Alfredo Castro
1) Post mortem
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
2) The Club
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Four priests exiled to a small seaside town to atone for the sins of their pasts find their fragile stability disrupted by the arrival of a newly-disgraced companion in this taut darkly comic drama from acclaimed director Pablo Larraín (*Neruda, Jackie*) Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and Best Picture at **Fantastic Fest**. Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language at the 2016 **Golden Globes**....
3) From Afar
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Wealthy, middle-aged Armando lures young men to his home with money. Armando's first encounter with street thug Elder is violent, but this doesn't discourage the lonely man's fascination with the tough handsome teenager. Financial interest keeps Elder visiting him regularly and an unexpected intimacy emerges. However, Armando's haunted past looms large, and Elder commits the ultimate act of affection on Armando's behalf. Winner of the Golden Lion...
4) Post mortem
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
The second part of director Pablo Larrain's celebrated trilogy about Chile during the dictatorial reign of Augusto Pinochet, Post mortem is a "grim, intense, mordantly comic little film" (A.O. Scott, New York Times) about a civil servant transformed by the 1973 military coup. Mario (Alfredo Castro, Tony Manero) is an unassuming state employee who transcribes notes during autopsies. Furtive and lonely, he becomes obsessed with his neighbor, the dancehall...
5) Perro Bomba
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Steevens is a young Haitian immigrant living a challenging, but somewhat stable life in Santiago de Chile: he has a construction job, a home, friends, and fun. This precariously balanced life is disrupted when Junior, a childhood friend from Haiti, arrives in Chile seeking assistance from Steevens to establish himself. Junior has entered Chile without papers and doesn't speak any Spanish. Steevens does everything he can to support his friend and even...
6) The Prince
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
THE PRINCE is an explosive homoerotic prison drama set in a repressive 1970s Chilean prison. During a night of heavy drinking, Jaime, a hot-tempered narcissist, suddenly stabs his best friend. He is sent to jail for murder and there, alone and afraid, he comes under the protection of a tough older inmate known as "The Stallion." The unlikely pair begin a clandestine romance but violent power struggles inside the penitentiary threaten their bond. This...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegría's poignant and stunning debut feature. It begins in a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a wave of family secrets. A lyrical rumination on family,...
8) Rojo
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Set in Argentina during the Dirty War of the mid-seventies, on the eve of the nation's descent into a military dictatorship, ... follows Claudio, a renowned lawyer living a seemingly picture-perfect life in a deceptively quiet provincial city. One night, a stranger starts insulting Claudio in a restaurant for no apparent reason. Later that night, the stranger intercepts Claudio and his wife Susana.
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
En Chile, a�no 1986 y en plena dictadura de Augusto Pinochet, se desenlaza historia de un amor plat�onico entre "la Loca del Frente", una vieja travesti quien se dedica a bordar manteles para esposas de militares y vive en un empobrecido cit�e de Santiago, y el joven Carlos, un guerrillero mexicano del Frente Patri�otico Manuel Rodr�iguez. Estos se encuentran luego de que La Loca escapara de un club nocturno allanado por Carabineros de Chile...
10) The club
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Four priests exiled to a small seaside town to atone for the sins of their pasts find their fragile stability disrupted by the arrival of a newly-disgraced companion in this taut blackly comic drama.
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