Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "dirty-war"

1. The Official Story (1985)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, History

During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.

Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana

Votes: 10,885 | Gross: $0.03M

2. Garage Olimpo (1999)

R | 98 min | Drama

In the 70's, eighteen year-old Maria Fabiani lives with her French mother Diane in an old house in Buenos Aires, subletting rooms and giving classes to illiterate adults in the slums. One ... See full summary »

Director: Marco Bechis | Stars: Antonella Costa, Carlos Echevarría, Enrique Piñeyro, Pablo Razuk

Votes: 2,875

3. Kóblic (2016)

R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Tomás Kóblic is a former Navy captain who, during the last Argentine dictatorship, was a participant in "the flights of death." He will abandon his career to hide in Colonia Helena, where the only law is a corrupt Commissioner.

Director: Sebastián Borensztein | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Inma Cuesta, Javier Tortarolo

Votes: 2,324

4. Wild Tango (1993)

R | 124 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A biopic based on the life of one of the pioneer argentine rock stars 'Tanguito'. The movie tells the story of his rise and fall from grace, encompassed in violent times of a military regime.

Director: Marcelo Piñeyro | Stars: Fernán Mirás, Cecilia Dopazo, Imanol Arias, Antonio Birabent

Votes: 1,764

5. The Appeared (2007)

TV-MA | 120 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller

Malena and Pablo, two siblings on a trip through Argentina, find a diary describing crimes committed 20 years before. Then, they witness a family hunted down, tortured and murdered step by step following the facts described in the diary.

Director: Paco Cabezas | Stars: Ruth Díaz, Javier Pereira, Pablo Cedrón, Leonora Balcarce

Votes: 1,716

6. Our Disappeared/Nuestros desaparecidos (2008)

99 min | Documentary

"Our Disappeared"/"Nuestros Desaparecidos" is director Juan Mandelbaum's personal search for the souls of friends and loved ones who were caught in the vise of the military and "disappeared... See full summary »

Director: Juan Mandelbaum | Star: Alejandra Dixon

Votes: 23

7. Romo (2013)

14 min | Short, Crime, Drama

In Mexico 1972, Romo, a government agent, tortures a young member of the urban guerrilla, in a clandestine detention center. After a lot of resistance, the young man finally confesses who ... See full summary »

Director: León Rechy | Stars: Enrique Arreola, Baltimore Beltran, Ivan Cortes, Gastón Melo

8. Stolen Babies, Stolen Lives (2008)

52 min | Documentary

The moving story of three of the stolen children from Argentina's Dirty War. With the participation of renowned author, Eduardo Galeano.

Director: Peter Svatek | Stars: Tyrone Benskin, Eduardo Galeano, Gonzalo Reggiardo-Tolosa, Matias Reggiardo-Tolosa

Votes: 16

9. Peter Taylor: My Journey Through the Troubles (2019)

Documentary

In a uniquely personal journey on the 50th anniversary of the deployment of British troops in August 1969, Peter Taylor reflects on almost a half century of covering the Northern Ireland conflict.

Director: Maurice May | Star: Peter Taylor

Votes: 25

10. Flor en otomí (2012)

78 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

At 19, Deni Prieto Stock joined a guerrilla group and, four months later, on February 14, 1974, was murdered by the Mexican army in Nepantla, Mexico State together with four companions. A ... See full summary »

Director: Luisa Riley

Votes: 20

11. HH (2019)

19 min | Documentary, Short

In 1977, the military government kidnapped Juan Herman in Bariloche. In 1985, Carlos Echeverría shot "Juan as if nothing had happened" a film that investigated the disappereance. Horacio -... See full summary »

Director: Julián Settón

12. Memorias de Resistencia (2016)

5 min | Short, Drama

Theatrical performance of the resistance of society to expropriations for the construction of the Perito Moreno and 25 de Mayo highway, by the civic-military dictatorship of 1976.

Director: Marcelo Rest

13. A Letter from Leticia (2017)

3 min | Animation, Short, Biography

Leticia Veraldi, a high school student in Buenos Aires, was moved 750 miles away from home for protection. She used to write letters to her former school friends.

Director: Irene Blei

14. Fuego eterno (2012)

27 min | Documentary, Short

'Eternal Fire' takes place during a round trip between Buenos Aires and New York, while the present memory of a man inspires his loved ones to honor life. Juana Sapire returns to the city ... See full summary »

Director: Cynthia Sabat | Stars: Raymundo Gleyzer, Juana Sapire

15. Memory of a Lost Text (2010)

52 min | Documentary

A journey through time between the 70s. and present days, by the hand of a little group of women, (one of them is the director of the film), who shared political prison in Argentina at ... See full summary »

Director: Cristina Raschia

16. The Disappeared (2016)

8 min | Short, Drama

A young soldier is conflicted when he must choose between following orders and listening to his conscience.

Director: Evan Derrickson | Stars: Tasos Hernandez, Riley Anne Martin, Robert R. Ramos, Randall Ruiz

17. Man Alive (1967– )
Episode: Lost and Found (1987)

26 min | Documentary

Focuses on the stories of the reunited families and the search for the other missing children of the "Dirty War" in Argentina.

Stars: Roy Bonisteel, Maria Chorobik de Mariani, Estella de Carlotto, Ana di Lonardo

18. Dates That Made History (2017–2020)
Episode: The Other 9/11 (September 11, 1973 A.D.) (2020)

TV-PG | 26 min | Documentary, History

On September 11, 1973, the Popular Unity government in Chile led by President Salvador Allende was overthrown by a group of military officers led by General Augusto Pinochet. Following the coup, a military junta was established in Chile.

Director: Denis van Waerebeke | Stars: Patrick Boucheron, Eugenia Palieraki, Salvador Allende, François Mitterrand

Votes: 6

19. Narco Wars (2020–2022)
Episode: Escobar Goes to War (2021)

Documentary, Crime, History

Pablo Escobar goes to war against the authorities and his rivals, the Cali cartel.

Stars: Luis Ospina, Ken Cook, Bob Sears, William Rodriguez Abadia

Votes: 30

20. Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland (2023)
Episode: Loose Talk Costs Lives (2023)

Documentary, History, War

Tensions rise as the police and army infiltrate paramilitary organisations to gain intelligence. No-one can be trusted as fear and suspicion run rife.

Director: James Bluemel

Votes: 45

21. Spotlight (1973– )
Episode: Our Dirty War: The British State and the IRA (2024)

29 min | News

Killer and spy: the Stakeknife inquiry leads Peter Taylor back to the victims of the Troubles.

Stars: Peter Taylor, Claire Dignam, Mike Jackson, Stephen Lambert