Best Venezuelan crime movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch crime films from Venezuela, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Secuestro Express

    Secuestro Express 2004

    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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  • Poster for Jezabel

    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.

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  • Poster for Glue Sniffer

    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.

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  • Poster for Rock, Paper, Scissors

    Rock, Paper, Scissors 2012

    The chance of an innocent child's game will unveil a betrayal that will forever change the lives of two families when their paths cross, endangering what they love the most, in a city that does not give them a truce.

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  • Poster for Elipsis

    Elipsis 2006

    Parallel and fragmented stories are linked by the relationship between the famous actor and his friend Sebastian Castillo Galo Vidal, a frustrated fashion designer. The roles are reversed as a result of decisions made each of them. Sebastian's life is now in chaos, while the Galo is a success. Their lives are again when Sebastian goes to Gaul for help and the two embark on a journey that will put their friendship and their lives at stake.

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  • Poster for Caracas Vice Vol. 2

    Caracas Vice Vol. 2 2017

    Ryan of the DEA will face again the most dangerous drug lord of Venezuela, this time with new friends, in 1983.

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  • Poster for KM 72

    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.

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  • Poster for Coup at Daybreak

    Coup at Daybreak 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.

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  • Poster for Caracas Vice Vol. 1

    Caracas Vice Vol. 1 2017

    Caracas, Venezuela. 1982. Ryan of the DEA and Carlos the PTJ join forces to stop the most dangerous drug lord of the country, Disco Herrera.

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  • Poster for Crab

    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.

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  • Poster for Crab II

    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.

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  • Poster for Pipí Mil Pupú 2 Lucas

    Pipí Mil Pupú 2 Lucas 2014

    A drug deal gone wrong; a passionate blackmail that turned violent; and a kidnapping with the two worst kidnappers in the world.

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  • Poster for The Drunken Pussycat

    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.

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  • Poster for Más allá del silencio

    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.

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  • Poster for La muerte insiste

    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.

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  • Poster for Cuerpos clandestinos

    Cuerpos clandestinos 1991

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  • Poster for When I Want to Cry, I Don't

    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…

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  • Poster for Amanecer a la vida

    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.

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  • Poster for Night Music

    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.

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  • Poster for Morituri

    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.

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  • Poster for Asesino Nocturno

    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

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