Chilean films
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1. 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: 387
2. 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
3. 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
4. One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (1988)
55 min | Documentary
"Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo Hermida into a... See full summary »
Director: Ignacio Agüero | Star: Alicia Vega
Votes: 298
5. 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
6. 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
7. Un hombre aparte (2001)
57 min | Documentary
The man aside is Ricardo Liaño, a Spanish immigrant settled in Chile who was a boxing promoter, a show business producer and creator of a number of muddy businesses. Old sponger and talker ... See full summary »
Directors: Iván Osnovikoff, Bettina Perut
Votes: 70
8. Cofralandes, rapsodia chilena (2002)
311 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Bernard Pautrat, Raúl Ruiz, Malcolm Coad, Rainer Krause
Votes: 53
9. Y las vacas vuelan (2004)
90 min | Comedy
Director: Fernando Lavanderos Montero | Stars: Maximiliano Cabrero, Patricio Campos, Magnus Errboe, María Paz Ercilla
Votes: 76
10. 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: 12,660
11. En la Cama (2005)
Unrated | 85 min | Drama
A young man and woman have a sensual, one-night stand in a motel room where they confide in each other about their troubled lives.
Director: Matías Bize | Stars: Blanca Lewin, Gonzalo Valenzuela
Votes: 3,489
12. 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: 4,560
13. 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
14. El cielo, la tierra, y la lluvia (2008)
110 min | Drama
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Torres Leiva | Stars: Julieta Figueroa, Angélica Riquelme, Mariana Muñoz, Pablo Krögh
Votes: 188
15. Dawson Isla 10 (2008)
117 min | Drama
The ex-members of Chile's cabinet survive the prison on Dawson Island.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Benjamín Vicuña, Bertrand Duarte, Pablo Krögh, Cristián de la Fuente
Votes: 381
16. 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: 6,464 | Gross: $0.55M
17. El eco de las canciones (2010)
71 min | Documentary
In 1973, following the coup d'état in Chile, the director's parents took exile in Rome where she was born. What is a handed-down memory?
Director: Antonia Rossi
Votes: 8
18. 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
19. The Year of the Tiger (2011)
82 min | Drama
A prison inmate escapes from his wrecked penitentiary during Chile's February 2010 earthquake.
Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Luis Dubó, Sergio Hernández, Viviana Herrera
Votes: 165
20. Verano (2011)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
During one hot summer day, little things happen to the visitors and workers of an old thermal resort in southern Chile. Julieta, Francisco, Isa, Rodrigo, Ignacio, Mariana, Muriel, Gabriela,... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Torres Leiva | Stars: Rosario Bléfari, Julieta Figueroa, Francisco Ossa, Ignacio Agüero
Votes: 66
21. La muerte de Pinochet (2011)
75 min | Documentary, History
On December 10th, 2006, General Pinochet dies unexpectedly at Santiago's Military Hospital. His decease triggers a 24 hours revival of political divisions that marked with violence and ... See full summary »
Directors: Iván Osnovikoff, Bettina Perut
Votes: 51
22. The Lifeguard (2011)
64 min | Documentary, Comedy, Family
Mauricio is a lifeguard who tries to steer clear from getting in the water, he believes that a good professional applies preventive measures to stop people from drowning, so he tries to ... See full summary »
Director: Maite Alberdi | Stars: Mauricio Rodríguez, Lucas Acuña, Teresa Guerrechea, Jean-Pierre Palacios
Votes: 152
23. Efectos Especiales (2011)
Comedy
Director: Bernardo Quesney | Stars: Nicolás Durán, Paola Lattus, Paulo Orrego, Bernardo Quesney
Votes: 12
24. 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: 26,223 | Gross: $2.34M
25. Night Across the Street (2012)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Christian Vadim, Sergio Hernández, Santiago Figueroa, Valentina Vargas
Votes: 525
26. La Once (2014)
80 min | Documentary
It's a documentary about a group of old ladies that have been friends since high school and they decided to see each other every month. The film documents their interactions and conversations.
Director: Maite Alberdi | Stars: María Teresa Muñoz, Alicia Pérez, Angélica Charpentier, Ximena Calderón
Votes: 574
27. Surire (2015)
80 min | Documentary
Cinematic observational film about an environmentally protected salt flat exploited as a mine while the last native inhabitants watch from their run-down towns how the wealth is extracted from their ancestral lands.
Directors: Iván Osnovikoff, Bettina Perut
Votes: 96
28. 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: 11,996 | Gross: $0.03M
29. The Grown-Ups (2016)
82 min | Documentary
A group of friends with Down Syndrome have been attending the same school for 40 years, they have passed all the courses, all the teachers and, even their parents who were with them, are ... See full summary »
Director: Maite Alberdi | Stars: Rita Guzmán, Andrés Martínez, Ana Rodriguez, Ricardo Urzúa
Votes: 316
30. The Blind Christ (2016)
85 min | Drama
Michael is an inhabitant of a remote village in the Chilean desert. But not any inhabitant. He is Christ.
Director: Christopher Murray | Stars: Bastián Insotroza, Ana María Henríquez, Mauricio Pinto, Noelia Rubio
Votes: 301
31. Bad Influence (2016)
89 min | Drama
Against 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.
Director: Claudia Huaiquimilla | Stars: Andrew Bargsted, Eliseo Fernández, Francisco Pérez-Bannen, Francisca Gavilán
Votes: 410
32. Rara (2016)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
Since their parents split up, Sara and her younger sister live with their mother, whose new partner is a woman. Everyday life for the four of them is very similar to that of other families. But not everyone sees it that way.
Director: Pepa San Martín | Stars: Julia Lübbert, Emilia Ossandon, Mariana Loyola, Agustina Muñoz
Votes: 737
33. 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: 27,284 | Gross: $2.02M
34. Princesita (2017)
71 min | Drama
A 12-year-old girl is part of a sect led by Miguel, in order to procreate his heir, but Miguel's plans will begin to get complicated when the girl enters school and falls in love with a classmate.
Director: Marialy Rivas | Stars: Sara Caballero, Marcelo Alonso, María Gracia Omegna, Nathalia Acevedo
Votes: 172
35. Rey (II) (2017)
91 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy
In 1860, a French lawyer dreamed of becoming the King of Patagonia. And he did just that. Or so it seems.
Director: Niles Atallah | Stars: Mario Cáceres, Rodrigo Lisboa, Claudio Riveros
Votes: 323
36. The Wandering Soap Opera (2017)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas.
Directors: Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Luis Alarcón, Patricia Rivadeneira, Francisco Reyes, Consuelo Castillo
Votes: 359 | Gross: $0.00M
37. Too Late to Die Young (2018)
110 min | Drama
During the summer of 1990 in Chile, people begin to feel a growing sense of freedom and three teenagers face their first loves and fears.
Director: Dominga Sotomayor | Stars: Demian Hernández, Antar Machado, Magdalena Tótoro, Matías Oviedo
Votes: 1,402 | Gross: $0.01M
38. Perro Bomba (2019)
80 min | Drama
After a fight with his boss, Steevens, a young Haitian immigrant in Santiago, Chile, loses his job and is repudiated by the entire community.
Director: Juan Cáceres | Stars: Steevens Benjamin, Alfredo Castro, Blanca Lewin, Gastón Salgado
Votes: 167
39. 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: 9,269
40. Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes (2019)
Unrated | 86 min | Drama
Two women who have shared a life together are faced with the terminal disease of one of them. The sick woman decides to decline treatment and they move to a small house in the forest until the day death comes.
Director: José Luis Torres Leiva | Stars: Amparo Noguera, Julieta Figueroa, Nona Fernández, Ignacio Agüero
Votes: 188
41. Night Shot (2019)
80 min | Documentary
Recording the everyday was always a way of relating to the world. One night the rape happened and everything changed, although the search continued. When revisiting these images, a dialogue... See full summary »
Director: Carolina Moscoso
Votes: 69
42. White on White (2019)
100 min | Drama
A wedding photographer becomes overly intrigued by a young bride-to-be.
Director: Théo Court | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Lola Rubio, Lars Rudolph, Alejandro Goic
Votes: 828
43. 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: 9,505
44. The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (2020)
70 min | Drama
The story of a man whose wife has committed suicide and appears to him as a ghost, following him everywhere and changing his personality.
Directors: Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Rubén Sotoconil, Claudia Paz, Luis Alarcón, Shenda Román
Votes: 187
45. The Punishment (2022)
85 min | Drama
A seven-year-old child disappears from his parents' sight in a mysterious but haunting forest after a punishment.
Director: Matías Bize | Stars: Antonia Zegers, Néstor Cantillana, Yair Juri, Catalina Saavedra
Votes: 444
46. 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: 3,157
47. Socialist Realism (2023)
78 min | Drama
A satirical reading of the process of the "Unidad Popular" of President Salvador Allende, prior to the military civic coup of 1973 in Chile. The film is a choral story, where different worlds are chained together.
Directors: Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Nemesio Antúnez, Marcial Edwards, Colectivo Obrero Elmo Catalán, Javier Maldonado
Votes: 57
48. Malqueridas (2023)
74 min | Documentary
A collective memory of the abandoned community, and shows how these mothers and their love - withstand the trials of life in jail, far from family and loved ones.
Director: Tana Gilbert
Votes: 28
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