The best Patricia Guzmán’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Patricia 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 Patricia Guzmán.
State of Siege
7.7/10
Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.
Rain over Santiago
6.6/10
A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and disappearances of many people.
Johnny One Hundred Pesos
6.6/10
Based on real events, 17-year-old Johnny García becomes involved with four older thugs who are planning to rob a money-laundering business masquerading as a video store. As they try to escape, a swarm of exploitative media attention awaits.
Bloody Nitrate
7.3/10
Chilean soldiers try to survive in the desert after they are attacked by Peruvian troops. The 17 survivors are held together by the Captain. The Lieutenant is a civilian attorney who clashes with the Captain as he pursues the valuable rights to nitrate deposits in the area. When the fighting was over, 25,000 soldiers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia had perished while trying to secure the coveted mineral rights for foreign companies.
The Triple Death of the Third Character
5.2/10
Mi famosa desconocida
5.2/10
A Chilean maid wins a big tv show prize, changing therefore her life forever. Now she must face different kinds of tribulations that would force her to show she is worth for what she is and not for what she has.
The ABC of Love
5.4/10
Directed by Eduardo Coutinho (segment "Pacto, O"), Rodolfo Kuhn (segment "Noche terrible"), Helvio Soto (segment "Mundo mágico")
Reflejo actoral
A group of Chilean actors reflect on their works when they see footage off their characters on film and TV.
Voto + Fusil
6.8/10
The political evolution in Chile seeing from three different times: 1937, 1947 and 1970. A film that shows how a revolution cannot be accomplished by electoral means, and how the wealthy class will always attempt to destroy that revolution, with the help of the armed forces, as soon as their privileges are threatened.
Metamorfosis del jefe de la policía política
7.6/10
In this film the director's recurring concerns return: the divisions in the Chilean left, and its contradictions between what the director calls the "traditional" and the "revolutionary" left. The problem is exposed through the doubts and obsessions of a strange police chief who cannot establish the limits between critical behavior and militant responsibility.
No tan lejos de Andrómeda
7.5/10
After a long period ofexile, Félix and Magui return to their country. Magui's fathers take them to one of the houses of the family. Félix resistance to adapt himself to the social reality of the country and the presence of "aliens" on the region start to trouble the chief of the family.
Monday to Sunday
5.9/10
Starts a love story between an art student and a medical student, narrated from Monday to Sunday.
