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- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsOmar SharifJack PalanceCesare DanovaAn intentionally noncommittal version of the Cuban revolution told through flashbacks, the film recounts Che's switch from doctor to politico in Castro's campaign.
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordKatharine RossIn 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. After considering their options, they escape to South America.
- DirectorMateo GilStarsSam ShepardEduardo NoriegaStephen ReaIn Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
- DirectorJohn Griffith WrayStarsDolores Del RíoWalter PidgeonAnders RandolfTo prevent discovery of the cruel methods he is using in building a Bolivian railway, Gillespie ( Anders Randolf ), a ruthless construction crew foreman, attempts to kill Arthur Wyatt ( Walter Pidgeon ), an Englishman sent to inspect the job. Gillespie's niece, Toni ( Dolores Del Rio ), a half-breed, discovers the plot and saves Wyatt after he has been shot by her uncle's accomplice.
- DirectorErik GandiniTarik SalehStarsJon Lee AndersonCiro BustosRégis DebrayThe two young Swedish journalist's Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh have worked one year with Sacrificio, a film about the events surrounding the death of Che Guevara. They have traveled the world around and met among others the man who shot Che Guevara and the former CIA agent who walks around with Che's last tobacco in his pistol butt. In their attempts to find out what really happened they discover that the man who is accused of having betrayed Che Guevara as a matter of fact lives in Malmö, in the south of Sweden.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsMarcelino YanahuayaBenedicta MendozaVicente Verneros SalinasThe reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsDemián BichirRodrigo SantoroBenicio Del ToroIn 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America.
- DirectorIcíar BollaínStarsGael García BernalLuis TosarKarra ElejaldeAs a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
- DirectorAlejandro QuirogaStarsFernando Arze EchalarSonia ParadaIgnacio RuízGregório is a rustic and idealistic peasant who lives frustrated in the village of Rosillas. Arrogant and bold, he wants to recover the waters of the family's old dam, which were diverted by Colonel Igrejas, an Argentinean farmer who acts in collusion with the town's mayor to benefit the cultivation of his own vines. In the midst of all this, Gregório will have to face the contempt of the residents, the corruption and the socioeconomic power of the elite, leaving aside the love for his little son Olegário, the care for his elderly parents and the love of Paula, the teacher at the school who insists that he go live in the city. How does the one who stays on the land that everyone has decided to leave survives.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsAl PacinoMichelle PfeifferSteven BauerIn 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
- DirectorDavid Gordon GreenStarsSandra BullockBilly Bob ThorntonAnthony MackieA battle-hardened American political consultant is sent to help re-elect a controversial president in Bolivia, where she must compete with a long-term rival working for another candidate.
- DirectorJosé María Velasco MaidanaStarsJuanita TallansierArturo BordaDámaso Eduardo DelgadoThe story of a an Inca Princess who falls in love with a Captain of the Spanish army.
- DirectorJosé María Velasco Maidana
- DirectorPedro SambarinoStarsAbel MaldonadoJulio César IbarguenEncarbación AvigdorAn Aymara woman struggles against accusations that she is unfaithful to her husband.
- DirectorSarah PolleyStarsRooney MaraClaire FoyJessie BuckleyDo nothing, stay and fight, or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
- DirectorJames GrayStarsCharlie HunnamRobert PattinsonSienna MillerA true-life drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsElsa AntequeraNéstor CárdenasBenedicta HuancaWhile her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.
- DirectorNicolás IpamoAlejandro NozaIván SanjinésStarsAntonia GualujnaMaria VeronicaA logging company enters the indigenous community of Beni in Bolivia and begins logging. They hire local people make promises of the benefits they will receive, but the Indians gradually become aware of the logging company's deceptions and rapacious behavior, and they drive them out. This marks the beginning of the Indigenous Rights Movement in Beni.
- DirectorPaolo HeuschStarsFrancisco RabalJohn IrelandSusanna MartinkováThe story of Che Guevara's desperate attempt to escape the mountains of Bolivia. Pursued by an elite ranger unit of the army led by a determined CIA agent, Che is eventually trapped and his men are killed.
- DirectorChristian BaudissinStarsHans ErtlMonika ErtlIn 1971 she was 'wanted' for political murder, because she had assassinated a Bolivian Colonel, who represented the oppressive military dictatorship in the South American country. In 1973 she was ambushed and shot by the police forces led by the notorious Klaus Barbie, former Gestapo chief in Lyons, France - see also Hôtel Terminus (1988). Monika had tried to abduct him to bring him to France and have him accused for his crimes. Who was Monika Ertl, who is said to have met Ernesto Che Guevara? The documentary follows her traces, interviewing her family as well as her former fellow combatants.
- DirectorJavier Ruiz CalderaStarsJuan José BallestaLuis CallejoLiah O'PreyIn this drama inspired by the life of Lucio Urtubia, an anarchist targets one of the world's biggest banks with an ingenious counterfeiting operations.
- DirectorLuis PuenzoStarsNorma AleandroHéctor AlterioChunchuna VillafañeDuring the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
- DirectorJunji SakamotoStarsJoe OdagiriAlexis Díaz de VillegasRoberto EspinosaThe first film in forty years to be co-produced by Cuba and Japan, it recounts the story of Freddy Maymura Hurtado who was a Bolivian man of Japanese descent. He joined the freedom fighters lead by Che Guevara in 1966 and was martyred at the age of twenty five. Aiming to rid his world of injustice and the gap between the rich and powerful and the rest of us the inspiring film reminds the viewer of the need for living with a purpose. Ernesto means 'serious,' but was also Che Guevara's first name.
- DirectorHelvio SotoStarsHector DuvauchellePatricia GuzmánJorge GuerraThe plot takes place in 1879 through 1880 during the War of the Pacific. The film decries the cruelty and absurdity of war and the disunity among the peoples of Latin America.
- DirectorAlejandro Loayza GrisiStarsJosé CalcinaLuisa QuispeCandelaria QuispeIn the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.
- DirectorLuis LlosaStarsCraig ShefferSandra BullockJuan FernándezDeforestation of the Amazon is forcing indigenous Indians away, so few men can profit from cattle. Opposition gets killed. A US photojournalist tries to investigate. Activist Alyssa helps him.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsJack HoltAntonio MorenoMona BarrieA war between Bolivia and Paraguay is the setting for the stories of flyers involved with both sides in the conflict.
- DirectorWilfred JacksonJack KinneyHamilton LuskeStarsFred ShieldsJosé OliveiraLee BlairDisney animators tour South America and present four animated shorts inspired by their trip.
- DirectorMauricio Alfredo OvandoA film about the image that my grandfather created of himself during his dictatorial regime in Bolivia during the 60's decade. Like in celluloid movies, every time i stop to see deeper into the image of my grandpa, something burns inside of me.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsLucas AchiricoLuis AduviriCarlos AraújoThrough recreation of historical events, this is the story of Bolivia's indigenous people's struggle for their sovereignty, lost due to Spanish colonization and oppression. Bolivian heroes, whose stories are absent in official history, are finally told.
- DirectorMarcos LoayzaStarsAndrea AliagaLuigi AntezanaMarioli ArteagaIn a lawless country that no longer cares about the victims or perpetrators, the humble Officer QUISPE, faces his superiors in order to find out the truth about the murders of beautiful models.
- DirectorAntonio EguinoStarsJuan Carlos AguirreElsa AntequeraAlberto BohorquezAfter several years a student returns to his native village only to find that despite the agrarian reform act of 1952, nothing has changed in the treatment of peasants, and racial discrimination continues.
- DirectorAmy HeskethStarsJac AvilaMila JoyaAmy HeskethAn imprisoned aristocrat purchases condemned women.
- DirectorFernando MartínezViviana SaavedraStarsJorge JamarlliFernando Arze EchalarDavid SantallaA former paramilitary of one of the strongest dictatorships in Bolivia, today is a grandfather. He shares his life with his 2 sons: Armando and Carlos.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsDomitila de ChungaraEusebio GirondaFederico VallejoA documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners and their families at the Siglo XX Mines in 1967 in Bolivia. The film starts with previous massacres and represions (starting 1942 in Catavi), before and after the bolivian Revolution, and puts the finger on the people responsible. All of this according to the director's belief of movies having to show what people wanted: and people wanted to know causes and responsibilities. A little reading on the history of Bolivia after the revolution should led to a better understanding of this film, for it was directed to people who actually lived the process (some of them acting in the movie), and many meaningful sequences and details may not be understood in all their symbolic and historic value.
- DirectorJuan Pablo RichterStarsSantiago RozoValentina VillalpandoFernando Arze EchalarAn introvert city teenager is sent to his father's timber ranch. While trying to figure out his place as the son of the boss he finds himself in a world packed with naturalized violence.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsGuido ArceMarcelo GuzmánReynaldo YujraA group of young national filmmakers arrive in an indigenous community to film there a film about the Spanish conquerors of the 16th century. In their behavior and in their eagerness to get the inhabitants of the region to cooperate with them, they reproduce the same defects and prejudices that they intended to criticize in their film.
- DirectorJac AvilaStarsBeatriz RiveraJac AvilaIn 1501 the Spanish Inquisition is still in force. Isabel's inebriate father proudly announces his daughter's engagement to Torquemada, a brutal lord, without consulting his lovely daughter and she refuses to agree to the wedding. When his father grabs her on the turret of the lord's castle, there is a struggle as she tries to pull from his grasp, resulting in the old man falling from the rampart to his death below. Clearly this is a tragic accident, but Torquemada - the lord of the palace and surrounding lands - has been publicly humiliated. He accuses Isabel of murder and locks her in his dungeon to await a trial that never comes, for the vicious man intends to use the powers of the Inquisition to torture and destroy the woman who rejected him. Will Isabel be able to resist him and survive?
- DirectorJorge SanjinésIn the village of Tankuy, farmers are roused to revolutionary action against US based imperialism after one of them, an indigenous man, is brutalized by a landowner.Native non professionals contributed to and helped direct this example of radical, Collective oriented Latin American filmmaking.
- DirectorAntonio EguinoStarsLuis AldanaEddy BravoGermán CalderónExplores the Pacific War, between Bolivia, Chile and Peru in the late 1800s.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsPiti CamposJorge HidalgoLuis AduviriIn November 1825, in the Bolivian city of Chuquisaca, doña Juana Azurduy Bermúdez de Padilla, heroine of the independence war against the Spanish army, receives the visit of the liberators Simón Bolívar, Antonio José de Sucre and José Miguel Lanza. Throughout a long conversation, the woman will receive the admiration of the rulers, while reminiscing the most significant episodes of her career as a patriot and commander of the armed forces.
- DirectorJac AvilaStarsAmy HeskethMila JoyaRoberto LopezMaria Francisca, a wealthy young heiress and her friend Mariana De Castro, a young protestant widow, are accused of witchcraft and taken before the Spanish Inquisition of Lima, Peru.
- DirectorAntonio EguinoStarsDiego BertieCarla OrtizMilton CortezEnd of the 20's. Alfonso a young writer brought up in France, arrives to an adventurous mining town (Uyuni) in the midst of the Bolivian high plateau. Here he meets the beautiful Claudina a sensual, strong willed chola, la "Misqui simi" ("The one with the sweet lips"). Uyuni radiates a strange magnetism, it is charged with a collective euphoria produced by the bewitching mineral. The lives of the characters enter a whirl of passion, ambition and frustration.
- DirectorOmar L. VillarroelStarsCarmen SalinasLuis BredowPablo FernandezThe legal and illegal status of immigrants and the discrimination endured by a segment whom are only looking to a better way of life.
- DirectorJuan Carlos ValdiviaStarsNinón del CastilloPascual LoayzaNicolás FernándezFor a rich upper-class family locked into their own little world, Bolivia's social changes threaten to burst their bubble.
- DirectorOscar Salazar CrespoStarsLuigi AntezanaFernando Arze EchalarPaloma DelaineWhen war broke out, a group of soccer players changed the playing field for the battlefield to win one of the most remembered battles in the history of Bolivia. Based on real events, FUERTES tells a glorious episode of courage and passion.
- DirectorCarlos BoladoStarsDamián AlcázarRafael FerroCarla OrtizAfter suffering a heart attack, retired General José Mendieta is haunted by his past as an officer in Operation Condor, the CIA-backed campaign of political repression in Latin America.
- DirectorPaolo AgazziStarsDiego BertieSalvador del SolarLucía JiménezIts about corruption in government institutions, in this specific case, the police. How the master plan to steal a bank truck finds its origins in the highest spheres of society. It is a good movie and the actress is awesomely good.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsJulio BaltazarPercy BrunZulema BustamanteSebastian Mamani returns to his Aymara community from which he was expelled long ago. He is carrying the great mask of death, he must dance until he died, in a kind of atonement for the sins that caused his exile and as a way to be reborn in his lost cultural identity.