Best Chilean films of the decade (2000-2009)
by max-sv | created - 09 Sep 2015 | updated - 18 Mar 2016 | PublicChosen by 22 Chilean Critics for the Mabuse Magazine (each one of them chose a top 3). 1st Place - 10 votes 2nd and 3rd - 7 votes 4th - 5 votes 5th - 4 votes 6th to 9th - 3 votes 10th to 13th - 2 votes 14th to 25th - 1 vote
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1. Aquí se construye (o Ya no existe el lugar donde nací) (2000)
77 min | Documentary
Ignacio 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.
Director: Ignacio Agüero
Votes: 63
2. Days in the Country (2004)
89 min | Drama
In 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.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Marcial Edwards, Mario Montilles, Bélgica Castro, Ignacio Agüero
Votes: 155
3. Machuca (2004)
Not Rated | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History
Two 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.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, Aline Küppenheim
Votes: 12,654
4. Tony Manero (2008)
TV-MA | 97 min | Drama, Music
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales, Paola Lattus
Votes: 4,556
5. El pejesapo (2007)
90 min | Drama
Daniel 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 ... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Sepúlveda | Stars: Héctor Silva, Jessica Calderón, Yani Escobar, José Melo
Votes: 100
6. Kiltro (2006)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
The leader of a Chilean gang uses martial arts to protect a girl from a bully.
Director: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza | Stars: Marko Zaror, Caterina Jadresic, Miguel Angel De Luca, Man Soo Yoon
Votes: 823
7. The Maid (2009)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years.
Director: Sebastián Silva | Stars: Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Mariana Loyola, Andrea García-Huidobro
Votes: 6,459 | Gross: $0.55M
8. The Sacred Family (2005)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
While vacationing with his family, a man develops some attraction for his son's girlfriend.
Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Sergio Hernández, Coca Guazzini, Néstor Cantillana, Patricia López
Votes: 472
9. Y las vacas vuelan (2004)
90 min | Comedy
Director: Fernando Lavanderos Montero | Stars: Maximiliano Cabrero, Patricio Campos, Magnus Errboe, María Paz Ercilla
Votes: 76
10. El cielo, la tierra, y la lluvia (2008)
110 min | Drama
The lives of four lonely people living through the routine and silence in the south. They meet to eat, walk through the beach, take the ferry or simply accompany each other without needing ... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Torres Leiva | Stars: Julieta Figueroa, Angélica Riquelme, Mariana Muñoz, Pablo Krögh
Votes: 188
11. A Cab for Three (2001)
Unrated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Orlando Lübbert | Stars: Alejandro Trejo, Fernando Gómez Rovira, Daniel Muñoz, Elena Milea
Votes: 1,128
12. La mamá de mi abuela le contó a mi abuela (2004)
70 min | Documentary
Director: Ignacio Agüero | Star: Héctor Noguera
Votes: 11
13. The Good Life (2008)
108 min | Drama
Four people intertwine their lives in a city and pursue their own dreams.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Aline Küppenheim, Roberto Farías, Eduardo Paxeco, Paula Sotelo
Votes: 592
15. Calle Santa Fe (2007)
163 min | Documentary
October 5, 1974: In the suburbs of Santiago, pregnant Carmen is badly injured and her partner Miguel, head of the resistance against Pinochet's dictatorship, is killed in combat. So begins a journey into the memories of the defeated...
Director: Carmen Castillo | Stars: Salvador Allende, Carmen Castillo, Consuelo Castillo, Mónica Echeverría
Votes: 147
16. Coronación (2000)
140 min | Drama, Romance
A lonely man becomes increasingly obsessed with the beautiful teenager he used to help care for his grandmother.
Director: Silvio Caiozzi | Stars: María Cánepa, Julio Jung, Myriam Palacios, Gabriela Medina
Votes: 485
17. El vecino (2000)
93 min | Drama
Director: Juan Carlos Bustamante | Stars: Andrés Aliaga, Ernesto Gutiérrez, Oscar Hernández, Gerardo Orchard
Votes: 10
18. En la Cama (2005)
Unrated | 85 min | Drama
A young man and woman have a sensual, one-night stand in a motel room where they confide in each other about their troubled lives.
Director: Matías Bize | Stars: Blanca Lewin, Gonzalo Valenzuela
Votes: 3,489
19. Estadio Nacional (2003)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
After a military coup overthrew the democratically elected Socialist government of Chile on September 11, 1973, the capital's National Stadium was the scene of the indiscriminate mass detentions of more than 12,000 suspected dissidents.
Director: Carmen Luz Parot
Votes: 56
20. The City of Photographers (2006)
80 min | Documentary
A film about the fearless photographers and photojournalists who documented strikes, demonstrations, protests etc during the Chilean military regime of Augusto Pinochet, sometimes risking their very lives.
Director: Sebastián Moreno | Stars: Verónica De Negri, José Durán, Paz Errázuriz, Julia Garrido
Votes: 191
21. Life Kills Me (2007)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A man is depressed by the death of his brother and his life changes when he meets an eccentric young man, whose favorite subject is death.
Director: Sebastián Silva | Stars: Gabriel Díaz, Diego Muñoz, Claudia Celedón, Amparo Noguera
Votes: 310
22. Ángeles negros (2007)
78 min | Documentary
Directors: Pachi Bustos, Jorge Leiva | Stars: Mauricio Basualto, Los Bunkers, Germaín de la Fuente, Francisco Durán
Votes: 8
23. Mirageman (2006)
R | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A club bouncer with a dark past and great fighting skills decides to become a superhero.
Director: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza | Stars: Marko Zaror, María Elena Swett, Ariel Mateluna, Mauricio Pesutic
Votes: 2,131
24. Play (2005)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Romance
A couple search for love but never quite seem to meet.
Director: Alicia Scherson | Stars: Viviana Herrera, Andres Ulloa, Aline Küppenheim, Coca Guazzini
Votes: 483
25. Secretos (2008)
85 min | Comedy
What kind of secrets is this film talking about? There is a bit of everything: murder, robbery and treason. With seriousness and a dash of humour, Secretos reveals how, after a decades-long... See full summary »
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Claudia Di Girólamo, Sergio Hernández, Álvaro Espinoza, Marcial Edwards
Votes: 70
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