Best chilean movies according to experts
Las mejores películas chilenas de la historia, según encuesta a directores chilenos, realizada por cinechile.cl. La lista está en el orden de la encuesta hasta el puesto 34 (To kill a man), luego fueron añadidas otras películas como "A fantastic woman", que no se había estrenado en el momento de la encuesta.
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- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsNelson VillagraShenda RománMarcelo RomoThe real story about an illiterate murderer, educated in prison, where he reflects on his actions days before he died.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsShenda RománNelson VillagraLuis AlarcónThe drunken nights of several listless chancers in Chile's capital city build inexorably to violence.
- DirectorAldo FranciaStarsHugo CárcamoSara AsticaRigoberto RojoA poor Valparaiso family faces a tough life after the father is sent to prison.
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsAbilio FernándezSalvador AllendeThe chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsSalvador AllendeCarlos AltamiranoFernando CastilloFilmmaker Patricio Guzmán tracks the deterioration of Salvador Allende's position following the attempted coup d'état of 29 June 1973, and analyzes the 10 weeks before Augusto Pinochet's CIA-backed seizure of power.
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsSalvador AllendeAbilio FernándezErnesto MalbranThis film investigates the factory worker's response to the insurrection, as well as Chile's socialist aspirations for the future. The camera captures the optimism in the industrial working class before Pinochet's US-backed coup d'état.
- DirectorPatricio KaulenStarsEnrique KaulenEliana VidalFabio ZerpaA young boy, lost in the big city, tries to find his way home. Along the way, he encounters a cross-section of society that he has never known.
- DirectorAndrés WoodStarsMatías QuerAriel MatelunaManuela MartelliTwo 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other's world as political tensions in their country increase.
- DirectorRicardo LarraínStarsPatricio ContrerasGloria LasoAlonso VenegasA high school teacher runs afoul of the government and is sentenced to internal exile.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsAlfredo CastroRoberto FaríasAntonia ZegersA crisis counselor is sent by the Catholic Church to a small Chilean beach town where disgraced priests and nuns, suspected of crimes ranging from child abuse to baby-snatching from unwed mothers, live secluded, after an incident occurs.
- DirectorHelvio SotoStarsHector DuvauchellePatricia GuzmánJorge GuerraThe plot takes place in 1879 through 1880 during the War of the Pacific. The film decries the cruelty and absurdity of war and the disunity among the peoples of Latin America.
- DirectorCristián SánchezStarsFelisa GonzálezAndrés QuintanaFernando AndíaA taxi driver finds Marlene, a provincial girl, lost in a brothel. He immediately decides to protect her in his home. Little by little, his paternal affection transforms into a strange hidden passion. Finally the driver ends up living in the suitcase of his own taxi, while Marlene declares that she wants to go live with him forever.
- DirectorSilvio CaiozziStarsElsa AlarcónJorge ÁlvarezLuis AlarcónThis 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.
- DirectorIgnacio AgüeroStarsAlicia Vega"Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo Hermida into a film screening room as she conducts a workshop for children under the auspices of the Catholic church. The hundred or so children involved had never seen a movie, and in the workshop they see and learn about the cinema: photograms and moving images, projection, camera angles and movement, film genres, and much more. And they watch movies: Chaplin, Disney, Lamorisse's 'The Red Balloon,' the Lumieres' 'The Arrival of the Train to the Station.' Finally, each child designs his own film with drawings. And then, for the first time in most of their lives, the children got to the movies in downtown Santiago." [from the video container]
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsBeatriz LapidoRodrigo UretaMónica DíazA poor schoolgirl and a young man from a wealthy family have an affair.
- DirectorSebastián LelioStarsPaulina GarcíaSergio HernándezDiego FontecillaA story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.
- DirectorIgnacio AgüeroIgnacio Agüero follows the demolition and development in a neighborhood in the Chilean capital Santiago. Agüero contrasts the destruction and the tearing down of walls by monstrous grabs with a calm camera that glides along the houses.
- DirectorJosé Luis SepúlvedaStarsHéctor SilvaJessica CalderónYani EscobarDaniel is a maladjusted man, who after a failed suicide attempt, returns to restart his life from the poor periphery of Santiago, to downtown. In this journey he does not discover any emotion that restricts the decision to end his existence.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsAlfredo CastroAmparo NogueraHéctor MoralesA man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).
- DirectorSebastián SilvaStarsCatalina SaavedraClaudia CeledónMariana LoyolaA drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years.
- DirectorOrlando LübbertStarsAlejandro TrejoFernando Gómez RoviraDaniel MuñozA taxi driver is given a difficult choice from 2 small time crooks: drive them around while they rob, or get locked up in the trunk.
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsGaspar GalazLautaro NúñezLuís HenríquezA documentary about two different searches conducted in the Chilean Atacama Desert: one by astronomers looking for answers about the history of the cosmos, and one by women looking for the remains of loved ones killed by Pinochet's regime.
- DirectorSilvio CaiozziStarsGloria MünchmeyerRafael BenaventeErnesto BeadleA sailor prostrate in his bed maintains control of his home and his son through mirrors hung around him.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsGael García BernalAlfredo CastroAntonia ZegersAn advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
- DirectorGustavo Graef MarinoStarsArmando AraizaPatricia RiveraWilly SemlerA young low-class student gets involved with the wrong people and takes part in a non successful video rental robbery.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsDaniel GélinFrançoise ArnoulHuguette FagetChilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them in the early years of the Pinochet regime. They kidnap and attempt to reeducate a touring singer from their homeland.
- DirectorAndrés WoodStarsFrancisco AcuñaJuan AlfaroOrlando AlfaroA portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves, and her hopes.
- DirectorPedro SiennaStarsPedro SiennaClara WertherPiet Van RavensteinThe story of Manuel Rodriguez
- DirectorCristián SánchezStarsAndrés AliagaJuan S. CuevasHeidi DettwilerErre, a teenager who lives with his uncles and an almost absent sister, is removed from the high school payroll. From then on it glides like an automaton, through places where strangeness is barely hidden under an appearance of normality. This naked outside drags him into the unknown. It envelops him in situations dominated by an air of madness, ambiguous forgotten rituals, impossible erotic relationships and an abrupt and mysterious crime. From this journey at the end of the night a climate of disturbance is born taken to the extreme, which reveals the uniqueness of a universe where no existence can take root.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsMarcial EdwardsMario MontillesBélgica CastroIn a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsCarlos SolanosJaime VadellLuis VilchesSurrealism "a la chilena" sees four drunken, literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.
- DirectorMaite AlberdiStarsMaría Teresa MuñozAlicia PérezAngélica CharpentierIt's a documentary about a group of old ladies that have been friends since high school and they decided to see each other every month. The film documents their interactions and conversations.
- DirectorMatías BizeStarsSantiago CabreraBlanca LewinVíctor MonteroAndrés returns to Santiago after several years to face a tragic event.
- DirectorAlejandro Fernández AlmendrasStarsDaniel CandiaAlejandra YañezDaniel AntiviloA working class man who, tired of being the victim of criminals, decides to take justice in his own hands.
- DirectorAndrés WoodStarsAline KüppenheimRoberto FaríasEduardo PaxecoFour people intertwine their lives in a city and pursue their own dreams.
- DirectorSebastián LelioStarsDaniela VegaFrancisco ReyesLuis GneccoMarina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsGael García BernalLuis GneccoMercedes MoránAn inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsMartín CalderónCristinaPatricio GuzmánDelving into the nearly-religious significance of water, this profound rumination on memory and loss bridges the gap between its mystical origins, Pinochet's coup d'état, and the secret of a mother-of-pearl button at the bottom of the sea.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsBrontis JodorowskyPamela FloresJeremias HerskovitsIn a little Chilean town, the son of an uprooted couple formed by a rigorous communist father and a loving but weak mother tries to pave his own path in a society that does not understand their Jewish-Ukrainian origins.
- DirectorChe SandovalStarsMartín CastilloCamila Le-BertFrancisco BraithwaiteA man with a complicated sexual problem falls in love with a girl in the park.
- DirectorMaite AlberdiStarsMaría Teresa MuñozAlicia PérezAngélica CharpentierIt's a documentary about a group of old ladies that have been friends since high school and they decided to see each other every month. The film documents their interactions and conversations.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsMariana Di GirólamoGael García BernalSantiago CabreraA couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.
- DirectorGonzalo JustinianoStarsHector Vega MauricioPatricia RivadeneiraAldo ParodiA penetrating look at Santiago, Chile, its sectors and multiple social differences experienced in three friends.
- DirectorCristobal ValderramaStarsDiego MuñozNicolás SaavedraJaviera Díaz de ValdésA delirious black comedy that tells the story of Vladimir and Jorge, two best friends who move in together. Vladimir lives a supernatural life of time travel while Jorge follows a twisted obsession. With the girlfriend of one of them in the middle of it, things are bound to get scrambled.
- DirectorFelipe Gálvez HaberleStarsSam SpruellMark StanleyAlfredo CastroIn Chile in 1901, three horseman are paid to protect a vast estate. Accompanying a British soldier and an American mercenary is a mixed-race sniper, who realizes that his true mission is to kill the indigenous population.