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1. Waking the Dead (2000)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
Director: Keith Gordon | Stars: Billy Crudup, Bill Haugland, Nelson Landrieu, Ivonne Coll
Votes: 7,635 | Gross: $0.33M
2. No (I) (2012)
R | 118 min | Drama, History
An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco
Votes: 26,223 | Gross: $2.34M
3. Endless Poetry (2016)
Unrated | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of himself as a young man becoming a poet in Chile, befriending other artists, and freeing himself from the limits of his youth.
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Adan Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Leandro Taub, Pamela Flores
Votes: 6,606 | Gross: $0.03M
4. Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
A 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.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Gaspar Galaz, Lautaro Núñez, Luís Henríquez, Miguel Lawner
Votes: 6,117
5. Neruda (2016)
R | 107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An 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.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
Votes: 11,057 | Gross: $0.94M
6. 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: 12,660
7. 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: 4,560
8. Sweet Country (1987)
R | 150 min | Drama, History
A U.S. woman joins the underground in 1973 Chile against the horrors of its military regime.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Jane Alexander, John Cullum, Carole Laure, Franco Nero
Votes: 232
9. Il pleut sur Santiago (1975)
112 min | Drama, Thriller
A depiction of the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat.
Director: Helvio Soto | Stars: John Abbey, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bibi Andersson, Annie Girardot
Votes: 343
10. The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary, History
The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Abilio Fernández, Salvador Allende
Votes: 1,614
11. Violeta Went to Heaven (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves, and her hopes.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Francisco Acuña, Juan Alfaro, Orlando Alfaro, Almendra Andrade
Votes: 2,412 | Gross: $0.02M
12. Héroes (2007–2009)
75 min | Drama, History
Heroes, a series of films that show for the first time the secrets and life of the most important heroes of Chile as never seen before. They will be shown with virtues, flaws, passions, and... See full summary »
Stars: Benjamín Vicuña, Julio Milostich, Ingrid Isensee, Maricarmen Arrigorriaga
Votes: 93
13. Chicago Boys (2015)
85 min | Documentary, History
The story of a group of Milton Friedman's disciples that, backed by a military dictatorship, turned Chile into the first and most extreme neoliberal country in the world.
Directors: Carola Fuentes, Rafael Valdeavellano | Stars: Sergio de Castro, Ernesto Fontaine, Ricardo French-Davis, Milton Friedman
Votes: 280
14. The Black Pimpernel (2007)
R | 95 min | Drama, History, Romance
Harald Edelstam uses his position as Sweden's ambassador to Chile to save political dissidents from persecution by the military junta after Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup d'état.
Directors: Åsa Faringer, Ulf Hultberg | Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Lumi Cavazos, Kate del Castillo, Lisa Werlinder
Votes: 830
15. Mi mejor enemigo (2005)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
The days of tense guard of a Chilean military that in the middle of the solitude will interact and forming circles of friendship with their Argentine rivals.
Director: Alex Bowen | Stars: Nicolás Saavedra, Erto Pantoja, Miguel Dedovich, Jorge Román
Votes: 1,100
16. Salvador Allende (2004)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Biography
From his childhood in Valparaiso to his death during the Pinochet military coup on September 11, 1973, the life and works of Chilean president Salvador Allende.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Patricio Guzmán, Jacques Bidou, Alejandro Gonzáles
Votes: 769
17. Chile, the Obstinate Memory (1997)
59 min | Documentary
After decades of fascist rule in Chile, Patricio Guzman returns to his country to screen his documentary, Battle of Chile, which until the time of the filming was banned by authorities. His... See full summary »
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Patricio Guzmán, Vincent Davy, Hortensia Allende, José Balmes
Votes: 371
18. Allende en su laberinto (2014)
90 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The last 7 hours of former President of Chile Salvador Allende, and his closest collaborators inside the Palace of La Moneda, during the brutal military coup d'etat on Sept. 11, 1973, the day democracy in Chile ended. Based on true events.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Daniel Muñoz, Aline Küppenheim, Horacio Videla, Juvel Vielma
Votes: 572
19. The Battle of Chile: Part II (1976)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, History
Filmmaker 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.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Carlos Altamirano, Fernando Castillo, Luis Corvalán
Votes: 1,283
20. La araucana (1971)
R | 100 min | Drama, History, War
A dramatization of Alonso de Ercilla's 16th-century epic poem about the Spanish conquest of Chile.
Director: Julio Coll | Stars: Elsa Martinelli, Venantino Venantini, Víctor Barrera, Julio Peña
Votes: 59
21. Dawson Isla 10 (2008)
117 min | Drama
The ex-members of Chile's cabinet survive the prison on Dawson Island.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Benjamín Vicuña, Bertrand Duarte, Pablo Krögh, Cristián de la Fuente
Votes: 381
22. Ardiente paciencia (1983)
80 min | Drama, Romance
A poor postman in Isla Negra, Chile, befriends Pablo Neruda and asks his help in writing poems to the woman of his dreams.
Director: Antonio Skármeta | Stars: Óscar Castro, Roberto Parada, Marcela Osorio, Naldy Hernandez
Votes: 149
23. Noch nad Chili (1977)
97 min | Drama
A Soviet docudrama chronicling the events surrounding the military coup which toppled the leftist Chilean government of Salvador Allende in September 1973.
Directors: Sebastián Alarcón, Aleksandr Kosarev | Stars: Grigore Grigoriu, Bakhram Akramov, Nartay Begalin, Giuli Chokhonelidze
Votes: 87
24. Acta General de Chile (1986)
240 min | Documentary
In 1985, exiled director Miguel Littin returned clandestinely to Pinochet's Chile to make this documentary about the socio-political reality of the country.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Hortensia Allende, Salvador Allende, Fidel Castro, Joan Garcés
Votes: 45
25. The Promised Land (1973)
80 min | Drama, History
In 1930 Chile, amidst the economic crisis, syndicalist Jose spearheads the battle against landlords and the government.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Nelson Villagra, Marcelo Gaete, Rafael Benavente, Shenda Román
Votes: 91
26. Los Náufragos (1994)
123 min | Drama
After 20 years in exile in Europe, Aron returns to Chile to reunite with himself, and with his family.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Valentina Vargas, Marcelo Romo, Bastián Bodenhöfer, Luis Alarcón
Votes: 40
27. Earthquake in Chile (1975 TV Movie)
86 min | Drama, Romance
1647, Santiago, Chile. Don Henrico banishes his daughter, Josepha, to a convent when he learns she loves Jeronimo, a mestizo who's a teacher in the household. The lovers meet in secret, a ... See full summary »
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Julia Peña, Maddalena Kerrh, Víctor Barrera, Fred Maire
Votes: 31
28. Caravan of Death (2013)
50 min | Drama
A miniseries about the life of the human rights lawyer Carmen Hertz and mainly portraying the Caravan of Death and the delegation led by Sergio Arellano Stark that in 1973 ended with 97 dead.
Stars: Paulina Urrutia, Edgardo Bruna, Catalina Saavedra, Luis Dubó
Votes: 103
29. Algo habrán hecho (2010)
60 min | History
Stars: Marcial Tagle, Diego Noguera, Francisco Melo, Manuel Vicuña
Votes: 23
30. La muerte de Pinochet (2011)
75 min | Documentary, History
On December 10th, 2006, General Pinochet dies unexpectedly at Santiago's Military Hospital. His decease triggers a 24 hours revival of political divisions that marked with violence and ... See full summary »
Directors: Iván Osnovikoff, Bettina Perut
Votes: 51
31. 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
32. Imagen latente (1987)
92 min | Drama
In the late 1980s, a politically neutral photographer in Pinochet's Chile is still struggling to come to terms with the "disappearance" of his activist brother in the Villa Grimaldi torture centre back in 1975.
Director: Pablo Perelman | Stars: Bastián Bodenhöfer, María Izquierdo, Gonzalo Robles, Elena Muñoz
Votes: 64
33. La spirale (1976)
138 min | Documentary
Based on movie and television archives, this film aims to demonstrate how the United States planned to crush Salvador Allende's attempt to institute Socialism in Chili, shortly after his election.
Directors: Armand Mattelart, Valérie Mayoux, Jacqueline Meppiel | Stars: François Périer, Donald Sutherland, Salvador Allende, Fidel Castro
Votes: 72
34. El húsar de la muerte (1925)
65 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Manuel Rodriguez
Director: Pedro Sienna | Stars: Pedro Sienna, Clara Werther, Piet Van Ravenstein, Guillermo Barrientos
Votes: 162
35. Frontera sin ley (1971)
87 min | Action, Drama, History
Director: Luis Margas | Stars: Raúl Rivera, Rubén Ubeira, Jorge Yáñez, Andrés Rojas Murphy
36. Cofralandes, rapsodia chilena (2002)
311 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Bernard Pautrat, Raúl Ruiz, Malcolm Coad, Rainer Krause
Votes: 53
37. Cautiverio Feliz (1998)
162 min | Drama, History
Director: Cristián Sánchez | Stars: Juan Pablo Aliaga, Mario Mila, Eusebio Painemal, Armando Nahuelpán
38. Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi (2008)
PG | 88 min | Documentary
Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi follows exiled Chilean musician, Quique Cruz, from the Bay Area to Chile and back as he creates his masterwork.
Directors: Quique Cruz, Marilyn Mulford
Votes: 9
39. Historiadores Chilenos Contemporáneos: Tres Visiones de la Historia de Chile (2011–2012)
Documentary
40. Special Circumstances (2007)
Documentary
At 16, Hector Salgado was arrested and tortured by military forces in Chile. By 20, Hector was without a country living in exile in the US. This documentary follows Hector as he returns to ... See full summary »
Director: Marianne Teleki | Star: Hector Salgado
41. El diario de Agustín (2008)
80 min | Documentary
Exposé 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'.
Director: Ignacio Agüero | Stars: Salvador Allende, Patricio Aylwin, Raquel Correa, John Dinges
Votes: 97
42. Casa de Angelis (2018–2019)
Drama, History
A miniseries about the trials and tribulations of a fashion house in 1950s Chile.
Stars: Ángela Prieto, Valentina Muhr, Catalina Saavedra, Paulina Urrutia
Votes: 10
43. Cofralandes, Part Four: Memories and Waltzes (2002)
87 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: José Luis Barba, Néstor Cantillana, Amparo Noguera, Isabel Parra
Votes: 13
44. 18 Peniques (2010)
20 min | Short, History
The Chilean filmmaker Peter McPhee (REFUGIO DE SILENCIO, EL ULTIMO TEXTO, EL ROPERO DEL PUEBLO) devotes his his short film drama 18 PENIQUES to a historical massacre. Chile 1907: Thousands ... See full summary »
Director: Peter McPhee | Star: Néstor Corona
46. Cofralandes, Part Two: Faces and Places (2002)
80 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Bernard Pautrat, Raúl Ruiz
Votes: 12
47. El Golpe blanco - Der weiße Putsch (1975)
Documentary, History
A documentary about the violent putsch of general Augusto Pinochet against the legitimate Chilean president Salvador Allende in September 1973.
Directors: Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann | Stars: Salvador Allende, Augusto Pinochet
Votes: 14
48. Cofralandes, Part Three: Museums and Clubs in the Antarctic (2002)
64 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Ignacio Agüero, Marcial Edwards, Javier Maldonado, Mario Montilles
Votes: 14
49. El astuto mono Pinochet contra la moneda de los cerdos (2004)
72 min | Documentary
Directors: Iván Osnovikoff, Bettina Perut
Votes: 35
50. Los puños frente al cañón (1975)
80 min | Documentary
The history of the Chilean labour and trade union movement up to 1933.
Directors: Gaston Ancelovici, Orlando Lübbert