
Acting
Víctor Cuica
Born 1949-04-17 · Caracas, Venezuela
Víctor Cuica (Caracas, Venezuela, April 19, 1949 - ibid., December 26, 2020) was a Venezuelan musician and actor, known for his innovation in blending jazz with Afro-Caribbean music. He participated in Venezuelan cinema during the 1970s and 1980s, portraying the character Alexis in "Se busca motorizado con moto propia y muchacha de buena presencia" alongside the renowned actor, screenwriter, and writer Fausto Verdial.
Acting credits
7.0The intent of novice director Solveig Hoogesteijn to make a drama about two Venezuelans from opposite sides of the economic and social tracks wobbles and weakens in the telling. Although the two compatriots both live in the capital, Caracas, and both love music, they have a need to go out into the rest of the country and discover their roots. As big-city dwellers, they are limited in their perspectives, though this excursion into other areas of Venezuela may prove more illuminating to them than to a foreign audience.
Manoa
1980
5.2About a mysterious and troubled black woman, a former practitioner of the Santería religion, who must comes to terms with her background whilst in a Caracas jail.
Santera
1994
9.5Directed by Alfredo Anzola, Manuel (1979) is a Venezuelan drama that explores themes of love, faith, and resistance. The story follows Aparicio and his wife, Alma Rosa, as they welcome a new priest, Manuel, to their coastal village. As Manuel becomes acquainted with the community, he discovers that the village is slated for demolition to make way for a tourist development. Deeply moved by the villagers' plight, Manuel joins the local fishermen in their struggle to defend their land. During this time, he also finds himself drawn to Alma Rosa, leading to personal and moral dilemmas. The developers, aware of Manuel's growing influence and his feelings for Alma Rosa, begin to monitor his actions closely. The film delves into the complexities of human relationships and the fight against displacement.
Manuel
1979
10.0Verónica (Maru Valdivielso) is a young executive who works in a dairy company. One day before going on holiday to the carnivals of Rio Janeiro, the company is blackmailed by a batch of poisoned yogurts. The president of the company gives a heart attack and Veronica goes to visit him to the hospital. There he meets a young man (Pablo Carbonell) who runs away from someone who wants to kill him. Suddenly, the young woman is involved in a series of entanglements, blackmail and persecutions, caused by men who cross their path, all obsessed with crazy love for a puzzling woman fatal.
Crazy Poison
1989
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
6.8The film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a group of military rebels staged a coup d'etat. Venezuelans found themselves as virtual prisoners. As the coup starts and fighting takes place from a military base which is in the center of the city's most affluent areas, with both luxury high rises and palatial mansions. The area of La Carlota provides a wealth of very interesting, often flamboyant and typical characters of the Latin America upper middle and upper classes. They are among the most affected. Various vignettes in these different characters' homes are developed. These people's reactions, lifestyles, vices, and humanity come out in a very honest fashion under duress.
Coup at Daybreak
1998
8.5Tierna es la Noche is a film without bullets nor sea, without mosquitoes, without peasants nor flowers. It only contains a barman, a man and a beautiful woman who lives in a bathroom. For commercial reasons, we have included two policemen, a drop of blood and a multilingual nymphomaniac. For aesthetic reasons, a tear and a black man. For both reasons, the film takes place anachronically, during the fifties and nineties in a make-believe city called Caracas. It's a story of histerics, like all stories, unfinished.
Tierna es la Noche
1990
5.8During 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.
Shoot to kill
1990
NRMusical documentary on Latin jazz.
Jazz Latino
1984
8.0A rich kid runs away from home and meets a young musician who shows him the night life in Caracas.
Un Domingo Feliz
1989
6.5Eleven-year-old petty criminal Maroa lives with her violent grandmother Brigida in Caracas. After her boyfriend Carlos is involved in a shooting, Maroa is arrested and sent to a school where Joaquin conducts the youth orchestra, and he asks the naturally talented Maroa to join. Days now revolve around the classes that Joaquin, the shy and unconventional teacher, gives her. He is immediately interested in this talented young girl, who lacks all notion of discipline. Joaquin, the only person to offer hope in the midst of her rejection, finds that through Maroa, his world has also changed forever.
Maroa
2005
A village on the Venezuelan coast, a place of fishermen and big haciendas, Aquiles Vargas, a white aristocrat in somewhat reduced circumstances, fights with Cruz Guaregua, a humble black fisherwoman, and mother of his only son, a half-caste 'mestizo'.
Mestizo
1988
7.0Anita Camacho, an ambitious maid poses as the owner of the house where she works in order to seduce a man of money, marry him and finally stop being poor.
De cómo Anita Camacho quiso levantarse a Marino Méndez
1986
8.5Alexander and her friend Diosa start working in a furniture store, Alexander suspects that the owner is involved in a murky business.
Wanted: Good Looking Receptionist and Messenger with His Own Motorcycle
1977
6.8A politically charged film, where a series of archetypal characters are presented.
The Wedding
1982
5.5Carmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day, Carmen fights and hurts to a smuggler woman, so a sergeant in the National Guard, José Navarro, stops detain her. In doing so he also falls in love with her, but jealousy will destroy his passion.
Carmen
1978
7.0In Secretaries Day, either you get laid or you get paid.
Cóctel de Camarones. En el Día de la Secretaria
1984
7.0Ricardo 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