Eligio Meléndez
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.729 |
Birthday | 1950-06-20 |
Place of Birth | Mexico |
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2011
The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man
5.5/4
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 t...
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The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man
2014
Vultures
5/4
A distinguished writer declares in an interview that he should die consumed by flames, but he actually dies without any identification. An assistant c...
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Vultures
2015
Bleak Street
6.1/13
Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.
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Bleak Street
2000
En el país de no pasa nada
5.4/5
A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.
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En el país de no pasa nada
1991
Perseguida
3.7/7
A journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from influential politician Hermenegildo Parra. After several...
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Perseguida
2017
I Dream in Another Language
7.868/121
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 yo...
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I Dream in Another Language
2018
Fireflies
5.76/25
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, Me...
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Fireflies
2001
Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening
7.785/170
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...
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Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening
2018
El Día de la Unión
6.5/57
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El Día de la Unión
2020
Tragic Jungle
6.2/39
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...
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Tragic Jungle
2014
Yerbamala
5/2
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...
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Yerbamala
1996
The Overturning Of The Heart
4/3
1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.
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The Overturning Of The Heart
2020
New Order
6.5/320
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, th...
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New Order
2005
Curandero
5.6/14
A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City
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Curandero
2021
La Civil
7.771/72
Cielo is a mother whose teenage daughter is kidnapped in Northern Mexico. When the authorities offer no support in the search, Cielo takes matters int...
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La Civil
2022
Sex, Shame and Tears 2
6.5/38
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...
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Sex, Shame and Tears 2
2024
Disappear Completely
7.2/13
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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Disappear Completely
2022
More Tomorrow Than Before
0/0
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 th...
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More Tomorrow Than Before
2024
#Rats
0/0
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...
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#Rats
2024
*****… (Los Asteriscos…)
0/0
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...
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*****… (Los Asteriscos…)
2002
Love Hurts
7.867/283
Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.
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Love Hurts
2000
The Ruination of Men
5.5/8
A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.
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The Ruination of Men
2022
Medusa
6/1
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 h...
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Medusa
2011
The Reasons of the Heart
5.7/10
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....
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The Reasons of the Heart
2012
Ismael
0/0
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...
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Ismael
2023
The Great Seduction
6.8/90
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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The Great Seduction
2022
Recurring Patients
2/1
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 ba...
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Recurring Patients
2024
The Day Everything Changed
6/1
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 onl...
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The Day Everything Changed
1999
No One Writes to the Colonel
5/21
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 kn...
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No One Writes to the Colonel
1991
Curvas peligrosas
5/2
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Curvas peligrosas
1993
Repartidores de muerte
4/3
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Repartidores de muerte
1997
Reencuentros
5/2
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Reencuentros
2002
¿De qué lado estás?
5/3
An east german agent is forced to infiltrate student movement of 1968 at Mexico.
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¿De qué lado estás?
2002
The Virgin of Lust
6.887/133
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...
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The Virgin of Lust
2010
One for the Road
6.947/19
Friday night in Mexico City... guided by three different ways of understanding the world, 20-year-olds, Juan, Rodrigo and Christian live after-hour ad...
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One for the Road
2010
Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada
4.3/12
Hidalgo, en su celda del Hospital Militar de Chihuahua, recuerda algunos pasajes de su vida, principalmente su estancia como párroco en San Felipe Tor...
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Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada
2021
Siete en punto
0/0
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Siete en punto
2022
Living all of Life
10/1
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 nei...
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Living all of Life
2023
Jefecita
0/0
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Jefecita
El Extraordinario Hombre Halcón
0/0
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...
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El Extraordinario Hombre Halcón
2024
Underdog
8.167/3
Two Tarahumara brothers, with a deep spiritual connection and a fervent desire to become the best ultramarathon runners in the world, will see their d...
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