Luis de Icaza
Also Known As: Luis Augusto Sánchez de Icaza
Biography: Joined the National Actors Association (ANDA) in December 1985. Since 1986 he signed an indefinite contract with Televisa to participate in television productions. In 2000 he was nominated for the Ariel Supporting Actor Award for the film "Ave María". He died of a heart attack in the parking lot of Televisa on March 13, 2001, the same day that the last project in which he participated, the children's telenovela "Aventuras en el tiempo", was presented to the press. The production dedicated the project to his memory.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Birthday: January 01, 1954
Deathday: March 13, 2001
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Revenge
Overview: Michael ‘Jay’ Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years and he's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman who he once flew to Alaska for a hunting trip. Arriving at the Mendez mansion in Mexico, he is immediately surprised by the beauty and youth of Mendez’s wife, Miryea.
Genres: Thriller Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-16
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Sólo con tu pareja
Overview: Tomás Tomás is a young yuppie playboy with a string of discarded girlfriends. But when Silvia, the victim of one of his adventures, tries to get revenge by typing "positive" on his AIDS test, Tomás experiences for the first time the realities of love and death.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-12-25
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Sex, Shame & Tears
Overview: A comedic drama featuring two couples and two old friends in Mexico City. Tomas visits Carlos and Ana, while Miguel and Andrea are joined by Maria. The presence of guests triggers lust, rejection, infidelities, reconciliation and other consequences.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-06-18
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Dark Cities
Overview: Adapted by writer/director Fernando Sariñana from the stories by Juan Madrid, Ciudades Oscuras (Dark Cities) tells a story of interwoven lives in the seedy underbelly of Mexico City. The several different story lines concern hooker Lola (Dolores Heredia); her drug addict son Fede (Diego Luna); her friend Zeze (Zaide Silvia Gutierrez); Zeze's daughter Susana (Jimena Ayala); and junkie Vicente (Roberto Sosa). Also on the scene are two corrupt cops (Alejandro Tommasi and Jesus Ochoa) and one good cop (Odiseo Bichir), while Chicken (Hector Suarez) and Casimiro (Alonso Echanove) each tell their separate stories to the same bartender (Demian Bichir). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-09-20
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De ida y vuelta
Overview: 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 give him a new position in life. However, he finds that things have changed. His mother is dead, and Luis, his best friend, is married to his ex-girlfriend. Filiberto gets involved in the town’s disputes over a water spring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-10-18
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Optical Fibre
Overview: When a Brazilian woman is falsely accused of killing a prominent Mexican politician, Marco, a young journalist, is hired by a stranger to discover the real motive of the crime. He is assisted by his photographer girlfriend María, and they are trapped in a web of torture, prostitution, corruption and power struggle.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-01
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Simple mortal
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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La Chilindrina en apuros
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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Extraños caminos
Overview: During the rainy Christmas season, a troupe of five actors who are college students lose their way in the mountains of Hidalgo when they try to take a short cut. With their van in need of repairs, they are stranded in a village where a local boss, Don Elias, pays peasants to log the forest illegally. The five collegians have little sensitivity to village ways and are shocked to be treated as foreigners in their own country. When two of them witness assaults on the town's priest and on a harmless simpleton, and when Don Elias frames the troupe for murder, their cries of innocence fall on deaf ears. Vigilantes call for their deaths and give chase. Will anyone help them?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Salón México
Overview: In this remake of the 40's classic, two lovers murder each other, leading to an investigation and the closing of the Saln Mxico, a famous place where people used to go to dance before WWII. The police investigation leads to several flashbacks about the life and death of a low-life dancer named Mercedes (Maria Rojo) and her lover.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-02-02
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L'homme au masque d'or
Overview: In San Luis de la Paz, a small and and very poor town in northern Mexico, the priest Father Victorio manages an orphanage with nearly 50 children. He does wrestling, disguised with a golden mask, to get some money for the children. His dream of reconstruct the town begins to see a light when he is invited to become a professional wrestler
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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De la calle
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Cronos
Overview: Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-11-05
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De super macho a super hembra
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Cuando el diablo me dio el anillo
Overview: Mexican feature film
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Recipes to Stay Together
Overview: "Cilantro y perejil" is a comedy about couples from the same family, hit by the economic crisis in Mexico. The plot turns around the eternal question of whether it is worth it to live as a couple. The conclusions are fun, unpredictable and very human. After ending a ten-year marriage, Carlos and Susana try to fall in love with other people without success. As the days go by, Carlos realizes that without Susana he is unable to do many things, including distinguishing cilantro from parsley.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-12-31
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Imperio de los Malditos
Overview: On the day of his first communion, the boy Honorato is orphaned because the mafia murders his parents. Before dying, the father recommends that the son defend himself against whoever tries to harm him, so that over time he becomes a bloodthirsty and sadistic gunman, always accompanied by the ghost of his father. His fame bears in the ears of Rutilo, the boss of the central supply, who hires him to avenge the death of his son. Honorato fulfills the mission with luxury of violence and becomes a trusted man of the gangster.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-08-28
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Corazones rotos
Overview: Many stories of families within an urban complex.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-08
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La paloma de Marsella
Overview: Amelia is an old retired prostitute who lives at an asylum, where she decides to enter a T.V. contest.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-05
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Ave María
Overview: In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-11-20
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A Breakfast Chronicle
Overview: A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-11-01
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Herod's Law
Overview: In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-11-09
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La mesa servida
Overview: Carlos has an empty belly and tries to dominate nature by obeying it. The only two pigs in his village are seductive meat. He already has the table set, without knowing that the pig affection will tell him what the pantheons are full of.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-05-29
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¡Que vivan los muertos!
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Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Death and the Compass
Overview: In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-05
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Sucesos distantes
Overview: One couple (Carlos & Irene) are having troubles, because he suspects that Irene's hiding something about her past in Russia. To make things worst her ex-husband goes to Mexico and tells Carlos that her other ex-husband also is going to claim her as his property.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-08-09
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