The best Alejandro Sieveking’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Alejandro Sieveking’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Alejandro Sieveking.
Endless Poetry
7.5/10
A portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
The Dance of Reality
7.5/10
“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
The Club
7.2/10
In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.
Los perros
6.3/10
Mariana, an upper-class Chilean, feels a strange attraction towards her riding teacher, Juan, a former colonel with a shady past.
Old Cats
6.8/10
Isidora, an old woman, discovers that her mind is quickly deteriorating. At an apparently relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her state from her daughter, a demanding woman who awaits any sign of senility in order to take way everything she has.
Life Kills Me
6.3/10
Gaspar is a young, lonely cinematographer. Unable to deal with his sister and sick grandfather he spends his time with Susana, an actress working on a opera. When he meets Alvaro, an idealistic traveler, Gaspar's life changes. They embark on a adventure that help them unearth the fragility and value of human existence
Play
6.3/10
A couple search for love but never quite seem to meet.
Maknum González
7.3/10
An aging criminal is double crossed by his partner and sentenced to 15 years in prison. After escaping he seeks revenge.
The Winter
6.5/10
After years of working on an 'estancia' in Patagonia, the Old Foreman is forced to retire and a younge'r man takes his place. The change is difficult and challenging for both men. Each one must survive the oncoming winter.
El Muro
Year 2015. John O'Connell arrives in Chile to film a documentary about the death of six anonymous heroes that occurred in 2010 during the "EL MURO" event. John hires three actors to recreate the characters and all there is to see when clicking on "crazy geography".
The Passion of Michelangelo
6.5/10
An intense religious drama set during the Pinochet regime and based on a true story.
Raúl
6/10
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.
La Recta Provincia
7.6/10
This was a man. He lived with his mother. He cared a manor house in the countryside of Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden. The bone was bored. That was a bone flute. The man with the flute music play. And music song became. The voice of the song begging to seek the other bones of his scattered body. The man and his mother were in those ways of God and hell, looking for the bones that make up the skeleton of that Christian. And give him a Christian burial. And they saw what they saw, they lived what they lived. Many stories lived. And although they did not tell anyone, others told them.
La paradoja de Zenón
A mysterious death occurs inside a theater. 5 witnesses are interrogated in search of an answer that reveals a pagan rite of alchemy.
Actitud
Alberto, an 88-year-old painter, lives in a nursing home. He receives a visit from an old friend who suggests that he paint a painting on the abolition of the death penalty, a theme they have shared since their youth struggles. He refuses but finally accepts the proposal, entering a trance in which his life, art, death, and dreams are mixed.
Fragmentos de Lucía
8.3/10
A young woman receives a letter from the biological mother she has never met. She sets off to Valparaíso to find her.
No hay muerto malo
A grumpy retiree involuntarily causes his unpleasant neighbor Roberto's beloved dog to be run over by a car. With the corpse hidden in his house, Eduardo must manage so no one finds out what happened.
Ciruelas y humo verde
To obtain the monopoly of fruit production, don Juanito installs on his childhood village, an eternal sun that allows him to cultivate day and "night". It creates a green fertilizing smoke that affects the health of the inhabitants, provoking a workers' revolt that destroys all his facilities. The ruined old man, on the verge of madness, looks again at the fruit trees with the eyes of his childhood.
