
Hugo Medina
Actor · b. 1943 · Santiago, Chile
Movies23
Movie7.5DramaThrillerDuring the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.
Pacto de fuga
2020 · 114 votes
Movie6.8DramaChile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
Movie10.0HorrorThrillerPálido
2024 · 1 votes
Movie5.0DramaThrillerSurvivors witness the terror and devastation brought by a massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Chile in 2010.
Movie10.0DramaShortly after Chile's 1973 military coup, three men are fleeing across the Andes to Argentina. They witness the murder of a farmer by Chilean police and end up at the home of the farmer's heavily pregnant wife.
Movie7.0DramaBrutal torturers of Pinochet's dictatorship are serving sentence in a luxury prison at the foot of the Andes. Fearing of transferring to a regular jail, the officers will go to great lengths to stay fury and violence in the mountains.
Movie5.3DramaThree vignettes about the lives of young Chileans and their passions and frustrations over one of the century's most important rituals: football.
Movie6.0DramaCrimeBased on real events, 17-year-old Johnny García becomes involved with four older thugs who are planning to rob a money-laundering business masquerading as a video store. As they try to escape, a swarm of exploitative media attention awaits.
Movie6.6ComedyDramaA 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.
Movie6.1DramaThe 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 Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money with the passions of his well-off rival. The suffocating atmosphere of the run-down mansion in the outskirts of Santiago represents the deterioration of the bourgeoisie, and sets the scene for the total collapse of Andres.
Movie10.0DramaSussi comes to the big city to find love and success.
Sussi
1988 · 1 votes
Movie9.0Directed by Pablo de la Barra, Queridos compañeros (1977) is a Chilean-Venezuelan political drama that delves into the fervent revolutionary movements of the late 1960s. The film follows a group of young radical leftists that struggle to change the Chilean political status quo. The production of Queridos compañeros faced significant challenges, since filming started in 1973 but was abruptly halted due to the military coup in Chile that year. Director Pablo de la Barra managed to save the film's footage but lost the original audio tracks. In exile in Venezuela, he reconstructed the sound with the help of the original actors, completing the film in 1977. The film offers a poignant reflection on the aspirations and struggles of a generation striving for systemic change, providing insight into the political dynamics of Chile during a tumultuous period.
Movie9.0CrimeDramaA thief asks his wife to visit him in prison, she goes without imagining that he is planning his escape.
Un ladrón y su mujer
2001 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DramaA 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.
Diablada
2023 · 2 votes
Movie5.9DramaRomanceA young writer recounts an earlier romance in hopes of attracting his new love interest.
Movie9.0DramaTV MovieAlberto, a young law student struggles to realize his ultimate dream: to follow the call of his priestly vocation.
Alberto: ¿Quién sabe cuánto cuesta hacer un ojal?
2005 · 2 votes
Movie6.2DramaThrillerThe 1948 speech called "Yo Acuso" resulted in Pablo Neruda going under hiding for 13 months and the police searching intensively for him.
Movie5.2DramaAna, Verónica, Marta, and Toro are four lonely people who live an unadventurous and quiet existence in southern Chile. They are with each other without the need of using words, trying to save themselves in a stealthy and extreme way. In order not only of getting away of the loneliness that constitutes their innermost core, but also of finding themselves, they reach for each other to get brotherly and sexual love, affection, and a space and time of their own.
Movie7.0DramaIn the city of Santiago, four characters struggle to reach their goals: a psychologist who wants to help other women and save their lives, a hairdresser who wants to buy a car, a musician who wants to play in a philharmonic orchestra, and a young woman who simply survives in the city, but each of them obtains something unexpected and different from what they wanted.
Movie4.6DramaDuring the socialist government of Marmaduke Grove in 1932, a group of villagers decide to take some land in the area of Palmilla. Almost like a mythical journey, problems arise when seated and in a position to bring the socialist ideal in the population. Everything becomes more complicated with rumors that the reactionary forces have overthrown the socialist government. A movie that because of the coup was not released in Chile and was only terminated by Littin in exile in Mexico.
Movie6.0DramaFantasyA 14-year-old skeptical young man one day discovers that everything he knows about his father is a lie.
Hijo de Trauco
2014 · 4 votes
Movie3.5DramaA 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
Run Over
2023 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ComedyAfter finding a valuable treasure, Quique commits a crime. His mother arranges a plot to hide the act and keep the gems, but to make it, she'll have to surpass both the stupidity of Quique and the smartness of the policemen who investigate the case.
Series17
TV6.9CrimeDramaAnthology series based on real criminal cases, featuring an interview with the actual perpetrator at the end of each episode.
Mea culpa
1993 · 8 votes
TV8.4MysterySci-Fi & FantasyStories of paranormal activities and extraordinary nature -allegedly- based on real events.
El día menos pensado
1999 · 13 votes
TV2.0DramaMysteryDaily stories of real crimes from Chile and Latin America.
Irreversible
2017 · 1 votes
TV5.0ComedyDramaDifferent stories about people having more luck than usual...
La vida es una lotería
2002 · 2 votes
TV5.0SoapDramaAfter the intense summer holidays, a new school year begins at the Antumapu school. It is the moment of reunion between classmates, teachers and school life. It is also the time to meet the newly arrived students and teachers. Series that explores themes such as bullying, bulimia, drugs, teenage pregancy, among others.
16
2003 · 2 votes
TV4.5SoapComedyCristian is in love with the beautiful "pascuense" Vaitea, but external interests interpose between them.
Iorana
1998 · 2 votes
TV6.3SoapComedyAn ambitious entrepreneur wants to cut down the forest of southern Chile, but a young ecologist girl will hinder their plans.
Oro verde
1997 · 3 votes
TV6.0SoapMysteryA young possessed woman is brought to live in a convent, where she will provoke passions and test the beliefs and strength of the faithful.
La Poseída
2015 · 2 votes
TV6.0CrimeDramaA veteran journalist starting a news site about corruption in Chile stumbles on a big story when a fellow investigative reporter dies suspiciously.
Bala Loca
2016 · 3 votes
TV5.0ComedyCrimeStories about scamming and crime in Chile's big city. All of them based on real events.
El cuento del tío
2004 · 4 votes
TV6.3DramaCrimeMary and Mike are a couple of elite agents from the Chilean secret police, DINA. Their job is to eliminate opposition leaders who from abroad articulate resistance to the fierce military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In her public life, Mary is a writer and she relates with the most outstanding members of Santiago's cultural life. Mike, is a talented "gringo" for electronics. They live with their children Cony and Simon in the suburbs of Santiago where they tend to give crowded parties. But as they celebrate, in the backyard of their home they torture, murder and experiment with weapons of mass destruction.
Mary & Mike
2018 · 15 votes
TV4.0CrimeComedyA pair of private detectives solve crimes and protect the Patronato district in Santiago, the most important commercial district of immigrants in Chile, facing dangerous mobsters and criminals.
Huaiquimán y Tolosa
2006 · 2 votes
- TV9.0Action & AdventureKids
Three children, along with their parents and friends, live endless adventures on the coasts of Chile. The main themes are the environment, family life and the magical relationship with the sea mysteries.
Vigías del sur
2000 · 1 votes
- TV9.0Comedy
The adventures of the friendly and talkative Cárcamo family, their friends and neighbors.
Los Cárcamo
1998 · 1 votes
- TV3.8MysteryCrime
Stories centered around the last hours of someone's life. Each episode takes place in one place and with no more than three or four characters.
Tiempo final
2004 · 5 votes
- TV2.0Documentary
Documentary series that takes a nostalgic journey through decades of Chilean theater and its history.
Mierda Mierda, la función debe continuar
2020 · 1 votes
- TV5.5Comedy
Fran and Paulo face different situations of a recently married couple life.
Loco por ti
2004 · 2 votes