Catalina Saavedra
Also Known As: Catalina Saavedra Pérez
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Viña del Mar, Chile
Adult: No
Birthday: January 09, 1968
Age: 57 years old
Gender: Female
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The Maid
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-08-13
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History and Geography
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-04-18
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Problemista
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-01
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The Dancer and the Thief
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-11-27
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Chile Can Do It
Overview: The businessman who sends the first Chilean astronaut into outer space can't quite come up with the money to bring the adventurer back.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-01-08
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Young and Wild
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-03-29
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Normal con alas
Overview: 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
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-11-22
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Isidora
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-09-06
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No Place in Anywhere
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-12-31
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The Passion of Michelangelo
Overview: An intense religious drama set during the Pinochet regime and based on a true story.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-01-29
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The Practice
Overview: Dealing with a series of increasingly absurd situations and relationships, recently separated yoga instructors Gustavo and Vanesa are finding it difficult to live apart. Their challenges include meddling mothers, amnesiac students, and burgeoning romances. Step by step, they find their way back to the practice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-09-05
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Caleuche: The Call of the Sea
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-11-08
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The Magnetic Tree
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-09-26
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What We Never Said
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-11-03
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The Quispe Girls
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-08-31
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El castigo
Overview: An infant disappears from his parents sight in a mysterious but haunting forest after a punishment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-09-01
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Un nuevo baile
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-09-27
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The Mud Woman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-02-06
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Natural Disasters
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-10-24
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Rotting in the Sun
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-09-08
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And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye
Overview: Emeteria is visited by a ghost she believes has come to take her to the afterlife. But he has more devastating news.
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-10-01
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The Simple Things
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-09-02
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Little White Lie
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-06-01
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Atacama's 33
Overview: A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-03-23
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Mirage of Love
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-26
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(09)
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-03-13
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Marilyn
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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Un día cualquiera
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-11-27
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Life Kills Me
Overview: 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
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-11-01
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Quiero entrar
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-10-10
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Ema
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-09-26
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Old Cats
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-10-08
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Run Over
Overview: 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
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-05-11
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Hasta en las mejores familias
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-10-27
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I Love You Mum
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-10-02
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The Retiree
Overview: Fabiola returns to her homeland, province of Los Andes, to recover the affection of her family, after seven years of being away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-06-24
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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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On My Own
Overview: 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
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-10-07
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La Mamita
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-01-13
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La Perra
Overview: A couple with an empty life make up a story about the new maid, in order to satisfy their own sexual obsessions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-01-31
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Neruda: The Fugitive
Overview: The 1948 speech called "Yo Acuso" resulted in Pablo Neruda going under hiding for 13 months and the police searching intensively for him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-04-17
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Diablada
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-10-09
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31 Minutos, la película
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-03-27
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The Painting Lesson
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-03-08
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Crisis
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-08-19
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No Control in a Random World
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-07-26
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Bahía azul
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-10-25
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Dog Flesh
Overview: Alejandro, a solitary, fragile and unpredictable man is crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-07-12
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La mirada incendiada
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-04-09
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The True Story Of People In The Dragon
Overview: PEOPLE IN THE DRAGON, the new promise of Chilean rock, is finally invited to the biggest festival in America, but 2 days before the show their vocalist dies in an accident. The show tries to go on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-01-16
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Futura Licenciada
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
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