Orlando Urdaneta
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Biography: Orlando Rafael Urdaneta (Maracaibo, October 24, 1950) is a Venezuelan actor, presenter, playwright, visual artist, and comedian. He began his acting career as a child, debuting on the "Bambilandia" program on Venevision, and was later cast in theater productions, telenovelas, and films. He also stood out as a host of game shows and radio and television programs, working as a comedian. In 1979, he married actress Chelo Rodríguez. He has received the National Film Award in recognition of his career. His work has earned him several awards, such as the Municipal Theater Award in 1997. The following year, he was honored by La Casa del Artista, and in 1998 and 1999, he received the National Association of Cinematographic Artists (ANAC) award for his participation in the Venezuelan films Pandemonium and 100 años de perdón.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Maracaibo, Venezuela
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Birthday: October 14, 1946
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Male
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Bambino Mio
Overview: A woman fights to adopt a war baby from the Third World after becoming unable to conceive.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-06
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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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Little Thieves, Big Thieves
Overview: In the wake of a banking crisis, four middle class friends throw a 'white glove' hold up, only to find out that their bank has already gone bankrupt.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-06-19
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Vidas paralelas
Overview: Ruben lives in Cuba and Andy is exile in the United States. Both are trapped by history at opposite poles and want to change places, but they can't do it.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Noche de perros
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-31
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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!
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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El fascista, la beata y su hija desvirgada
Overview: Juan, before the economic problems arising as a result of the arrival of democracy in Spain, decides to go to Venezuela, with Jaime, his brother, who has made his fortune in that country. Juan hopes that Jaime will make him a loan, hoping that also Gloria, his daughte,r marries Isidro Gomez de Ansúrez, a boy from a wealthy family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Koati
Overview: Three unlikely heroes - Nachi, a free-spirited coati; Xochi, a fearless monarch butterfly and Pako, a hyperactive glass frog - embark on an adventure to stop wicked coral snake Zaina from destroying their rain forest homeland.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-22
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La mágica aventura de Óscar
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-07-26
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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 Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-06-13
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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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Macho y hembra
Overview: Thirty-three years old Eva begins the writing of her memories and recalls her past love-life, when she used to live with her boyfriend and her best ladyfriend. In the beginning everything seems to work beetween them but after living together for some time they realize that their interests in life are not the same. They take a big decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-07-17
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Playing Under The Moon
Overview: This is the story of two teenage women affected by violence and the painful journey to become full and liberated. One, Maruja is a young rape victim. The other Carmen Luisa is beaten by violence within her own family.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-11-03
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Passionate Mobile
Overview: Gyula Kodar is a commissioner who investigates the murder of an American executive. Keep track of Macabí, an ex and former lover of Mary Laya, widow of the victim. With the help of Kelly, a prostitute who is his sometime lover, Gyula able to find Macabí ; then he discovers that love is superior to survival and freedom is stronger than betrayal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-02-02
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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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Los tracaleros
Overview: Two delinquents, with a beautiful waitress in a luxurious hotel are harassed and hunted by a powerful organization. The criminals will use all their skills to escape both the police and the hunters.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-04-06
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Salserin, the First Time
Overview: Salserín, la primera vez, candidly recounts a story of teenage love framed in the genesis of a salsa band that was once a musical phenomenon in the mid-nineties.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-02-05
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Carlito's Way
Overview: Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld. Reconnecting with his dancer girlfriend, Carlito gets entangled in the shady dealings of his friend Dave Kleinfeld, who also serves as his lawyer. An encounter with shifty gangster Benny Blanco sets the duo on a dangerous path.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-10
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I'm a Delinquent
Overview: The film tells the story of Ramón Antonio Brizuela, who since childhood has to deal with rampant violence and the drugs, sex and petty thievery of a Caracas slum. Starting with delinquency, Ramón moves on to serious gang activity and robberies. He grows into a tough, self-confident young man who is hardened to violence. His views change when his fiancée's brother is killed in a robbery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-08-17
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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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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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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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A Tame Song for a Brave People
Overview: Gilberto, a young man from the countryside, arrives in the city with the aim of carving out a future for himself. Initially he is dazzled by the sparkling image of the city, the spoiler of civilization, which will batter him until his personality undergoes a radical change.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-08-14
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Tubérculo Presidente
Overview: Tubérculo gets elected President of the Dominican Republic, with his friend Tirson as Vice-President and counselor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-11-24
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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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Cédula ciudadano
Overview: In this dark, screwball comedy, Gustavo Perez has only a few hours to survive the bureaucracy, get an official stamp on his I.D. and put his military papers in order, or it's the draft and straight to the snipers and the border wars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-06-09
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Seagulls Fly Low
Overview: An ex-Vietnam vet is forced to become a hit-man and gets caught in the middle of a conspiracy.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-11-01
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Savage Summer
Overview: The legend of their beach days, plus nights of sex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-08-07
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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.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Los muertos sí salen
Overview: Trino, Nerio, and Alfonso are poor chamber musicians trying to survive by playing wherever they can. During a general's funeral, the musicians try to play funeral music, but the screams of one of them, who thinks he's seen the deceased's hand move, cause such a commotion that the participants run away in terror.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-03-24
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El crimen del penalista
Overview: Based on the real story of the murder of Venezuelan lawyer Ramón Carmona Vásquez by a paramilitary group. Based on the book Grupo Táctico Operacional GATO by Alexis Rosas.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Pa mí tú estás loco
Overview: Venezuelan movie directed by César Cortez.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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La hora Texaco
Overview: This movie traces the life of Bobby Montoya, the son of a Texaco oil worker in Venezula on the eve of the nationalization of the industry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Borrón y cuenta nueva
Overview: Leonor Malpica (Mimí Lazo) is a woman in her 40s who works in a lingerie store, has a son studying abroad, a dog named Fifí and an excellent husband. Excellent, until one day she receives a disturbing phone call –anonymous, of course– in which the fidelity of Julio, her husband, is questioned. Without hesitation, Leonor decides to check with her own eyes that Julio is cheating on her with another woman. What follows is a whirlwind of crazy situations involving a maid who dreams of being the star of a soap opera; a bolero singer with two lovers: the pianist at the nightclub where she works and a prominent public official; the girlfriend of a television actor who introduces her suitor as her daughter, and a detective who arrives at the crime scene uncalled for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-04-10
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Open Air
Overview: In the early 1800s, Prussian geographer Alexander Von Humboldt and French botanist Aimé Bonpland launch an expedition to explore the Amazon region, including the Orinoco River, from Venezuela to the border of Portuguese Brazil.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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La Tercera Edad
Overview: Two old friends enroll in an adult university, looking for adventure, love and fun. What could go wrong?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-02-14
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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.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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El atentado
Overview: Dr. Rodolfo Arias, a controversial and corrupt lawyer, is the victim of an attack and he points to his two enemies Miguel Guevara and Javier Roldán as the ones responsible. Faced with this situation, Guevara proposes to Roldán a plan to assassinate the lawyer. Fucho, a young criminal whose brother had been a victim of Arias' corruption, together with two other thugs, would be responsible for perpetrating the murder.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Manuela Sáenz
Overview: 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. He calls on her, and although she will not talk to him about her life, his visit sends her to her chest of Bolívar's letters. As she reads them, the sepia-toned present gives way to flashbacks in color: she meets 'the Liberator' in 1822, becomes his lover, and also becomes a colonel in his military movement to realize the 'Gran Colombia', one nation across South America. As plague (brought by the ship) closes in on Manuela's household, so does her tempestuous story move toward Bolívar's betrayal and death.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-06-15
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