Chilean movies to watch

An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.

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.

Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.

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.

A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from.

A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).

A documentary about two different searches conducted in the Chilean Atacama Desert: one by astronomers looking for answers about the history of the cosmos, and one by women looking for the remains of loved ones killed by Pinochet's regime.

As Jamie travels in Chile, he invites an eccentric woman to join his group's quest to score a fabled hallucinogen, a move that finds him at odds with his new companion, until they drink the magic brew on a beach at the edge of the desert.

In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.

A drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years.

A crisis counselor is sent by the Catholic Church to a small Chilean beach town where disgraced priests and nuns, suspected of crimes ranging from child abuse to baby-snatching from unwed mothers, live secluded, after an incident occurs.

The real story about an illiterate murderer, educated in prison, where he reflects on his actions days before he died.

A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves, and her hopes.

Three vignettes about the lives of young Chileans and their passions and frustrations over one of the century's most important rituals.

It's a documentary about a group of old ladies that have been friends since high school and they decided to see each other every month. The film documents their interactions and conversations.

A naive young tourist's road trip across Chile with friends turns into a waking nightmare.

A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.

A high school teacher runs afoul of the government and is sentenced to internal exile.

A young and excentric radio DJ airs a successful program in which diverse calls come in from anonymous listeners, who reveal their love stories, all charged with mix-ups, disputes and passion.

A working class man who, tired of being the victim of criminals, decides to take justice in his own hands.

A chilean 9-year-old kid arrives in Chile after living most of his life in New York, much to the indifference of his parents.