25 Films & TV Shows Set In Chile During The 1970s
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Las cruces
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sIn September 1973, 19 paper mill workers were imprisoned and taken to the Laja police station. Six years later, their bodies were found in Yumbel’s cemetery. After almost 40 years, one of the policemen involved broke the pact of silence they had made the night of the killing, revealing the participation of the Paper Manufacturing Company (CMPC) in the murder. Today, the case is still open and awaiting sentence.
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Condor Operation
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sOperation Condor recounts the multinational scheme for the elimination of leaders of the South American left devised and executed by the dictatorships of the Southern Cone of America with the support and ideological inspiration of the CIA, which reached its climax in the 1970s. The Latin American military that They seized power and imposed on their peoples a regime of terror based on the disappearance of people, torture, murder and psychological warfare.
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La Conmemoración
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sA week before the 1973 Chilean coup d'état 46th commemoration, Miguel and Gaston, electricians, come in aid of Victoria, the widow of an ex CNI agent, to fix a malfunction in her mansion. There, by chance, they will discover a big treasure hidden in the basement. The only problem is to get away with it unnoticed
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The Prince
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sChile, 1970. During a night of heavy drinking, Jaime, a lonely 20-year-old young man, is sentenced to prison. There, he meets “The Stallion”, an older and respected man in whom he finds protection, and from whom he learns about love and loyalty. But as their relationship grows stronger, “The Stallion” faces the violent power struggles within the prison.
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Spider
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sThe past is always present — Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever.
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La embajada
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sCarmen Castillo reconstructs what life was like at the French Embassy in Chile from September 1973 to July 1974, through the writings of Françoise de Menthon, wife of the ambassador, and the testimonies of both embassy officials from that time andr some of its hundreds of refugees. A story about how humanistic values and ethics can be imposed at critical moments to bureaucracy, formalisms and, especially, fear.
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Los Caminos de la Ausencia
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sTestimony in first person of the Chilean human rights leader Mireya García about the history of her family and the break that meant, personally and nationally, the 1973 Civic-Military Strike. It's the story of a family, and through it, history of her country in the last 45 years.
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Colonia
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sThere is no turning back — A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
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Chicago Boys
🇨🇱 Chile Illinois The 1950s The 1970sThe economists behind the implementation of the most extreme capitalist system in the world observe with surprise the discontent of its countrymen. For the first time, they tell the story of how they became Milton Friedman's students in Chicago in the 1950s and what were they willing to do to pursue their extreme economic ideas, aided by Pinochet's dictatorship in the 70s. Unseen images and testimonies that allow us to understand the historic process that transformed the Chilean people and Chile in the country that it is today, an image of success and discontent.
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Allende en su laberinto
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sThe last 7 hours of former President of Chile Salvador Allende, and his closest collaborators inside the Palace of La Moneda, during the brutal military coup d'etat on Sept. 11, 1973, the day democracy in Chile ended. Based on true events.
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The Quispe Girls
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sBased on a true story occurred in 1974, this is the tale of sisters Justa, Lucia, and Luciana Quispe, sheperds in the Chilean altiplano who lead a solitary life. A visitor brings news about a law that might change their way of living. This event forces the women to question their existence and relentlessly brings them to a tragic end.
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No
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970s The 1980sIn 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.
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Post Mortem
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sIn 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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Dawson Isla 10
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sAfter the 1973 coup that deposed Allende and brought Pinochet to power in Chile, the former members of his cabinet are imprisoned on Dawson Island, the world's southernmost concentration camp. Here these men are determined to survive and provide history with their testimony.
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El diario de Agustín
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sExposé of the CIA-financed efforts of the Edwards family of Chile to cover up the human rights abuses of the Pinochet dictatorship through its newspaper 'El Mercurio'.
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The Black Pimpernel
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sOne man made a difference — The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973.
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Machuca
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sTwo boys observe a political coup in their native Chile. — 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.
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Of Love and Shadows
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sSurrounded by danger, they'll risk everything for freedom! — 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.
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Alive
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sThe triumph of the human spirit — The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.
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Sweet Country
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sAn American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
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Chile: A Genral Record
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sIn 1985, Miguel Littin returned clandestinely to Chile and made this documentary divided in four parts about the political reality of the country. The parts are titled, Miguel Littin: Clandestine in Chile; The North of Chile: When I Fled to the Pampa; From the Frontier to the Interior of Chile in Flames; and Allende: the Time of History, the film features testimony from Garcia Marquez, Fidel Castro and Hortensia Bussi. Also shown is the Chile of Augusto Pinochet and Salvador Allende. When Littin returned to Spain and finished his work, Gabriel Garcia Marquez set out to write the story of the film, published under the title Clandestine in Chile: the Adventures of Miguel Littin, which quickly became a best seller.
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Missing
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sBased 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 right-wing military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the right-wing dictatorship.
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Night Over Chile
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sA Soviet docudrama chronicling the events surrounding the military coup which toppled the leftists Chilean government of Salvador Allende. This film confines its efforts to the main events themselves and is based on interviews with eyewitnesses, including many who resisted the takeover.
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Rain over Santiago
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sA semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and disappearances of many people.
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The Battle of Chile: Part I
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sThe chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
