Mimí Lazo

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Mimí Lazo

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40 titles

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Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

Padres poster
7.4

A comedy that highlights values and shows how love can do everything, told from the perspective of Sebastián, a boy who was born with two parents and ended up with a different, tolerant and inclusive family, but with the true meaning of what it is to be family. The film tells the story of Virginia, who donates her eggs to her twin brother David and his partner Bruno so that they can become parents, hidden from her husband Miguel. After the birth of the baby, Bruno and Virginia die in a tragic accident, and Miguel and David must join together to protect Sebastian.

Padres

2024

El pez que fuma poster
NR

In 1976, a 19-year-old actress becomes a symbol of scandal when she starts her career in The Smoking Fish, delivering the first-ever nude scene in Venezuelan cinema. The media crucifies her, turning her into a controversial figure. Decades later, she returns to the iconic film, now as the lead. As she embarks on the remake's production, her personal life spirals into a passionate affair with the married director and a complicated romance with the young male protagonist. Life and art intertwine as her real-world turmoil mirrors the love triangle she portrays on screen. More than just the professional redemption she seeks, The Smoking Fish will once again change her life in unexpected ways.

El pez que fuma

2026

Espina poster
NR

Tired of being treated like a child by everyone due to his physical limitations, Jonathan, 29, embarks on a wild and heartfelt trip to Panama with unlikely companions to confront the doctor who caused his disability.

Espina

2025

Un País Llamado El Pez que Fuma poster
NR

Documentary that has unpublished testimonies from Román Chalbaud, director of El pez que fuma, an emblematic Venezuelan film from the 1970s; as well as funny conversations with the actors, 40 years after the premiere of the film. Made from a solid video-newspaper investigation, the film has unpublished stills and behind-the-scenes scenes, as well as incredible technical anecdotes, explanations about the montage and the rehearsal of scenes.

Un País Llamado El Pez que Fuma

2021

Samland poster
2.5

A desperate immigrant accepts a marriage of convenience from an unscrupulous drug dealer to a young woman running from her past, blinded by her addiction. Together, they search for the “American Dream” that seems to allude them as they travel down a dangerous path filled with deception and death, as they seek the truth about who they are, and how they fit into America’s distorted landscape.

Samland

2021

2000s · 7 titles

The Art of Losing poster
6.1

A body is discovered impaled on a stake near a scenic lake near Bogota. A journalist try to find what happened. With a friend, they set about to find the cause of the crime and uncover an intricate real estate fraud involving corrupt politicians, emerald hunters, nudists...

The Art of Losing

2004

Passionate Women poster
7.0

After years away from each other, a group of friends is about to meet in the study of a men who has died four years ago in mysterious ways.

Passionate Women

2003

Hounded on a Carnival Monday poster
4.7

In the small town of San Jorge, a 12- year-old girl watches in horror as her father, a local telegraph operator is thrown in prison by the local military dictatorship. Meanwhile, her mother, Florencia, must make tough moral decisions in order for them to survive under the political oppression. Even Carnival, with all its colorfulness and celebration, cant disguise the mounting tension between the villagers and government making the girls coming of age all the more difficult when the two collide. This movie combines attractive visual scenes with a highly sensual atmosphere as Florencia fights and uses all her resources and beauty to survive and find revenge.

Hounded on a Carnival Monday

2002

El caracazo poster
4.3

El Caracazo o Sacudón fue una serie de fuertes protestas y disturbios durante el gobierno de Carlos Andrés Pérez, que comenzó el día 27 de febrero y terminó el día 28 de febrero de 1989 en la ciudad de Caracas, e iniciados realmente en la ciudad de Guarenas, cercana a Caracas. El nombre proviene de Caracas, la ciudad donde acontecieron parte de los hechos, recordando a otro hecho ocurrido en Colombia el 9 de abril de 1948; el Bogotazo. La masacre ocurrió el día 28 de febrero cuando fuerzas de seguridad de la Policía Metropolitana (PM) y Fuerzas Armadas del Ejército y de la Guardia Nacional (GN) salieron a las calles a controlar la situación.

El caracazo

2005

Mi vida por Sharon, ¿o qué te pasa a ti? poster
8.0

Carlitos López tries to recover her robbed car named Sharon, even if that risks his relationships with his ex-wife, girlfriend, and family.

Mi vida por Sharon, ¿o qué te pasa a ti?

2006

Borrón y cuenta nueva poster
8.5

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.

Borrón y cuenta nueva

2002

El café de Lupe poster
NR

Laura is a beautiful young woman who is tired of her monotonous and routine life serving beer at Lupe's Cafe for 10 years. On her birthday, Laura decides to leave. She boards a bus and begins her search for a new life, a new beginning. It is there that she meets Felix, an attractive and adventurous young man who steals her heart in just a few moments. After this fleeting encounter, Laura begins to discover the true consequences of her decision.

El café de Lupe

2007

1990s · 8 titles

Terra Nova poster
5.0

Quite a few decades ago, the Italian immigrants in this movie came to live in the Venezuelan countryside. They have settled in a region dominated by a crusty local aristocrat, and over the years they have had many encounters with him. It is finally time to take stock of their successes and failures and to decide whether to remain in Venezuela or return to Italy. The immigrant family is headed by a strong-willed and very earthy woman, and her evolving relationship with the aristocrat determines the outcome of their deliberations.

Terra Nova

1991

Alidha Ávila's Sucre poster
9.0

TV Movie based on the life of Antonio José de Sucre, the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho

Alidha Ávila's Sucre

1995

Time Out poster
6.0

The whimsical and joyous parade of ridiculous events satirize the war that rages in Colombia right now and exposes the real spirit of those who inhabit such a beautiful country.

Time Out

1998

Pandemonium, the Hell's Capital City poster
7.2

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.

Pandemonium, the Hell's Capital City

1997

Mascaro, Hunter of the Americas poster
5.5

Oreste is a man in the thirties and looks somewhat disheveled. One day, he decides to leave the small port of Arenales where he has lived to leave without a certain direction aboard 'El Mañana', a dilapidated steamboat. Moments before sailing, you will meet two strange characters: Prince Patagón and Mascaró. Together, they will sail the sea and will have to face many challenges.

Mascaro, Hunter of the Americas

1992

Los Platos del Diablo poster
7.0

Ricardo Azolar is looking for the right words, the exact phrases that will give him literary glory. The days are sterile and lacking in those brilliant ideas that should allow him to express through narrative, the fertile flow arising from the imagination. Until he meets Lisbeth, venus and intoxicating muse who nevertheless compels him to write irrelevant and devoid of any imagination literary texts.

Los Platos del Diablo

1992

Una rosa por testigo poster
NR

A woman is found dead under gruesome circumstances. Police Inspector Manuel Salas (Félix Loreto) leads the investigation into a series of brutal homicides: women murdered with razor blades, raped, and with a rose as the only clue. As the serial killer continues, the time between each crime decreases, increasing the urgency of catching him. As the case unfolds, Manuel meets Marisa (Mimí Lazo) and her teenage daughter, Christina, after Marisa finds the body of one of the victims. Accidentally implicated, she collaborates with the police, which strengthens her relationship with Manuel, leading to a romance.

Una rosa por testigo

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Madame

1992

1970s · 2 titles

Series credits

My Sweet Fat Valentina poster
7.6

A loving overweight woman must overcome the obstacles in the way between her and her true love.

My Sweet Fat Valentina

2002

Voltea pa' que te enamores poster
8.0

“Voltea Pa 'Que Te Enamores” is an urban and modern soap opera, full of comic moments, witty dialogues interpreted with absolute naturalness, and rich and moving characters in situations that vividly reflect the daily experiences of millions of people entangled in the complexity of love , impossible love, difficult love, old love about to expire, new love that brings new illusions.

Voltea pa' que te enamores

2006

Angélica Pecado poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Angélica Pecado

2000

No artwork available
8.5

Contra Viento y Marea is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venevisión. This telenovela lasted 125 episodes and was distributed internationally by Venevisión International.

Contra Viento y Marea

1997

Rich, Famous, Latina poster
6.4

Rica, Famosa, Latina is an Estrella TV reality series which was co-created by Lenard Liberman of Estrella TV, and by Joyce Giraud. The Spanish-language show was inspired by the Real Housewives franchise.

Rich, Famous, Latina

2014

Amor prohibido poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amor prohibido

1986

Corazón Esmeralda poster
2.0

Juan Andrés is a lawyer seeking to fulfill his god-father's last wish to find the missing daughter he had with the only woman he ever loved. Little does he know the missing daughter is Beatriz Elena, an ecologist he falls in love with.

Corazón Esmeralda

2014

Guerra de mujeres poster
7.3

Guerra de mujeres is a telenovela produced by Venevisión in 2001. Gaby Espino and Jorge Reyes starred as the main protagonists.

Guerra de mujeres

2001

El Desafio poster
10.0

El Desafio is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. Martin Hahn and Salvador Garmendia were the telenovela's writers, Salvador Garmendia was also in charge of dramatics, Carlos Lamus was its executive producer, Renato Gutierrez was its director, and Hernando Faria was the producer. This telenovela lasted 113 episodes and was distributed internationally by RCTV International.

El Desafio

1995

Harina de otro costal poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Harina de otro costal

2010

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

¿Vieja yo?

2008

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