
Patricio Contreras
Actor · b. 1947 · Santiago, Chile
Patricio Alejandro Contreras Pavez, is a Chilean film, theater and television actor, based since the 1970s in Argentina, where he developed his acting career.
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
Movie5.4DramaIrene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground resistance movement, Francisco opens her eyes and her heart to the atrocities being committed by the state.
Of Love and Shadows
1994 · 105 votes
- Movie6.0Drama
Gerónima was a real "Mapuche" Indian woman that lived in Argentinian Patagonia. She lived with her four sons in a poor little house in the dry lands her family had owned for generations. In 1976, during the military dictatorial government that disappeared 30.000 people, she and her four sons were visited by social workers. Worried about Geronima's poor conditions of existence, including health, they took the whole family to the hospital "to help them", with unexpected tragic consequences. The film that reconstruct Geronima's story is based in a interview realized by a physician while she was at the hospital. The main actress, Luisa Calcumil is also a real "Mapuche" woman, as well as Aimé Painé, the singer that interprets the authentic "Mapuche" songs the film includes.
Gerónima
1986 · 4 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceIn Santiago, Chile, the schoolteacher Luisa proposes a debate about sex with the parents of her students with the intention of giving classes about sex education to the youngsters.
Movie4.6DramaClose-up on a man who censored films during the last military dictatorship in Argentina, slightly inspired by the infamous Miguel Paulino Tato.
Movie7.5DramaHistoryBuenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
Movie5.3ThrillerScience FictionAna returns to Buenos Aires to claim her inheritance. She meets her father's close friend Dr. Benedetti, a scientist, where he has discovered a doorway to another dimension which allows Ana to reconvene with the dead.
Inmortal
2021 · 3 votes
Movie5.8ComedyDramaMartina was a famous singer in Argentina during the late 90s, who's become completely frigid and disenchanted with love. The arrival of a so-called sister, alongside her attractive boyfriend, compel Martina to go to Chile with one objective in mind: getting back her libido.
Dry Martina
2018 · 37 votes
Movie6.1HorrorA young priest travels to Buenos Aires in order to help sick people during the 1871 yellow fever epidemic.
Movie6.8ComedyOn their scond honeymoon, a couple travels to the beaches of the Dominican Republic to reignite their marriage
Movie8.0DramaThe story of a town inhabited by vampires, located on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
Nocturno
2001 · 1 votes
Movie8.5TV MovieBased on Benjamín Galerini's play "El seductor".
El seductor
2004 · 2 votes
Movie4.9ComedyDramaIn a country (alluded to be Chile) under dictatorship, a police night raid comes up with a few usual anti-regime suspects. They are sent to a camp in the middle of nowhere. Their friends on the outside start to plan their escape.
Nowhere
2002 · 7 votes
Movie5.7ActionDramaA writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.
Old Gringo
1989 · 40 votes
Movie6.7CrimeDramaOctavio, a hunting guide from southern Argentina, desperately fights to clarify the death of his niece Sofía, discovered shot in the hunting preserve where he works. The shot bursts into the darkness, unleashing an enigma that shakes the entire town. Octavio will be forced to unravel what really happened that night and thus confront a truth that threatens to change everything forever.
Movie4.3ThrillerPablo Prieto leads a gang of thieves whose time is running out. Hunted by a relentless judge, will Pablo be able to escape his fate or will he have to pay for his crimes?
Movie6.0DramaJotta, a young atheist and militant, is disarming the house of his dead mother after a long cancer. On the way to the fight against violence so that she could die with dignity in that house. Also your search for answers in religion, science and politics.
Alicia
2018 · 2 votes
Movie6.3CrimeDramaIn the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do anything not to return to prison. Some of them will suffer violent deaths, while others manage de disappear. Sordid and moving stories, not excluding tenderness and love, mercy or horror sealed with a pact of prison love that will remain in the heart of Buenos Aires, as witness of the yearned-for freedom.
Movie10.0DramaWarTwo soldiers manage to escape from their own front in the Malvinas Islands. Gurí carries a wounded Caíto and they break into a country house where a woman and child live. For a single day, all four characters fall victim to the same horror.
Palabra por palabra
2008 · 1 votes
Movie5.0ComedyDramaA disgruntled book editor is about to commit suicide when he is interrupted by a woman, who threatens to do the same if he does not read her book.
Movie7.5DramaWhen a Coya miner confronts the foreman at a ranch in Jujuy, the owner's son tries to resolve the issues.
La última siembra
1991 · 2 votes
Movie6.9DramaComedyOsvaldo and Mabel, an Argentine couple exiled for political reasons in the United States, travel to their country of origin after ten years to reconnect with their family and friends, including Mabel's brother and his wife. Mabel offers her brother the possibility of working in New York in order to improve their economic situation, but his wife is opposed to that idea.
Made in Argentina
1987 · 11 votes
Movie10.0DramaDocumentaryThe film reconstructs the modest process of filming a Super 8 action short by three 12-year-old friends in Buenos Aires during the spring of 1973. From there, a broader reconstruction unfolds, beginning, argumentatively, on the night of March 24, 1999.
Invocación
2000 · 1 votes
Series12
TV8.4MysterySci-Fi & FantasyStories of paranormal activities and extraordinary nature -allegedly- based on real events.
El día menos pensado
1999 · 13 votes
TV7.0Talk ShowDe pé a pá
1996 · 3 votes
TV6.0DramaCrimeAnthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.
TV3.6DramaCrime"Stockholm: Lost Identity" narrates over 13 chapters with almost surgical detail the criminal, judicial and media research about the disappearance of a young woman by a network of trafficking. An attorney general, an undercover agent and a journalist will be immersed in a police plot that mixes suspense, drama and action where law and justice are two different sides of the same coin.
Estocolmo
2016 · 5 votes
TV2.0DramaFictional stories about Chilean historical events that shook the country through joy, horror, excitement or sadness, and where the great virtues and defects of its national idiosyncrasy were expressed, that marked the lives of many people.
12 días que estremecieron Chile
2011 · 1 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
TV7.7DramaThis gritty dramatization of the life of Carlos Tevez shows his rise to soccer stardom amid the harrowing conditions in Argentina's Fuerte Apache.
TV7.2DramaHistorias de Diván
2013 · 5 votes
TV2.0SoapDramaVidas robadas
2008 · 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
- TVComedy
Familia moderna
2015
TVCrimeSoapEl elegido
2011