Susana Varela

Acting

Susana Varela

Acting credits

Burnt Money poster
6.7

Set in Argentina in 1965, the story follows the tumultuous relationship between two men who became lovers and ultimately ruthless bank robbers in a notoriously famous footnote in the annals of crime history. After a large-scale hold-up that turns bloody, the two men must flee. It is not long before the police are surrounding the building they are in and they must confront their demons to survive.

Burnt Money

2000

Gunman poster
6.7

A former hitman accepts a minor job for his former boss. However, in a corrupt neighborhood, nothing is what it seems, and he quickly gets caught in a web of unexpected events. A race against time and his own destiny.

Gunman

2025

Silencios poster
NR

Eloísa is an elderly woman and a widow who runs a children's soup kitchen with her friend. Juan, his grandson, lacks the presence of his parents, uses cocaine, steals money from his family, his sister suffers from eating disorders and became obsessed with his neighbor across the street, Inés, whom he harasses on the phone.

Silencios

2009

Night Watch poster
5.7

A long night's journey into day: Victor, a street hustler in the Santa Fe and Pueyrredón neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, from the evening of November 1, All Saints Day, to the dawn of November 2, All Souls Day. Victor's odyssey takes him from clients to friends to a gay gym then a hotel room and an all-night café. He plays pick-up soccer with kids whose parents are going through trash or waiting in parks. A vendor gives him a chrysanthemum. It seems he's being followed, and on the night streets, death is close at hand. Can Victor survive until dawn?

Night Watch

2005

Neon Flesh poster
5.9

Hoping to earn his mother's respect, a young hustler-turned-businessman tries to open a brothel with his two useless buddies.

Neon Flesh

2010

The Funeral Home poster
5.2

Bernardo is an undertaker. He runs his mortuary business in the same house where he resides. In the front, he has his clients. And in the back, his dysfunctional family lives amongst coffins, wreaths, and the mischievous but nonviolent ghosts that visit on a daily basis. But when a malevolent entity enters the scene, it wreaks havoc on the already fractured household.

The Funeral Home

2021

The Vulture poster
4.3

In Argentina over 8,000 people die in traffic accidents every year. Behind each of these tragedies is a flourishing industry founded on insurance payouts and legal loopholes. Sosa is a lawyer who tours the A&E Departments of the public hospitals and the police stations in search of potential clients. Luján is a young doctor recently arrived from the provinces. Their love story kicks off one night when Luján and Sosa meet in the street. She's trying to save a man's life; he wants him on his client portfolio

The Vulture

2010

Carancho poster
6.7

Sosa is a lawyer who haunts hospital waiting rooms hoping to represent the victims of traffic accidents in insurance claims. When he falls in love with ambulance medic Luján, he tries to leave this dark business but the shady law firm that he works for won’t let him off that easily.

Carancho

2010

Thesis on a Domestication poster
6.7

A successful transgender actress decided to adopt a child with her lawyer husband . She juggles her career, marriage, and the adoption in pursuit of domestic happiness, all while trying to embrace her flaws and contradictions and also claim and defend her right to ambition, desire, and security. But that pursuit is eventually thwarted when they visit the actress's hometown.

Thesis on a Domestication

2025

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet poster
6.4

Sebastian, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet

2021

No artwork available
NR

A sad woman decides to embark on a journey in a camper van and during the trip she encounters situations and characters that help her fulfill her daughter's dream.

El cine de Maite

2008

Kryptonita poster
5.4

Movie adaptation of Leonardo Oyola's novel, which tells the story of the legendary DC comics superhero, Superman, if he, instead of falling in Smallville from Krypton, would have landed in the heart of Isidro Casanova, in La Matanza, deep in the west side of Buenos Aires.

Kryptonita

2015

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

Amapola poster
5.8

A romantic reimagining of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream set against the turbulent backdrops of the 1962 Argentinian military coup and the 1982 war for the Falkland Islands.

Amapola

2014

Maldigo en voz baja poster
NR

Roberto spends his days in solitude, carrying a wound that still bleeds nostalgia. Until one night of reunions leads him to confront his emotions and face them head-on. But upon seeing once again the person he loved most, he will discover that not everything can be saved, and that both love and goodbye are inevitable.

Maldigo en voz baja

Brother and Sister poster
6.7

They are both alone. They need each other but, at the same time, they despise each other. Siblings Marcos and Susana are unable to heal the old wounds festering within them after the death of their mother. When Susana sells their mother's flat, she deprives her brother of the home where he had cared for their mother his whole life. Marcos's need to start living again surfaces when his sister forces him to leave Buenos Aires for Uruguay.

Brother and Sister

2010

It's All In Your Head poster
NR

A political thriller about child trafficking. Danger arises in Abril’s life (Diana Lamas), an apathetic and absent-minded accountant, after her cherished uncle Ángel (Mario Pasik) and her best friend from adolescence Guille (Carlos Portaluppi) turn up on New Year’s Eve. Both these presences turn out to be closely related to a judicial investigation into the dark secrets of Abril’s family, leading her up to the realization that her personal experience is deeply intertwined with politics. The struggle between justice and power will show that child trafficking is an omnipotent international business packed with accomplices.

It's All In Your Head

2019

Bruja poster
7.6

A single mother is an expert in black magic, but has never used it to do evil, until a prostitution network kidnaps her daughter.

Bruja

2019

Madre e hijo poster
5.0

Five groups of mothers and sons will be tested on their relationship.

Madre e hijo

2018

Rooster's Blood poster
5.0

With no memory, a young man wakes up beaten and in a mysterious place, only gradually coming to remember that he was involved in a horrific accident.

Rooster's Blood

2015

The Furies poster
6.3

Leonidas, a young Huarpe destined to be the leader of his community, falls in love, going against all the mandates of his people, Lourdes, the daughter of the white landowner of the Town. To separate them, they accuse Leonidas of a crime he did not commit, for which he must serve a sentence. When they leave prison with Lourdes they undertake a bloody revenge against all those who tried to separate them and on the way they will discover that they are united by something more than their immense love.

The Furies

2020

The Star I Lost poster
10.0

Renowned actress Norma Reyes rehearses a mediocre commercial play while her daughter Celeste decides to move out. Despite the stress of the premiere and the pain caused by her daughter's absence, Norma carries on.

The Star I Lost

2024

The shadows poster
6.0

In a house hidden in the middle of the jungle, a clairvoyant is visited by three strangers who ask for her help in invoking an ancestor at a séance. This unwanted encounter soon turns into a nightmare.

The shadows

2020

Trópico poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Trópico

2020