Top 400 Latin American Films
[DEE] The best films from South and Central America. Films from Brazil (120), Mexico (98), Argentina (79), Chile (33), Cuba (28), Colombia (14), Bolivia (7), Peru (5), Venezuela (4), Haiti (3), Jamaica (3), Martinique (2), Uruguay (2), Costa Rica, Curacao, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Paraguay and Trinidad & Tobago.
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- DirectorMario GalloStarsSalvador RosichEliseo GutiérrezRoberto CasauxThe director Mario Gallo made the first film with an argument from Argentina, although the opinions of scholars are not coincident as to their temporal order.
- DirectorHumberto CairoErnesto GuncheEduardo Martinez de la PeraStarsArturo MarioMaría PadínCelestino PetrayA licentious patron takes a beautiful stand to his palace in Buenos Aires, after abducting her. When the gaucho who wants to go to rescue her, the field owner uses a corrupt commissary to falsely accuse him of a thief.
- DirectorLuis PeredoStarsElena Sánchez ValenzuelaAlfonso BussonRicardo BeltriThe first version of Gamboa's novel about an innocent young girl who is betrayed by the man she loves and must become a prostitute after her family rejects her.
- DirectorEnrique RosasStarsJoaquín CossJuan de HomsManuel de los RíosA gang terrorize Mexico City's high society in 1915. Murder, kidnapping and robbery are their trademarks. One police inspector (Cabrera) follows the gang's crimes and eventually sends them to jail.
- DirectorMario PeixotoStarsOlga BrenoTatiana ReyRaul SchnoorThree people (Raul Schnoor, Olga Breno and Tatiana Rey) sail aimlessly while remembering their past.
- DirectorJosé A. FerreyraStarsAntonio Ber CianiJulio BungeFloren DelbeneA girl who sometimes mistreats her father, leaves her home and leaves her boyfriend, seduced by an adventurer who starts her as a tango singer. The father is jailed after shooting the seducer and she tries to commit suicide but her old boyfriend saves her, starting a more successful way.
- DirectorEdmundo PadillaFélix PadillaStarsBob KortmanG. Raymond NyePancho VillaThrough recontextualized footage from decades of Mexican and American silent films and newsreels, the life story of Mexican revolutionary hero Pancho Villa unfolds in a series of spectacular battle sequences.
- DirectorHumberto MauroStarsDurval BelliniDea SelvaLu MarivalA man kills his wife on their wedding night, after discovering she had been unfaithful. After being acquitted, he moves to the country, where he falls in love with an innocent girl.
- DirectorJuan Bustillo OroFernando de FuentesStarsAlfredo del DiestroCarmen GuerreroAntonio R. FraustoDuring Mexican Revolution, Rosalio Mendoza (Del Diestro) survives by making and winning favors from both factions, the governmental forces and Zapata's Army. His hacienda welcomes everybody, and Mendoza is considered a good friend of his guests. Eventually, the situation becomes unsustainable and he has to take sides. Betrayal and deception overcome and Mendoza's dark side surfaces.
- DirectorArcady BoytlerRaphael J. SevillaStarsAndrea PalmaDomingo SolerFrancisco ZárragaRosario (Palma) becomes a prostitute after losing her father and discovering her boyfriend had a liaison with another woman. In Veracruz, Rosario lives above a sordid cabaret "selling her love to the men coming from the sea." One night, sailor Alberto (Soler) rescues Rosario from the dirty hands of a drunk man. They get along and go to Rosario's room. After making love, they begin to talk and Rosario discovers they're siblings...
- DirectorFernando de FuentesStarsAntonio R. FraustoDomingo SolerManuel TamésThe Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by assisting in the struggle. After several battles and valiant heroics, the original group is eventually reduced to the leader Tiburcio Maya (Frausto) and young Becerrillo (Vallarino). When Becerrillo is infected by smallpox, Villa orders Tiburcio to kill him and burn the corpse. After reluctantly doing his duty, Tiburcio is ordered to leave the army, and returns home.
- DirectorAdhemar GonzagaStarsJaime CostaBarbosa JúniorPinto FilhoTwo producers have difficulties convincing a Casino owner to present their musical revue, with the biggest names in Brazilian radio and theater, until his main attraction is canceled, and he desperately agrees.
- DirectorFernando de FuentesStarsTito GuízarRené CardonaEsther FernándezA "comedia ranchera", where two good friends fall in love with the same girl.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torres RíosStarsJosé GolaAmelia BenceCielitoEnrique, a gray office worker who lives a marriage already without passion begins to rethink his life when he receives an anonymous who says that his wife deceives him.
- DirectorMario SofficiStarsFrancisco PetroneÁngel MagañaRoberto FugazotBy 1915, a contractor traveling to Posadas looking for new staff. Among the music and drinks in a bar and shipped to the mill. He is accompanied by a drunken doctor and his daughter. In the mill, injustices and cruelties are accentuated.
- DirectorLucas DemareStarsEnrique MuiñoFrancisco PetroneÁngel MagañaThe story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsDolores Del RíoPedro ArmendárizAlberto GalánIn Xochimilco 1909, María Candelaria and Lorenzo Rafael long for getting married but the odds are against them. María Candelaria is segregated for being a prostitute's child and the couple faces the greed of Mr. Damian, the town's shop owner who secretly desires María. When María falls sick with Malaria, Lorenzo Rafael steals a quinine bottle from Damian's shop, unleashing tragedy for the lovers.
- DirectorLuiz de BarrosStarsManoel VieiraMiguel OricoManoel Rocha
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsMaría FélixPedro ArmendárizFernando FernándezDuring the Mexican Revolution, a macho rebel general falls in love with the independent-minded daughter of an aristocrat in the town he is occupying.
- DirectorJohn FordEmilio FernándezStarsHenry FondaDolores Del RíoPedro ArmendárizAnti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsColumba DomínguezRoberto CañedoArturo Soto RangelAurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsFernando SolerRosario GranadosAndrés SolerA father decides to teach their bratty kids a lesson about the value of money.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAlfonso MejíaRoberto CoboEstela IndaA group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
- DirectorManolo AlonsoStarsJuan José Martínez CasadoAlejandro LugoRaquel RevueltaOn New Year's Eve, a banker and his wife invite several friends to have dinner in their apartment. Suddenly, an astrologer makes an appearance and predicts seven of the present people will die in the next weeks.