Víctor Cuica

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Apr 17, 1949 (76 years old)
Death date
Dec 26, 2020

Víctor Cuica

Known For

Por un polvo
1h 30m
Movie 2008

Por un polvo

A beautiful seductress draws a man in the midst of a mid-life crisis into a sordid world of drugs, crime, and debauchery. Alejandro is down on his luck. Unemployed and loveless, he falls hard for beautiful Vanessa when fate brings the two together seemingly by chance. But Vanessa's boyfriend is a hit man for the mob, and despite at first feeling swept up in circumstances beyond his control, Alejandro soon realizes that in order to regain his confidence, he must embrace his destiny.

Maroa
1h 42m
Movie 2005

Maroa

Eleven-year-old petty criminal Maroa lives with her violent grandmother Brigida in Caracas. After her boyfriend Carlos is involved in a shooting, Maroa is arrested and sent to a school where Joaquin conducts the youth orchestra, and he asks the naturally talented Maroa to join. Days now revolve around the classes that Joaquin, the shy and unconventional teacher, gives her. He is immediately interested in this talented young girl, who lacks all notion of discipline. Joaquin, the only person to offer hope in the midst of her rejection, finds that through Maroa, his world has also changed forever.

Santera
1h 28m
Movie 1994

Santera

About a mysterious and troubled black woman, a former practitioner of the Santería religion, who must comes to terms with her background whilst in a Caracas jail.

Los Platos del Diablo
1h 45m
Movie 1992

Los Platos del Diablo

Ricardo Azolar is looking for the right words, the exact phrases that will give him literary glory. The days are sterile and lacking in those brilliant ideas that should allow him to express through narrative, the fertile flow arising from the imagination. Until he meets Lisbeth, venus and intoxicating muse who nevertheless compels him to write irrelevant and devoid of any imagination literary texts.

Tierna es la Noche
1h 28m
Movie 1990

Tierna es la Noche

Tierna es la Noche is a film without bullets nor sea, without mosquitoes, without peasants nor flowers. It only contains a barman, a man and a beautiful woman who lives in a bathroom. For commercial reasons, we have included two policemen, a drop of blood and a multilingual nymphomaniac. For aesthetic reasons, a tear and a negro. For both reasons, the film takes place anachronically, during the fifties and nineties in a make-believe city called Caracas. It's a story of histerics, like all stories, unfinished.

Un Domingo Feliz
1h 30m
Movie 1989

Un Domingo Feliz

A rich kid runs away from home and meets a young musician who shows him the night life in Caracas.

Mestizo
1h 23m
Movie 1988

Mestizo

A village on the Venezuelan coast, a place of fishermen and big haciendas, Aquiles Vargas, a white aristocrat in somewhat reduced circumstances, fights with Cruz Guaregua, a humble black fisherwoman, and mother of his only son, a half-caste 'mestizo'.

De cómo Anita Camacho quiso levantarse a Marino Méndez
1h 30m
Movie 1986

De cómo Anita Camacho quiso levantarse a Marino Méndez

Anita Camacho, an ambitious maid poses as the owner of the house where she works in order to seduce a man of money, marry him and finally stop being poor.

Biography

Víctor Cuica (Caracas, Venezuela, April 19, 1949 - ibid., December 26, 2020) was a Venezuelan musician and actor, known for his innovation in blending jazz with Afro-Caribbean music. He participated in Venezuelan cinema during the 1970s and 1980s, portraying the character Alexis in "Se busca motorizado con moto propia y muchacha de buena presencia" alongside the renowned actor, screenwriter, and writer Fausto Verdial.

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