Fundación Cinemateca Nacional's Top 30 Venezuelan Films
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- DirectorRomán ChalbaudStarsHilda VeraMiguel Ángel LandaOrlando UrdanetaA 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.
- DirectorLuis Alberto LamataStarsCosme CortázarFrancis RuedaAlexander MilicAt early 16th century a priest joins the Spanish colonizers in order to bring Christianity to the indios. The expedition is murdered by the indios, only the priest is sparred. Santiago, the priest, first tries to continue christianization, but finally becomes one of them - until the Spaniards return.
- DirectorSolveig HoogesteijnStarsDaniel AlvaradoMaría Luisa MosqueraFrank HernándezThe true story of a jealous policeman and his young wife living in a shanty-town in South America.
- DirectorFina TorresStarsDoris WellsDaniela SilverioRafael BriceñoA young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana
- DirectorClemente de la CerdaStarsOrlando ZarrameraMaría EscalonaChelo RodríguezRamón has deal with the rampant violence, drugs, sex and petty thievery of a Caracas slum. Ramón moves on to serious gang activity and robberies. His views change when his fiance's brother is killed in a robbery.
- DirectorIván FeoAntonio LlerandiStarsHector DuvauchelleIván FeoEliseo PereraOn board of a bus, Andrés Barazarte travels through his city like another passenger. Life passes through the head of the young man, carried by the hand of his dead grandfather. His parochial family; his childhood without parents; the bitter youth of his aunt and the vicissitudes of that bohemian and crazy great-uncle; the military ancestors: secular warlords of opaque humanity; the economic ruin occurred in three strides; the unhappy life of the absent father, a worker in an oil field. The memories are knotted with the present: the love of his girlfriend and the hazardous political life in which ideals have become a permanent mortal risk. Present and past conspire and lead to the end: Andrés conjures up the times and accompanied by his own kind, performs the moving final act that will redeem him from his miseries.
- DirectorOlegario BarreraStarsCarlos Sanchez TorrealbaHéctor CampobelloHéctor Javier CoelloA 12-year-old boy is asked to write an essay about what his family does at night.
- DirectorAlfredo AnzolaStarsVíctor CuicaFausto VerdialFlor AdamesAlexander (Víctor Cuica) y su amiga Diosa (Brigitte Tirone) empiezan a trabajar en una mueblería, Alexander sospecha que el dueño está involucrado en un negocio turbio. Ante Grau Klein (Fausto Verdial) ellos hacen que no se conocen, averiguan acerca de las actividades de Klein y Alexander decide aplicarle un poco de su propia medicina haciéndole ver que él representa a una poderosa organización y que trabaja en una mueblería solamente para proponerle un buen negocio. El resultado es una especie de mezcla entre El sirviente y El golpe, a ritmo de la salsa de Alexander (compuesta magistralmente por Juan Carlos Núñez). La película retrata la Caracas de los años setenta: moderna, rica y de dinero fácil; donde la moralidad es siempre dudosa; donde inexplicablemente un motorizado logra vivirle la parte a su patrón, con una enorme dosis de ingenio y de humor.
- DirectorThaelman UrgellesStarsCorina AzopardoCarlos CarreroHector ClotetJosé and Marlene celebrate their marriage. The guests, who belong to different social strata, begin to recall events from the past. During the party, José's father appears and the peace breaks when the bride's father recognizes him as the man who tortured him years ago in National Security.
- DirectorMauricio WalersteinStarsAlicia AlamoLinda AlbornozFernando ArriagaIn 1948 Venezuela three children are born on the same day, all named Victorino were born.
- DirectorMariana RondónStarsLaureano OlivaresGreisy MenaWilliam CifuentesA young woman gives birth to a daughter while living in secrecy. The daughter and her cousin Teo cope with the fear and violence of their parents' struggle. They also wait for postcards from Leningrad, a place they feel is a safe haven.
- DirectorAlejandro SadermanStarsVerónica OddóElba EscobarJuan Carlos GenéA 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.
- DirectorRomán ChalbaudStarsEva BlancoArturo CalderónJavier Zapata
- DirectorCarlos AzpúruaStarsAmalia Pérez DíazJean Carlo SimancasDaniel AlvaradoDuring 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.
- DirectorLuis Alberto LamataStarsLourdes ValeraCarlos CruzDaniela AlvaradoIn 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.
- DirectorCarlos Hugo ChristensenStarsArturo de CórdovaVirginia LuqueAmérica BarrioA Captain with a mistress at another port leaves his wife on a routine trip with his son. There, after making a hasty retreat from his mistress, she, with the help of a local shaman, conspire to take him away from his family forever.
- DirectorAlejandro SadermanStarsOrlando UrdanetaDaniel LugoAroldo BetancourtIn 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.
- DirectorMauricio WalersteinStarsOrlando UrdanetaElba EscobarIrene ArcilaThirty-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 lady friend. In the beginning everything seems to work between them but after living together for some time they realize that their interests in life are not the same. They take a big decision.
- DirectorCésar BolívarStarsWilliam CartayaYanis ChimarasElba EscobarA police drama that narrates the efforts of a policeman to discover an inexplicable murder case that mixes the lives of two women and a theater actor, victim of an "artistic" shot, part of a play.
- DirectorRomán ChalbaudStarsMayra AlejandraMiguel Ángel LandaWilliam MorenoThe old story repeats itself, in another time, and another place. End of the 1970s, at La Guaira seaport, a strapping sixteen-year old Carmen is the girl that attract all males' eyes. Female rivalries and hot tempers leads her into a fight with an older woman smuggler, La Perícia, at the municipal market. Carmen cuts the other woman's face. José Navarro, sergeant of Guardia Nacional on duty, arrests her, and takes her in a truck to the police station. The way is short, but the time of touching his face with a blossoming red rose, José is love with Carmen. For her, he will betray his uniform, he will lose his grade, and he will even kill, becoming the leader of her gang of smugglers. Félix Reverte, a young and daring bullfighter, comes to town where he will perform his art of killing the bull in the arena, soon; he too, becomes madly in love with Carmen, and the girl becomes obsessed with his courtship, rejecting her older lover. The day of the bullfight, when Carmen approaches the arena to watch Reverte's bullfighting, José can't stand it anymore, they fight, and he stabs her to death.
- DirectorJacobo PenzoStarsFranklin VírgüezElba EscobarDoris Wells