Pedro Durán

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Pedro Durán

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Alí PrimeraAlí Primera · 2024
Alí Primera
2024
MovieDrama
It 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.
La LloronaLa Llorona · 1991
La Llorona
★ 2.01991
MovieHorror
In 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.
AzuAzu · 2013
Azu
★ 6.92013
MovieHistoryDrama
1780, 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.
Los muertos sí salenLos muertos sí salen · 1976
Los muertos sí salen
★ 10.01976
Movie
Trino, 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.
Doble VidaDoble Vida · 1995
Doble Vida
1995
Movie
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.
Latino BarLatino Bar · 1991
Latino Bar
★ 4.71991
MovieDramaRomance
A 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.
Open AirOpen Air · 1996
Open Air
★ 8.01996
MovieAdventureDrama
In 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.
Back To MaracaiboBack To Maracaibo · 2022
Back To Maracaibo
★ 5.22022
MovieComedy
Eladio 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.

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Doble VidaDoble Vida · 1995
Doble Vida
1995
Movie
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.
BloquesBloques · 2008
Bloques
2008
Movie
The 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.
Caracas Love unto DeathCaracas Love unto Death · 2000
Caracas Love unto Death
★ 4.52000
MovieDrama
In 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.

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