José Manuel Poncelis

José Manuel Poncelis

With a career of more than 35 years as a theater, film, and television series actor, he has also worked as a theater director, also venturing into playwriting and production. He has acted in more than 20 films, some of them are: “Marionetas” by Álvaro Curiel, “Polvo” directed by José María Yaspik, “Sueño en otro Idioma” by Director Ernesto Contreras.

He has been awarded the Mayahuel 2017 award and as best actor, with the film “Sueño en otro Idioma” at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in 2017 and with the WINSTON-SALEM OUT AT THE MOVIES LGBT FILM SERIES award. In addition to films like “De la Calle”, “La Ley de Heródes”, “Ricochet”, “Pescador” among others.

He has participated in series for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, CANAL 11, FOX AND NETFLIX, among which stand out: Sitiados, Hernán, Biografía de una lengua, La Reina Roja, Palenque.

Movies for José Manuel Poncelis...

Disappear Completely
Title: Disappear Completely
Character: Chamán
Released: February 29, 2024
Type: Movie
An ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer falls victim to a mysterious illness that makes him lose, one by one, his five senses.
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Tótem
Title: Tótem
Character: Tío Octavio
Released: September 7, 2023
Type: Movie
In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.
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¡Que viva México!
Title: ¡Que viva México!
Character: Don Pancracio
Released: March 23, 2023
Type: Movie
After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.
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I Don't Want to Be Dust
Title: I Don't Want to Be Dust
Character: Cuidador del cementerio
Released: December 22, 2022
Type: Movie
Bego, a housewife in a mid-life crisis, lives bored and afraid of being inconsequential, however, her life evolves into a mysterious game once she enters into a cult that preaches three days of darkness...
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Aztech
Title: Aztech
Released: November 20, 2020
Type: Movie
Fragments of a meteor crash in Mexico and United States. Thirteen stories in different spaces and times happen in places of collisions .
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Ricochet
Title: Ricochet
Character: Gallero 1
Released: October 17, 2020
Type: Movie
A simple man in a small and quiet town faces a painful episode that reveals the most primitive and not always explainable impulses that can turn a simple good man into a cold murderer.
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Marionette
Title: Marionette
Released: January 17, 2020
Type: Movie
Ernesto, a Cuban actor who decides to audition in Mexico, is stranded in the gigantic city when he fails to achieve a leading role in an important play. Facing the dilemma of returning defeated to his home, he accidentally meets Belén in the subway, a spontaneous actress who tells stories or lies in exchange for some coins.
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Powder
Title: Powder
Character: Facundo
Released: November 8, 2019
Type: Movie
After a ten year absence, El Chato returns to San Ignacio, his hometown, in order to retrieve a shipment of cocaine that was dropped there by a cartel pilot.
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Title: Besieged: Mexico
Character: Chaman
Released: July 26, 2019
Type: TV
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I Dream in Another Language
Title: I Dream in Another Language
Character: Isauro
Released: July 28, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Ik Dietrick Fon, the hidden sound of things
Title: Ik Dietrick Fon, the hidden sound of things
Character: Doorman
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Ik Dietrick Fon is an uncommon story in which love and mystery come together to make way for an unusual relationship between a man and a woman.
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Diente por diente
Title: Diente por diente
Character: Rutilio
Released: September 6, 2013
Type: Movie
Pablo Kramsky, a crime reporter for a tabloid newspaper is the victim of a home invasion. A colleague offers him a gun for self-defense, and this leads Kramsky to kill a person when he feels endangered. Kramsky is not brilliant at his job, but when he writes an article about a possible vigilante taking justice into his own hands, he gains the recognition of his superior and the admiration of his coworkers. Thus, Kramsky repeats the formula, committing crimes and writing about them, creating a crime fighting national hero.
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La noche de las flores
Title: La noche de las flores
Released: September 23, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of a wooing in which the stepdaughter, Elena, seduces her stepmother. A love story that is unpredictable for both, where reality overcomes their principles and traditions.
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Never on a Sunday
Title: Never on a Sunday
Character: Pancho
Released: September 21, 2006
Type: Movie
A middle-class Mexican family is forced to hire the services of a funeral home with a dubious reputation, without imagining the danger that the owner of the business will put them through.
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Crazy Carnival
Title: Crazy Carnival
Character: La Patria
Released: March 4, 2006
Type: Movie
In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a bureaucrat with delusions of a dancer, a greedy Chinese man and his timorous wife, Monica, a whore with low professional esteem, a group of prostitutes of dubious sensuality and, finally, a priest with a stench of holiness and another with redeeming instincts. But a stranger with the air of a princess appears, and upsets the balance of the establishment.
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Cero y van cuatro
Title: Cero y van cuatro
Character: Taxista ("El Torzón")
Released: December 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Four stories... one city. A dark comedy about crime in the big city: EL TORZON - two friends are smoking grass in their car, when they're caught by a corrupt Judicial Police Officer; VIDA EXPRESS - a wealthy businesswoman is kidnapped and her deadbeat husband has to come up with the money; BARBACOA DE CHIVO - an angry mob mistakes a college professor with a burglar and decide to lynch him in front of the church; COMIDA PARA PERROS - a bumbling thief tries to rob a restaurant
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Man on Fire
Title: Man on Fire
Character: School Clerk
Released: April 23, 2004
Type: Movie
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
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Streeters
Title: Streeters
Character: Teporocho
Released: October 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have more trouble with corrupt cops, than with dirty and heavy work.
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Hijos del viento
Title: Hijos del viento
Character: Chaman
Released: June 16, 2000
Type: Movie
As part of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, Rodrigo, a Spanish shipwreck falls in love with Tizcuitl, the young and beautiful Aztec daughter of Nezuhual, king of Tlacopan, powerful under the emperor Moctezuma.
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Herod's Law
Title: Herod's Law
Character: Filemón
Released: November 9, 1999
Type: Movie
Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him.
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Under California: The Limit of Time
Title: Under California: The Limit of Time
Character: Indígena
Released: September 8, 1998
Type: Movie
Damian is a married artist living in Los Angeles with his wife. After Damian accidentally hits a woman with his car and flees the scene, he seeks atonement and travels alone to Mexico, both to find peace and to reconnect with his family roots. Assisted by local guide Arce, Damian locates his grandmother's resting place and searches for redemption through a long trek in the arid wilderness of his ancestral land.
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Cabeza de Vaca
Title: Cabeza de Vaca
Character: Wounded Indian
Released: October 11, 1991
Type: Movie
An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.