Discoveries from Venezuela World Cinema

Spain, 30's. Fabian Insausti (Juan Luis Galiardo), which has become a rich landowner in Venezuela, returns to his hometown due to the death of his mother. One day he decides to visit an old mansion converted into a luxury brothel, and there falls in love with Ana (Maribel Verdú), a young prostitute. He asks her to accompany him, but she is not willing to give up the luxury of home run by Charo, for her real mother. So the owner Fabian offers its pupils move to Venezuela, under the same conditions they have here.

Aliens wipe out the earth population except for 3 people. How will the adapt and survive?

The captain of a small vessel, regularly sailing between his home island of Margarita Island in the Caribbean and the Venezuelan mainland, has two separate and very different relationships. At home, he is happily married, having named his boat Isabel after his wife. Yet on his visits to the port of La Guaira, he has a passionate affair with Esperanza, a woman working in a seedy cabaret who tries to retain him with hexes and spells. A classic of Latin American cinema, which won Best Cinematography at 1951 Cannes Film Festival.

In 16th-century Spanish America, a Dominican friar named Santiago survives a brutal expedition and is absorbed into a Carib tribe. When he flees tribal conflict only to be captured by Spanish forces accused of heresy, he is forced to confront the clash between his ideals and the violence of conquest.

Manuel, the manager of the (real-life) Hotel Condado Beach in San Juan, and his assistant Paquito decide to promote their establishment by offering free "honeymoons in Puerto Rico" to newlywed couples.

At the height of the 1980s AIDS epidemic, Cuban boxing champion Horacio's punishment for failing a drug test is to watch over the brash, combative Daniel, a patient in a sanatorium where HIV patients are compulsorily confined. The two collide as Daniel yearns for freedom while Horacio dreams of returning to the ring.

Scheming secretary sabotages her boss's wedding plans and snags him for herself. She, him, his brother and the abandoned pregnant fiance all suffer as a result.

Three women from different cities in Latin America, they simultaneously face the same challenge: an unexpected pregnancy. They do not know each other, but a golden and invisible thread links their lives. Their stories cross-relate and meet in different points, despite the distance. Each one in her own city, culture, and personal environment, will walk the streets, traversing fantasies, fears, desires and joys, looking for a door towards their new life, with as much glam our as they possibly can. A movie with many exhilarate and dramatic situations presented in an impeccable frame, driven by fashion, music, and a very feminine and sophisticated touch. Three accents, three colors, three kinds of sound, three cities. A movie as mandatory for women as wearing make-up

Employees and clients at Merle's Beauty Stuff have illicit romances and cheating husbands and that kind of thing. Meanwhile, the cop that directs traffic outside gets an opportunity to become a movie star.

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.

Juan Luis and Dimas arrive to the "Venta del Catite", a tavern run by Rafael and his goddaughter Reyes. The tavern is frequented by tuna fishermen in the region, but in reality it is a cover for smuggling. Rafael decides to hire a beautiful singer, Raquel, to distract customers and the two new arrivals, so that he can do his business without being disturbed.

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

A cop and two young journalists are in possession of evidence of the implication of two SS officers involved in major assassinations across the world. Whe they try to reveal this information they become the target of a manhunt...

When Margartia's dreams, to become a famous cook come to a crumbing halt when immigration kicks her out of the country - her arrival in Venezuela is painful. Little does she know that the famous English chef, Paul Welsare, is about to arrive in Venezuela and this will give her the opportunity to dream again.

In the middle of a night of drinking after their father's funeral, two estranged brothers decide to travel to a town on the outskirts of the city. As they descend further into oblivion, the ghosts of their past begin to materialize.

A full on examination of the two presidential terms of Carlos Andres Perez in which he led the venezuelan fates: 1974-1979 and 1989-1993, known respectively as "La Gran Venezuela" and "El Gran Viraje". Two models of government that, separated by ten years, were very different but produced a change in the history of the country.

Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.

Once upon a time, the Venezuelan village of Congo Mirador was prosperous, alive with fisherman and poets. Now it is decaying and disintegrating—a small but prophetic reflection of Venezuela itself.

Movie based on José Natalio Estrada's novel, María del Llano.

Retale the famous soap opera of 1970

Gael is an 80-year-old photographer whose passion for the sea and whales takes him on an emotional journey in which he faces the reality of his age and the limits it imposes on his freedom. As he struggles to capture the essence of the sea once again, he is hindered by his overprotective but distant son, Míchel.

Version of the play "Todo bicho de uña". It tells the story of revenge. The tour of the Andean, for ten years, a young man in search of the rapist and murderer of his mother, takes us into the underworld strata fairs and circuses villagers.

Henri is a music composer, but after a love affair gone wrong, he decides to leave civilization, and isolate himself deep in the valley of the Amazon river. Moana is a girl who finds him attractive, and informs him about the tribe's treasure. Eventually, his heart balances between a new love or getting hugely rich.

María Eugenia Alonso, almost a woman, still an adolescent, returns from Europe to impose the light of her reason on that of her old house, a temple of boredom, where, as in the ancient and moist churches, the old smell of traditions and race floats.

The story tells the emotional conflicts of a group of young friends, who represent a generation that was characterized by family problems and live music. His great dream was to attend a concert by singer Melissa, while their private dramas were changing their lives.

A murderer terrorizes the city of Buenos Aires by attacking on the streets on rainy days and always leaving a card with the name "S. López". A local boarding house full of eccentrics appears to house a possible suspect.

A Venezuelan government official is sent to Switzerland to work on a project, strangely descending into sickness as unsettling events unfold back home.

Los Nevados is the first peasant feature film from Venezuela. The magical poetry about humans who endure an almost animal, almost instinctive, almost sad existence, which turns into a complaint.

Humberto Ortiz, a frustrated journalist, becomes obsessed with discovering what happened one early morning in November, when Maribel Angarita allegedly murdered her usual attacker, his partner Rafael. The investigation of what appears to be a simple chronicle becomes an elusive metaphor for the conflict of an entire country.

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.

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.

CALYPSO (1958) was entirely shot on location in the Antilles archipelago with mostly non-professional actors and was released in colour and Cinemascope. It was a kind of follow-up to the previous Italian exotic documentary films from the 1950s and especially to L´ULTIMO PARADISO.

Franco de Peña's movie deals with three very different love stories, all taking place on the Avenida Libertador, the main avenue of Caracas.

Short animation film by Venezuelan filmmaker John Moore.

Eladio is a failed actor who has spent years in obscurity working maintenance at a TV station in the capital. When he’s forced to return to Maracaibo to care for his teenage niece —a fierce, guitar-playing rebel— their worlds clash. Amid loud music, insults, and generational conflict, Eladio accidentally reinvents himself as an acting teacher… and ends up entangled with one of the city’s most notorious crime syndicates. What follows is a hilarious, heartfelt, and uniquely Latin American story about rediscovery, family, and the absurdities of adulthood —at any age.

In a time uncertainty times, Luisa and Juan Bautista feed their love, but the war separates them and she ends in prison. They must struggle to be together again and stay true to their love and ideals.

A naive but humane student leaves his town with the ambition to become a doctor, promising to return to help his people, who see him as a local hero.

Rosa (Carlota Sosa), a perfectionist, controlling and structured lawyer and mother, meticulously prepares her solitary birthday dinner while anticipation grows for the possible arrival of an unexpected visitor.

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.

When the corpse of mobster Miguel "el chino" Sanabria surfaces, everyone thinks his death is the result of an argument during the heat of the moment. That is, everyone except Officer Ferran (Victor Mayo), who believes something more menacing was at fault. Along with Picasso (Juanko Vellido), the last person to see Sanabria alive, Ferran sets out to find the truth behind the murder -- and learns something about his own destiny in the process.

A quiet yet mischievous girl secretly admires her older cousin and, after slipping away from the younger kids, decides to spy on her in hopes of finding answers.

Jhonny Quintero, the only survivor of the catastrophe in Mérida, Venezuela, in 2000, relives his tragic accident in which a group of high mountain hikers were buried by a block of ice and snow. This event led to a rescue operation that lasted 16 days, known as Operation Humboldt. During this time, an arduous search was conducted to locate the missing and rescue the survivors under extreme conditions.

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.

Under the command of the Liberator Simón Bolívar, on June 24, 1821, the patriotic army fought to the death against the forces loyal to the Spanish crown with the goal of achieving, at all costs, the independence of Venezuela.

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.

A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death".

1780, a group of slaves flee from a sugar cane hacienda. As they are pursued by Don Manuel Aguirre, obsessed landowner who has fixed his eyes on Azu, the beautiful slave with an ancestral destiny.

After escaping from a prison camp, an undercover Policeman infiltrates a Revolutionary Movement bent on stealing guns and ammo for their cause. He finds that he must combat the entire group single-handed. Larry Anderson

A terrible secret is hidden between the walls of an old house, the past returns and now, for Irene and Alberto, the moment of their condemnation and destruction has arrived.

Spark (2016) Oscar, a young Venezuelan student, sparks a social media movement using an innovative cell phone application to circumvent the censorship in his country.

Camila Martínez lives on the seashore with her family, where strange phenomena occur that torment them, which little by little deteriorates their coexistence due to her father's problematic behavior.

Based on the Emily Brontë classic novel, "Wuthering Heigts", tells the story of a rebellious and even savage young man arrives in La Borrasca to change the life of the owners of this great mansion, but especially Catherine's, among them is born a love that goes beyond death, to the point of unleashing the madness of Alejandro when he sees his beloved buried in his tomb and decides to remove it so that it follows to its side.

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.

Inspector Rodríguez resigns from Venevisión and decides to set up his own detective agency with his inseparable partner "Pacheco."

During a police round-up, Mercedes witnesses the unjust murder of her son, a working-class man, by a police captain. Refusing to accept the official version of the story - that her son was a criminal - she launches a campaign for justice. Santiago, a young journalist moved by Mercedes's passion and determination, begins to investigate the story of the police cover-up at the risk of his own life. As the investigation develops, the film exposes the depth of Venezuela's corruption.

A country woman in the 1960s in Venezuela tries to have a child for the third time, but is tormented by a ghost from her past who tries to ruin her attempt to finally have a family

Sixteen people get stuck in a subway car in NYC for several days, without communication, hope, way to escape, and a fatal sensation that they are going to die. A raw display of human behavior when one confronts the possibility of death.

In 1999, torrential rains caused the greatest catastrophe in the history of Venezuela. A mudslide buried the 15,000 inhabitants of the city of La Guaira. Two women. Two generations. Isabel and Yudeixi are damaged during the tragedy that takes away their past in a matter of hours.