
Acting
Pedro Durán
Acting credits
NRThe film tells the story of Fernando Quintero (Gustavo Camacho), revolutionary leader who, after the fall of the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez, ascends to power, betraying their ideals to become an accomplice of repression against whom he fought.
Días de poder
2011
NRThe film is made up of two stories: In Block 1 the story of Manuel, a lonely and gray man, whose attitude distances him from all those around him, even from his own son. In the midst of routine and alcohol, the hope of a new love arises. This is how Norma, a bar bartender, enters his life without realizing it. In Block 2, the Aristiguetas, an upper-class Venezuelan family, have moved, economically less due to the failed decisions of their father. Alejandra, the oldest of the Aristigueta children, has lived in New York for some years, ignoring the reality of her family and her country. While for Alejandra the trip back to Venezuela becomes an encounter with herself, assuming control of her family's destiny, her brother Francisco explores life in the alleys of the neighborhood.
Bloques
2008
8.0Ramiro is a ringleader of a gang of drug traffickers that in order to introduce a new drug, called Night Music (Música Nocturna), must eliminate Aurelio, the biggest drug lord. To implement his plan, he use his friend Daniel has bait who has a close friendship with Aurelio. Ramiro succeeds, murders Aurelio and proposes Daniel to participate in the drug business.
Night Music
1988
2.0In César Miguel Rondón's adaptation, a different origin story is presented. The fisherman Ismael (Félix Loreto) is unfaithful to his wife Cayita (Ana Karina) with a witch, Carmelina (Ileana Aloma). She swears revenge when she sees Ismael return to Cayita's arms and casts a curse that will cause the fisherman's death, setting his house on fire. Faced with the tragic event, Cayita, frightened, screams and begs the townspeople for help to save her son, who was inside the house when the fire started. Cayita's son dies alongside Ismael. It is then that she, crazed with grief, cries out for her son for eternity.
La Llorona
1991
NRIt tells the life of the Venezuelan singer-songwriter Alí Primera and the events that made him the voice most committed to his people's causes and the movement's leader for the necessary song. It is a story of great love, tragedies, and songs.
Alí Primera
2024
NRFour very special couples fight with life to achieve their desires. Some are looking for respect and the right to love each other. Others face treason and hidden truths. Four stories full of humour, drama and passion. They are joined by a common space: they are inhabitants of "Central Park".
Parque Central
2018
6.8A 12-year-old boy is asked to write an essay about what his family does at night.
Pequeña revancha
1986
8.0In 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.
Open Air
1996
Cecilia (Eileen Abad) and Beto (Ricardo Bianchi) discover that their love may be marked by a dark secret from their past. Cecilia, a humble, studious, and free-spirited girl, and Beto, a passionate, charismatic, and sensitive young man, meet at a restaurant when she is dressed as a hamburger. From this peculiar and fun encounter, they develop a special connection that eventually transforms into a deep and sincere love. However, their happiness is threatened when speculation about a possible family link between them begins to emerge. At the heart of these speculations are the mysteries and secrets of her parents, Cosme and Carmen. During a visit to Cecilia's house, Beto discovers that her father has another family, which deeply disillusiones him. Frustrated and confused, he decides to distance himself from his young love.
Doble Vida
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4.7A woman working in a caribean Cabaret meets a man in the harbour that just went out of jail. They recognise in each other common feelings of rage and fury and then they fall in love in a story without words.
Latino Bar
1991
6.91780, 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.
Azu
2013
Film by Julio Bustamante.
Aguasangre, crónica de un indulto
1985
10.0Trino, 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.
Los muertos sí salen
1976
4.5In the shantytowns of Caracas, teenage Aixa finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and trapped between conflicting forces: her grandmother Carmen, young yet matriarchal head of the sprawling family clan, desperately tries to prevent Aixa from repeating the cycle of teenage motherhood that has plagued the women in her house for generations; meanwhile Ramon, the drug-linked young father, more obsessed with the idea of a child than with responsibility, resorts to threats—“If you get rid of the baby, I’ll kill you”—to impose his will. All around Aixa, others believe they know what’s best for her—but the choice of life or death, hope or despair, remains hers alone in a world where survival is the only certainty.
Caracas Love unto Death
2000
5.2Eladio 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.
Back To Maracaibo
2022
8.5“Nude with Oranges” is a film set during a civil revolt in the mid-19th century where Caribbean myths affect the lives of two characters – an indigenous man enlisted in the Liberal Army and a mute white woman – who develop a mysterious link while seeking a new life.
Nude with Oranges
1994
6.0A beautiful seductress draws a man in the midst of a mid-life crisis into a sordid world of drugs, crime, and debauchery. Alejandro is down on his luck. Unemployed and loveless, he falls hard for beautiful Vanessa when fate brings the two together seemingly by chance. But Vanessa's boyfriend is a hit man for the mob, and despite at first feeling swept up in circumstances beyond his control, Alejandro soon realizes that in order to regain his confidence, he must embrace his destiny.
Por un polvo
2008
A Tv Movie about La Sayona
La Sayona
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NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Movie Trip
2025
A one-off special produced by RCTV, originally written by César Miguel Rondón, starring Carlos Olivier and Roberto Moll, along with a large cast including Claudia Venturini, Esther Orjuela, Juan Frankis, Betty Hass, Pedro Durán, Domingo Del Castillo, Ileana Jacket, Lourdes Medrano, Belén Peláez, among others
Inocente en linea
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7.9Fidel, a deaf mugger, sees the possibility of a new life after he start attending to a school for the deaf. However his chances are getting shorter as the a police officer is after his trail.
Más allá del silencio
1985
NRThe Naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo and the Taking of Puerto Cabello are the protagonists of this feature film directed by Garmen Monteverde.
Un Mar de Libertad
2024
8.0Commissioner 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.
Crab
1982
7.5Commissioner 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.
Crab II
1984