José Soza

Acting

José Soza

Born 1946-06-16 · Talca, Chile

Acting credits

Neruda poster
6.3

It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.

Neruda

2016

Austral Fever poster
6.3

Amanda (46), a complaisant and lonely woman, lives with her son Daniel (16) in the mountains of southern Chile. Octavio (16), a Daniel’s friend, is accidentally injured while hunting in the forest. Amanda takes over the healing sessions, developing an intimate bond with the teenager. They discover that the contact with the wound produces an addictive pleasure.

Austral Fever

2019

Joselito poster
NR

The absence of his mother at home has made Joselito's relationship with his father increasingly colder.

Joselito

2016

The Club poster
6.9

In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.

The Club

2015

Fuga poster
6.3

Could a brilliant composer's music actually be killing his loved ones? Eliseo can't help but believe it when his younger sister dies tragically and then his pianist Georgina suddenly dies on the piano. Completely traumatized, Eliseo is taken to a mental hospital where he can find escape only through music.

Fuga

2006

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

No artwork available
10.0

Three stories rooted in violence, mental erosion and hopes that ran through Chile's soul.

Lizards' Tales

1989

Atacama's 33 poster
8.0

A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.

Atacama's 33

2011

Y solo el amor resucita poster
NR

In his final years, forgotten muralist Fernando Daza is in the process of creating a new work by the name “Solo el Amor Resucita.” While the artist paints, the limits between poetry, muralism, and geography fade as we are taken on a trip from Chile’s north to its south. Time will the painter’s main issue: at 85 years old, his mind and his heart want to keep creating, but it is his body that will have the last word.

Y solo el amor resucita

2021

The Man of the Future poster
6.3

Michelsen, an older trucker who is lonely and sick, while traveling through Patagonia meets someone on the highway who reminds him of his daughter, whom he has not seen in years.

The Man of the Future

2019

The Retiree poster
10.0

Fabiola returns to her homeland, province of Los Andes, to recover the affection of her family, after seven years of being away.

The Retiree

2015

Black Island poster
NR

In their comfortable beach house, Guillermo and his assistant Carmen spend the weekend together before starting a real estate project at the Isla Negra resort. Their peaceful weekend is disrupted when a woman, her husband, and her sick father arrive at their home. From the moment this family arrives, the routine becomes increasingly tense, leading to a confrontation that will reveal deep political and social differences between the two conflicting worlds.

Black Island

2025

La rubia de Kennedy poster
9.0

The ghost of a young German colonist, who died a couple of hundred years ago in unclear supernatural circumstances, appears in Chile to fulfill her mythical destiny. To achieve this, she will intervene in the life of an unsuccessful publicist and his lover.

La rubia de Kennedy

1995

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

Amelia Lópes O'Neill poster
5.0

A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.

Amelia Lópes O'Neill

1992

El Retrato de Ella poster
NR

Ana has just been widowed by a suicidal painter. One day, she discovers a painting in which he painted her in a disturbing way. Ana begins to obsess about how he saw her, developing a psychotic picture.

El Retrato de Ella

2022

No artwork available
7.5

A young artist starts a friendship with his neighbour, a criminal who, tormented because of one of his crimes, seeks forgiveness.

El vecino

2000

The Wild Years poster
NR

The closure of the Cochran bar in Valparaíso confronts the forgotten rocker Ricky Palace with the dilemma of retreating to the south to start a new life or fighting for the hit that was stolen from him, risking becoming a ghost in his beloved port.

The Wild Years

2025

Las cenizas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Las cenizas

2024

Un cuento de dos mujeres poster
1.0

Elena is forced to rent the apartment she shared with her friend, who has just passed away.After several encounters with different people, Elena decides to put aside her fears and opens up to the world that surrounds her.

Un cuento de dos mujeres

2020

No artwork available
NR

A young horse-tamer is wrongly accused of theft.

El último disparo del Negro Chávez

2003

Hechos consumados poster
7.0

The extreme poverty produced by unbridled neoliberalism in Pinochet’s Chile is an allegory for the disappeared. Based on a play by Juan Radrigán.

Hechos consumados

1986

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Isla Negra: Neruda y el mar

1990

El Vuelo de Chaika poster
NR

An actress is preparing a puppet adaptation of Anton Chekhov's classic “The Seagull.” During the rehearsal prior to the premiere, Chaika – the puppet that stars in her show – disappears from the stage, forcing her to delve into the depths of the theater and herself to find her.

El Vuelo de Chaika