Franklin Vírgüez

Simón (2023)

Simón, a Venezuelan freedom fighter exiled in Miami, copes not only with trauma, but also deep guilt over a choice he must make: stay in Miami and start a new life, or return home to the losing fight against a tyrannical regime. ...

Hotel Providencia (2022)

Sandra and Gerardo, a young newlywed couple, addicted to drugs and eager for easy money, are on their honeymoon, enjoying life and sex, they decide to buy a hotel. Over time the businesses does not go very well and they begin to get into debt, the consumpt ...

Cabrujas en el país del disimulo (2017)

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. ...

Mea Culpa (2008)

Four strangers wake up trapped in an abandoned warehouse and upon discovering a dead body among them, learn they are all linked to a sadistic man's final act of revenge. ...

En territorio extranjero (1994)

Two technicians foreign oil, along with the daughter of one of them, coming into the country to verify that there is a large oil field in the jungle area. They go in the area and must struggle against nature, isolation, loneliness and violence. The result, ...

Asesino Nocturno (1986)

A young man is haunted by the memory of his father who abandoned him as a child. By transferring the image of his father to men with similar attitudes or physical traits, kills them. ...

Retén de Catia (1984)

Pedro Che is a carefree taxi driver who advises his friends Sebastián and Artemio, politically committed law students, to do like him. ...

The House of Water (1984)

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 ba ...

La Virgen de Chiquinquirá (1983)

A Marian devotion is born when a Venezuelan woman finds an image and people come to the protection of the Virgin during a plague. ...

Crab (1982)

Commissioner Leon (Miguel Angel Landa) of the Technical Judicial Police is assigned to the kidnapping of a child of the upper class of Caracas. The details of the kidnapping the attention of Leon, as there is no evidence of violence in the child's home, or ...

Resurrection Sunday (1982)

A Venezuelan black comedy from 1982 directed by César Bolívar, Domingo de Resurrección follows a middle-class family who head to the beach for Holy Week. Their Easter Sunday takes a dark turn when the grandmother dies peacefully in her sleep, triggering ...

La raya de cal (1980)