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Felipe Aljure

Felipe Aljure is a Colombian film director and screenwriter born in the city of Girardot. He studied Art and Technique of Film Making in London. Aljure has been characterized by presenting technical and narrative innovations in Colombia through his two films, he has also ventured as a director of television series, university professor and in other cultural fields in the country. In 2018, he was …

Known For

The Lost City of Z

The Lost City of Z · 2017

The Lost City of Z

MovieAdventureDrama

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

The Mission

The Mission · 1986

MovieAdventureDrama

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.

Tres Escapularios

Tres Escapularios · 2015

Tres Escapularios

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Chronicle of a Death Foretold · 1987

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

MovieCrimeDrama

This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year absence to investigate the murder that occurred just before he left.

El Colombian Dream

El Colombian Dream · 2005

El Colombian Dream

MovieComedyDrama

A story as told by an aborted child who's now 14 years old, involving his mother, three teenagers (two twin brothers and their cousin) that make a love triangle, the twins' father and his new lover, a drug lord and his sidekicks, the drug lord's wife who doesn't know who's the father of her baby, a prostitute with bladder problems, a hit man (really a frustrated poet), and a huge missunderstanding

María Cano

María Cano · 1990

MovieDramaHistory

Colombia receives the indemnity for Panama and accepts foreign credit to undertake development works, which increases the number of workers, although with poor wages and terrible working conditions. María Cano, a political activist, began her fight for the conditions of salaried workers and for the fundamental rights of the population.

Rodrigo D. No Future

Rodrigo D. No Future · 1990

Rodrigo D. No Future

MovieCrimeDrama

Rodrigo and his friends, restless teenagers from the marginalized neighborhoods on the hillsides of Medellín, spend their time causing trouble. But Rodrigo dreams of playing rock music and brings his friends together to form a punk band that becomes a lifeline amid a web of disorientation, violence, drugs, and fear.

The People at Universal

The People at Universal · 1991

The People at Universal

MovieComedyAction

Former Sergeant Diogenes Hernandez owns the Universal, a precarious detective agency private in the Centre of Bogotá, which is based in the same apartment where he and his wife Fabiola inhabit. His nephew, Clemente Fernández, who works at the Agency, maintains a romance with Fabiola, without trying to hurt the feelings of his uncle, but driven by the need to alleviate their empty urban and anonymous man.

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The Lost City of Z

The Lost City of Z · 2017

The Lost City of Z

MovieAdventureDrama

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

Executive Producer

The Mission

The Mission · 1986

MovieAdventureDrama

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.

Assistant Camera

Tres Escapularios

Tres Escapularios · 2015

Tres Escapularios

Writer

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Chronicle of a Death Foretold · 1987

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

MovieCrimeDrama

This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year absence to investigate the murder that occurred just before he left.

Production Assistant

El Colombian Dream

El Colombian Dream · 2005

El Colombian Dream

MovieComedyDrama

A story as told by an aborted child who's now 14 years old, involving his mother, three teenagers (two twin brothers and their cousin) that make a love triangle, the twins' father and his new lover, a drug lord and his sidekicks, the drug lord's wife who doesn't know who's the father of her baby, a prostitute with bladder problems, a hit man (really a frustrated poet), and a huge missunderstanding

Writer

María Cano

María Cano · 1990

MovieDramaHistory

Colombia receives the indemnity for Panama and accepts foreign credit to undertake development works, which increases the number of workers, although with poor wages and terrible working conditions. María Cano, a political activist, began her fight for the conditions of salaried workers and for the fundamental rights of the population.

Assistant Director

Rodrigo D. No Future

Rodrigo D. No Future · 1990

Rodrigo D. No Future

MovieCrimeDrama

Rodrigo and his friends, restless teenagers from the marginalized neighborhoods on the hillsides of Medellín, spend their time causing trouble. But Rodrigo dreams of playing rock music and brings his friends together to form a punk band that becomes a lifeline amid a web of disorientation, violence, drugs, and fear.

Assistant Director

The People at Universal

The People at Universal · 1991

The People at Universal

MovieComedyAction

Former Sergeant Diogenes Hernandez owns the Universal, a precarious detective agency private in the Centre of Bogotá, which is based in the same apartment where he and his wife Fabiola inhabit. His nephew, Clemente Fernández, who works at the Agency, maintains a romance with Fabiola, without trying to hurt the feelings of his uncle, but driven by the need to alleviate their empty urban and anonymous man.

Director

Memorias de un País Filmado

Memorias de un País Filmado · 2024

Memorias de un País Filmado

MovieDocumentary

Cinema is a historical, social and cultural document that allows us to understand how a society perceives and defines itself. A documentary in which filmmakers, actors, historians and theorists explore Colombian identity through its cinematography.

Mambo

Director