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A schoolteacher, calligrapher, and theater, film, and television actor, he has an interest in other disciplines such as poetry, sculpture, and painting. He studied art at renowned institutions in the country and sculpture in Prague, Czech Republic. His artistic work can be seen in more than 60 feature films, the first of which was El cine soy yo (1977) by Luis Armando Roche. He has also worked as a set designer for various theatrical productions and Venezuelan films. As a poet, he has an important body of work published in magazines and newspapers.
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Total trailers found: 39
13 January 2017
Beginning with his childhood and covering the many facets that characterized his intellectual universe, this documentary details the different aspects of the most important venezuelan writer of the 60s, 70s and 80s: José Ignacio Cabrujas.
11 October 1978
Carmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day, Carmen fights and hurts to a smuggler woman, so a sergeant in the National Guard, José Navarro, stops detain her.
24 January 1982
A politically charged film, where a series of archetypal characters are presented.
22 September 2022
"Hijos de la tierra" presents a drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news, stories and rumors spread the presence of a new wealth, oil, leading to the suspicion that a great change was about to take place.
25 July 1984
In Secretaries Day, either you get laid or you get paid.
19 March 1983
Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of Latin American culture from the late-15th century to the present.
16 September 1998
The film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a group of military rebels staged a coup d'etat.
11 February 2005
El Caracazo o Sacudón fue una serie de fuertes protestas y disturbios durante el gobierno de Carlos Andrés Pérez, que comenzó el día 27 de febrero y terminó el día 28 de febrero de 1989 en la ciudad de Caracas, e iniciados realmente en la ciudad de Guarenas, cercana a Caracas.
20 August 2011
Short film based on the Venezuelan folkloric story: The Whistler (El SIlbón)
01 October 2010
Venezuela, the mid-nineteenth century. The polarization between liberals and conservatives marked the political agenda.
01 January 1997
It tells the story of Tomás, a man who decides to enter the Orinoco jungle under another identity as
01 January 1976
Vidal Rojas, an opponent of the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez, after failing in a subversive attempt and suffering a romantic disappointment, decides to enlist in the revolutionary groups in the interior of the country.
08 September 1985
A young girl is sent to a Venezuelan hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana.
19 March 1980
The intent of novice director Solveig Hoogesteijn to make a drama about two Venezuelans from opposite sides of the economic and social tracks wobbles and weakens in the telling.
24 July 1996
Ryuzo, Japanese young man who has committed a crime of passion in Tokyo, is sent by his father to Paraguaipoa to escape justice.
10 June 2020
Gregoria is a young peasant from the Venezuelan Andes, Lucia is a frivolous middle-aged city dweller.
23 July 1975
Pedro Zamora (Miguelangel Landa) is a former guerrilla who returns to Caracas and moves to a pension as a tenant.
02 January 1978
A skilled worker has a sudden nervous breakdown at the company for which he has been working for the last 20 years.
01 January 1988
Gaspar Urbieta works as a typographer in Maracaibo. The National Guard convinces him to infiltrate an organization of Colombian gold smugglers.
01 January 1979
Based on the real story of the murder of Venezuelan lawyer Ramón Carmona Vásquez by a paramilitary group.
01 January 1988
An elderly man with wings is blown off course during a tropical storm in this symbolic fantasy. The Old Man lands near a Caribbean island where a poor family gives him shelter in a chicken coop.
24 January 1979
Portable Country is a classical Venezuelan film about the urban guerrilla. Based on the novel of the same name, written by Adriano González León, the film centers on Andrés Barazarte, a disillusioned man from a wealthy landowning family, who grapples with his personal and political identity in the midst of Venezuela's tumultuous social changes and engages in the guerrilla.
20 August 1975
Venezuelan comedy by Julio César Mármol, featuring Joselo.
01 January 1990
The struggle of two men, Osuna and Funes, hungry for power and wealth in a small town in Venezuela, during the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez.
01 January 1987
Spain, 30's. Fabian Insausti (Juan Luis Galiardo), which has become a rich landowner in Venezuela, returns to his hometown due to the death of his mother.
11 November 1977
Happy fun times with a little crew of people driving around to backwater villages to show movies in places where the locals don't get much culture.
02 January 2013
During Christmas time in Caracas, a woman (Yotama) holds up a restaurant. She takes three persons (Emilio, Manuel and Lucia) hostage in their apartment.
06 December 1984
A young peasant farmer has a feud with a heartless landowner which results in the landowner killing the peasant's cattle which result in the peasant killing the landowner which for the man goes in to hiding for more than 40 years, hounded by the murdered landowner's son obsessed with finding his father's killer.
23 July 1974
1964, in a Latin American country, a journalist is head of an armed liberation movement that decides to initiate radical actions.
20 April 2020
The eternal dilemma of the creator and his relationships with the state, patronage, and society comprise this Ludovician triptych.
01 January 1984
Ignacio is known as El Iluminado de la Esmeralda (The Enlightened One of the Emerald) for his healing powers.
01 January 1977
As José Abreu “Guanipa” is transferred with a group of prisoners to the Guasina camp in the Orinoco Delta, he recalls the torture he was subjected to by SN (National Security) henchmen in order to obtain information about the resistance.
01 January 1979
Directed by Alfredo Anzola, Manuel (1979) is a Venezuelan drama that explores themes of love, faith, and resistance.
15 June 2000
In 1856, a whaler arrives in Paita, Peru; on board is Herman Melville, who is astonished to learn that Manuela Sáenz, for eight years the lover of Simón Bolívar, is still alive.
27 August 1986
The confrontation between two families over possession of the land gradually becomes a great slaughter where almost all the members of one the sides dies.
08 July 2011
Rufino, a man of 71, is widowed and decides to return to the village where he met his wife. There is reunited with his landscapes and his friend Gaspar, a painter who has taken over a little orphan girl named Ana eight-year-E, Rufino who will be forced to remain under the same roof, despite its hostile coexistence .
01 January 1975
A young man visits the grave of his lover.
09 November 1966
Life in the slums of Caracas: misery, violence, unemployment, strength, vitality.
