Movies and TvShows featuring "the-disappeared" theme.

Nostalgia for the Light is a thought-provoking documentary that delves into the connections between astronomy, archeology, and political history in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The film explores the search for answers and truth in the vast expanse of the universe and the archeological remains buried in the desert sands, while also shedding light on the atrocities committed during the military dictatorship in Chile. It reveals how the quest for knowledge and understanding can bring forth painful memories and contemplation of the dark past.

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.

Imagining Argentina is a movie set in Buenos Aires during the 1970s military dictatorship. It follows a man who discovers he has supernatural powers that allow him to see the fate of the people who have been disappeared by the regime. With his abilities, he tries to find his kidnapped wife and daughter and help others reunite with their loved ones. The story explores themes of power, violence, and the struggle for freedom.

In Buenos Aires in 1979, a teenager named Juan becomes involved in political activism while also experiencing his first love. He must navigate the dangers of the dictatorship and the challenges of adolescence as he discovers his true identity.

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

In 1977 Argentina, a former soccer player is held captive by a secret police during the military junta's reign. Wrongfully accused of being a communist revolutionary, he and his fellow inmates plan an escape from the secret prison.

In the drama film 'The Day I Was Not Born,' a woman sets out to discover her true identity after learning that she may have been abducted as a baby. Her investigation leads her to Argentina, where she uncovers secrets about her past and her family's involvement in the country's dark history. As she delves deeper into the mystery, she is confronted with the consequences of the choices made by her family and the impact they have had on her life.

A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government.

Dolours Price, the infamous IRA radical convicted of bombing England's Old Bailey in 1973, granted a series of revealing interviews in 2010 on the strict condition of their posthumous release. The interviews, brought to life through vividly cinematic reenactments, uncover the birth of her fierce commitment to Irish Republicanism. Price revisits the bombing and the 200-day hunger strike that followed, and discusses her role in the disappearances of some suspected Republican informants. With 2018 marking the 20th anniversary since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, and 50 years since the start of the Troubles, filmmaker Maurice Sweeney presents an eye-opening portrait of a once passionate, now disillusioned nationalist whose clarity of purpose both inspired allegiance and promised terror for so many.

In the late 1980s, a politically neutral photographer in Pinochet's Chile is still struggling to come to terms with the "disappearance" of his activist brother in the Villa Grimaldi torture centre back in 1975.

1985 Argentine documentary film directed by Susana Blaustein Muñoz and Lourdes Portillo about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

The journey of a retired music teacher who witnesses the detention of a former student by the security agencies of dictatorship. This strong experience leads him to give up on a dream trip to Europe and to begin an intense search for the student's relatives and make them know about what has happened to him.

A documentary about the activities carried out by the Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees: We see presentation of writs of protection, reports, criminal actions, hunger strikes, pacific protests, public acts. The place where minors, the children of missing detainees, are rehabilitated is also shown. Finally, an account about some members in the group is given before international Human Rights organizations.

The action takes place in the course of three days. It is the story of people who survived in the “torture house” of chilean dictatorship. the leading actor nelson villagra received the prize for the best actor at the san sebastian iff.

In 1976, a coup d'etat by the Armed Forces replaced the argentine constitutional Government and policies of terror that trampled on human rights were implemented. In a few years, the hidden and silent violence of these policies spiraled and 30,000 citizens of different ages and social conditions were murdered. They were wrongly called the disappeared and, among them, there were young children or unborn young who were delivered in prisons of the military dictatorship and whose kidnappers abducted and registered as their own children. This movie tells the story of Estela Barnes Carlotto, a human rights activist in Argentina, chairwoman of the Association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who stopped being a housewife to get involved in public affairs after the kidnap of her daughter, Laura Estela Carlotto in 1977. The film is about the way her life was transformed.

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.

Flores de septiembre is a documentary that delves into the haunting stories of the disappeared. Through personal accounts and archival footage, the film brings to light the devastating effects of forced disappearances on individuals, families, and communities. It sheds light on the search for justice and truth, as well as the resilience of those left behind.