Mercedes Morán

Acting

Mercedes Morán

Born 1955-09-21 · Concorán, San Luis, Argentina

Mercedes Morán (Concarán, San Luis, born September 21, 1955) is an Argentine theatre, film, and television actress.

Acting credits

Barreda poster
6.7

A fictionalized drama film based on one of the most shocking crimes in Argentina's history. In 1992, Ricardo Barreda was an unassuming dentist, brutally murdered his wife, mother-in-law, and two adult daughters in their family home. Branding himself as a victim, Ricardo Barreda ignited a media storm and fueled a national scandal.

Barreda

2026

The Motorcycle Diaries poster
7.4

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

The Motorcycle Diaries

2004

Of Love and Shadows poster
5.4

Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground resistance movement, Francisco opens her eyes and her heart to the atrocities being committed by the state.

Of Love and Shadows

1994

Neruda poster
6.3

It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.

Neruda

2016

Olympia poster
4.2

The story revolves around Olympia, an 18-year-old looking to become famous by entering the world of online pornography.

Olympia

2012

Elena Knows poster
6.1

As her Parkinson's disease progresses, a woman leads a relentless investigation into finding those responsible for the sudden death of her daughter.

Elena Knows

2023

Cheese Head poster
5.9

It tells the story of four Jewish boys during a few summer days at the country club where their parents take them, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in 1993. Within the club, the four define themselves as outsiders, since they do not participate in the sports activities that are practiced there, and therefore do not fit into the logic that governs the place, being permanently bothered and mocked by the rest of the children of their age.

Cheese Head

2006

El Angel poster
7.4

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.

El Angel

2018

Las Rojas poster
6.1

In a remote camp in the Carlota mountains, a renowned paleontologist, guards the most important finding of her scientific career: the fossil remains of a hippogriff, a mythical animal half bird half lion of which there is no certainty of its existence. The arrival of Constanza, a biologist sent to supervise the works of Carlota, and Freddy, an old rival with dark intentions, force Carlota to face a powerful enemy that threatens to destroy the territory and its natural resources.

Las Rojas

2021

La Ciénaga poster
6.9

Amid the sweltering summer heat in northern Argentina, two middle-class families retreat to a crumbling country estate and a modest townhouse, where strained relationships, simmering tensions, and the presence of children and servants quietly expose the fractures of family life. Between idle days, gossip, and unspoken desires, the boundaries of class, tradition, and faith are reflected in their everyday interactions.

La Ciénaga

2001

The Holy Girl poster
6.6

Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. Repulsed by him but inspired by an inner burning, Amalia decides it is her God-given mission to save the doctor from his behavior, and she begins to stalk Dr. Jano, becoming a most unusual voyeur.

The Holy Girl

2004

Betibú poster
5.5

Once Pedro Chazarreta found murdered in the wonderful gated, El Tribuno newspaper hires retired detective novelist Nurit Iscar/Betibù that is installed in the area and a series of newspaper columns about the case. Along with the Chief of police of the newspaper, Mariano Saravia, and a veteran journalist, Jaime Breña, Betibù starts to investigate the murder. Using an old photo of the adolescence of Chazarreta, which shows him with fellow high school, the Group discovers an apparent connection between this murder and a succession of apparently trivial deaths of members of the photo. At the same time, Betibù must face its past emotional with the editor of the newspaper, Lorenzo Rinaldi, who seeks to restore the relationship.

Betibú

2014

Spider poster
6.9

Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever.

Spider

2019

Artax poster
7.0

Mariana is a woman who has dedicated her entire life to equine therapy that goes over the history of how she came to that. In her youth she lived a happy and prosperous life until a particular episode leads her to have to face millionaires debts. This situation can lead to being left homeless and especially without their horses, among which stands out Artax, the only being with which his son Bruno with Asperger's syndrome manages to have a special bond that helps him to cope with his life with harmony. Mariana must fight against wind and tide in this story of struggle and resilience sustained by the love of a mother and her son.

Artax

2017

My Sad Dead poster
NR

Based on the work from Mariana Enriquez and directed by Pablo Larraín, My Sad Dead follows Ema, who can see and hear the dead. After her mother’s death, Ema receives an unexpected visit from her niece Julie, with whom she shares the same unsettling gift. With Julie’s return, family secrets and wounds that never fully healed will resurface —but so will a strange phenomenon from which no one will emerge unscathed. The entire neighborhood will sense presences and hear the distinctive sounds of their own dead.

My Sad Dead

2026

Call Me Francis poster
6.7

Biopic about Jorge Maria Bergoglio before he became Pope Francis I.

Call Me Francis

2015

Los Marziano poster
5.5

Los Marziano reconstruye la oportunidad de un reencuentro entre dos hermanos tras un largo período de distanciamiento. Se trata de un relato que trabaja con profunda inteligencia -y con rasgos de comedia- el universo de las relaciones familiares.

Los Marziano

2011

An Unexpected Love poster
6.3

It tells the story of Marcos and Ana, who have been married for more than 25 years, but enter into an existential crisis that leads them to separate. The life of singles seems fascinating and exciting at first, but soon it also becomes monotonous for her and nightmarish for him.

An Unexpected Love

2018

Whisky Romeo Zulú poster
6.7

Whisky Romeo Zulu tells the story prior to the crash of LAPA Boeing 737 that on August 31, 1999, caught fire after hitting an embankment in the center of Buenos Aires, killing 67 people. The disaster changed the history of civil and commercial aviation in Argentina, and the film recounts, from the standpoint of the director, a former airline pilot-how in some countries the safety of the flight is incredibly precarious.

Whisky Romeo Zulú

2005

Martina's Search poster
7.3

Martina, who has Alzheimer's, has been searching for her grandson for over three decades. Discovering he is in Brazil, her long and solitary journey becomes an intense struggle against time and oblivion.

Martina's Search

2025

Florianópolis Dream poster
6.1

A recently separated Argentinian man and woman, with their two teenage children, go on a family holiday to Florianópolis, Brazil, where they become delightfully and problematically involved with the family from whom they rent a house.

Florianópolis Dream

2018

La Intrusa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Intrusa

2015

Moon of Avellaneda poster
7.2

The story of a social and sports club in a Buenos Aires neighborhood and of those who try to save it from being closed.

Moon of Avellaneda

2004

Maracaibo poster
5.8

The crime of Facundo provokes in Gustavo and Cristina, his parents, an irreparable vacuum. The tragedy demonstrates everything that could not be in the link between Gustavo and son and disarms appearances with his wife; Cristina Gustavo undertakes a desperate attempt to understand his guilt: a tortuous guilt that provokes a deep sense of revenge. You need to find the person responsible for that crime.

Maracaibo

2017

Behind the camera