Discover the best of Chilean cinema, film, and television

Discover the definitive list of popular and critically-acclaimed movies and TV shows from Chile. Find your next binge-watch, streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

The cinema of Chile

Chilean cinema is a cinema of profound memory and defiant beauty, forged in its dramatic history and filmed against some of the world's most staggering landscapes. Its modern identity was shaped in the crucible of its 20th-century history. During the Pinochet dictatorship, filmmaking became a powerful act of resistance. The legendary documentarian Patricio Guzmán, often working in exile, became the nation’s cinematic conscience, creating masterpieces that chronicled the soul of his country. This legacy of truth-telling has powered a modern golden age of filmmaking. The crowning achievement came when Sebastián Lelio’s magnificent A Fantastic Woman won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, a moment of global recognition for the nation's immense talent. Alongside him, the visionary director Pablo Larraín has become a global force, praised for his stylish and psychologically intense films. The creative energy is now also driving a new wave of compelling television series, reaching audiences far beyond its borders. What makes Chilean cinema so unique is its poetic connection to its stunning geography, from the vast Atacama Desert to the icy peaks of Patagonia. It uses these landscapes not just as a backdrop, but as a way to explore history, trauma, and resilience. It is a cinema as vast and profound as the land it calls home.

Best Chilean series

  • Poster for 42 Days of Darkness

    42 Days of Darkness 2022

    In a town in Chile, a woman leads a frantic search to find her missing sister amid a media storm and the police investigation. Inspired by a true case.

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  • Poster for El Presidente

    El Presidente 2020

    Sergio Jadue, a lowly director of a small-town soccer club in Chile, unexpectedly finds himself at the head of the Chilean soccer association. Drunk with power, he becomes the protégé of soccer godfather Julio Grondona, as well as the FBI’s key to undoing the largest corruption scheme in the world of soccer.

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  • Poster for 31 Minutos

    31 Minutos 2003

    Chilean television show which takes the form of a mock news broadcast, and is fronted by puppets who present various items.

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  • Poster for Profugos

    Profugos 2011

    Four men become fugitives after a failed drug deal, running from north to south of Chile.

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  • Poster for Baby Bandito

    Baby Bandito 2024

    After skater Kevin and his crew pull off Chile's biggest heist, reckless love –and social media– threatens everyone's fortunes.

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  • Poster for La Jauría

    La Jauría 2020

    Blanca, student leader of the feminist movement in an occupied school, goes missing: hours later, a video of a group raping the girl goes viral. In their aim to find her, a police squad formed by three women puts their lives and that of their families at risk. As they look for Blanca and investigate, they will find out that behind this gender crime there is much more than just one offender.

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Best Chilean movies

  • Poster for A Fantastic Woman

    A Fantastic Woman 2017

    Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.

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  • Poster for El Conde

    El Conde 2023

    After living for over two centuries, Augusto Pinochet is a vampire ready to die… but the vultures around him won't let him go without one last bite.

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  • Poster for No

    No 2012

    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.

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  • Poster for Gloria Bell

    Gloria Bell 2019

    Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.

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  • Poster for The Mole Agent

    The Mole Agent 2020

    When a daughter becomes concerned about her mother's well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio, an 83-year-old man who becomes a new resident—and a mole inside the home, who struggles to balance his assignment with becoming increasingly involved in the lives of several residents.

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  • Poster for Ema

    Ema 2019

    Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Gastón is beyond repair, following a decision to give up on their adopted child Polo. She sets out on a mission to get him back, not caring who she’ll need to fight, seduce or destroy to make it happen.

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