Gerardo Taracena

Gerardo Taracena

1970-01-01 Mexico City, Mexico 62 Credits

Biography

Gerardo Taracena (born 1970) is a Mexican film and theatre actor and dancer. He is known for his roles in Apocalypto, Man on Fire, The Mexican and Sin Nombre as well as the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico. He was born in Mexico City.

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Quite Like Paradise

Quite Like Paradise

2024

as Justino Nava

7.4
Acting

Ugo Conti, charismatic Italian aristocrat and influencer, arrives in Mexico where he seduces the Mexican high society. When he meets Frida Becker agai...

From Inside

From Inside

2023

as Juan Infante

Acting

Carmen Altamirano was buried alive at 2 years old by her parents. 30 years later, she will have to dig up her past.

Sobreviviendo mis XV

Sobreviviendo mis XV

2023

as Melchor

7.4
Acting

Quinceañeras, a magical age... except when your family wants to put you in a bulky dress and make you waltz in front of everyone, which is exactly wha...

Héroes

Héroes

2023

as Capitán Alvarado

7.6
Acting

During the Mexican-American War, a group of students from the Colegio Militar suffer the invasion, hunted by the enemy, and are persecuted in the plac...

Sound of Freedom

Sound of Freedom

2023

as El Alacrán

8.0
Acting

The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers...

Chupa

Chupa

2023

as Police Officer

6.3
Acting

While visiting family in Mexico, a lonely boy befriends a mythical creature hiding on his grandfather's ranch and embarks on the adventure of a lifeti...

Presencias

Presencias

2022

as Don Jaime

6.8
Acting

A man who loses his wife and goes to seclude himself in a cabin in the woods, where strange things happen.

For Old Times' Sake

For Old Times' Sake

2022

as Luciano

Acting

Two old friends meet after years of not seeing each other: Miguel, a prisoner who is about to be killed by a troop of the Mexican Revolution; and Luci...

Influence

Influence

2019

5.0
Acting

Leonora, a 16 year old teenager with a dangerous gift, when she draws a person, either by divination or by the action of the same drawing this person ...

The Marquez-Castillo Siblings

The Marquez-Castillo Siblings

2019

as Líder Rebeldes

7.4
Acting

A group of four siblings compete for the heritage of their father.

El Día de la Unión

El Día de la Unión

2018

as Rescatista 1

6.5
Acting
At the Frontera

At the Frontera

2018

as Eduardo Manrique

3.0
Acting

When an ATF agent out of Houston is tasked to team up with the Mexico City District Attorney on a human trafficking case, he uncovers family ties with...

Las amantes del narco II

Las amantes del narco II

2018

as Don Chava

2.0
Acting

Saúl Montemayor is suffering loss in drug shipments because he has a snitch in his criminal organization, so he will put a plan in place so that this ...

Tratante de blancas

Tratante de blancas

2018

as Reportero

Acting

The story of a woman who is kidnapped along with other women and sold for sexual exploitation. Government authorities are involved in this business, a...

Waiting For Gordo

Waiting For Gordo

2018

Acting

An out of luck journalist, a shady lawyer and a mysterious bachelor await for the arrival of "El Godo", an elusive acquaintance with contacts in the s...

La hora de Salvador Romero

La hora de Salvador Romero

2017

as Teodoro

5.5
Acting
Snail House

Snail House

2017

as Hombre

3.7
Acting

Sofia leaves the city to a provincial town. There she meets Nico and the inhabitants of Casa Caracol, an alternative hostel in the middle of the jungl...

Zhai

Zhai

2017

as Cesar

5.0
Acting

I am not what happened to me... I am what I choose to become.

El vecindario 3

El vecindario 3

2016

as Ajolote

4.3
Acting

The adventures of Juan and the situations that he will find in the neighborhood where he lives to try to rescue him from the bad guys who want to turn...

La Niña De La Mina

La Niña De La Mina

2016

as Carlos

6.1
Acting

Arter a tourist disappears inside a mine in Guanajuato, Mat Medina a young expert in mine engineering is hired to make a security diagnostic in the mi...

Don't Blame the Kid

Don't Blame the Kid

2016

as Plutarco

7.7
Acting

After a one-night stand results in pregnancy, a young woman decides to become partners with the emotionally immature father-to-be.

The Load

The Load

2016

as Itzmin

6.2
Acting

Late sixteenth century. A Tameme Indian man and a noble Spanish woman flee through the forests of the New World in search of freedom. Their frantic jo...

Number Eighty

Number Eighty

2016

Acting

Chano is deported back to Mexico after living most of his life as an ilegal immigrant in the USA. Now, away from his wife and kids, he lives alone and...

Boys on Film 14: Worlds Collide

Boys on Film 14: Worlds Collide

2016

as Juan / Raúl's Father (segment "A World For Raúl")

4.0
Acting

Worlds collide in more ways than one in this stunning collection. Confidence is violated, classes clash and desire is concealed, yet love still triump...

Mexican Gangster

Mexican Gangster

2014

as Raymundo

6.5
Acting

Tells the story of the most prominent bank robber in the history of Mexico, his crimes, his different personalities, his career as a charro with a mar...

Ramona

Ramona

2014

as Carmelo

5.5
Acting

Ramona is 84, and she has announced that she is ready to die. While her family is making the preparations, however, she changes her mind.

Die Legende der Maske

Die Legende der Maske

2014

as Bo

4.0
Acting

Archaeologist Katja Bennecke is in charge of an excavation site at the foot of a Mayan pyramid on the Mexican headland of Yucatán. By chance, she disc...

A Shred Of Mist

A Shred Of Mist

2014

as Perito

5.1
Acting

After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman with a severe character, who subjects the child to m...

Familia Gang

Familia Gang

2014

4.9
Acting

A senior official of the Mexican political system decides to fake the capture and death of The Coyote, public enemy number one in Mexico, to make this...

Princesas de cartón

Princesas de cartón

2014

as Felipe

3.7
Acting

Regina, a young female singer has a big secret that will turn her life upside down.

Los hijos de Don Gregorio

Los hijos de Don Gregorio

2013

as Roberto

3.5
Acting
Flying low

Flying low

2013

as Chuyin Venegas

5.0
Acting

Chuyín Venegas and Cornelio Barraza were the biggest stars of popular music and cinema of the 80's. "The Goldfinches of Rosarito" had no equal as musi...

Para armar un helicóptero

Para armar un helicóptero

2013

Acting

Oliverio lives in a building taken over by immigrants from the Mexican countryside who work constantly to provide the basic services lacking in the dw...

Deseo

Deseo

2013

as Marino

6.6
Acting

Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the...

Richness of Internal Space

Richness of Internal Space

2013

as Tenso

5.5
Acting

Locked up and isolated, constantly exposed and threatened to be killed, for the first time in his life Lazaro understood that he was a free man.

Potosí

Potosí

2013

as Javier

5.0
Acting

Potosi, a rural town in Latin America, is the crossfire of the ravaging that has devastated the north of the country. An accident along a deserted roa...

Tlatelolco, Summer of 68'

Tlatelolco, Summer of 68'

2013

as Militar 1 Tortura

6.3
Acting

As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are ...

Los Kokainos

Los Kokainos

2012

as Lic. Quintero

5.0
Acting

Tania wants to be a journalist and write about how bad people live under the current government. This is how she gets to know the hell of drugs and ga...

The Walls Talk

The Walls Talk

2012

as El Ojaiz

3.7
Acting

A tragic and epic love that transcends time and generations unites Maria and Javier forever. During important periods in Mexico (The War of Independen...

Come Out and Play

Come Out and Play

2012

5.1
Acting

A couple take a vacation to a remote island - their last holiday together before they become parents. Soon after their arrival, they notice that no ad...

A World for Raúl

A World for Raúl

2012

as Juan / Raúl's Father

5.2
Acting

When thirteen-year-old Raúl is asked to entertain the local landowner's son, a game of power and pride starts between the two boys.

4 Maras

4 Maras

2012

5.0
Acting

Mexican feature film

Get the Gringo

Get the Gringo

2012

as Romero

6.6
Acting

A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.

Saving Private Pérez

Saving Private Pérez

2011

as Carmelo

6.6
Acting

La vida ha llevado a Julián Pérez por caminos equivocados, pero el destino le presentará a este hombre la oportunidad de encontrar su redención cuando...

Setback

Setback

2011

as Mario

8.4
Acting

A race against time between a man whose son requires urgent treatment and a stockbroker who suddenly lost his investors' money and ruined his own fami...

Ladies Mafia

Ladies Mafia

2011

as Rualas

2.9
Acting

Tori, a beautiful young woman, accidentally ends up with a criminal's merchandise and is accused of the death of a member of a Colombian cartel: “El J...

El Infierno

El Infierno

2010

as Pancho Zopilote

7.9
Acting

After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

Chilango Chronicles

Chilango Chronicles

2010

4.9
Acting

Confusion and eccentricity are all part of life in the vast human ocean of Mexico City -- including the three very different personalities portrayed i...

Sanguinarios del M1

Sanguinarios del M1

2010

as Junco Pantoja

5.0
Acting

El último chichiluco

2009

as Mazatzin

Acting
Sin Nombre

Sin Nombre

2009

as Horacio

7.6
Acting

Sayra, a Honduran teen, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigra...

The Zone

The Zone

2007

as Carlos

6.3
Acting

Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, ...

Apocalypto

Apocalypto

2006

as Middle Eye

7.6
Acting

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a...

The Violin

The Violin

2005

as Genaro

7.1
Acting

In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. ...

Man on Fire

Man on Fire

2004

as Executive Adjutant

7.5
Acting

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventual...

De ida y vuelta

De ida y vuelta

2001

8.0
Acting

After working for three years in the USA, Filiberto returns to his home town in Mexico. A proud man, he is searching for the recognition that will giv...

Without a Trace

Without a Trace

2001

as Niko

7.2
Acting

A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.

The Mexican

The Mexican

2001

as Reveler to Fire Gun

5.9
Acting

Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique ...

The Daughter of the Puma

The Daughter of the Puma

1994

as Mateo Pérez Pérez

4.4
Acting

A novel by Monica Zak, based on a true story, inspired this 1994 Danish-Guatemalan coproduction, a political thriller about Guatemala.

Podcast, rapaces nocturnos

Podcast, rapaces nocturnos

N/A

as Fulgencio

Acting
La Ramona

La Ramona

N/A

4.0
Acting

Lunik 3

N/A

Acting

In 1959, in the midst of the cold war, where the two most powerful nations try to show their supremacy through the space race, the arrival of a Soviet...