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Films with theme "Films about Latin American military dictatorships", sorted by name
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The Debt (1988)
, 1h36Directed by Miguel Pereira
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
The film is set in the mid 1970s and ends at the time of the 1982 Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas/Guerra del Atlántico Sur) between Great Britain and Argentina.
Death and the Maiden (1994)
, 1h43Directed by Roman Polanski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Transport films, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Films about classical music and musicians, Rape and revenge films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships, Films based on plays, Auto-justice
Actors Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson, Karen Strassman
Paulina Escobar (Weaver) is a housewife married to a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country. One day a storm forces her husband Gerardo (Wilson) to ride home with a charming stranger. She is convinced that the stranger, Dr. Miranda (Kingsley), was part of the old fascist regime and that he tortured and raped her for weeks while she was blindfolded. Paulina takes him captive to determine the truth. Despite attempts by both her husband and Miranda to convince her that he is innocent, Paulina is certain that he is the one, and forces her husband to be Miranda's "attorney" in the "trial" she arranges for him.
Genres Drama
Themes Politique, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Buenos Aires sous la dictature militaire en 1977. Francisco Sanctis est un modeste employé et un père de famille sans histoire qui se tient prudemment à distance de la politique et des polémiques. Mais une amie perdue de vue lui demande de prévenir deux hommes qu'ils sont sur le point d'être enlevés par un escadron de la mort. Il est face à un choix : prendre des risques pour sauver des inconnus ou ne rien faire pour protéger sa vie et celle de ses proches.
The House of the Spirits (1993)
, 2h20Directed by Bille August
Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Rape in fiction, Rape and revenge films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, Vanessa Redgrave
Prologue A young woman, Blanca Trueba (Winona Ryder), arrives at a house with an old man and the young woman starts remembering her life.
Night of the Pencils (1986)
, 1h45Directed by Héctor Olivera
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Leonardo Sbaraglia, Lorenzo Quinteros
During a time of economic and political unrest and State-sponsored terrorism in Argentina in the mid-1970s, the students want reduced bus fares, so they take to the streets and protest in support of the boleto estudiantil: the students' ticket. At first, under Isabel Martínez de Perón's government they succeed, but their protests draw hostile attention from the ensuing military regime led by Jorge Rafael Videla, which overthrows Perón on March 24, 1976.
The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (1985)
, 1h4Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Carmen Zapata
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
, 2h1Directed by Héctor Babenco
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Prison films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors William Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Sônia Braga, José Lewgoy, Milton Gonçalves, Fernando Torres
The film tells of two very different men who share a prison cell in Brazil during the Brazilian military government: Valentin Arregui, who is imprisoned (and has been tortured) due to his activities on behalf of a leftist revolutionary group, and Luis Molina, a homosexual in prison for having sex with an underage boy.
Waking the Dead (2000)
, 1h45Directed by Keith Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Politique, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Hal Holbrook, Ed Harris, Ivonne Coll, Paul Hipp
The film flashes back and forth between the 1970s and 1980s and centers on the relationship between Fielding Pierce, a young Coast Guard officer with political ambitions, and idealistic Roman Catholic Sarah Williams, who is drawn to programs designed to better the lives of the underprivileged and has mixed feelings about his career goals.
The South (1988)
, 2h7Directed by Fernando Solanas, Gaspar Noé
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Politique, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, Philippe Léotard, Ulises Dumont, Fito Páez, Gabriela Rosana Toscano
Floreal is released from prison prior to the end of a military coup d'état in 1983. He discovers his wife has cheated on him and is not sure he wants to return to his former life and family. A friend, "El-Negro", who was killed during the military coup, appears in the night with a special mission: to help Floreal face what has happened when he was serving time in prison. El-Negro helps him to live through the important events that happened in his absence. El-Negro helps him get past his anger, understanding how hard it was to endure such a difficult time and how the military coup had crushed people's lives. When El-Negro finally tells him he must return, Floreal realizes he must be strong and, like his coup-stricken country, pick up and go on with his life.
Time for Revenge (1981)
, 1h50Directed by Adolfo Aristarain
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Federico Luppi, Ulises Dumont, Aldo Barbero, Enrique Liporace, Arturo Maly, Joffre Soares
Pedro Bengoa, an ex-union organizing demolition worker and Bruno Di Toro, a coworker friend of his, decide to blackmail the corrupt company they work for, setting up a fake accident in a copper pit. Di Toro was supposed to pretend to be Mute as a consequence of an explosion, and Pedro would corroborate his story. Things don't go as planned and Di Toro loses his life, leaving Pedro to continue the plan on his own, while pretending to be Mute. However, when the company finally agrees to an economical settlement, Pedro refuses to accept, searching justice primarily, and his case goes to the courts. This event changes Pedro's life for ever.
The Quispe Girls (2013)
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships, Films based on plays
Actors Alfredo Castro, Catalina Saavedra
The film is based on the story of sisters Justa, Lucía and Luciana Quispe, three goat-herders from the Chilean altiplano, the home of the indigenous Colla people.
The Blonds (2003)
, 1h29Directed by Albertina Carri
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Documentary films about politics, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Albertina Carri
The film deals with a child, whose parents were among the tens of thousands of Argentines who were murdered during the military junta's Dirty War, who years later has to contend with the pain barely remembered.
Lula, the Son of Brazil (2010)
, 2h8Directed by Fábio Barreto
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Rui Ricardo Dias, Glória Pires, Cléo Pires, Juliana Baroni, Milhem Cortaz, Lucélia Santos
The film begins in October 1945 in Garanhuns, a municipality in the countryside of Pernambuco, when Luiz Inácio da Silva, nicknamed Lula, is born as the seventh child of Dona Lindu and Aristides. Two weeks after his birth, Aristides moves to Santos, a coastal city in São Paulo, with Dona Mocinha, a cousin of Dona Lindu. Lindu raises Lula's siblings alone until December 1952, when the family moves to Santos to meet the patriarch. Upon their arrival, Dona Lindu discovers that Aristides had formed a second family with Dona Mocinha.
Social Genocide (2004)
, 2hDirected by Fernando Solanas
Origin Argentine
Genres Documentary
Themes Politique, Documentary films about politics, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Fernando Solanas
After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a series of reforms purporting to turn Argentina into the world's most liberal and prosperous economy. Less than twenty years later, the Argentinians have lost literally everything: major national companies have been sold well below value to foreign corporations; the proceeds of privatizations have been diverted into the pockets of corrupt officials; revised labour laws have taken away all rights from employees; in a country that is traditionally an important exporter of foodstuffs, malnutrition is widespread; millions of people are unemployed and sinking into poverty; and their savings have disappeared in a final banking collapse.
Men with Guns (1998)
, 2h7Directed by John Sayles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Federico Luppi, Damián Delgado, Damián Alcázar, Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody, Alejandro Springall
Dr. Fuentes (Federico Luppi) is a medical professor/doctor near his retirement and his wife has recently died. He taught a group of seven -he views this as one of his greatest accomplishments- that trains young people to provide health care to impoverished citizens in the outlying hill country, where small agricultural communities struggle to survive. It is not until he begins his journey that he discovers a world much different than the one he had imagined existing for his students as he finds himself encountering guerrillas and soldiers.