177 Films & TV Shows Set In Chile
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The Sky Is Red
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sIn 2010, 81 inmates died in a huge fire at San Miguel prison in Chile’s capital city Santiago. Inside, they were trapped behind bars like rats; outside, dozens of family members waiting for visiting hours to begin looked on helplessly as their loved ones shouted for help. The doors remained locked. This reconstruction sheds light on the utter failure of the prison’s administration, which was housing twice as many prisoners as permitted.
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Femme Fatale
🇨🇱 ChileAn anthology of three shorts. In Pájaro negro, Stella has her first date on Halloween night in an isolated area filled with superstitions. In La matanza fallida de los chitrulos subnormales, the Luna brothers, three women killers, make an appointment with their new prospective victim, but nothing will go as usual. Finally, in Suburbios del terror, some youngsters roam through the streets of Valparaíso closely followed by a journalist who is on the trail of a cruel killer who slaughters young people to preserve his own youth.
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Fixed Shot - 100 Recordings around Dignity Square
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sOn October 18, 2019, Chile lives the most important social uprising since its return to democracy. “Italy Square” (neuralgic center of the capital), is re-baptized by the protesters as “Dignity Square”, transforming it into an iconic place of social demands.
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Polar
Montana Michigan New Jersey Texas Florida 🇧🇾 Belarus 🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sIf the job doesn't kill you, retirement will — When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.
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Claudia Touched by the Moon
🇨🇱 ChileA Trans Woman's Diary — Claudia, a trans-Chilean midwife, remembers the hardest and most difficult moments she had to face in order to live her identity. The documentary tells her history, her struggles and the constant abuses she had to live on a society that still excludes those that are considered "different".
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Ema
🇨🇱 ChileShe has a plan. — Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Gastón is beyond repair, following a decision to give up on their adopted child Polo. She sets out on a mission to get him back, not caring who she’ll need to fight, seduce or destroy to make it happen.
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Lina from Lima
🇨🇱 ChileIt’s Christmas season. Ten years have passed since Lina traveled to Chile to work as a domestic worker away from her son who lives with her grandmother in Peru. Manuel, a former employer, ask her to supervise the construction of a swimming pool for his daughter Clara in his new house. In this half-inhabited space, Lina spends the day taking care of Clara, while at night, she has furtive sexual encounters with strangers that confront her with her deep solitude.
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Story of My Name
🇨🇱 ChileA peculiar coincidence — After a fire destructed my house, I return to the places where I grew up looking for childhood recollections. In this journey appears the memory of a photo for Karin Eitel, a young woman, tortured and detained during the dictatorship, to whom I owe my name. A story that my parents never told me, brings me closer to Karin and not just because of my name. In the background, the memory of a childhood in Chile, a country that reconstructed its democracy omitting its own history.
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The Lost Frame
🇨🇱 ChileA Chilean filmmaker makes a return trip through his filmography in search of a forgotten frame.The Lost Frame is a retrospective documentary about work,themes and reflections around images.
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Some Beasts
🇨🇱 ChileA family travels to a remote island in southern Chile. During the trip they try to convince the grandparents to support them financially to build a hotel in the place. Nicolás, the man who crossed them disappears, leaving the family trapped on the island, the smiles begin to disappear. With cold, without water and without certainties, tempers are diluted, exposing the tensions that each member of the family hides.
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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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Lemebel
🇨🇱 ChilePedro Lemebel, the writer and visual artist, defeated a marginal childhood to become one of the first to shake up Chile’s conservative society during Pinochet’s dictatorship. Dressed in feather boas, stilettos and a sharp tongue, he staged revolutionary performances that defied the era’s terror, he said what no one wanted to hear in a homophobic, repressed and militarized country.
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Reflejo actoral
🇨🇱 ChileA group of Chilean actors reflect on their works when they see footage off their characters on film and TV.
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Perro bomba
🇨🇱 ChileA young Haitian immigrant living in Santiago de Chile, will see his life balance shaken after a series of unexpected events that will fuel a deep racist reactions in his environment.
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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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God
🇨🇱 ChileIn a country at the world's end, the highest authority of the Catholic Church lands. The Pope comes to bring the word of God, but Chile awaits him with the most important religious crisis in its history.
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The Guru
🇨🇱 ChileIn the south of Chile on the Chiloé Island, Carlos Ruiz works as an operator in an industrial cannery. He is one of the cogs that makes the machine turn, except when he is a machine himself, like when he delivers blows on the punching-ball. A machine that dreams of glory. Because in his other life, Carlos is little-by-little becoming “the Guru”, who ceaselessly trains in what little leisure time he has so that he can win his match.
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Alvaro: Rockstars Don’t Wet the Bed
🇨🇱 Chile 🇩🇪 GermanyDocumentary on the exhaustive and controversial work of the musician Álvaro Peña, born in Valparaíso and settled decades ago in the city of Konstanz (Germany)
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Gepe y Margot Loyola: Folclor imaginario
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010s"Folclor imaginario" was one of the most acclaimed Chilean albums of 2018, and this documentary sets in front of the camera the reasons, searches and associations that led to such brilliant result of crossing with the tradition
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Normalistas. Amor por la enseñanza
🇨🇱 ChileThe story of primary teachers in Chile and their links with feminist struggles for a free and quality education; which nowadays is the most significant social movement in the country.
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Perros sin cola
🇨🇱 ChileRosario is a wandering teenager who believes that her mother, does not really love her and she's apparently right. The young woman has found refuge in the dance and in her friend Jonathan, a young street vendor who helps raise money for the wedding of his sister Jenny: Rosario's silent and platonic love. On the day of the party the revelry and excesses revealing Rosario can't leaver her family's fate behind.
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El maestro Humberto Maturana
🇨🇱 ChileThis documentary explores the impact and life of one of the most internationally recognized Chilean scientists, an inspiring human being who at his 90 years is more lively than ever.
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Harley Queen
🇨🇱 ChileA woman yearns to find her identity through her character:a supervillain, dancer and mother, in the Mena sector, or what they call "the largest ghetto in Chile", in Puente Alto, Santiago.
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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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The Strong Ones
🇨🇱 ChileA story of love and bravery at the end of the world — Lucas travels to visit his sister to a remote town in southern Chile. In front of the ocean and the fog, he meets Antonio, a boatswain in a local fishing boat. When an intense romance grows between them, their strength, their independence and their adulthood become immovable in front of the tide.
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