# The best Chilean films of all time

From 1960s New Chilean Cinema to Pablo Larraín and Sebastián Lelio: the CineChile experts' ranking reported by BioBioChile, rounded out with Rock&Pop and Diario El Día.

- 26 votes · 13 items
- Jul 8, 2025 · Yuliana Blanco González
- https://even.best/en/l/4135/the-best-chilean-films-of-all-time

## Top 10

1. **The Club (2015)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Disgraced priests in a coastal house, by Pablo Larraín.
2. **The Jackal of Nahueltoro (1969)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A peasant killer, his trial and execution, by Miguel Littin.
3. **Three Sad Tigers (1968)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Three drifting characters in Santiago, by Raúl Ruiz.
4. **Valparaíso mi amor (1969)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Children surviving on the hills of Valparaíso, by Aldo Francia.
5. **Machuca (2004)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Two boys from different classes in 1973, by Andrés Wood.
6. **La frontera (1991)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A teacher sent into internal exile in the south, by Ricardo Larraín.
7. **Largo viaje (1967)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — A boy crosses Santiago with his newborn brother's body.
8. **No (2012)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The ad campaign for the 1988 referendum, with Gael García Bernal.
9. **Caliche sangriento (1969)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Soldiers lost in the desert in the War of the Pacific, by Helvio Soto.
10. **A Fantastic Woman (2017)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Marina after her partner's death; foreign-language Oscar.
11. **El zapato chino (1979)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A taxi driver and a young woman in Santiago under the dictatorship.
12. **Julio comienza en julio (1979)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A landowner and his son in the early 20th century, by Silvio Caiozzi.
13. **The Maid (2009)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — A live-in maid who has been with the same family for 23 years.

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