Tania Sarabia

Acting

Tania Sarabia

Born 1947-09-24 · Caracas, Venezuela

Tania Mercedes Sarabia (September 24, 1947) is a Venezuelan actress and comic.

Acting credits

Portable Country poster
7.0

Portable Country is a classical Venezuelan film about the urban guerrilla. Based on the novel of the same name, written by Adriano González León, the film centers on Andrés Barazarte, a disillusioned man from a wealthy landowning family, who grapples with his personal and political identity in the midst of Venezuela's tumultuous social changes and engages in the guerrilla. He reflects on his life, his family's decline, and the broader struggle for power in a country torn between tradition and revolution.The story unfolds as Andrés is tasked with transporting a mysterious package. This journey becomes a metaphor for his search for meaning and a confrontation with his family’s, and his country's, violent past. His recollections weave together with present events, creating a complex tapestry of memory and history.

Portable Country

1979

Señora Bolero poster
9.0

After the suicide of her son, Amanda starts to question her life and the decisions she made when she was young. This movie take us back to Venezuela in the 1950s through the memories of Amanda Contreras, between of the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez.

Señora Bolero

1991

La Mano poster
7.0

A 1995 TV movie from Venezuelan TV channel RCTV Producciones, this 60-minute horror comedy features writer/director/star Tony Rodríguez as the lead, Armandito, who travels to Caracas and stays in an inn with a mysterious past involving a former resident whose hand was severed. After an electrifying accident, Armandito's hand becomes possessed and he controlled by its urges and mission to complete unfinished business.

La Mano

1995

¡Diles que no me maten! poster
10.0

A young peasant farmer has a feud with a heartless landowner which results in the landowner killing the peasant's cattle which result in the peasant killing the landowner which for the man goes in to hiding for more than 40 years, hounded by the murdered landowner's son obsessed with finding his father's killer.

¡Diles que no me maten!

1984

Una noche oriental poster
10.0

Benito Zamora, a conspirator against the Perezjimenista government, uses Leonor Montes, a young vedette friend of a colonel, to find information. National Security is pursuing Benito to dismantle the plot.

Una noche oriental

1986

Crab poster
8.0

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.

Crab

1982

Ritorno poster
NR

Gioia returns home for her grandfather's funeral, after having fled when she realized that she would never be part of the family business, until then managed by him. But now that her grandfather is dead, she makes the women of the family understand that they must unite and take the spaces that belong to them. Together they will take control of the family business, where these women now have their place conquered.

Ritorno

2023

Profundo poster
7.0

Based on the play by José Ignacio Cabrujas, it is a comedy with deep popular roots and, essentially, Latin American.

Profundo

1988

The Flock of Angels poster
8.0

Ingrid is a young high school student who due to the impact suffered by the death of his mother, is acting strangely causing concern to her teachers. After a landslide caused by heavy rains, police surrounded the premises of the high school to expel the refugees resulting in the classes suspended.

The Flock of Angels

1979

Cabrujas en el país del disimulo poster
NR

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.

Cabrujas en el país del disimulo

2017

Ver a Hilda Vera poster
NR

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

Ver a Hilda Vera

1998

Ratón en Ferretería poster
7.3

Adonai Flores, an experienced writer of telenovelas, falls in love with Belén Helena, a girl of low class. Adonay, desperate to keep her with him, abandons his responsibilities and even his dog. After discovering that she is a drug dealer he decides to leave her and recovers his dog

Ratón en Ferretería

1985