Movies and TvShows featuring "dirty-war" theme.

In Argentina during the 1980s military dictatorship, a high school teacher named Alicia becomes increasingly obsessed with uncovering the truth about her adopted daughter's parents. As she delves deeper, she discovers family secrets and uncovers the dark history of the military junta's crimes against humanity. The Official Story is a powerful and emotional drama that explores themes of identity, truth, and the consequences of living under a repressive regime.

Kóblic is a modern-western crime thriller set in 1970s Argentina during the military dictatorship. The story follows a guilt-ridden pilot named Kóblic who becomes a fugitive after refusing to participate in state crimes. As he tries to escape his haunted past, Kóblic finds himself caught in a web of violence and must confront the dark secrets of his country's history.

During Argentina's military dictatorship in the 1970s, a political activist is kidnapped, tortured, and interrogated by the government's agents.

Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna.

In 2001, a man embarks on a road trip to uncover the dark secrets of his past, leading him to a small town haunted by the ghost of his parents. He discovers a stolen child and a sinister doctor conducting torturous experiments. As he delves deeper into the mystery, he uncovers a web of political persecution and family secrets.

"The Disappeared" relives the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War (1976-83) through the experience of Horacio Pietragalla, a young man raised by the maid of the officer who kidnapped him after the military brutally murdered his parents. The film follows Horacio as he reconstructs the cause for which his real parents gave their lives, and, through this search, reclaims his true identity. This personal journey internalizes the tragedy that ravaged the country for seven years and exposes polarized views on state-driven terrorism in groundbreaking interviews with top military officials, concentration camp victims, human rights activists, journalists who covered the events, and members of Horacio's surrogate and biological families.

An evening on October 1973, at dinner, Dení rose from the table and said to her family: - I will be back in a while... and she left to join the guerrilla, to the house that the National Liberation Forces had in Nepantla, a town 50 miles from Mexico City. Four months later the army with rifles and grenades assaulted the house. Four comrades and Dení, who was only 19 years old, were killed.

Juana Sapire returns to the city from which she had to go into exile in 1976 to testify in a historic trial over the disappearance of her husband, revolutionary militant and filmmaker Raymundo Gleyzer.

A journey through time between the 70's and present days, by the hand of a little group of women who shared political prison in Argentina at different places and periods from 1975 till 1979. Almost 25 years after, an unexpected fact with surprising elements summons them to undertake an emotional and common task as a result of a text of prison memories which, in 1983, they thought had been lost.

Our Disappeared is a documentary that sheds light on the dark period of history in Argentina known as the Dirty War. It explores the disappearance of people and the human rights violations that occurred during this time. The film delves into the personal stories of the victims and seeks justice and accountability for the crimes committed.