Francisco Reyes

Acting

Francisco Reyes

Born

1954-07-06 (72)

Place of birth

Santiago, Chile

Known for

Acting

Credits

71 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

2010s · 6 titles

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

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

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

Street Theatre, My Captain poster
NR

At the beginning of the summer of 1986, a group of actors and actresses directed by Andrés Pérez, put on the street the play “All these years” presented in front of the Cathedral of Santiago, the Bellavista neighborhood, the La Bandera district, the Parque O'Higgins, Plaza del Mulato and many other places in Santiago. Armed with megaphones, costumes, musical instruments, giant dolls, stilts and banners, they set up shop in different parts of the city where they raised scaffolding on which they climbed to summon the public to witness their show of singing, music, dancing and pantomime in the who told stories that quietly delved into the events of the last years of the military dictatorship at the end of the 1980s. 25 years passed, Andrés Pérez had died and the street actors became references in theater and television, when Flores returned to the eighties images to create this tribute documentary.

Street Theatre, My Captain

2011

The Wandering Soap Opera poster
6.5

The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas.

The Wandering Soap Opera

2018

No artwork available
10.0

A documentary recorded during the filming of "The Wandering Soap Opera" by Raúl Ruiz. Made in 1990 and completed 27 years later, in 2017. The film brings closer the approach in Ruiz's directing style and his personal vision of Cinema.

Exote: Filming Of The Wandering Soap Opera

2017

2000s · 8 titles

Machuca poster
7.7

Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.

Machuca

2004

Days in the Country poster
7.6

In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.

Days in the Country

2004

Sub terra poster
6.3

Lota, 1897. In the depths of the largest coal mine in the world, a great rebellion is brewing inside a man's heart.

Sub terra

2003

Secrets poster
4.5

After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed.

Secrets

2008

La Recta Provincia poster
6.7

This was a man. He lived with his mother. He cared a manor house in the countryside of Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden. The bone was bored. That was a bone flute. The man with the flute music play. And music song became. The voice of the song begging to seek the other bones of his scattered body. The man and his mother were in those ways of God and hell, looking for the bones that make up the skeleton of that Christian. And give him a Christian burial. And they saw what they saw, they lived what they lived. Many stories lived. And although they did not tell anyone, others told them.

La Recta Provincia

2007

Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody poster
7.0

An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV in a rigorous yet playful manner".

Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody

2002

The Chosen One poster
5.0

It's the year 2006 in Chile and reality TV rules the airwaves. Ten strangers are taken to the snowy summits of the Andes; The challenge is to survive in an underground shelter.

The Chosen One

2003

The Night Visitor poster
8.0

Elisa, a lonely and shy librarian, moves to live in a downtown building, without knowing the killing of a young student took place there some time ago. A strange feeling taking over her will cause a drastic personality change while also leading her to unveil the secret behind the murder.

The Night Visitor

2009

1990s · 10 titles

Diplomatic Siege poster
4.3

When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must join Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché who is not all that she appears, to work together on setting the correct computer code that will disable the weapon and accomplish the mission. But while watching video monitors from inside a long-forgotten surveillance room, Steve witnesses a surprising deadly takeover of the building by the Serbian Liberation Front.

Diplomatic Siege

1999

Desert Train poster
10.0

An old freight and passenger train supposedly cancelled, is the reason for a story that combines fiction and documentary. The fiction tells the story of a journalist who must make a report on this "ghost" train; the documentary makes us see the real face of this ghost in the middle of the most arid desert on the planet.

Desert Train

1995

Something Is Out There poster
7.0

While wandering solitary in the city, Bruno discovers that his personality alternates with another. Such scrutiny will disturb him and make him to face himself in a quest that will even bring him face to face with death.

Something Is Out There

1990

A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) poster
5.5

These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never completed, series comissioned for Peter Greenaway and Tom Philips' A TV Dante (1989). But it was never aired. Ruiz's treatment of the six Cantos can be taken together as a bridge between his previous visions of hell in Mémoire des apparences AKA Life is a Dream (1986) and La Chouette aveugle (1987) and themore recent series of essay videos that he has made for Chilean television under the title Cofralandes (2002).

A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)

1991

Doctor Chance poster
5.8

Angstel trades in forged paintings, under the guidance of his mother, Milady. Their network extends into other murky affairs, provoking the wrath of a rival gang. Angstel falls in love with Ancetta, a prostitute, and flees with her to the north of Chile. - IFFR

Doctor Chance

1998

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Juan Fariña: La Leyenda

1999

La chica del Crillón poster
NR

Teresa is a girl from Chilean aristocracy. She lives a double life, at day she dresses very elegant and fancy, while at night she assist to high society meetings at the Crillon Hotel in Santiago, where diplomats and wealthy people meet. However, her family is economically ruined after a bad sale of her father's mines and they have to live at Romero Street, where the working class lives.

La chica del Crillón

1999

Angels poster
7.0

A group of college students gradually disappear, with no explanation.

Angels

1990

No artwork available
7.0

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

Mi último hombre

1996

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Misa de Réquiem

1997

Series credits

Mentiras verdaderas poster
5.5

Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency.

Mentiras verdaderas

2011

Sin dios, ni late poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sin dios, ni late

2008

Algo personal poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Algo personal

2015

Pobre Rico poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pobre Rico

2012

La divina comida poster
4.0

Four celebrities invite each other to their homes and compete to be the best host, where night after night they must cook for the other guests, who in turn will be both the judges and their rivals.

La divina comida

2016

Podemos hablar poster
4.0

Talk show in which six personalities from different fields (politics, entertainment, sports, among others), exchange opinions on various topics and personal experiences.

Podemos hablar

2019

Corazón de María poster
2.0

Miguel loses his wife Maria in a tragic car accident just hours after getting married. However, Maria's heart will continue to beat on another woman's body. The transplant that marks the death of María will also be synonymous of Elisa's new life.

Corazón de María

2007

Oro verde poster
6.3

An ambitious entrepreneur wants to cut down the forest of southern Chile, but a young ecologist girl will hinder their plans.

Oro verde

1997

La jauría poster
7.3

Blanca, student leader of the feminist movement in an occupied school, goes missing: hours later, a video of a group raping the girl goes viral. In their aim to find her, a police squad formed by three women puts their lives and that of their families at risk. As they look for Blanca and investigate, they will find out that behind this gender crime there is much more than just one offender.

La jauría

2020

Reunión de Superados poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Reunión de Superados

2025

Matriarcas poster
6.0

Diana, the widow of an Arab millionaire must share her home with all the women related to latter's life, including her monarchist mother Isabelle, her envious sister Letizia, her two nieces Leonor and Amalia, her employee and a cute kinesiologist.

Matriarcas

2015

Los Pincheira poster
6.0

Four bandit siblings try to take revenge on the landowners who killed their father.

Los Pincheira

2004

Pampa Ilusión poster
2.0

The exiled daughter of an English businessman returns home, in the midst of the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in the Humberstone nitrate office, during the acute 1930s financial crisis.

Pampa Ilusión

2001

El Presidente poster
7.2

Sergio Jadue, a lowly director of a small-town soccer club in Chile, unexpectedly finds himself at the head of the Chilean soccer association. Drunk with power, he becomes the protégé of soccer godfather Julio Grondona, as well as the FBI’s key to undoing the largest corruption scheme in the world of soccer.

El Presidente

2020

Romané poster
6.7

A caravan of gypsies arrives in Mejillones, Chile, to celebrate the marriage of their patriarch, without imagining that the unexpected arrival of his daughter after two decades, will revive a stormy past.

Romané

2000

Vértigo poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vértigo

2003

Rompecorazón poster
5.5

A rich man decides to fake his death in order to save himself from a millionaire debt, before fleeing to Europe for a facial surgery. He leaves his fortune to one of his 3 lovers, while the other 2 and their families have to deal with the ecomic aftermath.

Rompecorazón

1994

Estúpido cupido poster
5.0

In 1962, the small town of San Andrés is ruled by morality and good manners. The arrival of a new nun will change everything. Turn everything upside down.

Estúpido cupido

1995

La vida es una lotería poster
5.0

Different stories about people having more luck than usual...

La vida es una lotería

2002

Sucupira poster
6.0

Sucupira is a seaside town in Chile. Federico Valdivieso, the mayor, a scoundrel, rascal and womanizer is determined to be re-elected. One of his main goals for that is to inaugurate the Sucupira cemetery, something he cannot achieve because nobody is dying, in his endeavor to make that happen he will star in hilarious situations.

Sucupira

1996

La fiera poster
5.5

Catalina Chamorro, is a woman who rejects every wooer interested in her. The matter would not be important if it were not because, according to an old promise of love, Catalina's father, Pedro Chamorro, refuses to give his youngest daughter, Blanca, in marriage until his oldest daugher has married.

La fiera

1999

Yo soy Lorenzo poster
2.0

During the 60s, Ernesto Orellana, a millionaire who is going through economic problems, decides to engage his daughter Laura with Lorenzo, the son of one of his wealthy friends. The wedding will be in "Vista Hermosa". Lorenzo is transferred by his driver Carlos, to whom he confesses to be homosexual and not wanting to really marry Laura, both agree to swap identities.

Yo soy Lorenzo

2019

¿Dónde está Elisa? poster
7.3

A teenager's disappearance causes her family's world to turn upside down. In the police quest to find her, all her relatives will become suspects of her kidnapping.

¿Dónde está Elisa?

2009

Viuda Alegre poster
2.0

In a coastal town, Beatriz Sarmiento is known for her fortune and charisma, also for having lost four husbands in different circumstances. When her lastest husband passes away, Rodrigo appears at her brother's funeral with hidden intentions, unleashing countless conflicts in the lives of the villagers, including Beatriz.

Viuda Alegre

2008

El laberinto de Alicia poster
4.0

Alicia Molinari, the psychologist of an upper-class School discovers a rugged case of sexual child abuse towards one of the students, unleashing a spiral of doubts between the parents and teachers.

El laberinto de Alicia

2011

La ley de Baltazar poster
6.0

Baltazar Rodríguez is an outgoing, friendly, and enthusiastic man, owner of a farm by the sea in southern Chile, widower, and father of three adult children whom he sees little, and with whom the relationship has never been good. However, a sudden heart attack causes Baltazar’s world to come to a standstill and family alerts get activated.

La ley de Baltazar

2022

Iorana poster
4.5

Cristian is in love with the beautiful "pascuense" Vaitea, but external interests interpose between them.

Iorana

1998

Profugos poster
5.7

Four men become fugitives after a failed drug deal, running from north to south of Chile.

Profugos

2011

Volver a empezar poster
NR

A writer returns to her motherland after many years in exile, and seeks to resolve pending conflicts with her son.

Volver a empezar

1991

Animal nocturno poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Animal nocturno

2006

Conde Vrolok poster
4.0

The quiet town of Santa Barbara will meet a new inhabitant, the Count Domingo Vrolok. His arrival will bring a string of strange situations, posing a terrifying menace to the entire community.

Conde Vrolok

2009

Dime quién fue poster
2.0

Laura returns 20 years later to the hotel where her mother died in strange circumstances, to seek revenge and make justice.

Dime quién fue

2017

De tú a tú poster
2.0

Martín Cárcamo invites people of huge national and international relevance to his home to have a relaxed conversation, without fanfare but revealing and intimate.

De tú a tú

2021

Trampas y caretas poster
4.5

A billionaire and obsessive mother entrusts a woman named Mariana with the job of falling in love with one of her two sons in exchange of a generous monthly check. However, Carmen's wishes will not be easy to fulfill, as both men have totally opposite personalities.

Trampas y caretas

1992

Generación 98' poster
7.5

Seven former schoolmates meet again in an unexpected class reunion, after 25 years without seeing each other.

Generación 98'

2023

Amar a morir poster
2.0

After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Caco Vidal abandons his fancy life full of luxuries to start over again, not knowing that he will arrive in a very special place that is directly linked to his family's past.

Amar a morir

2019

Vuelve Temprano poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vuelve Temprano

2014

Informe especial poster
2.0

Investigative news magazine on Chile's social and political contingency.

Informe especial

1984

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

TV o no TV

2008

Los archivos del cardenal poster
2.0

Two young people from opposite social and political worlds will fight for a common cause: to clarify intricate and dangerous crimes of human rights violations during Pinochet's millitary dictatorship in Chile.

Los archivos del cardenal

2011