Jaime Vadell

Jaime Vadell

Born: October 6, 1935
in Valparaíso, Chile
Jaime Vadell was born on 6 October 1935 in Valparaíso, Región de Valparaíso, Chile. He is an actor, known for No (2012), The Club (2015) and Coronación (2000).

Movies for Jaime Vadell...

History and Geography
Title: History and Geography
Character: voice-over
Released: April 18, 2024
Type: Movie
Gioconda Martínez, a well-remembered comic television actress, decided to return to her hometown to stage a play about the conquest of Chile, which will allow her to regain the artistic recognition she thought she had lost but never had.
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Esperando a Godoy
Title: Esperando a Godoy
Released: November 30, 2023
Type: Movie
The film centers on a town in Santiago, where Juan Luis Godoy, a worker who dabbles in literature, has a verbal confrontation with a novelist (Waldo Rojas) who, representing Editorial Quimantú, has gone to propose to the villagers a literary workshop where they would study Georg Lukács, socialist realism, superstructure and class consciousness, among other theoretical issues. Godoy, for whom the important thing is not the technique but the creation, discusses this offer but, in the end, the project is approved.
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Socialist Realism
Title: Socialist Realism
Released: September 23, 2023
Type: Movie
A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series of short stories, in which different worlds cross paths.
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El Conde
Title: El Conde
Character: El Conde
Released: September 8, 2023
Type: Movie
After living for over two centuries, Augusto Pinochet is a vampire ready to die… but the vultures around him won't let him go without one last bite.
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Blanquita
Title: Blanquita
Character: Cardinal
Released: April 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Blanca, an 18-year-old foster home resident, is the key witness in a scandal involving kids, politicians and rich men taking part in sex parties. Yet, the more questions are asked, the less clear it becomes what Blanca’s role in the scandal exactly is.
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Desconectados
Title: Desconectados
Character: Rigoberto
Released: December 16, 2022
Type: Movie
Victoria, a mother addicted to the internet and work, is completely disconnected from her two teenage children, Clara and Julián. Just when he is about to receive that long-awaited promotion, a solar storm leaves the entire world without internet, indefinitely. With her ex-husband stranded in another country, she is faced with the reality that she has to be a mother without the help of apps or the internet.
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Un loco matrimonio en cuarentena
Title: Un loco matrimonio en cuarentena
Character: Hernandez
Released: August 21, 2021
Type: Movie
A couple must overcome different pandemic-related altercations during their virtual wedding in order to maintain an ordinary and stable marriage ceremony.
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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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Title: Homemade
Released: June 30, 2020
Type: TV
Acclaimed filmmakers from around the world channel their creativity during COVID-19 isolation with this diverse, genre-spanning collection of short films.
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Spider
Title: Spider
Character: Don Ricardo
Released: August 15, 2019
Type: Movie
Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever.
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Title: Casa de muñecos
Character: Rodolfo
Released: August 20, 2018
Type: TV
The Falco-Elizalde sisters undertake the search for authentic happiness, after discovering that their parents have separated after 50 years of marriage.
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Title: Sigamos de largo
Character: Self
Released: April 17, 2018
Type: TV
The most important events of the day, with a relaxed tone and high doses of humor. Each episode tackles the most relevant events that dominate the public eye, with guests who contribute their views on the matter.
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Neruda
Title: Neruda
Character: Jorge Alessandri
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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Title: Pobre Gallo
Character: Onofre Pérez de Castro
Released: January 6, 2016
Type: TV
Nicolás Pérez de Castro, sick of stress, suddenly must go to the countryside to heal his illness.
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The Club
Title: The Club
Character: Father Silva
Released: May 28, 2015
Type: Movie
In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.
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The Plain Of Patience
Title: The Plain Of Patience
Released: May 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Two old friends meet after 40 years to unearth a treasure they had buried in the desert.
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Title: Algo personal
Character: Self
Released: February 23, 2015
Type: TV
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Santiago Violenta
Title: Santiago Violenta
Character: Noel's Father
Released: October 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Mauro, Noel and Broco have been an inseparable group of friends since grade school. All grown up, their lives are not what they hoped they would be. Life has become so routine that they do nothing more than wait for the weekends to drink themselves into oblivion. One night, a chance encounter leads the group on a wild and deadly chase from Santiago's most dangerous crime boss... Forced to make increasingly risky decisions, their frantic, adrenaline fueled desperation brings them closer to a violent, life-changing end where the friendship will be changed forever.
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Aurora
Title: Aurora
Character: Judge Águila
Released: October 5, 2014
Type: Movie
After reading in the newspaper that a newborn baby was found in a dumpster, a teacher becomes obsessed with giving it a proper burial.
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Title: Secretos en el jardín
Character: Klaus Cox
Released: November 25, 2013
Type: TV
A series of crimes occur in Viña del Mar during the 80s. The detective Ramiro Opazo and the journalist Javier Montes will investigate those responsible for the murders and robberies.
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Title: El hombre de tu vida
Character: Padre Francisco
Released: July 7, 2013
Type: TV
Hugo is a widowed father, good, honest but unemployed. In an effort to end his economical shortcomings, he agreeds to collaborate on the crazy idea of his cousin Gloria: a SME that promises to find "the love of your life". Hugo will have to become different men (lawyer, businessmam, etc) to be the ideal date.
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The Devil's Liquor
Title: The Devil's Liquor
Character: Eladio
Released: October 6, 2012
Type: Movie
Old man Eladio is dying. Throughout the last decades, he has lived alone, working in his old liquor factory. Modernity threatens his spirits business, but he refuses to abandon it. A visit by his oldest grandson will be the ideal moment to save the factory, while at the same time, reconnect with his family.
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No
Title: No
Character: Minister Fernández
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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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: Aquí mando yo
Character: Pedro Montenegro
Released: September 12, 2011
Type: TV
Diego and Sofía have agreed a special deal: while she goes to work, he will take care of the house and their daughters Antonella and Kiara, 24 hours a day.
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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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¿Qué será de Soto?
Title: ¿Qué será de Soto?
Character: Soto
Released: October 18, 2010
Type: Movie
Two friends reunite after many years, after they catch up with each other's personal lives, one question raises in the conversation "What happened to Soto?"
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Title: La familia de al lado
Character: Renato Fabres
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: Adiós al séptimo de línea
Character: President Aníbal Pinto
Released: September 5, 2010
Type: TV
The adventures of a Chilean female spy and a small Regiment during the Saltpeter War.
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Post Mortem
Title: Post Mortem
Character: Dr. Castillo
Released: July 2, 2010
Type: Movie
In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
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Title: Los exitosos Pells
Character: Marcial Balaguer
Released: March 3, 2009
Type: TV
A failed theater teacher has a chance for success by impersonating Martin Pells, Chile's most famous and influential TV announcer.
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Title: TV o no TV
Character: Self - Actor
Released: November 11, 2008
Type: TV
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The Gift
Title: The Gift
Character: Pacheco
Released: October 2, 2008
Type: Movie
A man who has recently lost his wife and forced to retire contemplates suicide. His friends take him on a trip to a senior resort, and invite his former sweetheart.
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Title: Hijos Del Monte
Character: Miguel Millán
Released: September 2, 2008
Type: TV
Five adopted brothers see how their easygoing life in the countryside is changed by the death of their father, who gives part of his land to his only biological child, Paula, who comes to claim what belongs to her.
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Title: El señor de la Querencia
Character: Monseñor
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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Kill Them All
Title: Kill Them All
Character: Mr. Reyes
Released: December 9, 2007
Type: Movie
A story set in Uruguay in 1993. It revolves around an investigation by a law court lawyer, Julia. She's looking into the possibility that a chemist named Eugenio Barrios is being secretly sheltered in Uruguay by right-wing political powers.
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Title: Corazón de María
Character: Bishop
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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Title: Floribella
Character: God
Released: October 11, 2006
Type: TV
A 20-year-old girl with a deep passion for music will radically change her life when she finds work at the Fritzenwalden family home as an assistant to Governess Greta, who is in charge of six children who have just lost their parents. What she does not know is that in this house she will aslo discover true love.
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Our Father
Title: Our Father
Character: Caco
Released: October 5, 2006
Type: Movie
Children come to a hospital to visit their dying father they haven't seen for 8 years. They try to recover their relationships before he dies.
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Title: Una belleza nueva
Character: Self
Released: July 23, 2006
Type: TV
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Title: El aval
Character: Martin's Grandfather
Released: April 4, 2006
Type: TV
Psychologist Martín Rivera is one day invited for a coffee by a stranger named José Sagasti, who informs him that his grandfather had made a pact with his boss, "The Devil", who he did not comply. Therefore Rivera, as his only male descendant, becomes the guarantee of said commitment. Martín and his closest ones start to be intensively harassed by Sagasti, until the pact can be finally fulfilled.
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For Rent
Title: For Rent
Character: Gaston's Father
Released: October 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Gastón Fernández has arrived at 34 without too much to show or brag about. He has no money, job, girlfriend, friends or life plan. He's a composer that doesn't compose. The one-time "most likely to succeed" at Santiago's Musical Conservatory has passed from promise to failure. He feels he is beginning to wander alone. Isolated and detached. Gastón feels that everyone judges him and see the word loser tattooed on his forehead. At the same time, an alter-ego, a sort of doppelgänger, haunts him.
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El Roto: Perjudícame cariño
Title: El Roto: Perjudícame cariño
Released: August 18, 2005
Type: Movie
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Tendida mirando las estrellas
Title: Tendida mirando las estrellas
Character: Grace's Father
Released: November 16, 2004
Type: Movie
Nieves has murdered the man who was tried to rape his younger brother. Sentenced to five years in prison, she is immersed in a hard and marginal world, she does yearns to one day being released and fulfill her lifelong dream: to know the flowery desert in northern Chile. When an oversight of her captors allows her to flee, her dreams will have to wait still. She dedicates herself to managing a nightclub where her former jailmates prostitute themselves.
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El huésped
Title: El huésped
Character: Dr. Bruzzone
Released: November 6, 2003
Type: Movie
Five medicine interns in an old public hospital must face all their fears when they start to being stalked by a strange being.
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Title: Pecadores
Character: Dionisio Cienfuegos
Released: August 18, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: Biografías
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Purasangre
Character: Adolfo Benavides
Released: August 12, 2002
Type: TV
As a result of a vile abuse cause in the past, Violeta Salazar has sworn to herself to take revenge on the Callassis family and all their descendants. She sends her daughter Amanda to make the life of the Callasis as miserable as possible, but love can be surprising, and not everything comes out as planned.
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Fragmentos urbanos
Title: Fragmentos urbanos
Character: Ramón (segment "Mandarina Mecánica")
Released: January 10, 2002
Type: Movie
Anthology film composed of six standalone shorts.
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Title: Amores de mercado
Character: Camilo Ruttenmeyer
Released: August 6, 2001
Type: TV
'Pelluco' Solís, a young lower-middle class waiter, crosses paths with Rodolfo Ruttenmeyer -a man who looks just like him- in an unfortunate accident that will change their lives forever.
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Coronation
Title: Coronation
Character: Carlos Gross
Released: April 27, 2000
Type: Movie
The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money with the passions of his well-off rival. The suffocating atmosphere of the run-down mansion in the outskirts of Santiago represents the deterioration of the bourgeoisie, and sets the scene for the total collapse of Andres.
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Title: Aquelarre
Character: Padre Pelayo
Released: August 4, 1999
Type: TV
A series of tragedies will haunt the Patiño sisters after the surprising death of the family's patriarch.
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Title: El día menos pensado
Character: Don Luis
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: Don Renato
Released: May 16, 1999
Type: TV
Stories of paranormal activities and extraordinary nature -allegedly- based on real events.
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Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde
Title: Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde
Character: Captain Stevens
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: Santiago Bryce
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: Brigada Escorpión
Character: Werner Kinsky
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: Tic Tac
Character: Samuel Gaete
Released: August 6, 1997
Type: TV
After a seance ghost of a young high-class call Maximiliano Ossa, who died in very strange circumstances, returns from 1925 to 1997 to recover the love of his beloved Pola Santa Maria
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Title: Loca piel
Character: Gerardo Page
Released: August 12, 1996
Type: TV
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Bienvenida Casandra
Title: Bienvenida Casandra
Character: Father Alejandro
Released: April 18, 1996
Type: Movie
Cassandra is a teenager who is seeking God so she enters in the youth group of the Parish. There she meets Father Agustin , who unleashes her in confusion, on the border between carnal love and a fatherly relationship. Everything is accentuated when they go to a spiritual retreat to the coast, where the rest of the group members will show their true colors
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Title: Juegos de fuego
Character: Alberto Spencer
Released: August 17, 1995
Type: TV
Lucas must choose between love and the power he acquires after becoming a renowned sculptor.
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Amelia Lópes O'Neill
Title: Amelia Lópes O'Neill
Character: Lawyer
Released: February 5, 1992
Type: Movie
A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.
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¡Viva el novio!
Title: ¡Viva el novio!
Character: Infante's Dad
Released: September 7, 1990
Type: Movie
After a hectic love life,Pelao Infante has decided to settle down, marrying his girlfriend.But everything collapses when suddenly his ex appear claiming she's expecting a son from him.
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Title: Crónica de un hombre santo
Character: Dr. Armas Cruz
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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Title: Vivir así
Character: Domingo 'Chumingo' Mora
Released: September 12, 1988
Type: TV
A hard-working man witnesses the collapse of his nuclear family.
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Title: El prisionero de la medianoche
Character: David Alejandro Carrasco / Mr. Z
Released: October 16, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Una familia feliz
Character: Víctor Altamira
Released: October 10, 1982
Type: TV
A man chases success at all costs, by exploiting a false self-image of "winner" and having a "happy family" to promote his businesses.
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Title: Alguien por quien vivir
Character: César Alonso
Released: March 15, 1982
Type: TV
Centers around the sentimental and existential conflicts of three families from different classes.
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Title: La madrastra
Character: Donato Fernández
Released: April 13, 1981
Type: TV
Marcia has grown bitter and full of resentment after being framed for murder 20 years ago during a visit to the United States. As soon as she gets out of jail she comes back to Chile to recover what was taken away from her and search the real killer of the incident that costed several years of her life.
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The Chinese Shoe
Title: The Chinese Shoe
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: Torres
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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The Expropriation
Title: The Expropriation
Character: Agronomo Vidal
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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The Witnesses
Title: The Witnesses
Character: Domingo
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
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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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.
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Three Sad Tigers
Title: Three Sad Tigers
Character: Rudy
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.