Mario Alarcón

Acting

Mario Alarcón

Born

1945-06-24 (81)

Place of birth

Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Mario Alarcón (born June 24, 1945 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentine actor. He developed his career in Buenos Aires.

Known for

Endless Summer poster
7.0

Verano del '98 is an Argentine telenovela, produced by Cris Morena. It was broadcast on Telefe television in the period January 12, 1998-November 17, 2000. The telenovela had three seasons, and changed its cast many times. Cris Morena also composed songs for Verano del '98 soundtrack.

Endless Summer

1998

Sres Papis poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sres Papis

2014

Casados con Hijos poster
8.1

Argentine re-make of American television series Married... with Children. It follows the Argento family and their lives.

Casados con Hijos

2005

The Secret in Their Eyes poster
8.0

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

The Secret in Their Eyes

2009

Alternative Therapy poster
6.0

Selva is an eccentric relationship counselor who has made a name for herself with her unorthodox sessions. But Selva’s career hits a roadblock when she takes on Elías and Malena, a young couple who are seeking guidance on how to separate.

Alternative Therapy

2021

Yago, pasión morena poster
6.0

Yago is a 28 year old tough and rude young man raised in the jungle of north Argentina by his father who taught him how to survive in such a wild environment. Although he can read and write, Yago has given up on being educated. Morena is a Peruvian girl in her 20's who has studied in New York and is financially independent. Unfortunately, she's not so lucky in terms of love since she's always picked the wrong man. Morena travels as a tourist to the Iguaçu Falls in the middle of the jungle where she meets Yago. They have a love affair but their relationship doesn't work out because of their marked social and personal differences. She then flies to Buenos Aires to search for her grandfather and in the meantime she gets a job at company called Sireno. At the same time, Yago learns that the man who raised him is not his actual father and that his real family name is Sireno. He travels to Buenos Aires intending to trace back his real family only to find Morena once again.

Yago, pasión morena

2001

Film credits

2020s · 15 titles

The Heist of the Century poster
7.7

In 2006, a group of thieves performed what is considered one of the most famous and smart bank heists in the history of Argentina. How they robbed the Rio bank is as surprising as what happened afterwards. This is their story.

The Heist of the Century

2020

The Fixation poster
NR

Álvaro, an accomplished photographer struggling with debt and his father’s terminal illness, reluctantly accepts an erotic photography assignment designed to recruit VIP clients. But the project takes an unexpected turn when he discovers that its star is Felipe, a famous model with whom he shares a turbulent past. Their reunion reignites a toxic relationship fueled by desire, jealousy, and obsession. As tensions escalate and increasingly dangerous situations surround the project, Álvaro must navigate the blurred lines between passion and madness while fighting to maintain his sanity—and survive.

The Fixation

2026

The Dollmaker poster
2.7

In a quiet village, charming young Tomás leads a simple life: caring for his mother, working at the video store and town clinic, and collecting dolls. As women begin disappearing, newly arrived Inspector Porter investigates.

The Dollmaker

2025

Salteadores Nocturnos poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Salteadores Nocturnos

2026

1978 poster
5.5

During the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland, in times of military dictatorship, a group of torturers kidnap a group of young people. What begins as an inhumane interrogation turns into hell: the wrong group has been kidnapped.

1978

2025

What the Waters Left Behind: Scars poster
5.8

An Anglo-American indie rock band winds up stranded in Epecuén, where their internal conflicts and the bad luck of their tour quickly lose importance before the hell that awaits them.

What the Waters Left Behind: Scars

2023

Los bastardos poster
6.6

An epic about one of the most turbulent times in the recent history of the Buenos Aires suburbs. In this context, a group of idealists emerges who are specifically called: "The bastards."

Los bastardos

2023

Adiós Buenos Aires poster
6.7

Buenos Aires, November 2001. Argentina is embroiled in crisis, with the Peso plunging deeper and deeper. Julio Färber, the charismatic bandoneon player of the 'Vecinos de Pompeya', a five-piece working-class tango band, is trying to keep his head above water, but every month he is earning less and less from their gigs as well as from the traditional shoe shop he inherited from his father. At the very moment he takes the decision to leave his beloved Buenos Aires forever, it clearly appears that life is conspiring against him: overnight, the government freezes all bank accounts in the whole country, preventing Julio from purchasing the flight tickets and sparking violent protests throughout the town. And Mariela, a witty young woman and feisty cab driver, bumps into his car at full speed, damaging Julio's last possession of value before stealing his heart.

Adiós Buenos Aires

2023

En la cabeza de papá poster
6.7

Osvaldo is going through a unique moment in his life. Selling a home forever alters family ties.

En la cabeza de papá

2021

La resistencia de la especie poster
NR

The unwritten rules of a house taken force the protagonist to survive to the edge of the existential precipice.A metaphor about a reality that we see daily, but that also functions as a laboratory for human behavior.

La resistencia de la especie

2023

Lennons poster
10.0

Tells the irruption of a John Lennon impersonator, whom a stunt manager presents as the real idol, deceiving a famous television host who plans fearsome revenge.

Lennons

2023

I Had the Heart poster
5.0

A fading rock producer has to enter the world of tango in order to survive and find a new opportunity for his life.

I Had the Heart

2024

Tu forma de ver el mundo poster
2.0

Alan is a lawyer and family man immersed in his work routine, paying little attention to his wife and son. Following a car accident, Alan is hospitalized. There he meets an older man, a man of strong values ​​and good character, who teaches him a different perspective on life.

Tu forma de ver el mundo

2022

Devil's Beacon poster
5.5

Martín, a young urban raver, is involved in a strange accident on the road on his way to a party in the middle of the Argentine Pampas. Finding refuge in a mysterious country grocery store and sheltered by two strange locals, Martín's paranoia begins to take over him. As the hours progress, his perception begins to distort, unleashing disturbing visions that will lead him to confront the supernatural forces that hide in the night.

Devil's Beacon

2025

El portal poster
NR

Three stories, one building, different eras. A society that politically degrades over time, and temptations that lead its protagonists from a state of natural goodness to one of absolute evil. Three tales with characters whose lives are transformed in a space that drags them into utter darkness. And an eternal sentinel.

El portal

2025

2010s · 20 titles

10 Days Without Mom poster
7.1

Vera, the Mom, is stressed out of her mind and she decides to take a vacation away from her family, so Victor, the dad, has to take time off work to take care of the family.

10 Days Without Mom

2017

The Queen of Fear poster
6.2

Only one month left until the premiere of The Golden Time, the long-awaited solo show by acclaimed actress Robertina. Far from focused on the preparations for this new production, Robertina lives in a state of continuous anxiety that turns her privileged life into an absurd and tumultuous landscape.

The Queen of Fear

2018

Those Who Love, Hate poster
6.4

Enrique Hubermann, homeopathic physician, travels in flight from a love. By a joke of fate, in that distant place he meets the woman he wants to forget, a beautiful young woman like a demon who manipulates men and triggers dangerous passions.

Those Who Love, Hate

2017

Bad Truth poster
5.2

Barbara’s behavior at school unlishes the suspicions of her teacher and the school psychologist, Sara. Talks at school with Sara, begin to reveal fears and darkness that the girl hides behind her eyes. Already convinced of her suspicions, Sara tries to get her superiors’ support as well as Barbara’s mother support to set her free out of her pain. Barbara’s mother denial, her own fear and the inaction of different institutions seem to be impossible barriers to overcome.

Bad Truth

2011

We're No Animals poster
4.3

A Hollywood actor grows tired of making the same corporate movies, so he moves to Argentina to find more experimental and meaningful work.

We're No Animals

2013

Hell and Back poster
5.2

La Pampa, Argentina. María, a teacher in a small town who is about to become a mother, decides to leave her violent husband to raise her child in a better place. A small incident triggers the beginning of her journey through the hostile desert.

Hell and Back

2019

Drugstore poster
6.2

Mariano invests all his savings in the purchase of the Don Irriaga kiosk. Then, he discovers that the street on which he is fronting will be imminently closed to traffic as a result of a public works project. Without work, on the verge of losing the family home, months of being a father for the second time and condemned to a nearby ruin, Mariano has to do something before the street is closed.

Drugstore

2019

Fontanarrosa, lo que se dice un ídolo poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Fontanarrosa, lo que se dice un ídolo

2017

May You Live in Interesting Times poster
10.0

Marcos was once a successful author of children's books. For years, his goal has been to finish his first "adult" and "serious" novel. But his lack of social interaction, his excessive ambitions, and the influence of the drugs he grows and sells for a living don't help him. He is about to give up when his friend Walter suggests another path: Marcos just has to live a more intense life. And write about it, like so many great writers...

May You Live in Interesting Times

2017

Belgrano: The Movie poster
5.4

It focuses on the last ten years of life of the hero, creator of the Argentine flag. In 1810, Manuel Belgrano believes that it is possible to replace the royal authority - that of Fernando VII prisoner of the Napoleonic troops - with the community of virtuous men who, identified with the Homeland, fluently interpret the People.

Belgrano: The Movie

2010

Error 404 poster
8.0

When the internet goes down and nobody's sure how to fix it, the office staff finds themselves lost with nothing to do.

Error 404

2016

To Fool a Thief poster
6.3

Sebastian meets Natalia when trying to steal an important piece of art from a museum, and she wins the hand. Rivals declared, the two have to work together later in a robbery more complex: a valuable and unique bottle of Malbec from Bordeaux in the mid-nineteenth century, listed as one of the best wines in the world and jealously guarded in the vault of a bank, in Mendoza. In a world full of glamor, between vineyards and mountains, the thieves will have to display their magic, but while preparing discover theft, each to his own, that nothing will be as thought

To Fool a Thief

2013

Viaje inesperado poster
5.3

Pablo lives happily in Rio de Janeiro, but his son is about to be expelled from school in Argentina. He has to go back to Buenos Aires and fix things.

Viaje inesperado

2018

Olvídame poster
NR

Víctor Terx is a young, attractive, and mysterious man, preacher and leader of a spiritualist sect. He compulsively murders his occasional partners with cruelty. Ámbar Atlas is a young stripper at a brothelly nightclub, her beauty is unconventional and her sexuality exultant and perturbing. Christlike, she uses sex as a vehicule to her own destruction due to her inevitable death drive. Ámbar and Víctor will fall in love viscerally and passionately while they become aware of the proximity of an ineluctable danger that preys on them both. Together they will tortuously travel an esoteric underworld of mediums, witches and false shamans in the search for Ámbar's miraculous "cure".

Olvídame

2013

No artwork available
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Angelita, la doctora

2016

Miracle in the Fall poster
NR

A dive bar, a tango environment, a card game of truco, a pregnant waitress mistreated by a boss, who later ends up leaving her in the street with her newborn son. The son, named Faxman after an old illusionist, grows up and becomes an illusionist himself, traveling through different Argentine cities with his show. During one of his performances, Faxman meets Candelaria, who becomes his assistant as well as the love of his life.

Miracle in the Fall

2019

A Little Hornless Goat poster
NR

The commissar of a town, has to investigate a child book confiscated from a seven-year-old girl, for allegedly being of communist origin.

A Little Hornless Goat

2018

El notificador poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El notificador

2012

Lila poster
NR

Deportivo Canchilegua plays the final of the Regional Soccer Championship. Until now it was unbeatable, but Lila, the team's little cabal dog, doesn't arrive. Will the rest of the cabals used work? Will Lila arrive before the end of the game?

Lila

2012

Basura poster
NR

Since 2006, San Pedro El Cortez has become one of the most representative bands of Tijuana. There's only one problem: nobody cares. Today, after a wave of interest to artists from the region, they have the opportunity to show why they are the best bet of the new wave of Mexican music.

Basura

2013

1980s · 5 titles

Series credits

Endless Summer poster
7.0

Verano del '98 is an Argentine telenovela, produced by Cris Morena. It was broadcast on Telefe television in the period January 12, 1998-November 17, 2000. The telenovela had three seasons, and changed its cast many times. Cris Morena also composed songs for Verano del '98 soundtrack.

Endless Summer

1998

Sres Papis poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sres Papis

2014

Casados con Hijos poster
8.1

Argentine re-make of American television series Married... with Children. It follows the Argento family and their lives.

Casados con Hijos

2005

Alternative Therapy poster
6.0

Selva is an eccentric relationship counselor who has made a name for herself with her unorthodox sessions. But Selva’s career hits a roadblock when she takes on Elías and Malena, a young couple who are seeking guidance on how to separate.

Alternative Therapy

2021

Yago, pasión morena poster
6.0

Yago is a 28 year old tough and rude young man raised in the jungle of north Argentina by his father who taught him how to survive in such a wild environment. Although he can read and write, Yago has given up on being educated. Morena is a Peruvian girl in her 20's who has studied in New York and is financially independent. Unfortunately, she's not so lucky in terms of love since she's always picked the wrong man. Morena travels as a tourist to the Iguaçu Falls in the middle of the jungle where she meets Yago. They have a love affair but their relationship doesn't work out because of their marked social and personal differences. She then flies to Buenos Aires to search for her grandfather and in the meantime she gets a job at company called Sireno. At the same time, Yago learns that the man who raised him is not his actual father and that his real family name is Sireno. He travels to Buenos Aires intending to trace back his real family only to find Morena once again.

Yago, pasión morena

2001

Los simuladores poster
8.7

A small team of con artists for hire use their skills to solve common people's life problems.

Los simuladores

2002

My Name Is Gutierrez poster
9.4

Deputy Commissioner Gutierrez competes with the CIA to solve the murder of the Russian Ambassador with his unique style.

My Name Is Gutierrez

2026

¡Grande, Pá! poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

¡Grande, Pá!

1991

Selenkay poster
7.7

After constantly traveling due to her parents' work, sixteen-year-old Sofía wants stability: to go to school and have friends. When they move to Río Vivo, a small town in the mountains, she finally gets what she wants, until a strange water-bound power threatens the normal teenage life she's worked so hard to achieve.

Selenkay

2024

Cannibals poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cannibals

2015

Menem: The President Show poster
7.5

Menem, an extravagant and charismatic politician, becomes president of a troubled nation. His term, marked by privatization of public enterprises, dollarization of the economy, and consulting fortunetellers, is overshadowed by terrorist attacks and the death of his son. His photographer, Olegario Salas, witnesses his life change along with Argentine society amid economic recovery and corruption.

Menem: The President Show

2025

Variaciones Walsh poster
10.0

In each episode, which takes place independently of each other, commissioners Jiménez (Luis Luque) and Laurenzi (Darío Grandinetti) must solve different police cases that will be presented to them and will be a challenge for them, for which they will receive the help of the editor literary Daniel Hernández (Nicolás Cabré) who is looking to write a book about crimes.

Variaciones Walsh

2015

Señores papis poster
6.0

The story tells the experiences of four modern parents Favio Carbonetti (Luciano Castro), Ignacio Moreno (Joaquín Furriel), Franco Bertossi (Luciano Cáceres) and Mauro de Leone (Peto Menahem) and attractive friends who become friends by sharing daily talks at the door of your children's Kindergarten.

Señores papis

2014

Pure Evil poster
2.0

On his release from jail, psychopathic leader of The Sons of Saturn sect Hugo Lopez begins tormenting the ex-policeman whose daughter he killed in this macabre and intellectual Argentinian thriller.

Pure Evil

2015

Prócer poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Prócer

2023

Black birds poster
NR

"Black Birds" is a television police series created by Jesica Aran. It tells the story of fiscal Javier Rojas, who on December 31, 1999, on a rainy morning in Rosario, is called to investigate the murder of José Duarte, happened in the hotel "Ambassador". With the help of a young colleague, Rojas interrogates hotel guests looking to solve the crime finding the murderer at the same time it tries to resolve personal issues.

Black birds

2016