Nelson Villagra

Acting

Nelson Villagra

Born

1937-08-09 (89)

Place of birth

Chile

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 8 titles

Tierra del fuego poster
5.8

The film is based on the novel (of the same name) by the Chilean writer Francisco Coloane, and on the chronicles of the Romanian engineer Julius Popper, a nationalized Argentine and one of the principle actors in the genocide of the Selk'nam, one of the indigenous peoples who inhabited the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago.

Tierra del fuego

2000

Curriculum poster
4.2

Two hit men are sent to kill the same woman not knowing that they are competing to assassinate her.

Curriculum

2006

Tendida mirando las estrellas poster
4.0

Nieves has murdered the man who was tried to rape his younger brother. Sentenced to five years in prison, she is immersed in a hard and marginal world, she does yearns to one day being released and fulfill her lifelong dream: to know the flowery desert in northern Chile. When an oversight of her captors allows her to flee, her dreams will have to wait still. She dedicates herself to managing a nightclub where her former jailmates prostitute themselves.

Tendida mirando las estrellas

2004

Paraíso B poster
6.0

Leo and Pedro are childhood friends. Rhey work under the orders of "El Jefe", a thug, owner of the neighbourhood and the lives of its inhabitants. One day, Leo receives news that will change his life forever, Gloria, Pedro's sister and the love of his life, returns to the city. Leo and Gloria will walk through their memories, in an attempt to recover their lost love.

Paraíso B

2002

Pickman's Model poster
5.8

A journalist sets out to uncover the truth about the death of his colleague who was researching an American artist, Richard Upton Pickman. When he discovers the artist is in Santiago he goes to pay him a visit.

Pickman's Model

2000

No artwork available
NR

A ruthless thief has a change of heart after being mortally wounded and wants to carry the town's cross on the Way of the Cross in order to save his soul.

El aspado

2004

The Gift poster
6.4

A man who has recently lost his wife and forced to retire contemplates suicide. His friends take him on a trip to a senior resort, and invite his former sweetheart.

The Gift

2008

No artwork available
NR

Two men at cause of confusion and superstitions become involved in a duel that ends unexpectedly.

El duelo

2004

1980s · 4 titles

1970s · 11 titles

The Witnesses poster
6.5

This 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

The Recourse to the Method poster
6.5

Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before he is finally ousted, only to die in obscurity in Paris. Early in his regime, the resources and agricultural products his country sells command high prices, and he is a reasonably confident, even gentle, ruler who likes to take long vacations with his daughter in Paris. After World War I, with falling prices and a number of coup attempts behind him, his rule becomes quite cruel.

The Recourse to the Method

1978

Cantata de Chile poster
10.0

The story of the Santa María School massacre of miners in 1907.

Cantata de Chile

1976

Nobody Said Anything poster
5.9

Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.

Nobody Said Anything

1971

The Widow of Montiel poster
5.8

Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival

The Widow of Montiel

1979

No artwork available
NR

A documentary about the consequences of consuming alcohol and how it works as a weapon of the bourgeoisie to appease the thirst of the people.

Entre ponerle y no ponerle...

1971

Jackal of Nahueltoro poster
6.8

Based on an actual murder case that ignited a furious debate over the death penalty in Chile in 1960, this experimental social drama portrays the life and death of an illiterate peasant who, while drunk, murdered the woman with whom he had a relationship and her five children.

Jackal of Nahueltoro

1970

The Last Supper poster
7.9

A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.

The Last Supper

1976

No artwork available
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

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

No artwork available
8.0

A film by Michael New.

La rosa de los vientos

1978

1960s · 3 titles

Series credits