Aldo Parodi

Acting

Aldo Parodi

Born

1953-01-10 (73)

Place of birth

Santiago, Chile

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 6 titles

...And Suddenly the Dawn poster
6.7

Pancho Veloso, an old writer of celebrity articles, returns to his hometown of Chilean Patagonia after more than 40 years of having fled. When trying to write "salable" stories about that area so called "the end of the world", he will face his past and leave his imposture.

...And Suddenly the Dawn

2018

Mi amigo Alexis poster
6.0

When a young soccer fan and his idol forge an unexpected friendship, the connection teaches them both lessons about life and their love of the game.

Mi amigo Alexis

2019

Post Mortem poster
6.0

In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.

Post Mortem

2010

Ivan's Woman poster
3.5

Ivan keeps a 15-year-old Natalia hostage since she was a little girl. The repressive regime seems not to refrain them from forming a sort of family bond. They begin struggling with each other when the girl's sexuality awakens. Ivan desires her love and companionship.

Ivan's Woman

2011

Street Theatre, My Captain poster
NR

At the beginning of the summer of 1986, a group of actors and actresses directed by Andrés Pérez, put on the street the play “All these years” presented in front of the Cathedral of Santiago, the Bellavista neighborhood, the La Bandera district, the Parque O'Higgins, Plaza del Mulato and many other places in Santiago. Armed with megaphones, costumes, musical instruments, giant dolls, stilts and banners, they set up shop in different parts of the city where they raised scaffolding on which they climbed to summon the public to witness their show of singing, music, dancing and pantomime in the who told stories that quietly delved into the events of the last years of the military dictatorship at the end of the 1980s. 25 years passed, Andrés Pérez had died and the street actors became references in theater and television, when Flores returned to the eighties images to create this tribute documentary.

Street Theatre, My Captain

2011

Dios me libre poster
6.0

Cousins Lenin and Jonás never had contact in 15 years. Lenin made a fortune as drug dealer. Jonás was formed as a religious pastor, but in the shadow of his father. Both join forces to form a new religious sect: the Transprofética Church.

Dios me libre

2011

2000s · 6 titles

Machuca poster
7.7

Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.

Machuca

2004

Unfaithful Women poster
5.0

Cecilia Ureta, host of Chile's highest-rated news show, announces the results of a United Nations survey, the conclusion of which states that 62% of Chilean women are or have never been unfaithful. Ironically, Cecilia maintains an extramarital relationship with the network's owner. Maliciously, a rival colleague discovers this during a live broadcast, with tragic results. The revelation spreads becoming a conversation of national interest.

Unfaithful Women

2004

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

Loco Fever poster
5.9

When the Chilean officials lift the ban on harvesting the shellfish "el loco" (which purportedly is an aphrodisiac) in the seaside village of Puerto Gala greed and lust take hold. Greed is embodied by Carlos Maldonato, "El Canuto," who attempts to buy all of the shellfish for a Japanese company, and by a traveling band of prostitutes that accompany the influx of fishermen. El Canuto also wrangles to get into good stead with an old flame, Sonia, who is now the proprietor of "La Pincoya," a local restaurant. But "el loco" proves more effective, and more damaging, than anyone could have guessed.

Loco Fever

2001

Super poster
5.0

Displays the experiences of diverse groups of people inside a supermarket.

Super

2009

The Good Life poster
7.0

In the city of Santiago, four characters struggle to reach their goals: a psychologist who wants to help other women and save their lives, a hairdresser who wants to buy a car, a musician who wants to play in a philharmonic orchestra, and a young woman who simply survives in the city, but each of them obtains something unexpected and different from what they wanted.

The Good Life

2008

1990s · 6 titles

Johnny One Hundred Pesos poster
6.0

Based on real events, 17-year-old Johnny García becomes involved with four older thugs who are planning to rob a money-laundering business masquerading as a video store. As they try to escape, a swarm of exploitative media attention awaits.

Johnny One Hundred Pesos

1993

Caluga o Menta poster
7.0

Niki and his friends are members of the marginalised underclass living on the outskirts of Santiago. During Chile's transition from dictatorship to democracy (1988-1990), they forge a path from drug- and drink-fuelled nihilism and petty crime into the world of market-driven illegality and Niki begins a seemingly predestined relationship with the middle-class "loca", Manuela. Memorable episodes and characters, quotable dialogue and a mix of earthy national portrait and surrealistic flourish make this one of the key Chilean films of the Nineties.

Caluga o Menta

1990

Blind Sky poster
10.0

This is a film about the life of a family of marginal thiefs, and how destiny punishes each and every one of its members. A constant contrast between a violent and a domestic world, in which violence, humor and irony, give a new layer to the social and moral conflicts of the characters. A lost house in a forest, an underground bar, a prison, a bus, fields and highways, are the spaces on which thieves, truckers, cooks and hookers collide.

Blind Sky

1998

Revenge poster
8.0

A small house is devastated by the irrepressible force of the Ñuble river. Anita is rescued from the riverbank while her parents disappear into the water. She is given in adoption to her godparents, who can not keep her, they turn her over to a large hacienda in the area, where the little one will be the companion of the sickly patron, Lucia. When the owner of the hacienda dies, Anita, disregarding the advice of the other servants, stays to serve the boss, Don Pablo. She is already a woman and he is a single man. A strong attraction emerges between the two. This sad story of love and revenge as strong and uncontrollable as the overflowing waters of the Ñuble River.

Revenge

1999

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

Miss Bolero poster
7.0

Ninón, singer, decides to escape from her frustrated love life, and leaves in search of an old love, finding on the way Alberto, who is on the run from the police

Miss Bolero

1994

Series credits

Mea culpa poster
6.9

Anthology series based on real criminal cases, featuring an interview with the actual perpetrator at the end of each episode.

Mea culpa

1993

Infieles poster
3.8

Erotic comedy series about infidelity in couples and the different situations that lead people to commit it. The episodes use as reasons, among others, serious sexual disagreement, simple use of a favorable moment without thinking about the consequences, habits or deteriorating or unpleasant attitudes, etc. Without ever losing humor and mischief.

Infieles

2005

Cerro Alegre poster
7.0

Legend says that when two people kiss on the eve of the new millennium, their love endures forever.

Cerro Alegre

1999

Rompecorazón poster
5.5

A rich man decides to fake his death in order to save himself from a millionaire debt, before fleeing to Europe for a facial surgery. He leaves his fortune to one of his 3 lovers, while the other 2 and their families have to deal with the ecomic aftermath.

Rompecorazón

1994

La vida es una lotería poster
5.0

Different stories about people having more luck than usual...

La vida es una lotería

2002

No artwork available
5.5

Mariano Acuña is a widowed commercial pilot, father of a small daughter, who is torn between the love of Javiera Huidobro, an executive of a prestigious record company called Orbital Records and Deborah Meneses. a carefree young woman who resembles his wife in more than one way...

Playa salvaje

1997

Profugos poster
5.7

Four men become fugitives after a failed drug deal, running from north to south of Chile.

Profugos

2011

No artwork available
5.0

Marcela has written a susseful tv series based around the personal lives of the people in her appartment building. Now she must prevent everybody in there to watch it

Piel canela

2001

No artwork available
5.0

A painting unleashes the riddle of three women from different worlds and times but with the same face. How can this be?

La dama del balcón

1986

No artwork available
3.8

Stories centered around the last hours of someone's life. Each episode takes place in one place and with no more than three or four characters.

Tiempo final

2004

La otra cara del espejo poster
6.0

Anthology horror series that dives into urban myths, regional fears, mysteries and paranormal events. Tales full of terror, suspense and sensuality.

La otra cara del espejo

2000

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

No artwork available
2.0

A beautiful genie named Jeannie is found by an astronaut on the beach after a failed launch mission. From that moment, she falls in love with her "master" and begins to live in his home, giving rise to humorous situations.

Mi bella genio

2009

Los Galindo poster
5.0

The life of a family from a working-class neighborhood, that after the success of their car wash business, they move to an apartment in the wealthiest neighborhood in the country.

Los Galindo

2005

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

El cuento del tío poster
5.0

Stories about scamming and crime in Chile's big city. All of them based on real events.

El cuento del tío

2004

El cuento del tío poster
5.0

Stories about scamming and crime in Chile's big city. All of them based on real events.

El cuento del tío

2004

No artwork available
8.5

Four music students who are part of a Rock band try to enter the business.

La Buhardilla

1997

Heredia & asociados poster
NR

The adventures of an irreverent private detective, while he is dealing with economic problems.

Heredia & asociados

2005

Vivir así poster
4.5

A hard-working man witnesses the collapse of his nuclear family.

Vivir así

1988

No artwork available
4.5

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

Brigada Escorpión

1997

Los años dorados poster
2.0

The story of three women (and one of them's mother) who share a flat in Viña del Mar, Chile. Remake of the American TV series "The Golden Girls".

Los años dorados

2015

No artwork available
9.0

The adventures of the friendly and talkative Cárcamo family, their friends and neighbors.

Los Cárcamo

1998

No artwork available
9.0

Three children, along with their parents and friends, live endless adventures on the coasts of Chile. The main themes are the environment, family life and the magical relationship with the sea mysteries.

Vigías del sur

2000

No artwork available
2.0

Stories centered on relationships from a sexual point of view.

Karma

2011

Helga y Flora poster
8.0

Helga Gunkel and Flora Gutiérrez, the first women of the Chilean police, are on the trail of a criminal who has returned for revenge on Kerren, a small southern town.

Helga y Flora

2020

Mira tú poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mira tú

2002

No artwork available
NR

An intense story of love and heartbreak between guitar player Roberto and a legendary prostitute named Ester. Set in the coastal town of San Antonio, during the late 30s.

La Negra Ester

1996