Menu
© 2026 The Couch Critic
Browse 23 movies from Escuela de Cine de Chile
A man who grew up in exile in Venezuela returns to his native Chile to avenge the death of his father.Meanwhile a woman fled to Venezuela in the hope of finding a better life in Chile. She is a cleaner at a hospital by day and a dancer at a Santiago nightclub by night, paying for a place to live with sex.
Jan 2016
One night, a couple and a woman are driving home from a party. In a rarefied, surreal environment, the characters begin to have near-death experiences.
Oct 1996
In his own Wonderland, a Gardener falls in love with a Queen, who wants the elixir of magic plants guarded by an Archer, who the Gardener will have to confront.
Jul 2015
After breaking up with his boyfriend, a dance music DJ named Danilo tries to escape from his emotions and problems through his live sets, while immersed in the frenzied yet solitary nightlife of Santiago, Chile. In the crowd, a teenage girl named Marie dances to his track selections, admiring him from afar. She is dealing with her own loneliness and lack of parental affection, and sees in him a kind of role model to follow. As they get to know each other, their wildly different lifestyles clash, but in their struggles they find common ground, and a escape from their deep loneliness and anxieties.
Feb 2012
An ordinary man unsatisfied with his life tries to make some changes in order to make it better for himself and to impress the people around him.
Nov 2015
Diego is a twenty-year-old Chilean boy who spends every day taking pictures of anything he sees. After many years he meets Sebastian, his childhood friend, and they spend a whole summer together drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana and walking around in the blazing sun of Santiago. They both come from dysfunctional families (Diego's mother is an alcoholic and Sebastian feels abandoned by his father and his stepmother), but the need to discover the world around them and explore their inner feelings brings them closer to each other, making their friendship very, very intense. The desire that ties them to each other is palpable, and soon barriers and fears fall, leading them to wonder what they really want.
May 2011
A man puts an advertisement in the newspaper and turns out to be a psychopath who waits for his victims with an axe. Inspired by a Charles Bukowski story.
Aug 2006
Iván returns to his apartment and finds his wife dead. He wraps her in a blanket, puts her in the suitcase of his car and begins a journey that, far from appeasing his pain, will introduce him to the horror of a blind and secret nightmare.
Jun 2007
In 2011, the conflict of public education broke out in Chile. Protests did not revolved around violence, but rather the renewal of the social struggle from culture and altruism. Paintings instead of banners, disguises instead of hoods.This is the story of those who dared to paint, film, dance and act, redefining citizen protest forever.
Aug 2018
In a church, a suggestive confession takes place. A priest listens attentively. Who is confessing whom?
Sebastián, a psychology student, is accused by his faculty of causing his ex-girlfriend's suicide. While trying to prove his innocence, a deep sense of guilt consumes him and prevents him from defending himself.
Aug 2019
Martina was a famous singer in Argentina during the late 90s, who's become completely frigid and disenchanted with love. The arrival of a so-called sister, alongside her attractive boyfriend, compel Martina to go to Chile with one objective in mind: getting back her libido.
Jun 2018
Jan 1999
A teenager falls in love with the mother of his best friend. Paranoid, he will imagine that her husband, stepfather of his friend is chasing him. For a school assignment he meets Jose, an Ecuadorian illegal immigrant musician.
Oct 2015
A mother on the brink of blindness abandons her little daughter every day. The girl just wants to please her mother so it develops a macabre game to look like her. Until one day, the plan seems to have yielded results beyond all expectations.
Oct 2008
Sep 2005
Raúl is a nature lover who is living in an isolated town in the south of the Andes, with the intention of making a documentary on wildlife.
Jul 2012
Anthology film composed of six standalone shorts.
Jan 2002
Ivan keeps a 15-year-old Natalia hostage since she was a little girl. The repressive regime seems not to refrain them from forming a sort of family bond. They begin struggling with each other when the girl's sexuality awakens. Ivan desires her love and companionship.
Aug 2011
Daniel David and Anita Salinas are trying to build the first comic book company in Chile. But inexperience and personal problems will end up causing more trouble than they would have expected.
Dec 2011