Military Dictatorship Movies

Lissette's favorite aunt Adriana, who lives in Australia, is arrested in 2007 while visiting her family in Chile and accused of having worked for...

A striking political activist and refugee from Paraguay escapes to Paris and falls in love with a rich law student changing their lives forever. The...

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing in the government into disarray.

Colonia Helena, Argentina. The mysterious Tomás Kóblic, a former Navy pilot, works as a fumigator while dealing with his dark past and...

Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião,...

A group of young politicians campaigning against an authoritarian constitution speak up, spark hope and ignite a once-in-a-generation movement in...

In 1981, seven Libyan exiles formed the core opposition group to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Thirty years later, they are back to their country only to...

Teenager and his Chilean parents live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in exile, after his brother is killed by the military government in Chile. Years...

An account of the childhood and youth of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, and how the hard experiences he...

With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on...

Everything you've ever wanted to know about Saddam Hussein (but were afraid to ask).

A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta...

Financial problems in a religious school for girls force the government to interfere. While waiting in the conference hall to communicate the fact to...

Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s.

Koburi the Japanese Army Officer portrayed in Sunset at Chaopraya's earlier films dies and the film then goes on to the future of his child and his...

A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government.

Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a car, while the director reads out documents in...

A police drama set in an unidentified and oppressed South American country among a group of conspirators. The main characters are two sisters Soledad...