Miguelangel Landa

Miguelangel Landa

Born: November 4, 1936
in Caracas, Venezuela
Miguel Ángel González Landa is a Venezuelan actor, comedian, director, producer, writer, adapter and television presenter; known for creating, producing and directing successful television series such as Él y Ella and Bienvenidos.

Movies for Miguelangel Landa...

The 86
Title: The 86
Released: February 24, 2017
Type: Movie
Inspired by true events, "The 86" highlights the activities of a band of 86 street thugs that were famous for their strong presence in the venezuelan capital city during the 1980's.
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Cabrujas en el país del disimulo
Title: Cabrujas en el país del disimulo
Released: January 13, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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The Faces of Power
Title: The Faces of Power
Released: June 20, 2014
Type: Movie
Detective Pedro Ramirez has been released from prison to solve the kidnapping of three children, sons of a former Minister of Justice. Over the days this asingment will become a personal challenge. Ramírez will become suspicious of the entire police force... even his best friend.
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Papita, maní, tostón
Title: Papita, maní, tostón
Released: December 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Andres (Jean Pierre Agostini) it's a fan of Los Leones del Caracas one of the principal baseball teams of Venezuela. Julissa (Juliette Pardau) it's a fan of Los Navegantes del Magallanes, the rival team. One day Andres gets tickets to see the game in Magallanes VIP Zone. He meets Julissa and her dad who is not only fan but one of the team's managers. Andres and Julissa will fall in love and will have to pretend to be fan of the other's team. But soon trouble will arise.
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The Blue Apple Tree
Title: The Blue Apple Tree
Character: Francisco
Released: March 12, 2012
Type: Movie
The Blue Apple Tree, is a Venezuelan film starring Diego, a city boy about 11 years, marked by serious emotional deprivation, which is forced to spend a holiday with his grandfather Francis (Miguel Angel Landa), who barely knows him, on a small farm in the mountains of the Venezuelan Andes.
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Secuestro Express
Title: Secuestro Express
Character: Police's Councilor.
Released: June 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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
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Ver a Hilda Vera
Title: Ver a Hilda Vera
Released: October 22, 1998
Type: Movie
A living room, two video cameras, an armchair, two televisions and a mirror: domestic daily life in which colleagues, family and friends come together to decipher the life, personality and artistic trajectory of one of the most important actresses of Venezuelan Cinema: Hilda Vera
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Pandemonium, the Hell's Capital City
Title: Pandemonium, the Hell's Capital City
Character: Radamés
Released: June 13, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Cuchillos de fuego
Title: Cuchillos de fuego
Released: April 12, 1990
Type: Movie
Version of the play "Todo bicho de uña". It tells the story of revenge. The tour of the Andean, for ten years, a young man in search of the rapist and murderer of his mother, takes us into the underworld strata fairs and circuses villagers.
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Shoot to kill
Title: Shoot to kill
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
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Los Años del Miedo
Title: Los Años del Miedo
Character: Pedro Estrada
Released: October 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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Manon
Title: Manon
Character: Lescaut
Released: July 22, 1986
Type: Movie
During a bus ride through the Andes, two seminarians encounter with a woman named Manon. Immediately, one of them falls in love and the attraction is mutual, so they decide to flee to capital city to start a new life. But the love of Manon ambitious drags this man to leave his vocation and commit criminal acts to maintain a life of luxury and extravagance.
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Ratón en Ferretería
Title: Ratón en Ferretería
Character: Adonai Flores
Released: May 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Adonai Flores, an experienced writer of telenovelas, falls in love with Belén Helena, a girl of low class. Adonay, desperate to keep her with him, abandons his responsibilities and even his dog. After discovering that she is a drug dealer he decides to leave her and recovers his dog
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Cóctel de Camarones. En el Día de la Secretaria
Title: Cóctel de Camarones. En el Día de la Secretaria
Character: Himself
Released: July 25, 1984
Type: Movie
In Secretaries Day, either you get laid or you get paid.
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Crab II
Title: Crab II
Released: June 13, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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The Drunken Pussycat
Title: The Drunken Pussycat
Character: Victor
Released: October 26, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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The Criminals
Title: The Criminals
Released: July 28, 1982
Type: Movie
Two young men decide to rob a residence believing it uninhabited, once inside the homeowners and another couple maintain a perverse game as fun for Sunday. One of the young enters the house but is cornered and subjected to all sorts of harassment and abuse.
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Crab
Title: Crab
Character: Comisario León
Released: April 22, 1982
Type: Movie
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.
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The Flock of Angels
Title: The Flock of Angels
Released: July 10, 1979
Type: Movie
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
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Carmen
Title: Carmen
Character: José
Released: October 11, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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The Smoking Fish
Title: The Smoking Fish
Character: Dimas
Released: January 2, 1977
Type: Movie
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.
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Sacred and Obscene
Title: Sacred and Obscene
Character: Pedro Zamora
Released: July 23, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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The Burning of Judas
Title: The Burning of Judas
Character: Jesús Carmona
Released: November 20, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive
Title: Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive
Character: Juan Carlos
Released: July 23, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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When I Want to Cry, I Don't
Title: When I Want to Cry, I Don't
Released: July 4, 1973
Type: Movie
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…
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Tales for Grown Ups
Title: Tales for Grown Ups
Released: June 19, 1963
Type: Movie
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.