Latin American movies (excluded Argentine and Brazilian ones)
Argentine movies are listed here.
Here are also four lists for Brazilian movies:
Great movies about/in Rio de Janeiro
Great movies about/in São Paulo Movies about Northeastern Brazil
Some other nice Brazilian movies
Best Brazilian documentaries
I would like to add two Honduran short films that I think that are not in IMDB: "Merlo", from Samantha Hernández (rate 6,0, in my opinion), and "La Leona" (I give it a 5,0, as it does not have a clear intention), from Jessica Guifarro.
Here are also four lists for Brazilian movies:
Great movies about/in Rio de Janeiro
Great movies about/in São Paulo Movies about Northeastern Brazil
Some other nice Brazilian movies
Best Brazilian documentaries
I would like to add two Honduran short films that I think that are not in IMDB: "Merlo", from Samantha Hernández (rate 6,0, in my opinion), and "La Leona" (I give it a 5,0, as it does not have a clear intention), from Jessica Guifarro.
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- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsIvana BaqueroAriadna GilSergi LópezIn the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsSergio CorrieriSalvador WoodJosé GallardoFour vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.A Soviet-Cuban masterpiece.
- DirectorÁlvaro BrechnerStarsAntonio de la TorreChino DarínAlfonso Tort1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: "As we can't kill them, let's drive them mad."
- DirectorIcíar BollaínStarsGael García BernalLuis TosarKarra ElejaldeAs a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsEmilio EchevarríaGael García BernalGoya ToledoAn amateur dog fighter, a supermodel, and a derelict assassin, all separately struggling to find love, find their lives transformed by a devastating car wreck in Mexico City.
- DirectorSebastián BednarikAndrés VarelaStarsMilton BarretoLuis Batlle BerresRafael BayceMaracaná football stadium was built to the World Cup finals in 1950, when everyone in Brazil was certain they would win. They lost 1-2 to Uruguay and went into a national depression. Then the chance is there again, more than 60 years later.
- DirectorFrancisco J. LombardiStarsGianfranco BreroGiovanni CicciaFele MartínezAlfonso wants to be a writer, but he decides to practice as a journalist. When he is assigned to the crime section of a newspaper, he will witness the dirty world of Peruvian tabloids.
- DirectorJosué MéndezStarsMaricielo EffioSergio GjurinovicAnahí de CárdenasElisa, fiancee of a wealthy industrialist who is twenty years older than her is eager to shed her working-class background in favor of the opulence of her fiancé's elite lifestyle. To her dismay, she soon realizes her hopes to slip into magazine-ready images of domestic splendor must also include her future stepchildren, Diego and Andrea. As she embraces her new life, her stepchildren rebel against their upper-class upbringing. They live outside the world, far from the reality of their country, in a world where the landmarks are truncated. In the luxurious family villa bordered by the ocean, the two teenagers find themselves mostly disconnected from other people. The new stepmother will have to learn the rules that her new status implies.
- DirectorMarcela Zamora"In the Salvadoran civil war, my father and thousands more were captured and tortured by the State. These are some of their stories. When I turned 33, my mother told me that my father, during the Salvadoran civil war, had been captured and tortured for 33 days by the National Police. Two years later I had the courage to ask him and other men and women about those days. These people do not ask for revenge, all that they ask is to know the truth."
- DirectorFrancisco J. LombardiStarsAngie CepedaSalvador del SolarMónica SánchezThe Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen to set up a special service of 'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote jungle outposts.
- DirectorAlejandro DamianiStarsGuillermo VillegasAngelina PeláezPalemon FigueroaUnited States have elected a racist and xenophobic man as a president and he uses high technology to expel Latin immigrants to the other side of the wall built on the border. How may Latins resist?https://vimeo.com/190738676
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsGael García BernalAlfredo CastroAntonia ZegersAn advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
- DirectorAndrés WoodStarsMatías QuerAriel MatelunaManuela MartelliTwo 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other's world as political tensions in their country increase.
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsMaribel VerdúGael García BernalDaniel Giménez CachoIn Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsJulia OrmondBenicio Del ToroOscar IsaacIn 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.This is a France/Spain/USA production, but it would bizarre not to include it in this list, as the story is about Cuban Revolution, most of the movie has been filmed in Mexico and Puerto Rico, and many important actors come from Latin America.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsBenjamín VicuñaBertrand DuartePablo KröghThe ex-members of Chile's cabinet survive the prison on Dawson Island.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsBrad PittCate BlanchettGael García BernalTragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsCompay SegundoIbrahim FerrerRubén GonzálezAging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in triumphant performances of extraordinary music, and resurrecting the musicians' careers.
- DirectorJavier CorcueraStarsBillie CartierA trip through the diversity of black and native Peruvian music.
- DirectorJuan Carlos ManegliaTana SchémboriStarsCelso FrancoVíctor SosaLali GonzalezVíctor receives an unusual proposal, to carry 7 boxes of unknown content through the Market Number 4 but things get complicated along the way.
- DirectorCésar CharloneEnrique FernándezStarsCésar TroncosoVirginia MéndezMario SilvaA small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's 1988 visit.
- DirectorRenate CostaStarsMiguel Auad PetuniaNancy BarujaRenate CostaOf all my uncles, Rodolfo was the only one who didn't want to be a blacksmith like my grandfather: He wanted to be a dancer. The search for the traces of his life leads to the discovery that in the eighties in Paraguay, under Stroessner's dictatorship, Rodolfo was included in one of the "108 lists of homosexuals", arrested and tortured. Rodolfo's story reveals a part of the hidden and silenced history of my country. In "Cuchillo de palo" two generations come face to face in a confrontation that ultimately allows each of us to understand our place in the world.The film is Catalan, but has been directed by a Paraguayan director in Assunción.
- DirectorJulie TaymorStarsSalma HayekAlfred MolinaGeoffrey RushA biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.A Mexican/Canadian/USA production, mostly spoken in English.
- DirectorAlfonso ArauStarsMarco LeonardiLumi CavazosRegina TornéWhen tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.
- DirectorAbner BenaimCarolina BorreroLuis Franco BrantleyStarsLakisha MayAndre MorrisCarlos Eduardo Goldstein AlemánFive shorts spanning a century on lives impacted by the Panama Canal.