A beautiful Argentine activist receives preferential treatment from a man supposed to torture her.
A documentary about the controversial businessman Henning Boilesen Jr. and his involvement with the military regime as one of its most enthusiastic supporters, financing it and participating in the tortures of political prisoners. Those actions later culminated in his assassination in 1971 by members of militant groups opposed to the regime.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
ビルマ（現ミャンマー）建国の勇士として亡き後も国民から敬愛されている将軍を父に持つ、アウンサンスーチー。1988年、母の看病のためにイギリスから祖国のビルマへと戻った彼女は、軍事政権が若者たちの民主主義運動を弾圧するのを目の当たりにしてショックを受ける。そんな中、民主主義運動家たちが彼女の帰国を知って選挙への出馬を訴える。彼らの切実な思いを知って立候補を決意し、民衆の前に立つスーチーだが、それを機に軍事独裁政権から想像を絶する圧力をかけられる。
A bunch of delinquent women are shipped to an island prison run by the sadistic warden Carla. Forced into situations of sexual perversion and violence and torture, the prisoners band together to try to overthrow Carla and escape the island.
The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing in the government into disarray.
Stunning espionage documentary on the US conspiracy that led to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson original White House tapes, and CIA Top Secret documents reveal how the US government planned to overthrow Brazilian elected president João Goulart.
In 1968, Orlando Lovecchio was made victim of a guerilla's bomb terrorist attack, which main objective was to fight against the Military Regime. Orlando lost one leg after the world-reckoned attack against the U.S. Consulate in Sao Paulo.
Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s.
Telmo is a retired theater director that realizes he doesn't remember the time he spent kept in jail during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He decides to stage a play and, with threads of memory, he improvises the lines with his young cast. Telmo dives into his own history and ends up revealing for himself what, being so painful, he'd rather forget.
1987年1月、全斗煥大統領による軍事政権下の韓国。南営洞警察のパク所長は北分子を徹底的に排除するべく、取り調べを日ごとに激化させていた。そんな中、行き過ぎた取り調べによってソウル大学の学生が死亡してしまう。警察は隠蔽のため遺体の火葬を申請するが、違和感を抱いたチェ検事は検死解剖を命じ、拷問致死だったことが判明。さらに、政府が取り調べ担当刑事2人の逮捕だけで事件を終わらせようとしていることに気づいた新聞記者や刑務所看守らは、真実を公表するべく奔走する。また、殺された大学生の仲間たちも立ち上がり、事態は韓国全土を巻き込む民主化闘争へと展開していく。＜1987年1月14日の学生運動家朴鍾哲拷問致死事件から6月民主抗争に至る大韓民国の民主化闘争を描いた韓国映画＞
“Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years. As a backdrop to the romance, the feature highlights four phases of Brazilian history: colonization, slavery, the Military Regime and the future, in 2096, when there will be a war for water.
Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, Tião's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men.
Based on a real event, this is the spectacular escape of seven prisoners in 1991 from the Villa Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the process of digging a tunnel to escape, they make a bizarre and frightening discovery just as they are about to break through to freedom. One escapee promises to report their findings when they are all free and once out, he pays his debt to "the tunnel of bones,"sharing their macabre story with a local journalist, and ultimately the world.
After decades of fascist rule in Chile, Patricio Guzmán returns to his country to screen his documentary The Battle of Chile.
Four siblings, whose their father disappeared during Brazilian Military Dictatorship, report their childhood during the regime.
Documentary about the detention-dissapearance of Juan Marcos Herman in the city of Bariloche during the Dirty War in Argentina
Lissette's favorite aunt Adriana, who lives in Australia, is arrested in 2007 while visiting her family in Chile and accused of having worked for dictator Pinochet's notorious secret police, the DINA, and of having participated in the commission of state crimes. When Adriana denies these accusations, Lissette begins to investigate her story in order to film a documentary about her.
