Catalina Saavedra

Catalina Saavedra

Born: January 9, 1968
in Viña del Mar, Chile
Catalina Saavedra is a Chilean actress. She is known to international audiences for her numerous collaborations with filmmaker Sebastián Silva. She has also appeared in films such as Ema, Problemista and Young & Wild.

Movies for Catalina Saavedra...

History and Geography
Title: History and Geography
Character: Atenea Martínez
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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Problemista
Title: Problemista
Character: Dolores
Released: March 1, 2024
Type: Movie
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream.
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Diablada
Title: Diablada
Character: Rosaura Meneses
Released: October 9, 2023
Type: Movie
A group of girls from a humble little town in the middle of the desert disappears systematically without the police or the authorities taking action on the matter. Families desperately seek help, but are faced with bureaucracy, discrimination and total abandonment.
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The Practice
Title: The Practice
Character: Therapist
Released: September 22, 2023
Type: Movie
Gustavo, an Argentine yoga instructor living in Chile, recently divorced from his wife, leaving him without an accommodation and complicating his company.
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Rotting in the Sun
Title: Rotting in the Sun
Character: Señora Vero
Released: September 8, 2023
Type: Movie
A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him to collaborate with him on his new TV show. But one disappears and another embarks on a wild journey through Mexico City to find him.
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Run Over
Title: Run Over
Released: May 11, 2023
Type: Movie
A lawyer with addiction problems who can't handle his spoiled daughter, a young millionaire lacking paternal affection.and a man who is killed on the same day he finds true love are connected by the same fate that will bond them together on a Sunday in July in Santiago
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Title: La vida de nosotras
Character: Nancy Cortez
Released: January 5, 2023
Type: TV
Sixteen real stories of women who have been victims and survivors of male violence.
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El castigo
Title: El castigo
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: Movie
An infant disappears from his parents sight in a mysterious but haunting forest after a punishment.
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La mirada incendiada
Title: La mirada incendiada
Character: Valentina
Released: April 9, 2021
Type: Movie
Film inspired by the real story of Rodrigo Rojas de Negri. Killed on July 2, 1986 during the first national protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
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Crisis
Title: Crisis
Character: Edith
Released: August 19, 2020
Type: Movie
Her work, her marriage, maternity, life itself… For Edith, everything has passed along without further questioning. As a cashier of a supermarket, she watches her days pass by between family and labor routine. Weeks, months and years she sees go by without even thinking. Suddenly, she discovers she is not happy. A conflict at work seems to synchronize with other thousands of sparks that set on fire the dry prairie of a society without hope. While Santiago starts to burn, Edith moves, bound for a change of life, no matter where destiny can take her.
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Title: Helga y Flora
Character: Flora Gutiérrez
Released: April 25, 2020
Type: TV
Helga Gunkel and Flora Gutiérrez, the first women of the Chilean police, are on the trail of a criminal who has returned for revenge on Kerren, a small southern town.
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La Mamita
Title: La Mamita
Released: January 13, 2020
Type: Movie
Karina is 51 years old and is a regular trucker on the north route. Due to mechanical problems, he stops for the first time at "La Mamita" restaurant. The owner and cook of the restaurant, Marta, 63, welcomes her as kindly as any of her customers. However, the accidental discovery of a human hand in the garbage makes Karina see that all the stories this cook tells her are nothing more than a premonition of her destiny.
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On My Own
Title: On My Own
Character: Margarita
Released: October 7, 2019
Type: Movie
A lonely beautician suffering from the onset of menopause is encouraged by her young client to pursue a love interest. The two women, youthful and aging, find unexpected insight in the advice of the other
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Ema
Title: Ema
Character: Marcela
Released: September 26, 2019
Type: Movie
Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Gastón is beyond repair, following a decision to give up on their adopted child Polo. She sets out on a mission to get him back, not caring who she’ll need to fight, seduce or destroy to make it happen.
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Title: Los Espookys
Character: Bárbara
Released: June 14, 2019
Type: TV
A group of friends turn their love for horror into a peculiar business, providing horror to those who need it, in a dreamy Latin American country where the strange and eerie are just part of daily life.
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Title: Casa de Angelis
Character: Mirta
Released: November 18, 2018
Type: TV
The trials and tribulations of a fashion house in 1950s Chile.
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Marilyn
Title: Marilyn
Character: Olga
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: Movie
Marcos and his family work as ranch hands. While his father and brother handle the heavier tasks, Marcos stays home, close to his mother. Each one has their future laid out before them, yet Marcos bides his time waiting for Carnival, the one moment where he can let his true self out to shine. The sudden death of his father leaves his family in a very vulnerable situation. The ranch owner hounds them to go away, while Marcos’s mother pressures him to take over the work in the fields. Nicknamed Marilyn by the other teenagers in town, Marcos is a target for desire and discrimination.
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Un día cualquiera
Title: Un día cualquiera
Character: Danisa
Released: November 27, 2017
Type: Movie
A story that highlights the charm of a chance and the magic of an unexpected encounter. A new opportunity to fall in love. 5 romantic stories.
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Title: Una historia necesaria
Character: Ana González
Released: September 11, 2017
Type: TV
Anthology series based on true stories about the disappeared detainees and their families during Pinochet's military dictatorship.
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Little White Lie
Title: Little White Lie
Character: Leontina
Released: June 1, 2017
Type: Movie
A small-town journalist in southern Chile realizes he just run out of good news so that he starts making gossips and fake stories in order to keep his job in the local newspaper he works for.
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And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye
Title: And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye
Character: Rosa
Released: October 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Emeteria is visited by a ghost she believes has come to take her to the afterlife. But he has more devastating news.
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Title: Bala Loca
Character: Patricia Fuenzalida
Released: July 3, 2016
Type: TV
A veteran journalist starting a news site about corruption in Chile stumbles on a big story when a fellow investigative reporter dies suspiciously.
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Mirage of Love
Title: Mirage of Love
Released: March 26, 2016
Type: Movie
1925, In a mining town in the middle of nowhere in Chile. The daughter of an anarchist hairdresser falls deeply in love with a trumpeter. They will have to fight dictatorship in order to save their love.
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What We Never Said
Title: What We Never Said
Released: November 3, 2015
Type: Movie
Intimate story of a small family, starring Marian, only daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Di Mateo, who after several years of living in Mexico returns to his hometown Mendoza, because her father is dying; although the true intent of her return is to say what was sealed by the silence of the unspoken in an exemplary family as such as her mother claims to sustain.
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The Simple Things
Title: The Simple Things
Character: Penélope
Released: September 2, 2015
Type: Movie
Penelope is a civil servant who lives with her mother, who has Alzheimer's. One day she meets Ulises, a poor old man who has lost his memory and his identity papers. She convinces him that he is her father and he must come home to take care of his wife.
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The Retiree
Title: The Retiree
Character: Gina
Released: June 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Fabiola returns to her homeland, province of Los Andes, to recover the affection of her family, after seven years of being away.
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Title: Matriarcas
Character: Cony Ríos
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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The Mud Woman
Title: The Mud Woman
Character: María
Released: February 6, 2015
Type: Movie
María Cartagena is a seasonal worker in the fruit fields of an arid valley in northern Chile, to bring sustenance to her daughter and disabled husband. During the hard workday she overcomes abuse and mistreatment driven by a powerful motivation: saving enough money to visit her brother’s grave, one of the disappeared after the Pinochet coup.
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Natural Disasters
Title: Natural Disasters
Character: Valentina
Released: October 24, 2014
Type: Movie
Raquel is a teacher who resists the idea of retiring. One day she has to teach a class at her old school, only to find out she has been replaced with someone much younger. She insists still on teaching, and gets the support of her former students who will occupy the classroom demanding her reinstatement, leading to a small revolution that will threaten the establishment's order.
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No Control in a Random World
Title: No Control in a Random World
Character: School Principal
Released: July 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Three stories with surrealistic comedy elements: A Chilean kid who speaks only in German language; a man fighting with his mind about their way of living; and an old couple trying to solve a problem in silence.
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Neruda: The Fugitive
Title: Neruda: The Fugitive
Character: Valparaiso Seamstress
Released: April 17, 2014
Type: Movie
The 1948 speech called "Yo Acuso" resulted in Pablo Neruda going under hiding for 13 months and the police searching intensively for him.
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(09)
Title: (09)
Released: March 13, 2014
Type: Movie
In 2012, three friends got together for a college assignment in a beach house. There was some sort of paranormal activity. What happened that day was recorded in their phones, but it wasn't authorized to be shown publically. Until now.
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The Magnetic Tree
Title: The Magnetic Tree
Character: Carla
Released: September 26, 2013
Type: Movie
A young boy returns to his birth country, Chile, after a long absence. The house in the country where he lived with his family is up for sale and they all gather to bid the place farewell. Their visit to the "magnetic tree", a local curiosity with strange properties, will awaken almost forgotten feelings and affections in the boy.
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Title: Caravan of Death
Character: Marta Bertoni
Released: September 9, 2013
Type: TV
Carmen spends 40 years of her life seeking for justice after the murder of her husband.
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The Quispe Girls
Title: The Quispe Girls
Character: Lucía Quispe
Released: August 31, 2013
Type: Movie
Based on a true story occurred in 1974, this is the tale of sisters Justa, Lucia, and Luciana Quispe, sheperds in the Chilean altiplano who lead a solitary life. A visitor brings news about a law that might change their way of living. This event forces the women to question their existence and relentlessly brings them to a tragic end.
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Dog Flesh
Title: Dog Flesh
Character: Factory Worker
Released: July 12, 2013
Type: Movie
Alejandro, a solitary, fragile and unpredictable man is crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past.
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The Passion of Michelangelo
Title: The Passion of Michelangelo
Character: Irma
Released: January 29, 2013
Type: Movie
An intense religious drama set during the Pinochet regime and based on a true story.
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Caleuche: The Call of the Sea
Title: Caleuche: The Call of the Sea
Character: Aurora
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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Bahía azul
Title: Bahía azul
Released: October 25, 2012
Type: Movie
A teenager visits his mother in search of affection. She lives semi isolated from the world, on a house facing the sea and in the company of a woman. The meeting of both characters will be rather a disagreement that will throw the young man towards other characters that will be moving further away from his mother until he disappears. Only at that moment will she feel the weight of his absence.
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Isidora
Title: Isidora
Released: September 6, 2012
Type: Movie
Isidora immerses itself, in the manner of a journey through time and space, in the life of Chilean playwright Isidora Aguirre (1919-2011) and in the main ones of her 30 plays, which are recreated on screen by outstanding actors. Mixing family archives, life diaries and interviews she gave at the age of 91, the film becomes the creative biography of the author of La Pergola de las Flores, her most famous work, and opens the door to the social and political issues she narrated in her theater, the utopias that could not be and the conflicts that are still ongoing in Latin America.
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Young and Wild
Title: Young and Wild
Character: Converted Woman
Released: March 29, 2012
Type: Movie
Daniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.
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The Painting Lesson
Title: The Painting Lesson
Character: Leontina
Released: March 8, 2012
Type: Movie
In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is an amateur painter who will try to make the boy into a great artist, like all the ones in his art books. From the pharmacists point of view in his old age, unfolds the story of this young boy who could have become a great art genius, had he not disappeared at the age of 13, along with all his works, on September 11th 1973, the day of the coupe d´état.
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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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Quiero entrar
Title: Quiero entrar
Released: October 10, 2011
Type: Movie
A man wants to become a TV-star and he will try anything despite his advanced age and what everyone says about him and his lack of talent and charisma for the job. But while he starts getting closer to his goal, his house starts crowding with unwanted guests.
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Atacama's 33
Title: Atacama's 33
Character: Sister
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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Title: Volver a mí
Character: Julia
Released: October 17, 2010
Type: TV
The story focuses on the rehabilitation of different people who for different reasons have turned to drugs, alcohol, pills and other types of toxins in order to forget their problems.
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Old Cats
Title: Old Cats
Character: Hugo
Released: October 8, 2010
Type: Movie
Isidora, an old woman, discovers that her mind is quickly deteriorating. At an apparently relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her state from her daughter, a demanding woman who awaits any sign of senility in order to take way everything she has.
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Un nuevo baile
Title: Un nuevo baile
Released: September 27, 2010
Type: Movie
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The Dancer and the Thief
Title: The Dancer and the Thief
Character: Ángel's Mother
Released: November 27, 2009
Type: Movie
Present day. Chile. Legendary bank robber Vergara Grey is getting out of prison after 5 long years and is looking forward to a quiet, uneventful life together with his wife and son whom oddly he hasn't heard from in years. But soon his resolve is tested when he meets 19 year old Angel a young thief who insists the two join up to score the biggest heist of all time. Though tempted, he resists until he finds out that his beloved wife has gone off with a millionaire and his son wants to change his last name. Then Victoria, a graceful and mysteriously mute dancer living in a conservatory, steps into the picture. She captivates Vergara and Angel, as well as all others that cross her path, drastically changing their lives.
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The Maid
Title: The Maid
Character: Raquel
Released: August 13, 2009
Type: Movie
Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.
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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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I Love You Mum
Title: I Love You Mum
Character: Carmen
Released: October 2, 2008
Type: Movie
A mother on the brink of blindness abandons her little daughter every day. The girl just wants to please her mother so it develops a macabre game to look like her. Until one day, the plan seems to have yielded results beyond all expectations.
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31 Minutos, la película
Title: 31 Minutos, la película
Character: Cachirula (voice)
Released: March 27, 2008
Type: Movie
The rag-tag crew of world famous TV news show 31 Minutos goes into the sea to a mystery island to rescue their beloved producer Juanin Juan Harry.
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Chile Can Do It
Title: Chile Can Do It
Character: Magda
Released: January 8, 2008
Type: Movie
The businessman who sends the first Chilean astronaut into outer space can't quite come up with the money to bring the adventurer back.
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Normal con alas
Title: Normal con alas
Character: Carmen Cecilia Salfate
Released: November 22, 2007
Type: Movie
Pancha Illanes is the black sheep of her ladies' college, after the constant insistence of her boyfriend she accepts the proposal of selling marijuana at the college. What at first seems like an impossible mission, soon becomes an electrifying game
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Life Kills Me
Title: Life Kills Me
Character: Chabela
Released: November 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Gaspar is a young, lonely cinematographer. Unable to deal with his sister and sick grandfather he spends his time with Susana, an actress working on a opera. When he meets Alvaro, an idealistic traveler, Gaspar's life changes. They embark on a adventure that help them unearth the fragility and value of human existence
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Title: Huaiquimán y Tolosa
Character: Josefa
Released: July 27, 2006
Type: TV
A pair of private detectives solve crimes and protect the Patronato district in Santiago, the most important commercial district of immigrants in Chile, facing dangerous mobsters and criminals.
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Title: Los Galindo
Character: Susana Flores
Released: March 14, 2005
Type: TV
The life of a family from a working-class neighborhood, that after the success of their car wash business, they move to an apartment in the wealthiest neighborhood in the country.
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Title: El cuento del tío
Character: Ely
Released: November 3, 2004
Type: TV
Stories about scamming and crime in Chile's big city. All of them based on real events.
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Title: Loco por ti
Character: Bank Executive
Released: July 28, 2004
Type: TV
Fran and Paulo face different situations of a recently married couple life.
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Title: Geografía del deseo
Character: Marisa Robles
Released: June 15, 2004
Type: TV
The story of 4 women who are approaching their forties and despite having different lives, they have in common their frustrations and broken dreams.
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La Perra
Title: La Perra
Released: January 31, 2004
Type: Movie
A couple with an empty life make up a story about the new maid, in order to satisfy their own sexual obsessions.
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No Place in Anywhere
Title: No Place in Anywhere
Released: December 31, 2003
Type: Movie
No Place in Anywhere can deal with many issues. It is a personal journey through image and time. It is the portrait of the "La Matriz" neighborhood in Valparaíso. It is the encounter between reality and fiction. It is the constant search to find a truth within the documentary. It is a musical rehearsal. It is the constant preparation of a documentary. It is a documentary of questions more than answers. A silent face, an empty road, a winter landscape, the wind moving the leaves of a tree, a wall, the sea, the street of a neighborhood, all of them intend to "create through the record" a unique truth for each viewer.
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Title: Piel canela
Character: Talula Vargas
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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Title: Enigma
Character: Irene
Released: June 12, 2001
Type: TV
Anthology series based on true crime stories that usually are unsolved mysteries. Intertwining dramatizations and real interviews with the victims and witnesses.
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Title: La otra cara del espejo
Released: March 12, 2000
Type: TV
Anthology horror series that dives into urban myths, regional fears, mysteries and paranormal events. Tales full of terror, suspense and sensuality.
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Title: Sabor a ti
Character: Virginia Solano
Released: March 1, 2000
Type: TV
Refugio Sarmiento, an elderly wine entrepreneur and owner of the "El Embrujo" vineyard, hides the secret why his wine is the tastiest in the area.
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Title: Fuera de control
Character: Pamela Duarte
Released: March 8, 1999
Type: TV
Silvana returns to Chile with an intense desire to take revenge on the seven people who had to do with the overturn that her life gave after an insidious "joke" 12 years ago.
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Title: Playa salvaje
Character: Susana Cáceres
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: Adrenalina
Character: María Raquel Trujillo
Released: July 29, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Amor a domicilio
Character: Brígida Gómez
Released: July 24, 1995
Type: TV
The adventures and misadventures of the young people who work in a Pizza Shop as deliverymen. Those in charge of making this pizza place work are idealists and dreamers, but from different worlds and opposite personalities, which will make their work and personal relationships constantly clash.
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Hasta en las mejores familias
Title: Hasta en las mejores familias
Character: Jessica
Released: October 27, 1994
Type: Movie
Dramatic comedy that raise questions through satire about the moral tradition of Chilean society, its dogmatism and sexual intolerance and the repressive nature of the country's traditional family.
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Title: Mea culpa
Character: Verónica
Released: June 1, 1993
Type: TV
Anthology series based on real criminal cases, featuring an interview with the actual perpetrator at the end of each episode.