Paulina García

Acting

Paulina García

Born 1960-11-27 · Santiago de Chile, Chile

Acting credits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Milonga poster
NR

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

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

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

Confesiones de un caballo suicida poster
NR

Collage based on the texts and lives of Diane Arbus, Jean Eustache, Robert Walser, Alejandra Pizarnik, Franz Kafka and Carmen Jung.

Confesiones de un caballo suicida

2002

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

Three Saturday Nights poster
NR

The seductive quality of the night of a saturday where both the rich and the poor experience the drunken urgency of the party and the clock.

Three Saturday Nights

2002

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

No artwork available
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

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

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

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