Movies: Gabriela Medina

Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick ...

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 t...

Survivors witness the terror and devastation brought by a massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Chile in 2010....

When the Chilean officials lift the ban on harvesting the shellfish "el loco" (which purportedly is an aphrodisiac) in the seaside village of Puerto Gala greed and lust take hold. Greed is embodied by Carlos Maldonato, "El Canuto," who attempts to bu...

The Kellys are a bourgeois family that have fallen into hard times. Deprived of the bragging rights of their typical summer vacation at a posh Chilean beach resort town, they pretend that they are instead going to Brazil for their vacation. They fe...

Laura returns to Chile, after thirty years, to say goodbye to his old and sick mother. In this bitter journey she is accompanied by his daughter Elizabeth, who still did not know her grandmother. When the old woman meets her granddaughter, she decide...

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 Andre...

A screenwriter travels to Northern Chile to research his script for a Western thriller but ends up getting more than he bargained for....

Lota, 1897. In the depths of the largest coal mine in the world, a great rebellion is brewing inside a man's heart....

Ivan is a kid whose family decides to go back to Chile from New York, after at least a decade away. Ivan of course is not quite the Chilean kid his grandparents would like him to be: he sulks, misses the Opera, finds things odd and ugly, acting like ...

Belmar, a talented amateur football player returns to his hometown after losing his job. Once there, the owner of the local team, Obras Santas, offers him the position of starter, as well as a job in his mattress factory. Is short time Belmar falls i...

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....

Teo takes the charge the headquarters area in the Los Lagos.The reason for accepting this position is to open the chances for a scholarship in neurosurgery in the Capital,due to his first attempt was unsuccessful. In the middle of an imposing nature,...

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....

After a long absence, Negro Torres returns to his hometown, in Cunco, to attend his mother's funeral. There, his old cronies propose him to set up a business to buy seafood and then sell them. After improvising the preparations and returning to the t...

A group of Chilean actors reflect on their works when they see footage off their characters on film and TV....

A Chilean exile leaves his Swedish partner to return to Chile. There he meets his old love, Consuelo....

A couple moves from the rural area of the country to the city, looking for better live opportunities during times of unemployment and poverty, in which dreams seem far from coming true....