Patricio Contreras

Acting

Patricio Contreras

Born 1947-12-15 · Santiago, Chile

Patricio Alejandro Contreras Pavez, is a Chilean film, theater and television actor, based since the 1970s in Argentina, where he developed his acting career.

Acting credits

Of Love and Shadows poster
5.4

Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground resistance movement, Francisco opens her eyes and her heart to the atrocities being committed by the state.

Of Love and Shadows

1994

No artwork available
6.0

Gerónima was a real "Mapuche" Indian woman that lived in Argentinian Patagonia. She lived with her four sons in a poor little house in the dry lands her family had owned for generations. In 1976, during the military dictatorial government that disappeared 30.000 people, she and her four sons were visited by social workers. Worried about Geronima's poor conditions of existence, including health, they took the whole family to the hospital "to help them", with unexpected tragic consequences. The film that reconstruct Geronima's story is based in a interview realized by a physician while she was at the hospital. The main actress, Luisa Calcumil is also a real "Mapuche" woman, as well as Aimé Painé, the singer that interprets the authentic "Mapuche" songs the film includes.

Gerónima

1986

Sex with Love poster
6.5

In Santiago, Chile, the schoolteacher Luisa proposes a debate about sex with the parents of her students with the intention of giving classes about sex education to the youngsters.

Sex with Love

2003

Inmortal poster
5.3

Ana returns to Buenos Aires to claim her inheritance. She meets her father's close friend Dr. Benedetti, a scientist, where he has discovered a doorway to another dimension which allows Ana to reconvene with the dead.

Inmortal

2021

Pacto de Fuga poster
7.5

During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.

Pacto de Fuga

2020

Las nubes poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Las nubes

2024

Resurrection poster
6.1

A young priest travels to Buenos Aires in order to help sick people during the 1871 yellow fever epidemic.

Resurrection

2016

The Eyes of the Scissors poster
4.6

Close-up on a man who censored films during the last military dictatorship in Argentina, slightly inspired by the infamous Miguel Paulino Tato.

The Eyes of the Scissors

1995

Tríada poster
2.0

Julia, an aspiring artist, turns thirty and is alone and without prospects; she meets Matías and her life seems to change. That same summer Matías invites her to move into his house. However, the appearance of Rodrigo, Matías' best friend, will introduce Julia to a state of confusion between these two men.

Tríada

2016

The Official Story poster
7.5

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.

The Official Story

1985

El seductor poster
8.5

Based on Benjamín Galerini's play "El seductor".

El seductor

2004

A Silent Death poster
6.7

Octavio, a hunting guide from southern Argentina, desperately fights to clarify the death of his niece Sofía, discovered shot in the hunting preserve where he works. The shot bursts into the darkness, unleashing an enigma that shakes the entire town. Octavio will be forced to unravel what really happened that night and thus confront a truth that threatens to change everything forever.

A Silent Death

2025

Dry Martina poster
5.8

Martina was a famous singer in Argentina during the late 90s, who's become completely frigid and disenchanted with love. The arrival of a so-called sister, alongside her attractive boyfriend, compel Martina to go to Chile with one objective in mind: getting back her libido.

Dry Martina

2018

Nocturno poster
8.0

The story of a town inhabited by vampires, located on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

Nocturno

2001

Old Gringo poster
5.7

A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.

Old Gringo

1989

Nowhere poster
4.9

In a country (alluded to be Chile) under dictatorship, a police night raid comes up with a few usual anti-regime suspects. They are sent to a camp in the middle of nowhere. Their friends on the outside start to plan their escape.

Nowhere

2002

La última siembra poster
7.5

When a Coya miner confronts the foreman at a ranch in Jujuy, the owner's son tries to resolve the issues.

La última siembra

1991

Dad must be crazy! poster
6.8

On their scond honeymoon, a couple travels to the beaches of the Dominican Republic to reignite their marriage

Dad must be crazy!

2005

Made in Argentina poster
6.9

Osvaldo and Mabel, an Argentine couple exiled for political reasons in the United States, travel to their country of origin after ten years to reconnect with their family and friends, including Mabel's brother and his wife. Mabel offers her brother the possibility of working in New York in order to improve their economic situation, but his wife is opposed to that idea.

Made in Argentina

1987

Palabra por palabra poster
10.0

Two soldiers manage to escape from their own front in the Malvinas Islands. Gurí carries a wounded Caíto and they break into a country house where a woman and child live. For a single day, all four characters fall victim to the same horror.

Palabra por palabra

2008

Invocación poster
10.0

The film reconstructs the modest process of filming a Super 8 action short by three 12-year-old friends in Buenos Aires during the spring of 1973. From there, a broader reconstruction unfolds, beginning, argumentatively, on the night of March 24, 1999.

Invocación

2000

Before the Body poster
NR

Ana and her two children live in the anonymity of the suburbs. She cares for the sick to make ends meet. But her youngest daughter requires much more, so much so that it puts the delicate balance of their lives at risk.

Before the Body

2025

The Clouds poster
4.3

Pablo Prieto leads a gang of thieves whose time is running out. Hunted by a relentless judge, will Pablo be able to escape his fate or will he have to pay for his crimes?

The Clouds

2025

Alicia poster
6.0

Jotta, a young atheist and militant, is disarming the house of his dead mother after a long cancer. On the way to the fight against violence so that she could die with dignity in that house. Also your search for answers in religion, science and politics.

Alicia

2018