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El Grito Sagrado (The Silent Call) is a fictionalized retelling of Argentina's fight for independence from Spain. The story is "personalized" by being related through the eyes of Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson y Mendeville, played by popular Latin American leading lady Fanny Navarro. Rebelling against the cozy traditionalism of her family, Mariquita weds tireless patriot Martin Thompson (Carlos Cores). She remains by her husband's side as he helps to fend off a British invasion and to achieve freedom for the Argentine slave population. Oddly, the principal villains in the film are the British, a reflection perhaps of Argentine dictator Juan Peron's ongoing efforts to curry favor with Spain.
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The Journey
A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his Latin American essence.
Asalto en la ciudad
A former German soldier leads a team through a bank robbery that doesn't turn out the way anybody expected.
The Brave One
A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.
Martin Fierro: The Movie
At late 19th Century, the Argentinean Pampa is changing. Martin Fierro is a renegade that fights against the power and corruption that try to subordinate him and to take away his most precious value: freedom. With his strength and courage, Martin Fierro represents the fight for justice. Based on the most important book of Argentinean Literature, "The Gaucho Martin Fierro", the film intends to rescue the current value of the story and the epic character of Martín Fierro for an audience mainly young, especially students and families.
Emergency Ward
The Argentine Sala de Guardia was released in English-speaking markets as Emergency Ward. South-of-the-Border matinee idol Carlos Thompson stars as an idealistic intern, doing his best to survive a very tough day on the job. When not scurrying from one patient to another, the intern tries to maintain equilibrium in his romance with a nurse (Elisa Galve). Comedy dovetails neatly into tragedy, which in turn segues smoothly into heart-tugging pathos. A box-office smash in Argentina, Sala de Guardia repeated its moneymaking performance all throughout Latin America.
Eva Doesn't Sleep
In 1952, Argentina's beloved First Lady, Eva Perón, died of cancer at the age of thirty-three. A renowned embalmer was commissioned by the grieving Juan Perón to preserve her body for display, and Argentines flocked to be near "Evita". Three years later, when his government was overthrown by a military coup, Perón fled the country before he could make arrangements for the transportation of his wife's body. The military junta now in control kidnapped the corpse; so afraid were they of Eva's symbolic power that they even made it illegal to utter her name.
The Marihuana Story
Pablo Urioste is a respected surgeon, but he is forced to experience a nightmarish world after his wife, a marijuana addict, dies at a nightclub. He tells his story to the police, and tells stories of how he is hooked, beaten, blackmailed, and includes some bad-trip flashbacks. Ms. Quiroga tries to help him, but there is little hope for Dr. Urioste after undergoing THE MARIHUANA STORY.
Escándalo en la familia
A veteran popular singer comes to town with her daughter in order to achieve success in television. She introduces her daughter to a contest winning one of the top prizes. At the same time, a veteran politician is campaigning to scale the governor's office.
Nuestra tierra de paz
During a conversation between a grandfather and his grandson, the latter tells him the story of the liberator General José de San Martín (1778-1850) from the patriot's childhood, through his stay in Spain, his return to the Río de la Plata, the development of the continental plan and the European exile.
To Kill a Stranger
Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband (Dean Stockwell) who is visiting a Latin American country run by a military dictator. After a car accident one day, Cristina brings the helpful Col. Kostik (Donald Pleasence) home and then kills him in self-defense when he violently attempts to rape and murder her. Terrified, she covers up her act and hides the body, yet in spite of her husband's efforts to protect her, a local police detective starts to figure out what really happened.
Francis: Pray for Me
A look at the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, form his early childhood days in Argentina to his becoming Pope Francis.
The Crossing of the Andes
Buenos Aires, 1880. A journalist interviews Manuel Esteban Corvalán, one of the last living men who crossed the Andes in 1817 with José de San Martín, during the Argentinian and Chilean wars of independence, as one of his secretaries, when he was only 15 years old.
Rewinding, The Movie
Alejandro, a 30-year-old man who dreams of a movie love, strongly believes that his bad luck in love is related to an event of the past. Year 98, the party of his best friend Mateo. Where was Magalí, his first love. he had everything planned, it would be super romantic, like in the movies, but, Rodrigo, helped by his followers, first conquers the girl, erasing any illusion of Alejandro's hear Never want something because it can be fulfilled Alejandro discovers a strange recorder with the power of transports him to the party of 98 for a limited time. Let's join Alejandro in this adventure to try to change his memory Can he achieve it?
Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butler. Moving with him from Philadelphia to his Georgia plantation, Fanny sees slavery firsthand, and her outrage leads her to help the family's slaves in open defiance of her spouse. Undaunted by the consequences, Fanny eventually writes a book that strengthens the anti-slavery movement.
Love (Part One)
The story of a young couple, from beginning to end, from the euphoria of falling in love until the final days blurred and dark, is realized with an analytical eye and investigative zeal. How and why two people fall in love? What now? How quickly will they get into a relationship? When a relationship ends, and when should it end? Peter and Sofia, with its simple story of love, they become reflections of all those who, at twenty-five years have been in love.
Clandestine Childhood
Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true events, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love.
Kill Pinochet
Chile, September 1986. Tamara, commander of the communist guerrilla group Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, and her comrades-in-arms set out to overthrow the military regime installed in 1973 by assassinating the dictator Augusto Pinochet.
The Guns
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
The Crime of Oribe
The story of two men and a mysterious family, who repeat the same day forever in order to save the life of one of its daughters.
Dos ángeles y un pecador
A guardian angel accompanies a man who had made a deal with death, which he regrets for a woman.
The Gaucho War
The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.
Ayer y hoy
Two women from the same family, one from 1830 and the other from 1930, the first subject to the rigor of the customs of her time and the other in an atmosphere of independence and freedom.
Test pilot
The story focuses on the professional stage of the driver Carlos Alberto Pairetti, during his time with the official Ford Argentina Road Tourism team. However, this story takes place in a fictitious reality in which the former champion of the category has a brother named Nicolás, with whom he forms a love triangle.
El grito en la sangre
Somewhere in the interior of Argentina, popular belief holds that when a man dies because of a treason, he must be avenged by his first born son, so that that soul may rest in peace.
The Seer's Prayer
The host of a folk music radio program risks his life by reporting on clashes between police and guerrillas.
Love Never Dies
Three-episode film linked to each other by means of a medallion, where love is the engine that drives people to act the way they did.
El Grito Sagrado (The Silent Call) is a fictionalized retelling of Argentina's fight for independence from Spain. The story is "personalized" by being related through the eyes of Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson y Mendeville, played by popular Latin American leading lady Fanny Navarro. Rebelling against the cozy traditionalism of her family, Mariquita weds tireless patriot Martin Thompson (Carlos Cores). She remains by her husband's side as he helps to fend off a British invasion and to achieve freedom for the Argentine slave population. Oddly, the principal villains in the film are the British, a reflection perhaps of Argentine dictator Juan Peron's ongoing efforts to curry favor with Spain.
El grito sagrado
A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like El grito sagrado Starring Fanny Navarro, Carlos Cores, Aída Luz, Eduardo Cuitiño, and more. If you liked El grito sagrado then you may also like: I Did Kill Facundo, Zama, ¿Quiere casarse conmigo?, The Journey, Asalto en la ciudad and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
I Did Kill Facundo
The story of Santos Pérez, the man who murdered caudillo Facundo Quiroga in 1835.