José de la Vega

Socialist Realism (2023)

A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series of short stories, in which different worlds cross paths. ...

La mirada incendiada (2021)

Film inspired by the real story of Rodrigo Rojas de Negri. Killed on July 2, 1986 during the first national protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. ...

Héroe (2020)

After recognizing Jean as the hero of the previous night, Sofie and Nicole take him to the hostel where they are staying. Maikel, the assailant, calls Jean several times to steal the hostel. The only problem is that Jean always loses out in the robberies. ...

My Father's Memory (2017)

After the death of his mother, a repressed tv writer is forced to take care of his father who is loosing his memory, obsessed with his wife is still alive and lost. ...

Spider Thieves (2017)

Three teenage girls from a Santiago shanty town set in motion a plan to climb buildings and break into the apartments of the wealthy side of the town. ...

White Darkness (2017)

A 5-year investigation which includes archive and press images, traces the tragedy of Antuco (2005), where 45 soldiers died due to hypothermia. Our protagonists tell us their consequences from their voluntary entry to the ranks of the army until its presen ...

Nublado, cubierto y lluvia (2017)

Coni is a young girl who lives an individualistic and routine family life. One day she has to make a decision and rethink her life. ...

Tiempos malos (2015)

Ángel, a teenager whose father is murdered in a slum, leaves high school and participates in criminal activities. ...

In the Grayscale (2015)

Bruno is an architect who has a perfect life: A nice family and a good job. Anyway, Bruno has a deep sense of unease. He decides to leave his wife to be alone and have time to find him self. A business man offers him to build an iconic landmark in Santiago ...

Huesos Rotos (2014)

Manuel González a victim of human rights make an emotional journey to the past to complete the circle of life visiting his hometown Tomé, in Chile. ...

Miguel San Miguel (2012)

The film traces the origins of the Chilean band band Los Prisioneros from the perspective of the drummer Miguel Tapia. Set in the Late 70's, during Pinochet's military dictatorship. ...

Las cosas como son (2012)

Jerónimo is an antisocial local man who rents rooms in his home to expats so he can snoop around their belongings. One day Sanna arrives, a girl who will change Jerónimo's life. They start getting closer until Jerónimo discovers that Sanna is hiding som ...

Blocks (2010)

Thirteen-year old Luchito lives in a working class complex of blocks in Santiago, Chile. He is obsessed with Manuel, a sixteen-year old who lives in the building across from him. ...

Camino de sangre (2003)

Pancho and José Santos, bandits from Teno, known by their fondness of tearing their enemies' faces, meet after four years for another robbery. After re-telling their adventures, they cross paths with Saturnino who has old accounts to settle with them. ...

Eternal Blood (2002)

Carmila is introduced by 'M' to a sinister role-playing game called "Eternal Blood". Once settled in an abandoned house, the group meets Dahmer, a young man who practices vampirism rites and who begins to influence young people, or perhaps... turn them int ...

Angel Negro (2000)

In 1990, a teenager called Angel Cruz disappears tragically. Ten years later, her classmates that were involved with this accident start to investigate the mysterious causes of the vanishing. ...

Cautiverio feliz (1998)

A young Hispanic-Creole captain spends six months captive among the Mapuche, learning that the supposed "barbarians" were more human than the "civilized" ones. ...

El niño que enloqueció de amor (1998)

A young boy becomes infatuated towards an older woman. TV movie based on Eduardo Barrios's novel of the same title. ...

Soccer Stories (1997)

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

Punto rojo (1996)

A second-class saxophonist's failures makes him fall into the nocturnal underworld, and eventually in jail. There he meets a manipulative and perverse mobster who senses the man's successful wife could be his key to launch a big criminal hit. ...

Los náufragos (1994)

After 20 years of exile, Aron returns to Chile to find out who he is. He asks questions, not only of those who stayed behind but also of himself, examining his relationship with his past and his own memory. The people who stayed lived through 20 years of d ...

Little White Dove (1992)

A young working class girl falls in love with an upper class boy who is part of the plot to assassinate General Schneider, head of the Chilean Army. The film was shot in 1973 over six weeks with a budget of $170,000. As a result of the 1973 Chilean coup d' ...

Chile: Historia del Sufragio femenino (1889-1949) (1991)

Documentary that narrates the struggles of Chilean women's movements to obtain the political vote. The thread of this documentary video is determined by an interview with the lawyer Elena Caffarena, one of the most active fighters of the cause and a sharp ...

Sussi (1988)

Sussi comes to the big city to find love and success. ...

El otro round (1984)

"Dinamita" Araya is living the crudeness of normality in an uneventful life since he retired from boxing. A chance encounter with a woman brings him back to life. The other round now takes place on life itself. ...

Hasta Vencer (1984)

The Chilean Charles Bronson (Or Exactly Identical) (1981)

Documentary about a Chilean Charles Bronson impersonator. ...

The Chinese Shoe (1979)

A taxi driver finds Marlene, a provincial woman, lost in a brothel. Immediately he decides to help her out and take her at his place. ...

Pepe Donoso (1978)

From different conversations with relatives, writers and people close to José Donoso, the imaginary is constructed about the life, work and influences of the writer, to later follow his journey through the city by car while he remembers places, situations ...

The Expropriation (1974)

The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although the action was filmed in four days and four nights in 1971, the movie was only finished in France in 1973, a ...

A Dream as in Colours (1973)

Sarmiento made her directorial debut with the documentary with this short about a group of Chilean women dedicated to striptease. ...

The Promised Land (1973)

During 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 popula ...

Now We're Going to Call You Brother (1971)

Raoul Ruiz shot this film on March 28th, 1971, during the big peasant march in Temuco, Chile, when the bill that gave the full citizenship and civil rights to the Mapuche Indio people was approved. Raoul Ruiz listens to their painful stories. ...

Nobody Said Anything (1971)

Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them. ...

Conversation with Allende (1971)

This interview was conducted shortly after the late President Dr. Salvador Allende won the Chilean elections of 1970. Dr. Salvador Allende was the first democratically elected socialist president in Latin America. Three years later, Allende was killed duri ...

The Witch Suckled Them (1958)

Brothers Viruta and Capulina inherit, along with their distant cousin Reynaldo, an eerie mansion in which a hidden treasure is located. ...

Assassins of the Night (1957)

A man orders an enemy to be killed, but the order is not carried out. Filled with rage, he murders the thug and pursues his rival. ...

El secreto de mi mujer (1955)

A couple suffers marital crisis, because they cannot have children. The wife harbors a long kept secret that might doom the marriage. ...

The Cha Cha Cha Widows (1955)

Two married couples' lives are disrupted when the husbands disappear while on vacation. When the men are reported dead, the two women start a dance band... And then... ...

November 29th (2018)

Documentary about Carmen Bueno and Jorge Müller, who were taken by police on the chilean coup d'etat, and now are part of the list of the Desaparecidos. ...

Miguel San Miguel (2012)

The film traces the origins of the Chilean band band Los Prisioneros from the perspective of the drummer Miguel Tapia. Set in the Late 70's, during Pinochet's military dictatorship. ...

Sussi (1988)

Sussi comes to the big city to find love and success. ...