Luis Alarcón

Luis Alarcón

Total Credits at Criticker: 14 (Actor)

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    Jackal of Nahueltoro
    The camera watches a grindingly poor Chilean meets a destitute widow and her several small children who have been evicted from their hut and cast into the street. Later, in a drunken rage at his own inability--and what seems to be his recognition that they will come to nothing better--he brutally murders them. While awaiting execution he is cleaned-up, learns to read, and begins to have an inkling of consciousness of the world beyond. (imdb)
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    Kiltro
    Street tough Zamir has been in love with Kim ever since he rescued her from rapists, but the only way that he can express his affection is to attack any man who shows interest in her. Kim tolerates Zamir's infatuation, but keeps him at arm's length. When Max Kalba arrives in town to take vengeance on Kim's father, Zamir attempts to rescue her once again. (wikipedia)
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    Mandrill
    Antonio's parents were murdered when he was a child. As an adult, he is transformed into a relentless bounty hunter, code-named "Mandrill," with the sole aim of finding the murderer and avenging his parents. Mandrill's only weakness has always been women, so he asks his uncle, a "Don Juan" expert, to instruct him in the arts of seduction. When Mandrill is hired to capture a powerful Mafioso casino owner, he soon discovers that this is the man who he has searched for all these years. (imdb)
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    A la sombra del sol
    Two criminals fleeing from the jail in Calama and get deep into the Atacama Desert towards Bolivia. On his way encounter the mountain village of Caspana, where the inhabitants receive them so hospitable. Until something happens... (Filmaffinity)
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    Julio comienza en Julio
    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. (imdb)
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    ¡Qué hacer!
    Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile's problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility, it is a deft blend of fiction and documentary set in the tumultuous days leading up to the election of Dr. Allende in 1970. (mubi.com)
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    Doña Macabra
    Armida and her maid Demetria are living together in an old and very strange house. One day her niece and her husband comes to visit implying that they want to get to know her better, but they are actually there looking for gold which they think Armida has hidden under her house.
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    La Telenovela Errante
    The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas. There are four audiovisual provinces, and the threat of war is felt among the factions. The political and economic problems are immersed in a fictional jelly divided into evening episodes.
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    Tres Tristes Tigres
    The drunken nights of several listless chancers in Chile's capital city build inexorably to violence. (imdb)
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    Palomita Blanca
    Ruiz deconstructs, satirizes and politicizes a rich-boy/poor-girl romance bestseller which had been dubbed 'the Chilean "Love Story"'. (imdb)
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    Johnny One Hundred Pesos
    Johnny, the young student and his 4 friends, decide to rob a bank. They pretend they are customers, and suddenly they take out pistols and force the staff to give all the money to them. When they try to leave, the police appear. The media deal with this story immediately and broadcast everything (imdb)
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    El Tango del Viudo y Su Espejo Deformante
    The story of a man whose wife has committed suicide and appears to him as a ghost, following him everywhere and changing his personality. Unfinished in 1967 and completed by Valeria Sarmiento for a 2020 premiere. (imdb)
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    La expropiación
    An Agronom arrives at a farm to expropriate land, but the landowner is willing to leave the country voluntarily. A revolt among the tenants occur. (imdb)
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    La colonia penal
    An adaptation of the Kafka story updated to the modern day.
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