46 Films & TV Shows Set In Chile During The 20th Century
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The Dance of Reality
π¨π± Chile The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1940sβHaving broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.β This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowskyβs biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
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The Quispe Girls
π¨π± 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
π¨π± 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 βYesβ or βNoβ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the βNoβ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, RenΓ© Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despotβs minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
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Post Mortem
π¨π± 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
π¨π± 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 AgustΓn
π¨π± Chile The 1970sExposΓ© 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
π¨π± Chile The 1970sOne man made a difference β 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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The Motorcycle Diaries
π¦π· Argentina π¨π± Chile π΅πͺ Peru π»πͺ Venezuela The 1950sBased 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.
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Machuca
π¨π± Chile The 1970sTwo boys observe a political coup in their native Chile. β 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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Angel Negro
π¨π± Chile The 1990s The 2000sSome angels have no wings β In 1990, a teenager called Angel Cruz disappears tragically. Ten years later, her classmates that were involved with this accident start to investigate the mysterious causes of the vanishing.
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Of Love and Shadows
π¨π± Chile The 1970sSurrounded by danger, they'll risk everything for freedom! β 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
π¨π± Chile The 1970sThe triumph of the human spirit β 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
π¨π± 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
π¨π± 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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Chile: Hasta Cuando?
π¨π± Chile The 1980sA portrait of a brutal Pinochet military dictatorship made during a three month visit to Chile in 1985 by David Bradbury. The footage reveals a country torn with civil strife and political unrest; military intimidation of the population; indiscriminate arrests: murder torture and disappearances were facts of Chilean life.
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Missing
π¨π± 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
π¨π± 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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Cantata de Chile
π¨π± Chile The 1900sThe story of the Santa MarΓa School massacre of miners in 1907.
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Rain over Santiago
π¨π± 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
π¨π± 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.
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Letters from Marusia
π¨π± Chile The 1900sHistory has forgotten their names - The evidence has been erased... BUT THERE ARE THOSE WHO REMEMBER! β Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.