Chilean movies
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1. Machuca (2004)
Not Rated | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History
Two 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.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, Aline Küppenheim
Votes: 12,657
2. The Maid (2009)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years.
Director: Sebastián Silva | Stars: Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Mariana Loyola, Andrea García-Huidobro
Votes: 6,462 | Gross: $0.55M
3. No (I) (2012)
R | 118 min | Drama, History
An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco
Votes: 26,219 | Gross: $2.34M
4. Violeta Went to Heaven (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves, and her hopes.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Francisco Acuña, Juan Alfaro, Orlando Alfaro, Almendra Andrade
Votes: 2,412 | Gross: $0.02M
5. The Mole Agent (2020)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
A private investigator in Chile hires someone to work as a mole at a retirement home where a client of his suspects the caretakers of elder abuse.
Director: Maite Alberdi | Stars: Sergio Chamy, Romulo Aitken, Marta Olivares, Berta Ureta
Votes: 9,499
6. The Club (2015)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers, Marcelo Alonso
Votes: 11,988 | Gross: $0.03M
7. A Painting Lesson (2011)
85 min | Drama
On September 11, 1973, the day of the military coup in Chile, a child prodigy of art disappears. His friend, a man fond of his art, tells the short existence of who could be a major genius of painting, decades after his disappearance.
Director: Pablo Perelman | Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Verónica Sánchez, Juan José Susacassa, Matías Vera
Votes: 115
8. A Cab for Three (2001)
Unrated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A taxi driver is given a difficult choice from 2 small time crooks: drive them around while they rob, or get locked up in the trunk.
Director: Orlando Lübbert | Stars: Alejandro Trejo, Fernando Gómez Rovira, Daniel Muñoz, Elena Milea
Votes: 1,128
9. Tony Manero (2008)
TV-MA | 97 min | Drama, Music
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales, Paola Lattus
Votes: 4,558
10. Chile '76 (2022)
95 min | Drama
Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
Director: Manuela Martelli | Stars: Aline Küppenheim, Nicolás Sepúlveda, Hugo Medina, Alejandro Goic
Votes: 1,847
11. The Life of Fish (2010)
84 min | Drama, Romance
Andrés returns to Santiago after several years to face a tragic event.
Director: Matías Bize | Stars: Santiago Cabrera, Blanca Lewin, Víctor Montero, Sebastián Layseca
Votes: 1,665
12. The Good Life (2008)
108 min | Drama
Four people intertwine their lives in a city and pursue their own dreams.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Aline Küppenheim, Roberto Farías, Eduardo Paxeco, Paula Sotelo
Votes: 592
13. Loco Fever (2001)
94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Entrepreneurs visit a Chilean town, where they temporarily allow the fishing of a shellfish in danger of extinction.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Emilio Bardi, Luis Dubó, Loreto Moya, Luis Margani
Votes: 399
14. The Eternal Memory (2023)
85 min | Documentary
Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.
Director: Maite Alberdi | Stars: Augusto Góngora, Paulina Urrutia, Gustavo Cerati, Pedro Lemebel
Votes: 3,120
15. A Fantastic Woman (2017)
R | 104 min | Drama
Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.
Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim
Votes: 27,274 | Gross: $2.02M
16. The Quispe Girls (2013)
TV-14 | 83 min | Drama
The story of the sisters: Justa, Lucía and Luciana Quispe, shepherds in the Chilean highlands who lead a solitary life.
Director: Sebastián Sepúlveda | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Digna Quispe, Catalina Saavedra, Francisca Gavilán
Votes: 126
17. Gloria (II) (2013)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A 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.
Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Paulina García, Sergio Hernández, Diego Fontecilla, Fabiola Zamora
Votes: 9,369 | Gross: $2.11M
18. Neruda (2016)
R | 107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
Votes: 11,050 | Gross: $0.94M
19. Ema (2019)
R | 107 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Mariana Di Girólamo, Gael García Bernal, Santiago Cabrera, Paola Giannini
Votes: 9,259
20. Post Mortem (II) (2010)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell, Amparo Noguera
Votes: 2,638
21. Fuga (2006)
110 min | Drama, Music, Thriller
A film about a classical composer who goes insane.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Benjamín Vicuña, Gastón Pauls, Francisca Imboden, María Izquierdo
Votes: 1,222
22. El Bosque de Karadima (2015)
98 min | Drama
Real-life powerful Catholic priest Fernando Karadima committed crimes of child abuse and pedophilia between the 1980s and 2000s. The film follows the struggle of his victims, to be able to reveal the truth and look for justice.
Director: Matias Lira | Stars: Luis Gnecco, Benjamín Vicuña, Ingrid Isensee, Pedro di Girolamo Campos
Votes: 998
23. My Tender Matador (2020)
93 min | Drama, History, Romance
Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.
Director: Rodrigo Sepúlveda | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Leonardo Ortizgris, Julieta Zylberberg, Amparo Noguera
Votes: 1,487
24. Aurora (III) (2014)
83 min | Drama
After she reads in the newspaper that a newborn baby is found in a dumpster, a teacher feels that the baby deserves a burial. But because the baby has no legal identity, she goes to a judge.
Director: Rodrigo Sepúlveda | Stars: Amparo Noguera, Luis Gnecco, Jaime Vadell, Mariana Loyola
Votes: 107
25. Life Kills Me (2007)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A man is depressed by the death of his brother and his life changes when he meets an eccentric young man, whose favorite subject is death.
Director: Sebastián Silva | Stars: Gabriel Díaz, Diego Muñoz, Claudia Celedón, Amparo Noguera
Votes: 311
26. Nobody Knows I'm Here (2020)
TV-MA | 91 min | Drama, Music
Memo lives on a remote Chilean sheep farm, hiding a beautiful singing voice from the outside world. A recluse with a glittery flair, he can't stop dwelling on the past, but what will happen once someone finally listens?
Director: Gaspar Antillo | Stars: Jorge Garcia, Lukas Vergara, Millaray Lobos, Luis Gnecco
Votes: 4,951
27. Jackal of Nahueltoro (1969)
95 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The real story about an illiterate murderer, educated in prison, where he reflects on his actions days before he died.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román, Marcelo Romo, Héctor Noguera
Votes: 1,151
28. Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
A documentary about two different searches conducted in the Chilean Atacama Desert: one by astronomers looking for answers about the history of the cosmos, and one by women looking for the remains of loved ones killed by Pinochet's regime.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Gaspar Galaz, Lautaro Núñez, Luís Henríquez, Miguel Lawner
Votes: 6,112
29. The Dance of Reality (2013)
Unrated | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy
In 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.
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Jeremias Herskovits, Alejandro Jodorowsky
Votes: 9,523 | Gross: $0.19M
30. Largo viaje (1967)
83 min | Drama
A 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.
Director: Patricio Kaulen | Stars: Enrique Kaulen, Eliana Vidal, Fabio Zerpa, Rubén Ubeira
Votes: 252
31. Valparaíso, mi amor (1969)
90 min | Drama
A poor Valparaiso family faces a tough life after the father is sent to prison.
Director: Aldo Francia | Stars: Hugo Cárcamo, Sara Astica, Rigoberto Rojo, Liliana Cabrera
Votes: 192
32. Cofralandes, rapsodia chilena (2002)
311 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Bernard Pautrat, Raúl Ruiz, Malcolm Coad, Rainer Krause
Votes: 53
33. No tan lejos de Andrómeda (1995)
131 min
Director: Juan Vicente Araya | Stars: Sergio Hernández, Patricia Guzmán, Roberto Navarrete, Patricio Achurra
Votes: 12
34. Los deseos concebidos (1982)
128 min
Erre, a teenager who lives with his uncles and an almost absent sister, is removed from the high school payroll. From then on it glides like an automaton, through places where strangeness ... See full summary »
Director: Cristián Sánchez | Stars: Andrés Aliaga, Juan S. Cuevas, Heidi Dettwiler, Tennyson Ferrada
Votes: 38
35. La Frontera (1991)
120 min | Drama
A high school teacher runs afoul of the government and is sentenced to internal exile.
Director: Ricardo Larraín | Stars: Patricio Contreras, Gloria Laso, Alonso Venegas, Sergio Schmied
Votes: 509
36. Caliche Sangriento (1969)
128 min | Drama, History, War
The 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.
Director: Helvio Soto | Stars: Hector Duvauchelle, Patricia Guzmán, Jorge Guerra, Jaime Vadell
Votes: 108
37. Julio comienza en julio (1979)
120 min | Drama
This 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.
Director: Silvio Caiozzi | Stars: Elsa Alarcón, Jorge Álvarez, Luis Alarcón, Magdalena Aguirre
Votes: 286
38. Coronación (2000)
140 min | Drama, Romance
A lonely man becomes increasingly obsessed with the beautiful teenager he used to help care for his grandmother.
Director: Silvio Caiozzi | Stars: María Cánepa, Julio Jung, Myriam Palacios, Gabriela Medina
Votes: 485
39. La expropiación (1974)
60 min | Drama
An Agronom arrive at a farm to expropriate land, but the landowner is willing to leave the country voluntarily. A revolt among the tenants occur.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Delfina Guzmán, Nemesio Antúnez, Jaime Vadell, Luis Alarcón
Votes: 37
40. El pejesapo (2007)
90 min | Drama
Daniel is a maladjusted man, who after a failed suicide attempt, returns to restart his life from the poor periphery of Santiago, to downtown. In this journey he does not discover any ... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Sepúlveda | Stars: Héctor Silva, Jessica Calderón, Yani Escobar, José Melo
Votes: 101
41. A la sombra del sol (1974)
70 min | Drama
Two criminals escape from a Calama prison and travel through the Atacama Desert towards Bolivia.
Directors: Silvio Caiozzi, Pablo Perelman | Stars: Luis Alarcón, Alejandro Cohen, Marcelo Gaete, Teresa Ramos
Votes: 55
42. Three Sad Tigers (1968)
100 min | Drama
The drunken nights of several listless chancers in Chile's capital city build inexorably to violence.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Shenda Román, Nelson Villagra, Luis Alarcón, Jaime Vadell
Votes: 385
43. Diálogos de exiliados (1975)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Chilean 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.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Daniel Gélin, Françoise Arnoul, Huguette Faget, Sergio Hernández
Votes: 177
44. Days in the Country (2004)
89 min | Drama
In 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.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Marcial Edwards, Mario Montilles, Bélgica Castro, Ignacio Agüero
Votes: 155
45. Little White Dove (1992)
125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A poor schoolgirl and a young man from a wealthy family have an affair.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Beatriz Lapido, Rodrigo Ureta, Mónica Díaz, Manuel Aranguiz
Votes: 240
46. A Cab for Three (2001)
Unrated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A taxi driver is given a difficult choice from 2 small time crooks: drive them around while they rob, or get locked up in the trunk.
Director: Orlando Lübbert | Stars: Alejandro Trejo, Fernando Gómez Rovira, Daniel Muñoz, Elena Milea
Votes: 1,128
47. El otro día (2013)
120 min | Documentary
Ignacio Agüero fashions a documentary that manages to encompass his family and national history, Chile's economic problems, identity, and nature via the most low-key of approaches: the film... See full summary »
Director: Ignacio Agüero | Stars: Ignacio Agüero, Raúl Ruiz
Votes: 50
48. Cuídate del Agua Mansa (1995)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A seemingly perfunctory geologist dumps a fickle girl history student and becomes engaged to a nudist neighbor.
Director: Cristián Sánchez | Stars: Macarena Darrigrandi, Alessandra Guerzoni, Tahía Gómez
Votes: 14
49. Maknum González (2013)
73 min | Action, Crime
An aging criminal is double crossed by his partner and sentenced to 15 years in prison. After escaping he seeks revenge.
Director: George Vonknorring | Stars: Mauricio Pesutic, Javiera Díaz de Valdés, Jorge Alís, Ernesto Anacona
Votes: 31
50. Play (2005)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Romance
A couple search for love but never quite seem to meet.
Director: Alicia Scherson | Stars: Viviana Herrera, Andres Ulloa, Aline Küppenheim, Coca Guazzini
Votes: 483
51. The Wolf House (2018)
Not Rated | 75 min | Animation, Drama, Horror
Tells the story of Maria, a young woman who takes refuge in a house in southern Chile after escaping from a German colony.
Directors: Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León | Stars: Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause, Karina Hyland, Carlos Cociña
Votes: 4,756
52. Young & Wild (2012)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
Daniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.
Director: Marialy Rivas | Stars: Alicia Rodríguez, Aline Küppenheim, María Gracia Omegna, Felipe Pinto
Votes: 3,040 | Gross: $0.00M
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