Daniel Alvarado

Daniel Alvarado

Birth : 1951-01-01,

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Daniel Alvarado

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Cabrujas en el país del disimulo
Archive footage
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.
Wayúu: La Niña de Maracaibo
A detective, goes from Spain to the Venezuelan Guajira, hired by the king of Wuayuus, to protect her, Niña de Maracaibo (wife of King, who belongs to an aristocratic family in the city) the detective tries to discover a conspiracy greater than initially imagined. Where he is only one piece in a plot which mixes smuggling, power struggles and tribal magic. The clash of two opposite visions, the 'Western' Spanish researcher, and the 'native' the Wuayuu original owners of Caribbean, converts this format film apparently 'police' in a thesis film revealing the mystery of the still existing singular South American identity.
Sangrador
Maximiliano
Maximilian was a righteous man, but a member of a fearsome clan of bandits. One day he encounters the destination: the witches of the moors advocate his ascension to the control of the band. From that moment, the man was just what doubts assail, ambition, fear of betrayal and the oath of obedience to the will of the chief Durán, who must kill to take command.
Pandemonium, the Hell's Capital City
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.
Nude with Oranges
Capitán
“Nude with Oranges” is a film set during a civil revolt in the mid-19th century where Caribbean myths affect the lives of two characters – an indigenous man enlisted in the Liberal Army and a mute white woman – who develop a mysterious link while seeking a new life.
Río Negro
Río Negro is the struggle of two men, Osuna and Funes, hungry for power and wealth in a small town in Venezuela, during the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez
Shoot to kill
During a police round-up, Mercedes witnesses the unjust murder of her son, a working-class man, by a police captain. Refusing to accept the official version of the story - that her son was a criminal - she launches a campaign for justice. Santiago, a young journalist moved by Mercedes's passion and determination, begins to investigate the story of the police cover-up at the risk of his own life. As the investigation develops, the film exposes the depth of Venezuela's corruption.
Con el Corazón en la Mano
A married woman has a strange relationship with a man who violated her.
Woman to Woman
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.
Macu, la mujer del policía
Ismael
The true story of a jealous policeman and his young wife living in a shanty-town in South America.
La Matanza de Santa Bárbara
The confrontation between two families over possession of the land gradually becomes a great slaughter where almost all the members of one the sides dies. One of the survivor will take justice into his own hands.
Crab II
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). Because of the implications that inquiries might have, Leon is pressured to keep the event as a "crab" (Cangrejo, or a unsolvable case), but he decides to comply with the law.
The Drunken Pussycat
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.
Los padrinos
Una Noche Oriental
Pirela
Benito Zamora, a conspirator against the Perezjimenista government, uses Leonor Montes, a young vedette friend of a colonel, to find information. National Security is pursuing Benito to dismantle the plot.
The Secret
Durán León
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!