Movies: Luis Alarcón

A documentary recorded during the filming of "The Wandering Soap Opera" by Raúl Ruiz. Made in 1990 and completed 27 years later, in 2017. The film brings closer the approach in Ruiz's directing style and his personal vision of Cinema....

After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the curre...

The life story of Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro who leaves his wife and children in Chile and flees to Paris in order to devote himself to poetry....

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....

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 year...

Two thieves wander in the chilean desert and finally get to a small town near Bolivia. There, they try to include themselves with the townspeople but their instincts betray them and tragedy ensues. Based on a true story, this film opened one year af...

Niki and his friends are members of the marginalised underclass living on the outskirts of Santiago. During Chile's transition from dictatorship to democracy (1988-1990), they forge a path from drug- and drink-fuelled nihilism and petty crime into th...

Documentary film which tells the story of an initiative of the government of Salvador Allende, President of Chile from 1970 to 1973, the objective of which was to bring culture closer to those who had no access to it. The People’s Train of Culture wa...

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......

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....

The story about a boxer and a police in the forest following the traces of evil forces....

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 1...

This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society....

Set in Santiago de Chile in the 50's and divided into three stories. The first story is about a young woman who has just discovered that she's pregnant. The father refuses to cooperate. The second story is set in Arica, and concerns smuggling in nort...

The fatal relationship between Gracia, the teenage daughter of a retired general officer and Gabriel, an outsider who has just come back to his home at the beach with his father, a leftist militant....

In an imaginary country in Latin America, a man asks for asylum in an embassy. Trickery, passion, and intrigue are the motives of his actions....

The life and experiences of six emblematic Chilean actors. One by one, they relate aspects of their trajectories, origin and dreams, reliving and analyzing not only their careers, but also happy and historical moments that marked their lives....

While wandering solitary in the city, Bruno discovers that his personality alternates with another. Such scrutiny will disturb him and make him to face himself in a quest that will even bring him face to face with death....

Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility, it is a deft blend of fiction and documentary set in the tumultuous days leading up to the election of Sal...

In the Strait of Magellan, on 1923, an Irish photographer gradually discovers that the defendants in a bloody crime are innocent, and are only victims of intolerance and political expediency....