The best Maria Olga Matte’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Maria Olga Matte’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 Maria Olga Matte.
Spider
6.3/10
Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever.
Young and Wild
6/10
Daniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.
Machuca
7.7/10
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.
Dead Candi
Lucas is a withdrawn young man with a deep desire to travel. However, he carries the responsibility of supporting his dysfunctional family in his consciousness. Enduring the rejection he feels for his unbridled, but outstanding younger brother and his accomplice mother obsessed with appearances, Luke's contradictory emotions explode into a violent crime.
Vidas recicladas
Working in a recycling factory, a group of people come together and decide to restart their lives finding themselves through love and self-improvement.
Hecho bolsa
5.1/10
A fifty year old man living an existential crisis, with family, friends and children, tries to escape from debts and stress.
Sumerged
6.4/10
A young swimmer with sleep disorder deals with the sudden disappearance of her mother and the arrival of Rebeca, a mysterious girl who rents a room in her home. Unaided from the police and confused by paranoia, she finds herself engulfed in a struggle to maintain her sanity and get her life back.
Teresa
6.3/10
Teresa Wilms Montt is a writer, a rebellious woman, tormented and beautiful. He marries at age 17 challenging family opposition. She falls in love with someone she should not and the family court condemns her to confinement in a convent. Separated from her two daughters, she escapes to Buenos Aires with Vicente Huidobro. From that flight her life becomes an exciting and tragic itinerary.
Diablada
5.8/10
A group of girls from a humble little town in the middle of the desert disappears systematically without the police or the authorities taking action on the matter. Families desperately seek help, but are faced with bureaucracy, discrimination and total abandonment.
The Memory of Water
6.1/10
After the tragic loss of their 4-year-old son, Javier and Amanda struggle to make sense of their lives together.
Dawson Isla 10
6.1/10
After the 1973 coup that deposed Allende and brought Pinochet to power in Chile, the former members of his cabinet are imprisoned on Dawson Island, the world's southernmost concentration camp. Here these men are determined to survive and provide history with their testimony.
Allende en su laberinto
6.1/10
The last 7 hours of former President of Chile Salvador Allende, and his closest collaborators inside the Palace of La Moneda, during the brutal military coup d'etat on Sept. 11, 1973, the day democracy in Chile ended. Based on true events.
The Mother of the Lamb
6.3/10
Cristina has spent her life taking care of her mother Carmen. Single and without a trade or friends, she grows older, year after year in her hometown. A few days from her birth- day, Cristina reconnects with Sandra, a former schoolmate who will show her other ways to live, freely and without prejudice.
Victoria Rosana Maite
After their daughter is discriminated in her school, Victoria and Rosana's relationship falls into a crisis due to their different opinions on the matter. Victoria will have to face the fear of assuming her homosexuality and the possible dissolution of her family.
The Yellow Line
A young introvert man that has just go out his parents home is working in a café every day, where he carries out the eccentric practice of recording the conversations of certain clients. This voyeuristic attitude will be broken by the appearance of a curious and charismatic woman who lives a floor below his apartment.
Alberto: ¿Quién sabe cuánto cuesta hacer un ojal?
7/10
Alberto, a young law student struggles to realize his ultimate dream: to follow the call of his priestly vocation.
Three Saturday Nights
The seductive quality of the night of a saturday where both the rich and the poor experience the drunken urgency of the party and the clock.
The Sutherland School
In the midst of a media scandal, a group of teachers from a privileged school - led by Leticia - try to dismiss the new principal, who inaugurated with an inflammatory and controversial speech.
A Short Film About Education
A math teacher is hired to teach on a school with serious disciplinary issues. He will face the bullying that a group of student suffer.The feeling of impotence for the unjustified practices will take Jorge to corrupt he's own moral.
La sorpresa
Antonia is celebrating her daughter Colomba’s birthday at her sister Angélica’s house when she hears that her father is on his way there. Antonia tries to avoid it, attempting to convince her sister to uninvite him due to a lawsuit against the man, yet Angélica insists on defending him. Between candles, candy, gift bags, and a piñata; Antonia ends up confessing a secret that she’d been keeping for years.
