Manuel Aranguiz

Nous sommes le Freak show (2017)

A bingo game. An allegorical, wild and humorous portrait. An hommage to eccentricity and entertainment, to those things that remain unchanged. ...

A Cargo to Africa (2009)

Levity (2003)

Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at his victim's face on a newspaper clipping in his cell, the newly paroled man seeks redemption. Instead, red ...

Protection (2001)

A mobster moves to a new town as a protected witness and tries to start over, only to find he can't escape his old ways ...

Mr. Aiello (1998)

A father's love is not enough to keep his dreams and his family together in this drama. Joe Aiello (Tony Nardi) is an Italian immigrant who settled in Montreal and opened a construction firm in the early '60s. Thirty years later, Tony's business is a solid ...

Coup at Daybreak (1998)

The film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a group of military rebels staged a coup d'etat. Venezuelans found themselves as virtual prisoners. As the coup starts and fighting takes place from a military b ...

Matusalem II: le dernier des Beauchesne (1997)

A year had passed since the last aventure of Olivier and his friends. The day before his birthday, the door through space and time re-opened. This time, Olivier and his friends would have to face El Diablo, who became captain since the last time, and his m ...

Lulu (1996)

This arty Canadian drama centers on a young Vietnamese woman who marries a petty thief she does not love so she can emigrate to Canada. The rest of her family moves there too, but none of them find a particularly happy life, though Lucky, Lulu's husband, w ...

La présence des ombres (1995)

Madeleine, a young nurse, makes a fatal mistake that costs the life of the patient Léopold Sicard. She leaves the hospital after her colleague, Dr. Senez, writes a damning report against her. Some time later, the young psychologist Paul Forest receives at ...

Eclipse (1995)

A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse. ...

A Hero's Life (1994)

A Canadian couple reunites with the German POW they befriended during World War II. ...

Matusalem (1993)

Fleeing from some other children who want to beat him, Olivier meets the ghost of a Pirate who every hundred years tries to find a parchment. Olivier agrees to help him. But in doing so he is captured by a bunch of pirates. The other children of the villag ...

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' ...

Cargo (1990)

A Paper Wedding (1989)

A woman agrees to a marriage of convenience with a refugee. ...

There is no forgetting (1975)

No hay olvido, composed of three parts, each directed by a young Chilean filmmaker forced to flee his country, is about the difficult condition of exiles in a specific political and social context, in this case, Quebec. The first part, entitled J'explique ...