
Known for
5.5Centers around the sentimental and existential conflicts of three families from different classes.
Alguien por quien vivir
1982
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
5.7Marcia has grown bitter and full of resentment after being framed for murder 20 years ago during a visit to the United States. As soon as she gets out of jail she comes back to Chile to recover what was taken away from her and search the real killer of the incident that costed several years of her life.
La madrastra
1981
2.0A young blind man and a dancer unwittingly get tangled in the affairs of an underwear company called Rossabella.
Rossabella
1997
The exploits of an investigative police group that from anonymity, solve intricate criminal cases.
Brigada Escorpión
1997
No synopsis available yet.
El prisionero de la medianoche
1985
Film credits
1990s · 6 titles
5.0A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.
Amelia Lópes O'Neill
1992
NRIn the seas of southern Chile, where the known world ends, in dangerous waters and ghost ports, a space where everything is possible, a group of sailors dare still to dream in mysteries and enchantments...
Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde
1999
6.5After a long period ofexile, Félix and Magui return to their country. Magui's fathers take them to one of the houses of the family. Félix resistance to adapt himself to the social reality of the country and the presence of "aliens" on the region start to trouble the chief of the family.
No tan lejos de Andrómeda
1999
7.0Dramatic comedy that raise questions through satire about the moral tradition of Chilean society, its dogmatism and sexual intolerance and the repressive nature of the country's traditional family.
Hasta en las mejores familias
1994
6.1A Chilean teacher, Ramiro, is sentenced to internal exile in a southern town where tidal waves often appear. He falls for a woman, Maite, whose father asks him to take her away. Although he gets his freedom he doesn't leave and when the water rises, Maite and her father die, and Ramiro flees to the hills.
The Frontier
1991
4.4After 20 years of exile, Aron returns to Chile to find out who he is. He asks questions, not only of those who stayed behind but also of himself, examining his relationship with his past and his own memory. The people who stayed lived through 20 years of dictatorship. They were either victims or executioners. Amidst this wreckage, Aron wonders what name his brother is using now, where his father is... Can he, in Isol's arms and through her love, find his way again ? What future awaits him? Like Mola the torturer, he has returned from an impossible journey, and Aron knows that each man is his own executioner. Shipwreck and resurrection are the two facets of a complex truth.
Los náufragos
1994
1980s · 4 titles
6.5Erre, a teenager that lives with his uncle, his aunt and an almost absent sister, is erased from the roster on his school. From then on, he just wanders in places where the strange is barely hidden under an imitation of the ordinary.
Los deseos concebidos
1982
A family obsessed with their recent acquisition of a huge color television, postpones the health of one of their daughters. While they worry about locating the device in their tiny home, the daughter's condition worsens and the attention of her illness is delayed until the end of the TV payment.
Cuestión de ubicación
1980
7.5A Chilean exile leaves his Swedish partner to return to Chile. There he meets his old love, Consuelo.
Consuelo
1989
NRVideo that records the play "Macías, general essay on power and glory" by Sergio Marras. Monologue in which an actor face the audience to give life to the role of Macías, a dictator of an imaginary country but who suffers from the “misunderstanding” of his detractors and enemies. A text full of profound observations about the despotic use of power. This video participated in the Fifth Franco-Chilean Video Art Meeting, Santiago de Chile, November 1985. U-matic Project
Macías, ensayo general sobre el poder y la gloria
1985
1970s · 4 titles
7.5Many socially-concerned priests in Catholic Latin America have at some time left their parish churches to go and work in the fields and factories of the poor. Such priests, usually adherents of "liberation theology," are called "worker-priests." This Chilean film tells the story of how one man became a "worker-priest" and won the trust of the poor.
Enough Praying
1972
6.5This stark Chilean melodrama concerns itself with the plight of slum dwellers living outside Santiago. For many years they have, with great difficulty, been faithfully paying small sums to a real estate man. This man has said that by doing so they can obtain title to the miniscule plots of land their houses stand on. In fact, he has been swindling them and does not even own the land he has been "selling." One of the aggrieved slum dwellers confronts him about this while he is visiting the slum, and the real estate agent shoots him before everyone's eyes. The question confronting these witnesses is whether testifying against this monster will make their lives even more precarious.
The Witnesses
1971
6.5This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.
Julio Begins in July
1979
5.9A portrait of a Chilean middle-class family in the 1940s and 1970s.
The House We Live In
1970
1960s · 4 titles
NRA maid loses all her jobs because her son cries at night, and that bothers her bosses. The play portrays the wandering and desperation of the protagonist to get a job, which ends in her failed attempts due to the "Angelito".
Angelito
1965
NRThe story, set at the end of the 19th century, revolves around the rivalry between two families of ancient peasant lineage, the Valladares and the evil Vilches who, out of greed and sentimental revenge, try to dispossess the true owners of their land. The Valladares defend theirs, ending the conflict with a melee between the two main rivals. There are duels, fires, chases, kidnappings, betrayals and deaths. There is also a romantic note, the costumbrista landscape, the laughable moment and the folk songs.
Tierra quemada
1968
8.0The 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
Tomasa, an ageing organ grinder, has always looked for someone to call her own but everything was taken from her. Now on a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Madonna at Tongay, crossing the merciless Chilean desert, her whole loving nature is concentrated on a little dog. When he dies, she tries to avenge herself on God. An Indian rescues her, but Tomasa is committed to her lonely way.
Tomasa
1969
Series credits
5.5Centers around the sentimental and existential conflicts of three families from different classes.
Alguien por quien vivir
1982
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
5.7Marcia has grown bitter and full of resentment after being framed for murder 20 years ago during a visit to the United States. As soon as she gets out of jail she comes back to Chile to recover what was taken away from her and search the real killer of the incident that costed several years of her life.
La madrastra
1981
2.0A young blind man and a dancer unwittingly get tangled in the affairs of an underwear company called Rossabella.
Rossabella
1997
The exploits of an investigative police group that from anonymity, solve intricate criminal cases.
Brigada Escorpión
1997
No synopsis available yet.
El prisionero de la medianoche
1985
10.0Gloria is a young woman looking for success in the big city. It's there where she meets Andrés who seeks similar dreams as her. Both will face series of difficulties in the concrete jungle.
Santiago City
1997
10.0The life, work and death of the Chilean Jesuit priest and founder of "Hogar de Cristo" (Home of Christ), San Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga.
Crónica de un hombre santo
1990
A man chases success at all costs, by exploiting a false self-image of "winner" and having a "happy family" to promote his businesses.
Una familia feliz
1982

