Nelson Villagra

Curriculum (2006)

Two hit men are sent to kill the same woman not knowing that they are competing to assassinate her. ...

Tendida mirando las estrellas (2004)

Nieves has murdered the man who was tried to rape his younger brother. Sentenced to five years in prison, she is immersed in a hard and marginal world, she does yearns to one day being released and fulfill her lifelong dream: to know the flowery desert in ...

El aspado (2004)

A ruthless thief has a change of heart after being mortally wounded and wants to carry the town's cross on the Way of the Cross in order to save his soul. ...

El duelo (2004)

Two men at cause of confusion and superstitions become involved in a duel that ends unexpectedly. ...

Paraíso B (2002)

Leo and Pedro are childhood friends. Rhey work under the orders of "El Jefe", a thug, owner of the neighbourhood and the lives of its inhabitants. One day, Leo receives news that will change his life forever, Gloria, Pedro's sister and the love of his lif ...

Pickman's Model (2000)

A journalist sets out to uncover the truth about the death of his colleague who was researching an American artist, Richard Upton Pickman. When he discovers the artist is in Santiago he goes to pay him a visit. ...

Tierra del fuego (2000)

The film is based on the novel (of the same name) by the Chilean writer Francisco Coloane, and on the chronicles of the Romanian engineer Julius Popper, a nationalized Argentine and one of the principle actors in the genocide of the Selk'nam, one of the in ...

Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde (1999)

In the seas of southern Chile, where the known world ends, in dangerous waters and ghost ports, a space where everything is possible, a group of sailors dare still to dream in mysteries and enchantments... ...

Amnesia (1994)

Dreaming of a better life, a young woman leaves her country home and moves to the city where she only finds trouble. ...

Cargo (1990)

Cuervo (1990)

Viento de cólera (1988)

Two soldiers accompanied by two women enter the Baztán valley on horseback. They are deserters from the army of the Indies who are fleeing to Italy. They arrive to claim the inheritance of one of them, León de Balanza, Captain in Peru and soldier without ...

Baraguá (1986)

The film is based on the historical event known as the Protest of Baraguá. ...

The Compass Rose (1983)

Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of Latin American culture from the late-15th century to the present. For some viewers, the film will be superficial ...

If We Lived Together (1983)

In the film, Antonio Skármeta, who had to flee Chile in 1973 due to the military dictatorship, interviews various Chilean artists who are also living in exile in Europe. How are work opportunities changing for artists far away from their homeland? What pr ...

The Widow of Montiel (1979)

Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. ...

The Recourse to the Method (1978)

Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before he is finally ousted, only to die in obscurity in Paris. Early in his regime, the resources and agricultura ...

The Last Supper (1976)

A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper. ...

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 ...

The Witnesses (1971)

This stark Chilean melodrama concerns itself with the plight of slum dwellers living outside Santiago. For many years they have, with great difficulty, been faithfully paying small sums to a real estate man. This man has said that by doing so they can obta ...

Entre ponerle y no ponerle... (1971)

A documentary about the consequences of consuming alcohol and how it works as a weapon of the bourgeoisie to appease the thirst of the people. ...

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. ...

Jackal of Nahueltoro (1970)

Based on an actual murder case that ignited a furious debate over the death penalty in Chile in 1960, this experimental social drama portrays the life and death of an illiterate peasant who, while drunk, murdered the woman with whom he had a relationship a ...

The Penal Colony (1970)

A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite democratic str ...

Three Sad Tigers (1968)

A glimpse at the few days and nights in the lives of a brother and sister, Amanda and Tito, in Santiago's semi-criminal underworld. A rambling portrait of Chilean society. ...

Return to Silence (1967)

After living many years in Miami, Bill returns to Chile looking for his brother. One night they meet again and celebrate the event with a night of revelry. The next day, Bill wakes up alone and since then he loses all traces of his brother. Mysteriously a ...

Érase una vez (1965)

A poet recites his verses. The people who listen to him, inspired by him, form the Spring Party, which later becomes the Spring Army. It is decided to eliminate possible opponents. The poet is considered an enemy and is shot. ...

Tendida mirando las estrellas (2004)

Nieves has murdered the man who was tried to rape his younger brother. Sentenced to five years in prison, she is immersed in a hard and marginal world, she does yearns to one day being released and fulfill her lifelong dream: to know the flowery desert in ...