All Doors Were Closed (1990)

The most important political, post-military junta satire about the nation, the religion, the education, the family.

The story of João "Jango" Goulart, the Brazilian left-wing president deposed by the military.

A film about the fearless photographers and photojournalists who documented strikes, demonstrations, protests etc during the Chilean military regime of Augusto Pinochet, sometimes risking their very lives.

Documentary about the military coup in Chile.

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.

The story of Myo Myint, a political prisoner, who made the transformation from being a soldier in Burma's junta to a pro-democracy activist.

Race-car driver Blaine Striker grows concerned about his younger brother, a student at a medical school on the Caribbean island of St. Heron. General Turner has led a violent coup on this island and may be planning to blow up the school in order to blame the destruction on counterrevolutionaries. Striker infiltrates St. Heron, is captured, stripped to his tighty-whiteys, and electrotortured. He escapes, joins forces with the counterrevolutionaries, and foils a plot to assemble Russian missiles on the island.

Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.

미국 중산층 가정 출신인 청년 찰리 호먼(Charles Horman: 존 쉐아 분)은 아내 베시(Beth Horman: 시시 스페이식 분)와 같이 남미의 칠레에 가서 그곳에서 불편한 생활을 마다않고 자그마한 신문 등 출판물을 만들며 살고 있다. 찰리는 데이빗, 프랭크, 테리(Terry Simon: 멜라니 메이론 분) 등 의기투합한 젊은이들과 나름대로의 인생관, 세계관을 펴고 있다. 뉴욕에 살고 있는 아버지 애드 호먼(Ed Horman: 잭 레몬 분)은 그러한 아들 찰리가 못마땅하다. 랄리의 아내, 그러니까 며느리가 돼 있는 베시가 아들을 그렇게 만들었다고 여기고 베시를 싫어하는 터였다. 그런데 칠레에 가 있는 아들 찰리에게 문제가 생겼다. 실종됐다는 베시의 연락이다. 칠레로 달려온 아버지는 베시로부터 실종 경위를 듣는다. 그 나라에서 쿠데타가 일어난 날 찰리와 베시의 친구인 테리는 '비냐'라는 곳에 가 있었는데, 관광 여행으로 베시는 바쁜 일로 동행하지 못했다. 그런데 비냐에서 찰리는 그 나라 군대의 쿠데타를 보게 되었는데, 미국의 고급장교들이 비냐에 왜 와 있는가하며 의심했다고 한다. 바로 찰리는 이 나라 쿠데타에 미군이 개입돼 있다는 심증을 갖게 된 것이다. 그 단계에서 찰리는 실종이 아닌 쿠데타군이 잡아간 것이다. 그런데 더더욱 재미있는 건 쿠데타군은 미대사관의 허락이 없이는 감히 미국 시민을 어쩌지 못하도록 되어있는데.

한 남자의 아내이자 두 아이의 엄마로 영국에서 평범한 삶을 살던 아웅 산 수 치는 위독한 어머니의 병간호를 위해 미얀마로 돌아간다. 하지만 오랜만에 찾은 고국에서 자유를 탄압받고 있는 끔찍한 상황을 목격하게 되고, 자신을 지지하는 국민들의 바람을 받아들여 아버지가 못다 이룬 조국의 민주화를 실현시키기로 결심한다. 그러나 독재적인 군사정권에 의해 오히려 가택연금을 당하는 신세가 된다. 외부와 차단된 길고 외로운 나날이 계속되던 그녀에게 남편이 암에 걸려 죽음을 앞두고 있다는 소식이 전해진다. 그녀만을 바라보며 희망을 보는 국민들과 사랑하는 남편의 마지막 모습, 둘 중에 하나만 선택해야 하는 가혹한 현실 앞에서 지금껏 꿋꿋하게 잘 버텨왔던 그녀의 마음이 처음으로 흔들리기 시작하는데……

이탈리아의 리보르노에서 열정적으로 극우 정치 활동을 펼치는 트리토니. 그런데 그는 최근 당의 행보가 너무 온건한 점에 불만을 품고 있다. 결국 이를 참지 못한 그는 자신이 직접 행동에 나서기로 하고, 여기에 전략과 힘을 보태 줄 은퇴 군인을 찾아 나선다.

Hercules decides to avenge the death of his wife, murdered at the hands of Éurito, king of Ecalia, but everything is a plot of an ambitious courtier. Hercules ends up falling in love with Deyanira, who is now a good queen.

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.

In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is an amateur painter who will try to make the boy into a great artist, like all the ones in his art books. From the pharmacists point of view in his old age, unfolds the story of this young boy who could have become a great art genius, had he not disappeared at the age of 13, along with all his works, on September 11th 1973, the day of the coupe d´état.

Upon the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, the anarchist union CNT socialized the film industry in Spain, so in Madrid and Barcelona film workers took over the production assets and, between 1936 and 1938, numerous films on a wide variety of topics were released, composing a varied mosaic that gives rise to one of the most unusual and original moments of Spanish cinematography.

Operation Condor was a secret agreement between the military dictatorships of the Southern Cone in the 1970s, with the knowledge of the CIA. These governments to shared information and violently repressed suspected left-wing subversives.

Finally, 33 years later, the whole truth behind the attempted coup d'état that shook Spain on the afternoon of February 23, 1981, is revealed by those who lived through those dreadful hours; a deep look behind the heavy curtain which hides the real mastermind, waiting to be unmasked.

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as Atatürk, the Father of the Turks, founder of the modern state, and the current president Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan, who apparently wants Turkey to regain the political and military pre-eminence it had as an empire under the Ottoman dynasty.