Ariel Severino
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A shoeshine boy and his mother, a cabaret employee, fight against life's adversities. Venezuelan drama directed by Fernando Cortés.
Amanecer a la vida

The captain of a small vessel, regularly sailing between his home island of Margarita Island in the Caribbean and the Venezuelan mainland, has two separate and very different relationships. At home, he is happily married, having named his boat Isabel after his wife. Yet on his visits to the port of La Guaira, he has a passionate affair with Esperanza, a woman working in a seedy cabaret who tries to retain him with hexes and spells. A classic of Latin American cinema, which won Best Cinematography at 1951 Cannes Film Festival.
The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon

This is the story of a suburb in Buenos Aires, its neighborhood, and how they live together in poverty, conjoined by the games of the children, and the love and support of the grown ups.
Pelota de trapo

Mexican-Venezuela comedy film, featuring Amador Bendayán.
El reportero

A worker looking for money for his blind mother's operation, presents himself as a tango singer and achieves success.
El cantor del pueblo

This anthology film consists of three parts: "Story One: The story of the brave man", "Story Two: Angels Rhythm" and "Story Three: The false office of supernumerary". The first story tells of a man desperate to get money to cure the illness of his daughter. The second story tells the adventures of a gang of youths; and finally, the third story tells of corruption in Congress.
Tales for Grown Ups

An attempt to bring the famous novel by Dumas to the cinema, where the promenades of Montevideo such as Parque Rivera and the Castillo del Parque RodĂł are transformed into French settings.
Los Tres Mosqueteros

Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational opportunities. When they get there they have to live in a poor home in one of the slums located in the city's outskirts, where they encounter a horrible world full of promiscuity and misery, that is quite different from what they expected and that eventually will lead Juana to self-destruction and Juan to reconsider his life in the city.
Young Cain
Venezuelan movie directed by Juan Corona.
El pequeño milagro

Directed by Carlos Alonso, the drama is the film version of the documentary chronicle of the journalist JosĂ© Sánchez Flores about the tragedy that occurred on May 9 of the same year in the town of Pueblo del Oro - today Mendizábal - in the department of Treinta y Tres, a story that is part of Uruguayan folklore and that had the child Dionisio DĂaz as the protagonist.
The little hero of Arroyo del Oro

A young woman has her plans to catch a doctor reluctant to marry.
El demonio es un ángel

Aquilino, better known as "Lepe", is a circus clown who returns to Caracas after several years of absence with his assistant Lepino to discover the whereabouts of his granddaughter Geraldine, the result of a relationship his daughter had with the young millionaire Juan Bértola, who died in a plane crash when Geraldine was just a baby.
Papalepe

A bloodthirsty and cruel lord increases his fortune by overpowering timid and ignorant peasants. Riccardo and his partner Hilda work to ensure that justice is done.
Territorio Verde

Venezuelan comedy directed by Lorenzo Capra.
Telaraña

Venezuelan comedy by Juan Corona with text by Aquiles Nazoa.
Igualito a su papá

A group of musicians try to establish a pacifist Latin American philharmonic orchestra. They must face the efforts of an American spy to ruin the project.
Venezuela también canta

Italian-Venezuelan co-production directed by Renzo Russo, with text by Aquiles Nazoa.