winner for Best Documentary, ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL interweaves the stories of four children from around the world whose desire to learn and better their lives through education forces them to contend with arduous, often perilous journeys every day on their way to the...Watch Movie
