«The best of us fight not because we hate...but because we love»
An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
Anna
Ben
Eva
Paul
Monica
Juan
Mrs. Araya
Mr. Araya
Father Venegas
Sister Mathilde
Dorothy
Max
Sara
Torturer
Evelyn
Pauline
Angry Woman
Ira
Mrs. Ortega
Mr. Ortega
06 Feb 2004
Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
04 May 1994
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
24 Feb 2004
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.
29 Sep 2016
An unexpected guest interrupts a couple's last day together, transforming their peaceful farewell.
17 Sep 1951
Two shoeshine girls and a newspaper vendor survive in the Mapocho neighborhood of Santiago. While looking for better luck, Maruja becomes involved with a businessman who helps her become a famous singer. Meanwhile, the two shoeshine boys happen to come across some money from a bank robbery, changing their luck.
13 Aug 2009
Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.
01 May 2014
Davide and Loris are brothers and live in a very small village in the north of Italy. While Davide is eighteen years old and gay, Loris is almost thirty and doesn't know anything about his brother's sexuality.
12 Feb 1982
Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.
02 Jul 2010
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.
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06 Aug 2015
Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
19 Nov 2021
ON EDGE is a short film directed and written by Noemi Miranda, accompanied by her co-writers Jose Vera, Paulina Jara and Valentina Nuñez. Performed by the theater workshop of the Terraustral Oeste School. This school short film was selected and presented at the AVANTI 2021 Festival Winner for Best Actor Tomás Venegas playing FEAR Winner for Best Direction Noemi Miranda This beautiful project answers the proposed question, which was: What world do you want to build and leave for new generations?
25 Dec 2017
Four friends visit a rural locality of Chile, are brutally attacked by a man and his son. After not finding help in the town, they decide to confront these men with the help of a pair of policemen. But in this way, they will discover that their attackers have in their blood the direct legacy of the darkest period of Chilean history and will have to face the most brutal enemy.
07 Apr 2011
Buenos Aires, 1880. A journalist interviews Manuel Esteban Corvalán, one of the last living men who crossed the Andes in 1817 with José de San Martín, during the Argentinian and Chilean wars of independence, as one of his secretaries, when he was only 15 years old.
24 Mar 2000
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
20 Oct 2022
Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
28 Aug 2008
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever".
18 Jun 2024
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06 Apr 2017
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.
25 Feb 2022
Inspired by real events, "Bestia" enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.