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.
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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Love Hurts
as MartinFamily and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a...
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Violet Perfume
as Padrastro de YessicaA poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico...
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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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The Great Seduction
as SimónWhen a golden opportunity arises to boost the fortunes of a forgotten fishing town, its...
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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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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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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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Underdog
as AurelianoTwo Tarahumara brothers, with a deep spiritual connection and a fervent desire to become the...
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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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Tragic Jungle
as MundoDeep in the jungle, a group of Mexican gum workers crosses their path with Agnes, a mysterious...
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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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Fireflies
as JorgeRamin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from...
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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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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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Bleak Street
as DadTwo wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.
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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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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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Perseguida
as uncreditedA journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from...
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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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Vultures
as uncreditedA distinguished writer declares in an interview that he should die consumed by flames, but he...
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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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Medusa
as EsposoWhen teacher Nora comes home after being held the day before, the Medusa protocol app shows her...
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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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Ismael
as IsmaelIsmael, widower of his beloved wife Teresa, walks the streets of the city in search of...
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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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En el país de no pasa nada
as Don JacintoA crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.
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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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Recurring Patients
as RaúlA dysfunctional and hilarious group of rehab addicts seek to fulfill the dream of an indigenous...
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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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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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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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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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