Chilean
see all genres ›Slow to hit its stride, this coastal nation's cinema began projecting outward a distinctive voice of its own in the 1960s with the arrival of unique directorial sensibilities like that of the late, idiosyncratically intellectual Raúl Ruiz and politically-driven documentarian Patricio Guzman. More recent years have seen acclaimed films mixing those elements and more.
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The Maid
After twenty-three years working as a devoted maid in an upper class Chilean household, embittered and ailing Raquel can no longer care for the family alone. Trapped by guilt, matriarch Pilar refuses to let Raquel go, even though it is clear their longtime maid is slowly unraveling. Instead,...Watch Movie
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Otra película de amor
Diego and Sebastian are two teens who used to be friends in childhood. They reunite one summer, leading to a strong friendship while they get drunk, smoke marijuana and wander to different places looking for the meaning of life, sex and love. Diego is discovering his...Watch Movie
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Memories of a Dreamer
MEMORIES OF A DREAMER is a first person account of the hardship suffered by a political prisoner from Chile's 1973 cruel dictatorship. Felix Mora recounts shocking details of the torture he endured, his escape from the dictatorship and the challenges he has faced as an exile...Watch Movie
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Klimt
Raúl Ruiz described his 2006 film about Austrian painter Gustav Klimt and the art culture of 1900 Vienna as a phantasmagoria rather than a biopic... and why not? He presents Klimt's life through the fever-dream remembrances of the artist as he wastes away from syphilis. The film leaps through...Watch Movie
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Night Across the Street
On the verge of a forced retirement, Don Celso, an elderly office worker, begins to relive both real and imagined memories from his life: a trip to the movies as a young boy with Ludwig van Beethoven, listening to tall tales from Long John Silver, a brief stay in a haunted...Watch Movie
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Curse of the Stone Hand
A twin-pack of south-of-the-border shudders, this anthology horror flick combines a chiller about a man who joins a gambling club only to find that it's actually a suicide club and a tale about a sadistic child who grows up to lead a life of evil. Sandwiched around these two...Watch Movie
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Post Mortem
The second part of director Pablo Larrain's celebrated trilogy about Chile during the dictatorial reign of Augusto Pinochet, POST MORTEM is a "grim, intense, mordantly comic little film" (A.O. Scott, New York Times) about a civil servant transformed by the 1973 military coup. Mario (Alfredo...Watch Movie
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The Embassy
One of Chris Marker's few fiction films, THE EMBASSY shows political dissidents seeking refuge in a foreign embassy after a military coup d'état in an unidentified country. Over the next few days, more and more people fleeing the military assault (teachers, students, intellectuals, artists and...Watch Movie
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Machuca
Set in Chile, 1973, this is an astonishingly intimate and painful coming-of-age story about a pair of 12-year-old boys from opposite extremes of society who form an unlikely friendship during the last days of President Allende and the first days of Pinochet. The potent events are accompanied by a...Watch Movie
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Tony Manero
As Augusto Pinochet holds Chile in the grip of dictatorship, a fifty year old man obsessed with John Travolta’s character from SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER imitates his idol each weekend in a small bar on the outskirts of Santiago all the while committing an increasingly violent series of crimes and...Watch Movie
