Movies Shot in Patagonia
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- DirectorFabián BielinskyStarsRicardo DarínManuel RodalDolores FonziA deluded taxidermist plans the perfect crime.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsVincent GalloAlden EhrenreichMaribel VerdúBennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's discovery of his brother's near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding their shared past and renewing their bond.
- DirectorCarlos SorinStarsJavier LombardoAntonio BenedictiJaviera BravoThree people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.
- DirectorCarlos SorinStarsJuan VillegasWalter DonadoRosa ValsecchiIn Patagonia, a mechanic who dreams of a different life starts to think big after his adopted pup wins first prize at a local dog show.
- DirectorAdolfo AristarainStarsJosé SacristánFederico LuppiLeonor BenedettoMario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.
- DirectorMarcelo PiñeyroStarsHéctor AlterioLeonardo SbaragliaCecilia DopazoA road movie that begins when a man tries to rob a bank and the bank's clerk, a yuppie, pretends the thief has kidnapped him to help him run away. While they're running away, they meet a girl who becomes part of the team.
- DirectorLisandro AlonsoStarsViggo MortensenViilbjørk Malling AggerGhita NørbyA father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
- DirectorAlexis Dos SantosStarsNahuel Pérez BiscayartNahuel VialeInés EfronAimless and uncertain, a group of teenagers go through an intense coming-of-age experience in their small desert town.
- DirectorAlex BowenStarsNicolás SaavedraErto PantojaMiguel DedovichThe days of tense guard of a Chilean military that in the middle of the solitude will interact and forming circles of friendship with their Argentine rivals.
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsLuis MarganiDaniel ValenzuelaAdriana AizembergThe portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsVittorio MezzogiornoStefan GlowaczMathilda MayTwo famous competitive climbers make a bet on who can climb Cerro Torre, one of the most dangerous mountains in Argentina and the world, first. As the day of the climb approaches, their increasing competitiveness becomes destructive.
- DirectorLisandro AlonsoStarsJuan FernándezNieves CabreraGiselle IrrazabalA merchant sailor returns to his home in Tierra del Fuego after spending most of his life at sea.
- DirectorHéctor OliveraStarsPedro AleandroHéctor AlterioLuis BrandoniIn 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.
- DirectorRicardo LarraínStarsPatricio ContrerasGloria LasoAlonso VenegasA high school teacher runs afoul of the government and is sentenced to internal exile.
- DirectorFernando E. SolanasStarsWalter QuirozSoledad AlfaroRicardo BartisFollows the journey taken by 17-year-old Martin through Latin America - by bicycle - from his snow-frozen school in Tierra del Fuego in search of his 'real' father, a cartoonist turned anthropologist believed to be in the Amazon jungle.
- DirectorMarc EvansStarsMatthew RhysMarta LubosNahuel Pérez BiscayartA young Welsh couple travel to Argentina to work on their relationship.
- DirectorCarlos SorinStarsAntonio LarretaMaría del Carmen JiménezEmilse RoldánIt is a significant day for eighty year old Antonio. After an absence of many years, his estranged son is coming to visit.
- DirectorAlejandro AgrestiStarsVera FogwillFabián VenaÁngela MolinaSoledad, a girl tired of being a taxi driver in Buenos Aires, travels with her car to Patagonia. She stops in a village whose inhabitants live in isolation and their only contact with the outside world is a cinema where old films are projected.
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsGuillermo PfeningMartina GusmánVictoria VescioIn Patagonia, a successful interior designer's life falls apart after he suffers a horrific accident.
- DirectorCarlos SorinStarsUlises DumontJulio ChávezVillanueva CosseBuenos Aires movie director, very fond of legend of King of Patagonia and Araucania, decides to make a movie about it.
- DirectorSandra GugliottaStarsGermán PalaciosAna CelentanoMarina GlezerThe beautiful wife of a geologist frantically searches for her missing husband and is haunted by a man who bears a striking resemblance to him.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsWilleke van AmmelrooyJean BadinFernando BordeuA parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsElsa ZylbersteinJean-Marc BarrLaurent MaletSurreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.
- StarsBélgica CastroIgnacio AgüeroÁngel ParraThe Recta Provincia is a kind of sect led by witches on the largest island in South America, the cradle of the founding myths of Chilean culture.
- DirectorSebastián Díaz MoralesStarsJose SoraideUlayEl Camino Entre Dos Puntos (The way between two points) investigates Patagonia's tainted nature. Here, where throughout the 20th century ever enhanced methods of oil recovery, have transformed an amorphous, ambivalent and hardly populated landscape into an uncanny site of man's supposed mastery of nature, the film traces the ways of a man, who wanders the scenes aimlessly, bound by his own implication in the menacing mechanics of oil production but drawn physically to their coevally proceeding erasure by the rough and untamed nature of this seemingly self-subsisting land.
- DirectorLucas Nazareno TurturroStarsMiguel DedovichTomás Eloy MartínezCarlos SorinA documentary about the obsession that binds a man from the XIX Th Century, Orelie Antoine I, self proclaimed king of Patagonia and Araucanian, and Juan Fresan, a filmmaker who tries to shoot the story of the king until the end of his days. Their obsession is the reason for this film to exist.
- DirectorDelfina CastagninoStarsLeonardo CastañedaPilar GamboaEsteban LamothePilar lives in the south. She recently lost her father and is now on her own. María came to visit her, to keep her company and take a break from the boyfriend she's on the point of leaving. Neither has the wherewithal to comfort the other. Neither knows what they want. They barely know what they don't want. They don't want to go back to their lives. They don't want to think about the future. They don't want to be alone. They don't want their holiday to end. A timber yard about to close, a horse and a dog, a few men, a little alcohol and the cold waters of the southern lakes.
- DirectorStefano PasettoStarsSandra CeccarelliFrancesca InaudiCésar BordónTwo women, one a married middle-aged airline stewardess, and the other a free-wheeling factory worker open to experience and opportunity to meet and decide to change their lives. Moving to Patagonia and leaving their men behind they find that escape carries with it a different set of responsibilities.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsFrançois CluzetGrégoire ColinChristian ColinSet in 1973 during the coup d'etat in Chile, Max recalls his encounters in London during Worl War II with French aviator Antoine, a childhood hero he first met in his native country one morning in 1932 and who initiated him to the wonders of aviation.
- DirectorJosé Luis Torres LeivaStarsJulieta FigueroaAngélica RiquelmeMariana MuñozThe lives of four lonely people living through the routine and silence in the south. They meet to eat, walk through the beach, take the ferry or simply accompany each other without needing to say anything. In a way, they try to save themselves in a silent, furtive and extreme manner. They search for love, sex, inexistent family affection, and their own space and time, not only to distance themselves from the loneliness that intimately constitutes them, but, ultimately, to find themselves
- DirectorEmilio VieyraStarsRicardo BauleoSusana BeltránGloria PratOfelia's wedding day is approaching and she is to be married to Eduardo. She has some pre-wedding jitters during a meeting with her lover Gustavo but decides to tie the knot anyways. On her wedding night, Gustavo shows up in their room, murders Eduardo, and proceeds to turn Ofelia into a vampire so that they can be together forever. In the present day 1960's, a group of young men and women take shelter in an abandoned lodge after their van breaks down. Soon, Ofelia appears and seduces one of the guys. Meanwhile, the girls of the group wind up missing. It is up to the other guys to figure out what is happening and Ofelia must make a decision as to how much longer she can continue with her cursed life.
- DirectorChris MalloyStarsYvon ChouinardDoug TompkinsKeith MalloyThe film follows adventurer Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia.
- DirectorPascal PlissonStarsJackson SaikongSalome SaikongSamuel J. EstherJackson, the Kenyan; Carlito, the Argentinian; Zahira, the Moroccan; Samuel, the Indian: four children who live light years away from each other and who have never met but who have a common point: they have to cover tremendously long distances to reach their school. On foot, on horseback or in a wheelchair, but all with an extraordinary determination...
- DirectorDylan GochGruff RhysStarsTony Da GatorraRene GriffithsGruff RhysThe documentary centers on Gruff Rhys's quest to meet up with his lost long Patagonian uncle, musician René Griffiths.
- DirectorCarlos CasasFernando ZuberStarsAlfredo ManquínPeter SegundoJorge StylarekThe story of three men who live their lives in almost total isolation at the tip of South America.