The best Delfina Guzmán’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Delfina Guzmán’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 Delfina Guzmán.
No
7.4/10
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
The Maid
7.3/10
Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.
The Chosen One
2.6/10
It's the year 2006 in Chile and reality TV rules the airwaves. Ten strangers are taken to the snowy summits of the Andes; The challenge is to survive in an underground shelter.
Three Sad Tigers
7/10
A glimpse at the few days and nights in the lives of a brother and sister, Amanda and Tito, in Santiago’s semi-criminal underworld. A rambling portrait of Chilean society.
Bombal
5.4/10
María Luisa Bombal is an underground writer in the early twenties trying to reconcile her passionate and very sexual lifestyle with her life as a socialite among Santiago's very conservative elite.
Coronation
7.1/10
The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money with the passions of his well-off rival. The suffocating atmosphere of the run-down mansion in the outskirts of Santiago represents the deterioration of the bourgeoisie, and sets the scene for the total collapse of Andres.
The Gift
6.6/10
A man who has recently lost his wife and forced to retire contemplates suicide. His friends take him on a trip to a senior resort, and invite his former sweetheart.
The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror
6.4/10
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.
Julio Begins in July
7.2/10
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.
The Expropriation
7.1/10
The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although the action was filmed in four days and four nights in 1971, the movie was only finished in France in 1973, after the military coup.
Perdida
Marcela is a little girl who wakes up in an unknown house, under the care of Angela, who fights for her custody with Matías. The girl will try to find her mother without results, but will discover a stark reality.
De los afectos y la memoria
Freddy, a man with Diogenes’ disease, lives in his mother’s house, Rosa, who, in turn, suffers from acute senile dementia. In this place, Freddy has created a chaotic and hermetic world, which will be shaken after his daughter, Camila, visits him after five years without seeing each other.
Perla
6.2/10
A female mutt called "Perla" (Pearl) is abandoned by her owner on the top of the San Cristobal hill, in the capital city of Santiago, Chile. Without knowing what to do, soon Perla is part of the huge amount of street city dogs. Until the day she meets Samuel, a troubled man, and they both start the way of mutual recovery.
Historia de un roble solo
Olguita and Osvaldo are planning to get married, but she imposes only one condition for this to happen: she must own at least one property from his,regardless of its worth.
