64 Films & TV Shows Set In Venezuela
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Un País Llamado El Pez que Fuma
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1970sDocumentary that has unpublished testimonies from Román Chalbaud, director of El pez que fuma, an emblematic Venezuelan film from the 1970s; as well as funny conversations with the actors, 40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 Made from a solid video-newspaper investigation, the film has unpublished stills and behind-the-scenes scenes, as well as incredible technical anecdotes, explanations about the montage and the rehearsal of scenes.
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Once Upon a Time in Venezuela
🇻🇪 VenezuelaOnce upon a time, the Venezuelan village of Congo Mirador was prosperous, alive with fisherman and poets. Now it is decaying and disintegrating—a small but prophetic reflection of Venezuela itself.
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El Father Plays Himself
🇻🇪 VenezuelaA father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself. — A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle (La Fortaleza, Jorge Thielen Armand). He casts Father to play himself. What starts as an act of love and ambition — filmmaking to more deeply understand the self, and the other — spirals into a process which confronts Father’s struggles with addiction and his life devoid of his son. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF holds a steady lens to the way the act of cinema unearths, binds, heals and destroys.
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Infection
🇻🇪 VenezuelaFilm about an epidemic outbreak of a new rabies virus in Venezuela and a father trying to save his son from contagion. A Russian man is in Caracas under the influence of the Krokodil drug, when he gets infected with the rabies virus and starts an epidemic of aggressive and cannibalistic beings. Doctor Adam Vargas is in the midst of all this, when he begins a journey within a ravaged Venezuela to save his son from being infected.
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The Dance
🇻🇪 VenezuelaIvanna returns to Caracas pretending to be a flamenco dancer…with three performances scheduled at a nightclub called ‘The Place’. There she is supposed to meet Vicente (Gabriel Agüero) and manage to get him emotionally involved with her in order to extract information about his father, the swindler that she has been hired to kill.
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Primavera en Petare
🇻🇪 VenezuelaIn the populous parish of Petare, three girls whose names begin with the letter "V" have parallel lives but intersected by the same reality from which they seek to get ahead by their own means. One is a violinist; the other is a motorcycle taxi driver who, as a child, lost her father in an armed robbery; the third is a young woman who, after being raped, practices prostitution. The three girls and a woman nicknamed "La Colombia" will establish a relationship with El Diablo, a criminal with a curse on his back from which she can only free herself when she finds true love.
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La Corte Malandra
🇻🇪 VenezuelaJose Thomas is a spirit who fell into a subject in a trance and related his story himself, he said that he always defended his neighborhood and helped his people, he never allowed any child to take the wrong steps that he had to take because he did not have a voice A friend who would tell her about the good or the bad, grew up in a neighborhood of Petare and led her community for several years with her great friend from youth Piter.
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Arando en la memoria
🇻🇪 VenezuelaIn the Northern Andes, in the Venezuelan Andes, in the midst of work and immense and beautiful landscapes, women and men, farmers, tell us about the past and present of Andean agriculture and culture.
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Mónica entre el Cielo y la Tierra
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 2010sMónica entre el Cielo y la Tierra , is a true story, between the university professor Giovanni Gómez Ysea and the famous international actress Monica Spear, Miss Venezuela 2004, at the moment when the teacher tries to make Monica's dream of making movies come true . All truncated by his murder in January 2014. However, through the magic of cinema, Mónica, played by Andrea Rosales, makes her dream come true.
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The Whistler: Origins
🇻🇪 VenezuelaIn the mid-nineteenth century, in a small Venezuelan village, Father Giovanni and a clerk write the story of a supernatural case that they have witnessed, is the story of a mysterious specter, which the people of the town have baptized as "El Silbón". In the current age, we know a family made up of Gabriel and Mayra, Ana's parents. Gabriel suspects that his daughter is possessed by the devil since she is trying to kill him. Gabriel asks the priest of his parish for advice, which is the same one Father Giovanni wrote about the Silbón over a hundred years ago.
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Venezuela es un Desorden
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThrough humor, anecdotes and their songs, mythical Venezuelan ska band Desorden Público tells their story and that of three decades of their country.
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Operación Orión
🇻🇪 Venezuela 🇨🇴 ColombiaJairo and Javier, two young Colombians, are recruited to travel to Venezuela to work as farmers. A few days later, they will understand that they have been deceived and that they are now part of the complex Orion Operation.
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DISTORSIÓN, En medio del caos
🇻🇪 VenezuelaAgainst a backdrop of tension and violence throughout Venezuela, Ángel, a businessman of questionable repute, is held captive in his apartment. In this highly charged atmosphere, he is forced by his captors to face the dilemma: To continue as a social predator, or to take responsibility for his actions?
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El Paraíso
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThe film consists of video tapes made by the filmmaker’s father documenting daily scenes of family life, family celebrations, and holidays over the course of fifteen years. The tapes are a mixture of the personal and the political – the father was politically engaged in the revolutionary movement that brought Hugo Chávez to power. The family’s life becomes a backdrop for political and economic developments in Venezuela and their impact on the lives of ordinary citizens.
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The Family
🇻🇪 VenezuelaAndrés and his son Pedro live in a working district of Caracas and hardly ever see each other. While Andrés fills his time doing different jobs, Pedro wanders the streets playing with friends and learning from the violent atmosphere around him.
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Una Fabula Muy Trillada: The Legacy Of Dermis Tatú
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1990s The 2020sAn historic Venezuelan rock album... 20 years later — Two decades ago, Venezuela's power trio Dermis Tatú released their only album, "La violó, la mató y la picó" ("Raped her, killed her and cut her"). The band was an offspring from the separation of Sentimiento Muerto, and was formed by Carlos "Cayayo" Troconis (voice and guitar), Héctor Castillo (bass) and Sebastián Araujo (drums). The record is still considered by many as the most influential in the Venezuelan rock scene. Twenty years later, Castillo and Araujo remember the stories behind the recording, as a group of the current generation of Venezuelan rockers, not only explain its influence and impact, but also play all the songs from the album, making them their own.
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True Memoirs of an International Assassin
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThe man. The myth. The memoirs. — After a publisher changes a writer's debut novel about a deadly assassin from fiction to nonfiction, the author finds himself thrust into the world of his lead character, and must take on the role of his character for his own survival.
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From Afar
🇻🇪 VenezuelaExamines the struggles of a man petrified by the notion of human contact and intimacy. Armando, aged 50, cruises young men in the streets of Caracas and pays them to come back to his house. He also regularly spies on an older man with whom he seems to have ties from the past. One day he meets 17-year-old Elder, leader of a small band of thugs. Their turbulent relationship will come to mimic the violent, passionate, oppressive unpredictability of the city around them.
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El Amparo
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1980sOn the border of Venezuela with Colombia, during the late 80's, two men survive an armed assault near the Arauca River, in which fourteen of their companions end up dead. The Army accuses them of being guerrilla fighters and tries via intimidation to seize them from the cell where they are being watched over by the local police officer and by the entire village. They say they are simple fishermen, but pressure to yield to the official version is overwhelming.
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Point Break
🇫🇷 France 🇻🇪 VenezuelaThe only law that matters is gravity — A young undercover FBI agent infiltrates a gang of thieves who share a common interest in extreme sports. A remake of the 1991 film, "Point Break".
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El Infierno de Gaspar Mendoza
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1870s1878. After the Federal War, Captain Gaspar Mendoza leads a life of austerity and efforts with his family in an old house in the interior of Venezuela, although Gaspar has done everything possible to leave that tragedy behind, it will be his daughter Maria Eugenia who seems to revive her through terrible nightmares that mercilessly haunt her.
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Liz in September
🇻🇪 VenezuelaA shocking secret, ex-lovers and the arrival of an outsider shake things up for Liz as she celebrates her birthday at a lesbian-owned resort.
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The Liberator
🇯🇲 Jamaica 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1820sHis army never conquered. It liberated. — Bolívar was instrumental in Latin America’s struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential politicians and emancipators in American history. Libertador is told from the viewpoint of Bolívar, portrayed by Ramírez, about his quests and epic military campaigns, which covered twice the territory Alexander the Great conquered, and his vision to unify South America.
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The Longest Distance
🇻🇪 VenezuelaBecause life is a journey — Two sides of the same country: a chaotic and violent city contrasting against a natural paradise where the oldest mountains on the planet can be found. Two main characters that find each other at a crucial moment. Two fearless journeys, one that begins as a childlike adventure and ends up on the other side of the country and a one-way journey, free and determined. The same destiny will inevitably bond a woman with her grandson. Without knowing it they are part of an unbreakable family circle that deeply unites them. Second opportunities will arise while individual freedom of choice will become imposing. Everything comes together to tell us: there is only one destiny, the one you choose for yourself.
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