30 Best Chilean Movies
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- DirectorAndrés WoodStarsMatías QuerAriel MatelunaManuela MartelliTwo 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other's world as political tensions in their country increase.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsNelson VillagraShenda RománMarcelo RomoThe real story about an illiterate murderer, educated in prison, where he reflects on his actions days before he died.
- DirectorSilvio CaiozziStarsElsa AlarcónJorge ÁlvarezLuis AlarcónThis is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsAlfredo CastroRoberto FaríasAntonia ZegersA crisis counselor is sent by the Catholic Church to a small Chilean beach town where disgraced priests and nuns, suspected of crimes ranging from child abuse to baby-snatching from unwed mothers, live secluded, after an incident occurs.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsGael García BernalAlfredo CastroAntonia ZegersAn advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
- DirectorAldo FranciaStarsHugo CárcamoSara AsticaRigoberto RojoA poor Valparaiso family faces a tough life after the father is sent to prison.
- DirectorPatricio KaulenStarsEnrique KaulenEliana VidalFabio ZerpaA young boy, lost in the big city, tries to find his way home. Along the way, he encounters a cross-section of society that he has never known.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsShenda RománNelson VillagraLuis AlarcónThe drunken nights of several listless chancers in Chile's capital city build inexorably to violence.
- DirectorAldo FranciaStarsMarcelo RomoTennyson FerradaLeonardo PerucciA priest is so concerned about the harsh conditions of living of Chilean lower classes that he gradually becomes a political activist and 'worker-priest'.
- DirectorAndrés WoodStarsFrancisco AcuñaJuan AlfaroOrlando AlfaroA portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves, and her hopes.
- DirectorSebastián LelioStarsPaulina GarcíaSergio HernándezDiego FontecillaA story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.
- DirectorJosé BohrStarsEugenio RetesPepe GuixéElsa VillaA fair and hilarious story about faith, ambition, and love.
- DirectorSebastián LelioStarsDaniela VegaFrancisco ReyesLuis GneccoMarina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.
- DirectorSilvio CaiozziStarsMaría CánepaJulio JungMyriam PalaciosA lonely man becomes increasingly obsessed with the beautiful teenager he used to help care for his grandmother.
- DirectorMatías BizeStarsAntonia ZegersNéstor CantillanaYair JuriA seven-year-old child disappears from his parents' sight in a mysterious but haunting forest after a punishment.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsMarcial EdwardsMario MontillesBélgica CastroIn a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAdan JodorowskyBrontis JodorowskyLeandro TaubSurrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of himself as a young man becoming a poet in Chile, befriending other artists, and freeing himself from the limits of his youth.
- DirectorSebastián SilvaStarsCatalina SaavedraClaudia CeledónMariana LoyolaA drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years.
- DirectorHelvio SotoStarsHector DuvauchellePatricia GuzmánJorge GuerraThe plot takes place in 1879 through 1880 during the War of the Pacific. The film decries the cruelty and absurdity of war and the disunity among the peoples of Latin America.
- DirectorClaudia HuaiquimillaStarsAndrew BargstedEliseo FernándezFrancisco Pérez-BannenAgainst the backdrop of an impending environmental crisis, two troubled adolescents strive to find their place in the world in this stirring debut film from Chile, which weaves together political themes both social and personal.
- DirectorClaudia HuaiquimillaStarsIván CáceresCésar HerreraAndrew BargstedTwo brothers have been in a juvenile prison for a year, dreaming. The arrival of a rebellious young man offers a possible escape: the only door to make those dreams come true.
- DirectorRicardo LarraínStarsPatricio ContrerasGloria LasoAlonso VenegasA high school teacher runs afoul of the government and is sentenced to internal exile.
- DirectorDavid AlbalaStarsAlberto EllenaAmparo NogueraBenjamín VicuñaThis drama is inspired on a real event in 1990 when 49 political prisoners escaped from a tunnel that took 18 months to dig.
- 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.
- DirectorRodrigo SepúlvedaStarsAlfredo CastroLeonardo OrtizgrisJulieta ZylberbergAmong gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsBrontis JodorowskyPamela FloresJeremias HerskovitsIn a little Chilean town, the son of an uprooted couple formed by a rigorous communist father and a loving but weak mother tries to pave his own path in a society that does not understand their Jewish-Ukrainian origins.
- DirectorSilvio CaiozziStarsJulio JungÁngel ToledoGabino CarihuentroAn author comes back to his hometown in Patagonia, four decades after fleeing it during the repressive Pinochet regime.
- DirectorFernando Lavanderos MonteroGonzalo VerdugoStarsKoke Santa AnaGeraldine NearyJuan Pablo ManríquezEsteban travels Chilean's North along the highway following in Isabel's footsteps. His route takes him through different towns across a desolate and unknown Chile, to the very same places where Isabel had been, and where he encounters the same people she encountered. But as his adventure unfolds, its initial intention fuses together with that which comes up along the path. His journey becomes an end in itself, in a spectacle of characters and landscapes that are as unreal as they are real.
- DirectorFelipe Gálvez HaberleStarsSam SpruellMark StanleyAlfredo CastroIn Chile in 1901, three horseman are paid to protect a vast estate. Accompanying a British soldier and an American mercenary is a mixed-race sniper, who realizes that his true mission is to kill the indigenous population.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsDaniel GélinFrançoise ArnoulHuguette FagetChilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them in the early years of the Pinochet regime. They kidnap and attempt to reeducate a touring singer from their homeland.