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1. The Iron Lady (2011)
PG-13 | 105 min | Biography, Drama
An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.
Director: Phyllida Lloyd | Stars: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant, Susan Brown
Votes: 113,686 | Gross: $30.02M
2. Death and the Maiden (1994)
R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson, Krystia Mova
Votes: 26,852 | Gross: $2.10M
3. Argentina, 1985 (2022)
R | 140 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.
Director: Santiago Mitre | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Gina Mastronicola, Francisco Bertín, Santiago Armas Estevarena
Votes: 31,284
4. Missing (1982)
PG | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea
Votes: 23,416 | Gross: $14.00M
5. 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: 10,886 | Gross: $0.03M
6. The Lady (2011)
R | 132 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett, Jonathan Woodhouse
Votes: 11,301 | Gross: $0.36M
7. 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
8. Invisible Heroes (2019)
285 min | Biography, Drama, History
Two Finnish diplomats struggle to save thousands of lives during and following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.
Stars: Pelle Heikkilä, Sophia Heikkilä, Ilkka Villi, Aksa Korttila
Votes: 672
9. The Trial (2023)
177 min | Documentary
Argentina, 1985, at the trial of the last dictatorship's military juntas. On the stand, the six judges; on one side, the prosecution, and on the other, the military personnel accused of genocide.
Director: Ulises de la Orden | Stars: Jorge Rafael Videla, Emilio Massera, Orlando Agosti, Roberto Eduardo Viola
Votes: 78
10. Chronicle of an Escape (2006)
R | 103 min | Crime, Thriller
The goalkeeper of a little-known soccer team is kidnapped by a Argentinean government squad and sent to a detention center. After months of torture, he plots his escape with three other young men.
Director: Israel Adrián Caetano | Stars: Rodrigo de la Serna, Pablo Echarri, Nazareno Casero, Lautaro Delgado
Votes: 3,706 | Gross: $0.00M
11. Mathe paidi mou grammata (1981)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
In a small Greek village, short time after the collapse of the Junta regime, a memorial of those who died in the German occupation of Greece brings in the surface the political differences of a conservative teacher and his two sons.
Director: Thodoros Maragos | Stars: Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Anna Matzourani, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Christos Kalavrouzos
Votes: 1,218
12. The City and the Dogs (1985)
Unrated | 135 min | Drama
Four angry cadets form an inner circle to beat the system, boredom and the stifling confinement of the military academy, sparking a chain of events that begins with a robbery and leads to murder.
Director: Francisco J. Lombardi | Stars: Pablo Serra, Gustavo Bueno, Luis Álvarez, Juan Manuel Ochoa
Votes: 719
13. The Christmas Tango (2011)
102 min | Drama, Romance
At the time of the Greek junta, in an isolated army camp, a lieutenant forces a soldier to teach him the tango in order to ask the wife of his Colonel to dance with him.
Director: Nikos Koutelidakis | Stars: Giannis Bezos, Giannis Stankoglou, Antinoos Albanis, Vicky Papadopoulou
Votes: 3,773
14. The Defenders (2023)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
The gripping true story of how a former Australian football captain and a ragtag team of social media warriors, challenged two monarchies, a military junta and the world's richest and most ... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Bate | Stars: Hakeem Al-Araibi, Craig Foster, Ming-Zhu Hii, Mark Saturno
Votes: 45
15. To Kill a Stranger (1984)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The wife of an American journalist on an assignment in an unnamed South American country run by a military junta is sexually assaulted by a stranger there. However, she manages to fight back, which leads to unexpected consequences.
Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Angélica María, Dean Stockwell, Donald Pleasence, Aldo Ray
Votes: 163
16. 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: 1,284
17. Augusto Pinochet: The Coup, the Torture & the West (2023 TV Special)
45 min | Documentary, History
September 11th, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the military coup that brought General Pinochet to power in Chile. With the support of world democracies, including the US and UK, the dictator ruled through terror and torture.
Director: Lyndy Saville | Stars: Cal Seville, Roberto Navarrete, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, Grace Livingston
Votes: 15
18. Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (2008)
Unrated | 84 min | Documentary, History, News
Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.
Director: Anders Østergaard | Stars: George W. Bush, Joshua Min Htut, Ko Muang, Aung San Suu Kyi
Votes: 2,520 | Gross: $0.05M
19. Go Ahead, Brazil! (1982)
105 min | Crime, Drama
This movie is about one of the worst periods for the Brazilian people. Shows the days of military dictatorship when the Brazilian people against the government were put in jails, tortured, ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Farias | Stars: Reginaldo Faria, Carlos Zara, Antônio Fagundes, Natália do Vale
Votes: 526
20. Mein Herz in Chile (2008 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, Thriller
More than 30 years after fleeing from Chile, Dr. Laura Hansen returns to her native country to take leave of her dying mother. Laura's own daughter Isabel follows her in an effort to ... See full summary »
Director: Jörg Grünler | Stars: Hannelore Elsner, Bettina Zimmermann, Franco Nero, Oliver Bootz
Votes: 47
21. El entusiasmo (1998)
120 min | Drama
A man's enthusiasm turns into greed and causes trouble for his family.
Director: Ricardo Larraín | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Carmen Maura, Álvaro Escobar, Álvaro Rudolphy
Votes: 172
22. Dictator Aliki (1972)
117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young woman arrives in Athens along with her poodle, putting on a show as Charles Chaplin's tyrant in The Great Dictator (1940) to eke out a living. But, love always finds a way. Could a kind blind philosophy student be hope personified?
Director: Takis Vougiouklakis | Stars: Aliki Vougiouklaki, Nikos Galanos, Nikos Rizos, Lavrentis Dianellos
Votes: 382
23. Hesus, rebolusyunaryo (2002)
112 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Hesus Mariano is caught in a deadly match between his mentor Rebel Leader Miguel Reynante and military Colonel Arnold Simon. Drawing inspiration from his childhood sweetheart Hilda, Hesus ... See full summary »
Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Mark Anthony Fernandez, Donita Rose, Joel Lamangan, Ronnie Lazaro
Votes: 83
24. Blauäugig (1989)
87 min | Drama, Thriller
Johann Neudorf has made his way into the Argentinian society as consultant for the regime. His son has just finished the military academy. Only his daughter Paula is otherwise. She is ... See full summary »
Director: Reinhard Hauff | Stars: Götz George, Miguel Ángel Solá, Julio De Grazia, Álex Benn
Votes: 58
25. Die Tränen meiner Mutter (2008)
91 min | Drama
An Argentinean family flees to Germany with their little son during the military dictatorship in Argentina during the seventies. In Germany, their son grows up.
Director: Alejandro Cardenas Amelio | Stars: Adrian Goessel, Rafael Ferro, Erica Rivas, Fabian Busch
Votes: 110
26. Antigone - Ant(íg)on(i)a (2022)
19 min | Short, Drama
Post coup d'etat, Antigone's director becomes yet another "missing person". His sister, protagonist in the play, seeks justice. Stories across multiple timelines resurface Sophocles's Human Rights, within a democratic judicial process.
Director: Carmen Morin | Stars: Luna Yahbes, Marcelo Acha, Marco Precedo, Lorenzo Cao
Votes: 7
27. Crowd (2013)
60 min | Documentary
In the margins of the city, two lots sharing coincidences are placed in a dialogue. They were both locations for entertainment built by different dictatorships: The Sport City of La Boca ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Oesterheld
Votes: 12
28. Falklands: Task Force South (1982 TV Movie)
109 min | Documentary, War
News coverage of the 1982 Falklands War between Great Britain and Argentina, including military operations on sea and land. While most of the footage is British, some is from Argentine sources.
Director: Gordon Carr | Stars: Richard Baker, Brian Hanrahan
29. 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
30. 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
31. Inside Pinochet's Prisons (1974)
30 min | Documentary, Short
The horrifying story of what went on inside General Pinochet's secret prisons.
Stars: Joaquín Lagos Osorio, Augusto Pinochet
Votes: 7
32. South of the Border (1988)
63 min | Documentary, Music, War
David Bradbury's documentary examines how the political and economic struggle in Central America is expressed through the music of the people south of the border, from Mexico to Managua.
Director: David Bradbury | Star: Peter Garrett
34. 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
35. America and Me (2017)
87 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Australian filmmaker David Bradbury has been coming and going to the United States for the last forty years. A one-man band political activist who always travels with his camera, the twice ... See full summary »
Director: David Bradbury | Star: David Vine
36.
Trying Times (1987–1989)
Episode:
Death and Taxes
(1989)
Comedy
A geeky orthopedic shoe salesman, whose true passion is playing sax, reports all of his unreported tip income to the I.R.S. out of Catholic guilt. The I.R.S. decides to pulverize him, and his pervy tax attorney, Agripina, is of no help.
Director: Jon S. Denny | Stars: Sally Kirkland, Peter Scolari, Katherine McGrath, Marcell Rosenblatt
37.
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
38.
Unreported World (2000– )
Episode:
Dying for Democracy
(2021)
24 min | Documentary, News
A Burmese filmmaker is on the front line in Myanmar as protesters defy the military junta's coup. As pressure to release political prisoners grows, so does the bloody crackdown.
Director: Katie Arnold | Stars: Maung Moe, Krishnan Guru-Murthy
39.
Biano the Blind (2011)
Episode:
Shugo Tells Biano That Ernesto Killed His Father
(2011)
Action, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Dondon S. Santos | Stars: Jason Abalos, Jessy Mendiola, Joem Bascon, Charee Pineda
40.
Economics Explained (2020– )
Why Argentina is Doomed to Fail Over and Over Again
(2023 Podcast Episode)
16 min
Argentina has had a boom or bust economy for a hundred years. The fundamental problem is the expectation of a high standard of living while trying to be self sufficient.