Orestes Matacena

Acting

Orestes Matacena

Born 1941-08-29 · Havana, Cuba

Acting credits

The Mask poster
7.0

Timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss discovers a magical mask infused with the spirit of the Norse god Loki. Donning it transforms him into an unrestrained, green-faced, cartoon-like wild man. While the mask grants him the confidence to woo a local singer, it also makes him the target of a ruthless mobster.

The Mask

1994

Wild Wild West poster
5.3

Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless' plans.

Wild Wild West

1999

Diggstown poster
6.3

Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns most of Diggstown, a boxing-mad town. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours. Roy 'Honey' Palmer is that man that, at 48, many say he is too old.

Diggstown

1992

Sticks poster
2.0

Sticks is an off-beat noir comedy about a smugglar of Cuban cigars who gets involved, and ultimately falls in love, with a Cuban revolutionary who's in the U.S. trading cigars for guns. The two join forces to sell a large (stolen) shipment of Castro's private label cigar, the famed "El Mariposa", and suddenly they find themselves enmeshed in the seedy underbelly of a mob-run cigar smuggling ring that's being monitored by the feds.

Sticks

1998

Night of the Juggler poster
6.8

When a twisted psychotic kidnaps a young girl, mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy developer, her father, a hardened ex-cop, doggedly hunts them through New York's seamy streets.

Night of the Juggler

1980

Last Stand poster
3.3

A small band of desperate freedom fighters must topple a vicious dictator before he destroys mankind's last hope.

Last Stand

2000

Badge 373 poster
5.7

When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the experience only emboldens him. Ryan eventually learns that his partner was caught up in a Puerto Rican gun-running scheme masterminded by a crook named Sweet Willie, who wants to foment revolutionary war.

Badge 373

1973

Bitter Sugar poster
5.3

A patriot (René Lavan) with a rebellious brother falls in love with a dissident's daughter (Mayte Vilán) in Castro's Cuba.

Bitter Sugar

1996

Greyhounds poster
7.0

A retired sheriff, judge, coroner and con-man team up to solve crimes. Pilot.

Greyhounds

1994

The Anna Cabrini Chronicles poster
7.0

The story of Anna Cabrini, a young woman who therapizes her own suicidal tendencies by chronicling the lives of fellow lost souls. Their stories are expressed in an innovative mix of over 5,000 hand drawn animations, documentary and staged scenes.

The Anna Cabrini Chronicles

2005

A Kiss to Die For poster
4.6

William, a Harvard psychology professor is having trouble dealing with life after the death of his wife when he meets a beautiful woman named Ali. As their relationship grows, he begins to question her secretive past, which he discovers is linked to a series of murders that the police are investigating. Tim Matheson (Animal House, The West Wing) stars.

A Kiss to Die For

1993

Girl in 3D poster
3.0

Vicky, an ambitious young bombshell living in Hollywood, gets hired to be the "Toy" of her favorite rock star, Stu, who is in desperate need of inspiration. Starry-eyed and reckless, she enters a world of fantasy fuelled by addiction and an abusive thirst for fame.

Girl in 3D

2004

The Take poster
7.0

An ex-Miami cop just back from prison for corruption gets caught up in the Florida drug trade.

The Take

1990

Guaguasi poster
5.4

A story about a simple man from the mountains, Guaguasi, who falls in love with a beautiful chorus girl, Marina, during the Cuban Revolution. Guaguasi joins the rebels and arrives in Havana at the end of Batista's dictatorship, and, in the midst of political turmoil, is swept off his feet by the mesmerising Marina. The story celebrates the vitality and lunacy of the Revolution period with surrealism, humor and sensuality and is a compassionate metaphor about the human condition.

Guaguasi

1983

Behind the camera