Hilda Vera
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Biography: Hilda Vera, (Caracas, Venezuela, May 27, 1923 - Ibidem, February 1, 1988) was a leading Venezuelan film, television and theater actress, a pioneer of Venezuelan TV.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Caracas, Venezuela
Birthday: May 27, 1923
Deathday: February 01, 1988
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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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Girl with the Golden Panties
Overview: Luys Forest is a writer with a Falangist political past. He lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting his autobiography with the times), and brooding over his failed marriage. His sister is worried about him and decides to send her daughter Mariana to stay with him. Mariana and a seemingly mute and artistic lesbian companion come to town to shake the stable world of Luys with their free and uninhibited ways. Soon begins a game of seduction that ends up exposing the intellectual game of Luys.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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The House of Water
Overview: Set in the 1920s in Venezuela, this political melodrama by Jacobo Penzo follows the decision of the fictional Cruz Elías León (Franklin Virguéz), a young Venezuelan poet, to give up a life of social and possibly mainstream political advancement to go back to his home and family in an isolated fishing village and combat the despotic military dictator in charge of the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-05-16
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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
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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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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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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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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Victims of Sin
Overview: A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-02
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Doña Perfecta
Overview: Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-10
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Full Spead Ahead
Overview: A drifter lands a job as an officer in México City's elite motorcycle police unit and gets home with a mate of this unit. The mate is in love with a girl, but he and she are always making jealous to each other. The drifter and the mate get involved themselves in a fight to become the winner of conquering ladies and performing unit acrobatic tricks, interfering with their friendship and profession.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-13
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La casa del paraíso
Overview: Victoria, a beautiful woman, breaks into a large house, where strage people live without ever leaving the house. There is an enigmatical man who controls the lives of these people and the visit of Victoria will unchain passions and disclose the true feelings represed into their souls.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-05-31
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La hora del tigre
Overview: Humberto and Atilio, two elderly men confined in a nursing home, decide to flee when they see the arrival of some ballot boxes through the window, which makes them assume that their lives are in danger. The escape causes the mobilization of an entire military strategic team while the two elderly men and Daniel, an employee of the nursing home, wander around the roads of the area. In the end, they are unexpectedly armed and confront the “enemy”.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Light in the High Plains
Overview: Luz en el páramo is a 1953 Venezuelan film directed by Víctor Urruchúa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-05-01
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We the Poor
Overview: Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-03-25
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Caribbean Rhythms
Overview: A Cuban rumbera dancer undergoes an ordeal to fall in love with a married Mexican doctor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-12-06
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Eva, Perla y Julia
Overview: In the process of illness and death of the father of three sisters (Eva, Julia and Perla) they confront each other, their lives, their past, their hopes and frustrations in a middle class environment. It is based on an idea by Mauricio Walerstein and Ibsen Martínez.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Trampa inocente
Overview: The story takes place in 1862, just after the federal war ended. A pair of Gothic colonels go in search of a juicy inheritance, buried in a farm that is considered invaded by terrifying ghosts. Ignoring the mysterious stories they hear, they go to work. There they are victims of intentional attacks, which in the end they discover are carried out by a little girl, who is the daughter of the former foreman of the owners of the big house, so she feels attacked by the intruders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Entre sábado y domingo
Overview: The story delves into the existential problems of a forty-something executive who rediscovers his youthful drive and generosity in a young woman, only to fall and rise from a terrible moral crisis, which is cinematically resolved within a period of 24 hours.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-06-28
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Martín Santos, El llanero
Overview: A farmer aspires to marry the daughter of the local aristocrats, but she think he's beneath her. It take a long time for things to settle into a groove so life can run smoothly again for all concerned.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-05-15
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Profundo
Overview: Based on the play by José Ignacio Cabrujas, it is a comedy with deep popular roots and, essentially, Latin American.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Mestizo
Overview: A village on the Venezuelan coast, a place of fishermen and big haciendas, Aquiles Vargas, a white aristocrat in somewhat reduced circumstances, fights with Cruz Guaregua, a humble black fisherwoman, and mother of his only son, a half-caste 'mestizo'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-10-01
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