Acting

Marcial Edwards

Born

1942-03-14 (84)

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 7 titles

Night Across the Street poster
6.4

A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.

Night Across the Street

2012

Santiago Violenta poster
5.3

Mauro, Noel and Broco have been an inseparable group of friends since grade school. All grown up, their lives are not what they hoped they would be. Life has become so routine that they do nothing more than wait for the weekends to drink themselves into oblivion. One night, a chance encounter leads the group on a wild and deadly chase from Santiago's most dangerous crime boss... Forced to make increasingly risky decisions, their frantic, adrenaline fueled desperation brings them closer to a violent, life-changing end where the friendship will be changed forever.

Santiago Violenta

2014

The Vineyard poster
5.2

The legend of the 'Tierra De Sangre' vineyard... A tale that takes place a century ago, where love and death collide, and the mystery is darker than anyone could possibly imagine.

The Vineyard

2014

The Wandering Soap Opera poster
6.5

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.

The Wandering Soap Opera

2018

Broken Panties poster
4.1

The imminent death of a matriarch forces her whole family to reunite. From her dying confession, other hidden episodes will come to light. Each of the family members will face what they would prefer remained buried. Nobody is free of killing for love.

Broken Panties

2018

El lugar encantado poster
NR

A married professor of music has a normal life until the day he meets an unusual women, 20 years younger than he. He gets involved in a love relation with her. At the beginning everything looks normal, nevertheless after some time with her, he begins questioning his whole life, breaking with the comfortable and conventional existence he used to have.

El lugar encantado

2014

Family Holidays poster
7.2

The Kellys are a bourgeois family that have fallen into hard times. Deprived of the bragging rights of their typical summer vacation at a posh Chilean beach resort town, they pretend that they are instead going to Brazil for their vacation. They feign leaving on vacation but instead spend the time locked up at home and avoiding the suspicions of a nosy neighbor.

Family Holidays

2014

2000s · 10 titles

Days in the Country poster
7.6

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.

Days in the Country

2004

Secrets poster
4.5

After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed.

Secrets

2008

Alberto: ¿Quién sabe cuánto cuesta hacer un ojal? poster
9.0

Alberto, a young law student struggles to realize his ultimate dream: to follow the call of his priestly vocation.

Alberto: ¿Quién sabe cuánto cuesta hacer un ojal?

2005

Tendida mirando las estrellas poster
4.0

Nieves has murdered the man who was tried to rape his younger brother. Sentenced to five years in prison, she is immersed in a hard and marginal world, she does yearns to one day being released and fulfill her lifelong dream: to know the flowery desert in northern Chile. When an oversight of her captors allows her to flee, her dreams will have to wait still. She dedicates herself to managing a nightclub where her former jailmates prostitute themselves.

Tendida mirando las estrellas

2004

Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody poster
7.0

An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV in a rigorous yet playful manner".

Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody

2002

The Good Life poster
7.0

In the city of Santiago, four characters struggle to reach their goals: a psychologist who wants to help other women and save their lives, a hairdresser who wants to buy a car, a musician who wants to play in a philharmonic orchestra, and a young woman who simply survives in the city, but each of them obtains something unexpected and different from what they wanted.

The Good Life

2008

Cachimba poster
4.9

A man takes his insecure, overweight paramour to a seaside resort to consummate their relationship, but there he stumbles onto an artistic discovery that will change his life.

Cachimba

2004

Coronation poster
6.1

The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money with the passions of his well-off rival. The suffocating atmosphere of the run-down mansion in the outskirts of Santiago represents the deterioration of the bourgeoisie, and sets the scene for the total collapse of Andres.

Coronation

2000

Antonia poster
9.0

A young, successful and attractive executive gets depressed after an unwanted pregnancy that will push her to take a look at her personal life, reconnecting once again with the man he used to love when she was a teen.

Antonia

2001

No artwork available
7.0

After an accident that left her in terrible conditions Rosicler, a former starlet, is being taken care by an old man. While she dreams of dancing again, he only wants her to accept reality.

Te llamabas Rosicler

2002

1990s · 4 titles

Series credits

Irreversible poster
2.0

Daily stories of real crimes from Chile and Latin America.

Irreversible

2017

Irreversible poster
2.0

Daily stories of real crimes from Chile and Latin America.

Irreversible

2017

Enigma poster
2.0

Anthology series based on true crime stories that usually are unsolved mysteries. Intertwining dramatizations and real interviews with the victims and witnesses.

Enigma

2001

Secretos en el jardín poster
2.0

A series of crimes occur in Viña del Mar during the 80s. The detective Ramiro Opazo and the journalist Javier Montes will investigate those responsible for the murders and robberies.

Secretos en el jardín

2013

Volver a empezar poster
NR

A writer returns to her motherland after many years in exile, and seeks to resolve pending conflicts with her son.

Volver a empezar

1991

Volver a empezar poster
NR

A writer returns to her motherland after many years in exile, and seeks to resolve pending conflicts with her son.

Volver a empezar

1991

JPT: Justicia para todos poster
2.0

The activites of two lawyers and their work in different positions of the New Chilean Procedural Reform.

JPT: Justicia para todos

2003

Laberinto poster
NR

Gustavo Frías invites us on a journey into the human soul, to learn about situations that rarely are seen in to the public eye but are always present within the privacy of ordinary people.

Laberinto

1997

Bala Loca poster
6.0

A veteran journalist starting a news site about corruption in Chile stumbles on a big story when a fellow investigative reporter dies suspiciously.

Bala Loca

2016

Oldsters poster
2.0

Three friends in their 70s step out of retirement to become a band of outlaws whose mission is to help those let down by the justice system.

Oldsters

2020

Mary & Mike poster
6.3

Mary and Mike are a couple of elite agents from the Chilean secret police, DINA. Their job is to eliminate opposition leaders who from abroad articulate resistance to the fierce military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In her public life, Mary is a writer and she relates with the most outstanding members of Santiago's cultural life. Mike, is a talented "gringo" for electronics. They live with their children Cony and Simon in the suburbs of Santiago where they tend to give crowded parties. But as they celebrate, in the backyard of their home they torture, murder and experiment with weapons of mass destruction.

Mary & Mike

2018

Heredia & asociados poster
NR

The adventures of an irreverent private detective, while he is dealing with economic problems.

Heredia & asociados

2005

No artwork available
NR

Sussi, a beautiful young woman lives in Santiago with three other women. Each episode tells different situations and jobs that Sussi have, knowing in each of those different men with whom she has some kind of affair. Through these experiences, she learns about life and love. Based on Gonzalo Justiniano's movie Sussi.

Las historias de Sussi

1998

No artwork available
NR

The trials and tribulations of a fashion house in 1950s Chile.

Casa de Angelis

2018

Algo habrán hecho por la historia de Chile poster
10.0

Series that narrates the history of Chile, from the Spanish colonization by Pedro de Valdivia and the begin of the Arauco War, to the Centennial of Chile in 1910. The show uses two main styles, jumping from one to the other. One style is the use of actors to represent certain key events. The second style is the plain explanation of the things taking place, which could be done with visual gags, with the hosts in some modern day location, or at a representation of an event.

Algo habrán hecho por la historia de Chile

2010

Crónica de un hombre santo poster
10.0

The life, work and death of the Chilean Jesuit priest and founder of "Hogar de Cristo" (Home of Christ), San Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga.

Crónica de un hombre santo

1990

Litoral poster
6.0

An ode to Chilean maritime myth and storytelling. Sailors onboard the Lucerna tell stories, but before long their stories intersect.

Litoral

2008

No artwork available
8.0

The life of a group of men who patrolled the Atacama Desert during the Saltpeter War.

La patrulla del desierto

1993