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1. Black God, White Devil (1964)
Not Rated | 120 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
After killing his employer when he tries to cheat him out of his payment, a man becomes an outlaw and starts following a self-proclaimed saint.
Director: Glauber Rocha | Stars: Geraldo Del Rey, Yoná Magalhães, Othon Bastos, Maurício do Valle
Votes: 5,385
2. Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez, Omar Valdés
Votes: 4,798 | Gross: $0.03M
3. Macunaima (1969)
Not Rated | 95 min | Fantasy, Comedy
Our story begins with Macunaima's miraculous birth to an old woman in a tiny jungle settlement. Born fully grown, he discovers his life's purpose which leads him and his family and ... See full summary »
Director: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade | Stars: Grande Otelo, Paulo José, Jardel Filho, Dina Sfat
Votes: 2,107
4. Barren Lives (1963)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
A poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a dog called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place... See full summary »
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Átila Iório, Maria Ribeiro, Orlando Macedo, Jofre Soares
Votes: 2,925
5. Antonio das Mortes (1969)
100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In this sequel to "Black God, White Devil", Antonio das Mortes must return back to action after killing the last of the Cangaceiros 29 years ago, when a new outlaw appears, who will eventually reveal as an idealist and mark him profoundly.
Director: Glauber Rocha | Stars: Maurício do Valle, Odete Lara, Othon Bastos, Hugo Carvana
Votes: 2,296
6. Entranced Earth (1967)
111 min | Drama
In the fictional Latin American country Eldorado, a poet tries to effect political change by influencing powerful men.
Director: Glauber Rocha | Stars: Jardel Filho, Paulo Autran, José Lewgoy, Glauce Rocha
Votes: 3,595
7. How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)
Not Rated | 84 min | Adventure, Comedy
In 1594 in Brazil, the Tupinambás Indians are friends of the French and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portuguese. A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti) is captured by the ... See full summary »
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Arduíno Colassanti, Ana Maria Magalhães, Eduardo Imbassahy Filho, Manfredo Colassanti
Votes: 1,177
8. Lucia (1968)
160 min | Drama
Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the Cuban war of independence (with Spain), the 1930s, and the 1960s.
Director: Humberto Solás | Stars: Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá, Eduardo Moure
Votes: 1,189
9. Rio, 40 Degrees (1955)
100 min | Drama
A semi-documentary on the people of Rio de Janeiro. The camera follows boys from a hillside shanty town who sell peanuts at Copacabana, Sugar Loaf Mountain, and a soccer game. Various ... See full summary »
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Modesto De Souza, Roberto Bataglin, Jece Valadão, Ana Beatriz
Votes: 863
10. The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)
Unrated | 260 min | Documentary, History, War
Divided into three segments, namely 1 Neocolonialism, 2 Act for liberation, 3 Violence and liberation, the documentary lasts more than 4 hours this deals with the defense of the revolution ... See full summary »
Directors: Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: María de la Paz, Fernando E. Solanas, Edgardo Suárez, Julio Troxler
Votes: 1,192
11. The Guns (1964)
80 min | Drama
In an extremely poor region in the Northeast of Brazil, a group of soldiers try to stop the population from sacking a food deposit.
Director: Ruy Guerra | Stars: Átila Iório, Nelson Xavier, Maria Gladys, Leonidas Bayer
Votes: 744
12. Rio, Zona Norte (1957)
83 min | Drama, Music
A talented songwriter of sambas is forced to face the social injustices of the city around him.
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Grande Otelo, Jece Valadão, Malu Maia, Maria Petar
Votes: 556
13. Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças (1970)
103 min | Drama
A Latin-American insurgent and a black leader join forces to free an African nation. But they'll have to face a German mercenary aided by an American agent and a Portuguese advisor, all working for a mysterious woman.
Director: Glauber Rocha | Stars: Rada Rassimov, Giulio Brogi, Gabriele Tinti, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Votes: 418
14. Jackal of Nahueltoro (1969)
95 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The real story about an illiterate murderer, educated in prison, where he reflects on his actions days before he died.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román, Marcelo Romo, Héctor Noguera
Votes: 1,158
15. Invasion (1969)
123 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A group of men led by an old man trying to stop an invasion of the city of Aquileia. The invaders are introducing a machinery for a mass invasion, but the invasion is absolute and impossible to define.
Director: Hugo Santiago | Stars: Olga Zubarry, Lautaro Murúa, Juan Carlos Paz, Martín Adjemián
Votes: 974
16. Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)
Unrated | 85 min | Comedy
A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas, Manuel Estanillo, Gaspar De Santelices
Votes: 1,464
17. The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary, History
The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Abilio Fernández, Salvador Allende
Votes: 1,618
18. One Way or Another (1977)
78 min | Drama, Romance
In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteacher, throws into relief the differences in their perspectives and values in Revolutionary Cuba.
Director: Sara Gómez | Stars: Mario Balmaseda, Yolanda Cuéllar, Mario Limonta, Isaura Mendoza
Votes: 650
19. Xica (1976)
107 min | Drama, Romance
In18th-century Minas Gerais, the Portuguese mined diamonds and gold. João Fernandes de Oliveira arrives from Lisbon with the Crown's exclusive contract for mining diamonds. He quickly ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Diegues | Stars: Zezé Motta, Walmor Chagas, Altair Lima, Elke Maravilha
Votes: 608
20. O Amuleto de Ogum (1974)
112 min | Drama
To entertain some thieves, a blind guitar player tells them the story of a man from the Northeast of Brazil, involved with criminals living in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, who allegedly ... See full summary »
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Ney Santanna, Anecy Rocha, Jofre Soares, Maria Ribeiro
Votes: 191
21. The Last Supper (1976)
120 min | Drama, History
A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Nelson Villagra, Silvano Rey, Luis Alberto García, José Antonio Rodríguez
Votes: 690
22. São Bernardo (1972)
113 min | Drama
The story of Paulo Honório, a poor kid who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways.
Director: Leon Hirszman | Stars: Othon Bastos, Isabel Ribeiro, Nildo Parente, Vanda Lacerda
Votes: 516
23. El pez que fuma (1977)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez Que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon... See full summary »
Director: Román Chalbaud | Stars: Hilda Vera, Miguel Ángel Landa, Orlando Urdaneta, Haydée Balza
Votes: 235
24. The Turning Wind (1962)
78 min | Drama
In the State of Bahia, Brazil, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from mysticism, in particular the Candomblé religion, which he considers a factor of political and social oppression.
Director: Glauber Rocha | Stars: Antonio Pitanga, Luiza Maranhão, Lucy de Carvalho, Aldo Teixeira
Votes: 852
25. Blood of the Condor (1969)
70 min | Crime, Drama
The reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
Director: Jorge Sanjinés | Stars: Marcelino Yanahuaya, Benedicta Mendoza, Vicente Verneros Salinas, Danielle Caillet
Votes: 626
26. Araya (1959)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish... See full summary »
Director: Margot Benacerraf | Stars: José Ignacio Cabrujas, Laurent Terzieff
Votes: 847
27. Three Sad Tigers (1968)
100 min | Drama
The drunken nights of several listless chancers in Chile's capital city build inexorably to violence.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Shenda Román, Nelson Villagra, Luis Alarcón, Jaime Vadell
Votes: 389
28. The Battle of Chile: Part III (1979)
80 min | Documentary, History
This film investigates the factory worker's response to the insurrection, as well as Chile's socialist aspirations for the future. The camera captures the optimism in the industrial working class before Pinochet's US-backed coup d'état.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Abilio Fernández, Ernesto Malbran
Votes: 1,044
29. Gamín (1977)
90 min | Documentary
Documentary of 1977 that talks about the life of the gamines in the city of Bogotá.
The gamines are children who have fled their homes in remote areas of the city or living in neighbouring ... See full synopsis »
Director: Ciro Durán | Star: Carlos Muñoz
Votes: 34
30. The Battle of Chile: Part II (1976)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, History
Filmmaker Patricio Guzmán tracks the deterioration of Salvador Allende's position following the attempted coup d'état of 29 June 1973, and analyzes the 10 weeks before Augusto Pinochet's CIA-backed seizure of power.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Carlos Altamirano, Fernando Castillo, Luis Corvalán
Votes: 1,286
31. Mirage (1972)
82 min | Drama
A young man inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house.
Director: Armando Robles Godoy | Stars: Gabriel Figueroa, Miguel Angel Flores, Rómulo León, Raquel Meneses
Votes: 131
32. Largo viaje (1967)
83 min | Drama
A young boy, lost in the big city, tries to find his way home. Along the way, he encounters a cross-section of society that he has never known.
Director: Patricio Kaulen | Stars: Enrique Kaulen, Eliana Vidal, Fabio Zerpa, Rubén Ubeira
Votes: 252
33. Valparaíso, mi amor (1969)
90 min | Drama
A poor Valparaiso family faces a tough life after the father is sent to prison.
Director: Aldo Francia | Stars: Hugo Cárcamo, Sara Astica, Rigoberto Rojo, Liliana Cabrera
Votes: 193
34. Ya no basta con rezar (1972)
80 min | Drama
A priest is so concerned about the harsh conditions of living of Chilean lower classes that he gradually becomes a political activist and 'worker-priest'.
Director: Aldo Francia | Stars: Marcelo Romo, Tennyson Ferrada, Leonardo Perucci, Roberto Navarrete
Votes: 132
35. Toss Me a Dime (1958)
33 min | Documentary, Short
Everyday the children of the neighborhood known as "Tire Dié", in the city of Santa Fe, wait for the train to ask for money, shouting "Tire dié!" (toss me a dime!) to the passengers. Considered the first survey-on-film in Latin America.
Director: Fernando Birri | Stars: Guillermo Cervantes Luro, María Rosa Gallo, Francisco Petrone
Votes: 307
36. Letters from Marusia (1975)
110 min | Drama, History
It is 1925 and working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The miners of Marusia go on strike, but the mine owners and the Government use the Chilean Army crush them.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Diana Bracho, Claudio Obregón, Eduardo López Rojas
Votes: 366
37. Hasta la victoria siempre (1967)
Not Rated | 19 min | Documentary, Short
Cuban agit-prop filmmaker Santiago Alvarez produced this radical newsreel within forty-eight hours of Che Guevara's death by special request of Fidel Castro himself. Fellow filmmaker and ... See full summary »
Director: Santiago Álvarez
Votes: 92
38. The Traitors (1973)
113 min | Drama
Film originally intended for revolutionary working class and leftist intellectuals. About the life of a union activist who began his struggle in the Peronist ranks during the '60s and corrupted in his rise to power.
Director: Raymundo Gleyzer | Stars: Víctor Proncet, Raúl Fraire, Susana Lanteri, Mara Lasio
Votes: 226
39. Caliche Sangriento (1969)
128 min | Drama, History, War
The plot takes place in 1879 through 1880 during the War of the Pacific. The film decries the cruelty and absurdity of war and the disunity among the peoples of Latin America.
Director: Helvio Soto | Stars: Hector Duvauchelle, Patricia Guzmán, Jorge Guerra, Jaime Vadell
Votes: 109
40. Ukamau (1966)
75 min | Drama
While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.
Director: Jorge Sanjinés | Stars: Elsa Antequera, Néstor Cárdenas, Benedicta Huanca, Benedicta Mendoza
Votes: 254
41. Reed: Insurgent Mexico (1972)
124 min | Biography, Drama, War
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
Director: Paul Leduc | Stars: Claudio Obregón, Eduardo López Rojas, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Juan Ángel Martínez
Votes: 206
42. La primera carga al machete (1969)
84 min | Drama
Both Spanish soldiers and Cuban peasants recall the bloody attack by machete-slicing Cubans in the late 19th century. The officers discuss the attack and the implications their defeat will ... See full summary »
Director: Manuel Octavio Gómez | Stars: Adolfo Llauradó, José Rodríguez, Idalia Anreus, Eslinda Núñez
Votes: 127
43. The Promised Land (1973)
80 min | Drama, History
In 1930 Chile, amidst the economic crisis, syndicalist Jose spearheads the battle against landlords and the government.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Nelson Villagra, Marcelo Gaete, Rafael Benavente, Shenda Román
Votes: 93
44. Voto + fusil (1971)
70 min | Drama
During the election that finally brought Salvador Allende to power, the volatility of the left-wing spectrum was evident in Chile.
Director: Helvio Soto | Stars: Leonardo Perucci, Marcelo Romo, Patricia Guzmán, Jorge Guerra
Votes: 31
45. LBJ (1968)
Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Documentary
A montage of 1960s America, all focused on the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.
Director: Santiago Álvarez | Star: Lyndon B. Johnson
Votes: 322
46. Ganga Zumba (1963)
100 min | Drama, History
The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.
Director: Carlos Diegues | Stars: Antonio Pitanga, Léa Garcia, Eliezer Gomes, Luiza Maranhão
Votes: 139
47. Chircales (1972)
42 min | Documentary, Short
This film documents the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, using the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. ... See full summary »
Directors: Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva
Votes: 169
48. The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin (1967)
112 min | Comedy
The metamorphoses of Juan Quin Quin, in turns bullfighter, guerrilla fighter and sacristan.
Director: Julio García Espinosa | Stars: Julito Martinez, Erdwin Fernández, Adelaida Raymat, Enrique Santisteban
Votes: 119
49. The Man from Maisinicu (1973)
124 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: Manuel Pérez | Stars: Mario Balmaseda, Miguel Benavides, Rogelio Blain, Iván Colas
Votes: 42
50. La expropiación (1974)
60 min | Drama
An Agronom arrive at a farm to expropriate land, but the landowner is willing to leave the country voluntarily. A revolt among the tenants occur.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Delfina Guzmán, Nemesio Antúnez, Jaime Vadell, Luis Alarcón
Votes: 39