Laura Patalano

Acting

Laura Patalano

Acting credits

Newness poster
6.1

In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.

Newness

2017

First Girl I Loved poster
6.3

Seventeen-year-old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular girl at her L.A. public high school. But when Anne tells her best friend, Clifton—who has always harbored a secret crush on her—he does his best to get in the way.

First Girl I Loved

2016

No artwork available
NR

SUPERFAKE is a gritty, sun-soaked comedy about a trans woman who discovers her boyfriend, and the designer bag he gave her - might be fake. This film humanizes trans women through humor, with a premise everyone can relate to - the search for something real in a world obsessed with appearances.

Superfake

The Ballad of Tita and the Machines poster
7.0

Tita, an injured elderly strawberry picker, reluctantly hires an AI Humanoid to substitute her and unexpectedly attracts the curiosity of the creators of this technology when their AI workers aren't to do her back-breaking work.

The Ballad of Tita and the Machines

2023

Die Like a Man poster
2.5

Set in the heart of a rapidly gentrifying west Los Angeles neighborhood still reeling from decades of guns and gang violence across the four corners near Venice, a working-class single mom desperately tries to wean her 17-year-old son Freddy away from a veteran gangster who has become a father figure to him.

Die Like a Man

2025

Mosquita y Mari poster
5.9

After being assigned as study partners, two Chicana high schoolers find a bond that confuses them at times.

Mosquita y Mari

2012

Love All Over Your Face poster
7.5

Dani, a Spaniard with an English mother, and Ana, an American woman with Mexican parents, are friends with benefits. Dani travels to Spain, but cannot return to the USA, so he has to communicate through video calls.

Love All Over Your Face

2024

The Contractor poster
5.0

Los Internationals is a more serious Latino take on the Expendables and the A-Team, that will feature a team of all Spanish speaking characters who represent different parts of South America and the Caribbean. The film will be fun and have lots of heart but will also take a closer look at real violence in our society and the glorification of it in video games; comparing the two to show the vast contrast and its true impact on our children.

The Contractor

2018

Estela, Is It You? poster
NR

A widow communicates with her dead husband through her car radio.

Estela, Is It You?

2024

¿Necesitas Ayuda? poster
NR

Señora Concha is determined to get through the Tijuana airport alone, but when her stubbornness clashes with an eager wheelchair attendant named Jorge, chaos ensues for both of them! Will they learn to see eye to eye, or will Concha’s flight leave her stranded?

¿Necesitas Ayuda?

The Young Kieslowski poster
6.8

Grand romantic gestures need not apply in this comedic tale of star-crossed young love. Instead, freshman Brian Kieslowski displays endless reserves of bumbling awkwardness as he goes home with a girl for the first time... and then learns that he got her pregnant... with twins... all while she's going through a rather inconvenient Christianity phase. Could it be that being the good guy and doing what's right are two very different things?

The Young Kieslowski

2014

No artwork available
3.5

Using futuristic virtual reality technology that lets him relive memories, a man seeks a way to reconnect with his lost love.

Memory 2.0

2014

The Virgin of Highland Park poster
6.0

During a medical test to join the high school soccer team, a virgin teenager is shocked to discover she is pregnant.

The Virgin of Highland Park

2022

Chop Shop poster
6.7

Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar.

Chop Shop

2008

Eugenia and John poster
7.0

Working as a cleaning lady, studying at university and maintaining a relationship with her high school sweetheart, John, is all Eugenia does to achieve her goal of entering medical school despite her undocumented status. When her sister gets arrested for a routine traffic ticket, she turns to John for help, but she finds that John's response is surprisingly aloof. As she struggles to prevent her sister's deportation and tries to salvage her romance with her boyfriend, Eugenia realizes that her position in America is more tenuous than she ever imagined.

Eugenia and John

2016

You're Dead to Me poster
1.3

Andrea, a grieving Chicana mother, confronts an uninvited family member before her Día de los Muertos celebration. By night's end, death offers her a choice that she couldn't make in life.

You're Dead to Me

2013

Lodo poster
2.0

A boy by the name of Eru goes through a series of super natural events after trudging through mud in a forbidden cemetery. This incident results in an unexpected encounter.

Lodo

2022