Julio Mota
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Venezuelan actor born on April 8, 1936. He excelled in theater, film, and television. Additionally, he was a radio announcer and the official voice of the state channel Venezolana de Televisión.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Venezuela
Adult: No
Birthday: April 08, 1936
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 15, 2023
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Black River
Overview: Río Negro is 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
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-02-12
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Comrade Augusto
Overview: Augusto Cardenas, former guerrilla of bourgeois origin, goes free after four years in prison, he meets with his parents and his wife. He returns to his world and realizes that the fight for his political ideals is only in his memory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-07-21
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Comrade Augusto
Overview: Augusto Cardenas, former guerrilla of bourgeois origin, goes free after four years in prison, he meets with his parents and his wife. He returns to his world and realizes that the fight for his political ideals is only in his memory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-07-21
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El caracazo
Overview: 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. El nombre proviene de Caracas, la ciudad donde acontecieron parte de los hechos, recordando a otro hecho ocurrido en Colombia el 9 de abril de 1948; el Bogotazo. La masacre ocurrió el día 28 de febrero cuando fuerzas de seguridad de la Policía Metropolitana (PM) y Fuerzas Armadas del Ejército y de la Guardia Nacional (GN) salieron a las calles a controlar la situación.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-02-11
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Cóctel de Camarones. En el Día de la Secretaria
Overview: In Secretaries Day, either you get laid or you get paid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-07-25
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Vimazoluleka
Overview: Year 1966 Vimazoluleka is the first play that Levy Rossell staged at the Ateneo de Caracas (Quinta Ramia) starting on August 18, 1966. He moved to the auditorium of the Faculty of Engineering and from there to the Aula Magna. He won a scholarship to study in New York and staged it in English for five months off Broadway. He returned to Caracas and showed it throughout the 70s and 90s. He gave it that title from the first words of the names of his close classmates: Vicente Amengual, María Angelina Rodríguez, Zobeida Ramos, Luis Kolster, Levy Rossell and Carlos Hernandez.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-03-26
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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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Amazonas, el negocio de este mundo
Overview: Documentary about multiple the denouncement of military, religious and science sectors, in relation to the violation of the indigenous tribes of the Venezuelan Amazon by the american evangelical mission New Tribes
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-03-10
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Compañero de viaje
Overview: A tale of hate in a town in the Venezuelan Andes where the conflicts and passions of those who live enclosed in the mountains make violence an inevitable destiny.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-07-18
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Cubagua
Overview: Based on the novel by Venezuelan writer Enrique Bernardo Núñez, the film tells the story of engineer Leiziaga discovering his historical doubles in the context of the colonization of the island of Cubagua in Venezuela. In this way, two stories are intertwined: one that takes place in the 16th century and another in the 20th century. The first story focuses on the life of the Spanish settlers who arrived in Cubagua and the exploitation of the indigenous peoples for pearl extraction; the second story, set in the 1920s, tells of Leiziaga's archaeological expedition, financed by a multinational oil company, in which he visits the island to study the ruins of the Spanish settlement, which leads him to reflect on the passage of time and the destruction caused by human exploitation, and through a game of mirrors, to realize the relationships between the past, present and future.
Genres: Fantasy History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-02-18
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Manuel
Overview: Directed by Alfredo Anzola, Manuel (1979) is a Venezuelan drama that explores themes of love, faith, and resistance. The story follows Aparicio and his wife, Alma Rosa, as they welcome a new priest, Manuel, to their coastal village. As Manuel becomes acquainted with the community, he discovers that the village is slated for demolition to make way for a tourist development. Deeply moved by the villagers' plight, Manuel joins the local fishermen in their struggle to defend their land. During this time, he also finds himself drawn to Alma Rosa, leading to personal and moral dilemmas. The developers, aware of Manuel's growing influence and his feelings for Alma Rosa, begin to monitor his actions closely. The film delves into the complexities of human relationships and the fight against displacement.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Fiebre
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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El vividor
Overview: Jorge Reina, a libertine and ambitious man, takes advantage of his ability to seduce and influence women to climb the ranks. He finally achieves his goal by marrying the rich heiress of the owner of the newspaper where he works and serving as its editor-in-chief. Drama based on Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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The Secret
Overview: Gaspar Urbieta works as a typographer in Maracaibo. The National Guard convinces him to infiltrate an organization of Colombian gold smugglers. Gaspar will experience situations of fear, humour, intrigue and romance with a beautiful and enigmatic blonde. His secret will be so incredible that if he told it, no one would believe it!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Al borde de la línea
Overview: "Al Borde de la Línea" is the story of Claudia, a 16-year-old girl who works as a chambermaid in a rundown hotel where she is sexually abused by Rodriguez, the owner. She decides to escape with the help of her friend Alma, an older woman who is also a maid and Salvador, the driver of the morgue's van who is desperately in love with her. The night they have planned the escape, everything changes. Claudia runs away with Juan, a singer she met that day in the hotel's bar. Events unravel and bring them all back to the hotel "Crepúsculos de Venecia" a place of encounter, obsession, and betrayal. Their fate lies in Claudia's hands.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-11-05
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Manoa
Overview: 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. Although the two compatriots both live in the capital, Caracas, and both love music, they have a need to go out into the rest of the country and discover their roots. As big-city dwellers, they are limited in their perspectives, though this excursion into other areas of Venezuela may prove more illuminating to them than to a foreign audience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-03-19
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El mar del tiempo perdido
Overview: In a coastal town with no name and desolated by poverty, the sea suddenly begins to exhale a scent of roses that transforms the lives of all the villagers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Eternal Ashes
Overview: ETERNAL ASHES tells the story of a mother, Ana and her daughter, Elena. Although they are separated, in the space and time they remain united forever. The people and the millenarian culture of Yanomami are the framework of this story about the unbreakable bonds of filiations. After an accident in the furious flow of the mythical Orinoco River, in the fifties, Ana was considered dead. Elena as an adult and facing the negligible possibility that her mother is alive decides to leave to the Amazon to search her. ETERNAL ASHES is a story of filiations, poetry, wisdom and especially of humanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-12-09
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Two Ports and a Hill
Overview: After several close calls with death squads, Mario Handler fled Uruguay in 1973 and eventually settled in Venezuela where he lived and continued to make films before returning to Uruguay in recent years. The first film he completed in exile, Dos puertos y un cerro is an essay film about the imbalances of trade. A narrator dispassionately recounts in voice-over a brief summation of Venezuela's situation as a hub port in the establishment of the colonial system in the sixteenth-century.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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La pluma del arcángel
Overview: In a tiny town in an unnamed Latin American country in the 1930s, a young telegraph operator helps link the small, repressed community to the outside world, against the will of the powerful colonel who rules the village like a dictator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-22
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Wanted: Good Looking Receptionist and Messenger with His Own Motorcycle
Overview: Alexander and her friend Diosa start working in a furniture store, Alexander suspects that the owner is involved in a murky business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-10-13
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