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Plot Summary:
A beautiful Argentine activist receives preferential treatment from a man supposed to torture her.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Argentina, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: political, mindfuck, psychological, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Sons and Daughters (2001)
Plot Summary:
We are in Argentina in 1977, a woman gives birth to twins. With the complicity of the midwife he manages to hide the child, second child. The first, a boy, is taken into custody by the regime's guards. The scene moves to the Milan of today. The young Rosa contacts Javier and tries to convince him that they are twin brothers, separated at birth. Thus, the two begin a journey to rediscover their origins and their past. A bitter reality is ready to overwhelm them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Night of the Pencils (1986)
Plot Summary:
The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: political, disturbing, manga, mindfuck
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Roma (2004)
Plot Summary:
Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags:
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Absent (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sebastiano teaches high school gym classes and coaches swimming. He’s got a job, a girlfriend, and a pretty normal life. But as young Martin starts to infiltrate Sebastiano’s life, his world will get turned upside down. Eerie from the first frame, this Hitchcockian thriller portrays sexual obsession with terrifying realism.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, suspense, lgbt cinema, tense, realistic, gloomy, crying, queer cinema
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Post Mortem (2010)
Plot Summary:
In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Mexico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, atmospheric, serious, disturbing, detective, offbeat, realistic
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Sisters (2005)
Plot Summary:
Argentinian sisters Elena and Natalia, who were separated, meet again in Texas in 1984.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, captivating, entertaining
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Sweet Country (1987)
Plot Summary:
An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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Andres Doesn't Want to Take a Nap (2009)
Plot Summary:
Drama starring Norma Aleandro, Conrado Valenzuela, Fabio Aste.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, disturbing, bleak, realistic
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Captive (2003)
Plot Summary:
Cristina's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school in Buenos Aires and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything she once thought true, Cristina embarks on a journey to find her true identity. Meeting others like herself, the young girl soon discovers the real-life horrors of Argentina's relatively recent past and the nightmare that claimed tens of thousands of lives during the country's "dirty war.".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, political, bleak
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Down Came a Blackbird (1995)
Plot Summary:
A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, thought provoking, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Back to Stay (2011)
Plot Summary:
Marina, Sofia and Violeta deal differently with the death of their grandmother.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 687
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Switzerland, Netherlands
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sincere, contemplative, captivating, psychological, offbeat, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Tear This Heart Out (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, romantic, political, novela, epic
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Lamb of God (2008)
Plot Summary:
The kidnapping 77-year-old man in Argentina forces his daughter to return to Buenos Aires after years of exile abroad.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, thought provoking, serious, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic
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The Plague (1992)
Plot Summary:
In a city in South America an outbreak of bubonic plague occurs. While people try to flee and the military close the city an idealistic doctor decides to stay and help the sick. In the ever changing circumstances he puts up a brave fight, being helped by others but also involving them without being able to control the situation.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Drama
Country: France, UK, Argentina
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, disturbing, apocalyptic, psychotronic, allegory
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Katherine (1975)
Plot Summary:
A harrowing look at the 60s and early 70s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly, but inexorably spirals down into a fight for the causes that shook a nation, leading a path to the underground life. Written by Miguel Cane.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, political, mockumentary
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Birdwatchers (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest camp on the borders of a local farm that sits on their ancestral burial ground.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 918
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Brazil
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, thought provoking, realistic
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Pinochet's Last Stand (2006)
Plot Summary:
In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to bring to justice a man they insist is guilty of multiple human rights violations. The newly-elected Labour government is initially amenable, and soon Pinochet is under house arrest (albeit in a detached house in leafy suburbia) and awaiting extradition to Spain. However, Amnesty are up against the complexities of British law, the vacillations of Home Secretary Jack Straw, Pinochet's former ally Margaret Thatcher - and the Senator's own vast reserves of cunning.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, sincere, bleak, serious, dark comedy
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Strip Search (2004)
Plot Summary:
Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, political, disturbing
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Kamchatka (2002)
Plot Summary:
The movie show us how life was in Argentina for dissident people, in the seventies, under the military government.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, political, touching
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Clandestine Childhood (2011)
Plot Summary:
Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true facts, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Brazil
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, realistic
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Richness of Internal Space (2012)
Plot Summary:
Locked up and isolated, constantly exposed and threatened to be killed, for the first time in his life Lazaro understood that he was a free man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, uplifting, serious, emotional, tense, realistic
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October (1994)
Plot Summary:
In October 1970, one group from the Front de Liberation du Quebec kidnapped the British Consul in Montreal. Few days later, a second group did the same with one of the Minister of the Quebec Government. If the first was released, the second was murdered. This is the story of the second group from the stand point of the political kidnappers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: political, sad, psychological, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Privates Lives (2001)
Plot Summary:
Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentina), she returns to solve a family problem related with the inheritance that her sick father wants to leave him. Their return trip results in the unavoidable memories of the torture that that was object during the dictatorship and a dramatic revelation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic
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Policeman (2011)
Plot Summary:
A member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak, biting, suspense
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Good Morning, Night (2003)
Plot Summary:
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, disturbing, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, political, sincere, controversial, crying
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The Official Story (1985)
Plot Summary:
After the end of the Dirty War, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Argentina
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: political, captivating, sincere, suspenseful, disturbing, sad, emotional, realistic, light, epic
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State of Siege (1972)
Plot Summary:
Like most of Costa-Gavras' political thrillers, the French State of Siege is based on a true story. The incident dramatized herein is the kidnapping of a U.S. official somewhere in Latin America. The director's sympathies clearly lie with the kidnappers, especially since the official (played by Yves Montand), ostensibly an expert in traffic control, has been assigned as special advisor to the government's secret police, training these worthies in the art of the torturing of political prisoners. Uruguay was the country where this story actually took place; though no names are given, there's little doubting the identity of Costa-Gavras' fictional locale. Despite its up-to-date radicalism, State of Siege adheres to time-honored Hollywood formula, with ugly, vulgar bad guys vs. handsome, articulate good guys.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: political, social, political thriller, tense, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, talky
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Imagining Argentina (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, USA, Argentina
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, inspirational, romantic, political, romantic drama
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The Believer (2001)
Plot Summary:
A hardcore American racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant scholar whose questioning of the tenets of his faith has left him angry and confused, turning against those who he thinks have a tragic history of their own making.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, emotional, bleak, independent film, realistic, psychological, thought provoking, intellectual, intense, philosophical
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Bless You, Prison (2002)
Plot Summary:
Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole is arrested. There follow three months of exhausting interrogation and isolation. Alone in a cell, she undergoes a spiritual experience similar to that of the great mystics.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: uplifting, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, bleak, serious, realistic