Films depicting Latin American military dictatorships

Template:Refimprove This is a list of movies that are related to the military dictatorships in Latin America and Caribbean that appeared during the context of the Cold War.

Argentina

• The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)
• Last Days of the Victim (1982)
• Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number (1983)
• Funny Little Dirty War (1983)
• The Official Story (1985)
• The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (1985)
• Night of the Pencils (1986)
• The Girlfriend (1988)
• Verónico Cruz (1988)
• Buenos Aires Vice Versa (1996)
• Angel Face (1998)
• Olympic Garage (1999)
• The Lost Steps (2001)
• Kamchatka (2002)
• The Blonds (2003)
• Imagining Argentina (2003)
• El Nüremberg Argentino (2004)
• Captive (2005)
• Hermanas (2005)
• Chronicle of an Escape (2006)
• Complici del Silenzio (2009)
• Te Extraño (2010)
• Template:Ill (2010)
• Clandestine Childhood (2011)
• The Clan (2015)
• Francis: Pray for Me (2015)
• Call Me Francis (2015)
• Rojo (2018)
• The Two Popes (2019)
• Argentina, 1985 (2022)

Brazil

• Entranced Earth (1967)
• A Opinião Pública (1967)
• The Brave Warrior (1968)
• Fênix (1980)
• They Don't Wear Black Tie (1981)
• Pra Frente, Brasil (1982)
• A Freira e a Tortura (1983)
• Jango (1984)
• Nunca Fomos tão Felizes (1984)
• Em Nome da Segurança Nacional (1984)
• Twenty Years Later (1985)
• Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
• Que Bom Te Ver Viva (1989)
• Beyond Citizen Kane (1993)
• Lamarca (1994)
• Four Days in September (1997)
• Ação entre Amigos (1998)
• Dois Córregos - Verdades Submersas no Tempo (1999)
• Tempo de Resistência (2003)
• Cabra-Cega (2004)
• Araguaya - A Conspiração do Silêncio (2004)
• Almost Brothers (2004)
• AI-5 - O Dia Que Não Existiu (2004) (TV)
• 1972 (2006)
• 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)
• Peacetime (2009)
• Topografia de um Desnudo (2009)
• Lula, The Son of Brasil (2010)
• Hoje (2011)
• Uma Longa Viagem (2011)
• Avanti Popolo (2012)
• A Memória que Me Contam (2012)
• Os Dias Com Ele (2013)
• O Dia que Durou 21 Anos (2013)
• Em Busca de Iara (2013)
• Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (2013)
• Tatuagem (2013)
• Marighella (film) (2019)
• I'm Still Here (2024)

Chile

• The Battle of Chile (1975)
• It's Raining on Santiago (1976)
• Noch nad Chili (1977)
• Missing (1982)
• A Cor do Seu Destino (1986)
• Chile: Hasta Cuando? (1986)
• Sweet Country (1987)
• The House of the Spirits (1993)
• Of Love and Shadows (1994)
• Death and the Maiden (1994)
• Amnesia (1994)
• Waking the Dead (2000)
• Machuca (2004)
• The Black Pimpernel (2007)
• Tony Manero (2008)
• Dawson Isla 10 (2009)
• Post Mortem (2010)
• No (2012)
• Colonia (film) (2015)
• Spider (film) (2019)
• 1976 (film) (2022)
• Underground Stories (2023)

Dominican Republic

• In the Time of the Butterflies (2001)
• The Feast of the Goat (2005)
• Trópico de Sangre (2009)

El Salvador

• In the Name of the People (1985)
• Salvador (1986)
• Romero (1989)
• Voces inocentes (2004)

Guatemala

• El Norte (1983)
• The Evil That Men Do (1984)

Haiti

• The Comedians (1967)
• The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

Nicaragua

• Under Fire (1983)
• Last Plane Out (1983)
• Latino (1985)
• Clinton and Nadine (1988)

Panama

• Noriega: God's Favorite (2000)

Paraguay

• One Man's War (1991)
• Miss Ameriguá (1994)
• Killing the Dead (2019)

Uruguay

• State of Siege (1972)
• Matar a todos (2007)
• Paisito (2008)
• Polvo nuestro que estás en los cielos (2008)
• Mundialito (2010)
• Zanahoria (2014)
• Migas de pan (2016)
• A Twelve-Year Night (2018)
• The Moneychanger (2019)
• El año de la furia (2020)

Operation Condor

• State of Siege (1972)
• Down Came a Blackbird (1995)
• Escadrons de la mort, l'école française (2003)
• Condor (2008)
• Forgotten (post-production)

See also

• Dirty War
• Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
• Grupo Cine Liberación
• Dictator novel
• Military dictatorship
• Third Cinema
• List of films about martial law under Ferdinand Marcos