10 Best Movies Set in or About Chile

10 Movies Set in or About Chile

Foreign-led films whose sustained setting or subject remains centered on Chile.

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   1. Society of the Snow

   La sociedad de la nieve · 2023

   In 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashes high in the Andes, stranding the survivors in a frozen wilderness where they must do the unthinkable to stay alive. J. A. Bayona's harrowing dramatization of a true story of endurance.

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   2. Missing

   1982

   After a young American writer vanishes in the chaos following Chile's 1973 military coup, his conservative father and his wife search the country together, and the father's faith in his government erodes as the truth emerges. Costa-Gavras's gripping political drama based on real events.

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   3. La Quintrala

   1955

   In 17th-century Chile, a beautiful, willful noblewoman notorious for her cruelty becomes consumed by a forbidden passion for a priest. A lush historical melodrama drawn from a dark colonial legend.

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   4. Revolución: El cruce de los Andes

   2010

   Through the recollections of one of his aging aides, this drama recounts José de San Martín's audacious 1817 crossing of the Andes to liberate Chile from Spanish rule. A historical war epic of the wars of independence.

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   5. German Souls - Life after the Colonia Dignidad

   Deutsche Seelen - Leben nach der Colonia Dignidad · 2009

   This documentary revisits Colonia Dignidad, the secretive German sect that lived walled off in the Chilean countryside for decades under an abusive leader, through the testimony of those who grew up inside it. A chilling account of a closed world.

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   6. Chile: When Will It End?

   1986

   Filmed during a three-month visit in 1985, this documentary captures a Chile convulsed by protest and repression under Pinochet, its footage bearing witness to military intimidation and a people's resistance.

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   7. Cantata de Chile

   1976

   This lyrical, stylized epic recounts the 1907 Santa María School massacre, when striking nitrate miners and their families in Iquique were slaughtered by the Chilean army. A fervent work of political cinema from Cuba's Humberto Solás.

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   8. Mirage d'amour avec fanfare

   2014

   In a remote Chilean mining town in 1925, the daughter of an anarchist barber falls for a brass-band trumpeter, and the two must defy the local dictatorship to keep their love alive. A lyrical period romance.

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   9. Of Love and Shadows

   1994

   Under Pinochet's dictatorship, a sheltered magazine editor and a photographer sympathetic to the resistance fall in love while investigating a disappearance, a pursuit that draws them into grave danger. Adapted from Isabel Allende's novel.

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    10. Salty

    2017

    While vacationing off the coast of Chile, the supermodel wife of an aging rock star is abducted by pirates, forcing the pampered musician into an unlikely rescue. An action comedy.