Aníbal Reyna

Acting

Aníbal Reyna

Born 1937-04-17 · Santiago, Chile

Acting credits

No artwork available
6.1

Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility, it is a deft blend of fiction and documentary set in the tumultuous days leading up to the election of Salvador Allende in 1970.

What Is to Be Done?

1972

The Border Crossing poster
10.0

Shortly after Chile's 1973 military coup, three men are fleeing across the Andes to Argentina. They witness the murder of a farmer by Chilean police and end up at the home of the farmer's heavily pregnant wife.

The Border Crossing

1978

Un nuevo baile poster
NR

Armando, a former port union leader, lost his left leg after being tortured during General Pinochet's coup d'état. He lives with his niece near the port of Valparaiso. Reclusive and sad, he must face the imposing sailing ship La Esmeralda every day, which served as the base for all the regime's atrocities. But today, Armando is starting a new life.

Un nuevo baile

2010

Mermelada poster
NR

Submerged on the routine, Andrea escapes her solitude by fantasizing about the men that round her.

Mermelada

2011

Steel racing cars poster
8.0

A shy and humble young man overcomes his fears and becomes a racing champion.

Steel racing cars

1950

Kiltro poster
5.4

Street tough Zamir has been in love with Kim ever since he rescued her from rapists, but the only way that he can express his affection is to attack any man who shows interest in her. Kim tolerates Zamir's infatuation, but keeps him at arm's length. When Max Kalba arrives in town to take vengeance on Kim's father, Zamir attempts to rescue her once again.

Kiltro

2006

The Dawn of the Ancients poster
NR

Nano is a young man who roams the coasts of southern Chile. Looking for an unknown character goes to Cobquecura, a town devastated by a recent earthquake. Inquiring with the inhabitants of the town, he arrives at a bar where he meets Curtíao, an old fisherman who then invites him to drink at his hut. Once in confidence, the old man tells him the legend of a mythical treasure hidden in a nearby cave: The Stone Church. Nano confesses that his father is the stranger he seeks, and convinces the old man to guide and accompany him. Nightfall Together they reach the cave, where the young man suffers a mysterious destiny.

The Dawn of the Ancients

2017

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10.0

Three stories rooted in violence, mental erosion and hopes that ran through Chile's soul.

Lizards' Tales

1989

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9.0

A Chilean returning to Santiago to find out what has happened to his native country while he has been away, discovers much about himself.

Terre sacrée

1988

The Promised Land poster
4.6

During the socialist government of Marmaduke Grove in 1932, a group of villagers decide to take some land in the area of ​​Palmilla. Almost like a mythical journey, problems arise when seated and in a position to bring the socialist ideal in the population. Everything becomes more complicated with rumors that the reactionary forces have overthrown the socialist government. A movie that because of the coup was not released in Chile and was only terminated by Littin in exile in Mexico.

The Promised Land

1973

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

The Frontier poster
6.1

A 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

The Uncle poster
3.3

Ignacio has one obsession: creating a play about his uncle Jaime Guzmán, an ideologist of the 80's constitution and collaborator of the Pinochet military-civic dictatorship. But things get out of control...

The Uncle

2013

The Passion of Michelangelo poster
5.8

An intense religious drama set during the Pinochet regime and based on a true story.

The Passion of Michelangelo

2013

Antonia poster
9.0

A young, successful and attractive executive gets depressed after an unwanted pregnancy that will push her to take a look at her personal life, reconnecting once again with the man he used to love when she was a teen.

Antonia

2001

A Sure Deal poster
8.0

After a long absence, Negro Torres returns to his hometown, in Cunco, to attend his mother's funeral. There, his old cronies propose him to set up a business to buy seafood and then sell them. After improvising the preparations and returning to the town with the seafood, they face a big surprise

A Sure Deal

2001

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5.3

A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite democratic structures, the inhabitants--who speak a strange dialect composed of Spanish and English--still obey the old prison rules. After sending back detailed accounts of the torture and repression seen everywhere, the journalist realizes that she has fallen into the trap created for her by the islanders: lacking natural resources, the island's main export is news.

The Penal Colony

1970

Visa für Ocantros poster
7.5

In the troubled state of Ocantros, the prime minister is assassinated. Martin Katrup, who is responsible for setting up a large printing plant, is also on the island at this time. A short time later, two of his colleagues disappear without a trace and Katrup sets off in search of them. The situation is exacerbated when the secret service tries everything in its power to spark a coup and a civil war.

Visa für Ocantros

1974

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

No artwork available
NR

The life story of Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro who leaves his wife and children in Chile and flees to Paris in order to devote himself to poetry.

El vuelo del poeta

2009

No artwork available
NR

A young horse-tamer is wrongly accused of theft.

El último disparo del Negro Chávez

2003

Las hormigas asesinas poster
7.5

Paul Kazan can't sleep. He wanders through empty streets. Why is the city of Santiago empty. At night, Kazan is a DJ at the 'Insomnia' disco, one of the few places where there are people. Something is happening. Something weird. There are rumors. Rumors of killer ants and epidemics ...

Las hormigas asesinas

2005