Mainstream cinema:
I highly recommend this film especially if you have an interest in Latin American culture.

Two 12 year old Chilenos from different social backgrounds - one living in downtown Santiago and the other in the shanty towns on the outskirts of the city where life is (still in 2005) 'squalid'. Under the Allende Social Democrat leadership, they are thrown together when a handful of shanty town kids are given scolarships to the prestigious private school, St Patrick's. They strike up a relationship and cross over into each other's worlds until the coup breaks them apart. Machuca - the shanty town kid - becomes one of the 50,000 'missing' from Chile as a result of Pinochet's dictatorship. The rich kid goes back to a world that profits from the coup and the new dictatorship but one can't help but wonder how his experiences will direct him in the future (now).