Patricio Contreras Movies

A screenwriter travels to Northern Chile to research his script for a Western thriller but ends up getting more than he bargained for.

A Chilean teacher, Ramiro, is sentenced to internal exile in a southern town where tidal waves often appear. He falls for a woman, Maite, whose...

A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected...

As two families celebrate the engagement of their children, one of the lovers unearths a family secret.

The romance of an engineer who plans the construction of a highway that will cross a town in Patagonia and the conflict with the powerful

Based on Benjamín Galerini's play "El seductor".

A story set in Uruguay in 1993. It revolves around an investigation by a law court lawyer, Julia. She's looking into the possibility that a chemist...

In a country (alluded to be Chile) under dictatorship, a police night raid comes up with a few usual anti-regime suspects. They are sent to a camp in...

Ana returns to Buenos Aires to claim her inheritance. She meets her father's close friend Dr. Benedetti, a scientist, where he has discovered a...

To the surprise suicide of his mother, Manuela, a 23-year-old decides to unravel the mystery that led her to take such a decision, discovering a past...

Two married men make a short trip to relax

Telma (Norma Pons) is concerned when her father Salerno dies of a heart attack in a movie theater while watching a film of two thugs beating another...

Close-up to a man who censored films during the military dictatorship in Argentina, slightly inspired by the infamous Miguel Paulino Tato.

Lucia is a girl of about 30 years, vital, attractive and successful. Live intensely all day despite not having a very happy past. One morning, in the...

Gulubú, a fantasy world territory habited by the studious Cow, the Witch and other characters from María Elena Walsh's stories and...

A disgruntled book editor is about to commit suicide when he is interrupted by a woman, who threatens to do the same if he does not read her book.

Three stories based on tales of the book by Manuel Mujica Lainez, ("El hambre", "La pulsera de cascabeles" y "El salón dorado".).) On scripts...

Julia, an aspiring artist, turns thirty and is alone and without prospects; she meets Matías and her life seems to change. That same summer...