Acting

Pedro Villagra

Born 1934-08-22 · Chillán, Biobío, Chile

Acting credits

Eloy poster
8.0

The film is about Eloy, a Chilean bandit and companion of Joaquín Murieta, who is wanted by the justice system on the border with Argentina. Although an escape seems impossible, in desperation he flees without a fixed destination.

Eloy

1969

Soccer Stories poster
5.3

Three vignettes about the lives of young Chileans and their passions and frustrations over one of the century's most important rituals: football.

Soccer Stories

1997

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

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

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

Dawson Isla 10 poster
5.7

After the 1973 coup that deposed Allende and brought Pinochet to power in Chile, the former members of his cabinet are imprisoned on Dawson Island, the world's southernmost concentration camp. Here these men are determined to survive and provide history with their testimony.

Dawson Isla 10

2009

The Treasure of the Snails poster
8.0

After finding a valuable treasure, Quique commits a crime. His mother arranges a plot to hide the act and keep the gems, but to make it, she'll have to surpass both the stupidity of Quique and the smartness of the policemen who investigate the case.

The Treasure of the Snails

2004

La Tirana poster
2.0

A Chilean aristocrat and a Peruvian labor leader. live a story of forbidden love in the midst of the Saltpeter war.

La Tirana

2010

No artwork available
8.0

Two young men are vying for the love of a young peasant girl named Rosa.

El pozo

2001

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

No artwork available
NR

A young horse-tamer is wrongly accused of theft.

El último disparo del Negro Chávez

2003

The Mother of the Lamb poster
NR

Cristina has spent her life taking care of her mother Carmen. Single and without a trade or friends, she grows older, year after year in her hometown. A few days from her birth- day, Cristina reconnects with Sandra, a former schoolmate who will show her other ways to live, freely and without prejudice.

The Mother of the Lamb

2014