Gastón Salgado

Acting

Gastón Salgado

Born

1985-03-07 (41)

Place of birth

Santiago, Chile

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 9 titles

My Tender Matador poster
7.4

Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship.

My Tender Matador

2020

Animales poster
NR

Harry loves animals. During the day, he works at the Valenzuela brothers’ farm. By night, he becomes an animal thief at the same place. A debt he holds with a corrupt policeman gets him into trouble. Harry becomes the prey.

Animales

2021

Los afectos poster
NR

Benja is a high school inspector and is determined to expel the protestor Iván, a friend of his daughter Karina, who dies during a protest. Benja discovers that he never really knew her and tries to rectify the situation through the rebellious Iván

Los afectos

2024

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

Kill Pinochet poster
6.3

Chile, September 1986. Tamara, commander of the communist guerrilla group Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, and her comrades-in-arms set out to overthrow the military regime installed in 1973 by assassinating the dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Kill Pinochet

2020

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

It's Not Her poster
NR

While SHE is in Cuba and HE is in Chile, distance will become the foundation to install a lie that seeks to confront the truth.

It's Not Her

2021

Corazón de pollo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Corazón de pollo

2024

Gran Avenida poster
6.0

A stolen phone, bad decisions and many acts of clumsiness will force three neighbors from Gran Avenida – an area in the south of Santiago – to face each other.

Gran Avenida

2021

2010s · 19 titles

Ema poster
6.7

Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Gastón is beyond repair, following a decision to give up on their adopted child Polo. She sets out on a mission to get him back, not caring who she’ll need to fight, seduce or destroy to make it happen.

Ema

2019

Jesus poster
6.2

18-year-old Jesús lives with his stern, somewhat unaffectionate father in Santiago, Chile. When not doing drugs, having casual sex or simply slouching in front of the TV, Jesús and his friends perform in a K-pop boyband. But his routine is thrown into chaos one evening when he and his drunken posse viciously assault a young gay man and leave him for dead. It’s an act that propels Jesús into a profound moral crisis which have severe consequences.

Jesus

2016

The Dance of Reality poster
7.2

'Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.' This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. He was born in 1929 Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.

The Dance of Reality

2013

Electric Man poster
NR

After the energy crisis caused global warming, a new office in the remote desert town of Domeyko arises. The electric man who lives with his ill mother generates electricity for its neighbors by riding his bicycle.

Electric Man

2016

Sumerged poster
5.0

A young swimmer with sleep disorder deals with the sudden disappearance of her mother and the arrival of Rebeca, a mysterious girl who rents a room in her home. Unaided from the police and confused by paranoia, she finds herself engulfed in a struggle to maintain her sanity and get her life back.

Sumerged

2019

Maleza poster
NR

A Christian rehabilitation center will be the refuge for Daniel after years in prison. Wandering through the streets, he will try to sell cakes in a city he knows little to nothing about. However, his real interest is far from capital.

Maleza

2017

First Born poster
6.0

While Thomas spends his last weekend in Chile with his family, before traveling abroad for the first time, a flaw in the sewage system produces a flood of smelly water. The problem shows the essence of family relationships.

First Born

2016

Chameleon poster
6.0

An unexpected guest interrupts a couple's last day together, transforming their peaceful farewell.

Chameleon

2016

El Cordero poster
NR

Domingo is happy in his insignificant life until, in an unfortunate accident, he commits an involuntary manslaughter. Tormented by not feeling any guilt, he dives into a spiral of violence hoping to recover it so he can get back to being just a normal guy.

El Cordero

2014

Perro bomba poster
4.9

A young Haitian immigrant living in Santiago de Chile, will see his life balance shaken after a series of unexpected events that will fuel a deep racist reactions in his environment.

Perro bomba

2019

Kingdoms poster
6.4

Alejandro, a freshman, and Sofia, who’s doing her thesis, meet in college. They build an asymmetrical relationship: he’s in love while she just wants to see her sexual desires fulfilled.

Kingdoms

2018

La Sombra de Enrique poster
NR

Enrique is a farmer who lives alone on the outskirts of Chillán and speaks daily with his shadow. This is normal until Sofía, a backpacker, arrives at her house asking for accommodation for the night.

La Sombra de Enrique

2017

My Name is Bruce poster
NR

An unemployed man wanders the streets of Santiago de Chile in the 80s (Pinochet's Chile), looking for a chance to be a hero. In an old cinema in the center of the city, it may has his opportunity. A student film by Gabriel Lizama AKA Liz Taylor.

My Name is Bruce

2011

El vuelo de los cuervos poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El vuelo de los cuervos

2014

First Light poster
5.6

Marco, a cynical and ambitious young lawyer, lives in Bari with his partner Martina and their eight-year-old son Mateo. Martina had left Chile and moved to Italy when she met Marco. Their relationship has run its course, however, and Martina longs to go back to her country with Mateo, but Marco, the loving father left out of the equation, is adamantly against the idea. The couple clash for weeks on end, until Martina abruptly leaves the country with their son, goes back to Chile and virtually vanishes. With no news of Mateo, time seems to stand still for Marco. Anguished and unable to cope, he finally rallies and sets off in search of his son.

First Light

2015

The Night Of The Wild Boar poster
5.2

Claudia Moratti, a romantic writer travels to the ends of South America looking for the house of her recently deceased boyfriend. As she enters this southern world she finds herself involved in the investigation of a local policeman that points to her boyfriend, a horror writer himself, as the responsible of seven cases of disappeared women in the area. The violent history of the town and the dark memories of the military dictatorship come to surface as the characters involved reveal their true intentions.

The Night Of The Wild Boar

2016

Canasto de cangrejos poster
NR

Pascal has a dream of turning an abandoned house into a cultural center. Secretly, Manuel, his boyfriend, begins to use the house for other purposes. Tomás, a traveler who falls in love with Pascal, tells him about Manuel's manipulation, so they plan to leave together. Thomas unexpectedly disappears, causing Pascal to go into deep paranoia and blame everyone who lives in the house. In the end, Pascal manages to get out of the house that is about to collapse.

Canasto de cangrejos

2019

Zombie Dawn poster
4.0

2006, a mysterious mining accident in a remote territory unleashes an unspeakable horror that creates a zombie horde with an appetite for human flesh. It decimates large portions of the country. The only course of action is to rapidly enclose the infected areas and seal them off from the rest of the remaining, living population. NOW. 15 years later the tattered remains of the government and the mining corporation responsible where the initial event took place commit themselves to finding out what may have happened at the mining complex. The solution is to send in a group of mercenaries and scientists into the quarantined zone to find answers.

Zombie Dawn

2012

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

Undated · 4 titles

Series credits

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

El Reemplazante poster
8.0

A former high-ranking financial executive finds redemption and romance when he's paroled after a prison sentence and becomes a math teacher.

El Reemplazante

2012

Enigma poster
2.0

Anthology series based on true crime stories that usually are unsolved mysteries. Intertwining dramatizations and real interviews with the victims and witnesses.

Enigma

2001

Al Sur del Corazón poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Al Sur del Corazón

2024

Nuevo Amores de Mercado poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nuevo Amores de Mercado

2024

Hijos del desierto poster
2.0

In 1907 Chile, two brothers are separated after the death of their parents. Pedro grows up in Valparaíso and Gaspar is adopted by a wealthy family. Thirty years later, unaware that they are brothers, they meet and become enemies due to circumstance and their love for the same woman. This happens in a context of political turmoil and international intrigue.

Hijos del desierto

2022

12 días que estremecieron Chile poster
2.0

Fictional stories about Chilean historical events that shook the country through joy, horror, excitement or sadness, and where the great virtues and defects of its national idiosyncrasy were expressed, that marked the lives of many people.

12 días que estremecieron Chile

2011

Chromosome 21 poster
7.8

When the police discover a man with Down syndrome hiding at a crime scene, they launch an investigation to determine whether he's a witness or a suspect.

Chromosome 21

2022

Inspector Rojas: In Cold Blood poster
6.0

The disappearance of dozens of teenage girls shakes Alto Hospicio community in northern Chile. The official version speaks of runaways from broken homes and an underworld of traffic, but the case hides a horror perhaps even worse: A murderer that remains unpunished unable to stop his impulses.

Inspector Rojas: In Cold Blood

2018

Besieged poster
4.3

For three years, 500 Spaniards brutally attacked the indigenous peoples native in the south of Chile. This story is told from the perspective of the colonizing army as they are almost completely eliminated in their attempt to conquer a foreign land.

Besieged

2015

Invisible Heroes poster
7.4

Invisible Heroes tells the heroic tale of young Finnish diplomats in Chile during 1973’s infamous military coup. Finnish diplomats Tapani Brotherus and Ilkka Jaamala along with Tapani’s wife Lysa Brotherus helped over 2000 left-wing Chileans escape the military junta’s persecution. The Finns acted without official authorization while Swedish ambassador Harald Edelstam was the most visible defendant of human rights with the backing of Sweden’s Prime Minister, Olof Palme.

Invisible Heroes

2019

Inés of My Soul poster
6.2

Inés Suárez, a young, humble woman from Extremadura who sets out for the New World to look for her husband, lost on the other side of the Atlantic along with his dreams of glory. Once there, Inés does not find her husband, but she does find the passionate love of Pedro de Valdivia, Francisco Pizarro's Field Master.

Inés of My Soul

2020

Martín, el hombre y la leyenda poster
6.0

The life story of Chile's most important boxer, Martín Vargas.

Martín, el hombre y la leyenda

2018

La canción de tu vida poster
NR

Eight people meet the famous Chilean radio host, "El Rumpy," and tell him about their love or heartbreak experiences. Be it a drama or a happy ending, there is a song that is part of the story, and the story is part of the song.

La canción de tu vida

2014

Sudamerican Rockers poster
6.3

Three teens start a band in the late 1970s, this is the beginning of the famous musical group; Los Prisioneros.

Sudamerican Rockers

2014

Juana Brava poster
1.0

After many years away, a woman returns to her hometown, where her mayor father presides over a corrupt, lawless and rundown municipality.

Juana Brava

2015

Maldito corazón poster
NR

Miniseries based on crimes that occurred at different periods of time in the history of Chile.

Maldito corazón

2013

Una historia necesaria poster
6.0

Anthology series based on true stories about the disappeared detainees and their families during Pinochet's military dictatorship.

Una historia necesaria

2017

Cartas de mujer poster
NR

Intimate stories of women throughout the History of Chile, told by a medium that crosses times and generations: Letters.

Cartas de mujer

2010

Inspector Rojas:  At The End Of The World poster
NR

The mysterious disappearance of a young man breaks the calm in a quiet city in southern Chile. Rojas will have to solve the case facing a powerful institution that will respond with death and violence. Inspired by real events.

Inspector Rojas: At The End Of The World

2024

No artwork available
NR

Two people search for love on the internet: Ignacio, a recently separated man and Sandra, a woman with a sick grandmother, she is also moving to a friend's house due to financial problems. Both will live a romantic story through mobile applications.

Amor en línea

2019