Elba Escobar
Also Known As: Elba Rodríguez Escobar
Biography: Elba Rodríguez Escobar was born on November 14, 1954 in Caracas, Venezuela. She is an actress and writer, known for Knocks at My Door (1993), La vida entera (2008) and Amaneció de golpe (1998).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Caracas, Venezuela
Birthday: November 14, 1954
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Maroa
Overview: Eleven-year-old petty criminal Maroa lives with her violent grandmother Brigida in Caracas. After her boyfriend Carlos is involved in a shooting, Maroa is arrested and sent to a school where Joaquin conducts the youth orchestra, and he asks the naturally talented Maroa to join. Days now revolve around the classes that Joaquin, the shy and unconventional teacher, gives her. He is immediately interested in this talented young girl, who lacks all notion of discipline. Joaquin, the only person to offer hope in the midst of her rejection, finds that through Maroa, his world has also changed forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Nuestra Señora de Coromoto
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Genres: History Drama TV Movie Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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My Straight Son
Overview: The story of Diego, a young and successful photographer that lives in the glamorous world of fashion, shallowness and excess. A tragic accident turns his world around; his partner is now in a coma. Unexpectedly, and right at this terrible time, Diego must take care of his son, Armando. Now, both of them have to adapt to each other; Armando to the unknown, homosexual world of his father, and Diego to the closed attitude of his teenage son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-11-27
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The Mystery of the Scarlet Eyes
Overview: Documentary by Alfredo Anzola about his father, Edgar J. Anzola (1893-1981), a pioneer in Venezuela of car racing, radio, film, acting and private enterprise.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-02
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The Faces of Power
Overview: Detective Pedro Ramirez has been released from prison to solve the kidnapping of three children, sons of a former Minister of Justice. Over the days this asingment will become a personal challenge. Ramírez will become suspicious of the entire police force... even his best friend.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-06-20
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The Enemy
Overview: In the corridors of a Caracas hospital, two very dissimilar beings meet by chance one night. Coming from very different worlds, anxiety is the only thing they have in common. One of them is Antonieta Sanchez, a single mother who has made ends meet for herself and her son, Odulio, by washing clothes and ironing. She knows she has lost her son a long time ago: Odulio is a young criminal. The night he was shot, Antonieta's life changed forever. The other is Benigno Robles, an assistant district attorney who, as a young law student, devoted his career with hope and deeply rooted ideals of justice. When Elisa, his only daughter, is hit by a stray bullet, Benigno will never be the same. But this encounter between Antonieta and Benigno, seemingly coincidental, is not: there is a secret that will eventually come to light
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-04-04
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Woman to Woman
Overview: Elsa and her married friend Miranda become jealous and violent toward each other as they compete for the sexual affection of the hunk Sergio. Elsa takes comfort in the arms of Miranda's husband Eloy after Sergio and Miranda run away together. Their lustful desires lead to tragedy in this erotic drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-06-12
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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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Knocks at My Door
Overview: A fugitive bursts into the home of two Catholic nuns. In an attempt to save his life, they hide him from the marauding military patrols, despite the danger they face if they are caught.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-09-01
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Secuestro Express
Overview: Young couple Carla and Martin are abducted by three men and spend a terrifying night in Caracas as they wait for Carla's father to hand over the ransom
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-06-01
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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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1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of the Santa Isabel
Overview: "1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of The Santa Isabel" is a whimsical adventure fantasy about a tired Jules Verne, fleeing from Paris and a bored wife, who joins Italian explorer Stradelli in an expedition on the Orinoco river. Along the way they pickup a young stranger- a woman disguised as a man, searching for her lost father.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-04-15
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De cómo Anita Camacho quiso levantarse a Marino Méndez
Overview: Anita Camacho, an ambitious maid poses as the owner of the house where she works in order to seduce a man of money, marry him and finally stop being poor.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-07-23
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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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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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Extra Terrestres
Overview: The Díaz are an influential family who control much of the poultry industry in the island. Arcadio is the family patriarch, an authoritative and conservative man who rules over his family's destiny as he does over the chickens on his farm. Teresa, his eldest, left home during her college years to become an astrophysicist against her father's wishes. Now, after a 7-year absence, she returns home for a few weeks in order to reveal a secret long kept from her family and to invite them to her wedding with Daniela. But, once back, her intentions turn to dust when she finds herself trapped in the family's old habit of lying. No one in the family is as they seem, nor are they willing to unveil their true selves. Within this world of half-truths, Teresa encounters Andrés, her nephew, a boy with Asperger's Syndrome who shares her passion for the stars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-01-02
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Los años del miedo
Overview: The political leader Alberto Carnevali, secretly returns to his country to plot against the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez. The Intense subversive struggle brings the torture of many of his comrades.
Genres: History Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Coup at Daybreak
Overview: 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. Venezuelans found themselves as virtual prisoners. As the coup starts and fighting takes place from a military base which is in the center of the city's most affluent areas, with both luxury high rises and palatial mansions. The area of La Carlota provides a wealth of very interesting, often flamboyant and typical characters of the Latin America upper middle and upper classes. They are among the most affected. Various vignettes in these different characters' homes are developed. These people's reactions, lifestyles, vices, and humanity come out in a very honest fashion under duress.
Genres: Drama Action History Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-09-16
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The Visitor of the Night
Overview: Venezuelan horror television movie from 1985.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Cabrujas en el país del disimulo
Overview: 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.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-01-13
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Liz in September
Overview: A shocking secret, ex-lovers and the arrival of an outsider shake things up for Liz as she celebrates her birthday at a lesbian-owned resort.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-10-02
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Manslaughter
Overview: A police drama that chronicles the efforts of a police officer to uncover an unexplained murder case that blends the lives of two women and a theater actor, the victim of an "artistic" shot, part of a play.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-06-27
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A Distant Place
Overview: Julian, a renowned photographer who has reached forty years, he discovered a cancer that undermines their strengths and taking away all hope. But he has a dream, a vision that changed his life. He dreams of a picture that has ever taken. Julian travels to the faraway place, and find the photo, a woman and a freak accident, finding also that your life will change forever.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-04-29
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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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