Take the Tour: "Latin American Movies"
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61 movies)
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Argentina - 2009
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- Benjamin Esposito is a judicial employee who decides to retire after writing a novel about a criminal case, which has been a witness and protagonist. Writing the book on ...
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Mexico - 2000
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- Alejandro Gonzalez Iniarritu makes an electrifying directorial debut with AMORES PERROS, an energetic, assured motion picture that jumps off the screen with a seemingly ...
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Colombia - 2004
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- Seventeen-year-old Maria lives in a small town north of Bogotá with her mother, her grandmother, her sister and her sister’s young son. Maria works on a large rose ...
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Mexico - 2018
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- "Roma" follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to ...
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Chile - 2015
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- A group of priests of various ages lives together with Mónica, a nun, in a house on the Chilean coast. When they are not praying and atoning for their sins, they train ...
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Argentina - 1992
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- Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; ...
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Brazil - 1998
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- Dora, a dour old woman, works at a Rio de Janeiro central station, writing letters for customers and mailing them. She hates customers and calls them 'trash'. Josue is a ...
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Mexico - 1962
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- High society guests find themselves unable to leave the dining room after a posh dinner party. The uncomfortable situation extends far beyond the limits of their patience ...
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Argentina - 2015
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- Argentina in the early eighties. Within a typical family home in the traditional neighborhood of San Isidro, a sinister clan makes its living off kidnapping and murder. ...
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Argentina - 2004
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- In 1952, two young Argentines, Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado, set out on a road trip to discover the real Latin America. Ernesto is a 23-year-old medical student ...
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Chile - 2012
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- Military dictator Augusto Pinochet calls for a referendum to decide his permanence in power in 1988, the leaders of the opposition persuade a young daring advertising ...
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Chile - 2004
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- Two children from different ends of the social spectrum become friends and witness the events that unfold in Chile under Pinochet.
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Mexico - 2001
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- Julio (Gael García Bernal) and Tenoch (Diego Luna) are two seventeen-year-old best friends whose sexy, young girlfriends are headed to Italy for summer vacation. At a ...
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Argentina - 1997
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- Upon learning that his estranged son in Buenos Aires may have attempted suicide by mixing dog tranquilizers with booze, expatriate Argentine film director Martin ...
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Argentina - 2014
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- Vulnerable before a reality that can suddenly be modified and become unpredictable, the characters of Wild Tales cross the thin line that divides civilization from ...
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Cuba - 1993
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- David (Vladimir Cruz) is a student and ardent Communist whose personal life is in something of a slump; his girlfriend recently left him to marry another man after he ...
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Colombia - 1993
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- A group of tenants living in an old house are confronted with having to move out due to a renovation project the city has undertaken. The tenants decide to unite and come ...
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Mexico - 1965
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Peru - 1990
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Venezuela - 2015
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- Wealthy middle-aged Armando lures young men to his home with money. He doesn’t want to touch, only watch from a strict distance. He also follows an elderly businessman ...
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Mexico - 1992
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- The passionate Tita (Lumi Cavazos) is in love with Pedro (Marco Leonardi), but her controlling mother (Regina Torne) forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro instead ...
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Mexico - 2013
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- Estela is a 12 year old girl who has just fallen crazy in love with a young police cadet who wants to run away with her and get married. Trying to achieve this dream, her ...
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Argentina - 1981
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- A union organizing demolition worker and a friend of his decide to blackmail the corrupt company they work for setting up a fake accident. Because of a miscalculation the ...
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Argentina - 1985
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- Alicia Marnet de Ibañez is happily married to her husband Roberto. They have an adopted daughter named Gaby. Alicia is blissfully ignorant about what happened in the ...
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United States - 1992
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- Kind-spirited guitarist El Mariachi (Carlos Gallardo) simply wants to wander through life as his father and grandfather did, with a song in his heart and a smile on his ...
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Peru - 2010
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- Clemente, an extremely quiet pawnbroker, is Sofia's hope to avoid solitude. Being his neighbor and a single woman, she spends her days as an October's Lord of the ...
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Brazil - 2003
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- The acclaimed director of 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' dramatizes the 1992 prisoner revolt and massacre at São Paulo's infamous Carandiru penitentiary. A tender, forceful, ...
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Argentina - 2004
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Mexico - 2004
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- Weakened by two years of fighting, the army of El Salvador has been forced to replenish its ranks with the nation’s young sons, most of whom are kidnapped in sudden and ...
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Bolivia - 2005
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- A Bolivian man with dreams of reuniting with his son and starting a new life in the United States is forced to resort to questionable methods due to harsh laws designed ...
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Chile - 2013
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- Alejandro Jodorowsky's childhood in Chile. “Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums ...
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Mexico - 1970
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- A fascinating collision of Sixties avant-garde theater, Latin American symbolism, European radical cinema and the furthest reaches of the movie western, El Topo ...
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Mexico - 2014
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- Set in 1999 against a backdrop of student protests, Güeros is a road movie that becomes a voyage of discovery for three rootless young people seeking to bridge the gap ...
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Peru - 2009
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- It’s exactly a month since “Che Loco” was killed by a rival gang. For that reason Joaquín, Antuanet, Lalo, Mario and Sara, long life friends, walk across the sandy ...
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Chile - 1969
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Mexico - 1953
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- Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her ...
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Argentina - 2004
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Bolivia - 1969
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Colombia - 2005
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- Medellín, 1989. Antonio (Unax Ugalde) brings Rosario (Flora Martinez) to the hospital; she’s shot, bleeding badly. Flashbacks, mixed with Antonio’s wait at the hospital ...
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Chile - 2012
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- Daniela is a petite, pretty teenager raised in the bosom of a strict and well-to-do evangelical family in Santiago, Chile. Daniela is also a 17-year-old who finds that ...
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Uruguay - 2004
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- Montevideo, Uruguay. Jacobo, a 60-year-old man, lives alone since the death of his mother, of whom he took care up to her last day. All he has in life is a humble sock ...
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Venezuela - 2005
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- Every sixty minutes a person is abducted in Latin America. 70% of the victims do not survive. "Secuestro Express" is the frightening story of one young couple's ordeal as ...
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Mexico - 2007
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- Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ...
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Cuba - 1985
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- A vampire family from Cuba is preparing for a showdown between the USA vampires and the Eastern European vampires. But with the aid of a scientist, they need a type of ...
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Chile - 2013
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- Gloria is a 58 year old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she ...
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Mexico - 2002
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- A handsome young priest, Padre Amaro (Gael Garcia Bernal) arrives in a small town and finds himself surrounded by hypocrisy and corruption--and also finds himself tempted ...
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Mexico - 2014
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- TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor ...
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Peru - 2006
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- Modern-day urban values mix and clash with small-town life in Madeinusa, Claudia Llosa's remarkable debut feature about a city stranger's encounter with an innocent ...
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Argentina - 2003
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- A young Jewish man who spends most of his life in a shopping mall longs to obtain a passport so he can journey back to Poland, as his father did, but those close to him ...
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Mexico - 1993
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- In 1535, an alchemist builds an extraordinary mechanism encapsulated into a small golden device. The invention, designed to convey eternal life to its owner, survives its ...
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Cuba - 1995
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- When Aunt Yoyita dies during a visit to Gina in Guantánamo, Gina, along with Yoyita's childhood sweetheart, the aging Cándido, must take the body to Havana. To their ...
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Colombia - 2008
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- In the crime world of Columbia, there is an unwritten code. When Víctor and Eusebio, two hoods who bungle a shake-down job, break that code, they unwittingly sign their own death sentence.
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Mexico - 2012
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- After the death of her mother Lucía, teenage Alejandra (Tessa Ia) and her dad Roberto (Hernan Mendoza) have just moved from Puerto Vallarta to Mexico D.F. She is new at ...
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Argentina - 1975
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- On a stormy night, Trapito the scarecrow saves Salapin the sparrow's life. Salapin is very grateful and makes Trapito believe that he can move from his place. Together ...
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Argentina - 2000
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- Set in a Buenos Aires that is on the verge of economic collapse, the film tells the story of Juan (Gastón Pauls), a con artist with a conscience. Trying to round up ...
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Mexico - 1955
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- The delirious journey of a mental disordered man, who is obsessed in making the perfect crime.
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Argentina - 1999
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- In 1980, Jorge (Ricardo Darin) is a serious fiction writer who meets Laura (Soledad Villamil), an aspiring young actress. The two fall in love, and although they emerge ...
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Brazil - 2007
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- In the great restaurant of life, there are those who eat and those who get eaten. Raimundo Nonato, the protagonist of the Ulm, Unds an alternative way, a life of his own: ...
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Colombia - 2007
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- In this stirring drama from Colombian director Andi Baiz passion, violence, and secrets collide as three people put their dreams and fears to the test. Provocative and ...
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Argentina - 1998
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- Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) ...
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Chile - 2014
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- When Jorge, a hardworking family man who's barely making ends meet, gets mugged by Kalule, a neighborhood delinquent, Jorge's son decides to confront the attacker, only ...
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