Luis Alarcón

Acting

Luis Alarcón

Born — Died

1929-10-23 — 2023-08-04

Place of birth

Puerto Natales, Magallanes and the Chilean Antarctic, Chile

Known for

Acting

Credits

76 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 8 titles

Secos poster
NR

Chile is the only country that has privatized its waters, in favor of large corporations, to the detriment of homes in rural and urban communities. Secos is a short that makes this reality visible, through the dialog between anonymous fighters from the most heavily affected provinces, with renowned actors and actresses in the country. The objective is to activate the topic of water as a human right, to achieve in the future the recovery of this vital element as a common good for all communities and territories.

Secos

2017

Mamá Ya Crecí poster
3.2

Gerardo was never detached from his mother. So when he presented his first girlfriend, the gorgeous model Ana Verónica, the mother will do everything possible to get rid of her.

Mamá Ya Crecí

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

No artwork available
10.0

A documentary recorded during the filming of "The Wandering Soap Opera" by Raúl Ruiz. Made in 1990 and completed 27 years later, in 2017. The film brings closer the approach in Ruiz's directing style and his personal vision of Cinema.

Exote: Filming Of The Wandering Soap Opera

2017

La gravedad del púgil poster
NR

The story about a boxer and a police in the forest following the traces of evil forces.

La gravedad del púgil

2014

People's Train of Culture poster
NR

Documentary film which tells the story of an initiative of the government of Salvador Allende, President of Chile from 1970 to 1973, the objective of which was to bring culture closer to those who had no access to it. The People’s Train of Culture was part of the 40th measure of Allende’s programme of government which aimed to create a National Institute of Arts and Culture and colleges of art in all the country’s provinces.

People's Train of Culture

2015

Gente Mala del Norte poster
10.0

In the Strait of Magellan, on 1923, an Irish photographer gradually discovers that the defendants in a bloody crime are innocent, and are only victims of intolerance and political expediency.

Gente Mala del Norte

2011

O’Brien: Las edades del hombre poster
NR

After recording the influential album "Fictions" in the 1960s with Los Vidrios Quebrados, a true gem of early Chilean rock, Juan Mateo O'Brien didn't sing again for almost 50 years. "O'Brien: The Ages of Man" reveals the past, present, and future of one of the founders of creative rock in Chile, through fragments of a puzzle that intersects Santiago, Paris, revolution, exile, music, and words. A keen observer of the local psyche, O'Brien wanders through a constantly transforming city. With a central role for the songs from the album "Gran Avenida" - his celebrated recording comeback driven by a new generation - "O'Brien: The Ages of Man" is an unusual portrait of a particular protagonist of the 20th century, architect of his own destiny.

O’Brien: Las edades del hombre

2016

2000s · 10 titles

Mandrill poster
5.5

Mandrill is a high-level assassin whose parents many years ago were slaughtered in cold blood by a ruthless drug lord. Now he finds himself finally in a position to get his revenge. But since it falls in love precisely in the pretty daughter of the ruthless killer. Mandrill now faces the most serious decision of his life ...

Mandrill

2009

Tierra del fuego poster
5.8

The film is based on the novel (of the same name) by the Chilean writer Francisco Coloane, and on the chronicles of the Romanian engineer Julius Popper, a nationalized Argentine and one of the principle actors in the genocide of the Selk'nam, one of the indigenous peoples who inhabited the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago.

Tierra del fuego

2000

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

No artwork available
NR

La represa tells the story of an aboriginal tribe that finds itself endangered by the construction of a dam over their sacred land. "Beard in head" and his loyal friend "Straight hair" will have to go to the city to prohibit the construction of the dam by the white man.

La represa

2009

Gracia y el Forastero poster
NR

The fatal relationship between Gracia, the teenage daughter of a retired general officer and Gabriel, an outsider who has just come back to his home at the beach with his father, a leftist militant.

Gracia y el Forastero

2002

Pickman's Model poster
5.8

A journalist sets out to uncover the truth about the death of his colleague who was researching an American artist, Richard Upton Pickman. When he discovers the artist is in Santiago he goes to pay him a visit.

Pickman's Model

2000

No artwork available
NR

The life story of Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro who leaves his wife and children in Chile and flees to Paris in order to devote himself to poetry.

El vuelo del poeta

2009

Kiltro poster
5.4

Street tough Zamir has been in love with Kim ever since he rescued her from rapists, but the only way that he can express his affection is to attack any man who shows interest in her. Kim tolerates Zamir's infatuation, but keeps him at arm's length. When Max Kalba arrives in town to take vengeance on Kim's father, Zamir attempts to rescue her once again.

Kiltro

2006

The Chosen One poster
5.0

It's the year 2006 in Chile and reality TV rules the airwaves. Ten strangers are taken to the snowy summits of the Andes; The challenge is to survive in an underground shelter.

The Chosen One

2003

No artwork available
NR

Two men at cause of confusion and superstitions become involved in a duel that ends unexpectedly.

El duelo

2004

1990s · 8 titles

Johnny One Hundred Pesos poster
6.0

Based on real events, 17-year-old Johnny García becomes involved with four older thugs who are planning to rob a money-laundering business masquerading as a video store. As they try to escape, a swarm of exploitative media attention awaits.

Johnny One Hundred Pesos

1993

Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde poster
NR

In the seas of southern Chile, where the known world ends, in dangerous waters and ghost ports, a space where everything is possible, a group of sailors dare still to dream in mysteries and enchantments...

Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde

1999

Little White Dove poster
6.8

A young working class girl falls in love with an upper class boy who is part of the plot to assassinate General Schneider, head of the Chilean Army. The film was shot in 1973 over six weeks with a budget of $170,000. As a result of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and military dictatorship (1973–1990), the film was presumed lost for many years and not released until 1992.

Little White Dove

1992

Derecho de asilo poster
6.3

In an imaginary country in Latin America, a man asks for asylum in an embassy. Trickery, passion, and intrigue are the motives of his actions.

Derecho de asilo

1993

Something Is Out There poster
7.0

While wandering solitary in the city, Bruno discovers that his personality alternates with another. Such scrutiny will disturb him and make him to face himself in a quest that will even bring him face to face with death.

Something Is Out There

1990

KGB Agents Also Fall in Love poster
2.8

A Russian agent is sent to a mission in Chile as a punishment. While there, he continues his adventures in a massage parlor where he meets Paola - a young prostitute he falls in love with.

KGB Agents Also Fall in Love

1991

Los náufragos poster
4.4

After 20 years of exile, Aron returns to Chile to find out who he is. He asks questions, not only of those who stayed behind but also of himself, examining his relationship with his past and his own memory. The people who stayed lived through 20 years of dictatorship. They were either victims or executioners. Amidst this wreckage, Aron wonders what name his brother is using now, where his father is... Can he, in Isol's arms and through her love, find his way again ? What future awaits him? Like Mola the torturer, he has returned from an impossible journey, and Aron knows that each man is his own executioner. Shipwreck and resurrection are the two facets of a complex truth.

Los náufragos

1994

Caluga o Menta poster
7.0

Niki and his friends are members of the marginalised underclass living on the outskirts of Santiago. During Chile's transition from dictatorship to democracy (1988-1990), they forge a path from drug- and drink-fuelled nihilism and petty crime into the world of market-driven illegality and Niki begins a seemingly predestined relationship with the middle-class "loca", Manuela. Memorable episodes and characters, quotable dialogue and a mix of earthy national portrait and surrealistic flourish make this one of the key Chilean films of the Nineties.

Caluga o Menta

1990

1970s · 10 titles

The Witnesses poster
6.5

This stark Chilean melodrama concerns itself with the plight of slum dwellers living outside Santiago. For many years they have, with great difficulty, been faithfully paying small sums to a real estate man. This man has said that by doing so they can obtain title to the miniscule plots of land their houses stand on. In fact, he has been swindling them and does not even own the land he has been "selling." One of the aggrieved slum dwellers confronts him about this while he is visiting the slum, and the real estate agent shoots him before everyone's eyes. The question confronting these witnesses is whether testifying against this monster will make their lives even more precarious.

The Witnesses

1971

No artwork available
6.5

The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although the action was filmed in four days and four nights in 1971, the movie was only finished in France in 1973, after the military coup.

The Expropriation

1974

No artwork available
6.1

Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility, it is a deft blend of fiction and documentary set in the tumultuous days leading up to the election of Salvador Allende in 1970.

What Is to Be Done?

1972

Julio Begins in July poster
6.5

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.

Julio Begins in July

1979

Jackal of Nahueltoro poster
6.8

Based on an actual murder case that ignited a furious debate over the death penalty in Chile in 1960, this experimental social drama portrays the life and death of an illiterate peasant who, while drunk, murdered the woman with whom he had a relationship and her five children.

Jackal of Nahueltoro

1970

Nobody Said Anything poster
5.9

Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.

Nobody Said Anything

1971

The Chinese Shoe poster
6.1

A taxi driver finds Marlene, a provincial woman, lost in a brothel. Immediately he decides to help her out and take her at his place. Little by little, his paternal protection turns into a bizarre passion

The Chinese Shoe

1979

No artwork available
5.3

A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite democratic structures, the inhabitants--who speak a strange dialect composed of Spanish and English--still obey the old prison rules. After sending back detailed accounts of the torture and repression seen everywhere, the journalist realizes that she has fallen into the trap created for her by the islanders: lacking natural resources, the island's main export is news.

The Penal Colony

1970

A la sombra del sol poster
6.5

Two thieves wander in the chilean desert and finally get to a small town near Bolivia. There, they try to include themselves with the townspeople but their instincts betray them and tragedy ensues. Based on a true story, this film opened one year after the chilean Coup de etat. The day after the opening, script girl Carmen Bueno and director of photography Jorge Müller were taken by police and now they are part of the list of the Desaparecidos.

A la sombra del sol

1974

Vías paralelas poster
8.0

A former public-services worker wants to return to his job. In the attempt, he meets wandering people, who seek "parallel ways" of survival in a chaotic socio-political context in Chile, after the 1973 Coup d'état .

Vías paralelas

1975

Series credits

Mentiras verdaderas poster
5.5

Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency.

Mentiras verdaderas

2011

Algo personal poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Algo personal

2015

La noche es nuestra poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

La noche es nuestra

2018

Corazón de María poster
2.0

Miguel loses his wife Maria in a tragic car accident just hours after getting married. However, Maria's heart will continue to beat on another woman's body. The transplant that marks the death of María will also be synonymous of Elisa's new life.

Corazón de María

2007

El circo de las Montini poster
6.0

A circus family must face a new season of performances, under the risk that this may be their last tour.

El circo de las Montini

2002

Martín Rivas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Martín Rivas

2010

Matriarcas poster
6.0

Diana, the widow of an Arab millionaire must share her home with all the women related to latter's life, including her monarchist mother Isabelle, her envious sister Letizia, her two nieces Leonor and Amalia, her employee and a cute kinesiologist.

Matriarcas

2015

Pampa Ilusión poster
2.0

The exiled daughter of an English businessman returns home, in the midst of the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in the Humberstone nitrate office, during the acute 1930s financial crisis.

Pampa Ilusión

2001

Los Pincheira poster
6.0

Four bandit siblings try to take revenge on the landowners who killed their father.

Los Pincheira

2004

Sucupira poster
6.0

Sucupira is a seaside town in Chile. Federico Valdivieso, the mayor, a scoundrel, rascal and womanizer is determined to be re-elected. One of his main goals for that is to inaugurate the Sucupira cemetery, something he cannot achieve because nobody is dying, in his endeavor to make that happen he will star in hilarious situations.

Sucupira

1996

Viuda Alegre poster
2.0

In a coastal town, Beatriz Sarmiento is known for her fortune and charisma, also for having lost four husbands in different circumstances. When her lastest husband passes away, Rodrigo appears at her brother's funeral with hidden intentions, unleashing countless conflicts in the lives of the villagers, including Beatriz.

Viuda Alegre

2008

Romané poster
6.7

A caravan of gypsies arrives in Mejillones, Chile, to celebrate the marriage of their patriarch, without imagining that the unexpected arrival of his daughter after two decades, will revive a stormy past.

Romané

2000

La fiera poster
5.5

Catalina Chamorro, is a woman who rejects every wooer interested in her. The matter would not be important if it were not because, according to an old promise of love, Catalina's father, Pedro Chamorro, refuses to give his youngest daughter, Blanca, in marriage until his oldest daugher has married.

La fiera

1999

Estúpido cupido poster
5.0

In 1962, the small town of San Andrés is ruled by morality and good manners. The arrival of a new nun will change everything. Turn everything upside down.

Estúpido cupido

1995

La familia de al lado poster
3.5

Gone are the days of tranquility for the billionaire family Fabres, strange things happen inside his home and around his people in a place where nothing is what it seems.

La familia de al lado

2010

Viva la pipol poster
2.0

Contests, reporting segments and conversation with interesting guests. All done in a pleasant and down-to-earth way for all the Chilean family watching.

Viva la pipol

2019

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

Borrón y cuenta nueva poster
4.5

A billionaire who, as a result of his death, leaves an inheritance of 100 million dollars to his three daughters. But in order for them to receive the money, they must follow some exclusive conditions such as living in his mansion, marrying within a year and arriving there before midnight. Problems scalate when a fourth heir appears...

Borrón y cuenta nueva

1998

De tú a tú poster
2.0

Martín Cárcamo invites people of huge national and international relevance to his home to have a relaxed conversation, without fanfare but revealing and intimate.

De tú a tú

2021

Dime quién fue poster
2.0

Laura returns 20 years later to the hotel where her mother died in strange circumstances, to seek revenge and make justice.

Dime quién fue

2017

No artwork available
5.0

A painting unleashes the riddle of three women from different worlds and times but with the same face. How can this be?

La dama del balcón

1986

Rojo y miel poster
5.5

The love story of Claudia Bernhardt and Rodrigo Carvajal, they come from different worlds: she was a young university student, used to urban lifestyle and he was in charge of his father's ranch. Their romance is at stake when another man offers Claudia the stability she needs. The honey of the city will clash with the red passion of the countryside.

Rojo y miel

1994

Témpano poster
NR

The mystery takes over the crew of a vessel on the ice in southern Chile.

Témpano

2011

El señor de la Querencia poster
3.2

An evil and deranged farmer, perversely controls his land and the people who live there during the 1920s.

El señor de la Querencia

2008

No artwork available
8.5

Four music students who are part of a Rock band try to enter the business.

La Buhardilla

1997

Sucupira, la comedia poster
NR

A spin-off sequel of the 1996 TV series "Sucupira". The story takes place when Sucupira Mayor Federico Valdivieso, who was thought gone and buried comes out of his grave, causing confussion and chaos among the town's citizens.

Sucupira, la comedia

1998

No artwork available
4.5

The exploits of an investigative police group that from anonymity, solve intricate criminal cases.

Brigada Escorpión

1997

Corín Tellado: Mis mejores historias de amor poster
NR

Series based on Corín Tellado's "pink" novels. Romantic stories that take place in Modern times, portraying the prejudices and social pressures that both men and women have to endure.

Corín Tellado: Mis mejores historias de amor

1990

Los años dorados poster
2.0

The story of three women (and one of them's mother) who share a flat in Viña del Mar, Chile. Remake of the American TV series "The Golden Girls".

Los años dorados

2015

No artwork available
2.0

Interviews with prominent Chilean actors, throwbacks to their careers and personal lives.

Sin maquillaje

2011

No artwork available
2.0

Documentary series that takes a nostalgic journey through decades of Chilean theater and its history.

Mierda Mierda, la función debe continuar

2020

Marta a las ocho poster
10.0

A housemaid named Marta travels to Santiago, in search of better opportunities, convinced that in the capital she would find everything she expected.

Marta a las ocho

1985

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

No artwork available
NR

The adventures of a boy who is usually left with his grandfather and his nanny at home while his parents go out to different activities. They go through different funny situations to pass the time.

Mi abuelo, mi nana y yo

1998