
Luis Armando Roche
Directing
Biography
Luis Armando Roche (November 21, 1938 – October 2, 2021) was a Venezuelan film director, screenwriter, producer and director of theatre and opera. In 1999, Roche won the most important prize of cinema in his country, the National Film Award of Venezuela.
Known For

Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He is rescued, and ends up at a forgotten mission station near the mouth of the Orinoco, and begins to plot his vengeance. He wishes to sink the U-Boat by means of any method imaginable to him, and sets about to make the courageous attempt, assisted by Louis, the administrator of the local oil company.
Murphy's War

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he'd assumed.
The Adventurers

Simon Bolivar is the true-life story of the leader of the 1817 Venezuelan revolution.
Simón Bolívar

Claudia Cardinale is Popsy, who double-crosses her older partner Silva (Stanley Baker). Silva has arranged to divert diamonds from a large corporate-run diamond mine in the South American jungle, and Popsy does her “pop” wrong as they are both pursued by police.
Popsy Pop

In the early 1800s, Prussian geographer Alexander Von Humboldt and French botanist Aimé Bonpland launch an expedition to explore the Amazon region, including the Orinoco River, from Venezuela to the border of Portuguese Brazil.
Open Air

An American film producer comes to Venezuela to film a movie called "Suddenly, the movie." He hires a Venezuelan director to direct the film that is shot in the Amazon jungle. As the conditions are extreme, the producer agrees that the team move to Caracas to continue filming there recreating the jungle in the city. A series of unusual and strange situations happen on the film set.
De repente, la película

During Christmas time in Caracas, a woman (Yotama) holds up a restaurant. She takes three persons (Emilio, Manuel and Lucia) hostage in their apartment. Day by day Emilio, an old musician and Yotama become friends. Yotama's small daughter, Victoria, is brought into the apartment. Emilio dies and the rest of the three persons become united in a common bond of humanity.
Yotama se va volando

Happy fun times with a little crew of people driving around to backwater villages to show movies in places where the locals don't get much culture. But all good things come to an end...
The Moving-Picture Man

Gaspar Urbieta works as a typographer in Maracaibo. The National Guard convinces him to infiltrate an organization of Colombian gold smugglers. Gaspar will experience situations of fear, humour, intrigue and romance with a beautiful and enigmatic blonde. His secret will be so incredible that if he told it, no one would believe it!
The Secret
Victor Millan is a Venezuelan folk artist. The naive painter appears alongside his friends, in his environment, the real world that surrounds him. Here, inventions, myths, obsessions, the sun, the sea, music, and original philosophy are imbued with humor. The film's soundtrack includes commentary and dialogue from the artist himself.
Víctor Millán
Life and art of Carlos Cruz-Diez.
Carlos Cruz-Diez, en el camino del color
Experimental film loosely based on the life and work of artist Manuel Mérida. The artist provided a realistic biographical account of his life, which was freely adapted by the filmmaker, who used delirious chance as a creative method for this cinematic collage.
Mérida no es un pueblo
Raymond Isidore is a gravedigger from the village of Chartres, France. Raymond would wander around his village, collecting anything that sparkled to add to his home, known today as Maison Picassiette, which he built out of love for his wife.
Raymond Isidore y su casa

A musical documentary on Ignacio "Indio" Figueredo the greatest popular harp player and composer from the Venezuelan plains.