
Birthday:
12-15-1947
(77 years)
Birthplace:
Santiago, Chile
Biography
Patricio Alejandro Contreras Pavez, is a Chilean film, theater and television actor, based since the 1970s in Argentina, where he developed his acting career.
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Sex with Love
Act like Jorge
event2003 star_border 6.6
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In Santiago, Chile, the schoolteacher Luisa proposes a debate about sex with the parents of her students with the intention of giving classes about sex education to the youngsters.
Pleasure cruise
event1980
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Two married men make a short trip to relax
Sin querer
Act like Armado
event1997
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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
Old Gringo
Act like Col. Frutos Garcia
event1989 star_border 5.6
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A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.
The Escape
Act like Eusebio Duval
event2001 star_border 5.9
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In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do anything not to return to prison. Some of them will suffer violent deaths, while others manage de disappear. Sordid and moving stories, not excluding tenderness and love, mercy or horror sealed with a pact of prison love that will remain in the heart of Buenos Aires, as witness of the yearned-for freedom.
De la misteriosa Buenos Aires
Act like (Episodio "El hambre")
event1981 star_border 5
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Three stories based on tales of the book by Manuel Mujica Lainez, ("El hambre", "La pulsera de cascabeles" y "El salón dorado".).) On scripts for the directors themselves and the collaboration of Ernesto Schoo.
Después de la tormenta
Act like Santos
event1991 star_border 5
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A couple with two children, living in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, suffering economic hardship. The father returns to his birthplace, the field, but there is his father and brother out of work, so they decided to return to the city with his family.
El decimo infierno
Act like Alfredo
event2012
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Alfredo, is the lover of Griselda, Antonio's wife. Then Alfredo, after a furtive encounter, asks Griselda if they should kill Antonio.
Sun City
Act like Walter
event2003
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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 carefully muted. .
The Frontier
Act like Ramiro Orellana
event1991 star_border 6.1
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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 father asks him to take her away. Although he gets his freedom he doesn't leave and when the water rises, Maite and her father die, and Ramiro flees to the hills.
Funny Dirty Little War
Act like Soldier
event1983 star_border 6.4
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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 official enlists the aid of allies ranging from the town drunk to young peronists to help hold his post. What follows is a slapstick war with a serious message.
The Passion of Michelangelo
Act like Father Ruíz-Tagle
event2013 star_border 5.8
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An intense religious drama set during the Pinochet regime and based on a true story.
Una muerte silenciosa
Act like Viejo Menossi
event2025 star_border 7
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Octavio, a hunting guide from southern Argentina, desperately fights to clarify the death of his niece Sofía, discovered shot in the hunting preserve where he works. The shot bursts into the darkness, unleashing an enigma that shakes the entire town. Octavio will be forced to unravel what really happened that night and thus confront a truth that threatens to change everything forever.
Sal
Act like Víctor
event2012 star_border 6
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A screenwriter travels to Northern Chile to research his script for a Western thriller but ends up getting more than he bargained for.
Of Love and Shadows
Act like Mario
event1994 star_border 5.2
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Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground resistance movement, Francisco opens her eyes and her heart to the atrocities being committed by the state.
No toquen a la nena
event1976 star_border 7
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A man becomes overprotective of his daughter as a friend of his son comes to live at the family home.
Dracula must be Killed
Act like Arthur
event1968
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Argentinian television horror movie from 1968.
The Official Story
Act like Benítez
event1985 star_border 7.5
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Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
Resurrection
Act like Quispe
event2016 star_border 6.1
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A young priest travels to Buenos Aires in order to help sick people during the 1871 yellow fever epidemic.
Sleepwalker
Act like Santos, Chief of Security
event1998 star_border 5.8
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In a dystopian society, a government uses therapy and dreams to recover, or perhaps implant, memories to those lacking them.
Made in Argentina
Act like El negro - cuñado
event1987 star_border 6.4
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Osvaldo and Mabel, an Argentine couple exiled for political reasons in the United States, travel to their country of origin after ten years to reconnect with their family and friends, including Mabel's brother and his wife. Mabel offers her brother the possibility of working in New York in order to improve their economic situation, but his wife is opposed to that idea.
Kill Them All
Act like Jiménez
event2007 star_border 4.6
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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 named Eugenio Barrios is being secretly sheltered in Uruguay by right-wing political powers.
The Eyes of the Scissors
Act like Capitán Artaza
event1995 star_border 4.8
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Close-up to a man who censored films during the military dictatorship in Argentina, slightly inspired by the infamous Miguel Paulino Tato.
Dry Martina
Act like Nacho
event2018 star_border 5.7
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Martina was a famous singer in Argentina during the late 90s, who's become completely frigid and disenchanted with love. The arrival of a so-called sister, alongside her attractive boyfriend, compel Martina to go to Chile with one objective in mind: getting back her libido.
Fiestapatria
Act like Ernesto
event2007 star_border 4.8
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As two families celebrate the engagement of their children, one of the lovers unearths a family secret.
Broken Panties
Act like Alfonso
event2018 star_border 4.7
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The imminent death of a matriarch forces her whole family to reunite. From her dying confession, other hidden episodes will come to light. Each of the family members will face what they would prefer remained buried. Nobody is free of killing for love.
Cachimba
Act like Perico Retamal
event2004 star_border 5
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A man takes his insecure, overweight paramour to a seaside resort to consummate their relationship, but there he stumbles onto an artistic discovery that will change his life.
Cuarteles de invierno
Act like Morocho
event1984 star_border 8
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A boxer and a singer are hired by the Armed Forces to entertain the people of a small town. When their personalities and principles get them in trouble with the authorities, they support each other as they face their destiny.
Last Round
Act like Leiva
event2018 star_border 5.2
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Rudy, son of victims of the dictatorship in Argentina, and Maru, daughter of the perpetrator, are inheritors of a tragic and bloody history that separates them, but the destiny seems to be determined to unite them.
Tríada
Act like Padre De Matias
event2016 star_border 2
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Julia, an aspiring artist, turns thirty and is alone and without prospects; she meets Matías and her life seems to change. That same summer Matías invites her to move into his house. However, the appearance of Rodrigo, Matías' best friend, will introduce Julia to a state of confusion between these two men.
Dad must be crazy!
Act like Don Pablo
event2005 star_border 6.6
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On their scond honeymoon, a couple travels to the beaches of the Dominican Republic to reignite their marriage
Banderas, the Tyrant
Act like Zacarías
event1993 star_border 5.1
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In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.
Spider Thieves
Act like Eugenio
event2017 star_border 6.7
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Three teenage girls from a Santiago shanty town set in motion a plan to climb buildings and break into the apartments of the wealthy side of the town.
Sotto Voce
Act like Gustavo Deganis
event1996 star_border 6.5
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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 man. She believes that there is something more to it, and seeks the help of Deganis (Patricio Contreras), a forensic psychiatrist. Deganis, having found out the names of the two actors doing the beating onscreen, looks one of them up. His name is Walensky (Lito Cruz), and he is looking for Smith (Martin Adjemian), the other actor.
What's Autumn?
event1977
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An award-winning architect struggles to find work, love, and a purpose in life.
Nowhere
Act like Daniel Hernández
event2002 star_border 4
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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 the middle of nowhere. Their friends on the outside start to plan their escape.
El salto de Christian
Act like Carmen's Husband
event2007
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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 midst of a busy day, receives a mysterious letter. Mindful of the received and true to their character and desires, thinks it's time to leave and start the fundamental quest of her life.
The Lion's Share
Act like Peón
event1978 star_border 6.1
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Story of a ordinary human being who, by chance, take possession of the money that was stolen from a bank, thinking that will solve all his problems.
Alicia
Act like Julio
event2018 star_border 6
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Jotta, a young atheist and militant, is disarming the house of his dead mother after a long cancer. On the way to the fight against violence so that she could die with dignity in that house. Also your search for answers in religion, science and politics.
Pacto de Fuga
Act like Rodolfo Ternicier
event2020 star_border 7.5
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During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.
Gerónima
event1986 star_border 5.7
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Gerónima was a real "Mapuche" Indian woman that lived in Argentinian Patagonia. She lived with her four sons in a poor little house in the dry lands her family had owned for generations. In 1976, during the military dictatorial government that disappeared 30.000 people, she and her four sons were visited by social workers. Worried about Geronima's poor conditions of existence, including health, they took the whole family to the hospital "to help them", with unexpected tragic consequences. The film that reconstruct Geronima's story is based in a interview realized by a physician while she was at the hospital. The main actress, Luisa Calcumil is also a real "Mapuche" woman, as well as Aimé Painé, the singer that interprets the authentic "Mapuche" songs the film includes.
Surviving the 70's
event2015 star_border 5
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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.
Inmortal
event2021 star_border 5.3
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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 doorway to another dimension which allows Ana to reconvene with the dead.
S.O.S Gulubú
event1996
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Gulubú, a fantasy world territory habited by the studious Cow, the Witch and other characters from María Elena Walsh's stories and songs.
Estocolmo
(2 ep.)
event2016 star_border 4
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"Stockholm: Lost Identity" narrates over 13 chapters with almost surgical detail the criminal, judicial and media research about the disappearance of a young woman by a network of trafficking. An attorney general, an undercover agent and a journalist will be immersed in a police plot that mixes suspense, drama and action where law and justice are two different sides of the same coin.
Killer Women
(4 ep.)
event2005 star_border 5.6
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Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.
Apache: The Life of Carlos Tevez
Act like Chacho (5 ep.)
event2019 star_border 7.7
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This gritty dramatization of the life of Carlos Tevez shows his rise to soccer stardom amid the harrowing conditions in Argentina's Fuerte Apache.
12 días que estremecieron Chile
Act like Carlos (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 2
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Fictional stories about Chilean historical events that shook the country through joy, horror, excitement or sadness, and where the great virtues and defects of its national idiosyncrasy were expressed, that marked the lives of many people.
El cuento del tío
(1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 2
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Stories about scamming and crime in Chile's big city. All of them based on real events.
Tiempo final
(1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 3
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Stories centered around the last hours of someone's life. Each episode takes place in one place and with no more than three or four characters.
El día menos pensado
Act like Teacher Gregorio (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 5
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Stories of paranormal activities and extraordinary nature -allegedly- based on real events.
Oldsters
Act like Julián Rodríguez (10 ep.)
event2020 star_border 2
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Three friends in their 70s step out of retirement to become a band of outlaws whose mission is to help those let down by the justice system.
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