José Ignacio Cabrujas

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Araya
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Araya

Aug 31, 1959
"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. In images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.
Documentary
Sagrado y Obsceno
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Sagrado y Obsceno

Jul 23, 1975
Pedro Zamora (Miguelangel Landa) is a former guerrilla who returns to Caracas and moves to a pension as a tenant. Despite appearances, he has come to fulfill a secret mission to its ultimate consequences.
Drama
La quema de Judas
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La quema de Judas

Nov 20, 1974
Jesús María Carmona is a small-time crook who poses as a cop so he can rob a bank. A few days before the day he planned to do it, a guerrilla group robs the same bank and Carmona is shot to death defending it when he has no other choice but to act as a policeman. Soon after, his image becomes a symbol for the police and he is honored, but his identity is found out. Meanwhile, in the neighborhood where he grew up his effigy is burned as he is now considered a traitor.
Drama
Crónica de un subversivo latinoamericano
6
1964, in a Latin American country, a journalist is head of an armed liberation movement that decides to initiate radical actions. His second in command, a farmer, and the other members of the group will kidnap a north american colonel stationed in Venezuela to force his government to suspend the execution of the vietnamese Nguyen Van Troi, accused of trying to assassinate the American Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara.
Drama
Cabrujas en el país del disimulo
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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.
Iniciación de un shamán
1
Halfway between fiction and documentary, Initiation of a Shaman tells the story of Rarowe, a young Yanomami who is about to be initiated and must make contact with spirits brought by other shamans. The young man feels the effects of the initiation and always waits until the end to see if he can withstand it. The initiation itself is a rare event and occurs only when the old medicine man is about to die. The ancient rites includes the struggle of the youth with evil spirits which attempt to prevent the old witch doctor from imparting his wisdom to the young man. Hallucinogetic plants are used by the tribe to increase perception. The eerie images depicted are similar to those evoked in the books of Castaneda.
Documentary
Amaneció de Golpe
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Amaneció de Golpe

Sep 16, 1998
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.
Drama
Una Noche Oriental
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Una Noche Oriental

Jan 22, 1986
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.
El Escándalo
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El Escándalo

Jan 01, 1987
Journalist exposé about how power and money ultimately corrupt the innocent.
El día que me quieras
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Two communist lovers prepare to move to the Ukraine and work on a collective farm. Meanwhile, a celebrated pop singer visits their small town, and secrets are revealed.
Drama
El día que me quieras
6
Two communist lovers prepare to move to the Ukraine and work on a collective farm. Meanwhile, a celebrated pop singer visits their small town, and secrets are revealed.
Drama
Aventurera
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Aventurera

Oct 11, 1989
President Romulo Betancourt's government has just began, an attack is brewing on his life. Braulio an unemployed actor, comes to work in professional wrestling, and falls deeply for Rosario, lover of Buffalo, director of the wrestling group, Ronco, who once is saved by Braulio in a clash with police, offers this winning good money for doing an "important work".
History
Sagrado y Obsceno
1

Sagrado y Obsceno

Jul 23, 1975
Pedro Zamora (Miguelangel Landa) is a former guerrilla who returns to Caracas and moves to a pension as a tenant. Despite appearances, he has come to fulfill a secret mission to its ultimate consequences.
Drama
Cuentos para Mayores
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Cuentos para Mayores

Jun 19, 1963
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.
Drama
El Rebaño de los Ángeles
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Ingrid is a young high school student who due to the impact suffered by the death of his mother, is acting strangely causing concern to her teachers. After a landslide caused by heavy rains, police surrounded the premises of the high school to expel the refugees resulting in the classes suspended. When they resume, Ingrid throws herself into space from the top floor of the campus
Drama
Bodas de Papel
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Bodas de Papel

Jun 13, 1979
Esther and Gustavo are celebrating seven years of happy marriage. Two beautiful children and a comfortable home in a residential area backs the stability of the still young couple, a conventional model of marriage where nothing seems to disturb their harmonious coexistence.
Drama
Días de poder
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Días de poder

Jun 03, 2011
The film tells the story of Fernando Quintero (Gustavo Camacho), revolutionary leader who, after the fall of the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez, ascends to power, betraying their ideals to become an accomplice of repression against whom he fought.
History
La quema de Judas
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La quema de Judas

Nov 20, 1974
Jesús María Carmona is a small-time crook who poses as a cop so he can rob a bank. A few days before the day he planned to do it, a guerrilla group robs the same bank and Carmona is shot to death defending it when he has no other choice but to act as a policeman. Soon after, his image becomes a symbol for the police and he is honored, but his identity is found out. Meanwhile, in the neighborhood where he grew up his effigy is burned as he is now considered a traitor.
Drama
El pez que fuma
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El pez que fuma

Jan 02, 1977
A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon he takes the place of the administrator, who is also La Garza's lover.
Comedy
Crónica de un subversivo latinoamericano
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1964, in a Latin American country, a journalist is head of an armed liberation movement that decides to initiate radical actions. His second in command, a farmer, and the other members of the group will kidnap a north american colonel stationed in Venezuela to force his government to suspend the execution of the vietnamese Nguyen Van Troi, accused of trying to assassinate the American Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara.
Drama
Carmen, la que contaba 16 años
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Carmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day, Carmen fights and hurts to a smuggler woman, so a sergeant in the National Guard, José Navarro, stops detain her. In doing so he also falls in love with her, but jealousy will destroy his passion.
Music
Más allá del silencio
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Fidel, a deaf mugger, sees the possibility of a new life after he start attending to a school for the deaf. However his chances are getting shorter as the a police officer is after his trail.
Crime
Homicidio Culposo
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Homicidio Culposo

Jun 27, 1984
A police drama that chronicles the efforts of a police officer to uncover an unexplained murder case that blends the lives of two women and a theater actor, the victim of an "artistic" shot, part of a play.
Thriller
La bomba
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La bomba

Aug 20, 1975
Venezuelan comedy by Julio César Mármol, featuring Joselo.
7.2

Jun 30, 2008

Toda una dama is a successful Venezuelan telenovela produced and broadcast on RCTV International in 2007. The telenovela is a remake of Señora, an original story written by renowned telenovela author José Ignacio Cabrujas. This new verison was adapred by Iris Dubs and starred Christina Dieckmann and Ricardo Álamo as the main protagonists with Nohely Arteaga starred as the main antagonist.
Family
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May 13, 2003

Soap
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Jul 04, 2013

Gabriela Suárez est violée par Fernando Beltrán alors qu’elle n’est qu’une adolescente, après avoir refusé ses avances. Ce dernier n’est autre que le fils cadet d’Antonia Guerra appelée « la Patronne », la femme la plus puissante et la plus crainte de la bourgade de San Pedro del Oro, dirigée par le maire Julio Montemar. Antonia mène tout son petit monde avec une poignée de fer. À la suite de ce viol, Gabriela tombe enceinte et décide de partir vivre chez sa tante pour donner naissance à son fils, David. Deux années plus tard, Gabriela revient à San Pedro del Oro et prétend que le père de son enfant a disparu. Le petit garçon devient la risée de ses camarades de classe qui le harcèlent continuellement. Gabriela, quant à elle, travaille dans la mine d’or de San Pedro del Oro, où elle est la seule femme. Elle tombe amoureuse d’Alejandro Beltrán, le fils de la célèbre Antonia qui revient au village après une longue absence pour assisté aux funérailles de son beau père, Marcelo Vidal. La relation d’Alejandro et Gabriela ne plaît pas du tout à Antonia qui use de toutes les combines machiavéliques pour écarter Gabriela. Quand Antonia découvre que le tigre Suárez possède la mine d’or du Chemuco, elle ordonne sa mise à mort et piège Gabriela à se rendre auprès de son père dans la mine où il se trouve entourés d’explosifs en agonisant après toutes les tortures qui lui ont été infligées. Au courant des combines de sa mère, Fernando se rend sur place pour sauver Gabriela mais meurt durant l’explosion. Antonia se vengera sur Gabriela de la mort de son fils et se servira de son influence afin de la faire enfermer dans un asile psychiatrique où elle sera torturée par Gertrudis Aguirre. Gabriela fera la connaissance de Constanza Goldstein, la femme d’Anibal Villegas. Pendant ce temps, Antonia obtient la garde de David, l’élève comme le sien en souvenir de Fernando et monte son petit-fils contre sa mère. Quatre années d’enfer s’écoulent pour la pauvre Gabriela qui est méconnaissable après avoir été enfermée tout ce temps dans les catacombes. Par ailleurs, après avoir escroqué le maire Julio Montemar, Lucho Vampa est jeté en prison où il se fait passer pour fou dans le but de s’échapper afin de se rendre dans ce fameux hôpital psychiatrique après avoir appris par Gastón Goicochea, ce qui se passait là bas. Il rencontre Gabriela et Constanza, la femme du sénateur Anibal Villegas, qui lui la fait enfermée pour prendre toute sa fortune. Un soir, le centre de réadaptation prend feu. Gabriela, Constanza et Lucho s'echappent. Une infirmière du centre qui possédait la médaille de Gabriela, qu’elle lui avait volée, est retrouvée morte, entièrement brûlée et méconnaissable. Tout le monde pense alors que Gabriela est morte. Cette dernière profite de cette situation pour mettre ainsi sa mort en scène. Constanza apprend alors qu’elle est l’héritière de l’immense fortune de son oncle. Constanza, Gabriela et Lucho partent aux États-Unis à New-York grâce à la réserve d’or du père de Gabriela, le tigre Suárez. Gabriela prévoit un plan de vengeance bien peaufiné, elle adopte un nouveau look de femme très classe, prend des cours pour se cultiver, apprend l’auto-défense pour affronter les loups et revient à San Pedro del Oro quelques mois par la suite pour se venger de ses ennemis. Pour cela, elle se dissimule sous une fausse identité, celle de Veronica Dantès, une richissime femme qui a bien l'intention de provoquer la chute d’Antonia Guerra et devenir la nouvelle patronne mais de nombreux obstacles se dresseront sur sa route dont elle devra faire face avant de pouvoir y parvenir.
Drama
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Mar 24, 1987

La Dama de Rosa is a successful Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. Jeannette Rodríguez and Carlos Mata starred as the main protagonists. It was written by José Ignacio Cabrujas and directed by Luis Manzo and Tito Rojas. This telenovela lasted 144 episodes and it achieved a significant amount of success inside and outside Venezuela. It was distributed internationally by RCTV International. La Dama de Rosa was remade by RCTV in 1997 under the name "Cambio de Piel".
Drama
8.2

Apr 05, 2011

Emperatriz is a Mexican telenovela produced by Fides Velasco for Azteca. It stars Gabriela Spanic as the title character, while Bernie Paz as the male lead. Other casts include Sergio de Bustamante, Julieta Egurrola, Adriana Louvier, Marimar Vega, Miriam Higareda, Alberto Guerra, Rafael Sanchez Navarro and Carmen Delgado. Omar Fierro made special appearance in the first five episodes, and later returns in the final part of the series.[1] The filming process took place between 17 March 2011 - 30 September 2011. The series premiered on 5 April 2011, 19 days after filming the first scene, at 8:30pm, occupying Prófugas del Destino's slot, and ended on 8 November 2011. Emperatriz is also known as most selling telenovela of 2011.
Drama
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Mar 22, 1998

Cambio de Piel is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. It was written by José Ignacio Cabrujas and Perla Farias and directed by Tony Rodrígues. This telenovela lasted 110 episodes and was distributed internationally by RCTV International. It is a remake of RCTV's 1986 telenovela, La Dama de Rosa.
Drama
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Sep 26, 1989

Señora is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and broadcast on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. It was written by José Ignacio Cabrujas, Ibsen Martínez, Cristina Policastro, and Eliseo Morales and directed by Luis Alberto Lamata and Aura Guevara. The series lasted 229 episodes and was distributed internationally by RCTV International.
Drama
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Jul 18, 2003

Un nuevo amor was a Mexican telenovela produced by Fides Velasco and broadcast by TV Azteca in 2003. It starred antagonistically by Karen Sentíes, as a leading couple had Cecilia Ponce, Sergio Basañez and Vanessa Acosta (it should be noted that Cecilia Ponce left the telenovela halfway through history and was replaced by Vanessa Acosta).
Drama