Eligio Meléndez
Eligio Meléndez is a Mexican film, theater and television director and actor, born on June 20, 1950, in Mexico City. He studied at the Andrés Soler Acting Institute, with the renowned Luis Gimeno, Carlos Ancira, Miguel Círcega and Soledad Ruíz as teachers. One of the most recognized personalities in theater, the actor has participated in more than 30 works, including The Flower of the Heart, Borges with Music, The Enchanted Mirror, The Old Men, Trufaldino Servant of Two Patrons, Mexican Entremeses, Mexico Pachuco, Soldado Razo, among others. In film, Eligio made his debut in the film Perseguida (1991), and then built an interesting and lucrative career with roles in films such as The Colonel Doesn't Have Anyone Write to Him (1999), In the Country of Nothing Happens (2000), for which that he would receive his first Ariel nomination; Perfume of violets (2001), Amar te duele (2002), Curandero (2005), The last one and we leave (2009), Hidalgo – The untold story (2010), Yerbamala (2014) and Dream in another language (2017) , for which he was nominated, for the second time, for an Ariel award.
Love Hurts
as MartinFamily and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a...
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Underdog
as AurelianoTwo Tarahumara brothers, with a deep spiritual connection and a fervent desire to become the...
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New Order
as RolandoIn the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a...
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The Great Seduction
as SimónWhen a golden opportunity arises to boost the fortunes of a forgotten fishing town, its...
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Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening
as Padrastro de YessicaYessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam....
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Disappear Completely
as Elías Lozano MataAn ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer falls victim to a mysterious illness...
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#Rats
as uncreditedWhen the authorities failed to help him out, a musician tries to find the thieves who stole his...
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The Virgin of Lust
as Don NemesioIn Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia....
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I Dream in Another Language
as EvaristoAn indigenous language is in peril, as its last two speakers had a quarrel in the past and...
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La Civil
as QuiqueCielo is a mother whose teenage daughter is kidnapped in Northern Mexico. When the authorities...
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Tragic Jungle
as MundoDeep in the jungle, a group of Mexican gum workers crosses their path with Agnes, a mysterious...
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Sex, Shame and Tears 2
as Old ManTwenty years have passed since those two apartments in the heart of Mexico City were the...
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No One Writes to the Colonel
as SoteroEvery Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter...
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One for the Road
as Birthday Girl's FatherFriday night in Mexico City... guided by three different ways of understanding the world,...
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Fireflies
as JorgeRamin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from...
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The Day Everything Changed
as Fausto (Cantinero)Mario, used to be a man who had planned a happy future with his wife; until one night, a robbery...
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Curandero
as GomezA journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City
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Bleak Street
as DadTwo wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.
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This Is Tomas
as ReparadorLeo and his band decide to bring Thomas to play in a wedding. They have no idea how complex it...
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In The Country Where Nothing Happens
as Don JacintoA crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.
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Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada
as AscanioHidalgo, en su celda del Hospital Militar de Chihuahua, recuerda algunos pasajes de su vida,...
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Perseguida
as uncreditedA journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from...
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Medusa
as EsposoWhen teacher Nora comes home after being held the day before, the Medusa protocol app shows her...
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The Reasons of the Heart
as LawyerIn a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class...
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Living all of Life
as LeoAfter a lifetime together, Susana has been abandoned by her husband. She is in denial and holds...
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Recurring Patients
as RaúlA dysfunctional and hilarious group of rehab addicts seek to fulfill the dream of an indigenous...
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The Ruination of Men
as The GuardA woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to...
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The Overturning Of The Heart
as uncredited1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a...
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Yerbamala
as AnselmoJesús Andrade, a young thug, has decided to rob a stagecoach. At the time of the robbery he...
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More Tomorrow Than Before
as uncreditedIt is the story of resilience of a mother and her son, each living with a chronic degenerative...
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The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man
as AdultoA Mexican boy bound for Chicago tries to cross the border, but is the crowded wagon he rides in...
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¿De qué lado estás?
as uncreditedAn east german agent is forced to infiltrate student movement of 1968 at Mexico.
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Vultures
as uncreditedA distinguished writer declares in an interview that he should die consumed by flames, but he...
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Ismael
as IsmaelIsmael, widower of his beloved wife Teresa, walks the streets of the city in search of...
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The Impostor
as Padre Camilo FernándezLa Impostora, is a Spanish-language telenovela presumably to be produced by United States-based...
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El Candidato
as Julio de VelascoRookie CIA field operative Isabel Alfaro works alongside infamous CIA legend Wayne Addison to...
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El colapso
as RománAn exploration of the societal consequences when a nation's financial, technological, political,...
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