The Best 30 chilean Movies (Cine de Chile - Cine Chileno)
Estas son las mejores películas chilenas de todos los tiempos en mi humilde opinión. Best movies to learn about the chilean culture.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsNelson VillagraShenda RománMarcelo RomoThe real story about an illiterate murderer, educated in prison, where he reflects on his actions days before he died.
- 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.
- DirectorSilvio CaiozziStarsGloria MünchmeyerRafael BenaventeErnesto BeadleA sailor prostrate in his bed maintains control of his home and his son through mirrors hung around him.
- DirectorAlejandro Fernández AlmendrasStarsDaniel CandiaAlejandra YañezDaniel AntiviloA working class man who, tired of being the victim of criminals, decides to take justice in his own hands.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsBeatriz LapidoRodrigo UretaMónica DíazA poor schoolgirl and a young man from a wealthy family have an affair.
- DirectorCristián GalazStarsRoberto ArtiagoitíaDaniel MuñozLorene PrietoA young and excentric radio DJ airs a successful program in which diverse calls come in from anonymous listeners, who reveal their love stories, all charged with mix-ups, disputes and passion.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsGael García BernalAlfredo CastroAntonia ZegersAn advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
- DirectorIgnacio RodríguezStarsJaime VadellCamilo CarmonaEugenio MoralesOld man Eladio is dying. Throughout the last decades, he has lived alone, working in his old liquor factory. Modernity threatens his spirits business, but he refuses to abandon it. A visit by his oldest grandson will be the ideal moment to save the factory, while at the same time, reconnect with his family.
- 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.
- DirectorAndrés WoodStarsArmando CavieresNora EscobarFernando GallardoThree vignettes about the lives of young Chileans and their passions and frustrations over one of the century's most important rituals.
- DirectorEsteban LarraínStarsPatricio ContrerasSebastián AyalaRoberto FaríasThe real story of a young man who fooled a nation in the time of Pinochet.
- DirectorGonzalo JustinianoStarsHector Vega MauricioPatricia RivadeneiraAldo ParodiA penetrating look at Santiago, Chile, its sectors and multiple social differences experienced in three friends.
- DirectorAldo FranciaStarsHugo CárcamoSara AsticaRigoberto RojoA poor Valparaiso family faces a tough life after the father is sent to prison.
- DirectorPedro PeiranoSebastián SilvaStarsBélgica CastroClaudia CeledónCatalina SaavedraIsidora tries to hide her mind gone so her daughter does not put her in an asylum.
- DirectorGustavo Graef MarinoStarsArmando AraizaPatricia RiveraWilly SemlerA young low-class student gets involved with the wrong people and takes part in a non successful video rental robbery.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsMariana Di GirólamoGael García BernalSantiago CabreraA couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.
- DirectorMoisés SepúlvedaStarsPaulina GarcíaValentina MuhrA bitter woman in her fifties accepts reluctantly the biggest challenge of her life, which is learning to read.