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Letterboxd's Top 250 South American Films

Top Narrative Films (from Hershey's All the Movies list), that are South American, sorted by rating.

Director Appearances:
Glauber Rocha - 6 films
Leonardo Favio - 6 films
Walter Salles - 5 films
Rogério Sganzerla - 5 films
Adolfo Aristarain - 5 films
Juan José Campanella - 4 films
Héctor Babenco - 4 films
Nelson Pereira dos Santos - 4 films
Karim Aïnouz - 4 films
Lucrecia Martel - 4 films
Pablo Larraín - 4 films
Bruno Barreto - 4 films
Lisandro Alonso - 4 films
Ciro Guerra - 3 films
Werner Herzog - 3 films
Leon Hirszman - 3 films
Guel Arraes - 3 films
Carlos Reichenbach - 3 films
Kleber Mendonça Filho - 3 films
Francisco J. Lombardi…

  • City of God

    1

  • Central Station

    2

  • I'm Still Here

    3

  • The Secret in Their Eyes

    4

  • Embrace of the Serpent

    5

  • The Given Word

    6

  • A Dog's Will

    7

  • Rio, Northern Zone

    8

  • Pixote

    9

  • The Second Mother

    10

  • Carandiru

    11

  • The Wolf House

    12

  • Wild Tales

    13

  • Nine Queens

    14

  • Fitzcarraldo

    15

  • Extraordinary Stories

    16

  • Monica's Gang in an Adventure in Time

    17

  • They Don't Wear Black Tie

    18

  • Invisible Life

    19

  • Sidewalls

    20

  • Time for Revenge

    21

  • Manas

    22

  • The Boy and the Wind

    23

  • Eternity

    24

  • Basic Sanitation, the Movie

    25

  • Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso

    26

  • The Mouth of the Wolf

    27

  • Compasso de Espera

    28

  • Movie Dementia

    29

  • São Paulo, Incorporated

    30

  • Lisbela and the Prisoner

    31

  • Buccaneer Soul

    32

  • Saint Bernard

    33

  • A Poet

    34

  • Elite Squad

    35

  • The Guns

    36

  • To the Left of the Father

    37

  • Rio, 100 Degrees F°

    38

  • Estômago: A Gastronomic Story

    39

  • Foreign Land

    40

  • Case of the Naves Brothers

    41

  • Brainstorm

    42

  • Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of My Village

    43

  • On Probation

    44

  • Trenque Lauquen

    45

  • Argentina 1985

    46

  • Love Torn in a Dream

    47

  • Garden of War

    48

  • My Sweet Orange Tree

    49

  • Close Your Eyes

    50

  • The Official Story

    51

  • The Man Who Copied

    52

  • Boy & the World

    53

  • Martin (Hache)

    54

  • The Son of a Thousand Men

    55

  • Aquarius

    56

  • The South

    57

  • Red Ink

    58

  • The Deceased

    59

  • Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

    60

  • The Woman Who Invented Love

    61

  • Waiting for the Hearse

    62

  • No Way, Spider

    63

  • The Motorcycle Diaries

    64

  • Simón

    65

  • Tabu

    66

  • Assault on the Pay Train

    67

  • The Strategy of the Snail

    68

  • Days of Santiago

    69

  • Birds of Passage

    70

  • A Place in the World

    71

  • The Bitter Stems

    72

  • Reflections of a Blender

    73

  • The Amulet of Ogum

    74

  • The Wrung-Out Man

    75

  • Bacurau

    76

  • Prayers for the Stolen

    77

  • Endless Poetry

    78

  • Behind the Sun

    79

  • Entranced Earth

    80

  • Retablo

    81

  • The Kiss

    82

  • Son of the Bride

    83

  • Yana-Wara

    84

  • Malu

    85

  • Bingo: The King of the Mornings

    86

  • Ai que Vida!

    87

  • Mars One

    88

  • Love Me Forever or Never

    89

  • The Way He Looks

    90

  • The Red Light Bandit

    91

  • Jackal of Nahueltoro

    92

  • La Ciénaga

    93

  • The Margin

    94

  • Copacabana Mon Amour

    95

  • All the Women in the World

    96

  • The Secret Agent

    97

  • Nise: The Heart of Madness

    98

  • Men and Women

    99

  • A Wolf at the Door

    100