Nicolás Zárate

In Her Place (2024)

After Chilean writer María Carolina Geel murders her lover, the case captivates shy legal secretary Mercedes, sparking a connection between the two women. ...

Prison in the Andes (2024)

Brutal torturers of Pinochet's dictatorship are serving sentence in a luxury prison at the foot of the Andes. Fearing of transferring to a regular jail, the officers will go to great lengths to stay fury and violence in the mountains. ...

Vieja viejo (2023)

The Loneliness of Plagues (2023)

A misfit voyeurist must learn to be a common human to find the love that will give meaning to his life. ...

My Tender Matador (2020)

Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship. ...

Some Beasts (2020)

A family travels to a remote island in southern Chile. During the trip they try to convince the grandparents to support them financially to build a hotel in the place. Nicolás, the man who crossed them disappears, leaving the family trapped on the island, ...

The Prince (2019)

Chile, 1970. During a night of heavy drinking, Jaime, a lonely 20-year-old young man, is sentenced to prison. There, he meets "The Stallion", an older and respected man in whom he finds protection, and from whom he learns about love and loyalty. But as the ...

Enigma (2018)

Ten years after her daughter was the victim of a hate crime, brutally beaten in the streets of Santiago for being a lesbian, Nancy is asked to participate in an unsolved mysteries TV show that will recreate the incident. Nancy, a hairdresser who has worked ...

About the Dead (2018)

Alicia and Damian are ghosts occupying a large empty house on Lake Riñihue. Unable to assimilate their condition as dead people, they wander the house during an eternal day, gradually discovering the rules of this strange world and the reason for their pr ...

Absence (2017)

A love triangle between a pioneer female writer; her husband -a retired military official-and the love of her life, the painter Moritz Rugendas, with whom she maintains an epistolary relationship for 10 years, with few personal encounters. ...

Artax (2017)

Mariana is a woman who has dedicated her entire life to equine therapy that goes over the history of how she came to that. In her youth she lived a happy and prosperous life until a particular episode leads her to have to face millionaires debts. This situ ...

Inside the Mind of a Psychopath (2015)

A police story from the mind of a murderer. ...

Illiterate (2014)

Ximena is an illiterate woman in her fifties, who has learned to live on her own to keep her illiteracy as a secret. Jackeline, is a young unemployed elementary school teacher, who tries to convince Ximena to take reading classes. Persuading her proves to ...

Citizen Kramer (2013)

Stefan Kramer taking advantage of the presidential elections in Chile decides to make a show for the occasion. Unfortunately, the public believe that it is a real candidacy and will have to become a real candidate. ...