Emilio Echevarría
Also Known As: Emilio Antonio Echevarría Noriega
Biography: Emilio Echevarría (July 3, 1944 - January 5, 2025) was a renowned Mexican actor, born in Mexico City. He would begin his extensive career as an actor in 1978, as an active member of the Constitution of Art and Society. He was part of the theater group Circo, Maroma y Teatro, an institution that would open its doors to him, where he had actors such as José Luis Ibáñez, Otto Minera and Dimitrio Sarrás as teachers. He began his career in film with A Crucial Day for Ausencio Paredes (1987), and later participated in films such as Intimidad (1989), Ana's Steps (1991), Novia que te ver (1994), Preludio (1999). He rose to fame with the role of El Chivo, in the acclaimed film Amores Perros (2000), by Alejandro González Iñárritu. After his participation in the film, Echevarría became a highly sought-after actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Birthday: July 03, 1944
Deathday: January 04, 2025
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Gender: Male
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Amores Perros
Overview: A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man. Their lives are catapulted into unforeseen situations instigated by the seemingly inconsequential destiny of a dog.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-06-16
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Jacarandas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-01-22
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The Alamo
Overview: Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-07
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Malos hábitos
Overview: Matilde is a nun convinced that faith moves mountains. She secretly begins a mystic fasting to end what she considers to be the second great flood. Elena is a thin and fashion-conscious woman ashamed of her daughter's chubbiness. She's willing to do the impossible to make her daughter Linda thin so Linda will look like a little princess on the day she receives her first communion. At the same time Elena's husband Gustavo - a professor of architecture - cannot cope with his wife's bones poking him during intimate moments so he turns his attention to a buxom female student with a hearty appetite.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-03-24
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Die Another Day
Overview: James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-17
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Colosio
Overview: It's 1994 in Mexico, the nation was witnessing a turbulent year since its beginnings. An indigenous rebellion shakes the country. Three months later, the ruling party's presidential candidate is brutally murdered during a rally in Tijuana. The country is concerned. Nobody knows who's behind this event, it all points to a conspiracy. Andrés Vázquez, an intelligence expert, is commissioned to lead a secret investigation parallel to the official government issued one. But another expert agent, el Seco, has received orders to wipe out all witnesses and get rid of the evidence surrounding the candidate's murder. As Andrés begins putting the pieces of this intricate puzzle together and comes closer to the truth, he realizes he's also putting his life and that of his loved ones in peril.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-06-08
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Overview: To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, wants something special from Rosa Cabarcas’s brothel: an intense night of love with a virgin teenager. The madam finds him the ideal young woman, Delgadina, a factory worker, who is selling her virginity to support her family. When he sees Delgadina sleeping angelically, he loses interest in pure pleasure and falls in love with her. That love was not meant to be true, but fate changes, and that hope is born of an opportunity for unbridled love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-10-13
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Bathroom Intimacy
Overview: A family crisis revealed through each member's bathroom intimacy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-07-06
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El mar muerto
Overview: There is a blackout in Mexico City. In the darkness some people are abandoned by God (their conscience) and commit a transgression (murder and infidelity). When the lights come on, conscious of what they have done, they must atone for their sin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-29
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Filosofía natural del amor
Overview: Insects mate, stories are born. The concept of “love” gets put under the looking glass in this captivatingly maverick film. Manuel, a lonely 36-year-old, begins an unusual friendship with the much younger Alma. A young foreign couple set out on an idyllic backpacking trip in Costa Rica. A Mexico City taxi driver visits a dive bar where he meets a sexy lounge singer. Vicente runs into an old classmate from high school and has something profound to share with her. Meanwhile, throughout the film, different couples speak about their relationships and thoughts
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-15
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Life Kills
Overview: A romantic comedy of our times about passion, friendship and lies, on one of those days when the city and its inhabitants go crazy and anything seems possible. Diego and Silvia meet each other and fall in love thanks to their masterly lies. The morning after, with their respective friends, they remember the encounter and slowly begin to realize how sincere and honest that relationship was. When the opportunity arises, both struggle to meet again on a day in which a sudden and unusual disorder reigns in Mexico City.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-01-25
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Words with Gods
Overview: The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods...or the lack thereof. In Words with Gods, each director recounts a narrative centered around human fragility, as well as environmental and cultural crises involving specific religions with which each has a personal relationship; including early Aboriginal Spirituality, Umbanda, Buddhism, the Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism, and Atheism. An animated sequence by Mexican animator Maribel Martinez is woven through each of the film segments, with each segment narratively connected as a feature-length film.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-20
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A Monster with a Thousand Heads
Overview: When Sonia receives the news that her husband’s cancer has progressed to a critical stage, she races to secure the insurance company’s approval for the care that can help him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-03-30
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From Mesmer, with Love or Tea for Two
Overview: Alberto resorts to disturbing and extravagant practices to break through the shell of his loneliness and fulfill his desires.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-03-08
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Amber
Overview: Old Max remembers the time as a child when he was taken to the jungle where he met a prophet, a circus man and other weird characters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-08-28
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Like a Bride
Overview: Two Mexican Jewish girls of come of age in Mexico City during the 1960s
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-06-03
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Perros, amores, accidentes
Overview: A three-part documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Amores perros.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-15
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Sin Memoria
Overview: Beto wakes up in his apartment not knowing where or who he is. He does not remember anything from his past. On the floor is a passport in the name of Marcelo Peralta. Trying to regain memory and their own lives, reveals a number of elements that will be intertwined with each other in unexpected course of events, such as theft, fraud and passionate love.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-08-19
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La Nao de China
Overview: The meeting between Homer, a painter who is going blind, and Mei, a young servant in a brothel in the Mexican desert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-04-01
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Babel
Overview: In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-26
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Y Tu Mamá También
Overview: In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-06-08
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The Chosen
Overview: Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-09-02
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The Dream of Lu
Overview: Lucia must find new meaning in her life in order to move forward after a suicide attempt.Dealing with her grief over the death of her son,she establishes new ties and notices small miracles.An encounter and unexpected journey open up the space for her to understand that she can continue to live and to discover that eternity resides in a single instant.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-11-09
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Intimacy
Overview: A Mexican romance by Dana Rotberg.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Los pasos de Ana
Overview: A divorced mother decides to do in life what she always wanted: To become a movie director. So she sets out to film every single thing that occurs in her everyday life
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-03-05
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The Night Buffalo
Overview: Unable to cope with the fact that his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, a 22-year-old schizophrenic sets an elaborate revenge plan into motion before taking his own life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-01-20
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Dying in the Gulf
Overview: The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power between the basements and the domes of Mexican politics, have a narrative record made in the Gulf of accuracy and dexterity
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-03-08
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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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Un Volcán de Lava de Hielo
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-06-13
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