Rafael Briceño
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The Company Forgives a Moment of Madness
1978-01-02
The Company Forgives a Moment of Madness
Overview: A skilled worker has a sudden nervous breakdown at the company for which he has been working for the last 20 years. He attacks the machines and smashes the windows. The company decides to have him undergo treatment with a well-known young psychiatrist. She will try to bring light the reasons for his behavior so he can adapt himself to his work once again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-02
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Ratón en Ferretería
1985-05-01
Ratón en Ferretería
Overview: Adonai Flores, an experienced writer of telenovelas, falls in love with Belén Helena, a girl of low class. Adonay, desperate to keep her with him, abandons his responsibilities and even his dog. After discovering that she is a drug dealer he decides to leave her and recovers his dog
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-05-01
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Sacred and Obscene
1975-07-23
Sacred and Obscene
Overview: Pedro Zamora (Miguelangel Landa) is a former guerrilla who returns to Caracas and moves to a pension as a tenant. Despite appearances, he has come to fulfill a secret mission to its ultimate consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-07-23
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Tales for Grown Ups
1963-06-19
Tales for Grown Ups
Overview: This anthology film consists of three parts: "Story One: The story of the brave man", "Story Two: Angels Rhythm" and "Story Three: The false office of supernumerary". The first story tells of a man desperate to get money to cure the illness of his daughter. The second story tells the adventures of a gang of youths; and finally, the third story tells of corruption in Congress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-06-19
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Young Cain
1959-10-05
Young Cain
Overview: Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational opportunities. When they get there they have to live in a poor home in one of the slums located in the city's outskirts, where they encounter a horrible world full of promiscuity and misery, that is quite different from what they expected and that eventually will lead Juana to self-destruction and Juan to reconsider his life in the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-10-05
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The Flock of Angels
1979-07-10
The Flock of Angels
Overview: Ingrid is a young high school student who due to the impact suffered by the death of his mother, is acting strangely causing concern to her teachers. After a landslide caused by heavy rains, police surrounded the premises of the high school to expel the refugees resulting in the classes suspended. When they resume, Ingrid throws herself into space from the top floor of the campus
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-07-10
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When I Want to Cry, I Don't
1973-07-04
When I Want to Cry, I Don't
Overview: In Venezuela, one day in 1948 there were born three children all named Victorino: Pérez, mulatto and son of the poor Lucía; Perdomo, son of a middle-class communist who gets arrested; and bourgeois Peralta. On the day of his eighteenth birthday Pérez escapes from prison using lather pretending it to be a rage attack. Peralta shows a friend of his a car he got from his parents. A young lady gives herself to Perdomo as a birthday present. Pérez finds his mistress with another man and wounds her. Pérez and a few others rob an old man while riding on their motorcycles. Perdomo and a bunch of bushwhackers plan to rob a bank. Pérez sees a friend of his smoking pot while Peralta visits a cousin of his and has sex with her. Perdomo’s father, recently elected a communist representative wants to talk him out of his violent ways. Pérez sleeps with three girls and remembers how he once killed a man in the middle of a robbery. Peralta and his friends shoot dogs just for fun. Perdomo and his pals…
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-07-04
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Oriana
1985-09-08
Oriana
Overview: A young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-09-08
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Crab
1982-04-22
Crab
Overview: Commissioner Leon (Miguel Angel Landa) of the Technical Judicial Police is assigned to the kidnapping of a child of the upper class of Caracas. The details of the kidnapping the attention of Leon, as there is no evidence of violence in the child's home, or witnesses to the abduction. Based on that Leon believes that the hijackers knew the boy and soon begins to suspect several young people from wealthy families of Caracas.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-04-22
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Pandemonium, the Hell's Capital City
1997-06-13
Pandemonium, the Hell's Capital City
Overview: Adonai is an lunatic poet. He lives in an abandoned neighborhood of Caracas where he runs an underground radio called "Radio Pandemonium", he lives with his mom, his grandmother and a young lady who she calls very endearly, 'whore'. They survive among the corrupt, the death and the rising upheaval of the oppressed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-06-13
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Terra Nova
1991-07-11
Terra Nova
Overview: Quite a few decades ago, the Italian immigrants in this movie came to live in the Venezuelan countryside. They have settled in a region dominated by a crusty local aristocrat, and over the years they have had many encounters with him. It is finally time to take stock of their successes and failures and to decide whether to remain in Venezuela or return to Italy. The immigrant family is headed by a strong-willed and very earthy woman, and her evolving relationship with the aristocrat determines the outcome of their deliberations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-07-11
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The Criminals
1982-07-28
The Criminals
Overview: Two young men decide to rob a residence believing it uninhabited, once inside the homeowners and another couple maintain a perverse game as fun for Sunday. One of the young enters the house but is cornered and subjected to all sorts of harassment and abuse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-07-28
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The Smoking Fish
1977-01-02
The Smoking Fish
Overview: A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon he takes the place of the administrator, who is also La Garza's lover.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-02
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The Burning of Judas
1974-11-20
The Burning of Judas
Overview: Jesús María Carmona is a small-time crook who poses as a cop so he can rob a bank. A few days before the day he planned to do it, a guerrilla group robs the same bank and Carmona is shot to death defending it when he has no other choice but to act as a policeman. Soon after, his image becomes a symbol for the police and he is honored, but his identity is found out. Meanwhile, in the neighborhood where he grew up his effigy is burned as he is now considered a traitor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-11-20
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La Noche de las Ratas
1982-01-01
La Noche de las Ratas
Overview: Venezuelan horror television movie from 1982.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive
1974-07-23
Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive
Overview: 1964, in a Latin American country, a journalist is head of an armed liberation movement that decides to initiate radical actions. His second in command, a farmer, and the other members of the group will kidnap a north american colonel stationed in Venezuela to force his government to suspend the execution of the vietnamese Nguyen Van Troi, accused of trying to assassinate the American Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-07-23
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Carmen
1978-10-11
Carmen
Overview: 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. In doing so he also falls in love with her, but jealousy will destroy his passion.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-10-11
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Crab II
1984-06-13
Crab II
Overview: Commissioner Leon (Miguel Angel Landa) investigates the murder of a woman in a population near the capital. The woman was raped before death and the case is complicated when his brother becomes the prime suspect, since it is a priest (Eduardo Serrano). Because of the implications that inquiries might have, Leon is pressured to keep the event as a "crab" (Cangrejo, or a unsolvable case), but he decides to comply with the law.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-06-13
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Ver a Hilda Vera
1998-10-22
Ver a Hilda Vera
Overview: A living room, two video cameras, an armchair, two televisions and a mirror: domestic daily life in which colleagues, family and friends come together to decipher the life, personality and artistic trajectory of one of the most important actresses of Venezuelan Cinema: Hilda Vera
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-10-22
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Chévere o la victoria de Wellington
1971-03-17
Chévere o la victoria de Wellington
Overview: A young man roams the streets of Caracas.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-03-17
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La metamorfosis
1964-11-17
La metamorfosis
Overview: Gregor Samsa tries to get up to go to work, but realizes that during the night he has turned into a gigantic insect. Venezuelan adaptation based on Jorge Luis Borges' translation of Franz Kafka's novel.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-17
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Llano adentro
1958-01-01
Llano adentro
Overview: Documentary that tells the story of a group of laborers who live on the banks of the Amazon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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La paga
1962-07-22
La paga
Overview: A peasant faces exploitation, misery and violence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-07-22
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El pequeño milagro
1965-04-15
El pequeño milagro
Overview: Venezuelan movie directed by Juan Corona.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-04-15
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Bárbara
1972-08-15
Bárbara
Overview: Elisa is treated and poisoned by her envious cousin Irene. Elisa leaves the notice denouncing her murder hidden in a picture frame. Irene marries the widower. Barbara arrives in Caracas with her nanny and enters to serve in the house of Don Luis, who dies. Pablo, the son of the deceased, falls in love with Barbara and ends up, after multiple inconveniences and oppositions, marrying her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-15
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Candelas en la niebla
1988-08-17
Candelas en la niebla
Overview: Political struggles in Venezuela since 1921, during the military dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez. The uprising of the liberals and the popular army that is formed. The bloody civil war that takes place and the process that precedes the establishment of democracy. After a failed attempt on Eustoquio Gómez's life, governor of the region and brother of the dictator of Venezuela, the Gómezist army launches a fierce persecution against the inhabitants of Queniquea. They turn to Juan Pablo Peñaloza, head of the liberal army, who attacks the government forces. In a confrontation between the two sides, Peñaloza's son is killed. He continues with the "revolution" after challenging Eustoquio to a personal battle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-17
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Congo Mirador
1995-01-01
Congo Mirador
Overview: The imaginary crossing of the last pirogue to Congo Mirador at the south end of Lake Maracaibo.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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