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- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsPowers BootheMeg FosterYara VaneauAfter the son of engineer Bill Markham is abducted by an aboriginal tribe on the edge of the rain forest, the engineer spends the next 10 years searching for him.Exciting true story about a boy kidnapped by Indians. Great action and cinematography.
- DirectorCiro GuerraStarsNilbio TorresJan BijvoetAntonio BolívarThe story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
- DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsSean ConneryLorraine BraccoJosé WilkerIn the beautiful and dangerous Amazon rainforest, dissimilar people must make their choices between business, science, and love.A scientist (Sean Connery) finds a cure for cancer in the rain forest, but loggers threaten to destroy his discovery.
- DirectorLuis Alberto LamataStarsCosme CortázarFrancis RuedaAlexander MilicAt early 16th century a priest joins the Spanish colonizers in order to bring Christianity to the indios. The expedition is murdered by the indios, only the priest is sparred. Santiago, the priest, first tries to continue christianization, but finally becomes one of them - until the Spaniards return.In the 16th century a priest is sent to Venezuela to convert the Indians to Christianity, but he ends up falling in love and marrying one of them.
- DirectorFranco RubartelliStarsArantza FuentesEmilio FuentesFlor NúñezPepiwe, it's a yanomami indian that runs away to reunite with his tribe and family, but in the middle of his journey in the jungle he finds a nun, that he mistakes for a ghost. The nun ask him to take her to Rio Negro.An orphaned Yanomami boy escapes from a Catholic mission in the Venezuelan jungle to live on his own. He meets a nun who is lost in the jungle and he uses his knowledge of the environment to help her find her way back. A beautiful film full of warmth, pathos and humor.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiRuy GuerraHelena RojoIn the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.In 1560 Lope de Aguirre sails down the Amazon river in search of El Dorado. He slowly goes mad and drives his crew to doom. One of Werner Herzog's greatest films.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsOmero AntonuttiEusebio PoncelaLambert WilsonThe film tells the epic story of an expedition that took place between 1560 and 1561, headed by Pedro de Ursúa, in search of "El Dorado." The territory they explored subsequently became Colombia. Three hundred men sold their property and souls to travel down the biggest and least known river in the world. After the rebellion of Lope de Aguirre (who took over command) against Philip II, the king of Spain, this expedition became one of the best-known episodes in the conquest of "The New World." Accompanied by a team of all types, Lope de Aguirre's adventure will end in tragedy, exposing the full range of human miseries.Based on the same historical figure as the Aguirre of Herzog's film, but told in a more conventional style.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleJosé LewgoyThe story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.Werner Herzog returns to the Peruvian Amazon for another tale of obsession. A rubber baron dreams of building an opera house in the rain forest, and in order to finance his grandiose plan he concocts even stranger plans for expanding his business.
- DirectorNelson Pereira dos SantosStarsArduíno ColassantiAna Maria MagalhãesEduardo Imbassahy FilhoIn 1594 in Brazil, the Tupinambás Indians are friends of the French and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portuguese. A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti) is captured by the Tupinambás and, in spite of his trial to convince them that he is French, they believe he is Portuguese. The Frenchman becomes their slave, and maritally lives with Seboipepe (Ana Maria Magalhães). *Contains Spoilers* Later, he uses powder in the cannons that the Portuguese left behind to defeat the Tupiniquins in a battle. In order to celebrate the victory, the Indians decide to eat him.In 1557 a French trader is captured by the Tupinamba Indians to be ceremonially eaten. Candid male and female nudity throughout the film.
- DirectorLuís Alberto PereiraStarsCarlos EvelynAriana MessiasDarci FigueiredoOn the eve of his return to Europe after an extended involuntary stay in 16th-century Brazil, the German sailor Hans Staden is captured by a hostile cannibal Indian tribe. In order to survive he tries to convince the Indians that he is not Portuguese (their enemies) but a friend of the French (their allies), and that his God would be very angry if they were to eat him.Based on the same true story as Como Era Gostoso o Meu Frances.
- DirectorRoland JofféStarsRobert De NiroJeremy IronsRay McAnallyEighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.Colonial Spain and Portugal fight over ownership of territory where the Guarani Indians live. Robert De Niro plays a former slave trader who changes his ways and allies himself with the Guarani. Gorgeous cinematography.
- DirectorJim HanonStarsLouie LeonardoChad AllenJack GuzmanTwo people come to the end of a spear in order to realize that the divisions between them are not real.In the 1950s several American missionaries are killed by Waorani Indians in the Ecuadorian jungle while trying to befriend them. Years later, the wives and children of the slain missionaries once again try to reach out to the Waorani and succeed in establishing peace.
- DirectorChristopher M. BessetteStarsMartie AshworthDenielle BroerMatthew CastagnaShake is a powerful shaman of the Yanomami people. He wields his power to heal and to protect his people against their enemies in this world and beyond. Tracing his life and the life of his community over 40 years of their history, Shake tells how he and his people grapple with new ideas that come from the outside world and the challenging decisions they make in order to maintain their identity and survive as a people.A young Yanomami chief in Venezuela must deal with warring tribes.
- DirectorMarco BechisStarsClaudio SantamariaAlicélia Batista CabreiraChiara CaselliWhen a tribe of indigenous Guarani Indians attempts to re-inhabit their ancestral land, which lies on the border of a wealthy landowner's fields, tensions escalate.Guarani Indians in Brazil attempt to reclaim their ancestral lands from the white landowner. Intense.
- DirectorLúcia MuratStarsDiogo InfanteFloriano PeixotoLuciana RigueiraA young Portuguese cartographer in the 18th century finds new forms of love, war and a wild new world in an expedition into South American heart.In 1778, a young Guaicuru Indian seeks revenge on the Spanish men who attacked and raped Guaicuru women. An artistic, subtle, fascinating film.
- DirectorNicolás IpamoAlejandro NozaIván SanjinésStarsAntonia GualujnaMaria VeronicaA logging company enters the indigenous community of Beni in Bolivia and begins logging. They hire local people make promises of the benefits they will receive, but the Indians gradually become aware of the logging company's deceptions and rapacious behavior, and they drive them out. This marks the beginning of the Indigenous Rights Movement in Beni.A Moxe village in the Bolivian rain forest is divided by the arrival of a logging company that tries to bamboozle them with promises of jobs and development.
- DirectorAndré Luiz OliveiraStarsTatauTaíse CostaRoberto BonfimIn order to earn a warrior name, the son of Araguaia chief wanders the forest, falls in love with a girl from the Tocantins tribe, and defeats their bravest warrior. When his true identity is discovered, he makes a deal: promises to fight the Tapuias, another tribe which threatens the Tocantins, marries the Indian girl and establishes the Ubirajara nation.A young man sets out on a journey to establish his reputation as a warrior. One of the few films set in the Pre-Columbian Americas, and filmed entirely in the native language of Macro-Gê Karaja. Based on the classic Brazilian novel by Jose de Alencar.