Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
The Chosen
TITLE DETAILS

The Chosen

2016-09-02 · 111 min · ★ 5.8

Drama · History · Thriller

Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Antonio Chavarrías
Production companies
Oberón Cinematográfica, Alebrije Producciones, Altavista Films, TVE, TV3
Countries
Mexico, Spain
Status
Released

Top Cast

Alfonso HerreraAlfonso HerreraRamón Mercader
Hannah MurrayHannah MurraySylvia Ageloff
Henry GoodmanHenry GoodmanTrotsky
Julian SandsJulian SandsKotov
Elvira MínguezElvira MínguezCaridad Mercader
Emilio EchevarríaEmilio EchevarríaSalazar
Frances BarberFrances BarberNatalia Sedova
Alejandro CalvaAlejandro CalvaSiqueiros
Roger CasamajorRoger CasamajorCarles Vidal
Javier GodinoJavier GodinoCosta
Toby HarperRobins
Alexander HoltmannSheldon
Brontis JodorowskyBrontis JodorowskyOtto
Gustavo Sánchez ParraGustavo Sánchez ParraBalderas
Humberto BustoHumberto BustoHomero
Jenny BeacraftJenny BeacraftRuby Weill
Juan Carlos RemolinaJuan Carlos RemolinaEstrada
Guillermo RíosGuillermo Ríos'El Negro'
David HeviaHerrera
Javier MolinaRosell

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Rental

Google Play Movies, YouTube

Purchase

Google Play Movies, YouTube

View authorized watch options on TMDb

Recommendations

The Falcon and the Snowman
★ 6.4
The Falcon and the Snowman1985Drama · Thriller

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

Operation Ogre
★ 6.9
Operation Ogre1979Drama · History · Thriller

Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing.

Lord of War
★ 7.4
Lord of War2005Drama · Thriller

Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.

The Courier
★ 7.0
The Courier2020Drama · History · Thriller

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Walker
★ 6.5
Walker1987Drama · History

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.

Man on Fire
★ 7.5
Man on Fire2004Drama · Thriller

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

The Red Virgin
★ 7.1
The Red Virgin2024Drama · History · Thriller

Hildegart is conceived and educated by her mother Aurora to be the woman of the future, to become one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930s and one of the European references on female sexuality.

The Endless Trench
★ 6.9
The Endless Trench2019Drama · History · Thriller

A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.

Fat Man and Little Boy
★ 6.2
Fat Man and Little Boy1989Drama · History

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."

Driven
★ 6.2
Driven2019History · Thriller

FBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin
★ 6.7
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin2024Drama · History

As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.

Firebrand
★ 6.3
Firebrand2024Drama · History · Thriller

Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.

Red Dawn
★ 8.3
Red Dawn1990Drama · History · Thriller

On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.

The Angel
★ 6.5
The Angel2018Drama · History · Thriller

True story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat - while simultaneously Israeli Intelligence's most precious asset of the 20th century. Based on NYT bestselling book 'The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel' by Uri Bar-Joseph.

The Photographer of Mauthausen
★ 6.9
The Photographer of Mauthausen2018Drama · History · Thriller

Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.

Viva Zapata!
★ 6.8
Viva Zapata!1952Drama · History

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.

Smoke & Mirrors
★ 6.5
Smoke & Mirrors2016History · Thriller

A tale of cheats and impostors, taking its inspiration from true facts and from one of the most intriguing characters of recent decades: the spy Francisco Paesa.

Vantage Point
★ 6.4
Vantage Point2008Drama · Thriller

During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight strangers have a perfect view of the kill, but what did they really see? As the minutes leading up to the fatal shot are replayed through the eyes of each eyewitness, the reality of the assassination takes shape.

Agent Zeta
★ 6.7
Agent Zeta2026Drama · Thriller

Four Spanish ex-intelligence officers are assassinated simultaneously worldwide. The CNI discovers all participated in the covert "Operation Ciénaga" decades ago in Colombia. Zeta, the CNI's best operative, must hunt and protect the sole survivor, facing his deadliest global mission yet. Top Colombian agent Alfa will join Zeta, seemingly knowing more about "Ciénaga"'s secrets than him.

The Secrets We Keep
★ 6.0
The Secrets We Keep2020Drama · History · Thriller

In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.

Similar titles

The Eternal Dream
★ 7.8
The Eternal Dream1934Drama · History

At the end of the 18th century, the wealthy French scholar Saussure comes to a small Alpine village and offers 1,000 pieces of gold to anyone who can lead him to the summit of Mont Blanc. The young farmer's son Jacques Balmat wants to take on the dangerous task, even though his father has told him from an early age about the mighty mountain spirits who guard a legendary treasure of gold on the mountain peak.

Only Cloud Knows
★ 4.9
Only Cloud Knows2019Drama

The film revolves around a Chinese man who returns to New Zealand following the death of his wife and begins to discover that she harbored a number of secrets.

The Aviator
★ 7.2
The Aviator2004Drama

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The Diary of Anne Frank
★ 7.2
The Diary of Anne Frank1959Drama · History

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

Monsieur Batignole
★ 7.0
Monsieur Batignole2002Drama

In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.

Born on the Fourth of July
★ 7.0
Born on the Fourth of July1989Drama

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

Abraham
★ 7.2
Abraham1993Drama

Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mankind... A man of great faith, Abraham continues to believe in God even when He seems to have abandoned him.

Amazon Adventure
★ 4.0
Amazon Adventure2017History

This film follows scientist Henry Bates as he explores the Amazon for proof of natural selection.

The Greatest Story Ever Told
★ 6.4
The Greatest Story Ever Told1965Drama · History

From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.

Lorenzo's Oil
★ 7.1
Lorenzo's Oil1992Drama

Lorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his parents decide to immerse themselves in research and tackle the problem themselves.

Five Cartridges
★ 7.6
Five Cartridges1960Drama

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), five International Brigade soldiers of different nationalities are given a crucial assignment as their commander lies dying: they are to smuggle top-secret information across enemy lines.

The Slopes of Triglav
★ 5.7
The Slopes of Triglav1932Drama

Miha invites his fiancée Minka to the dance, but he's tempted by another big desire of his - climbing. Frustrated Minka insists on the festivity, where she finds herself in a company of older hiker. However, all ends happily, as Minka and Miha, after many smaller adventures, meet at the top of Mount Triglav, where they sign the marriage contract, but also confirming their love for the mountains. In addition to its charming story, the movie features footage of picturesque Slovenian mountains.

Lenin in Paris
★ 4.7
Lenin in Paris1981Drama · History

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. Through a chain of historical parallels and associations, this time is intertwined with the events of the Paris Commune, the October Revolution and the political struggles of the post-revolutionary years.

Paseo por una guerra antigua
★ 5.5
Paseo por una guerra antigua1949Drama

Madrid, Spain. A mutilated man, a war veteran, walks, leaning on a crutch, through the stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria, a place that still preserves in walls and buildings the terrifying traces of one of the bloodiest battles of the Spanish Civil War.

Benedetta
★ 6.6
Benedetta2021Drama · History

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

Spanglish
★ 6.1
Spanglish2004Drama

Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and the Claskys struggle to share space while raising their children on their own, and very different, terms.

Rytmus 1934
★ 4.0
Rytmus 19341980Drama

Twenty-year-old Karel is expelled from Bata's school of work and has no choice but to make his way in his uncle Kubát's publishing business at any cost. A very drastic adaptation of the draft has fundamentally changed the whole story, which is also set in a completely different historical context. The result was a schematic and tepidly propagandistic poster.

James Dean
★ 6.8
James Dean2001Drama

The man behind the legend and a knowing look at 1950s Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic biopic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant.

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
★ 7.1
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days2005Drama · History

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility.

Nikolay Bauman
★ 6.5
Nikolay Bauman1968Drama · History

This film tells about two years of life (1904-1905) of the revolutionary-Leninist, one of the founders of the newspaper "Iskra" Nikolai Ernestovich Bauman, who was killed on October 18, 1905 by a Black Hundred, a security agent, during a demonstration of the Moscow committee of the RSDLP.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.