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Plot Summary:
The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas. There are four audiovisual provinces, and the threat of war is felt among the factions. The political and economic problems are immersed in a fictional jelly divided into evening episodes. The entire Chilean reality is viewed from the point of view of the soap opera, which acts as a revealing filter of this same reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: cerebral, soap opera, telenovela
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Palomita blanca (1992)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: telenovela
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Verano (2011)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 95 min
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The Penal Colony (1970)
Plot Summary:
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 structures, the inhabitants--who speak a strange dialect composed of Spanish and English--still obey the old prison rules. After sending back detailed accounts of the torture and repression seen everywhere, the journalist realizes that she"s fallen into the trap created for her by the islanders: lacking natural resources, the island"s main export is news. The clearest anticipation of Ruiz"s later European work, The Penal Colony is a powerful document of the tensions and contradictions in Chile in the months before Allende"s electoral victory.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 75 min
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Life Is a Dream (1986)
Plot Summary:
A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: spiritual, baroque
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Tres tristes tigres (1968)
Plot Summary:
A rambling portrait of Chilean society.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, experimental, independent film
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Dark at Noon (1992)
Plot Summary:
In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War. It seems that his recently deceased father had invested a lot of money in a factory located in a remote village, and he has come to evaluate that investment. He gets some clues to the real situation in the town when the man driving his coach refuses to go any further and leaves him on a section of road which is practically paved with abandoned crutches. After a short trek, he meets up with the local dignitary who is to show him around, and he meets a priest and an artist. The priest gives a further clue to the events taking place in the village when he indicates that he's completely exasperated with the endless miracles that seem to be taking place. From that point onward, amazing coincidences, visions and miracles take place in great numbers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: allegory
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Days in the Country (2004)
Plot Summary:
In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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The Blind Owl (1987)
Plot Summary:
H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is fascinated: the dancer he sees on the screen seems to be looking straight into his eyes. He falls in love with her, but the vision last only a moment. Shortly afterwards, an elderly man storms into the projection booth and claims he is his uncle. H. wants to prepare a meal for him and reaches for the oil bottle: he sees the same dancer on the label…. H begins to find echoes of his own life in the images he projects. Everything changes when fiction and reality merge.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 105 min
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The Lost Domain (2005)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1973 during the coup d'etat in Chile, Max recalls his encounters in London during Worl War II with French aviator Antoine, a childhood hero he first met in his native country one morning in 1932 and who initiated him to the wonders of aviation.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy, Romania, Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Julio Begins in July (1979)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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In the Shadow of the Sun (1974)
Plot Summary:
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 after the chilean Coup de etat. The day after the opening, script girl Carmen Bueno and director of photography Jorge Müller were taken by police and now they are part of the list of the Desaparecidos.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags:
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Love Torn in a Dream (2000)
Plot Summary:
Raul Ruiz's Love Torn in a Dream is introduced with a fake newsreel, taking place in postwar France, in which the cast of the film meet with the producer, who explains the film's complex weave of nine narratives. A diagram in which each story is represented by a letter of the alphabet explicates the intertwining of the nine tales. As the producer explains each actor's role, the film begins. The stories, rooted in folklore, bump up against each other as the film leaps back and forth in time.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Portugal, Chile
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: semi serious, enigmatic, offbeat, humorous, avant garde, art house, baroque
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Dialogues of the Exiled (1975)
Plot Summary:
Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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El amor invencible (2023)
Plot Summary:
After losing all her loved ones fifteen years ago and believing her babies were killed at the hands of the father of her first love, Leona Bravo embarks on a journey of justice against all those who hurt her. In this process, Leona discovers that her children are actually alive and is reunited with an old friend with whom she finds true love. As a result, she will be torn between her desire for justice and rebuilding her bond with her two children, as well as regaining her faith in love.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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I Have Known You All My Life (2021)
Plot Summary:
Pedro, unhappy in his marriage of convenience, falls in love with Vera during a business trip. After his father blackmails him into breaking Vera's heart, fate brings the two together again years later.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Perfect Heart (2009)
Plot Summary:
Leonor and Pedro, are young, in love and from different social classes. She is the daughter of a wealthy man. He is from a modest working class family. They experience an intense but dramatically short love affair. When Pedro discovers Leonor’s father’s secret – that he sexually abused a maid – he is the victim of a hit and run accident, leaving him in a deep coma for 5 years. He later awakens to find out that his girlfriend, who was told he had died in the accident, moved on with her life and married someone else, after several years of grieving.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Corazón guerrero (2022)
Plot Summary:
After the death of their father, brothers Jesús, Damián, and Samuel are separated and adopted by different families. They reunite as adults and swear on their father's grave to seek vengeance against their enemy, the Ruíz Montalvo family.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Jackpot! (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends had been playing lottery since two years ago. In the New Year's Eve, when the prize has an extraordinary value, they picked the correct numbers of the lottery and they all become millionaires. They live their dreams but they are also involved in a terrible nightmare because they made a pact: each one has a mission to accomplish within one year and only those who can accomplish their mission shall be entitled to the other half of the prize that is stored in a saving account. The conflicts get worse when the friends that won the lottery start to die mysteriously and the winners enter in a game of life or death in which, if they don't discover who the murderer is, they may be the next victim. In addition, Jackpot!, reveals the difficulties of resetting in the labor market, the characteristics of old age and the values of present society. And as it must be in all good telenovela, there are stories of love, full of romance and intrigue.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Tierra de esperanza (2023)
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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La Mujer del Diablo (2022)
Plot Summary:
Natalia is a school teacher who wants to dedicate herself to local tourism. Cristo is a criminal who pretends to be a benefactor to those in need. Cristo becomes obsessed with Natalia and does unimaginable things to win her over.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Perdona nuestros pecados (2023)
Plot Summary:
The Quiroga and Montero families live in the town of San Juan, two families of high society, who apparently are united by a friendship of many years. Armando does not agree with the relationship between his daughter Elsa and Andrés, because they are from different social classes. But the relationship between these two families will become a bonfire of betrayal, intrigue, revenge and power.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Cabo (2021)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Vencer la culpa (2023)
Plot Summary:
Four women become friends and learn to overcome their guilt after the disappearance of a local teenage girl unexpectedly brings them together.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Night Across the Street (2012)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, surreal, contemplative, crying
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The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (2020)
Plot Summary:
A man whose wife has committed suicide, appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere, under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, spooky
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Dumb Girls Don't Go to Heaven (2008)
Plot Summary:
Las tontas no van al cielo is an original Mexican telenovela that began airing on Mexico's Canal de las Estrellas, beginning 11 February 2008. The novela is a production of Rosy Ocampo and starring Jacqueline Bracamontes, Jaime Camil, and Valentino Lanús.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Apocalypse (2017)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious and spiritual portrayal of one of the most intense and controversial stories in the Holy Bible: the end of the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Plot Summary:
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, cerebral, art house, psychological, atmospheric, stylized, psychological thriller, philosophical, mind bending
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City of Women (1980)
Plot Summary:
A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: surreal, satirical, art house, cerebral, atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic, cult classic, clever, offbeat
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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
Plot Summary:
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway, France, Denmark
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surreal, realistic, talky, lyrical, dark comedy, humorous, philosophical, semi serious, absurd, art house