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1. The Heiresses (2018)
TV-14 | 98 min | Drama
Marcelo Martinessi's stunning debut The Heiresses is an immersive and emotionally compelling look into the lives of the privileged, through the tribulations of a hesitant woman in quiet crisis.
Director: Marcelo Martinessi | Stars: Norma Codas, Margarita Irun, Ana Brun, Yvera
Votes: 3,282 | Gross: $0.08M
2. Los Conductos (2020)
70 min | Drama, Mystery
A man comes to terms with his past after satiating his greatest desire: assassinating the leader of the sect of which he was a part for many years.
Director: Camilo Restrepo | Stars: Fernando Úsaga Higuíta, Luis Felipe Lozano
Votes: 466
3. Os Famosos e os Duendes da Morte (2009)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
A Bob Dylan fan who goes by the name Mr. Tambourine passes his time in the Brazilian countryside by looking at photographs and movies on the Internet that seem to feature the same mysterious woman.
Director: Esmir Filho | Stars: Áurea Baptista, Ismael Caneppele, Tuane Eggers, Henrique Larré
Votes: 769
4. Song Without a Name (2019)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
Georgina's newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation.
Director: Melina León | Stars: Pamela Mendoza, Tommy Párraga, Lucio Rojas, Ruth Armas
Votes: 1,150
5. The Dream of Lu (2011)
106 min | Drama
Lucía is a single mom mourning the death of her 5-year-old son.
Director: Hari Sama | Stars: Úrsula Pruneda, Gerardo Trejoluna, María del Carmen Farias, Emilio Echevarría
Votes: 178
6. Calle Lopez (2013)
80 min | Documentary, Drama, Family
A portrait of different characters working and living in one of the busiest, noisiest streets of Mexico City's Downtown.
Directors: Gerardo Barroso, Lisa Tillinger
Votes: 60
7. Rojo (2018)
109 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In Argentina pre-coup d'etat, a successful lawyer starts to feel against the ropes when a secret of the past threatens his present.
Director: Benjamín Naishtat | Stars: Darío Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio, Alfredo Castro, Diego Cremonesi
Votes: 2,778 | Gross: $0.08M
8. Damiana Kryygi (2015)
94 min | Documentary
It runs in 1896. In the dense Paraguayan jungle a three-year-old girl survives a massacre perpetrated by white settlers on an Aché family. The girl is baptized with the name of Damiana by ... See full summary »
Director: Alejandro Fernández Mouján
Votes: 104
9. Beyond My Grandfather Allende (2015)
90 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Salvador Allende, the first democratic-socialist president elected was also my grandfather. On September 11, 1973 a right wing military coup seized my grandfather' life and government, ... See full summary »
Director: Marcia Tambutti Allende | Stars: Isabel Allende Bussi, Carmen Paz Allende, Maya de Isabel Allende, Alejandro Fernández Allende
Votes: 501
10. The Faculties (2019)
77 min | Documentary
Soláas's feature debut is a vérité chronicle of final examinations at Argentina's public universities, in which students from a wide array of disciplines-botany, anatomy, astronomy, law, ... See full summary »
Director: Eloisa Solaas | Stars: María Alché, Jonathan Argüello, Juan Brizuela, Ailén Federico
Votes: 148
11. Silvia Prieto (1999)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A woman in her late-twenties called Silvia Prieto wants to improve herself. Her discovery of a second person also called Silvia Prieto will change her life forever. Maybe not the changes she hoped for.
Director: Martín Rejtman | Stars: Rosario Bléfari, Valeria Bertuccelli, Vicentico, Marcelo Zanelli
Votes: 1,596
12. The Man of the Crowd (2013)
Unrated | 95 min | Drama
Loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's story of the same name, Marcelo Gomes and Cao Guimaraes, two of the most interesting filmmakers working in Brazil today, have crafted an elegant, ... See full summary »
Directors: Marcelo Gomes, Cao Guimarães | Stars: Paulo André, Sílvia Lourenço, Jean-Claude Bernardet, Alexis de Abreu
Votes: 312
13. La piedra ausente (2013)
80 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Focusing on the removal and subsequent replications of a colossal pre-Hispanic rain deity taken from a small Mexican town to the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, this film ... See full summary »
Directors: Jesse Lerner, Sandra Rozental
Votes: 40
14. Madalena (2021)
85 min | Drama
A broken body in a white dress, lying lifeless in a swaying soya field. The image of this motionless body lends an extra charge to everything that follows. Marcheti follows three ... See full summary »
Director: Madiano Marcheti | Stars: Natália Mazarim, Rafael de Bona, Pâmella Yulle, Chloe Milan
Votes: 398
15. La Paz in Buenos Aires (2013)
70 min | Documentary
Erasmo Chambi is a Bolivian immigrant who survives on the outskirts of Buenos Aires giving wrestling shows in local clubs. He carries a precarious ring made with his own hands. In his ... See full summary »
Director: Marcelo Charras | Stars: Erasmo Chambi, Luis Chambi Ramos, Guillermina Ramos, Paola Chambi Ramos
Votes: 34
16. Alamar (2009)
G | 73 min | Documentary, Drama
Before their inevitable farewell, Jorge, a young man of Mayan roots, and Natan, his half-Italian son, spend time together living off the Banco Chinchorro coral reef.
Director: Pedro González-Rubio | Stars: Jorge Machado, Roberta Palombini, Natan Machado Palombini, Nestór Marín
Votes: 2,711 | Gross: $0.06M
17. Casa Grande (2014)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
Exploring issues of class privilege among Rio's decadent elite, Casa Grande depicts a teenage boy's struggle to escape his overprotective parents as they covertly spiral into bankruptcy.
Director: Fellipe Barbosa | Stars: Marcello Novaes, Suzana Pires, Thales Cavalcanti, Clarissa Pinheiro
Votes: 3,107
18. Liborio (2021)
99 min | Drama
Liborio disappears in a hurricane. One day he returns speaking as a prophet, curing the sick and congregates many followers deep in the mountains. The local powers confront him only to see ... See full summary »
Director: Nino Martínez Sosa | Stars: Vicente Santos, Karina Valdez, Ramón Emilio Candelario, Fidia Peralta
Votes: 259
19. Pixote (1980)
TV-MA | 128 min | Crime, Drama
The life of a boy on the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution, and drugs.
Director: Hector Babenco | Stars: Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Julião, Gilberto Moura, Edilson Lino
Votes: 9,230
20. Violencia (2015)
74 min | Drama, History, War
One day, three men, three different settings, the all-pervading violence that envelopes Colombia their inexorable connective tissue.
Director: Jorge Forero | Stars: Rodrigo Vélez, David Aldana, Lorena Macías, Cristian Rubiano
Votes: 223
21. Limit (1931)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Romance
Three people (Raul Schnoor, Olga Breno and Tatiana Rey) sail aimlessly while remembering their past.
Director: Mario Peixoto | Stars: Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor, Brutus Pedreira
Votes: 2,876
22. Blood (2005)
90 min | Drama
Diego's job is counting people as they enter a large government building. After work, he and his wife Blanca lie on the couch, watch soap operas, or make love on the kitchen table. Their ... See full synopsis »
Director: Amat Escalante | Stars: Fernando Corona, Cirilo Recio Dávila, Kenny Johnston, Claudia Orozco
Votes: 818
23. No Kings (2020)
88 min | Documentary
An ode to nature and human relations, No Kings explores the freedom of one of the last Caiçara communities.
Director: Emilia Mello | Stars: Luciano de Jesus Campo, Lucimara de Jesus Campo, Ismael José Costa, Charles Ramos do Nascimento
Votes: 51
24. Mariner of the Mountains (2021)
95 min | Documentary, Romance
Based on the personal background of director Karim Aïnouz, follows an incredible journey through space and time.
Director: Karim Aïnouz
Votes: 565
25. Nos corps sont vos champs de bataille (2021)
100 min | Documentary
In an Argentina torn between deep conservatism and an unprecedented feminist drive, the film delves into the political journey and the intimate lives of Claudia and Violeta, trans women trying to live their lives.
Director: Isabelle Solas
Votes: 77
26. Dopamina (2019)
86 min | Documentary
Natalia's father, Ricardo, was diagnosed with Parkinson's 12 years ago; with this condition, the production of Dopamine, the neurohormone responsible for movement in the body and the ... See full summary »
Director: Natalia Imery Almario
Votes: 42
27. Where Are You, João Gilberto? (2018)
107 min | Documentary, Music
Where are you, João Gilberto? sets out in the footsteps of German writer Marc Fischer who obsessively searched for the legendary founding father of Bossa Nova, Brazilian musician João ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Gachot | Stars: Rachel Balassiano, João Donato, Marc Fischer, Georges Gachot
Votes: 330
28. Tito and the Birds (2018)
73 min | Animation, Action, Drama
The film tells the story of a boy who is responsible, along with his father, for finding the cure for an illness that is contracted after the person takes a fright.
Directors: Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto, Gustavo Steinberg | Stars: Pedro Henrique, Denise Fraga, Matheus Nachtergaele, Mateus Solano
Votes: 732 | Gross: $0.00M
29. Terminal Norte (2021 TV Special)
37 min | Documentary, Music
During the 2020 lockdown, Lucrecia Martel returns to home in Salta, Argentina. She follows Julieta Laso who, like a muse, introduces her to a group of female artists and defiant people who exchange glances and opinions around a fire.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: Julieta Laso, Lorena Carpanchay, Mariana Carrizo, Maka Fuentes
Votes: 237
30. La eterna noche de las doce lunas (2013)
87 min | Documentary
12-year-old Pili is entering womanhood, and as tradition dictates, after her first menstruation, she must be isolated from all men for 12 moon cycles. During this time, she learns to weave.
Director: Priscilla Padilla
Votes: 82
31. Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine (2020)
85 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Aboard a cruise ship out at sea, a young sailor discovers a door mysteriously leading to an apartment in Montevideo. Meanwhile, a group of Asian farmers find an abandoned shed in the valley, attributing it supernatural powers.
Director: Alex Piperno | Stars: Daniel Quiroga, Inés Bortagaray, Noli Tobol, Efrén Ananayo
Votes: 270
32. Phantom Project (2022)
Unrated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Follow Pablo, a young actor who dreams of starring in a film, but in order to pay the bills he has to work as a simulated patient in medical schools and in weird sessions of alternative therapies.
Director: Roberto Doveris | Stars: Juan Cano, Ingrid Isensee, Violeta Castillo, Fernanda Toledo
Votes: 255
33. Carandiru (2003)
R | 145 min | Crime, Drama
Stories of crime, revenge, love, and friendship at the Carandiru Penitentiary, the largest prison in Latin America.
Director: Hector Babenco | Stars: Enrique Diaz, Wagner Moura, Caio Blat, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
Votes: 21,924 | Gross: $0.21M
34. 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: 841
35. Dazed Flesh (2019)
45 min | Drama
A wandering voice is able to invade any matter, solid, liquid, or gaseous, and it decides for the first time to invade a woman's body. From this experience it narrates what it feels as a ... See full summary »
Directors: Ricardo Alves Jr., Grace Passô | Stars: Grace Passô, Zora Santos, Dona Jandira, Sabrina Rauta
Votes: 57
36. Beast (2021)
16 min | Animation, Short, History
Ingrid is working in the Chilean Intelligence Directorate (DINA) in 1975. Her relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations reveal a grim fracture in her mind and in an entire country.
Director: Hugo Covarrubias
Votes: 1,814
37. Tropicalía (2022)
21 min | Short, Drama
Dolores, a robust and disconnected woman relegated to the care-taking of her crazed and ailing mother is suddenly usurped from her usual life, when a wounded dog falls from the sky onto the... See full summary »
Director: Rodney Llaverias | Star: Marlene De La Cruz
Votes: 16
38. The Swamp (2001)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: Mercedes Morán, Graciela Borges, Martín Adjemián, Leonora Balcarce
Votes: 7,854 | Gross: $0.10M
39. 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: 1,181
40. El Norte (1983)
R | 141 min | Adventure, Drama
After their family is killed in a government massacre, siblings Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte": the United States.
Director: Gregory Nava | Stars: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alicia del Lago
Votes: 5,591
41. Prisoner's Cinema (2013)
10 min | Short, Drama | Completed
A self-destructive girl hides herself away in a dark room with only a typewriter, reflecting on past events that drove her to an unsuccessful suicide attempt.
Director: Melinda Li | Stars: Natalie Andrews, Tommy Kenny, Elizabeth Heaney
42. 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: 4,771 | Gross: $0.03M
43. The cemetery lightens (2018)
15 min | Documentary, Short
A radio transmits that Havana and nearby towns have fallen. Hundreds of young people dance in a bunker and a man whispers verses from the Bible at a railway station. Life explodes on a night of death.
Director: Luis Alejandro Yero
Votes: 13
44. Between You and Milagros (2020)
20 min | Short, Drama
At fifteen, Milagros' world still revolves around her mother's affection. This summer an unexpected encounter with death will make her question their relationship, her privilege and her own existence.
Director: Mariana Saffon | Stars: Loren Paz Jara, Marcela Mar, Olga Lucia Taborda, Maria Fernanda Giraldo
Votes: 52
45. Aquí y allá (2019)
22 min | Documentary, Short
A poetic reflection on family as an emotional system that operates across generations, focusing on the passing of time, the possibilities of remembering, and the construction of space as an ongoing historical and subjective process.
Director: Lina Rodriguez | Star: Jose Almeiro Rodriguez
Votes: 7
46. Ante Mis Ojos (2018)
7 min | Documentary, Short
An impressionistic study of Colombia's Lake Guatavita, a sacred site for the Mhuysqa people that inspired the legend of El Dorado.
Director: Lina Rodriguez
Votes: 13
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