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  1. La Ciénaga poster
    La Ciénaga (2001)
    Lucrecia Martel · 32 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Amid the sweltering summer heat in northern Argentina, two middle-class families retreat to a crumbling country estate and a modest townhouse, where strained relationships, simmering tensions, and the presence of children and servants quietly expose the fractures of family life. Between idle days, gossip, and unspoken desires, the boundaries of class, tradition, and faith are reflected in their everyday interactions.
  2. The Exterminating Angel poster
    The Exterminating Angel (1962)
    Luis Buñuel · 25 critic votes
    Free on Plex, Plex Channel, Mometu · Streaming on Criterion Channel, Cultpix
    After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
  3. Los Olvidados poster
    Los Olvidados (1950)
    Luis Buñuel · 22 critic votes
    A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
  4. The Headless Woman poster
    The Headless Woman (2008)
    Lucrecia Martel · 22 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy
    After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.
  5. Memories of Underdevelopment poster
    Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
    Tomás Gutiérrez Alea · 19 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs incident, Sergio chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Miami. Alone in a brave new world, Sergio observes the constant threat of foreign invasion while chasing young women all over Havana. He finally meets Elena, a young girl he seeks to mould into the image of his ex-wife, but at what cost to himself?
  6. Zama poster
    Zama (2016)
    Lucrecia Martel · 18 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Metrograph, Strand Releasing Amazon Channel
    In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.
  7. One Way or Another poster
    One Way or Another (1977)
    Sara Gómez · 17 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteacher, throws into relief the differences in their perspectives and values in Revolutionary Cuba.
  8. Nostalgia for the Light poster
    Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
    Patricio Guzmán · 16 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, OVID
    In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.
  9. I Am Cuba poster
    I Am Cuba (1964)
    Mikhail Kalatozov · 15 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Criterion Channel
    A study in contrasts set in and around Havana that explores Cuba's 1959 revolution: a young woman's fascination with the excess of an American-owned casino leads to her downfall in the eyes of her street vendor boyfriend; a tenant farmer revolts the only way he knows how, attacking the land he works; university students gain first-hand knowledge of political upheaval; and, in the hills outside the city, the members of a poor peasant family are patriotically swept up into the burgeoning revolt.
  10. The Hour of the Furnaces poster
    The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)
    Octavio Getino, Fernando Solanas · 15 critic votes
    An impassioned three-part documentary of the liberation struggle waged throughout Latin America, using Argentina as a historical example of the imperialist exploitation of the continent. Part I: Neo-Colonialism and Violence is a historical, geographic, and economic analysis of Argentina. Part II: An Act For Liberation examines the ten-year reign of Juan Perón (1945-55) and the activities of the Peronist movement after his fall from power. Part III: Violence and Liberation studies the role of violence in the national liberation process and constitutes a call for action.
  11. Twenty Years Later poster
    Twenty Years Later (1984)
    Eduardo Coutinho · 15 critic votes
    Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.
  12. Limite poster
    Limite (1931)
    Mário Peixoto · 14 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Adrift in the vast expanse of the ocean, a solitary boat carries three castaways—a man and two women. Stranded and devoid of any glimmer of rescue, they find solace in recounting the tales of their lives to one another. As they delve into their personal narratives, reminiscing about the circumstances that led them to this desolate predicament, they navigate through the depths of three distinct destinies. Bound by the confines of their shared space, every aspect of their existence becomes a boundary, underscoring their plight.
  13. City of God poster
    City of God (2002)
    Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund · 13 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Paramount Plus Essential
    In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
  14. Entranced Earth poster
    Entranced Earth (1967)
    Glauber Rocha · 12 critic votes
    Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.
  15. Black God, White Devil poster
    Black God, White Devil (1964)
    Glauber Rocha · 11 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel flees with his wife Rosa to the sertão, the barren landscape of Northern Brazil. Thrust into a primordial violent region, Manuel and Rosa come under the influence and control of a series of frightening figures.
  16. Pan's Labyrinth poster
    Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
    Guillermo del Toro · 11 critic votes
    In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
  17. Él poster
    Él (1953)
    Luis Buñuel · 10 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
  18. Roma poster
    Roma (2018)
    Alfonso Cuarón · 10 critic votes
    Streaming on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
    In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.
  19. The Battle of Chile: Part 1 poster
    The Battle of Chile: Part 1 (1975)
    Patricio Guzmán · 9 critic votes
    Streaming on OVID
    The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
  20. The Age of the Earth poster
    The Age of the Earth (1980)
    Glauber Rocha · 8 critic votes
    Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during the late 1970s. At its core, the story revolves around four distinctive embodiments of Christ's image: a black man, a soldier, an Indian, and a guerrilla fighter. These courageous individuals, hailed as the harbingers of doom in the tupiniquim lands, valiantly combat the insatiable avarice and oppressive "civilizing" brutality propagated by the formidable John Brahms—a foreign exploiter devoid of morals.
  21. La Flor poster
    La Flor (2018)
    Mariano Llinás · 8 critic votes
    Streaming on Hoopla
    An enormous effort of narrative complexity made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses living very different experiences in very different universes…
  22. The Holy Mountain poster
    The Holy Mountain (1973)
    Alejandro Jodorowsky · 7 critic votes
    Free on Plex Channel
    The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
  23. Invasión poster
    Invasión (1968)
    Hugo Santiago · 6 critic votes
    Hearing the summons from an elderly man, a volunteer troop of middle-aged men gather to defend their country from dark foreign invaders.
  24. Agarrando pueblo poster
    Agarrando pueblo (1978)
    Luis Ospina · 6 critic votes
    Streaming on DocAlliance Films
    Two filmmakers travel around impoverished sectors of the cities of Bogotá and Cali in search of the images of abjection needed to complete a documentary commissioned by German TV. Meanwhile, another camera captures these “vampire” filmmakers feeding off the misery of their marginal subjects.
  25. Nazarín poster
    Nazarín (1959)
    Luis Buñuel · 4 critic votes
    Streaming on YouTube TV
    A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
  26. Romance of Aniceto and Francisca poster
    Romance of Aniceto and Francisca (1967)
    Leonardo Favio · 4 critic votes
    Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.
  27. Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf poster
    Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf (1975)
    Leonardo Favio · 4 critic votes
    Free on Darkroom, Bloodstream · Streaming on Fandor Amazon Channel, Hoopla, Night Flight Plus
    The Mighty One offers Nazareno Cruz all the wealth in the world if he agrees to abandon his beloved; otherwise, the curse that supposedly weighs on him will be fulfilled.
  28. Amores perros poster
    Amores perros (2000)
    Alejandro González Iñárritu · 4 critic votes
    Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
    A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.
  29. Y tu mamá también poster
    Y tu mamá también (2001)
    Alfonso Cuarón · 4 critic votes
    Streaming on AMC+ Amazon Channel
    In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
  30. The Holy Girl poster
    The Holy Girl (2004)
    Lucrecia Martel · 4 critic votes
    Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
    Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. Repulsed by him but inspired by an inner burning, Amalia decides it is her God-given mission to save the doctor from his behavior, and she begins to stalk Dr. Jano, becoming a most unusual voyeur.
  31. Silent Light poster
    Silent Light (2007)
    Carlos Reygadas · 4 critic votes
    Free on Fandango at Home Free · Streaming on Kanopy
    Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.
  32. Mysteries of Lisbon poster
    Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
    Raúl Ruiz · 4 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, fuboTV
    The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.
  33. NOW poster
    NOW (1965)
    Santiago Álvarez · 3 critic votes
    Using morgue photos, newsreel footage, and a recording by Lena Horne, Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez fired off 'Now!', one of the most powerful bursts of propaganda rendered in the 1960s.
  34. Lucía poster
    Lucía (1968)
    Humberto Solás · 3 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the 1890s, the 1930s, and the 1960s.
  35. Juan Moreira poster
    Juan Moreira (1973)
    Leonardo Favio · 3 critic votes
    Free on The Roku Channel
    In the late nineteenth century, the mule driver Juan Moreira is a good gaucho and worker who, like many others, is subjected to abuse and humiliation by the powerful, either the police or landowners.
  36. Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future poster
    Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future (1982)
    Jorge Silva, Marta Rodríguez · 3 critic votes
    The struggles of the community of the Coconuco indigenous reservation in Cauca, which by the eighteenth-century royal card is entitled to 10,000 hectares, and in 1971 it barely has 1,500.
  37. The Secret Agent poster
    The Secret Agent (2025)
    Kleber Mendonça Filho · 3 critic votes
    Streaming on Hulu
    Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.
  38. Ganga Bruta poster
    Ganga Bruta (1933)
    Humberto Mauro · 2 critic votes
    A man kills his wife on their wedding night, after discovering she had been unfaithful. After being acquitted, he moves to the country, where he becomes part of a love triangle.
  39. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz poster
    The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)
    Luis Buñuel · 2 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, Plex, Xumo Play · Streaming on Hoopla, Night Flight Plus, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
  40. Barren Lives poster
    Barren Lives (1963)
    Nelson Pereira dos Santos · 2 critic votes
    In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of new hope and destiny.
  41. Simon of the Desert poster
    Simon of the Desert (1965)
    Luis Buñuel · 2 critic votes
    Free on Darkroom, Mometu · Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
  42. A Margem poster
    A Margem (1967)
    Ozualdo Candeias · 2 critic votes
    On the banks of São Paulo's Rio Tietê, a poignant tale unfolds, featuring a tapestry of characters existing on the fringes of society. Prostitutes, a pimp, a mentally disabled man, and others marginalized by fate lead lives mired in hopelessness, devoid of any prospect. Trapped in the relentless cycle of their ordinary yet despairing existence, they yearn for release, anticipating the embrace of death as their only salvation—a collective passage onto the harrowing vessel of damnation.
  43. Blood of the Condor poster
    Blood of the Condor (1969)
    Jorge Sanjinés · 2 critic votes
    A community reacts against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
  44. Chircales poster
    Chircales (1972)
    Jorge Silva, Marta Rodríguez · 2 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy
    This film documents the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, using the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva worked on this documentary from 1966 to 1972, establishing a relationship with the family which allows the viewer an intimate look at their hardships.
  45. Canoa: A Shameful Memory poster
    Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)
    Felipe Cazals · 2 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
  46. Hour of the Star poster
    Hour of the Star (1985)
    Suzana Amaral · 2 critic votes
    Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.
  47. Isle of Flowers poster
    Isle of Flowers (1989)
    Jorge Furtado · 2 critic votes
    A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.
  48. Santa Sangre poster
    Santa Sangre (1989)
    Alejandro Jodorowsky · 2 critic votes
    Free on FlixHouse, Darkroom, Bloodstream · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Kanopy, Fandor Amazon Channel
    A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.
  49. Nine Queens poster
    Nine Queens (2000)
    Fabián Bielinsky · 2 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV
    Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps, the "nine queens".
  50. The Devil's Backbone poster
    The Devil's Backbone (2001)
    Guillermo del Toro · 2 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV
    Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.
  51. Battle in Heaven poster
    Battle in Heaven (2005)
    Carlos Reygadas · 2 critic votes
    Set in Mexico City, Carlos Reygadas's sexually explicit drama centers on a man in turmoil over his past actions. Chauffer Marcos feels compelled to reveal a dark secret to his boss's daughter, Ana, a wealthy woman who works as a prostitute just for the thrill of it. Marcos confesses that he and his wife committed a crime that ended in horrible tragedy. Haunted by his past, Marcos searches for redemption.
  52. Babel poster
    Babel (2006)
    Alejandro González Iñárritu · 2 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel
    Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.
  53. Serras da Desordem poster
    Serras da Desordem (2006)
    Andrea Tonacci · 2 critic votes
    Carapiru is a member of one of Brazil's remaining indigenous peoples, living in harmony with nature and making wise use of the local flora and fauna. But Carapiru is suddenly forced to fend for himself and flees into the nearby rain forest, building a new life for himself with the help some sympathetic settlers. However, after rebuilding his life Carapiru is uprooted once again, this time by government agents. A expressive visual storytelling in this study of the native peoples of Brazil in the 21st century.
  54. Extraordinary Stories poster
    Extraordinary Stories (2008)
    Mariano Llinás · 2 critic votes
    X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a map; H is hired to go down a river and investigate a series of mysterious monoliths built on the shore.
  55. Biutiful poster
    Biutiful (2010)
    Alejandro González Iñárritu · 2 critic votes
    Streaming on Netflix, Kanopy, Netflix Standard with Ads
    This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.
  56. The Human Surge poster
    The Human Surge (2016)
    Eduardo Williams · 2 critic votes
    Streaming on Fandor Amazon Channel, Hoopla, Philo
    Buenos Aires. Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle. Through the dense vegetation of the forest, Archie tracks ants back to their nest. One of them wanders off course and comes across Canh, a Filipino, sitting on top of a giant heap of earth and who is about to go back to his strange, beautiful home town, where he too has a miserable job.
  57. Let's Go with Pancho Villa poster
    Let's Go with Pancho Villa (1936)
    Fernando de Fuentes · 1 critic vote
    The 1910 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. Together, they will endure the tragedies and hardships of a civil war.
  58. María Candelaria poster
    María Candelaria (1944)
    Emilio Fernández · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on fuboTV
    A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.
  59. Enamorada poster
    Enamorada (1946)
    Emilio Fernández · 1 critic vote
    In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
  60. Pueblerina poster
    Pueblerina (1948)
    Emilio Fernández · 1 critic vote
    Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life by marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.
  61. One Day of Life poster
    One Day of Life (1950)
    Emilio Fernández · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on fuboTV
    A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.
  62. Víctimas del Pecado poster
    Víctimas del Pecado (1951)
    Emilio Fernández · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, Vemox Cine Amazon Channel
    A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
  63. Remember to Live poster
    Remember to Live (1953)
    Roberto Gavaldón · 1 critic vote
    In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.
  64. Robinson Crusoe poster
    Robinson Crusoe (1954)
    Luis Buñuel · 1 critic vote
    Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free, Pluto TV · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Criterion Channel, FlixFling
    The titular adventurer, after defying his parents to go to sea, survives a shipwreck and becomes a castaway on a deserted island for nearly thirty years, learning to build a new life from scratch, discovering companionship with a native man he names Friday, and eventually returning to civilisation a changed man, finding wealth and new challenges.
  65. Wuthering Heights poster
    Wuthering Heights (1954)
    Luis Buñuel · 1 critic vote
    Free on The Roku Channel
    In 19th-century Mexico, young orphan Alejandro is adopted by the wealthy, landowning Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Catalina. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Catalina, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Eduardo, a man of means who befits her stature. Alejandro vows to win her back.
  66. Rio, Zona Norte poster
    Rio, Zona Norte (1957)
    Nelson Pereira dos Santos · 1 critic vote
    A talented songwriter of sambas is forced to face the social injustices of the city around him.
  67. Araya poster
    Araya (1959)
    Margot Benacerraf · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, Kino Film Collection
    "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. In images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.
  68. Macario poster
    Macario (1960)
    Roberto Gavaldón · 1 critic vote
    Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
  69. The Young Girl poster
    The Young Girl (1960)
    Luis Buñuel · 1 critic vote
    Free on Xumo Play
    A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
  70. Los Hermanos del Hierro poster
    Los Hermanos del Hierro (1961)
    Ismael Rodríguez · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Fawesome, Vemox Cine Amazon Channel
    Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
  71. Barravento poster
    Barravento (1962)
    Glauber Rocha · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Kanopy
    In Bahia, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from mysticism, in particular the Candomblé religion, which he considers a factor of political and social oppression, with tragic outcome.
  72. Chronicle of a Boy Alone poster
    Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965)
    Leonardo Favio · 1 critic vote
    The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in authoritarian Argentina.
  73. The Secret Formula poster
    The Secret Formula (1965)
    Rubén Gámez · 1 critic vote
    A cinematographic essay, full of surreal moments and provocative scenarios related to intellectual debates about the Mexican national character.
  74. CERRO PELADO poster
    CERRO PELADO (1966)
    Santiago Álvarez · 1 critic vote
    A ship of athletes training on the rough seas becomes a symbol of Castro’s Cuba, the games projected on the backdrop of political struggle. This is the story of a ship and of a sports delegation whom the enemy tried to stop from participating in the Tenth Central American and Caribbean Games.
  75. La muerte de un burócrata poster
    La muerte de un burócrata (1966)
    Tomás Gutiérrez Alea · 1 critic vote
    A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos in 2019.
  76. Ukamau poster
    Ukamau (1966)
    Jorge Sanjinés · 1 critic vote
    While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.
  77. Coffea Arábiga poster
    Coffea Arábiga (1968)
    Nicolás Guillén Landrián · 1 critic vote
    'Coffea arábiga' was sponsored as a propaganda documentary to show how to sow coffee around Havana. In fact, Guillén Landrián made a film critical of Castro, exhibited but banned as soon as the coffee plan collapsed.
  78. Three Sad Tigers poster
    Three Sad Tigers (1968)
    Raúl Ruiz · 1 critic vote
    A glimpse at the few days and nights in the lives of a brother and sister, Amanda and Tito, in Santiago’s semi-criminal underworld. A rambling portrait of Chilean society.
  79. 79 Springtimes poster
    79 Springtimes (1969)
    Santiago Álvarez · 1 critic vote
    This film memorializes the leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, on the occasion of his death. It narrates the story of a life which is also the story of a nation-recounting his important accomplishments in the struggle against colonialism and imperialism.
  80. Basta! poster
    Basta! (1969)
    Ugo Ulive · 1 critic vote
    “Through the use of violent symbols (loosely associated with Artaud’s notion of cruelty), some of the consequences of the current social organization in Latin-America are exposed: the alienation, marginalization and reification of men, and the continuous presence of imperialism, considered as rape.” (UU)
  81. Coup de Grâce poster
    Coup de Grâce (1969)
    Ricardo Becher · 1 critic vote
    During the day, a non-conformist young man and his friends try to make a living by doing odd jobs; at night, they sink at the Moderno Bar.
  82. Gray Morning poster
    Gray Morning (1969)
    Olney São Paulo · 1 critic vote
    A couple is arrested and tortured after taking part in a political demonstration, being sentenced to death.
  83. Macunaíma poster
    Macunaíma (1969)
    Joaquim Pedro de Andrade · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Kino Film Collection
    Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.
  84. Meio-Dia poster
    Meio-Dia (1969)
    Helena Solberg · 1 critic vote
    A group of school students sets up a rebellion that threatens to kill their teacher.
  85. The Dependent poster
    The Dependent (1969)
    Leonardo Favio · 1 critic vote
    Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family.
  86. El Topo poster
    El Topo (1970)
    Alejandro Jodorowsky · 1 critic vote
    El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.
  87. Bang Bang poster
    Bang Bang (1971)
    Andrea Tonacci · 1 critic vote
    An anonymous urban protagonist experiences a series of absurd situations--including a crazy cab ride, an encounter with a wacky criminal gang, and lots of gunplay--infused with a unique anarchic energy, eventually suggesting our true animal nature.
  88. The Night of San Juan poster
    The Night of San Juan (1971)
    Jorge Sanjinés · 1 critic vote
    A documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners and their families at the Siglo XX Mines in 1967 in Bolivia.
  89. Images of Silence poster
    Images of Silence (1972)
    Luiz Rosemberg Filho · 1 critic vote
    Without any sounds, dialogues and with unknown actors, the images are the focus of this film. Images that want to awake, to question determinant moments, state of a system's languages, the morality of deaths, the immobility, the silence, among other subjects. Shot at the height of the Brazilian military dictatorship, it is an affront to the most diverse types of repression in that period.
  90. São Bernardo poster
    São Bernardo (1972)
    Leon Hirszman · 1 critic vote
    The story of Paulo Honório, a poor ploughman who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways.
  91. Soul in the Eye poster
    Soul in the Eye (1973)
    Zózimo Bulbul · 1 critic vote
    Inspired by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver’s book Soul on Ice and dedicated to John Coltrane, Soul in the Eye marks the beginning of Black Brazilian films. The film is a metaphor for the legacy of culture and survival bestowed by enslaved Africans brought to the American continent and the search for freedom through inner transformation, in a game inspired by concretism.
  92. The Castle of Purity poster
    The Castle of Purity (1973)
    Arturo Ripstein · 1 critic vote
    A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.
  93. The Principal Enemy poster
    The Principal Enemy (1973)
    Jorge Sanjinés · 1 critic vote
    In the remote Andean highlands of Peru, a tight-knit indigenous peasant community has endured generations of brutal exploitation by local landowners. When a shocking act of violence exposes the complete failure of the official justice system to protect them, the villagers’ simmering anger pushes them toward a crossroads.
  94. The Traitors poster
    The Traitors (1973)
    Raymundo Gleyzer · 1 critic vote
    Based on a true story, the film narrates the life of a fictitious Peronist union leader who, after years of militancy, gains power in the union during the 1960s and gradually becomes a corrupt bureaucrat.
  95. Passacaglia and Fugue poster
    Passacaglia and Fugue (1975)
    Jorge Honik · 1 critic vote
    A movie filmed almost entirely in the interior of a house on the outskirts of S.C. de Bariloche, on the shores of Nahuel Huapi Lake, over the course of one full winter and the beginning of a spring. The camera, through frame-by-frame tracking and panning shots, goes along revealing furniture, corners, objects and books, using rails in the first instance and a calibrated disk mounted on a tripod in the second. The house vibrates with its own life, revealing almost ghostlike traces and vestiges while the human presence is barely suggested. These shots alternate with others of the landscape: a lake, snow, bushes rattled by the wind, the passing of the seasons, external signs that accentuate the solitude of the interior spaces.
  96. Workshop poster
    Workshop (1975)
    Narcisa Hirsch · 1 critic vote
    on the image of a collage on the wall, the voice of a woman describes a man the interior space of a workshop that is not seen.
  97. Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica poster
    Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica (1976)
    Jorge Bodanzky · 1 critic vote
    A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that transports wood. Dreaming with the big city, she asks for a ride, and the two begin a journey through the Trans-Amazon road. In tension with the Brazilian military authorities of the time, the film registers several aspects of the Amazon social tragedy – forest fires, slave work and child prostitution. Awarded in several international festivals, the film was forbidden by the Brazilian censorship. It was only released years later, winning the Brasília Film Festival in 1981.
  98. Salome poster
    Salome (1976)
    Teo Hernández · 1 critic vote
    A personal interpretation of Oscar Wilde Salome from three basic elements: the light, the color, and the projection speed.
  99. Soñar, soñar poster
    Soñar, soñar (1976)
    Leonardo Favio · 1 critic vote
    Mario, “el Rulo,” is a wanderer who travels the country giving artistic performances. One day he passes through the town of Carlos, a municipal employee who dreams of being an artist. A friendship is born between the two of them, and Carlos leaves it all behind to follow Mario.
  100. Di Cavalcanti poster
    Di Cavalcanti (1977)
    Glauber Rocha · 1 critic vote
    This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.
  101. Matinée poster
    Matinée (1977)
    Jaime Humberto Hermosillo · 1 critic vote
    Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in the robberies until the adventure turns into something more sinister and dangerous.
  102. The Rattlesnake poster
    The Rattlesnake (1977)
    Raúl Araiza · 1 critic vote
    A filmmaker is commissioned to film a documentary on the social reality of the Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas. As he enters the harsh living conditions of this indigenous community, his social conscience forces him to confront his superiors, who threaten to destroy his material.
  103. El lugar sin límites poster
    El lugar sin límites (1978)
    Arturo Ripstein · 1 critic vote
    Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
  104. Ofrenda poster
    Ofrenda (1978)
    Claudio Caldini · 1 critic vote
    Short film that shows daisies throughout the day with music as an accompaniment.
  105. The Agony poster
    The Agony (1978)
    Julio Bressane · 1 critic vote
    She is a fortune teller, he is a killer on the run. He gives her a ride and an tragic love affair begins.
  106. The Lyre of Delight poster
    The Lyre of Delight (1978)
    Walter Lima, Jr. · 1 critic vote
    During the Carnival, in Niterói, the son of a Lira do Delírio nightclub dancer is kidnapped. With the help of a journalist friend, she dives into Rio de Janeiro's underworld and meet all kind of criminals. She also goes back in time, to a past carnival, where she thinks she might pin-point the culprit among a group of people.
  107. Things of Women poster
    Things of Women (1978)
    Rosa Martha Fernández · 1 critic vote
    A young sociology student has an unintended pregnancy and is subjected to the terrible humiliation of an incompetent doctor. The girl falls ill from the poorly performed abortion and is taken by a friend to the General Hospital. Film that reports clandestine abortion in Mexico, with interviews with women who have had abortions in that hospital and shocking maternal death statistics from procedures carried out under unsafe conditions.
  108. Bolivar, sinfonia tropical poster
    Bolivar, sinfonia tropical (1979)
    Diego Risquez · 1 critic vote
    This is the first of Diego Risquez’ trilogy of avant-garde cinematic treatments of historical subjects. Using a painterly style, it features portraits, still lifes, and scenes shot as tableaux vivants, the film provides an experimental interpretation of the arrival of the Spanish and their domination of the New World, as well as the Venezuelan Independence movement, focusing on the role of Simón Bolívar. There is no dialogue or narration, simply a musical score and the depiction of events from Bolívar’s career.
  109. The Pioneers poster
    The Pioneers (1979)
    Narcisa Hirsch · 1 critic vote
    Documentary about Jewish colonizers in Argentina.
  110. The Roses of the Road poster
    The Roses of the Road (1981)
    Ozualdo Candeias · 1 critic vote
    The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a potentially better life is through prostitution, often with truck drivers.
  111. Time for Revenge poster
    Time for Revenge (1981)
    Adolfo Aristarain · 1 critic vote
    Two coworkers decide to blackmail the corrupt demolition company they work for by setting up a fake accident.
  112. Journal inachevé poster
    Journal inachevé (1982)
    Marilú Mallet · 1 critic vote
    In this heartwarming docudrama, Chilean immigrant Marilú Mallet strives to make a film about her experience of deep isolation. Her English-speaking husband, a prominent film director, criticizes her subjective approach to filmmaking; her young son, raised in Quebec, speaks only French. Interviews with Isabel Allende and other Chilean exiles reveal a deep bond in this powerful and resonant film about language and genre, exile and immigration.
  113. Miss Universo en el Perú poster
    Miss Universo en el Perú (1982)
    Grupo Chaski · 1 critic vote
    A documentary which shows the struggle of many women surrounding the Miss Universe 1982 pageant hosted by Peru. The government invested a large sum of money in this event, during a time the country suffered an acute political, economic and social crisis. On the other hand, we can appreciate the denigrating use of the women's image in publicity.
  114. The Circular Scene poster
    The Circular Scene (1982)
    Claudio Caldini · 1 critic vote
    The silhouettes of a couple in the window were filmed with few directions for the protagonists. They suggested the synthesis of cinematic space and the universality of their figures. The camera draws attention to moments, gestures, and actions, all inserted into the parentheses of a fade-in/fade-out. Cinema rediscovered as an effective memory machine.
  115. L'eau de la Seine poster
    L'eau de la Seine (1983)
    Teo Hernández · 1 critic vote
    Teo Hernandez films the water of the Seine and its reflections for a film at once material and luminous.
  116. Llacquiy Huata (1983)
    Magdaleno Nina · 1 critic vote
    Two days watching Don Valentin, Quechua pastor of lamas and sheep from the highlands.
  117. Kiss of the Spider Woman poster
    Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
    Héctor Babenco · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, Cinemax Amazon Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.
  118. Abolition poster
    Abolition (1988)
    Zózimo Bulbul · 1 critic vote
    In 1988, the centenary of abolition of slavery in Brazil, Zózimo Bulbul made this powerful historical analysis of racial issues in his country. This documentary provides an in-depth look through extensive archival researching and interviews of key figures who were involved in preserving black culture. Aside from historical testimony, this epic documentary also points to the current relevance of facing the racism that still confronts the black population in Brazil.
  119. La nación clandestina poster
    La nación clandestina (1990)
    Jorge Sanjinés · 1 critic vote
    Sebastian Mamani returns to his Aymara community from which he was expelled long ago. He is carrying the great mask of death, he must dance 'til death.
  120. Little White Dove poster
    Little White Dove (1993)
    Raúl Ruiz · 1 critic vote
    A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with the boy. Together they take care of it bringing it back to recovery.
  121. The Strategy of the Snail poster
    The Strategy of the Snail (1993)
    Sergio Cabrera · 1 critic vote
    A group of tenants facing eviction due to a city renovation unite to fight back, but as they clash with the landlord and his ruthless attorney, they each transform into the opposite of who they once were.
  122. Long Live the Hobos poster
    Long Live the Hobos (1995)
    Ana Poliak · 1 critic vote
    The film tells the story of an imigrant to Argentina who works for the railway company of this land. Being a witness to the history of the land of silver in this century the film is also a shortcut of the changes in Argentina during the last 100 years.
  123. Chile, the Obstinate Memory poster
    Chile, the Obstinate Memory (1997)
    Patricio Guzmán · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on OVID
    After decades of fascist rule in Chile, Patricio Guzmán returns to his country to screen his documentary The Battle of Chile.
  124. Central Station poster
    Central Station (1998)
    Walter Salles · 1 critic vote
    An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
  125. Lavoura Arcaica poster
    Lavoura Arcaica (2001)
    Luiz Fernando Carvalho · 1 critic vote
    In 1940s São Paulo, Pedro’s tasked to retrieve his estranged brother André. André’s departure stems from a domineering father, an overly affectionate mother, and Pedro’s jealousy over the father’s favoritism. Further complicating matters is André’s unconventional relationship with their sister, Ana.
  126. Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody poster
    Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody (2002)
    Raúl Ruiz · 1 critic vote
    An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV in a rigorous yet playful manner".
  127. Japón poster
    Japón (2002)
    Carlos Reygadas · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old religious woman. Although only a few words are spoken, love grows.
  128. Madame Satã poster
    Madame Satã (2002)
    Karim Aïnouz · 1 critic vote
    In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-convict, thug, homosexual and adopted father for a number of pariahs. João expresses himself on the stage of a cabaret as Madame Satã.
  129. The Blonds poster
    The Blonds (2003)
    Albertina Carri · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Kanopy
    In 1977, when she was four years old, Albertina Carri's parents vanished without a trace, victims of Argentina's brutal military junta. In this fresh and politically daring film, the young Argentinian filmmaker attempts to unravel the mystery, piecing together her memories and fantasies in a quest to understand her parents' untimely fate.
  130. Los muertos poster
    Los muertos (2004)
    Lisandro Alonso · 1 critic vote
    Vargas, a 54 year old man, gets out of jail in the province of Corrientes, Argentina. Once released, he wants to find his now adult daughter, who lives in a swampy and remote area. A deep mystery surrounds him.
  131. Paraguayan Hammock poster
    Paraguayan Hammock (2006)
    Paz Encina · 1 critic vote
    Set in 1935, a couple of aged smallholders are waiting for their son, for rain, for better days.
  132. Elite Squad poster
    Elite Squad (2007)
    José Padilha · 1 critic vote
    Free on Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on BFI Player Amazon Channel
    In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
  133. Santiago poster
    Santiago (2007)
    João Moreira Salles · 1 critic vote
    Documentary about Santiago, a peculiar man who used to work for the director and his parents as a butler. The material was filmed in 1992 but, for some strange reason, the director felt he couldn't edit it and put it aside. In 2005 he remembers the unfinished film and starts its edition.
  134. XXY poster
    XXY (2007)
    Lucía Puenzo · 1 critic vote
    Free on Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on MUBI, Kanopy, MUBI Amazon Channel
    Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her gender, she meets both hostility and compassion.
  135. The Milk of Sorrow poster
    The Milk of Sorrow (2009)
    Claudia Llosa · 1 critic vote
    Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.
  136. El lugar más pequeño poster
    El lugar más pequeño (2011)
    Tatiana Huezo · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on OVID
    Years after the Salvadoran military destroyed the village of Cinquera in that country’s civil war, survivors have returned to rebuild their community. Soulful, beautifully rendered, this amazing debut is an evocative testament to place, memory and the power of life to rebound from tragedy.
  137. After Lucia poster
    After Lucia (2012)
    Michel Franco · 1 critic vote
    Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind.
  138. Neighbouring Sounds poster
    Neighbouring Sounds (2012)
    Kleber Mendonça Filho · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Kanopy
    An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.
  139. No (2012 film) poster
    No (2012 film) (2012)
    Pablo Larraín · 1 critic vote
    Free on Tubi TV
    In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
  140. Gloria poster
    Gloria (2013)
    Sebastián Lelio · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Kanopy
    Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.
  141. The Boy and the World poster
    The Boy and the World (2013)
    Alê Abreu · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Kanopy
    Suffering because of his father's departure to the big city, a boy leaves his village and discovers a fantastic world dominated by bug-engines and strange beings. An unusual animation with various artistic techniques that portrays the issues of the modern world through the eyes of a child.
  142. The Salt of the Earth poster
    The Salt of the Earth (2014)
    Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado · 1 critic vote
    Free on YouTube Free
    During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes: a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.
  143. Untitled #1: Dance of Leitfossil poster
    Untitled #1: Dance of Leitfossil (2014)
    Carlos Adriano · 1 critic vote
    Experimental Short, Brazil
  144. Embrace of the Serpent poster
    Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
    Ciro Guerra · 1 critic vote
    Free on Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on Kanopy, Fandor Amazon Channel, OVID
    The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
  145. Ixcanul poster
    Ixcanul (2015)
    Jayro Bustamante · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Kino Film Collection
    María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a place she cannot even imagine. And so she seduces a coffee-harvester who wants to escape to the USA. When this man leaves her behind, María discovers her own world and culture anew.
  146. The Pearl Button poster
    The Pearl Button (2015)
    Patricio Guzmán · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, OVID
    The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.
  147. Tempestad poster
    Tempestad (2016)
    Tatiana Huezo · 1 critic vote
    Free on Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Runtime
    A woman is recruited to a prison controlled by organized crime while another woman searches for her missing daughter. Through images that submerges us in a journey from north to south Mexico, both testimonies collide and take us to the center of a storm: a country where violence has taken control of our lives, our desires and our dreams.
  148. La París poster
    La París (2018)
    Jaime Guerra · 1 critic vote
    An essay on time, the perception of time. An invitation to slow down. A small mirror that allows us to see details but never a complete image of who we really are.
  149. Our Time poster
    Our Time (2018)
    Carlos Reygadas · 1 critic vote
    Free on JustWatch TV, Tubi TV, Plex · Streaming on MUBI, Kanopy, Fandor Amazon Channel
    A family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. Although in an open marriage, their relationship begins to crumble when Esther falls in love with an American horsebreaker and Juan is unable to control his jealousy.
  150. The Chambermaid poster
    The Chambermaid (2018)
    Lila Avilés · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Kino Film Collection
    Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.
  151. Bacurau poster
    Bacurau (2019)
    Kleber Mendonça Filho · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Kino Film Collection
    Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
  152. De lo mio poster
    De lo mio (2019)
    Diana Peralta · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Two "ride or die" sisters raised in NYC reunite with their estranged brother in Dominican Republic to clean out their late father's childhood home. The siblings laugh, brawl, and face their demons as they come to terms with letting go of their last connection to their motherland.
  153. Gloomy Eyes poster
    Gloomy Eyes (2019)
    Fernando Maldonado, Jorge Tereso · 1 critic vote
    Poor Gloomy. It’s 1983, and the fact that he’s a zombie makes him an outcast. Hiding out in the forest, Gloomy has his sights on a human girl. But her uncle happens to be one of the most feared zombie-hunters in the land. Set in a surreal universe that owes a debt to the visual stylings of Tim Burton, this awardwinning VR experience pairs surreal animation with a darkly humorous take on zombie-human relations.
  154. Monos poster
    Monos (2019)
    Alejandro Landes · 1 critic vote
    Free on Tubi TV · Streaming on Kanopy
    On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
  155. The Cordillera of Dreams poster
    The Cordillera of Dreams (2019)
    Patricio Guzmán · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on OVID
    "In Chile, when the sun rises, it had to climb hills, walls and tops before reaching the last stone of the Cordillera. In my country, the Cordillera is everywhere. But for the Chilean citizens, it is an unknown territory. After going North for Nostalgia for the Light and South for The Pearl Button, I now feel ready to shoot this immense spine to explore its mysteries, powerful revelations of Chile’s past and present history." Patricio Guzmán
  156. The Line poster
    The Line (2019)
    Ricardo Laganaro · 1 critic vote
    The story of Pedro and Rosa, two miniature dolls who are perfect for each other, but reluctant to break boundaries and overcome their limitations to live out their love story.
  157. República poster
    República (2020)
    Grace Passô · 1 critic vote
    One night, a Brazilian woman wakes up in a country exhausted from violent acts. Republic is a short film realized at home, in the beginning of 2020s quarantine, in the center of São Paulo, República neighborhood.
  158. This Land Is Ours! poster
    This Land Is Ours! (2020)
    Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Carolina Canguçu, Roberto Romero · 1 critic vote
    In the past, when white people didn’t exist, we used to hunt with our yãmĩyxop spirits. The whites came, cut down the trees, dried up the rivers and scared the animals away. Today, our tall trees are over, the whites surrounded us and our lands are tiny. But our yãmĩyxop are very strong and taught us the stories and chants from our ancients who walked around here.
  159. Official Competition poster
    Official Competition (2021)
    Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn · 1 critic vote
    Free on Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on Sundance Now, Kanopy, AMC+
    Jan, a mysterious character haunted by a deep feeling of guilt, tries to get Violeta back, a youth love he lost 20 years ago, with a sickening plan.
  160. Smog in Your Heart poster
    Smog in Your Heart (2022)
    Lucia Séles · 1 critic vote
    The maximum nonsense of life plays with the feelings of the owner and the employees of a tennis complex.
  161. weak rangers poster
    weak rangers (2022)
    Lucia Séles · 1 critic vote
    The final match of the "tennis trilogy" sharpens the humor to the maximum and unleashes all the dramas -some of them, even beaten to death- between the owner and the employees of the complex, with strange melancholic notes and new characters that join the ordeal in its last station.
  162. The Delinquents poster
    The Delinquents (2023)
    Rodrigo Moreno · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
    Morán works as a clerk in a bank in Buenos Aires. He is as good as invisible to his colleagues. Over dinner with his colleague Román, Morán tells him that he stole exactly $650,000, which is exactly double what he would have made until his retirement. He plans to turn himself in, but not before offering Román to split the money if agrees to hide it for the duration of his incarceration.
  163. Tótem poster
    Tótem (2023)
    Lila Avilés · 1 critic vote
    Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel
    In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.
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