
Philippe Toledano
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Biography
Philippe Toledano was a French-Venezuelan filmmaker. Toledano's work stands out for titles such as Morituri (1984) and Bésame mucho (1996).
Known For

Jairo is a teenager living in a marginal world, in a neighborhood full of drugs and assaults. Tired of poverty and his family hell, he is forced to resort to violence. He thinks his only way out of misery through the world of crime, so he decides to participate in an assault to get money with which to regain their dignity.
Sicario

Oliver flees from abuse of his family and seeks refuge in the violent streets of Caracas, where survival is only possible in an environment of corruption, crime and sniffing glue to escape hunger, like other children in the same situation. Soon, the child becomes part of the clashes between drug gangs and corrupt policemen.
Glue Sniffer

An eccentric millionaire gives a party for his birthday. With his friends, gamblers and collectors , they play games in their own way. One of them, a woman, suggests this: since they're all gamblers they should play a fortune on the life of one of them.
Morituri

Four men and two women illegaly board a cargo ship from Buenaventura, Colombia to New York. All their dreams and frustrations confronts them while they attempt not to be discovered by the ship crew. They all seek the "American Dream".
Ship of Dreams

Andrés lives obsessed with the disappearance and possible murder of his family during a violent military coup in his country. The years have aggravated his obsession and he has become a police man as a way of accessing the truth. There is some madness in his life. He won’t rest until he finds the truth which is closer every day.
Antes de Morir

At millenium's end, a psychopath is terrorizing a major Latin city. This unusual thriller skillfully blends the thriller and romance genres.
Bésame mucho

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La mágica aventura de Óscar

Thriller centered round the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Far from Dallas
Caracas is the capital of Venezuela. The country with the most shopping centers, McDonald's, cell phones, sales of Barbies, sales of Zara stores, sales of cosmetics and cosmetic surgeries per capita in Latin America. Caracas is the epicenter of consumption. In the construction of Social Venezuela something sounds very strange. The documentary is a reflection on consumerism.