Best "bolivia" Movies of All Time

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)

| 1h 51min | Western

3.8/5 (with 999 votes)

In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot Sundance Kid. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to make their way to South America in hopes of evading their pursuers once and for all. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1998.

Directed by George Roy Hill - With Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Henry Jones, Cloris Leachman, Ted Cassidy, ...

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Jungle(2017)

| 1h 55min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 836 votes)

In 1981, an enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Bolivian Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past. Their journey quickly turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wilderness lead to an all-out fight for survival.

Directed by Greg McLean - With Daniel Radcliffe, Alex Russell, Thomas Kretschmann

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Our Brand Is Crisis(2015)

| 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama

2.9/5 (with 224 votes)

Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.

Directed by David Gordon Green - With Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Joaquim de Almeida, Ann Dowd, Scoot McNairy, ...

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My Partner(1982)

1h 23min | Comedy, Drama

4.4/5 (with 24 votes)

The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.

Directed by Paolo Agazzi

Utama(2022)

1h 27min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 15 votes)

In the Bolivian altiplano, Virginio and Sisa, an elderly Quechua couple who have lived a quiet life for years, face an impossible dilemma during an unusually long drought: resist or be defeated by the hostile environment and the relentless passage of time.

Directed by Alejandro Loayza Grisi

Averno(2018)

1h 27min | Fantasy

3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

Young bootblack Tupah embarks on a frantic quest to find his uncle, Jacinto, lost in the Averno. In a dangerous journey through the underworld, myth and reality get endlessly intertwined and the death-loaded night in La Paz unveils the darkest and most surreal face of the imaginary of the Andes.

Directed by Marcos Loayza

The River(2018)

1h 35min | Drama

2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

An introvert city teenager is sent to his father's limber ranch. While trying to figure out his place as the son of the boss he finds himself in a world packed with naturalized violence.

Corporate Responsibility(2020)

1h 8min | Documentary

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a car, while the director reads out documents in voiceover that reveals the collusion of the same concerns in the military dictatorship’s terror.

Blood of the Condor(1969)

1h 10min | Crime, Drama

3.5/5 (with 11 votes)

A community reacts against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.

Directed by Jorge Sanjinés

Cocalero(2007)

1h 26min | Documentary

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

A documentary centered on the union formed by Bolivian farmers in response to their government's (which was urged by the U.S.) effort eradicate coca crops, and the man who would come to represent them, Evo Morales.

Directed by Alejandro Landes

A Moment Of Silence(2013)

1h 25min | Documentary

2006: Evo Morales, first indigenous President is elected in Bolivia after the 2003 dramatic events following the fall of the President Sanchez de Lozada (exiled in the U.S. since then). The socialist revolution enters in its crucial stage. But dealing with power carries a burden of temptations and pathologies. In four years of shooting between Bolivia and the US this film focus on the difficult path of this unique historical opportunity. The film ends with the recent TIPNIS dramatic indigenous protest which creates an historical circle.

American Visa(2005)

1h 40min | Romance / Love, Crime, Drama

3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

After being denied an American visa, a Bolivian professor becomes involved in a web of criminal activities, holds-up the American consulate and falls for a beautiful prostitute from the Bolivian lowlands.

Directed by Juan Carlos Valdivia - With Demián Bichir, Kate del Castillo

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Die Letzte Droge(2006)

1h 20min | Science Fiction

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Evo Pueblo(2007)

| 1h 44min | Documentary, History

3.1/5 (with 1 vote)

This is the history of a young farmer of the Bolivian plateau that becomes the first indigenous president of Bolivia. His childhood consists of shepherding ewes in the small school located in Orinoca where he befriends Reneco and Jamie, as well as his first love Wilma. All of them partake in different stages of each others lives. At the young age of 17 he is transferred to Oruro mining city in the heat of the Bolivian plateau. In order to survive he will have to work as a brick maker, baker, and trompetista in the Imperial band. The poverty and continuous droughts in the Moral field force the family Ayma to migrate towards the cochabambino tropic. In the tropical Chapare, Evo will become the biggest coca grower, soon to be delegated and win in the elections for president in 2005 with 54% votes. Evo Pueblo depicts the reality of our country, accounting for the common man that inhabits Bolivia through his fights, joys, poverty, exclusion and marginamiento.

The Devil's Miner(2005)

1h 22min | Documentary

3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

'The Devil's Miner' tells the story of 14-year-old Basilio who worships the devil for protection while working in a Bolivian silver mine to support his family.

Directed by Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani

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When the Bull Cried(2017)

1h 7min | Documentary

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Danger, toil, and superstition pervade life in a mining town high up in the Bolivian mountains. Tin is the heartbeat of the community providing jobs and livelihoods - but at considerable cost. With deaths commonplace, people make offerings to El Tio, the devil under the earth, for protection and good fortune. But when the mountain's flow of tin ebbs, further measures must be taken...

Come Back, Sebastiana(1953)

28min | Documentary

2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

The story of a poor girl who leaves her starving family and sheep for a more prosperous village. Her grandfather finds her and tries to convince her to return to her home.

Directed by Augusto Roca, Jorge Ruiz Calvimonte

Nuna potosí(2005)

28min | Documentary

In the rich hill of Potosí in Bolivia there is a silver mine that was the largest in the world. It has been exploited since 1546 with the arrival of the Spanish who enslaved the indigenous people to steal the precious metal. To this day, hundreds of meters underground, the indigenous miners continue to exploit the mine in extremely precarious conditions, Martín Cádiz is one of them; hi works in the depths of the hill and desires that his children do not enter these tunnels of hell.

The Money Lenders(1991)

1h 28min | Documentary

Critical investigation of The World Bank and IMF. Too hot for PBS, but prime time TV everywhere else. Do the World Bank and IMF make the poor even poorer? Are the Bank and IMF democratic institutions? Why do people demonstrate against the Bank and IMF? For the first time, a documentary global investigation of major criticisms of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), two of the most powerful financial institutions in the world. Five country case studies are presented, each concentrating on a different aspect of critics' charges: 1. Bolivia: Debt, Drugs and Democracy 2. Ghana: The Model of Success 3. Brazil: Debt, Damage and Politics 4. Thailand: Dams and Dislocation 5. Philippines: The Debt Fighters. The charges, including those related to structural adjustment, are controversial and provocative. Some go to the heart of the power and policies of these institutions.

Journal de Bolivie(2020)

1h 30min | Documentary

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Habilito: Debt for Life(2010)

51min | Documentary

Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon. It focuses particularly on a system of debt peonage known locally as ‘habilito’. This system is used throughout the Bolivian lowlands, and much of the rest of the Amazon basin, to secure labor in remote areas.

Mina Alaska(1968)

Adventure

Jenny Smith is a young American journalist searching for her long-lost grandfather in the mountains of Bolivia. When she finds her grandfather's partner and fellow gold-prospector, Rodrigo Diaz, he gives her answers that she didn't expect.

Mamani in El Alto(2022)

1h 35min | Documentary

His buildings are garish, colorful and completely overloaded. Columns and glittering chandeliers everywhere, and way too much of everything. The Bolivian civil engineer and architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre (*1971) builds houses in El Alto for a nouveau riche upper class of the Aymara, the largest indigenous ethnic group in Bolivia.

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