Jaime Vadell
A couple must overcome different pandemic-related altercations during their virtual wedding in order to maintain an ordinary and stable marriage ceremony.
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.
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.
Two old friends meet after 40 years to unearth a treasure they had buried in the desert.
Hugo is a widowed father, good, honest but unemployed. In an effort to end his economical shortcomings, he agreeds to collaborate on the crazy idea of his cousin Gloria: a SME that promises to find "the love of your life". Hugo will have to become different men (lawyer, businessmam, etc) to be the ideal date.
Old man Eladio is dying. Throughout the last decades, he has lived alone, working in his old liquor factory. Modernity threatens his spirits business, but he refuses to abandon it. A visit by his oldest grandson will be the ideal moment to save the factory, while at the same time, reconnect with his family.
In 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, Rene 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.
Diego and Sofía have agreed a special deal: while she goes to work, he will take care of the house and their daughters Antonella and Kiara, 24 hours a day.
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.
Gone are the days of tranquility for the billionaire family Fabres, strange things happen inside his home and around his people in a place where nothing is what it seems.
Two friends reunite after many years, after they catch up with each other's personal lives, one question raises in the conversation "What happened to Soto?"
The adventures of a Chilean female spy and a small Regiment during the Saltpeter War.
A story set in Uruguay in 1993. It revolves around an investigation by a law court lawyer, Julia. She's looking into the possibility that a chemist named Eugenio Barrios is being secretly sheltered in Uruguay by right-wing political powers.
Psychologist Martín Rivera is one day invited for a coffee by a stranger named José Sagasti, who informs him that his grandfather had made a pact with his boss, "The Devil", who he did not comply. Therefore Rivera, as his only male descendant, becomes the guarantee of said commitment. Martín and his closest ones start to be intensively harassed by Sagasti, until the pact can be finally fulfilled.
Children come to a hospital to visit their dying father they haven't seen for 8 years. They try to recover their relationships before he dies.
Gastón Fernández has arrived at 34 without too much to show or brag about. He has no money, job, girlfriend, friends or life plan. He's a composer that doesn't compose. The one-time "most likely to succeed" at Santiago's Musical Conservatory has passed from promise to failure. He feels he is beginning to wander alone. Isolated and detached. Gastón feels that everyone judges him and see the word loser tattooed on his forehead. At the same time, an alter-ego, a sort of doppelgänger, haunts him.
Five medicine interns in an old public hospital must face all their fears when they start to being stalked by a strange being.
"Pelluco" Solís, a young lower-middle class waiter, cross paths with Rodolfo Ruttenmeyer -a man who looks exactly like him- in an unfortunate accident that will change their lives forever.
The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money with the passions of his well-off rival. The suffocating atmosphere of the run-down mansion in the outskirts of Santiago represents the deterioration of the bourgeoisie, and sets the scene for the total collapse of Andres.
In the seas of southern Chile, where the known world ends, in dangerous waters and ghost ports, a space where everything is possible, a group of sailors dare still to dream in mysteries and enchantments...
After a playboy billionaire dies piloting his private jet. Three different girls receive a telegram informing of the death of their father, whose existence they did not knew until now. Family problems arise when they ask their mothers for explanations:
Cassandra is a teenager who is seeking God so she enters in the youth group of the Parish. There she meets Father Agustin , who unleashes her in confusion, on the border between carnal love and a fatherly relationship. Everything is accentuated when they go to a spiritual retreat to the coast, where the rest of the group members will show their true colors
After Lucas discovers all of his sculptures are being resold in Santiago at a much higher price than that he originally set them and in addition, they are being attributed to another artist, he decides to travel to the capital, where all his affairs begin , which later will lead to an inner-struggle between love and power.
A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.
After a hectic love life,Pelao Infante has decided to settle down, marrying his girlfriend.But everything collapses when suddenly his ex appear claiming she's expecting a son from him.
A man chases success at all costs, by exploiting a false self-image of "winner" and having a "happy family" to promote his businesses.
Centers around the sentimental and existential conflicts of three families from different classes.
Marcia has grown bitter and full of resentment after being framed for murder 20 years ago during a visit to the United States. As soon as she gets out of jail she comes back to Chile to recover what was taken away from her and search the real killer of the incident that costed several years of her life.
This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.
A taxi driver finds Marlene, a provincial woman, lost in a brothel. Immediately he decides to help her out and take her at his place. Little by little, his paternal protection turns into a bizarre passion
The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although the action was filmed in four days and four nights in 1971, the movie was only finished in France in 1973, after the military coup.
A film made "to contribute to the internal debate of the Socialist Party" as Ruiz himself recalls, showing how a right-wing publicist is radicalizing himself to become a fervent left-wing activist, and a worker that makes the opposite journey, going from the hard left to absolute rightism.
This stark Chilean melodrama concerns itself with the plight of slum dwellers living outside Santiago. For many years they have, with great difficulty, been faithfully paying small sums to a real estate man. This man has said that by doing so they can obtain title to the miniscule plots of land their houses stand on. In fact, he has been swindling them and does not even own the land he has been "selling." One of the aggrieved slum dwellers confronts him about this while he is visiting the slum, and the real estate agent shoots him before everyone's eyes. The question confronting these witnesses is whether testifying against this monster will make their lives even more precarious.
Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.
Chilean soldiers try to survive in the desert after they are attacked by Peruvian troops. The 17 survivors are held together by the Captain. The Lieutenant is a civilian attorney who clashes with the Captain as he pursues the valuable rights to nitrate deposits in the area. When the fighting was over, 25,000 soldiers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia had perished while trying to secure the coveted mineral rights for foreign companies.
A glimpse at the few days and nights in the lives of a brother and sister, Amanda and Tito, in Santiago’s semi-criminal underworld. A rambling portrait of Chilean society.
