Pablo Larraín

Directing

Pablo Larraín

Born

1976-08-19 (50)

Place of birth

Santiago, Chile

Known for

Directing

Credits

46 titles

Pablo Larraín Matte (born 19 August 1976) is a Chilean filmmaker. He is known for films such as the Academy Award-nominated films No (2012), Neruda (2016), Jackie (2016), and Spencer (2021). In 2017, Larraín and his brother Juan de Dios co-produced Sebastián Lelio's A Fantastic Woman, which was the first Chilean film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2021, Larrain directed the psychological romance horror miniseries Lisey's Story.

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Jackie poster
6.5

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

Jackie

2016

A Fantastic Woman poster
7.0

Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.

A Fantastic Woman

2017

Spencer poster
6.7

During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.

Spencer

2021

Spencer poster
6.7

During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.

Spencer

2021

In Her Place poster
6.1

After Chilean writer María Carolina Geel murders her lover, the case captivates shy legal secretary Mercedes, sparking a connection between the two women.

In Her Place

2024

Maria poster
6.5

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

Maria

2024

Maria poster
6.5

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

Maria

2024

Gloria Bell poster
6.0

Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.

Gloria Bell

2019

No poster
7.2

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

No

2012

No poster
7.2

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

No

2012

Nemesis poster
NR

Set in the summer of 1944, examining the impact of a polio epidemic on a Newark, NJ community and its children.

Nemesis

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Rich Flu poster
5.3

A strange disease kills off some of the richest and most influential people on the planet. First it was the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires and so on progressively... Then it threatens to strike anyone with any sort of fortune. With the whole world panicking, people try to flood the market with assets the world no longer wants.

Rich Flu

2024

Neruda poster
6.3

It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.

Neruda

2016

Nasty Baby poster
5.2

A gay couple enlists the help of their friend Polly to create a baby. Meanwhile, they must also contend with their homophobic neighbour who becomes a big nuisance.

Nasty Baby

2015

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

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

The Eternal Memory poster
8.0

Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.

The Eternal Memory

2023

El Conde poster
6.1

After living for over two centuries, Augusto Pinochet is a vampire ready to die… but the vultures around him won't let him go without one last bite.

El Conde

2023

El Conde poster
6.1

After living for over two centuries, Augusto Pinochet is a vampire ready to die… but the vultures around him won't let him go without one last bite.

El Conde

2023

Tony Manero poster
6.3

A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever".

Tony Manero

2008

Tony Manero poster
6.3

A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever".

Tony Manero

2008

Venice 70: Future Reloaded poster
5.0

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

2013

4:44 Last Day on Earth poster
4.8

A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end.

4:44 Last Day on Earth

2012

The Club poster
6.9

In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.

The Club

2015

The Club poster
6.9

In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.

The Club

2015

The Club poster
6.9

In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.

The Club

2015

Sayen poster
6.2

Sayen is hunting down the men who murdered her grandmother. Using her training and knowledge of nature, she is able to turn the tables on them, learning of a conspiracy from a corporation that threatens her people's ancestral lands.

Sayen

2023

The Wave poster
5.2

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

Swim to Me poster
5.6

Drama told from the point of view of a live-in maid, working for a middle class couple with a young child, in the suburbs of Santiago, Chile.

Swim to Me

2025

Fuga poster
6.2

Could a brilliant composer's music actually be killing his loved ones? Eliseo can't help but believe it when his younger sister dies tragically and then his pianist Georgina suddenly dies on the piano. Completely traumatized, Eliseo is taken to a mental hospital where he can find escape only through music.

Fuga

2006

Fuga poster
6.2

Could a brilliant composer's music actually be killing his loved ones? Eliseo can't help but believe it when his younger sister dies tragically and then his pianist Georgina suddenly dies on the piano. Completely traumatized, Eliseo is taken to a mental hospital where he can find escape only through music.

Fuga

2006

Making It Up poster
7.2

Ana and Rita are flat broke. So when unpredictable Alex offers them a job, they kind of have to say yes -- to the gig and to a big ol' mess.

Making It Up

2023

Gloria poster
6.6

Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.

Gloria

2013

Nobody Knows I'm Here poster
6.6

Memo lives on a remote Chilean sheep farm, hiding a beautiful singing voice from the outside world. A recluse with a glittery flair, he can't stop dwelling on the past, but what will happen once someone finally listens?

Nobody Knows I'm Here

2020

Eterno: 100 años de Colo-Colo poster
NR

Eterno traces the history of Colo-Colo, the most influential sports club in Chilean history. It is the living memory of a country, the epic of a club that has endured tragedies and thrived with every triumph to become a symbol of national identity.

Eterno: 100 años de Colo-Colo

2025

No artwork available
NR

Through eleven intertwined stories, “Once” follows the 18 consecutive hours following the military coup, ending in the bombing of the official government headquarters, La Moneda Palace, and the demise of then president Salvador Allende.

Once

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No artwork available
NR

Through eleven intertwined stories, “Once” follows the 18 consecutive hours following the military coup, ending in the bombing of the official government headquarters, La Moneda Palace, and the demise of then president Salvador Allende.

Once

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Young and Wild poster
6.2

Daniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.

Young and Wild

2012

Los Bunkers: MTV Unplugged poster
NR

On October 9, 2024, the Chilean rock band Los Bunkers performs the first MTV Unplugged recorded in Chilean territory, in the studios of Chilevisión. Becoming the third Chilean band to perform an MTV Unplugged.

Los Bunkers: MTV Unplugged

2024

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