Eligio Meléndez
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Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico
Birthday: June 20, 1950
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Gender: Male
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Sex, Shame and Tears 2
Overview: Twenty years have passed since those two apartments in the heart of Mexico City were the battlefield of a war of the sexes between Ana, Carlos, Andrea, Miguel, Tomás and María. All that is left of those apartments are memories and the image of Tomás' dead body at the bottom of the elevator shaft. Their lives have changed, their families have grown and new and unexpected characters have come to unsettle their daily lives and trigger a chain of events that will make them realize that modesty has been replaced by public disclosure; sex is only an app away; but love...love is still something elusive that everyone in today's banal and chaotic world is seeking.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-02-04
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Disappear Completely
Overview: An ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer falls victim to a mysterious illness that makes him lose, one by one, his five senses.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-02-29
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The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man
Overview: A Mexican boy bound for Chicago tries to cross the border, but is the crowded wagon he rides in going the right way? An offbeat, allegorical odyssey that blends absurd humor with pastoral imagery. A young man and a dead man journey north through a subtly surreal desert landscape, picking up a wagonful of odd characters as they go in this darkly humorous satire of contemporary Mexico. Written by TIFF LAFF
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-10-22
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The Great Seduction
Overview: When a golden opportunity arises to boost the fortunes of a forgotten fishing town, its residents set out to trick their way to making it happen.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-08-30
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More Tomorrow Than Before
Overview: It is the story of resilience of a mother and her son, each living with a chronic degenerative disease, and how they reconcile with each other when they accept that their disease has united and transformed them forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-04-22
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Recurring Patients
Overview: A dysfunctional and hilarious group of rehab addicts seek to fulfill the dream of an indigenous girl with terminal cancer. As they try to bring her back home, they dare to confront the mistakes of their own pasts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-06-10
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#Rats
Overview: When the authorities failed to help him out, a musician tries to find the thieves who stole his money creating the hashtag #Rats. This leads to people trying to find their own robbers and seek for justice on their own with the aid of social media.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-12-31
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*****… (Los Asteriscos…)
Overview: Waiter #2 is the character of a movie who interprets himself and becomes self-aware. Sarah is a kleptomaniac with a fond for kid's bicycles trying to overcome her sickness. Sami is a mascot costume who discovers contemporary dance and desires to become a professional dancer. Lazarus enjoys watching people die, since he was resurrected 2000 years ago and became immortal. These characters reunite in a drugsture to find the meaning of life.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-12-31
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Vultures
Overview: A distinguished writer declares in an interview that he should die consumed by flames, but he actually dies without any identification. An assistant coroner and a woman photographer kidnap the body to fake his suicide. The case is assigned to a judicial policeman who is oppressed by the deaths that sorround him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-04-17
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Love Hurts
Overview: Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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The Ruination of Men
Overview: A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-09-27
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Medusa
Overview: When teacher Nora comes home after being held the day before, the Medusa protocol app shows her in three videos what happened in her absence between her beloved husband and who impersonated her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-09-01
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The Reasons of the Heart
Overview: In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her life. One day, she loses the two things which makes everything beareable: her lover and her credit card.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-10-07
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Ismael
Overview: Ismael, widower of his beloved wife Teresa, walks the streets of the city in search of cardboard, in his extensive travels he has confrontations with Juan - a mental patient who thinks he is a dog and with Luigi - the most famous baker in the city. , who always scolds her daughter, because she did not inherit his gift in baking. But the destiny of these people is about to change, thanks to a magical event that Ismael will unleash.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-12-31
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The Day Everything Changed
Overview: Mario, used to be a man who had planned a happy future with his wife; until one night, a robbery ends up taking her life. From that moment on, his only objective is now to avenge on those who took away his happiness.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-02-22
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No One Writes to the Colonel
Overview: Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-06-02
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Curvas peligrosas
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Repartidores de muerte
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Reencuentros
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Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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¿De qué lado estás?
Overview: An east german agent is forced to infiltrate student movement of 1968 at Mexico.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-04-05
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The Virgin of Lust
Overview: In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows she's unbalanced. Don Lázaro warns Nacho about Lola, and Nacho knows his love will be unrequited, but he'll do anything, regardless of how degrading, to be near her. Lola, for her part, can be sadistic. Republican exiles who are regulars at the café encourage Lola's desire to assassinate Franco. Nacho in turn mixes this political mirage with his fascination with the plot of "The Mikado." Where do fantasies and obsessions lead?
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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One for the Road
Overview: Friday night in Mexico City... guided by three different ways of understanding the world, 20-year-olds, Juan, Rodrigo and Christian live after-hour adventures of friendship, love, and respect in a city marked by social differences.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-03-19
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Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada
Overview: Hidalgo, en su celda del Hospital Militar de Chihuahua, recuerda algunos pasajes de su vida, principalmente su estancia como párroco en San Felipe Torres Mochas; donde se relacionó con las clases bajas y nació la idea emancipadora, tradujo y montó al Tartufo de Molière, se enamoró de Josefa Quintana y se alejó por algún tiempo de la vida eclesiástica.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-09-16
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Siete en punto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-09-01
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Living all of Life
Overview: After a lifetime together, Susana has been abandoned by her husband. She is in denial and holds on to the past. One day, she needs the help of her neighbor, Gloria, a free-spirited woman that she can’t stand. But the friendship that emerges between them awakens Susana's desire to live in the present.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-03-10
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Jefecita
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-09-01
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El Extraordinario Hombre Halcón
Overview: After his twin's sudden death, Andy, a shy and lonely young boy, discovers a mysterious way to communicate with his brother Nico, who is trapped in a limbo between life and death.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
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Bleak Street
Overview: Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-09-17
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In The Country Where Nothing Happens
Overview: A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-06-09
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Underdog
Overview: Two Tarahumara brothers, with a deep spiritual connection and a fervent desire to become the best ultramarathon runners in the world, will see their dreams shattered when they are violently recruited by a dangerous cartel as drug runners, putting their family at risk and forcing them to join forces to finally take control of their own destiny.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-04-25
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Perseguida
Overview: A journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from influential politician Hermenegildo Parra. After several unsuccessful attempts they decide to break into his house and make some photos there but when they enter his cabinet they see him stabbed with the knife. The next day the newspaper announces his death and start to celebrate a big amount of sold copies but during the fiesta a phone calls and it was Mr.Parra "alive and kicking". After this scandal Lorena becomes pursued by some mysterious killers who want to take the negatives from her at any price. The solution of this mystery is very unexpected...
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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I Dream in Another Language
Overview: An indigenous language is in peril, as its last two speakers had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over 50 years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge of bringing the old friends back together and convincing them to speak once again so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-07-28
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Fireflies
Overview: Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico. There his nostalgia and melancholy are confronted with new friendships, while he starts to rediscover his own desires.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-21
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Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening
Overview: Yessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while Miriam shares a calm, loving household with her mother. The girls' friendship is shattered after Jorge arranges to have one of his friends rape Yessica.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-03-11
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El Día de la Unión
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-09-14
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Tragic Jungle
Overview: Deep in the jungle, a group of Mexican gum workers crosses their path with Agnes, a mysterious Belizean woman. Her presence enlivens the fantasies and desires of those men, without knowing that they have woken up an ancient Mayan legend.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-09-09
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Yerbamala
Overview: Jesús Andrade, a young thug, has decided to rob a stagecoach. At the time of the robbery he realizes that this is one of many stagecoaches of Governor Francisco Carreño and without giving enough importance he continues to theft, then suddenly he falls in love.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-08-14
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The Overturning Of The Heart
Overview: 1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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New Order
Overview: In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wealthy family. After the riots have been quashed, they discover the bride has gone missing and plea with the military to help locate her.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Curandero
Overview: A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-18
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La Civil
Overview: Cielo is a mother whose teenage daughter is kidnapped in Northern Mexico. When the authorities offer no support in the search, Cielo takes matters into her own hands and transforms from housewife into a vengeful militant.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-07-08
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Quietud
Overview: An old man struggles with the passing of time, the passing of his wife, and himself
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Original Language: en
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This Is Tomas
Overview: Leo and his band decide to bring Thomas to play in a wedding. They have no idea how complex it is to spend a day with someone with autism.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-07-26
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Dreams
Overview: Believing his lover will support him, a young Mexican ballet dancer crosses the border to pursue his dreams in San Francisco. But as ambition and love clash with harsh realities, he must face the true nature of their relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-15
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