Argentina

• Funny Little Dirty War (1983)
• The Official Story
  The Official Story
  The Official Story is a 1985 Argentine drama film directed by Luis Puenzo, and written by Puenzo and Aída Bortnik. It stars Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, and Chunchuna Villafañe, among others. In the United Kingdom, it was released as The Official Version.The film is about an upper middle class...
  
  (1985)
• The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
  The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
  The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo is a 1985 Argentine documentary film directed by Susana Blaustein Muñoz and Lourdes Portillo about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature....
  
  (1985)
• Night of the Pencils
  Night of the Pencils (film)
  Night of the Pencils is an Argentine drama film directed by Héctor Olivera and written by Olivera and Daniel Kon. It is based on the non-fiction book by María Seoane and Héctor Ruiz Núñez....
  
  (1986)
• The Girlfriend (1988)
• Verónico Cruz
  Verónico Cruz (film)
  Verónico Cruz is a 1988 Argentine and British drama film. The motion picture is directed by Miguel Pereira, his first, and written by Pereira and Eduardo Leiva Muller. The movie was produced by Julio Lencina and Sasha Menocki and features Juan José Camero, Gonzalo Morales, among others...
  
  (1988)
• Buenos Aires Vice Versa
  Buenos Aires Vice Versa
  Buenos Aires Vice Versa is an Argentine and Dutch dramatic film, written and directed by Alejandro Agresti. The film was produced by Alejandro Agresti and Axel Harding, and co-produced by Emjay Rechsteiner....
  
  (1996)
• Angel Face (1998)
• Olympic Garage (1999)
• The Lost Steps (2001)
• Kamchatka
  Kamchatka (film)
  Kamchatka is an Argentine and Spanish drama film directed by Marcelo Piñeyro and written by Piñeyro and Marcelo Figueras. The movie features Ricardo Darín, Cecilia Roth, Tomás Fonzi, Héctor Alterio, among others....
  
  (2002)
• The Blonds (2003)
• Imagining Argentina
  Imagining Argentina (film)
  Imagining Argentina is a 2003 film directed and written by Christopher Hampton. The movie was nominated for the "Golden Lion" award at the 2003 Venice Film Festival...
  
  (2003)
• El Nüremberg Argentino (2004)
• Captive (2005)
• Hermanas
  Hermanas
  Hermanas is a 2005 Argentine, Brazilian and Spanish drama film written and directed by Julia Solomonoff, her first feature motion picture. The picture has a number of producers, including: Mariela Besuievski, Pablo Bossi, Florencia Enghel, Gerardo Herrero, Vanessa Ragone, Walter Salles, and Ariel...
  
  (2005)
• Chronicle of an Escape
  Chronicle of an Escape (film)
  Chronicle of an Escape is a 2006 Argentine film, directed by Israel Adrián Caetano. The screenplay is written by Caetano, Esteban Student, and Julian Loyola, based on the autobiographical Pase libre – la fuga de la Mansion Seré written by Claudio Tamburrini. The movie is also known as Buenos...
  
  (2006)
• Te Extraño (2010)
• Das Lied in mir (2010)

Brazil

• Entranced Earth
  Entranced Earth
  Entranced Earth is a 1967 Brazilian drama film directed by Glauber Rocha. It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Award...
  
  (1967)
• A Opinião Pública (1967)
• Fênix
  Fênix
  Fênix is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.-References:...
  
  (1980)
• Pra Frente, Brasil
  Pra Frente, Brasil
  Pra Frente, Brasil is a 1982 Brazilian film directed, written and produced by Roberto Farias. It tells the fictional story of a man mistakenly arrested by a group linked to the military dictatorship during the 1970 FIFA World Cup.-Plot:...
  
  (1982)
• A Freira e a Tortura (1983)
• Jango
  Jango (film)
  -Content summary:The film traces the life of João Goulart, 24th President of Brazil, who was deposed by a military-led coup on March 31, 1964 after he proposed a broad program of reforms in areas such as land, education and elections. Goulart was popularly known as "Jango", therefore the title of...
  
  (1984)
• Cabra Marcado Para Morrer (1985)
• Beyond Citizen Kane
  Beyond Citizen Kane
  Beyond Citizen Kane is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and broadcast on Channel 4.It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group in the Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections...
  
  (1993)
• Lamarca (1994)
• Four Days in September
  Four Days in September
  Four Days in September is a 1997 Brazilian thriller film directed by Bruno Barreto and produced by his parents Lucy and Luiz Carlos Barreto. The film is based on the 1979 memoir "O Que É Isso Companheiro?" written by politician Fernando Gabeira...
  
  (1997)
• Ação Entre Amigos (1998)
• Cabra-Cega (2004)
• Quase Dois Irmãos (2004)
• AI-5 - O Dia Que Não Existiu (2004) (TV)
• Zuzu Angel (2006)
• The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)
• Batismo de Sangue (2006)
• Hércules 56 (2006)
• Cidadão Boilesen (2009)
• Em Teu Nome (2009)
• Lula, o filho do Brasil
  Lula, o filho do Brasil
  Lula, The Son of Brazil is a 2009 biographical Brazilian drama film based on the early life of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Directed by Academy Award-nominated director Fábio Barreto, the film was released on January 1, 2010...
  
  (2010)

Chile

• Il pleut sur Santiago (1976)
• Noch nad Chili (1977)
• Missing
  Missing (film)
  Missing is a 1982 American drama film directed by Costa Gavras, and starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi and Janice Rule...
  
  (1982)
• A Cor do seu Destino (1986)
• The House of the Spirits
  The House of the Spirits (film)
  The House of the Spirits is a 1993 German-Danish-Portuguese dramatic film starring Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder and Antonio Banderas. The supporting cast includes Vanessa Redgrave, María Conchita Alonso, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Jan Niklas...
  
  (1993)
• Of Love and Shadows (1994)
• Death and the Maiden
  Death and the Maiden (film)
  Death and the Maiden is a 1994 drama film directed by Roman Polanski, based on the play by Ariel Dorfman. It starred Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley and Stuart Wilson.-Plot summary:...
  
  (1994)
• Machuca
  Machuca
  Machuca is a 2004 Chilean film written and directed by Andrés Wood. Set in 1973 Santiago during Salvador Allende's socialist government and shortly before General Augusto Pinochet's military coup in 1973, the film tells the story of two friends, one of them the very poor Pedro Machuca who is...
  
  (2004)
• The Black Pimpernel
  The Black Pimpernel
  The Black Pimpernel is a Swedish drama film directed by Ulf Hultberg and starring Michael Nyqvist and Lisa Werlinder...
  
  (2007)
• Dawson Isla 10
  Dawson Isla 10
  Dawson Isla 10 is a 2009 Chilean drama film, written and directed by Miguel Littín, a Chilean film director. The screenplay is based on Isla 10, a book by Sergio Bitar about his experiences as a political prisoner; "Isla 10" was the substitute name their guards imposed him during his...
  
  (2009)

Dominican Republic

• In the Time of the Butterflies
  In the Time of the Butterflies (film)
  In the Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film, produced for the Showtime television network, directed by Mariano Barroso based on the Julia Álvarez book of the same name...
  
  (2001)
• The Feast of the Goat (2005)
• Trópico de Sangre
  Trópico de Sangre
  Trópico de Sangre is a dramatic film based on the true story of the Dominican Republic's historic Mirabal sisters.-Plot summary:The film focuses on Minerva Mirabal and tells the true story of how she and her sisters came to represent the greatest threat to dictator Rafael Trujillo and his regime. ...
  
  (2009)

Operation Condor

Operation Condor

Operation Condor , was a campaign of political repression involving assassination and intelligence operations officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America...

• State of Siege
  State of Siege
  State of Siege is a 1972 French film directed by Costa Gavras starring Yves Montand and Renato Salvatori.-Summary:...
  
  (1972)
• Escadrons de la mort, l'école française
  Marie-Monique Robin
  Marie-Monique Robin is an award-winning French journalist. She received the Albert Londres Prize in 1995 for Voleurs d'yeux, an expose about organ theft...
  
  (2003)
• Condor (2008)

See also

• Dirty War
  Dirty War
  The Dirty War was a period of state-sponsored violence in Argentina from 1976 until 1983. Victims of the violence included several thousand left-wing activists, including trade unionists, students, journalists, Marxists, Peronist guerrillas and alleged sympathizers, either proved or suspected...
  
  
• Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
• Grupo Cine Liberación
  Grupo Cine Liberación
  The Grupo Cine Liberación was an Argentine film movement that took place during the end of the sixties. It was founded by Fernando Solanas, Octavio Getino and Gerardo Vallejo...
  
  
• Dictator novel
  Dictator novel
  The dictator novel is a genre of Latin American literature that challenges the role of the dictator in Latin American society. The theme of caudillismo—the régime of a charismatic caudillo, a political strongman—is addressed by examining the relationships between power, dictatorship,...
  
  
• Military dictatorship
  Military dictatorship
  A military dictatorship is a form of government where in the political power resides with the military. It is similar but not identical to a stratocracy, a state ruled directly by the military....
  
  
• Third Cinema
  Third Cinema
  Third Cinema is a Latin American film movement that started in the 1960s-70s which decries neocolonialism, the capitalist system, and the Hollywood model of cinema as mere entertainment to make money...