Nelson Villagra

Nelson Villagra

Born: August 9, 1937
in Chile

Movies for Nelson Villagra...

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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The Gift
Title: The Gift
Character: Francisco
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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Curriculum
Title: Curriculum
Character: Augusto Lopez E.
Released: October 9, 2006
Type: Movie
Two hit men are sent to kill the same woman not knowing that they are competing to assassinate her.
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Tendida mirando las estrellas
Title: Tendida mirando las estrellas
Character: Ninfonso Iquique Pino
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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Title: Hippie
Character: Maximiliano Sierralta
Released: March 8, 2004
Type: TV
During the late 60s, four young men from different socio-economic strata, are bonded by the same ideals of peace, love and revolution. They seek a common goal: to change the world.
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El duelo
Title: El duelo
Character: Eliazar Pizarro "El Huinco"
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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El aspado
Title: El aspado
Character: Aspado
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A ruthless thief has a change of heart after being mortally wounded and wants to carry the town's cross on the Way of the Cross in order to save his soul.
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Paraíso B
Title: Paraíso B
Character: Jefe (The Boss)
Released: August 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Leo and Pedro are childhood friends. Rhey work under the orders of "El Jefe", a thug, owner of the neighbourhood and the lives of its inhabitants. One day, Leo receives news that will change his life forever, Gloria, Pedro's sister and the love of his life, returns to the city. Leo and Gloria will walk through their memories, in an attempt to recover their lost love.
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Title: Piel canela
Character: Gabriel Vallejos
Released: August 6, 2001
Type: TV
Marcela has written a susseful tv series based around the personal lives of the people in her appartment building. Now she must prevent everybody in there to watch it
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Pickman's Model
Title: Pickman's Model
Character: The Evaluator (voice)
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: Novak
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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Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde
Title: Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde
Character: Foster
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: Los Cárcamo
Character: Owner of the Red Mercedes
Released: August 18, 1998
Type: TV
The adventures of the friendly and talkative Cárcamo family, their friends and neighbors.
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Title: Brigada Escorpión
Character: Alfonso Ubilla
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: Brigada Escorpión
Character: El Chino
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: Laberinto
Released: March 13, 1997
Type: TV
Gustavo Frías invites us on a journey into the human soul, to learn about situations that rarely are seen in to the public eye but are always present within the privacy of ordinary people.
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Title: Laberinto
Character: Car Mechanic
Released: March 13, 1997
Type: TV
Gustavo Frías invites us on a journey into the human soul, to learn about situations that rarely are seen in to the public eye but are always present within the privacy of ordinary people.
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Amnesia
Title: Amnesia
Character: Captain Mandiola
Released: January 2, 1994
Type: Movie
Dreaming of a better life, a young woman leaves her country home and moves to the city where she only finds trouble.
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Cargo
Title: Cargo
Character: capitaine
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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Baraguá
Title: Baraguá
Character: General Arsenio Martínez-Campos
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
The film is based on the historical event known as the Protest of Baraguá.
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The Compass Rose
Title: The Compass Rose
Released: March 19, 1983
Type: Movie
Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of Latin American culture from the late-15th century to the present. For some viewers, the film will be superficially symbolic and rhetorical, for others, it will be a strong and personal vision of several centuries of history.
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La viuda de Montiel
Title: La viuda de Montiel
Character: Chepe Montiel
Released: November 30, 1979
Type: Movie
Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
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The Recourse to the Method
Title: The Recourse to the Method
Character: Primer Magistrado
Released: June 6, 1978
Type: Movie
Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before he is finally ousted, only to die in obscurity in Paris. Early in his regime, the resources and agricultural products his country sells command high prices, and he is a reasonably confident, even gentle, ruler who likes to take long vacations with his daughter in Paris. After World War I, with falling prices and a number of coup attempts behind him, his rule becomes quite cruel.
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Cantata de Chile
Title: Cantata de Chile
Released: October 23, 1976
Type: Movie
The story of the Santa María School massacre of miners in 1907.
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The Last Supper
Title: The Last Supper
Released: March 13, 1976
Type: Movie
A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.
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The Promised Land
Title: The Promised Land
Released: July 1, 1973
Type: Movie
During the socialist government of Marmaduke Grove in 1932, a group of villagers decide to take some land in the area of ​​Palmilla. Almost like a mythical journey, problems arise when seated and in a position to bring the socialist ideal in the population. Everything becomes more complicated with rumors that the reactionary forces have overthrown the socialist government. A movie that because of the coup was not released in Chile and was only terminated by Littin in exile in Mexico.
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The Witnesses
Title: The Witnesses
Character: Ramon
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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Entre ponerle y no ponerle...
Title: Entre ponerle y no ponerle...
Released: June 17, 1971
Type: Movie
A documentary about the consequences of consuming alcohol and how it works as a weapon of the bourgeoisie to appease the thirst of the people.
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Nobody Said Anything
Title: Nobody Said Anything
Character: El Diablo
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: Jose
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
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: Tito
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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Return to Silence
Title: Return to Silence
Character: Detective Rodríguez
Released: January 30, 1967
Type: Movie
After living many years in Miami, Bill returns to Chile looking for his brother. One night they meet again and celebrate the event with a night of revelry. The next day, Bill wakes up alone and since then he loses all traces of his brother. Mysteriously a detective appears and offers to help, starting a searching and a succession of misunderstandings.
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Érase una vez
Title: Érase una vez
Released: August 3, 1965
Type: Movie
A poet recites his verses. The people who listen to him, inspired by him, form the Spring Party, which later becomes the Spring Army. It is decided to eliminate possible opponents. The poet is considered an enemy and is shot.