Saint Teresa of the Andes / 1989

The story of the inspiring life of the new young Carmelite saint who lived in the 20th century, died at the age of just 19 years old, and was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1993. St. Teresa of Jesus of the Andes, known officially as "St. Teresa of the Andes", grew up in a close-knit, upper middle class Catholic family in Santiago, Chile, was very...

Los Andes / 2013

I sopravvissuti delle Ande / 19768.01 voti

Nel 1972 un aereo si schianta su un picco andino. Le ricerche non approdano a nulla e i sopravvissuti, tagliati fuori dal mondo, si arrangiano come possono, giungendo a cibarsi delle carni dei defunti. Oltre due mesi dopo vengono salvati.

Los Andes Symphony Orchestra / 2020

The North of Cauca is the region of Colombia most affected by the internal armed conflict since 1940. There is an orchestra of ancestral music composed of young indigenous people of the Nasa ethnic group who, with their instruments, their voice and their poetry, remember Maryi Vanessa Coicue, Sebastian Ul and Ingrid Guejia, three of the hundreds of indigenous children who have died because of this eternal and useless war between leftist guerrillas, armed groups of the extreme right, drug traffickers and the Colombian State.

The Crossing of the Andes / 20117.01 voti

Buenos Aires, 1880. A journalist interviews Manuel Esteban Corvalán, one of the last living men who crossed the Andes in 1817 with José de San Martín, during the Argentinian and Chilean wars of independence, as one of his secretaries, when he was only 15 years old.

Once Upon a Time in the Andes / 2023

The Peruvian Andes. Andean shepherdess Margarita finds Lautaro, a dying Chilean soldier who has fled from a battle. She takes him home and nurses him. When he finds this out, her father decides to hide him, putting his family at risk. His only condition is that the soldier must leave when he recovers. Over time and despite the linguistic differences, the shepherdess and the soldier establish an intimate relationship. When he is discovered, the Chilean is taken prisoner but his life is spared as the shepherdess is expecting his child.

The Demon of the Andes / 2014

El Demonio de los Andes, directed by Palito Ortega Matute, is based on the Andean myth of the Jarjacha, a demonic character set on destroying everyone it comes across. The legend of the Jajacha has been passed down from generation to generation. Ortega Matute spoke to people who were told about it by their parents, who had been told the tale by their parents. He also listened to accounts from people who say they’ve seen the demon with their own eyes.

The Andes's Odyssey / 1976

A documentary revolving around the 1972 crash of the plane carrying an Uruguayan rugby team; interviews with survivors and the families of victims.

Incesto en los Andes: La maldición de los jarjachas / 2002

In a town there are strange deaths, apparently caused by jarjachas, monstrous creatures that incestuous lovers become at night. Cirilo, Mateo and Remigio, with the help of a priest, will try to hunt them down and eliminate them.

Sobrevivir en los Andes / 2010

Condor de Los Andes / 2020

Los Monos de los Andes / 2004

Los Andes no creen en Dios / 2007

End of the 20's. Alfonso a young writer brought up in France, arrives to an adventurous mining town (Uyuni) in the midst of the Bolivian high plateau. Here he meets the beautiful Claudina a sensual, strong willed chola, la "Misqui simi" ("The one with the sweet lips"). Uyuni radiates a strange magnetism, it is charged with a collective euphoria produced by the bewitching mineral. The lives of the characters enter a whirl of passion, ambition and frustration.

El Fugitivo de los Andes / 2021

Santa Teresa de los Andes / 1989

Metal Andino: Guitarras, Bajo y Batería en los Andes / 2021

It offers in the subtitle this documentary that explores the sound and cultural intersections produced in the North of Chile between heavy-metal and Andean music. Bands from Chile, Peru and Bolivia exemplify this sound, as lively as it is little studied. It is music with a distinctive identity, both traditional and globalized.

Marco - Dagli Appennini alle Ande / 19766.73 voti

Serie d'animazione tratta da un racconto di Edmondo De Amicis, "Dagli Appennini alle Ande". Il piccolo Marco Rossi vive a Genova con i suoi genitori, Pietro e Anna, e suo fratello maggiore, Tonio. La sua infanzia trascorre serena, finché un giorno non scopre che sua madre è in procinto di partire per l'Argentina...