Best Venezuelan crime movies

Jezabel (2022)

Four upper-class high school students live carefree between drugs, games and love until one of the girls, Eli, is brutally killed. Sixteen years later, the memory of the crime torments Alain, another member of the group.

KM 72 (2015)

The millionaire Diego Verastegui has been murdered at his house, and somebody has taken a valuable briefcase from the safe-deposit box. Dimas -Verastegui's bodyguard- comes back to the house and finds three suspects: Carlos, the millionaire's son, Anna Karina, a sweet girl, and Andres, a bohemian magician. They retell the scenes of the murder from contradictory points of view, each claiming a different version of who committed the crime.

Cuerpos clandestinos (1991)

Morituri (1984)

An eccentric millionaire gives a party for his birthday. With his friends, gamblers and collectors , they play games in their own way. One of them, a woman, suggests this: since they're all gamblers they should play a fortune on the life of one of them.

La muerte insiste (1984)

Octavio Izaga, a prestigious lawyer, middle-aged, single and childless, descendant of a prosperous family from Zulia, is the target of anonymous threats accompanied by failed attempts to assassinate him.

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. Acts with his lover, much older than himself, who finally delivers it to the police

When I Want to Cry, I Don't (1973)

In Venezuela, one day in 1948 there were born three children all named Victorino: Pérez, mulatto and son of the poor Lucía; Perdomo, son of a middle-class communist who gets arrested; and bourgeois Peralta. On the day of his eighteenth birthday Pérez escapes from prison using lather pretending it to be a rage attack. Peralta shows a friend of his a car he got from his parents. A young lady gives herself to Perdomo as a birthday present. Pérez finds his mistress with another man and wounds her. Pérez and a few others rob an old man while riding on their motorcycles. Perdomo and a bunch of bushwhackers plan to rob a bank. Pérez sees a friend of his smoking pot while Peralta visits a cousin of his and has sex with her. Perdomo’s father, recently elected a communist representative wants to talk him out of his violent ways. Pérez sleeps with three girls and remembers how he once killed a man in the middle of a robbery. Peralta and his friends shoot dogs just for fun. Perdomo and his pals…

Glue Sniffer (1999)

Oliver flees from abuse of his family and seeks refuge in the violent streets of Caracas, where survival is only possible in an environment of corruption, crime and sniffing glue to escape hunger, like other children in the same situation. Soon, the child becomes part of the clashes between drug gangs and corrupt policemen.

Crab II (1984)

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.

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 witnesses to the abduction. Based on that Leon believes that the hijackers knew the boy and soon begins to suspect several young people from wealthy families of Caracas.

Night Music (1988)

Ramiro is a ringleader of a gang of drug traffickers that in order to introduce a new drug, called Night Music (Música Nocturna), must eliminate Aurelio, the biggest drug lord. To implement his plan, he use his friend Daniel has bait who has a close friendship with Aurelio. Ramiro succeeds, murders Aurelio and proposes Daniel to participate in the drug business.

The Drunken Pussycat (1983)

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.

Más allá del silencio (1985)

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.

Amanecer a la vida (1950)

A shoeshine boy and his mother, a cabaret employee, fight against life's adversities. Venezuelan drama directed by Fernando Cortés.