Eligio Meléndez

Eligio Meléndez

Born: June 20, 1950
in Mexico
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.

Movies for Eligio Meléndez...

#Rats
Title: #Rats
Released: December 31, 2024
Type: Movie
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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*****… (Los Asteriscos…)
Title: *****… (Los Asteriscos…)
Released: December 31, 2024
Type: Movie
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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Underdog
Title: Underdog
Character: Aureliano
Released: April 25, 2024
Type: Movie
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.
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Disappear Completely
Title: Disappear Completely
Character: Elías Lozano Mata
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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The Day Everything Changed
Title: The Day Everything Changed
Character: Fausto (Cantinero)
Released: February 22, 2024
Type: Movie
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.
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Jefecita
Title: Jefecita
Released: September 1, 2023
Type: Movie
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The Great Seduction
Title: The Great Seduction
Character: Simón
Released: August 30, 2023
Type: Movie
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.
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Medusa
Title: Medusa
Character: Esposo
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: Movie
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.
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Recurring Patients
Title: Recurring Patients
Character: Raúl
Released: June 10, 2022
Type: Movie
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.
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More Tomorrow Than Before
Title: More Tomorrow Than Before
Released: April 22, 2022
Type: Movie
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.
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Living all of Life
Title: Living all of Life
Character: Leo
Released: March 10, 2022
Type: Movie
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.
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Sex, Shame and Tears 2
Title: Sex, Shame and Tears 2
Character: Old Man
Released: February 4, 2022
Type: Movie
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.
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Siete en punto
Title: Siete en punto
Released: September 1, 2021
Type: Movie
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La Civil
Title: La Civil
Character: Quique
Released: July 8, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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New Order
Title: New Order
Character: Rolando
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Tragic Jungle
Title: Tragic Jungle
Character: Mundo
Released: September 9, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: El Candidato
Character: Julio de Velasco
Released: July 17, 2020
Type: TV
Rookie CIA field operative Isabel Alfaro works alongside infamous CIA legend Wayne Addison to bring down Rafael Bautista, Mexico's most vicious and brilliant narco. Her mission brings her into conflict with Eduardo Yzaguirre, her former boyfriend and the current Mayor of Mexico City, the cleanest and most inspirational politician in the country.
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Title: Guardia García
Character: Rodolfo Silva
Released: November 8, 2018
Type: TV
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Fireflies
Title: Fireflies
Character: Jorge
Released: October 21, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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El Día de la Unión
Title: El Día de la Unión
Character: Achichincle
Released: September 14, 2018
Type: Movie
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I Dream in Another Language
Title: I Dream in Another Language
Character: Evaristo
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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Bleak Street
Title: Bleak Street
Character: Dad
Released: September 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.
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Yerbamala
Title: Yerbamala
Character: Anselmo
Released: August 14, 2014
Type: Movie
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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Vultures
Title: Vultures
Released: April 17, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Impostor
Character: Padre Camilo Fernández
Released: January 14, 2014
Type: TV
La Impostora, is a Spanish-language telenovela presumably to be produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami.
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Ismael
Title: Ismael
Character: Ismael
Released: December 31, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man
Title: The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man
Character: Adulto
Released: October 22, 2011
Type: Movie
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
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The Reasons of the Heart
Title: The Reasons of the Heart
Character: Lawyer
Released: October 7, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada
Title: Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada
Character: Ascanio
Released: September 16, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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One for the Road
Title: One for the Road
Character: Birthday Girl's Father
Released: March 19, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Curandero
Title: Curandero
Character: Gomez
Released: October 18, 2005
Type: Movie
A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City
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Love Hurts
Title: Love Hurts
Character: Martin
Released: November 8, 2002
Type: Movie
Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.
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The Virgin of Lust
Title: The Virgin of Lust
Character: Don Nemesio
Released: August 30, 2002
Type: Movie
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?
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¿De qué lado estás?
Title: ¿De qué lado estás?
Released: April 5, 2002
Type: Movie
An east german agent is forced to infiltrate student movement of 1968 at Mexico.
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Violet Perfume
Title: Violet Perfume
Character: Padrastro de Yessica
Released: March 11, 2001
Type: Movie
A poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City. Director Sistach fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two adolescent girls which is torn apart when one of them is brutally raped.
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The Ruination of Men
Title: The Ruination of Men
Character: The Guard
Released: September 27, 2000
Type: Movie
A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.
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En el país de no pasa nada
Title: En el país de no pasa nada
Character: Don Jacinto
Released: June 9, 2000
Type: Movie
A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.
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No One Writes to the Colonel
Title: No One Writes to the Colonel
Character: Sotero
Released: June 2, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Reencuentros
Title: Reencuentros
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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The Overturning Of The Heart
Title: The Overturning Of The Heart
Released: October 18, 1996
Type: Movie
1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.
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Repartidores de muerte
Title: Repartidores de muerte
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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Perseguida
Title: Perseguida
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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...
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Curvas peligrosas
Title: Curvas peligrosas
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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El Extraordinario Hombre Halcón
Title: El Extraordinario Hombre Halcón
Character: Don Gustavo
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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.