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 buy all of the shellfish for a Japanese company, and by a traveling band of prostitutes that accompany the influx of fishermen. El C...
A poor young girl living in Chile with her wheelchair-confined father and four siblings tries to save up enough money to watch movies at her local cinema.
After the military coup in 1973, deposed President Salvador Allende's closest collaborators and ministers were locked up in a concentration camp on Dawson Island, lying at the western entrance to the Straights of Magellan (nicknamed the "Chilean Guantanamo Bay"). To cancel traces of their identities, they are assigned numbers instead of names. Their lives are spared thanks to p...
1983. Gladys is a 32-year-old woman who lives in the poor and "politically conflictive" ghetto of "La Victoria" in Santiago, Chile, in the middle of the right-wing military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. She resides with her mother and her young daughter, and they receive a North American missionary named Samuel Thompson, 23 years old and full of dreams, who will discover th...
In a small village in Chile, Emeteria (85) is visited by the ghost of her patrón, Teodoro. She believes he has come to take her to the afterlife, but he has more devastating news.
1973年，智利陆军司令奥古斯托皮诺切特在美国**的暗中扶持下，带领海陆空三军及警察部队发动政变，合力推翻了阿连德总统领导下的社会主义**。3000名左翼人士在政变中被杀，上百万阿连德支持者沦为政治犯或被迫流亡。阿连德总统也在战斗中牺牲，他的死标志着共产主义政权在智利的灭亡，并随后拉开了长达17年的军人独裁统治的黑暗序幕。
“草莓脸儿”冈萨罗（Matías Quer 饰）生在一个中产阶级家庭，他就读于一所昂贵的私人学校，那里的孩子充满骄横之气，这让沉默羞涩的冈萨罗在里面显得格格不入。思想开放的神父兼校长大胆招收了几名来自贫穷棚户区的免费学生，在智利这个92%属于西班牙和印第安土著混血的国家，那些2%纯种的欧洲血统便形同贵族，所以这帮自觉高贵优渥的孩子自然看不起这几个外来户。平静的学校不再平静，有钱阶级与无钱阶级的矛盾逐渐升级。在不断的冲突中，穷人孩...
此片改编自智利作家José Donoso的小说，荣获了39项国际大奖，是智利历史上最非凡的电影。讲述的故事发生在一幢残垣败瓦的大宅里，五十八岁的唐安德斯是单身没落贵族，读了一辈子书却活得毫不起劲，颓废抑郁，十七岁的乡村少女艾丝蒂拉受雇照顾其年迈而脾气暴躁的祖母，渐渐地唐安德斯对她产生了无法抗拒的爱恋。当艾丝蒂拉结识了一名工人阶级少年后，一座死火山终于爆发，不惜将一切淹没。从颓废与崩析刻划心理矛盾与超乎常态的情绪波动，一直是智利当代文学大家荷西唐劳素(José Donoso)的特色。由摄影指导晋身导演的卡奥治，继前作《镜中月》后再次改编唐劳素的小说。对原著丰富含蓄的细节和角色的执迷拿捏准确，在智利、蒙特利尔和意大利2000年的电影节均赢得最佳导演奖。
