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1. Missing (1982)
PG | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea
Votes: 23,375 | Gross: $14.00M
2. Waking the Dead (2000)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
Director: Keith Gordon | Stars: Billy Crudup, Bill Haugland, Nelson Landrieu, Ivonne Coll
Votes: 7,633 | Gross: $0.33M
3. The Wolf House (2018)
Not Rated | 75 min | Animation, Drama, Horror
Tells the story of Maria, a young woman who takes refuge in a house in southern Chile after escaping from a German colony.
Directors: Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León | Stars: Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause, Karina Hyland, Carlos Cociña
Votes: 4,759
4. No (I) (2012)
R | 118 min | Drama, History
An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco
Votes: 26,224 | Gross: $2.34M
5. Endless Poetry (2016)
Unrated | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of himself as a young man becoming a poet in Chile, befriending other artists, and freeing himself from the limits of his youth.
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Adan Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Leandro Taub, Pamela Flores
Votes: 6,605 | Gross: $0.03M
6. Neruda (2016)
R | 107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
Votes: 11,054 | Gross: $0.94M
7. Machuca (2004)
Not Rated | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History
Two 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other's world as political tensions in their country increase.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, Aline Küppenheim
Votes: 12,658
8. Tony Manero (2008)
TV-MA | 97 min | Drama, Music
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales, Paola Lattus
Votes: 4,559
9. Sweet Country (1987)
R | 150 min | Drama, History
A U.S. woman joins the underground in 1973 Chile against the horrors of its military regime.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Jane Alexander, John Cullum, Carole Laure, Franco Nero
Votes: 232
10. The Pearl Button (2015)
Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary
Delving into the nearly-religious significance of water, this profound rumination on memory and loss bridges the gap between its mystical origins, Pinochet's coup d'état, and the secret of a mother-of-pearl button at the bottom of the sea.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Martín Calderón, Cristina, Patricio Guzmán, Ema Malig
Votes: 2,902
11. Il pleut sur Santiago (1975)
112 min | Drama, Thriller
A depiction of the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat.
Director: Helvio Soto | Stars: John Abbey, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bibi Andersson, Annie Girardot
Votes: 343
12. The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary, History
The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Abilio Fernández, Salvador Allende
Votes: 1,614
13. Violeta Went to Heaven (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves, and her hopes.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Francisco Acuña, Juan Alfaro, Orlando Alfaro, Almendra Andrade
Votes: 2,412 | Gross: $0.02M
14. Héroes (2007–2009)
75 min | Drama, History
Heroes, a series of films that show for the first time the secrets and life of the most important heroes of Chile as never seen before. They will be shown with virtues, flaws, passions, and... See full summary »
Stars: Benjamín Vicuña, Julio Milostich, Ingrid Isensee, Maricarmen Arrigorriaga
Votes: 94
15. Chicago Boys (2015)
85 min | Documentary, History
The story of a group of Milton Friedman's disciples that, backed by a military dictatorship, turned Chile into the first and most extreme neoliberal country in the world.
Directors: Carola Fuentes, Rafael Valdeavellano | Stars: Sergio de Castro, Ernesto Fontaine, Ricardo French-Davis, Milton Friedman
Votes: 280
16. The War on Democracy (2007)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary
Venezuela, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Salvador, Bolivia: people's struggle for democracy versus US imperialism in Latin America since the 1950s, backing coups and supporting dictatorships.
Directors: Chris Martin, John Pilger, Sean Crotty | Stars: John Pilger, Philip Agee, Salvador Allende, George Bush
Votes: 2,527
17. The Black Pimpernel (2007)
R | 95 min | Drama, History, Romance
Harald Edelstam uses his position as Sweden's ambassador to Chile to save political dissidents from persecution by the military junta after Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup d'état.
Directors: Åsa Faringer, Ulf Hultberg | Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Lumi Cavazos, Kate del Castillo, Lisa Werlinder
Votes: 830
18. Mi mejor enemigo (2005)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
The days of tense guard of a Chilean military that in the middle of the solitude will interact and forming circles of friendship with their Argentine rivals.
Director: Alex Bowen | Stars: Nicolás Saavedra, Erto Pantoja, Miguel Dedovich, Jorge Román
Votes: 1,100
19. Salvador Allende (2004)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Biography
From his childhood in Valparaiso to his death during the Pinochet military coup on September 11, 1973, the life and works of Chilean president Salvador Allende.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Patricio Guzmán, Jacques Bidou, Alejandro Gonzáles
Votes: 769
20. Letters from Marusia (1975)
110 min | Drama, History
It is 1925 and working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The miners of Marusia go on strike, but the mine owners and the Government use the Chilean Army crush them.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Diana Bracho, Claudio Obregón, Eduardo López Rojas
Votes: 365
21. Tierra del fuego (2000)
108 min | Drama
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.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Ornella Muti, Tamara Acosta, Nelson Villagra
Votes: 182
22. Chile, the Obstinate Memory (1997)
59 min | Documentary
After decades of fascist rule in Chile, Patricio Guzman returns to his country to screen his documentary, Battle of Chile, which until the time of the filming was banned by authorities. His... See full summary »
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Patricio Guzmán, Vincent Davy, Hortensia Allende, José Balmes
Votes: 371
23. Allende en su laberinto (2014)
90 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The last 7 hours of former President of Chile Salvador Allende, and his closest collaborators inside the Palace of La Moneda, during the brutal military coup d'etat on Sept. 11, 1973, the day democracy in Chile ended. Based on true events.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Daniel Muñoz, Aline Küppenheim, Horacio Videla, Juvel Vielma
Votes: 572
24. The Battle of Chile: Part II (1976)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, History
Filmmaker Patricio Guzmán tracks the deterioration of Salvador Allende's position following the attempted coup d'état of 29 June 1973, and analyzes the 10 weeks before Augusto Pinochet's CIA-backed seizure of power.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Carlos Altamirano, Fernando Castillo, Luis Corvalán
Votes: 1,283
25. El entusiasmo (1998)
120 min | Drama
A man's enthusiasm turns into greed and causes trouble for his family.
Director: Ricardo Larraín | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Carmen Maura, Álvaro Escobar, Álvaro Rudolphy
Votes: 172
26. The Battle of Chile: Part III (1979)
80 min | Documentary, History
This film investigates the factory worker's response to the insurrection, as well as Chile's socialist aspirations for the future. The camera captures the optimism in the industrial working class before Pinochet's US-backed coup d'état.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Abilio Fernández, Ernesto Malbran
Votes: 1,041
27. La araucana (1971)
R | 100 min | Drama, History, War
A dramatization of Alonso de Ercilla's 16th-century epic poem about the Spanish conquest of Chile.
Director: Julio Coll | Stars: Elsa Martinelli, Venantino Venantini, Víctor Barrera, Julio Peña
Votes: 59
28. Dawson Isla 10 (2008)
117 min | Drama
The ex-members of Chile's cabinet survive the prison on Dawson Island.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Benjamín Vicuña, Bertrand Duarte, Pablo Krögh, Cristián de la Fuente
Votes: 381
29. Sub terra (2003)
105 min | Drama
A teacher restarts her relationship with an ex-boyfriend, a coal man who risks his life because of the dangerous conditions.
Director: Marcelo Ferrari | Stars: Francisco Reyes, Paulina Gálvez, Ernesto Malbran, Cristián Chaparro
Votes: 376
30. Augusto Pinochet: The Coup, the Torture & the West (2023 TV Special)
45 min | Documentary, History
September 11th, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the military coup that brought General Pinochet to power in Chile. With the support of world democracies, including the US and UK, the dictator ruled through terror and torture.
Director: Lyndy Saville | Stars: Cal Seville, Roberto Navarrete, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, Grace Livingston
Votes: 13
31. Julio comienza en julio (1979)
120 min | Drama
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.
Director: Silvio Caiozzi | Stars: Elsa Alarcón, Jorge Álvarez, Luis Alarcón, Magdalena Aguirre
Votes: 286
32. Noch nad Chili (1977)
97 min | Drama
A Soviet docudrama chronicling the events surrounding the military coup which toppled the leftist Chilean government of Salvador Allende in September 1973.
Directors: Sebastián Alarcón, Aleksandr Kosarev | Stars: Grigore Grigoriu, Bakhram Akramov, Nartay Begalin, Giuli Chokhonelidze
Votes: 87
33. Acta General de Chile (1986)
240 min | Documentary
In 1985, exiled director Miguel Littin returned clandestinely to Pinochet's Chile to make this documentary about the socio-political reality of the country.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Hortensia Allende, Salvador Allende, Fidel Castro, Joan Garcés
Votes: 45
34. The Promised Land (1973)
80 min | Drama, History
In 1930 Chile, amidst the economic crisis, syndicalist Jose spearheads the battle against landlords and the government.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Nelson Villagra, Marcelo Gaete, Rafael Benavente, Shenda Román
Votes: 91
35. Los Náufragos (1994)
123 min | Drama
After 20 years in exile in Europe, Aron returns to Chile to reunite with himself, and with his family.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Valentina Vargas, Marcelo Romo, Bastián Bodenhöfer, Luis Alarcón
Votes: 40
36. Earthquake in Chile (1975 TV Movie)
86 min | Drama, Romance
1647, Santiago, Chile. Don Henrico banishes his daughter, Josepha, to a convent when he learns she loves Jeronimo, a mestizo who's a teacher in the household. The lovers meet in secret, a ... See full summary »
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Julia Peña, Maddalena Kerrh, Víctor Barrera, Fred Maire
Votes: 31
37. Cantata de Chile (1976)
119 min | Drama, History
An epic, revolutionary retelling of the events leading up to an infamous massacre of striking miners in Chile in 1907.
Director: Humberto Solás | Stars: Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román, Eric Heresmann, Alfredo Tornquist
Votes: 37
38. Beyond My Grandfather Allende (2015)
90 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Salvador Allende, the first democratic-socialist president elected was also my grandfather. On September 11, 1973 a right wing military coup seized my grandfather' life and government, ... See full summary »
Director: Marcia Tambutti Allende | Stars: Isabel Allende Bussi, Carmen Paz Allende, Maya de Isabel Allende, Alejandro Fernández Allende
Votes: 501
39. Caravan of Death (2013)
50 min | Drama
A miniseries about the life of the human rights lawyer Carmen Hertz and mainly portraying the Caravan of Death and the delegation led by Sergio Arellano Stark that in 1973 ended with 97 dead.
Stars: Paulina Urrutia, Edgardo Bruna, Catalina Saavedra, Luis Dubó
Votes: 103
40. Algo habrán hecho (2010)
60 min | History
Stars: Marcial Tagle, Diego Noguera, Francisco Melo, Manuel Vicuña
Votes: 23
41. La muerte de Pinochet (2011)
75 min | Documentary, History
On December 10th, 2006, General Pinochet dies unexpectedly at Santiago's Military Hospital. His decease triggers a 24 hours revival of political divisions that marked with violence and ... See full summary »
Directors: Iván Osnovikoff, Bettina Perut
Votes: 51
42. Secretos (2008)
85 min | Comedy
What kind of secrets is this film talking about? There is a bit of everything: murder, robbery and treason. With seriousness and a dash of humour, Secretos reveals how, after a decades-long... See full summary »
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Claudia Di Girólamo, Sergio Hernández, Álvaro Espinoza, Marcial Edwards
Votes: 70
43. Imagen latente (1987)
92 min | Drama
In the late 1980s, a politically neutral photographer in Pinochet's Chile is still struggling to come to terms with the "disappearance" of his activist brother in the Villa Grimaldi torture centre back in 1975.
Director: Pablo Perelman | Stars: Bastián Bodenhöfer, María Izquierdo, Gonzalo Robles, Elena Muñoz
Votes: 64
44. Voto + fusil (1971)
70 min | Drama
During the election that finally brought Salvador Allende to power, the volatility of the left-wing spectrum was evident in Chile.
Director: Helvio Soto | Stars: Leonardo Perucci, Marcelo Romo, Patricia Guzmán, Jorge Guerra
Votes: 31
45. La spirale (1976)
138 min | Documentary
Based on movie and television archives, this film aims to demonstrate how the United States planned to crush Salvador Allende's attempt to institute Socialism in Chili, shortly after his election.
Directors: Armand Mattelart, Valérie Mayoux, Jacqueline Meppiel | Stars: François Périer, Donald Sutherland, Salvador Allende, Fidel Castro
Votes: 72
46. El húsar de la muerte (1925)
65 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Manuel Rodriguez
Director: Pedro Sienna | Stars: Pedro Sienna, Clara Werther, Piet Van Ravenstein, Guillermo Barrientos
Votes: 162
47. Intervista a Salvador Allende: La forza e la ragione (1973 TV Movie)
37 min | Documentary
Roberto Rossellini interviews Salvador Allende, President of Chile from 1970-1973.
Director: Emidio Greco | Stars: Salvador Allende, Roberto Rossellini
Votes: 83
48. Frontera sin ley (1971)
87 min | Action, Drama, History
Director: Luis Margas | Stars: Raúl Rivera, Rubén Ubeira, Jorge Yáñez, Andrés Rojas Murphy
49. Cofralandes, rapsodia chilena (2002)
311 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Bernard Pautrat, Raúl Ruiz, Malcolm Coad, Rainer Krause
Votes: 53
50. Caliche Sangriento (1969)
128 min | Drama, History, War
The plot takes place in 1879 through 1880 during the War of the Pacific. The film decries the cruelty and absurdity of war and the disunity among the peoples of Latin America.
Director: Helvio Soto | Stars: Hector Duvauchelle, Patricia Guzmán, Jorge Guerra, Jaime Vadell
Votes: 108