Jorge Yáñez

Jorge Yáñez

Born: February 10, 1937
in Santiago, Chile

Movies for Jorge Yáñez...

Neruda
Title: Neruda
Released: August 11, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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Caleuche: The Call of the Sea
Title: Caleuche: The Call of the Sea
Character: Old Man
Released: November 8, 2012
Type: Movie
A young woman who suffers a strange disease must travel to a mysterious island in South America, where myths and reality are one and the same.
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No
Title: No
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 9, 2012
Type: Movie
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, René 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.
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Atacama's 33
Title: Atacama's 33
Character: Religious
Released: March 23, 2011
Type: Movie
A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.
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A Stop Away from You
Title: A Stop Away from You
Character: César
Released: May 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Sebastian and Paula meet each other in a subway. A friendship develops that forces them to examine their lives.
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Title: Papi Ricky
Character: Segundo Marcos
Released: March 12, 2007
Type: TV
The relationship between Ricky and his daughter will suffer when the girl's mother returns and wants her back.
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Title: JPT: Justicia para todos
Character: Esteban's Father
Released: March 17, 2003
Type: TV
The activites of two lawyers and their work in different positions of the New Chilean Procedural Reform.
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Title: Cerro Alegre
Character: Padre Camilo
Released: August 4, 1999
Type: TV
Legend says that when two people kiss on the eve of the new millennium, their love endures forever.
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Title: El día menos pensado
Character: Inspector Mendez
Released: May 16, 1999
Type: TV
Stories of paranormal activities and extraordinary nature -allegedly- based on real events.
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Title: El día menos pensado
Character: Julio
Released: May 16, 1999
Type: TV
Stories of paranormal activities and extraordinary nature -allegedly- based on real events.
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Title: Playa salvaje
Character: Arturo Fernández 'El Loco Arturo'
Released: July 21, 1997
Type: TV
Mariano Acuña is a widowed commercial pilot, father of a small daughter, who is torn between the love of Javiera Huidobro, an executive of a prestigious record company called Orbital Records and Deborah Meneses. a carefree young woman who resembles his wife in more than one way...
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Title: Ángel malo
Character: Agustín Oyarzo
Released: March 11, 1986
Type: TV
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Title: Los títeres
Character: Tuco Leyton
Released: March 5, 1984
Type: TV
Artemisa returns to Chile in search of the group of people who made her life miserable 20 years ago, as fate has prepared a real puppet show for them.
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Julio Begins in July
Title: Julio Begins in July
Character: Payador Merrejo
Released: April 30, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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What Is to Be Done?
Title: What Is to Be Done?
Character: Padre Eduardo
Released: May 9, 1972
Type: Movie
Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility, it is a deft blend of fiction and documentary set in the tumultuous days leading up to the election of Salvador Allende in 1970.
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Jackal of Nahueltoro
Title: Jackal of Nahueltoro
Released: May 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Based on an actual murder case that ignited a furious debate over the death penalty in Chile in 1960, this experimental social drama portrays the life and death of an illiterate peasant who, while drunk, murdered the woman with whom he had a relationship and her five children.
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Bloody Nitrate
Title: Bloody Nitrate
Released: October 27, 1969
Type: Movie
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.