Luis Alarcón

Luis Alarcón

Born: October 23, 1929
Died: August 4, 2023
in Puerto Natales, Magallanes and the Chilean Antarctic, Chile

Movies for Luis Alarcón...

Hombres que sueñan
Title: Hombres que sueñan
Character: Self
Released: March 14, 2021
Type: Movie
The life and experiences of six emblematic Chilean actors. One by one, they relate aspects of their trajectories, origin and dreams, reliving and analyzing not only their careers, but also happy and historical moments that marked their lives.
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Title: De tú a tú
Character: Self
Released: March 1, 2021
Type: TV
Martín Cárcamo invites people of huge national and international relevance to his home to have a relaxed conversation, without fanfare but revealing and intimate.
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Title: Mierda Mierda, la función debe continuar
Character: Self
Released: July 4, 2020
Type: TV
Documentary series that takes a nostalgic journey through decades of Chilean theater and its history.
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The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror
Title: The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror
Character: Silva
Released: February 21, 2020
Type: Movie
A man whose wife has committed suicide, appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere, under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her.
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Title: Viva la pipol
Character: Self
Released: March 11, 2019
Type: TV
Contests, reporting segments and conversation with interesting guests. All done in a pleasant and down-to-earth way for all the Chilean family watching.
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Title: La noche es nuestra
Character: Self
Released: January 8, 2018
Type: TV
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Title: Dime quién fue
Character: Humberto Rodríguez
Released: November 12, 2017
Type: TV
Laura returns 20 years later to the hotel where her mother died in strange circumstances, to seek revenge and make justice.
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Secos
Title: Secos
Character: Himself
Released: October 14, 2017
Type: Movie
Chile is the only country that has privatized its waters, in favor of large corporations, to the detriment of homes in rural and urban communities. Secos is a short that makes this reality visible, through the dialog between anonymous fighters from the most heavily affected provinces, with renowned actors and actresses in the country. The objective is to activate the topic of water as a human right, to achieve in the future the recovery of this vital element as a common good for all communities and territories.
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Exote: Filming Of The Wandering Soap Opera
Title: Exote: Filming Of The Wandering Soap Opera
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 2017
Type: Movie
A documentary recorded during the filming of "The Wandering Soap Opera" by Raúl Ruiz. Made in 1990 and completed 27 years later, in 2017. The film brings closer the approach in Ruiz's directing style and his personal vision of Cinema.
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The Wandering Soap Opera
Title: The Wandering Soap Opera
Character: Belisario / Homero / Mateo
Released: August 10, 2017
Type: Movie
The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas.
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Title: Los años dorados
Character: Manuel
Released: July 13, 2015
Type: TV
The story of three women (and one of them's mother) who share a flat in Viña del Mar, Chile. Remake of the American TV series "The Golden Girls".
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People's Train of Culture
Title: People's Train of Culture
Character: Self
Released: July 5, 2015
Type: Movie
Documentary film which tells the story of an initiative of the government of Salvador Allende, President of Chile from 1970 to 1973, the objective of which was to bring culture closer to those who had no access to it. The People’s Train of Culture was part of the 40th measure of Allende’s programme of government which aimed to create a National Institute of Arts and Culture and colleges of art in all the country’s provinces.
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Title: Matriarcas
Character: Clemente Valdes
Released: May 18, 2015
Type: TV
Diana, the widow of an Arab millionaire must share her home with all the women related to latter's life, including her monarchist mother Isabelle, her envious sister Letizia, her two nieces Leonor and Amalia, her employee and a cute kinesiologist.
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Title: Algo personal
Character: Self
Released: February 23, 2015
Type: TV
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La gravedad del púgil
Title: La gravedad del púgil
Released: November 4, 2014
Type: Movie
The story about a boxer and a police in the forest following the traces of evil forces.
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Mamá Ya Crecí
Title: Mamá Ya Crecí
Character: Clemente Correa
Released: February 13, 2014
Type: Movie
Gerardo was never detached from his mother. So when he presented his first girlfriend, the gorgeous model Ana Verónica, the mother will do everything possible to get rid of her.
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Title: Mentiras verdaderas
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 2011
Type: TV
Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency.
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Title: Sin maquillaje
Character: Self
Released: May 7, 2011
Type: TV
Interviews with prominent Chilean actors, throwbacks to their careers and personal lives.
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Title: Témpano
Character: Francisco Grau
Released: March 7, 2011
Type: TV
The mystery takes over the crew of a vessel on the ice in southern Chile.
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Gente Mala del Norte
Title: Gente Mala del Norte
Character: Abelardo de la Puente
Released: February 5, 2011
Type: Movie
In the Strait of Magellan, on 1923, an Irish photographer gradually discovers that the defendants in a bloody crime are innocent, and are only victims of intolerance and political expediency.
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Title: La familia de al lado
Character: Igor Mora
Released: September 6, 2010
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Martín Rivas
Character: Pedro San Luis
Released: March 15, 2010
Type: TV
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El vuelo del poeta
Title: El vuelo del poeta
Character: Vicente's Father
Released: September 27, 2009
Type: Movie
The life story of Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro who leaves his wife and children in Chile and flees to Paris in order to devote himself to poetry.
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Mandrill
Title: Mandrill
Character: Don Mario
Released: September 4, 2009
Type: Movie
Mandrill is a high-level assassin whose parents many years ago were slaughtered in cold blood by a ruthless drug lord. Now he finds himself finally in a position to get his revenge. But since it falls in love precisely in the pretty daughter of the ruthless killer. Mandrill now faces the most serious decision of his life ...
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La represa
Title: La represa
Released: January 15, 2009
Type: Movie
La represa tells the story of an aboriginal tribe that finds itself endangered by the construction of a dam over their sacred land. "Beard in head" and his loyal friend "Straight hair" will have to go to the city to prohibit the construction of the dam by the white man.
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Secrets
Title: Secrets
Released: October 9, 2008
Type: Movie
After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed.
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Title: El señor de la Querencia
Character: Renato Echeñique
Released: May 12, 2008
Type: TV
An evil and deranged farmer, perversely controls his land and the people who live there during the 1920s.
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Title: Viuda Alegre
Character: Edgardo Mancilla
Released: March 10, 2008
Type: TV
In a coastal town, Beatriz Sarmiento is known for her fortune and charisma, also for having lost four husbands in different circumstances. When her lastest husband passes away, Rodrigo appears at her brother's funeral with hidden intentions, unleashing countless conflicts in the lives of the villagers, including Beatriz.
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Title: Corazón de María
Character: Pedro Lamarca
Released: March 12, 2007
Type: TV
Miguel loses his wife Maria in a tragic car accident just hours after getting married. However, Maria's heart will continue to beat on another woman's body. The transplant that marks the death of María will also be synonymous of Elisa's new life.
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Kiltro
Title: Kiltro
Character: Farah
Released: April 20, 2006
Type: Movie
Street tough Zamir has been in love with Kim ever since he rescued her from rapists, but the only way that he can express his affection is to attack any man who shows interest in her. Kim tolerates Zamir's infatuation, but keeps him at arm's length. When Max Kalba arrives in town to take vengeance on Kim's father, Zamir attempts to rescue her once again.
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Title: Los Pincheira
Character: Padre Antonio Ortúzar
Released: March 8, 2004
Type: TV
Four bandit siblings try to take revenge on the landowners who killed their father.
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El duelo
Title: El duelo
Character: Don Faustino
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Two men at cause of confusion and superstitions become involved in a duel that ends unexpectedly.
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The Chosen One
Title: The Chosen One
Character: The President
Released: October 2, 2003
Type: Movie
It's the year 2006 in Chile and reality TV rules the airwaves. Ten strangers are taken to the snowy summits of the Andes; The challenge is to survive in an underground shelter.
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Gracia y el Forastero
Title: Gracia y el Forastero
Character: General Morán
Released: March 19, 2002
Type: Movie
The fatal relationship between Gracia, the teenage daughter of a retired general officer and Gabriel, an outsider who has just come back to his home at the beach with his father, a leftist militant.
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Title: El circo de las Montini
Character: Juan 'El Capitán' Lorenzo
Released: March 11, 2002
Type: TV
A circus family must face a new season of performances, under the risk that this may be their last tour.
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Title: Pampa Ilusión
Character: Emilio Fuenzalida
Released: March 7, 2001
Type: TV
The exiled daughter of an English businessman returns home, in the midst of the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in the Humberstone nitrate office, during the acute 1930s financial crisis.
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Pickman's Model
Title: Pickman's Model
Character: Bruno Mattotti
Released: October 4, 2000
Type: Movie
A journalist sets out to uncover the truth about the death of his colleague who was researching an American artist, Richard Upton Pickman. When he discovers the artist is in Santiago he goes to pay him a visit.
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Tierra del fuego
Title: Tierra del fuego
Character: Alexis
Released: May 19, 2000
Type: Movie
The film is based on the novel (of the same name) by the Chilean writer Francisco Coloane, and on the chronicles of the Romanian engineer Julius Popper, a nationalized Argentine and one of the principle actors in the genocide of the Selk'nam, one of the indigenous peoples who inhabited the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago.
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Title: Romané
Character: Baldomero Lillo
Released: March 6, 2000
Type: TV
A caravan of gypsies arrives in Mejillones, Chile, to celebrate the marriage of their patriarch, without imagining that the unexpected arrival of his daughter after two decades, will revive a stormy past.
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Title: La fiera
Character: Pedro Chamorro
Released: March 8, 1999
Type: TV
Catalina Chamorro, is a woman who rejects every wooer interested in her. The matter would not be important if it were not because, according to an old promise of love, Catalina's father, Pedro Chamorro, refuses to give his youngest daughter, Blanca, in marriage until his oldest daugher has married.
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Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde
Title: Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde
Character: Hans
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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...
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Title: Borrón y cuenta nueva
Character: Reynaldo Paz
Released: August 3, 1998
Type: TV
A billionaire who, as a result of his death, leaves an inheritance of 100 million dollars to his three daughters. But in order for them to receive the money, they must follow some exclusive conditions such as living in his mansion, marrying within a year and arriving there before midnight. Problems scalate when a fourth heir appears...
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Title: Sucupira, la comedia
Character: Ambrosio Campos
Released: May 23, 1998
Type: TV
A spin-off sequel of the 1996 TV series "Sucupira". The story takes place when Sucupira Mayor Federico Valdivieso, who was thought gone and buried comes out of his grave, causing confussion and chaos among the town's citizens.
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Title: Mi abuelo, mi nana y yo
Character: Nicanor 'Pelayo' Barros
Released: February 24, 1998
Type: TV
The adventures of a boy who is usually left with his grandfather and his nanny at home while his parents go out to different activities. They go through different funny situations to pass the time.
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Title: Brigada Escorpión
Character: Deputy Anselmo Marín
Released: August 10, 1997
Type: TV
The exploits of an investigative police group that from anonymity, solve intricate criminal cases.
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Title: La Buhardilla
Character: Jose Maria
Released: March 15, 1997
Type: TV
Four music students who are part of a Rock band try to enter the business.
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Title: Sucupira
Character: Ambrosio Campos
Released: March 11, 1996
Type: TV
Sucupira is a seaside town in Chile. Federico Valdivieso, the mayor, a scoundrel, rascal and womanizer is determined to be re-elected. One of his main goals for that is to inaugurate the Sucupira cemetery, something he cannot achieve because nobody is dying, in his endeavor to make that happen he will star in hilarious situations.
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Title: Estúpido cupido
Character: Octavio Dublé
Released: March 13, 1995
Type: TV
In 1962, the small town of San Andrés is ruled by morality and good manners. The arrival of a new nun will change everything. Turn everything upside down.
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Title: Rojo y miel
Character: Alcides Mainardi
Released: August 3, 1994
Type: TV
The love story of Claudia Bernhardt and Rodrigo Carvajal, they come from different worlds: she was a young university student, used to urban lifestyle and he was in charge of his father's ranch. Their romance is at stake when another man offers Claudia the stability she needs. The honey of the city will clash with the red passion of the countryside.
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Los náufragos
Title: Los náufragos
Character: Sebastian
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
After 20 years of exile, Aron returns to Chile to find out who he is. He asks questions, not only of those who stayed behind but also of himself, examining his relationship with his past and his own memory. The people who stayed lived through 20 years of dictatorship. They were either victims or executioners. Amidst this wreckage, Aron wonders what name his brother is using now, where his father is... Can he, in Isol's arms and through her love, find his way again ? What future awaits him? Like Mola the torturer, he has returned from an impossible journey, and Aron knows that each man is his own executioner. Shipwreck and resurrection are the two facets of a complex truth.
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Johnny One Hundred Pesos
Title: Johnny One Hundred Pesos
Character: Judge
Released: October 14, 1993
Type: Movie
Based on real events, 17-year-old Johnny García becomes involved with four older thugs who are planning to rob a money-laundering business masquerading as a video store. As they try to escape, a swarm of exploitative media attention awaits.
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Derecho de asilo
Title: Derecho de asilo
Released: January 2, 1993
Type: Movie
In an imaginary country in Latin America, a man asks for asylum in an embassy. Trickery, passion, and intrigue are the motives of his actions.
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KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
Title: KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
Character: Don Pedro
Released: December 18, 1991
Type: Movie
A Russian agent is sent to a mission in Chile as a punishment. While there, he continues his adventures in a massage parlor where he meets Paola - a young prostitute he falls in love with.
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Title: Volver a empezar
Character: Gastón de la Force
Released: April 1, 1991
Type: TV
A writer returns to her motherland after many years in exile, and seeks to resolve pending conflicts with her son.
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Something Is Out There
Title: Something Is Out There
Released: November 16, 1990
Type: Movie
While wandering solitary in the city, Bruno discovers that his personality alternates with another. Such scrutiny will disturb him and make him to face himself in a quest that will even bring him face to face with death.
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Caluga o Menta
Title: Caluga o Menta
Character: Javier
Released: October 19, 1990
Type: Movie
Niki and his friends are members of the marginalised underclass living on the outskirts of Santiago. During Chile's transition from dictatorship to democracy (1988-1990), they forge a path from drug- and drink-fuelled nihilism and petty crime into the world of market-driven illegality and Niki begins a seemingly predestined relationship with the middle-class "loca", Manuela. Memorable episodes and characters, quotable dialogue and a mix of earthy national portrait and surrealistic flourish make this one of the key Chilean films of the Nineties.
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Title: Corín Tellado: Mis mejores historias de amor
Character: Raúl
Released: September 11, 1990
Type: TV
Series based on Corín Tellado's "pink" novels. Romantic stories that take place in Modern times, portraying the prejudices and social pressures that both men and women have to endure.
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Title: Crónica de un hombre santo
Character: Monsignor Sergio Valech
Released: June 10, 1990
Type: TV
The life, work and death of the Chilean Jesuit priest and founder of "Hogar de Cristo" (Home of Christ), San Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga.
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Sussi
Title: Sussi
Character: Mario
Released: May 23, 1988
Type: Movie
Sussi comes to the big city to find love and success.
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Title: La dama del balcón
Character: Domínguez
Released: January 2, 1986
Type: TV
A painting unleashes the riddle of three women from different worlds and times but with the same face. How can this be?
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Title: Marta a las ocho
Character: René Barrientos
Released: July 2, 1985
Type: TV
A housemaid named Marta travels to Santiago, in search of better opportunities, convinced that in the capital she would find everything she expected.
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The Chinese Shoe
Title: The Chinese Shoe
Character: Felix
Released: November 22, 1979
Type: Movie
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
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Julio Begins in July
Title: Julio Begins in July
Character: Uncle Alberto
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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Vías paralelas
Title: Vías paralelas
Character: El hermano
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: Movie
A former public-services worker wants to return to his job. In the attempt, he meets wandering people, who seek "parallel ways" of survival in a chaotic socio-political context in Chile, after the 1973 Coup d'état .
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A la sombra del sol
Title: A la sombra del sol
Released: November 28, 1974
Type: Movie
Two thieves wander in the chilean desert and finally get to a small town near Bolivia. There, they try to include themselves with the townspeople but their instincts betray them and tragedy ensues. Based on a true story, this film opened one year after the chilean Coup de etat. The day after the opening, script girl Carmen Bueno and director of photography Jorge Müller were taken by police and now they are part of the list of the Desaparecidos.
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The Expropriation
Title: The Expropriation
Character: Capataz Lucho
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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Little White Dove
Title: Little White Dove
Character: María's stepfather
Released: October 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A young working class girl falls in love with an upper class boy who is part of the plot to assassinate General Schneider, head of the Chilean Army.
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What Is to Be Done?
Title: What Is to Be Done?
Character: Osvaldo Alarcon
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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The Witnesses
Title: The Witnesses
Released: June 21, 1971
Type: Movie
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.
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Nobody Said Anything
Title: Nobody Said Anything
Character: Poeta
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.
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Jackal of Nahueltoro
Title: Jackal of Nahueltoro
Character: Judge
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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The Penal Colony
Title: The Penal Colony
Character: Head of state
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite democratic structures, the inhabitants--who speak a strange dialect composed of Spanish and English--still obey the old prison rules. After sending back detailed accounts of the torture and repression seen everywhere, the journalist realizes that she has fallen into the trap created for her by the islanders: lacking natural resources, the island's main export is news.
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Three Sad Tigers
Title: Three Sad Tigers
Character: Luis Úbeda
Released: November 19, 1968
Type: Movie
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.
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Love Hunger
Title: Love Hunger
Character: Roberto
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: Movie
Three criminals escape prison and find themselves at the swampland home of a strange old man and his sexy blonde daughter. This black-and-white Argentine crime film was dubbed into English and spiced up with over 10 minutes of color nudie insert shots.
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Tres miradas a la calle
Title: Tres miradas a la calle
Character: Delinquent (segment "Ojos de gato)
Released: December 10, 1957
Type: Movie
Set in Santiago de Chile in the 50's and divided into three stories. The first story is about a young woman who has just discovered that she's pregnant. The father refuses to cooperate. The second story is set in Arica, and concerns smuggling in northern Chile. The third and final story, "Ojos de gato", concerns a cashier that is bewitched by a mysterious "Lady in Black".