Paulina García

Acting

Paulina García

Born

1960-11-27 (65)

Place of birth

Santiago de Chile, Chile

Known for

Acting

Credits

66 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 16 titles

Recurrence poster
5.6

Years after moving to a remote town, ex-cop Pipa is pulled back into the dark world she thought she'd left behind when a corpse appears on her property.

Recurrence

2022

Beloved Tropic poster
7.7

In Panama City, a Colombian immigrant employed as a home health aide, who harbors a secret, develops a touching and unexpected bond with a strong-willed, wealthy businesswoman struggling with encroaching dementia.

Beloved Tropic

2025

Black Beach poster
5.8

Carlos, a ruthless Spanish negotiation expert working in Brussels, is tasked with handling the kidnapping of a senior oil company executive in a troubled West African country —with which he has old and deep ties—, torn by ethnic tensions and government abuses.

Black Beach

2020

Love Is the Monster poster
NR

In a dystopian world marked by inequality and everyday violence, a grandmother is determined to make the most of the time she has left with her granddaughter. But as a series of events pushes them into increasing danger, love and fear begin to blur, forcing her to cross lines she never imagined.

Love Is the Monster

2026

Vera poster
NR

Vera, a fan of classical music who works as a night-time cleaner, discovers Miguel, a man she has never seen but who she imagines thanks to the objects on his desk.

Vera

2020

La peste del insomnio poster
NR

30 actresses and actors from Latin America, seek to evoke hope in the midst of the health and economic crisis unleashed by Covid-19, through the reading of fragments from the work of Gabriel García Márquez alluding to the plague of oblivion.

La peste del insomnio

2020

Horizon poster
2.0

It is about two ghosts, a mother and son, search for the boy’s missing father on a journey, both physical and spiritual, through a world ravaged by war. Only through great sacrifice will they mend the fragile bonds that bind them and perhaps find redemption.

Horizon

2025

Milonga poster
6.0

Rosa still lives by her husband's rules despite the fact that he died six months ago. Her worsening relationship with her son has left her estranged from her only family. When she meets Juan, a divorcee, with whom she shares her passion for tango, she starts to rediscover herself and something starts to change. But before she can move on she's confronted with some uncomfortable truths.

Milonga

2025

My Brothers Dream Awake poster
5.1

Ángel and his brother Franco have been locked up in a juvenile detention centre for a year. Despite the hostility of the place, they form bonds with others inmates and daydream about the future.

My Brothers Dream Awake

2021

Los anillos de la serpiente poster
4.5

Ana is a brilliant professor of forensic medicine who is preparing the next Chilean generation of doctors. She lives with her daughter Ursula, who has autism. One day, Ana’s name appears on TV, on a list of former agents of the dictatorship. Faced with harassment from her former colleagues and the police, Ana must protect what is most precious to her.

Los anillos de la serpiente

2020

Winter Howl poster
2.0

A senior couple lives isolated in Patagonia. They are the survivors of Colonia Dignidad, a German “School” settled during the Chilean Dictatorship. Their only purpose is to live in the present while battling the fear of being forgotten. Meanwhile, a woman facing an imminent loss of memory, tries to deliver a secret, asking for forgiveness for the guilt she has carried her whole life.

Winter Howl

2024

Life Is poster
6.0

Nora is about to turn 40 and can't stop wondering: what's the point of all this? What was meant to be a celebration turns into a series of unfortunate missteps that push her toward self-discovery. With open wounds, unspoken desires, and a burning past, Nora confronts her family history, death, unemployment, the collapse of her polyamorous relationship, and the urgent need to redefine love, her sexuality, and what she truly wants from life.

Life Is

2026

Some Beasts poster
4.4

A family travels to a remote island in southern Chile. During the trip they try to convince the grandparents to support them financially to build a hotel in the place. Nicolás, the man who crossed them disappears, leaving the family trapped on the island, the smiles begin to disappear. With cold, without water and without certainties, tempers are diluted, exposing the tensions that each member of the family hides.

Some Beasts

2020

The Righteous poster
NR

Luis, a private tutor, is invited to a family dinner at the fancy house where he works. What starts as a peaceful evening is soon overshadowed by the conflicts within this dysfunctional family. After a power outage, five masked youths break into the house instilling panic in the place. Luis tries to protect the family, but he quickly finds himself threatened by James, the most violent of the assailants, whose hidden motivations will challenge our understanding of justice.

The Righteous

2024

Cien años de Mónica poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cien años de Mónica

2022

Mindanao poster
5.5

Marisol, the mayor of a city on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, spends her last hours surrounded by her entourage. The last party with her most faithful people: the right hand of her political party, the businessman with whom she built her little empire, a not very bright secretary, a Spanish traditional singer –the life of the party– and her great love, Amparo.

Mindanao

2021

2010s · 18 titles

The 33 poster
6.4

Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.

The 33

2015

The Summit poster
5.9

At a summit for Latin American presidents in Chile where the region's geopolitical strategies and alliances are in discussion, Argentine president Hernán Blanco endures political and family drama that will force him to face his own demons.

The Summit

2017

Little Men poster
6.4

Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony at his grandfather's funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute between Jake's father, Brian, and Tony's mother, Leonor, threatens to become contentious.

Little Men

2016

The Desert Bride poster
6.3

Teresa’s life is turned upside down when she is forced to accept a job far away. On her way, she loses her bag, causing her to cross paths with El Gringo, a traveling salesman.

The Desert Bride

2017

Gloria poster
6.6

Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.

Gloria

2013

Much Ado About Nothing poster
5.9

After a night of partying, Vicente is involved in a hit-and-run that kills a man. Vicente claims his innocence, but he was drunk and high. A tangled web of lies buries the truth, making a social scandal disappear — exonerating the real culprit, the son of a powerful politician.

Much Ado About Nothing

2016

Medea poster
5.6

Medea is expelled from the mining region in the Atacama Desert and is given just one day to disappear. But in that single day, she comes up with a plan for revenge. In order to carry out this plan, which will culminate in her murdering her own son, she invokes her innermost strength, summoning the power of the female gender.

Medea

2019

Blood Will Tell poster
6.0

Thriller about a family whose ties are put to the test when the patriarch’s wife dies.

Blood Will Tell

2019

Migratory Birds poster
5.0

Diego is hosting a farewell party in his house before he leaves on a trip that no one knows about.

Migratory Birds

2018

Voice Over poster
4.6

A married woman — seeking to purify herself through a "disconnection vow" — leaves her husband and returns to her parents’ home, but finds a situation far from the peace and quiet she had imagined.

Voice Over

2014

El Muro poster
NR

Year 2015. John O'Connell arrives in Chile to film a documentary about the death of six anonymous heroes that occurred in 2010 during the "EL MURO" event. John hires three actors to recreate the characters and all there is to see when clicking on "crazy geography".

El Muro

2012

I Am From Chile poster
NR

Salvador moves to London from Chile to study English and travel around Europe at his parents’ expense. He stays with his aunt María, who makes a rather decent living renting the rooms of her house to other immigrants. Difficult and challenging situations will force Salvador out of his protected bourgeois reality and into the real world.

I Am From Chile

2014

Génesis Nirvana poster
NR

Patricia Lucia went out of court with a verdict that proves innocence of the murderer of her only daughter, Genesis Nirvana, a girl of only 6 years old. Inside her head, the only way of having justice is by taking it into her own hands. Her only purpose is revenge. Because of this, she takes a home video camera and leaves a record of it. This is a story of revenge and justice, that show us the weakness and vulnerability of human beings, that lose their sanity after missing a child

Génesis Nirvana

2014

I Am Not Lorena poster
6.7

A case of mistaken identity becomes a living nightmare when a young actress finds herself relentlessly assailed by debt collectors.

I Am Not Lorena

2014

Bahía azul poster
6.0

A teenager visits his mother in search of affection. She lives semi isolated from the world, on a house facing the sea and in the company of a woman. The meeting of both characters will be rather a disagreement that will throw the young man towards other characters that will be moving further away from his mother until he disappears. Only at that moment will she feel the weight of his absence.

Bahía azul

2012

Miércoles 8 / Martes 7 poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Miércoles 8 / Martes 7

2010

Illiterate poster
5.2

Ximena is an illiterate woman in her fifties, who has learned to live on her own to keep her illiteracy as a secret. Jackeline, is a young unemployed elementary school teacher, who tries to convince Ximena to take reading classes. Persuading her proves to be an almost impossible task, till one day, Jackeline finds something Ximena has been keeping as her only treasure since she was a child: a letter Ximena's father left when he abandoned her many years before. Thus, the two women embark on a learning journey where they discover that there are many ways of being illiterate, and that not knowing how to read is just one of them.

Illiterate

2014

The Miracle poster
8.0

La Flaca is a young woman who lives with her two daughters in the house of the religious family of her partner David. As she thinks David is hiding a secret from her, she decides to confront him.

The Miracle

2019

Undated · 3 titles

Series credits

Mentiras verdaderas poster
5.5

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

Mentiras verdaderas

2011

Narcos poster
8.1

A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.

Narcos

2015

Sigamos de largo poster
2.0

The most important events of the day, with a relaxed tone and high doses of humor. Each episode tackles the most relevant events that dominate the public eye, with guests who contribute their views on the matter.

Sigamos de largo

2018

Sin dios, ni late poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sin dios, ni late

2008

Algo personal poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Algo personal

2015

La jauría poster
7.3

Blanca, student leader of the feminist movement in an occupied school, goes missing: hours later, a video of a group raping the girl goes viral. In their aim to find her, a police squad formed by three women puts their lives and that of their families at risk. As they look for Blanca and investigate, they will find out that behind this gender crime there is much more than just one offender.

La jauría

2020

No artwork available
4.5

Artemisa returns to Chile in search of the group of people who made her life miserable 20 years ago, as fate has prepared a real puppet show for them.

Los títeres

1984

Cara a cara poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cara a cara

1999

Cathedrals poster
8.7

A 17-year-old girl is found burned and dismembered in an empty lot in a middle-class neighborhood of Santiago, Chile. Due to police negligence, the crime goes unpunished until thirty years later, when the family manages to piece together the murder puzzle, revealing a forbidden relationship and a cruel truth.

Cathedrals

2026

Huaiquimán y Tolosa poster
4.0

A pair of private detectives solve crimes and protect the Patronato district in Santiago, the most important commercial district of immigrants in Chile, facing dangerous mobsters and criminals.

Huaiquimán y Tolosa

2006

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

Los archivos del cardenal poster
2.0

Two young people from opposite social and political worlds will fight for a common cause: to clarify intricate and dangerous crimes of human rights violations during Pinochet's millitary dictatorship in Chile.

Los archivos del cardenal

2011

Someone Has to Know poster
6.8

A boy vanishes, and no one can find him. An open-and-shut case, except there are no leads. Three hundred people around him, and no one saw anything?

Someone Has to Know

2026

Heroes poster
10.0

Chilean TV miniseries. Each episode relates the history of one of the principal figures Chilean figures of the 19th century: Bernardo O'Higgins, José Miguel Carrera, Manuel Rodríguez, Diego Portales, José Manuel Balmaceda and Arturo Prat.

Heroes

2007

No artwork available
4.5

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

Brigada Escorpión

1997

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gracias por la vida

2000

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

Cárcel de mujeres poster
NR

Stories about women in prison. Their addictions, unresolved problems with the justice system and inner struggles.

Cárcel de mujeres

2007

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

El informante poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

El informante

2013

No nos quieren ver poster
7.8

After the death of a teenager in a children's shelter house, a lawyer discovers endless irregularities, errors and horrors within the institution that will shake political power.

No nos quieren ver

2021

Matar al padre poster
7.0

Through a portrait of this family, we witness the profound changes that have shaken Spanish society between the 1990s and the present, with the advent of the economic and political crises in the background.

Matar al padre

2018

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