Acting

Manuel Peña

Valparaíso, Chile

Acting credits

Our Father poster
6.9

Children come to a hospital to visit their dying father they haven't seen for 8 years. They try to recover their relationships before he dies.

Our Father

2006

The Wave poster
5.1

A music student’s testimony ignites a feminist uprising on her campus, where protest becomes performance and collective voice becomes an act of resistance.

The Wave

2025

Unfaithful Women poster
4.8

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

"Midnight stories 1" - The deadly Pizza poster
NR

A man wakes up in a house that is not his house. He doesn't remember how he got there. A woman enters via Zoom, and they begin to piece together what the hell is going on. But as the minutes pass, the man discovers that he is nothing more than the pawn in a sinister plan.

"Midnight stories 1" - The deadly Pizza

2020

Normal con alas poster
NR

Pancha Illanes is the black sheep of her ladies' college, after the constant insistence of her boyfriend she accepts the proposal of selling marijuana at the college. What at first seems like an impossible mission, soon becomes an electrifying game

Normal con alas

2007

"Midnight Stories 4" - Veronica's Curse poster
NR

In the last horror story, realities become confused, leading to a devastating and absurd ending.

"Midnight Stories 4" - Veronica's Curse

2020

"Midnight Stories 3" - The Birthday Party poster
NR

In this love special of "Historias Nocturnas", an anonymous call will reveal many secrets from beyond the grave.

"Midnight Stories 3" - The Birthday Party

2020

No artwork available
7.0

A surreal Chilean road movie in which two wanderers come across an assortment of oddballs.

País de octubre

1990

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

"Midnight Stories 2" - The Martian poster
NR

An innocent woman who is recovering from a great loss, for which she volunteers at a help center. Suddenly, she receives a call from someone who claims to be a Martian, which will make her life take an unexpected turn.

"Midnight Stories 2" - The Martian

2020

Radio Corazón poster
6.3

Radio Corazón recreates Chile's most successful radio show of all time. Composed of 3 fun, sexy and romantic short films based on true stories as told by the show's listeners to "Rumpy", an unparalleled radio host.

Radio Corazón

2007

El Derechazo poster
4.3

When Bruno, a filmmaker overwhelmed by alimony, receives an ultimatum from his editor to find a subject that help them with ratings, a political candidate appears.

El Derechazo

2013

The Painting Lesson poster
5.7

In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is an amateur painter who will try to make the boy into a great artist, like all the ones in his art books. From the pharmacists point of view in his old age, unfolds the story of this young boy who could have become a great art genius, had he not disappeared at the age of 13, along with all his works, on September 11th 1973, the day of the coupe d´état.

The Painting Lesson

2012

Dos mujeres de la ciudad poster
NR

Valeria has decided to make a study about low-income women as her university thesis. The town priest recommends her as subject a hard-working woman who is said to see the future while dreaming. As Valeria goes deeper in her research, she will increasingly commit herself to the reality of Elena, confronting her with her own accommodated status, while she waits for the return of the man she loves and whose promise was to come and look for her even though she was from far away

Dos mujeres de la ciudad

1990

Archipiélago poster
5.6

An architect witness the brutal massacre by the police of an anti-government meeting and escapes to a remote archipelago.

Archipiélago

1992

No artwork available
7.0

A female television journalist has a strange affair with a terrorist.

Mi último hombre

1996

El último sacramento poster
2.0

Four stories, four women; four women struggle for the liberation of their souls.

El último sacramento

2004