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Elba Escobar

Elba Escobar

Acting

Biography

Elba Rodríguez Escobar was born on November 14, 1954 in Caracas, Venezuela. She is an actress and writer, known for Knocks at My Door (1993), La vida entera (2008) and Amaneció de golpe (1998).

Known For

Voltea pa' que te enamores
6.0

“Voltea Pa 'Que Te Enamores” is an urban and modern soap opera, full of comic moments, witty dialogues interpreted with absolute naturalness, and rich and moving characters in situations that vividly reflect the daily experiences of millions of people entangled in the complexity of love , impossible love, difficult love, old love about to expire, new love that brings new illusions.

Voltea pa' que te enamores

2006
Se solicita príncipe azul
3.6

María Carlota Rivas (Gaby Espino) and María Corina Palmieri (Daniela Alvarado) are first cousins. They are young, beautiful, fierce and free, and they create opposite poles, but they share a common cause: both are deeply disappointed in men. They are the granddaughters of Don Pastor Palmieri (Guillermo Ferrán), owner of land, fattening cattle, and lover of the good life. María Carlota has chosen to take over her grandfather's farm; because she loves the country and the wild life. On the other hand, María Corina is a cosmopolitan lover of capital nights, who cannot live far from the vibrancy of the city.

Se solicita príncipe azul

2005
My Straight Son
7.7

The story of Diego, a young and successful photographer that lives in the glamorous world of fashion, shallowness and excess. A tragic accident turns his world around; his partner is now in a coma. Unexpectedly, and right at this terrible time, Diego must take care of his son, Armando. Now, both of them have to adapt to each other; Armando to the unknown, homosexual world of his father, and Diego to the closed attitude of his teenage son.

My Straight Son

2012
Maroa
6.5

Eleven-year-old petty criminal Maroa lives with her violent grandmother Brigida in Caracas. After her boyfriend Carlos is involved in a shooting, Maroa is arrested and sent to a school where Joaquin conducts the youth orchestra, and he asks the naturally talented Maroa to join. Days now revolve around the classes that Joaquin, the shy and unconventional teacher, gives her. He is immediately interested in this talented young girl, who lacks all notion of discipline. Joaquin, the only person to offer hope in the midst of her rejection, finds that through Maroa, his world has also changed forever.

Maroa

2005
Salserin, the First Time
8.1

Salserín, la primera vez, candidly recounts a story of teenage love framed in the genesis of a salsa band that was once a musical phenomenon in the mid-nineties.

Salserin, the First Time

1997
Liz in September
6.6

A shocking secret, ex-lovers and the arrival of an outsider shake things up for Liz as she celebrates her birthday at a lesbian-owned resort.

Liz in September

2014
Knocks at My Door
6.4

A fugitive bursts into the home of two Catholic nuns. In an attempt to save his life, they hide him from the marauding military patrols, despite the danger they face if they are caught.

Knocks at My Door

1994
Secuestro Express
6.3

Young couple Carla and Martin are abducted by three men and spend a terrifying night in Caracas as they wait for Carla's father to hand over the ransom

Secuestro Express

2004
Extra Terrestres
1.0

The Díaz are an influential family who control much of the poultry industry in the island. Arcadio is the family patriarch, an authoritative and conservative man who rules over his family's destiny as he does over the chickens on his farm. Teresa, his eldest, left home during her college years to become an astrophysicist against her father's wishes. Now, after a 7-year absence, she returns home for a few weeks in order to reveal a secret long kept from her family and to invite them to her wedding with Daniela. But, once back, her intentions turn to dust when she finds herself trapped in the family's old habit of lying. No one in the family is as they seem, nor are they willing to unveil their true selves. Within this world of half-truths, Teresa encounters Andrés, her nephew, a boy with Asperger's Syndrome who shares her passion for the stars.

Extra Terrestres

2017
De cómo Anita Camacho quiso levantarse a Marino Méndez
7.0

Anita Camacho, an ambitious maid poses as the owner of the house where she works in order to seduce a man of money, marry him and finally stop being poor.

De cómo Anita Camacho quiso levantarse a Marino Méndez

1986
Pandemonium, the Hell's Capital City
7.7

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 among the corrupt, the death and the rising upheaval of the oppressed.

Pandemonium, the Hell's Capital City

1997
Woman to Woman
4.0

Elsa and her married friend Miranda become jealous and violent toward each other as they compete for the sexual affection of the hunk Sergio. Elsa takes comfort in the arms of Miranda's husband Eloy after Sergio and Miranda run away together. Their lustful desires lead to tragedy in this erotic drama.

Woman to Woman

1987
The House of Water
6.6

Set in the 1920s in Venezuela, this political melodrama by Jacobo Penzo follows the decision of the fictional Cruz Elías León (Franklin Virguéz), a young Venezuelan poet, to give up a life of social and possibly mainstream political advancement to go back to his home and family in an isolated fishing village and combat the despotic military dictator in charge of the country.

The House of Water

1984
El café de Lupe
N/A

Laura is a beautiful young woman who is tired of her monotonous and routine life serving beer at Lupe's Cafe for 10 years. On her birthday, Laura decides to leave. She boards a bus and begins her search for a new life, a new beginning. It is there that she meets Felix, an attractive and adventurous young man who steals her heart in just a few moments. After this fleeting encounter, Laura begins to discover the true consequences of her decision.

El café de Lupe

2007
Los años del miedo
8.0

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

1987
A gozar con Billo. Luis María Frómeta
N/A

Valuable testimonies, unedited images and Billo's iconic music depict his life from 1937 and throughout the following five decades, during which he immortalised Caracas' current affairs, public figures and historical landmarks in his musical arrangements.

A gozar con Billo. Luis María Frómeta

2003
Borrón y cuenta nueva
10.0

Leonor Malpica (Mimí Lazo) is a woman in her 40s who works in a lingerie store, has a son studying abroad, a dog named Fifí and an excellent husband. Excellent, until one day she receives a disturbing phone call –anonymous, of course– in which the fidelity of Julio, her husband, is questioned. Without hesitation, Leonor decides to check with her own eyes that Julio is cheating on her with another woman. What follows is a whirlwind of crazy situations involving a maid who dreams of being the star of a soap opera; a bolero singer with two lovers: the pianist at the nightclub where she works and a prominent public official; the girlfriend of a television actor who introduces her suitor as her daughter, and a detective who arrives at the crime scene uncalled for.

Borrón y cuenta nueva

2002
Cabrujas en el país del disimulo
N/A

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

2017
Coup at Daybreak
6.8

The film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a group of military rebels staged a coup d'etat. Venezuelans found themselves as virtual prisoners. As the coup starts and fighting takes place from a military base which is in the center of the city's most affluent areas, with both luxury high rises and palatial mansions. The area of La Carlota provides a wealth of very interesting, often flamboyant and typical characters of the Latin America upper middle and upper classes. They are among the most affected. Various vignettes in these different characters' homes are developed. These people's reactions, lifestyles, vices, and humanity come out in a very honest fashion under duress.

Coup at Daybreak

1998
A Distant Place
5.3

Julian, a renowned photographer who has reached forty years, he discovered a cancer that undermines their strengths and taking away all hope. But he has a dream, a vision that changed his life. He dreams of a picture that has ever taken. Julian travels to the faraway place, and find the photo, a woman and a freak accident, finding also that your life will change forever.

A Distant Place

2010