7 Best Movies Set in or About Bolivia

7 Movies Set in or About Bolivia

Foreign-led films whose sustained setting or subject remains centered on Bolivia.

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   1. Even the Rain

   También la lluvia · 2010

   A Spanish film crew arrives in Cochabamba to shoot a revisionist epic about Columbus, exploiting cheap local labor — just as the Bolivian city erupts in real protests over the privatization of its water. A layered drama about exploitation, then and now.

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   2. Jungle

   2017

   In 1981, a young adventurer and two friends push deep into the Bolivian Amazon with an enigmatic guide, chasing a dream of untouched wilderness. When the group is separated, one man is left to survive alone against the jungle. Based on a true story.

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   3. Adela

   2000

   In 1945, a young wanderer arrives in a remote Bolivian town to run a trading business, settling into a hotel among a fractious mix of indigenous people, Creoles, and Europeans, where the enigmatic Adela catches his eye. A wistful period drama.

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   4. Ernesto

   エルネスト · 2017

   A young Japanese-Bolivian medical student travels to Cuba, where he meets Che Guevara and is swept up in the revolutionary cause. When conflict comes to Bolivia, he joins Guevara's guerrillas under a new name. Based on a true story.

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   5. The Losers

   2010

   Betrayed and left for dead during a mission in the Bolivian jungle, a team of elite special-ops soldiers goes underground and joins a mysterious operative to hunt down the man who set them up. A slick, comic-book-style action thriller.

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   6. Che!

   1969

   This Hollywood biography traces the revolutionary career of Ernesto Che Guevara, from his role alongside Fidel Castro in the Cuban revolution to his final guerrilla campaign in the mountains of Bolivia.

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   7. The Gateway of the Moon

   1928

   To hide the brutal methods behind his Bolivian railway project, a ruthless construction boss schemes against the Englishman sent to inspect the work — while his own niece is drawn to the inspector. A silent adventure melodrama.