Zama (2017), The Devil's Miner (2005), The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003), It's All True (1993), The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), Guantanamera (1994), State of Siege (1972), Which Way Home (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Latin America movies.
Storyline: Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a trans individual, is found guilty of immoral behavior and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he's in. During the time they spend together, the two men come to understand and respect one another.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, homosexual, prison, political, drama film, novel adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Spanish director Sebastián, his executive producer Costa and all his crew are in Bolivia, in the Cochabamba area, to shoot a motion picture about Christopher Columbus, his first explorations and the way the Spaniards treated the Indians at the time. Costa has chosen this place because the budget of the film is tight and here he can hire supernumeraries, local actors and extras on the cheap. Things go more or less smoothly until a conflict erupts over the privatization of the water supply. The trouble is that one of the local actors, is a leading activist in the protest movement.
Plot Keywords: history, colonialism, resistance, filmmaking, social justice, globalization, exploitation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the sorrow of exile, a group of Argentinians in Paris seek solace and connection to their culture by staging a set of tangos. The film alternates between their vibrant rehearsals and their circumscribed lives in low-rent apartments, underemployed, fitfully communicating with families back home, trying to make do with what they hope are only temporary arrangements in a foreign land.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, music, dance, exile, argentina, paris, immigration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Plot Keywords: revolution, history, biography, war, politics, latin america, guerrilla warfare ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964, he is in Havana. He meets the wealthy Pepe, an early lover; a love-hate relationship lasts for years. Openly gay behavior is a way to spite the government. His writing and homosexuality get him into trouble: he spends two years in prison, writing letters for other inmates and smuggling out a novel. He befriends Lázaro Gomes Garriles, with whom he lives stateless and in poverty in Manhattan after leaving Cuba in the Mariel boat-lift. When asked why he writes, he replies cheerfully, "Revenge."
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, lgbt, history, art, literature, revolution ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: To help secure his release from prison, a man (Damián Alcázar) tells a tabloid reporter (John Alberto Leguizamo) that he has information about a child killer.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, investigation, journalist, serial killer, latin america ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nicaragua 1979: Star photographer Russel Price covers the civil war against president Somoza. Facing the cruel fighting - people versus army - it's often hard for him to stay neutral. When the Guerillas have him take a picture of the leader Rafael, who's believed to be dead, he gets drawn into the happenings. Together with his reporter friends Claire and Alex he has to hide from the army.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: war, journalist, revolution, politics, photography, moral dilemma, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The newly-named Emperor Maximillian, the only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire, arrives in Mexico in the early 1860s with his wife Carlotta to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juarez and popular demand for democracy. With an elite group of Mexican monarchists, Maximillian tries to appease the democratic Mexicans but he fails. Abraham Lincoln continues to support Juarez and asks the French to withdraw support for Maximilian. Carlotta goes to France to plead with Napoleon III, to no avail.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: history, biography, drama, mexico, revolution, politics, war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary centered on the union formed by Bolivian farmers in response to their government's effort (urged by the U.S.) to eradicate coca crops, and the man who would come to represent them, Evo Morales.
Plot Keywords: documentary, politics, social movement, latin america, social justice, democracy, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fielding Mellish (a consumer products tester) becomes infatuated with Nancy (a political activist). He attends demonstrations and tries in other ways to convince her that he is worthy of her love, but Nancy wants someone with greater leadership potential. Fielding runs off to San Marcos where he joins the rebels and eventually becomes President of the country. While on a trip to the states, he meets Nancy again and she falls for him now that he is a political leader.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, political, absurd, humor, revolution, latin america ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of Detective Agustin Rejas, a man clinging to the hope of an impossible love in an impossible world. Tracking Ezequiel, a delusional anarchist who incites the downtrodden masses to join in his brutal revolution against the fascist government in their unnamed Latin American country, Rejas finds solace in his sense of self-respect and the joy that his daughter and wife bring him. Then he meets Yolanda--his daughter's soulfully beautiful ballet teacher--a woman who sparks his long-forgotten passions and represents all that is good and all that is corrupt in their troubled country. But she, who appears to be a shelter from the storm, may in actuality be the storm's eye. Ultimately, as the revolution intensifies and the net closes around hunter and hunted alike, the dancer's truth will prove as elusive as the revolutionary's cause and the detective's peace.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: political thriller, crime, mystery, drama, latin america, revolution, terrorism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1965, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara resigns from his Cuban government posts to secretly make his latest attempt to spread the revolution in Bolivia. After arriving in La Paz, Bolivia late in 1966, by 1967, Che with several Cuban volunteers, have raised a small guerrilla army to take on the militarist Bolivian movement. However, Che must face grim realities about his few troops and supplies, his failing health, and a local population who largely does not share the idealistic aspirations of a foreign troublemaker. As the US supported Bolivian army prepares to defeat him, Che and his beleaguered force struggle against the increasingly hopeless odds.
Plot Keywords: revolution, war, history, biography, politics, guerrilla warfare, latin america ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chile, second half of the 20th century. The poor Esteban marries Clara and they get a daughter, Blanca. Esteban works hard and eventually gets money to buy a hacienda, eventually to become a local patriarch. He becomes very conservative and is feared by his workers. When Blanca grows up, she falls in love with a young revolutionary, Pedro, who urges the workers to fight for socialism. It is unavoidable that Pedro and Esteban are pitted against each other. Esteban tries to stop the love affair between Pedro and his daughter by all means possible but soon Blanca becomes pregnant and has a daughter. The void between father and daughter seems unbridgeable when Blanca moves in with Pedro.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, magical realism, family, historical, novel adaptation, political ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Simon Bolivar fought over 100 battles against the Spanish Empire in South America. He rode over 70,000 miles on horseback. His military campaigns covered twice the territory of Alexander the Great. His army never conquered -- it liberated.
Plot Keywords: war, history, biography, action, drama, true story, world war ii ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While stuck in Mexico City during a flight layover, American siblings Mitch (Stacy Edwards) and Sam (Johnny Zander) plan to hit the town and see the sights. But, the next morning, Sam is missing. Mitch doesn't make her flight and instead searches for her brother. She goes to the U.S. embassy for help, but receives none. Mitch has to go it alone searching for Sam, and as her quest continues finds herself becoming embroiled in the seedy world of drug dealers and corrupt government officials.
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, mystery, mexico, urban, gangster ...
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