Best Chilean films of the decade (2000-2009)

Ignacio Agüero follows the demolition and development in a neighborhood in the Chilean capital Santiago. Agüero contrasts the destruction and the tearing down of walls by monstrous grabs with a calm camera that glides along the houses.

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.

Two 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other's world as political tensions in their country increase.

A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).

Daniel is a maladjusted man, who after a failed suicide attempt, returns to restart his life from the poor periphery of Santiago, to downtown. In this journey he does not discover any emotion that restricts the decision to end his existence.

The leader of a Chilean gang uses martial arts to protect a girl from a bully.

A drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years.

While vacationing with his family, a man develops some attraction for his son's girlfriend.

The lives of four lonely people living through the routine and silence in the south. They meet to eat, walk through the beach, take the ferry or simply accompany each other without needing to say anything. In a way, they try to save themselves in a silent, furtive and extreme manner. They search for love, sex, inexistent family affection, and their own space and time, not only to distance themselves from the loneliness that intimately constitutes them, but, ultimately, to find themselves

A taxi driver is given a difficult choice from 2 small time crooks: drive them around while they rob, or get locked up in the trunk.

Four people intertwine their lives in a city and pursue their own dreams.

October 5, 1974: In the suburbs of Santiago, pregnant Carmen is badly injured and her partner Miguel, head of the resistance against Pinochet's dictatorship, is killed in combat. So begins a journey into the memories of the defeated...

A lonely man becomes increasingly obsessed with the beautiful teenager he used to help care for his grandmother.

A young man and woman have a sensual, one-night stand in a motel room where they confide in each other about their troubled lives.

After a military coup overthrew the democratically elected Socialist government of Chile on September 11, 1973, the capital's National Stadium was the scene of the indiscriminate mass detentions of more than 12,000 suspected dissidents.

A film about the fearless photographers and photojournalists who documented strikes, demonstrations, protests etc during the Chilean military regime of Augusto Pinochet, sometimes risking their very lives.

A man is depressed by the death of his brother and his life changes when he meets an eccentric young man, whose favorite subject is death.

A club bouncer with a dark past and great fighting skills decides to become a superhero.

A couple search for love but never quite seem to meet.

What kind of secrets is this film talking about? There is a bit of everything: murder, robbery and treason. With seriousness and a dash of humour, Secretos reveals how, after a decades-long exile, a former left-wing militant returns to Chile to come to terms with his role in the death of a comrade and legendary socialist leader nicknamed the "Voice of the People." But the Chile he knew is no longer. Instead, he finds a country where even his old colleagues have changed their stripes.