
Acting
José Torres
Born
1925-06-04 (101)
Place of birth
Tocuyito, Venezuela
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
José Torres (Tocuyito, June 4, 1925) is a leading Venezuelan television, film and dubbing actor. He is remembered for having played Tacupay in Ka Ina. An icon of the spaghetti Western, he shared the set with Orson Welles, Terence Hill, Paco Rabal, Steve Reeves and Lee Van Cleef.
Known for
8.3Sorceress Maniña can stay young and powerful forever until her daughter comes and takes away all her powers. Maniña decides to never give birth in order to keep her powers, but one day she falls in love, gets pregnant and gives birth to a girl. Maniña orders her servant to kill the child. He can't do it and gives child to nearby landlord family. Twenty years later Maniña's daughter Catalina returns from Caracas and they meet. They do not know that they are related and they both are attracted to same river boat captain. Venezuelan soap opera set in Amazonian jungles spanning over 164 episodes.
Ka Ina
1995
7.0Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy.
Death Rides a Horse
1967
6.6At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold.
The 5-Man Army
1969
6.5The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.
Tepepa
1969
6.4Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
1969
7.0History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Solomon Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness.
Face to Face
1967
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
8.8Big Boss is the remarkable true story of Keke Palmer, a young woman from Chicago who faces immense challenges in the male-dominated music industry. Written and directed by Keke herself, the film showcases her perseverance, self-love, unyielding faith, and indomitable spirit. Throughout her journey, Keke discovers that the greatest obstacle she must overcome is learning to trust her instincts.
Big Boss
2023
NRIn 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
2010s · 3 titles
NRVenezuela, the mid-nineteenth century. The polarization between liberals and conservatives marked the political agenda. Inequalities of colonial society kept farmers and slaves under the yoke of the oligarchy. Ezequiel Zamora mobilized by deep ideals of liberty is leading a fight to try to erase social inequalities and distribute land equitably.
Zamora, tierra y hombres libres
2010
4.2An elderly father and his two children, survive by harvesting salt from the sea. After the father dies, they live alone. Isolated from the outside world they become increasingly distanced, whilst their lust starts to blossom. Their lives get a lot harder. The brutal reality of harvesting sea salt coincides with their blossoming sexuality. Their lives of solitude drive them further apart whilst awakening lust makes itself known.
Children of the Salt
2017
NRA high-ranking official of the United Narcotics Organization in a total extermination operation in Caracas is kidnapped and later found dead in a hotel in the city. Meanwhile, a black hole approaches planet Earth creating an inevitable and imminent cosmic crisis where “nothing is real, where everything is a lie.
Interferencia
2019
2000s · 2 titles
7.0Florentino is a young horseman and singer, a free spirit living in the open world without restrictions, in the Venezuelan plains. He confronts the devil in a duel of improvised verses. As time passes, these unspoilt plains start to change. Through Florentino's voice and actions, the plains cannot be conquered. Its culture defies the devil in the eternal fight between good and evil, between life and death.
Florentino y el diablo
2000
6.0.Un periodista se introduce clandestinamente en la celda de Miranda, en la Carraca el 10 de Julio de 1816. El joven periodista urge al generalísimo para que le conceda una entrevista, con el objeto de propagar su pensamiento anticolonialista en cierto periódico de vanguardia que se edita furtivamente en Cádiz. Miranda, viejo zorro de la geopolítica internacional desde el siglo pasado, desconfía del impetuoso muchacho, quien poco a poco se va ganando su confianza hasta que el cautivo accede a concederle la entrevista.Aquí comienza un viaje retrospectivo de la vida del generalísimo donde la vuelta al pasado, a los momentos formativos más trascendentes de la construcción del joven, del hombre, del seductor, del soldado español, del ilustrado, el desertor, el independentista, el político, el guerrero, el espía, el contrabandista, el hereje, el conspirador y el precursor, se narran para develarnos la magnitud de Francisco de Miranda, quizás por siempre el más universal de los venezolanos.
Miranda Regresa
2007
1980s · 4 titles
4.8Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a vernissage she's approached by a mysterious man whose motives are unclear...
Exposed
1983
8.0The village innkeeper Lejba Sibal and his pregnant wife Sura are threatened by Lejba's former farmhand Georg, who wants to kill them both at Easter. After Lejba has sought help from the authorities in vain, he decides to fight back himself.
Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!
1982
9.0No synopsis available yet.
A la salida nos vemos
1986
8.0Venezuelan horror movie from 1980.
El regreso de Sabina
1980
1970s · 15 titles
4.2Shipwrecked on a tropical island, partying biker Daniel finds an increasingly threatening family living in the forest.
Emmanuelle on Taboo Island
1976
5.8Ted and his gang rob a bank and he hides the loot from his companions. They corner him and fatally wound him, but he manages to slip the map of the hidden money to his rescuer, Joe. The gang catches up with Joe, torture him and introduce him to sexy Rosy, who is to use her undeniable feminine charms on him.
Shoot Joe, and Shoot Again
1972
8.0The 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.
Trampa inocente
1978
4.9Django comes to town to discover that his brother Steve, accused of robbing a bank, has been lynched. Django believes the real culprit is Sartana and challenges him to a duel. Just in time he discovers that the author of the crime is an important local figure and Django and Sartana join forces to punish him.
Django Challenges Sartana
1970
5.9After the evil maharajah Varauni exterminated his whole family, the brave Sandokan decides to retreat on the island of Mompracem to meditate a terrible revenge against him
The Tigers of Mompracem
1970
NRA crook masquerading as an Army Colonel in charge of gold shipments, replaces gold ingots with fakes. Spirito Santo is recruited to solve the case and make sure the gold gets through.
Return of the Holy Ghost
1972
5.5A man, after being accused of a robbery and escaping from jail with a bandit leader, seeks revenge for his brother and his family.
Death Is Sweet From the Soldier Of God
1972
8.0As José Abreu “Guanipa” is transferred with a group of prisoners to the Guasina camp in the Orinoco Delta, he recalls the torture he was subjected to by SN (National Security) henchmen in order to obtain information about the resistance. In Guasina, the prisoners are subjected to forced labor while they plan their escape. Guanipa is released after signing the bond and the rest of his companions remain in the camp.
Se llamaba SN
1977
5.8In Caracas, a massively built dock-worker has beef with munitions-smuggling gang, and meanwhile he's recruited to perform as a lucha-libre wrestler.
Black Power
1975
5.7Durango, a debt collector, arrives in the town of Tucson, where he is hired by a bank director called Ferguson, who refuses to pay him his fee afterwards. Durango is thrown in jail on a false accusation but manages to escape and teams up with a Mexican bandit to get even with Ferguson, who has concocted a complicated plan to rob a shipment of gold belonging to the people of Tucson.
Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die
1971
4.2Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies. This gonzo narrative, “an inkblot test of Mailer’s own subconscious” (Time), becomes something like a documentary on its own making when costar Rip Torn breaks the fourth wall in one of cinema’s most alarming on-screen outbursts.
Maidstone
1971
7.5After gaining his freedom with the help of an old friend of his father, Spirito Santo/Holy Ghost recovers in an abandoned mine the gold fruit of a previous robbery and makes preparations for a new job recruiting a strange sacristan armed with a machine-gun. Meanwhile a Native American sheriff is on his trail.
And His Name Was Holy Ghost
1971
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Io e Dio
1970
7.0A tale of hate in a town in the Venezuelan Andes where the conflicts and passions of those who live enclosed in the mountains make violence an inevitable destiny.
Compañero de viaje
1979
3.0When an army lieutenant is sent on a secret mission and his contact is shot and killed, he is charged with the crime and court-martialed. He learns he was set up by his commanding officer and escapes to prove his innocence.
Court Martial
1974
1960s · 26 titles
7.0Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy.
Death Rides a Horse
1967
6.6At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold.
The 5-Man Army
1969
6.5The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.
Tepepa
1969
6.4Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
1969
7.0History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Solomon Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness.
Face to Face
1967
6.3A mysterious gunfighter named Django is employed by a local crooked political boss as a hangman to execute innocent locals framed by the boss, who wants their land. What the boss doesn't know is that Django isn't hanging the men at all, just making it look like he is, and using the men he saves from the gallows to build up his own "gang" in order to take revenge on the boss, who, with Django's former best friend, caused the death of his wife years before.
Django, Prepare a Coffin
1968
5.3A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of Mexican landowners. The task is not easy as he is alone in his efforts to avenge his father's death.
Why Go On Killing?
1965
6.5The legendary Tomas Milian stars as Cuchillo, a knife-throwing thief on the run from murderous bandits, sadistic American agents, his hot-blooded fiancée and a sheriff turned bounty hunter, all of whom are gunning for a hidden fortune in gold that could finance the Mexican Revolution.
Run, Man, Run
1968
6.1Armed with gadgets and an atomic sub, a crook (Philippe Leroy) and his gang target a Latin dictator and Soviet gold.
Seven Golden Men Strike Again
1966
6.7Bandit leader El Diablo who controls the country with his gang plans to achieve gold destined for Mexico but he is not the only one.
Gold Train
1965
6.2A gang robs a gold shipment from a train. A so called bounty hunter is sent to track down the robbers and decides to let them lead him to the gold.
Any Gun Can Play
1967
5.9In the late 1800's, Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are serving 20 years of prison for stealing two mules, when they are helped to escape by an American who says he is a friend of their grandfathers, who were killed in Texas by a gang of bandits who wanted to take over their gold mine. The two friends travel to America to take posses of the gold mine, but they soon discover that they are not the only ones who want it.
Two Gangsters in the Wild West
1964
5.6Semiramis, a powerful and beautiful Assyrian queen, oversees the construction of the luxurious city of Babylon. She falls in love with Kir, a fallen prince turned into a slave who corresponds to her love. But a palace conspiracy will make the two lovers separate and confront each other.
I Am Semiramis
1963
7.5Ramon and his bandit gang launch an attack on Danger City, searching for rumoured hidden treasure and unable to find the loot either kill or take as hostage all the men, leaving only the women and children to produce the treasure or face 'Deguello' - an attack with no quarter. Four men arrive in town searching for Ramon and agree to help protect the town from the bandits.
Degueyo
1966
8.3After losing everything in a poker game and finding himself indebted, Lucas agrees to deliver a wagon to the town of Chamaco for the $5000 payment. He soon finds himself in deep trouble with bandits, the town's local kingpin and a pretty saloon worker.
Poker with Pistols
1967
3.7The warlike men of Kixos murder the king of Surupak and abduct his two daughters, Jia and Tuja. Jia's bridegroom Syros asks the mighty warrior Taurus for assistance. Taurus faithful companion Ubaratuta will give Taurus a hand to defeat the warlike tribe.
Taur the Mighty
1963
6.9The Indian called Copper Face is suspected to have stolen a large quantity of gold from a bank.
Go For Broke
1968
5.3Margarita is a beautiful and explosive girl studying in the Faculty of Arts somewhere in Galicia. To the chagrin of the rest of the girls in the class, all the boys want to date her, to the point moniker of "the bride of the Faculty". However, who really steals the heart Margarita is another person ...
Margarita se llama mi amor
1961
8.0Pirates capture a Spanish ship. After having landed on an island, they try to sell the surviving crew, especially the women. One of them is protected by a pirate who gained her as a prize for having saved the captain's life in the battle that ensued. Suddenly a man masked in green arrives and performs - ever haunting - in favour of the Spanish.
The Masked Man Against the Pirates
1964
5.6Takes place over the course of one feverish night in a Manhattan police precinct and neighboring bar.
Beyond the Law
1968
5.7Norman Mailer’s first feature filmmaking effort stars the director and his two longtime collaborators Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox as a trio of gangsters holed up in a ramshackle New York apartment, drinking, braying, and fighting.
Wild 90
1968
NRAfter the Spanish manage to capture pirate Garcia and his men, they head to an island to retrieve a treasure. Here they run into another dangerous pirate nicknamed 'Raven'.
L'uomo mascherato contro il corsaro nero
1964
10.0The leader of a gang of Spanish mercenaries falls for a beautiful princess. Thing get dicey, however, when an imprisoned leader is freed and comes calling.
Rome, 1585
1961
7.8The story of Che Guevara's desperate attempt to escape the mountains of Bolivia. Pursued by an elite ranger unit of the army led by a determined CIA agent, Che is eventually trapped and his men are killed.
Bloody Che Contra
1968
5.7Ramon avenges his brother's murder and kills the Baxter Family. The surviving Slim Baxter joins for his revenge a troubled gang, which has also a lot to settle with Ramon. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Ramon the Mexican
1966
NRMovie based on José Natalio Estrada's novel, María del Llano.
María del Llano
1965
1950s · 3 titles
8.0Venezuelan comedy by Juan Corona with text by Aquiles Nazoa.
Igualito a su papá
1957
8.0Venezuelan film by Napoleón Ordosgoiti.
Pantano en el cielo
1957
5.5An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero.
The Beautiful Otero
1954
1940s · 3 titles
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Un viaje de novios
1948
6.5The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.
The Devil Who Limped
1948
6.9Two country sisters are rivals for the love of the doctor. He marries one, but regrets it and is rescued by the other.
Premier bal
1941

