| Cinema of Venezuela |
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| List of Venezuelan films |
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This is a list of films produced in Venezuela.
| Cinema of Venezuela |
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| List of Venezuelan films |
| 1890s |
| 1900s |
| pre-1940 |
| 1940s |
| 1950s |
| 1960s |
| 1970s |
| 1980s |
| 1990s |
| 2000s |
| 2010s |
| 2020s |
This is a list of films produced in Venezuela.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1897 | ||||||
| Un célebre especialista sacando muelas en el gran Hotel Europa | Documentary | First film | ||||
| Muchachos bañándose en la laguna de Maracaibo | Documentary | |||||
| Disputa entre Andracistas y Rojistas | ||||||
| Una paliza en el estado Sarría | ||||||
| Carlos Ruiz peleando con un cochero | proto-Western | |||||
| 1899 | ||||||
| Joropo de negros en el Orinoco | Carlos Ruiz Chapellín | Folk tale | ||||
| 1901 | ||||||
| Diálogos de Tirabeque y Pelegrín | G. Romegout, a Lumière worker | First certain fiction and first sound film made in Venezuela | ||||
| Bailes populares | Romegout | Folktale | Featuring sound | |||
| Coplas de Gedeón | Romegout | Featuring sound | ||||
| 1903 | ||||||
| Unknown (likely multiple) | Manuel Trujillo Durán and Alfredo Duplat | Possibly made in Colombia; shown in Venezuela by Venezuelans (August 13–27) | ||||
| 1908 | ||||||
| 5 de Julio or 5 de Julio: Película Criolla | Manuel Ignacio Baralt, Servio Tulio Baralt and Manuel Delhom | Documentary | Made in honor of the president of Carabobo state, Dr. Samuel E. Niño | |||
| Las Trincheras-Valencia | S. T. Baralt and M. Delhom | Documentary | ||||
| 1909 | ||||||
| Carnival in Caracas | M. A. Gonhom and Augusto González Vidal | Documentary | Said to be filmed on primitive cameras, but enjoyed by the audience who wanted to see the subject | |||
| 1913 | ||||||
| Don Confusio | Lucas Manzano | [1] | ||||
| La dama de las Cayenas | Enrique Zimmerman | Parody | First feature film | |||
| 1923 | ||||||
| La Trepadora | Edgar J. Anzola & Jacobo Capriles | |||||
| 1928 | ||||||
| Los milagros de la Divina Pastora | Amábilis Cordero | |||||
| 1932 | ||||||
| La venus de Nácar: Fantasía Aborigen | Efrain Gómez | First sound film | ||||
| 1938 | ||||||
| Taboga | Features synchronous sound | |||||
| El Rompimiento | Features synchronous sound | |||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | ||||||
| Juan de la calle | Rafael Rivero | Social cinema | Production by Rómulo Gallegos | |||
| 1945 | ||||||
| Alma llanera | Manuel Pelufo | |||||
| Las Aventuras de Frijolito y Robustiana | José María Galofré | |||||
| Dos hombres en la tormenta | Rafael Rivero | |||||
| 1949 | ||||||
| La Balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde | Carlos Hugo Christensen | Juana Sujo, Tomás Henríquez | Drama | Cannes Film Festival winner: Best Cinematography | ||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | ||||||
| La Escalinata | César Enríquez | Independent film | ||||
| El demonio es un ángel | Carlos Hugo Christensen | |||||
| 1952 | ||||||
| Reverón | Margot Benacerraf | Documentary | ||||
| 1953 | ||||||
| Luz en el páramo | Víctor Urruchúa | Entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
| 1957 | ||||||
| Caín Adolescente | Román Chalbaud | Carlota Ureta Zambrano, Milagros del Valle, Edgar Jimenez, Rafael Briceño | Drama | Román Chalbaud's first movie | ||
| 1959 | ||||||
| Araya | Margot Benacerraf | José Ignacio Cabrujas (narrator) | Documentary | 1959 Cannes Film Festival nominee: Golden Palm | ||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | ||||||
| Séptimo Paralelo | Elia Marcelli | |||||
| 1963 | ||||||
| Cuentos para mayores | Román Chalbaud | Manuel Poblete, Carmen Mesutti, Héctor Cabrera | ||||
| 1964 | ||||||
| Isla de sal | Clemente de la Cerda | Simón Díaz, Lila Morillo | Clemente de la Cerda's first movie | |||
| 1965 | ||||||
| EFPEUM | Mauricio Odremán | Science fiction | ||||
| La ciudad que nos ve | Jesús Enrique Guédez | Mockumentary | Social compromise film | |||
| 1968 | ||||||
| La Universidad Vota en Contra | Jesús E. Guédez | Documentary | ||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | ||||||
| Chévere o La victoria de Wellington | Román Chalbaud | Eva Moreno, José Royo, Alfredi Berry | ||||
| 1973 | ||||||
| Cuando quiero llorar no lloro | Mauricio Walerstein | Valentín Trujillo, Orlando Urdaneta, Verónica Castro, Miguel Ángel Landa, Haydée Balza Fernando Arriaga, Rafael Briceño | Drama | Film based on the homonymous novel Cuando quiero llorar no lloro by Miguel Otero Silva; entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival | ||
| 1975 | ||||||
| Crónica de un subversivo latinoamericano | Mauricio Walerstein | |||||
| La Quema de Judas | Román Chalbaud | Miguel Ángel Landa, Hilda Vera, Rafael Briceño | Drama | 9th Moscow International Film Festival nominee: Grand Prize | ||
| 1976 | ||||||
| Compañero Augusto | Enver Cordido | Orlando Urdaneta, María Grazia Bianchi, Rafael Cabrera, Jesús Maella, Julio Mota, Chelo Rodríguez | Drama | |||
| Soy un delincuente | Clemente de la Cerda | Haydée Balza | Special Jury Prize at 1977 Locarno International Film Festival | |||
| 1977 | ||||||
| El Cine Soy Yo | Luis Armando Roche | Asdrúbal Meléndez, Juliet Berto, Alvaro Roche | Drama | Entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival | ||
| El Pez que Fuma | Román Chalbaud | Hilda Vera, Orlando Urdaneta, Haydée Balza, Miguel Ángel Landa | Comedy / drama | |||
| Los Tracaleros | Alfredo Lugo | Orlando Urdaneta, Elluz Peraza, Toco Gómez | Comedy / drama | |||
| Panamá | Jesús Enríque Guédez | |||||
| Se llamaba SN | Luis Correa | Asdrúbal Meléndez, José Torres, María Gracia Bianchi, Pedro Marthan, Ricardo Blanco | Historical | |||
| Se solicita muchacha de buena presencia y motorizado con moto propia | Alfredo Anzola | |||||
| 1978 | ||||||
| Carmen, la que contaba 16 años | Román Chalbaud | Mayra Alejandra, Miguel Ángel Landa, Carlos Márquez | Drama | |||
| El cabito | Daniel Oropeza | Carlos Carrera, Chony Fuentes, Gabriel Martínez, Hermelinda Alvarado, María Grazia Bianchi, Oscar Ibarra | ||||
| La empresa perdona un momento de locura | Mauricio Walerstein | Simón Díaz, Eva Mondolfi, Asdrúbal Meléndez, Iván Feo | Comedy | Screened at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. [2] | ||
| Yo hablo a Caracas | Carloz Azpurúa | Documentary | ||||
| 1979 | ||||||
| Bodas de papel | Román Chalbaud | |||||
| Bolívar, sinfonía tropikal | Diego Rísquez | |||||
| El rebaño de los ángeles | Román Chalbaud | Mary Soliani, Pilar Romero, Alicia Plaza | Fiction | |||
| Manuel | Alfredo Anzola | Víctor Cuica, Alejo Felipe, Asdrúbal Meléndez, Julio Mota, Virginia Urdaneta | ||||
| País Portátil | Iván Feo | Alejandra Pinedo, Héctor Duvauchelle, Iván Feo | Fiction | Film based on the novel of the same name by Adriano González León | ||
| Simplicio | Franco Rubartelli | Guillermo Montesinos, David Lares, Luis Salazar, Antonio Rodríguez | ||||
| Trampa inocente | Oziel Rodríguez | Bienvenido Roca, José Torres, Hilda Vera, María Fernanda di Giacobbe, Arturo Calderón | ||||
| Travelling Companion | Clemente de la Cerda | Entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | ||||||
| Historias de amor y brujería | Carlo Cosmi | |||||
| 1981 | ||||||
| La Propia Gente | Carlos Azpúrua, Carlos Oteyza, Jacobo Penzo | Documentary | ||||
| 1982 | ||||||
| Cangrejo | Román Chalbaud | Miguel Ángel Landa, América Alonso, Carlos Márquez | Drama | Based on the book Cuatro Crímenes: Cuatro Poderes, by Fermín Mármol León | ||
| Domingo de resurrección | César Bolívar | |||||
| Los Criminales | Clemente de la Cerda | |||||
| 1983 | ||||||
| La Gata Borracha | Román Chalbaud | |||||
| The House of Water | Jacobo Penzo | |||||
| 1984 | ||||||
| Adiós Miami | Antonio Llerandi | |||||
| Cangrejo II | Román Chalbaud | Miguel Ángel Landa, Jean Carlo Simancas, Toco Gómez | ||||
| Cóctel de camarones | Alfredo Anzola | Adriana Villalba, Alba Roversi, Alejandro Corona | Comedy | |||
| Homicidio culposo | César Bolívar | Elba Escobar, Javier Vidal, Jean Carlos Simancas | Drama | |||
| La hora del tigre | Alfredo Lugo | |||||
| La muerte insiste | Javier Blanco | Based in the novel L'Assassin maladroit by René Reouven | ||||
| Macho y hembra | Mauricio Walerstein | |||||
| Morituri | Philippe Toledano | |||||
| 1985 | ||||||
| Oriana | Fina Torres | Doris Wells, Maya Oloe | Drama | Won the Golden Camera Award at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Ratón de ferretería | Román Chalbaud | Miguel Ángel Landa, Jenny Noguera, Rafael Briceño | ||||
| Más allá del silencio | César Bolívar | Maria Isabel Calderón, Julie Restifo, Ileanna Simancas | ||||
| Agonia | Joseph Novoa | Maria Eugenia Carrasco, Aminta de Lara Aminta de Lara. Jorge Díaz, Juan Manuel Montesinos | Drama | |||
| 1986 | ||||||
| Ifigenia | Iván Feo | Marialejandra Martín, Adriano González León, Vilma Ramia | Drama | |||
| Pequeña revancha | Olegario Barrera Monteverde | Nominated for the 1st Goya Awards as Best Iberoamerican Film. [3] | ||||
| 1987 | ||||||
| Macu, The Policeman's Woman | Solveig Hoogesteijn | Daniel Alvarado, María Luisa Mosquera, Ana Castell | Drama | |||
| La oveja negra | Román Chalbaud | Eva Blanco, Arturo Calderón, Javier Zapata | Drama | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | ||||||
| Cuchillos de fuego | Román Chalbaud | Miguel Ángel Landa Dora Mazzone Jonathan Montenegro | ||||
| 1991 | ||||||
| Jericó | Luis Alberto Lamata | Cosme Cortázar | Drama | Goya Award nominee: Best Spanish Language Foreign Film | ||
| 1992 | ||||||
| Desnudo con Naranjas | Luis Alberto Lamata | Lourdes Valera & Daniel Alvarado | Drama | Sochi International Film Festival winner: Best Actor Daniel Alvarado | ||
| Río Negro aka Blak River | Atahualpa Lichy | Ángela Molina, Marie-José Nat, Nathalie Nell, Fanny Bastien, Frank Ramírez, Daniel Alvarado | Drama | Coral Prize to the Best Unpublished Script - Havana Festival, India Catalina Opera Prima - Cartagena Festival, Makhila to the Opera Prima - Biarritz Festival. | ||
| Santera | Solveig Hoogesteijn | Gledys Ibarra, Irma Salcedo | Drama | Gramado Film Festival nominee – Latin Competition: Best Film | ||
| 1993 | ||||||
| Los Platos del Diablo | Thaelman Urgelles | Gustavo Rodríguez, Mimí Lazo, Marcela Walerstein | Drama | Film based on the novel of the same name, by Eduardo Liendo | ||
| 1994 | ||||||
| Golpes a mi Puerta | Alejandro Saderman | Verónica Oddó & Elba Escobar | Drama | Goya Award nominee: Best Spanish Language Foreign Film | ||
| 1995 | ||||||
| Mecánicas Celestes | Fina Torres | Ariadna Gil | Comedy | L.A. Outfest winner: Grand Jury Award for Outstanding American Narrative Feature | ||
| Rosa de Francia | César Bolívar | Ninibeth Leal, Víctor Cámara | Drama | |||
| Sicario | Joseph Novoa | Laureano Olivares, Gledys Ibarra, Pedro Lander | Drama | Tokyo International Film Festival winner: Best Director & Best Supporting Actress | ||
| 1996 | ||||||
| Out in the Open | Luis Armando Roche | Roy Dupuis, Christian Vadim, Carlos Cruz | Drama | |||
| Tokyo-Paraguaipoa | Leonardo Henríquez | Adolfo Cubas, Eileen Abad, Kenji Sato | Action / drama | |||
| 1997 | ||||||
| Una Vida y Dos Mandados | Alberto Arvelo | John Márquez, Bernardino Angel | Drama | Montréal World Film Festival nominee: Grand Prix des Amériques | ||
| Pandemonium: La Capital del Infierno | Román Chalbaud | Orlando Urdaneta, Amalia Pérez Díaz | Drama | San Sebastián International Film Festival nominee: Golden Seashell Award | ||
| La Voz del Corazón | Carlos Oteyza | Henry Soto, Beatriz Valdez, Asdrúbal Meléndez | Drama | Gramado Film Festival nominee: Best Film | ||
| 1998 | ||||||
| 100 años de perdón | Alejandro Saderman | Orlando Urdaneta, Elluz Peraza, Mariano Álvarez, Daniel Lugo & Aroldo Betancourt | Comedy | Newport International Film Festival nominee: Jury Award | ||
| Amaneció de golpe | Carlos Azpúrua | Ruddy Rodríguez, Yanis Chimaras, Elba Escobar | Drama | Goya Award nominee: Best Spanish Language Foreign Film | ||
| Piel | Oscar Lucién | Indhira Serrano, Gabriel Blanco, Juan Manuel Montesinos | Drama | Bogotá Film Festival nominee: Best Film | ||
| 1999 | ||||||
| Huelepega: Ley de la Calle | Elia Schneider | José Gregorio Rivas, Pedro Lander, Adolfo Cubas | Drama | |||
| Loop | ||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | ||||||
| Caracas Amor a Muerte | Gustavo Balza | Luis Fernández, Iván Tamayo | Drama | Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival winner: Best Film | ||
| Cédula Ciudadano | Diego Velasco | Héctor Palma, Luis Colmenares, Dimas González, Rolando Padilla, Benjamin Rausseo, Orlando Urdaneta | Comedy | |||
| Manuela Sáenz | Diego Rísquez | Beatriz Valdés, Mariano Álvarez | Drama | |||
| Borrón y Cuenta Nueva | Henrique Lazo | Mimí Lazo, Luis Fernández, Elba Escobar | Comedy | Cartagena Film Festival nominee: Best Film | ||
| Oro Diablo | Joseph Novoa | Drama | ||||
| 2002 | ||||||
| The Archangel's Feather | ||||||
| 2003 | ||||||
| B-Happy | Gonzalo Justiniano | Manuela Martelli, Eduardo Barril, Lorene Prieto, Felipe Ríos, Ricardo Fernández | Drama | Winner: CICAE Award - Best Film | ||
| Una casa con vista al mar | Alberto Arvelo | Imanol Arias, Leandro Arvelo | Drama | Miami Film Festival winner: Best Director | ||
| Yotama se va volando | Luis Armando Roche | Edgar Ramírez, Beatriz Vásquez | Drama | Cartagena Film Festival nominee: Best Film | ||
| 2004 | ||||||
| Punto y Raya | Elias Schneider | Roque Valero, Edgar Ramírez | Action / drama / comedy | Bogotá Film Festival winner: Best Director | ||
| X-Ray of a Lie | Wolfgang Schalk | Documentary | ||||
| Habana, Havana | Alberto Arvelo | Raúl Eguren, Israel Guerra | Drama | Cartagena Film Festival nominee: Best Film | ||
| 2005 | ||||||
| Secuestro Express | Jonathan Jakubowicz | Mia Maestro, Jean Paul Leroux, Carlos Julio Molina, Ruben Blades, Niga Sibilino & Budu | Drama | British Independent Film Award nominee: Best Foreign Film | ||
| 1888, El Extraordinario Viaje de la Santa Isabel | Alfredo Anzola | Marco Villarubia, Elba Escobar | Drama | ANAC Awards: Best Art Direction & Best Cinematography | ||
| El Caracazo | Román Chalbaud | Fernando Carrillo, Yanis Chimaras, Mimí Lazo, Francis Rueda | Drama | ANAC Awards: Best Supporting Actress (Beatriz Vásquez) | ||
| Maroa | Solveig Hoogesteijn | Tristán Ulloa, Yorlis Domínguez, Elba Escobar | Drama | Venezuela's Official Selection for the 79th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film | ||
| 2006 | ||||||
| Francisco de Miranda | Diego Rísquez | Luis Fernández | History / drama | |||
| Tocar y Luchar | Alberto Arvelo | José Antonio Abreu, Gustavo Dudamel | Documentary | Miami Film Festival: Best Documentary | ||
| El Don | Joseph Novoa | Laureno Olivares | Drama, Accion | |||
| Elipsis | Eduardo Arias-Nath | Édgar Ramírez, Seu Jorge, Jean Paul Leroux | Drama / crime | |||
| Mi Vida por Sharon, ¿o qué te pasa a ti? | Carlos Azpúrua | Mimi Lazo, Carlos Mata, Vicente Tepedino | Comedy | |||
| 2007 | ||||||
| 13 Segundos | Freddy Fadel | Daniela Alvarado, Carmen Julia Álvarez, Nohely Arteaga | Drama | |||
| El Señor Presidente | Rómulo Guardia | Drama | Adaptation of the 1946 homonymous novel by Guatemalan writer Miguel Ángel Asturias | |||
| Puras Joyitas | César Oropeza | Mario Cimarro, Miguel Ferrari, Erich Wildpret | Action / comedy | |||
| Una abuela virgen | Olegario Barrera | Daniela Alvarado, Antonio Delli, Marlene De Andrade, Iván Tamayo | Comedy | |||
| Cyrano Fernandez | Alberto Arvelo | Edgar Ramirez, Pastor Oviedo, Jessika Grau | Action / romance | Malaga Film Festival Best Latin American Film | ||
| Postcards from Leningrad | Mariana Rondon | Laureano Olivares, Greisy Mena | Drama / tragicomedy | Biarritz Film Festival winner; Goya Awards: Best Spanish Language Foreign Film nominee | ||
| 2008 | ||||||
| Bloques | Carlos Caridad, Alfredo Hueck | Dimas González, Lourdes Valera, Nohely Arteaga | Drama | |||
| The Color of Fame | Alejandro Ballame | Elaiza Gil, Alberto Alifa, Miguel Ferrari | Drama | |||
| La Virgen Negra | Ignacio Castillo Cotin | Carmen Maura, Matheus Nachtergaele, Carolina Torres | Comedy | |||
| A mi me gusta | Ralph Kinnard | Mónica Pasqualotto, Jonathan Ashford | Romance / comedy | |||
| 2009 | ||||||
| Libertador Morales, el Justiciero | Efterpi Charalambidis | Rafael Gil, Alba Vallvé | Comedy | |||
| Swing con son | Rafael Marziano Tinoco | Caridad Canelón, Billo Frómeta, Rafa Galindo, Alberto Naranjo, María Rivas | Documentary / history / musical | |||
| Venezzia | Haik Gazarian | Alfonso Herrera, Ruddy Rodríguez | Drama | |||
| Zamora: Tierra y hombres libres | Román Chalbaud | Alexander Solórzano, Eric Ekvall, Antonio Machuca | Historical | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | ||||||
| Cheila: Una Casa Pa' Maita | Eduardo Barberena | Endry Cardeño, Violeta Alemán, José Manuel Suárez | Drama | Best Movie at the Mérida Film Festival | ||
| Habana Eva | Fina Torres | Prakriti Maduro, Juan Carlos García | Comedy | Best Movie at the New York Latino Film Festival | ||
| Hermano | Marcel Rasquin | Eliú Armas, Fernando Moreno | Drama | Best Movie at the Moscow Film Festival; Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film | ||
| Taita Boves | Luis Alberto Lamata | Juvel Vielma, Daniela Alvarado, Gledys Ibarra | Historical | |||
| La Hora Cero | Diego Velasco | Zapata 666, Amanda Key, Erich Wildpret, Nana Ponceleon, Albi de Abreu, Antonio Cuevas, Marisa Roman | Action | |||
| El Chico que Miente | Marite Ugas | Iker Fernandez, Francisco Denis, Beatriz Vazquez, Gladys Prince, Aldrin Sterling | Drama | |||
| Yours | Ivan Mazza | Albi De Abreu Armando Cabrera Prakriti Maduro | Short | |||
| 2011 | ||||||
| No Stingray Pie for Dinner Tonight | Braulio Rodríguez | Luis Carreño | Comedy short | |||
| Reverón | Diego Rísquez | Luigi Sciamanna, Sheila Monterola, Luis Fernández, Prakriti Maduro | Drama | Best Movie at the Mérida Film Festival | ||
| Yo, indocumentada | Andrea Baranenko | Tamara Adrián | Documentary | Represented Venezuela and was part of the 2013 official selection of the United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF). [4] | ||
| 2012 | ||||||
| Breach in the Silence | Luis Rodríguez, Andrés Rodríguez | |||||
| Caracas, las dos caras de la vida | Jackson Gutiérrez | |||||
| Rock, Paper, Scissors | Hernán Jabes | Drama | ||||
| Tiempos de dictadura | Carlos Oteyza | Documentary | Film about the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez | |||
| 2013 | ||||||
| Alt | Alejandro Hernández | Edmary Fuentes Gustavo Finol | Short | |||
| Bad Hair | Mariana Rondón | Beto Benites | ||||
| Bolívar, Man of Difficulties | Luis Alberto Lamata | Roque Valero | Historical | |||
| High Noon | Ivan Mazza | Gabriel Rojas, Pedro Gómez, Prakriti Maduro, Edgar Noria, Efraín Romero, Gustavo Santana | Short | |||
| The Liberator | Alberto Arvelo | Historical | Venezuelan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, [5] [6] making the January Shortlist. [7] | |||
| Jacinto Convit | Sergio Monsalve | Documentary | ||||
| La distancia más larga | Claudia Pinto | Carme Elias, Omar Moya, Ivan Tamayo | Drama | Nominated for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film at the 29th Goya Awards. | ||
| Papita, maní, tostón | Luis Carlos Hueck | Comedy | Highest-grossing film in the history of Venezuelan cinema.[ needs update ] | |||
| The House at the End of Time | Alejandro Hidalgo | Ruddy Rodríguez | Horror | Highest-grossing film in the history of Venezuelan cinema[ needs update ] and the most internationally distributed Venezuelan film. | ||
| The Return | Patricia Ortega | Daniela González, Sofía Espinoza, Laureano Olivares, Jessica González | Drama | |||
| Valle Cocodrilo | Leticia Patrizi | Short | ||||
| 2014 | ||||||
| Blue and Not So Pink | Miguel Ferrari | Guillermo García, Nacho Montes (aka Ignacio Montes González), Hilda Abrahamz, Carolina Torres, Alexander Da Silva, Sócrates Serrano, Elba Escobar, Beatriz Valdés | Drama | Best Foreign Film in the Spanish Language at the 28th Goya Awards in 2014 | ||
| Corpus Christi | César Bolívar | Carlos Cruz, Jariana Armas, Marcos Moreno | ||||
| 2015 | ||||||
| El desertor | Raúl Chamorro | Magdiel González, Eliane Chipia, Leónidas Urbina, Glenda Mendoza, Mercedes López, Salvador Villegas | Drama | |||
| El malquerido | Diego Rísquez | Chyno Miranda | Drama | [8] | ||
| From Afar | Lorenzo Vigas | Drama | Golden Lion at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. [9] [10] [11] It was selected as the Venezuelan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards. [12] | |||
| Gone with the River | ||||||
| Km 72 | Samuel Henríquez | Gustavo Rodríguez, Frank Spano, George Akram, Indra Santamaría, Jesús Nunes | Cine Negro | [13] | ||
| Muerte Suspendida | Óscar Rivas Gamboa | Zapata 666 Mayra Africano Asdrúbal Blanco Óscar Pérez | Action | |||
| 2016 | ||||||
| CAP 2 Intentos | Carlos Oteyza | Documentary | Film about the two non-consecutive tenures of President Carlos Andrés Pérez. | |||
| El Amparo | Rober Calzadilla | Giovanny García Vicente Quintero Samantha Castillo Vicente Peña Rossana Hernández Contents | Historical | |||
| La Soledad | Jorge Thielen Armand | Jose Dolores López, Adrializ López, Jorge Roque Thielen | Drama | Premiered at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival | ||
| Tamara | Elia Schneider | Luis Fernández, Prakriti Maduro, Mimí Lazo, Karina Velásquez, Carlota Sosa, Julie Restifo, Tamara Adrián | Drama Romance | |||
| 2017 | ||||||
| El Inca | Ignacio Castillo Cottin | Sports Drama | ||||
| In the Shadow of the Revolution | J. Arturo Albarrá Clifton Ross | Documentary | ||||
| The Family | Gustavo Rondón Córdova | Drama | ||||
| 2018 | ||||||
| Being Impossible | Patricia Ortega | Drama | ||||
| Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century | Gustavo Tovar-Arroyo | Documentary | Best documentary in the New York International Films Infest Festival. [14] | |||
| El pueblo soy yo | Carlos Oteyza | Enrique Krauze, Fernando Mires, Loris Zanatta, Alberto Barrera Tyszka, Ana Rosa Torres | Documentary | Nominated in the 34th Guadalajara International Film Festival for the feature-length documentary category. [15] [16] | ||
| They Call Us Warriors | Jennifer Socorro David Alonso Edwin Corona Ramos | Documentary | ||||
| Simón | Diego Vicentini | Christian McGaffney, Kelley Mack, Steve Wilcox, Alexandra Hoover | Short | Feature film produced. [17] | ||
| 2019 | ||||||
| Colateral | Lucrecia Cisneros | Documentary | ||||
| Infection | Flavio Pedota | Rubén Guevara, Leonidas Urbina, Magdiel González, Genna Chanelle Hayes | Horror | Best Ibero-American Film award at the 2019 Guadalajara International Film Festival. [18] | ||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||||||
| A La Calle | Maxx Caicedo Nelson G. Navarrete | Documentary | ||||
| Atacama | Enrique Bencomo | Loreto Dañobeitia Egaña, David Alonso, Mariajesus Foix, Jose Miguel Ceardi, Luciano Farías, German Silva | ||||
| La Fortaleza | Jorge Thielen Armand | Jorge Roque Thielen, Yoni Naranjo, Carlos Medina, Leudys Naranjo | Drama | Nominated for Tiger Award at the 2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam. [19] | ||
| Lejos de casa: éxodo venezolano | Abner Ramírez | Gabriel Buitrago, Abner Ramirez, Yroski Palacios | Drama | |||
| El Father Plays Himself | Mo Scarpelli | Jorge Thielen Armand, Jorge Roque Thielen | Documentary | 51st Visions du Réel International Competition Special Mention Winner. In Co-production with the UK, Italy, and the US. | ||
| Once Upon a Time in Venezuela | Anabel Rodríguez Ríos | Documentary | Venezuelan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards. [20] | |||
| Opposite Direction | Alejandro Bellame Palacios | Claudia Rojas, Christian González, Erick Palacios, Diana Volpe, Alberto Alifa | Romance | Candidate for the 36th Goya Awards for the Best Ibero-American Film category. [21] [22] | ||
| The Inner Glow | Andrés Eduardo Rodríguez | Drama | Venezuelan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards. [23] | |||
| Two Autumns in Paris [24] | Gibelys Coronado | María Antonieta Hidalgo, Francisco Villarroel, Raúl Amundaray, Sonia Villamizar, Juan Belgrave | Drama Political Thriller | Special Jury Prize at the Nigeria Film Festival [25] and several International awards | ||
| 2021 | ||||||
| La última pieza | Ricardo Muñoz Senior | Ricardo Muñoz Senior, Samantha Castillo, Victor Oliveira | Drama Comedy | |||
| Me & The Beasts | Nico Manzano | Jesús Nunes | Drama Musical | |||
| Rómulo Resiste | Carlos Oteyza | Américo Martín, Elisa Lerner, Ramón Guillermo Aveledo | Documentary | |||
| The Box | Lorenzo Vigas | Hernán Mendoza, Hatzín Navarrete, Cristina Zulueta | Drama | Venezuelan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards. [26] | ||
| 2022 | ||||||
| Free Color | Alberto Arvelo Mendoza | Carlos Cruz-Diez | Documentary | |||
| Jezebel | Hernán Jabes | Gabriel Agüero, Johanna Juliethe, Eliane Chipia, Shakti Maal | Thriller Crime | |||
| 2023 | ||||||
| My Otaku Girlfriend | Edio Raven | Miguelángel Hidalgo, Karla Scallop, Frank Coello, Subotic Kelliens | Drama | |||
| The Rent Girl | Carlos Caridad Montero | Daniela Alvarado, Luis Olavarrieta, Patricia Schwarzgruber, Agustín Segnini, Augusto Nitti, César Bencid | Romantic comedy | Premiered on June 1, 2023. [27] | ||
| The Shadow of the Sun | Miguel Ángel Ferrer | Carlos Manuel González, Anyelo López, Greisy Mena, Jeizer Ruiz, Richard Clark, Davis Olaves, Camila Curtis, Pedro Alonso, Kenny Montoya | Drama | Venezuelan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards [28] | ||
| Simón | Diego Vicentini | Christian McGaffney | Drama | Best Feature Film at the Venezuelan Film Festival. [29] | ||
| Upon Entry | Alejandro Rojas Juan Sebastián Vásquez | Alberto Ammann, Bruna Cusí, Ben Temple, Laura Gómez | Drama | |||
| Back to Life | Luis Carlos Hueck Alfredo Hueck | José Ramón Barreto, José Roberto Díaz, Crisol Carabal | Comedy-drama | |||
| 2024 | ||||||
| Los herederos | Pablo De La Barra | Javier Vidal | Thriller | [30] [31] | ||
| Hambre | Joanna Nelson | Gabriel Aguero, Rolando Padilla | Drama | [32] | ||
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