Francisco Reyes
Also Known As: Francisco Reyes Morandé
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Santiago, Chile
Birthday: July 06, 1954
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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La Mecha
Overview: In a fishing village contaminated by a thermoelectric power plant, Mecha (33) is the grieving soul of an environmental activist who died under suspicious circumstances. The day after his death, she tries to reconcile with her son Juan (16) and to make him take charge of her memory.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-08-15
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El Vacío
Overview: He, a famous filmmaker living off his past, decides to give romance a chance when he meets Her.What starts as a perfect love story is threatened by routine, unfulfilled expectations and the eternal desire to fill the void inside both of them.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-06-08
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Street Theatre, My Captain
Overview: At the beginning of the summer of 1986, a group of actors and actresses directed by Andrés Pérez, put on the street the play “All these years” presented in front of the Cathedral of Santiago, the Bellavista neighborhood, the La Bandera district, the Parque O'Higgins, Plaza del Mulato and many other places in Santiago. Armed with megaphones, costumes, musical instruments, giant dolls, stilts and banners, they set up shop in different parts of the city where they raised scaffolding on which they climbed to summon the public to witness their show of singing, music, dancing and pantomime in the who told stories that quietly delved into the events of the last years of the military dictatorship at the end of the 1980s. 25 years passed, Andrés Pérez had died and the street actors became references in theater and television, when Flores returned to the eighties images to create this tribute documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-08-20
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Doctor Chance
Overview: Angstel trades in forged paintings, under the guidance of his mother, Milady. Their network extends into other murky affairs, provoking the wrath of a rival gang. Angstel falls in love with Ancetta, a prostitute, and flees with her to the north of Chile. - IFFR
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-02-25
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Machuca
Overview: 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 to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-02-24
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Sub terra
Overview: Lota, 1897. In the depths of the largest coal mine in the world, a great rebellion is brewing inside a man's heart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-10-02
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The Club
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-05-28
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Neruda
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-08-11
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A Fantastic Woman
Overview: Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-04-06
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The Wandering Soap Opera
Overview: The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-08-10
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Something Is Out There
Overview: While wandering solitary in the city, Bruno discovers that his personality alternates with another. Such scrutiny will disturb him and make him to face himself in a quest that will even bring him face to face with death.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-11-16
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Martínez
Overview: Martinez, an embittered Chilean in his sixties who has lived in Mexico for the past 40 years and is being forced to retire from his job. As he struggles with life changes, a neighbor suddenly dies and as he sifts through her diary and her things, he begins to live vicariously through her and find new meaning in life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-03-26
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The Night Visitor
Overview: Elisa, a lonely and shy librarian, moves to live in a downtown building, without knowing the killing of a young student took place there some time ago. A strange feeling taking over her will cause a drastic personality change while also leading her to unveil the secret behind the murder.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-09-20
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Secrets
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-10-09
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Exote: Filming Of The Wandering Soap Opera
Overview: A documentary recorded during the filming of "The Wandering Soap Opera" by Raúl Ruiz. Made in 1990 and completed 27 years later, in 2017. The film brings closer the approach in Ruiz's directing style and his personal vision of Cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-10-11
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Diplomatic Siege
Overview: When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must join Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché who is not all that she appears, to work together on setting the correct computer code that will disable the weapon and accomplish the mission. But while watching video monitors from inside a long-forgotten surveillance room, Steve witnesses a surprising deadly takeover of the building by the Serbian Liberation Front.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-17
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Angels
Overview: A group of college students gradually disappear, with no explanation.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-05-04
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La chica del Crillón
Overview: Teresa is a girl from Chilean aristocracy. She lives a double life, at day she dresses very elegant and fancy, while at night she assist to high society meetings at the Crillon Hotel in Santiago, where diplomats and wealthy people meet. However, her family is economically ruined after a bad sale of her father's mines and they have to live at Romero Street, where the working class lives.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-07-29
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Mi último hombre
Overview: A female television journalist has a strange affair with a terrorist.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-04-09
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A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
Overview: These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never completed, series comissioned for Peter Greenaway and Tom Philips' A TV Dante (1989). But it was never aired. Ruiz's treatment of the six Cantos can be taken together as a bridge between his previous visions of hell in Mémoire des apparences AKA Life is a Dream (1986) and La Chouette aveugle (1987) and themore recent series of essay videos that he has made for Chilean television under the title Cofralandes (2002).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-06
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Sussi
Overview: Sussi comes to the big city to find love and success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-05-23
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La Recta Provincia
Overview: This was a man. He lived with his mother. He cared a manor house in the countryside of Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden. The bone was bored. That was a bone flute. The man with the flute music play. And music song became. The voice of the song begging to seek the other bones of his scattered body. The man and his mother were in those ways of God and hell, looking for the bones that make up the skeleton of that Christian. And give him a Christian burial. And they saw what they saw, they lived what they lived. Many stories lived. And although they did not tell anyone, others told them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-08-20
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Days in the Country
Overview: In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-09-05
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Misa de Réquiem
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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La peste del insomnio
Overview: 30 actresses and actors from Latin America, seek to evoke hope in the midst of the health and economic crisis unleashed by Covid-19, through the reading of fragments from the work of Gabriel García Márquez alluding to the plague of oblivion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-06-11
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Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody
Overview: An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV in a rigorous yet playful manner".
Genres: Documentary Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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Der Radfahrer von San Cristóbal
Overview: A cyclist decides to go for everything and win the 'Tour of Chile' Race, so he can finance the medical treatment for his ill mother with the prize. However, he must soon recognize that the sporting event is corrupted by commercial and marketing interests, in addition to the political goals of the military regime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-05-26
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Juan Fariña
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Chosen One
Overview: It's the year 2006 in Chile and reality TV rules the airwaves. Ten strangers are taken to the snowy summits of the Andes; The challenge is to survive in an underground shelter.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-10-02
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