Neruda (2016) on Netflix

Plot summary

In 1946, Gabriel González Videla wins Chile's presidency with Communist support, then bans the party and orders mass arrests. Senator Pablo Neruda, a renowned poet and former ambassador, condemns the repression in Congress and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity. He and his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, head for Argentina over the mountains, but they are sent back at the border and go into hiding instead. Óscar Peluchonneau, an officer of the investigative police, is given the task of arresting the poet. Peluchonneau studies the poet's life and verse to understand his quarry, while Neruda appears in unexpected places and leaves poetry volumes behind to mobilize resistance.