Movies: Román Chalbaud

  • 1977
    The Smoking Fish

    The Smoking Fish (1977)

    The Smoking Fish

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    A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon he takes the place of the administrator, who is also La Garz...

    The Smoking Fish
  • 1997
    Pandemonium, the Hell's Capital City

    Pandemonium, the Hell's Capital City (1997)

    Pandemonium, the Hell's Capital City

    71997HD

    Adonai is an lunatic poet. He lives in an abandoned neighborhood of Caracas where he runs an underground radio called "Radio Pandemonium", he lives with his mom, his grandmother and a young lady who she calls very endearly, 'whore'. They survive amon...

    Pandemonium, the Hell's Capital City
  • 2005
    El caracazo

    El caracazo (2005)

    El caracazo

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    El Caracazo o Sacudón fue una serie de fuertes protestas y disturbios durante el gobierno de Carlos Andrés Pérez, que comenzó el día 27 de febrero y terminó el día 28 de febrero de 1989 en la ciudad de Caracas, e iniciados realmente en la ciudad de G...

    El caracazo
  • 1979
    The Flock of Angels

    The Flock of Angels (1979)

    The Flock of Angels

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    Ingrid is a young high school student who due to the impact suffered by the death of his mother, is acting strangely causing concern to her teachers. After a landslide caused by heavy rains, police surrounded the premises of the high school to expel ...

    The Flock of Angels
  • 1987
    La Oveja Negra

    La Oveja Negra (1987)

    La Oveja Negra

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    A group of thieves and outcasts are living in a big abandoned movie theater where they have created a very friendly and very particular universe. The police will use all its resources to violate their space, but again and again fail in their attempts...

    La Oveja Negra
  • 1983
    The Drunken Pussycat

    The Drunken Pussycat (1983)

    The Drunken Pussycat

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    Victor, a family man, becomes romantically involved with Rosario, a young newly arrived prostitute from the city of Maracaibo. His obsessive love and the desire to share his life with this woman, will lead him to despair....

    The Drunken Pussycat
  • 1979
    Bodas de Papel

    Bodas de Papel (1979)

    Bodas de Papel

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    Esther and Gustavo are celebrating seven years of happy marriage. Two beautiful children and a comfortable home in a residential area backs the stability of the still young couple, a conventional model of marriage where nothing seems to disturb their...

    Bodas de Papel
  • 1973
    When I Want to Cry, I Don't

    When I Want to Cry, I Don't (1973)

    When I Want to Cry, I Don't

    5.41973HD

    In Venezuela, one day in 1948 there were born three children all named Victorino: Pérez, mulatto and son of the poor Lucía; Perdomo, son of a middle-class communist who gets arrested; and bourgeois Peralta. On the day of his eighteenth birthday Pérez...

    When I Want to Cry, I Don't
  • 2017
    Cabrujas en el país del disimulo

    Cabrujas en el país del disimulo (2017)

    Cabrujas en el país del disimulo

    02017HD

    Beginning with his childhood and covering the many facets that characterized his intellectual universe, this documentary details the different aspects of the most important venezuelan writer of the 60s, 70s and 80s: José Ignacio Cabrujas....

    Cabrujas en el país del disimulo
  • 1975
    Sacred and Obscene

    Sacred and Obscene (1975)

    Sacred and Obscene

    01975HD

    Pedro Zamora (Miguelangel Landa) is a former guerrilla who returns to Caracas and moves to a pension as a tenant. Despite appearances, he has come to fulfill a secret mission to its ultimate consequences....

    Sacred and Obscene
  • 1974
    The Burning of Judas

    The Burning of Judas (1974)

    The Burning of Judas

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    Jesús María Carmona is a small-time crook who poses as a cop so he can rob a bank. A few days before the day he planned to do it, a guerrilla group robs the same bank and Carmona is shot to death defending it when he has no other choice but to act as...

    The Burning of Judas
  • 2017
    La planta insolente

    La planta insolente (2017)

    La planta insolente

    02017HD

    The film reproduces the historical moment when Cipriano Castro, then president of Venezuela, proclaimed: "The insolent plant of the foreigner has desecrated the sacred soil of the fatherland!" While the coasts were invaded by imperial forces in 1902....

    La planta insolente
  • 1984
    Crab II

    Crab II (1984)

    Crab II

    71984HD

    Commissioner Leon (Miguel Angel Landa) investigates the murder of a woman in a population near the capital. The woman was raped before death and the case is complicated when his brother becomes the prime suspect, since it is a priest (Eduardo Serrano...

    Crab II
  • 1953
    Light in the High Plains

    Light in the High Plains (1953)

    Light in the High Plains

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    Luz en el páramo is a 1953 Venezuelan film directed by Víctor Urruchúa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival....

    Light in the High Plains
  • 1987
    Los Años del Miedo

    Los Años del Miedo (1987)

    Los Años del Miedo

    01987HD

    The political leader Alberto Carnevali, secretly returns to his country to plot against the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez. The Intense subversive struggle brings the torture of many of his comrades....

    Los Años del Miedo
  • 2010
    Zamora, tierra y hombres libres

    Zamora, tierra y hombres libres (2010)

    Zamora, tierra y hombres libres

    02010HD

    Venezuela, the mid-nineteenth century. The polarization between liberals and conservatives marked the political agenda. Inequalities of colonial society kept farmers and slaves under the yoke of the oligarchy. Ezequiel Zamora mobilized by deep ideals...

    Zamora, tierra y hombres libres
  • 1985
    Ratón en Ferretería

    Ratón en Ferretería (1985)

    Ratón en Ferretería

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    Adonai Flores, an experienced writer of telenovelas, falls in love with Belén Helena, a girl of low class. Adonay, desperate to keep her with him, abandons his responsibilities and even his dog. After discovering that she is a drug dealer he decides ...

    Ratón en Ferretería
  • 1990
    Cuchillos de fuego

    Cuchillos de fuego (1990)

    Cuchillos de fuego

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    Version of the play "Todo bicho de uña". It tells the story of revenge. The tour of the Andean, for ten years, a young man in search of the rapist and murderer of his mother, takes us into the underworld strata fairs and circuses villagers....

    Cuchillos de fuego
  • 1978
    Carmen

    Carmen (1978)

    Carmen

    41978HD

    Carmen 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, b...

    Carmen
  • 1986
    Manon

    Manon (1986)

    Manon

    61986HD

    During a bus ride through the Andes, two seminarians encounter with a woman named Manon. Immediately, one of them falls in love and the attraction is mutual, so they decide to flee to capital city to start a new life. But the love of Manon ambitious ...

    Manon