Sweet Country

Jan 23, 1987

2h 30m

★ 4.4

«The best of us fight not because we hate...but because we love»

Overview

An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.

Genres

Drama

History

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Cast

Anna

Jane Alexander

Ben

John Cullum

Eva

Carole Laure

Paul

Franco Nero

Monica

Joanna Pettet

Juan

Randy Quaid

Mrs. Araya

Irene Papas

Mr. Araya

Jean-Pierre Aumont

Father Venegas

Pierre Vaneck

Sister Mathilde

Katia Dandoulaki

Dorothy

Ann Coleman

Max

Giannis Voglis

It all begins at a party in Santiago, Chile, when a seemingly innocent gesture -- the offer of a ride home -- ends in a passionate night of lovemaking and intense conversation for young singles Bruno and Daniela. Shacked up at a flea-bitten motel for a one-night stand, the pair lingers deep into the night, alternating between powerful physical encounters and an ever-deepening emotional connection.

6.3

Polar

Jan 25, 2019

When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.

6.4

The 33

Aug 6, 2015

Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.

0.0

God Will Not Help

Nov 27, 2025

A Chilean woman, Teresa, comes into a firmly structured and isolated mountain community of Croatian shepherds in the early 20th century, claiming to be the widow of their émigré brother. Her arrival changes the dynamics between the members of the community and brings unrest, but also inspiration for other women.

7.8

Machuca

Feb 24, 2004

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.

7.1

Death and the Maiden

May 4, 1994

A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.

6.4

Tony Manero

Aug 28, 2008

A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever".

6.7

The Maid

Aug 13, 2009

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.

0.0

Por Todos

Jun 18, 2024

No overview available.

7.2

Missing

Feb 12, 1982

Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.

7.4

The Motorcycle Diaries

Feb 6, 2004

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

6.1

In Her Place

Sep 30, 2024

After Chilean writer María Carolina Geel murders her lover, the case captivates shy legal secretary Mercedes, sparking a connection between the two women.

3.8

Y Adán y

May 6, 1971

From the depths of the sea is born Adam, a young man who searches the world for the place to which he belongs. Walking along the beach, he meets another child like him and they become friends. As an adult, the child becomes a man who tries to find the woman, his counterpart. Harassed by the beings of the world, he sees it through dreams and this helps him to recover from his evil.

5.4

Trauma

Dec 25, 2017

Four friends visit a rural locality of Chile, are brutally attacked by a man and his son. After not finding help in the town, they decide to confront these men with the help of a pair of policemen. But in this way, they will discover that their attackers have in their blood the direct legacy of the darkest period of Chilean history and will have to face the most brutal enemy.

6.7

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

Sep 11, 2025

As an unknown and deadly disease begins to spread, legend has it that it is transmitted between two men, through a simple glance, when they fall in love. While people are accusing her family, Lidia must find out whether this myth is real or not.

6.4

Voto + Fusil

Aug 9, 1971

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.

7.6

The Wolf House

Sep 26, 2018

After escaping from a religious colony in Chile, Maria seeks shelter in a mansion where she’s taken in by two pigs, its only inhabitants. Like in a stop-motion dream, the universe of the house reacts to her feelings. The animals slowly morph into humans and the house into a dark, menacing world.

6.1

Waking the Dead

Mar 24, 2000

A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.

10.0

Memorándum

Sep 14, 2017

No overview available.

5.7

The Painting Lesson

Mar 8, 2012

In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is an amateur painter who will try to make the boy into a great artist, like all the ones in his art books. From the pharmacists point of view in his old age, unfolds the story of this young boy who could have become a great art genius, had he not disappeared at the age of 13, along with all his works, on September 11th 1973, the day of the coupe d´état.