Theo Taplitz

Acting

Theo Taplitz

Theo Taplitz (born 2003) is an American actor, artist and filmmaker.

Acting credits

Gringo poster
5.9

An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico.

Gringo

2018

Showing Up poster
5.9

In the days leading up to a possibly career-changing exhibition, a sculptor navigates her relationships with family, friends, and colleagues.

Showing Up

2023

Little Men poster
6.4

Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony at his grandfather's funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute between Jake's father, Brian, and Tony's mother, Leonor, threatens to become contentious.

Little Men

2016

Wyrm poster
6.9

In an alternative 1990s a lonely, dinosaur-obsessed boy named Wyrm struggles to complete a unique school requirement in which students wear electronic collars that detach only upon engaging in their first kiss.

Wyrm

2019

Bad Shabbos poster
6.8

An engaged interfaith couple are about to have their parents meet for the first time over a Shabbat dinner when an accidental manslaughter gets in the way.

Bad Shabbos

2025

Marisol poster
3.5

For Marisol Rivera, a first generation Mexican-American, college is everything she's worked toward. She spent mornings cleaning horse stalls and evenings studying. Now, with a scholarship in hand, she's ready to leave Southwest Texas and begin her new life. However, when Marisol is falsely accused of a crime, she learns a heartbreaking truth: she's undocumented. Forced to go on the run, Marisol discovers a kind America amidst a harsh bureaucratic system. A coming of age film through the lens of immigration, Marisol critically examines systemic oppression and the causality of racism.

Marisol

2023

The Blazing World poster
6.0

Margaret has been plagued with dreams of a strange world since she was a little girl. After a mysterious man with a map visits her one night, she decides to give in to the incessant calls of The Blazing World...

The Blazing World

2018

Dybbuk poster
NR

A film by Theo Taplitz.

Dybbuk

2017

True Places Never Are poster
NR

A boy trapped in sadness discovers a mysterious hole in one of the old books his grandfather left behind.

True Places Never Are

2015

Behind the camera