Laura Mora Ortega

Director and writer · Born April 20, 1981 (45) · Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Laura Mora Ortega (Medellín, 1981) is a Colombian film director and screenwriter, recognized for her 2017 feature film Matar a Jesús, and for winning the Golden Shell at the 70th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, with Los reyes del mundo. She was born in Medellín and studied high school at the German School in the same city. He studied film production and directing at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Before the fire is Mora's debut feature film. It was released in 2015 in theaters in Colombia. Her follow up film is Matar a Jesús. The film won a large number of national and international awards, including the EGEDA Award at the Cartagena Film Festival, the Jury Prize for Best First Film and the Casa de las Américas Award at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, the Eroski Youth Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival and the Roger Ebert Award at the Chicago Film Festival.

What are Laura Mora Ortega's films like?

Across a limited sample of 4 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Self.

Themes

share of theme weight

Survival

31%

Self

23%

Bonds

20%

Morality

13%

Ideas

7%

Society

5%

Moods and endings

endings shown from 5 titles

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Melancholic

3

Tense

3

Dread

2

Hopeful

2

Warm

1

Other

1

How their films linger

Thought-provoking2 Haunting2

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Laura Mora Ortega's films?

As of October 24, 2026, all 7 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (5).

Also on these channels

FlixLatino2 titles, show their 2 titles on FlixLatino

Subscription and free streaming for Laura Mora Ortega's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

13 credits, 7 with a MovieCove page.

One Hundred Years of Solitude(2024)
Show 8 episodes · Director · Executive Producer
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows
The Kings of the World(2022)
Director · Writer
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
The Bed (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Production Executive
The Great Heist(2020)
Show 3 episodes · Director
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all shows
Frontera Verde(2019)
Show 4 episodes · Director
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows
Killing Jesus(2017)
Director · Writer
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Before the fire (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Director
Los hombres también lloran(2015)
Show 41 episodes · Director
Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Entre Panas (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Show 8 episodes · Director
Lo azul del cielo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Script
Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal(2012)
Show 113 episodes · Director
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all shows
Salomé (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Director · Writer
Brotherhood (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Director · Editor · Producer · Writer

Career shape

A full career of 13 titles from 2006 to 2024.

Biggest box office

The Kings of the World (2022)

$354K worldwide

Highest rated

The Kings of the World (2022)

Midcredits 86^th

By role

only this rolewith another role

Directing11 of 13 · 80^thWriting4 of 13Producing2 of 13Editing1 of 13Other crew2 of 13

13 titles, 5 with more than one role — directing and writing overlap on 4 of them.

By decade

2000s1 · crew2010s8 · crew2020s4 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

Who does Laura Mora Ortega work with?

People who share at least 2 of Laura Mora Ortega's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Sebastian Hernandez shares the most, 3.