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Orestes Matacena is a Actor, Director and Writer Cubain born on 29 august 1941 at Havana (Cuba)
Orestes Matacena (born August 29, 1941) is a Cuban film actor, writer, producer, and director that has been active since the 1970s. His most notable appearance is the 1994 film, The Mask as Niko. He won best actor at the 24FPS International Short Film Festival in 2013.
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Filmography of Orestes Matacena (9 films)
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Sticks (2001)
, 1h32Origin USA
Genres Action
Actors Lillo Brancato, Justina Machado, Leo Rossi, Rebecca Grant, Orestes Matacena
Rating54%
Sticks is an off-beat noir action comedy about a smuggler of Cuban cigars who gets involved, and ultimately falls in love, with a Cuban revolutionary Maria who's in the U.S. trading cigars for guns. The two join forces to sell a large (stolen) shipment of Castro's private label cigar, the famed "El Mariposa", and suddenly they find themselves enmeshed in the seedy underbelly of a mob-run cigar smuggling ring that's being monitored by the feds.
Wild Wild West (1999)
, 1h47Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Rail transport films, Comedy science fiction films, Steampunk films, Alternate history films, Buddy films, White House in fiction, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek, M. Emmet Walsh, Ted Levine
Roles Spanish Dignitary
Rating49%
Starting in a small section of the near South, both U.S. Army Captain James West and U.S. Marshal Artemus Gordon hunt for Confederate General "Bloodbath" McGrath, who is wanted for mass murder. It points back to when McGrath ordered a massacre in a settlement called New Liberty, where many of the freed slaves were murdered, including West's biological parents. The search leads to a brothel where the two try (unsuccessfully) to arrest him. It leads to a huge brawl and a cart of nytroglycerin crashing into the building that starts a fire. Both West and Gordon, the latter dressed as a woman, escape.
Bitter Sugar (1996)
, 1h42Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Rene Lavan, Mayte Vilán, Orestes Matacena
Roles Claudio
Rating69%
Gustavo, a patriotic Cuban communist, catches the eye of an attractive girl, Yolanda, at a rock concert where his brother Bobby is performing. Before he can approach her, the concert is broken up by police. Later Gustavo sees Yolanda in public, and befriends her. Gustavo tells his father Tomás, a psychiatrist widower, about his affections for Yolanda.
The Mask (1994)
, 1h41Directed by Chuck Russell
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Films based on mythology, Transport films, Films about dogs, Superhero films, Films set in the Viking Age, Films based on Norse mythology, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Escroquerie
Actors Jim Carrey, Peter Riegert, Peter Greene, Nancy Fish, Amy Yasbeck, Richard Jeni
Roles Niko
Rating69%
Stanley Ipkiss is a shy and unlucky bank clerk working at the local Edge City bank. He is frequently picked on by everyone around him like the Bank President's son Mr. Dickey, his ruthless landlady Mrs. Peenman, and the mechanics Irv and Burt Ripley who ripped him off. The only exception of this is his Jack Russell Terrier Milo and his co-worker and best friend Charlie Schumaker. Meanwhile, gangster Dorian Tyrell operates a nightclub called the Coco Bongo while plotting to overthrow his boss Niko. One day, Tyrell sends his singer girlfriend Tina Carlyle into Stanley's bank to record its layout, in preparation to rob the bank.
Diggstown (1992)
, 1h38Directed by Michael Ritchie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Bruce Dern, Oliver Platt, Heather Graham, Thomas Wilson Brown
Roles Victor Corsini
Rating68%
Gabriel Caine (James Woods), a con man, is released from prison in Winfield, Georgia and immediately gets to work on his next scam. Caine and his partner, Fitz (Oliver Platt), travel to a small town not far from the prison: Diggstown, a city obsessed with boxing.
Guaguasi (1983)
, 1h47Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Actors Orestes Matacena, Rolando Barral, Andy García
Roles Guaguasi
Rating66%
Night of the Juggler (1980)
, 1h41Directed by Robert Butler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors James Brolin, Julie Carmen, Richard S. Castellano, Linda Miller, Cliff Gorman, Barton Heyman
Roles Man at Peep Show
Rating64%
A former cop, played by James Brolin, aligns with a street smart young clerk from the New York City dog pound (Julie Carmen) on a harrowing search for his daughter who is kidnapped by a psychopath (Cliff Gorman) after being mistaken for a wealthy man's daughter. His search is met with obstacles as he runs afoul of the police in his pursuit, including a former corrupt colleague bent on revenge against him. Meanwhile, the kidnapper is just as prepared to kill anybody, including his young hostage, unless his colossal ransom demands are met.
Badge 373 (1973)
, 1h55Directed by Howard W. Koch, Howard Koch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Robert Duvall, Verna Bloom, Henry Darrow, Luis Ávalos, Tracey Walter, Orestes Matacena
Roles Drug Dealer
Rating57%
Eddie Ryan (Robert Duvall), a tough, no-nonsense, abrasive and racist Irish NYPD cop, has to turn in his badge after scuffling with a Puerto Rican suspect who then falls to his death from a rooftop, but that doesn't stop him from heading out on a one-man crusade to find out who killed his partner of three years, Gigi Caputo (Louis Cosentino), all the while neglecting his new live-in girlfriend, Maureen (Verna Bloom). Ryan's search leads him to Puerto Rican drug kingpin Sweet Willie (Henry Darrow), and a shipment of guns for Puerto Rican independenistas.
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Tainted (1987)
Directed by Orestes Matacena
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Shari Shattuck, Park Overall
Rating55%
Scriptwriter
Guaguasi (1983)
, 1h47Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Actors Orestes Matacena, Rolando Barral, Andy García
Roles Writer
Rating66%