01 A dancer and her choreographer husband unravel after giving back the son they adopted.
12 Best Chilean Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · September 5, 2026
Chilean cinema keeps circling back to the Pinochet dictatorship’s long shadow, whether directly, as in the 1988 referendum drama No, or obliquely, through class stories set in its aftermath.
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02 A botched robbery turns into a live hostage standoff broadcast on national television.
03 A morgue clerk's quiet routine is upended the night Pinochet's coup fills the building with bodies.
04 A divorced woman in her fifties refuses to let age quiet down her search for connection.
05 Disgraced priests living in a quiet seaside house are confronted by a victim who tracks one of them down.
06 A delusional, disturbed man's obsession with Saturday Night Fever spirals into violence under the dictatorship.
07 Two boys from opposite class backgrounds form a friendship right before Pinochet's coup destroys it.
08 A live-in housekeeper's decades of quiet resentment surface when the family hires her some help.
09 An ad executive runs the real "No" campaign that ended Pinochet's rule through a democratic referendum.
10 A transgender woman fights to grieve her partner while his family tries to erase her.
11 An elderly widower goes undercover inside a nursing home to investigate suspected elder abuse for a worried daughter.
12 Chilean and Argentine soldiers stranded near a disputed 19th-century border realize neither side wants this war.
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