Eligio Meléndez

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.

  • Title: Eligio Meléndez
  • Popularity: 3.037
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1950-06-20
  • Place of Birth: Mexico
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Eligio Meléndez Movies

  • 2022
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    Sex, Shame and Tears 2

    Sex, Shame and Tears 2

    6.6 2022 HD

    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,...

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  • 2024
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    Disappear Completely

    Disappear Completely

    7.1 2024 HD

    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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  • 2011
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    The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man

    The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man

    5.5 2011 HD

    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...

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  • 2023
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    The Great Seduction

    The Great Seduction

    6.729 2023 HD

    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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  • 2022
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    More Tomorrow Than Before

    More Tomorrow Than Before

    1 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 2022
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    Recurring Patients

    Recurring Patients

    2 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 2024
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    #Rats

    #Rats

    1 2024 HD

    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...

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  • 2024
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    *****… (Los Asteriscos…)

    *****… (Los Asteriscos…)

    1 2024 HD

    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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  • 2014
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    Vultures

    Vultures

    5 2014 HD

    A distinguished writer declares in an interview that he should die consumed by flames, but he actually dies without any identification. An assistant...

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  • 2002
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    Love Hurts

    Love Hurts

    7.904 2002 HD

    Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.

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  • 2000
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    The Ruination of Men

    The Ruination of Men

    5.5 2000 HD

    A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.

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  • 2022
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    Medusa

    Medusa

    6 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    The Reasons of the Heart

    The Reasons of the Heart

    5.7 2011 HD

    In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her...

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  • 2012
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    Ismael

    Ismael

    1 2012 HD

    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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  • 2024
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    The Day Everything Changed

    The Day Everything Changed

    6 2024 HD

    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...

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  • 1999
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    No One Writes to the Colonel

    No One Writes to the Colonel

    5 1999 HD

    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...

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  • 1991
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    Curvas peligrosas

    Curvas peligrosas

    5 1991 HD

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  • 1993
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    Repartidores de muerte

    Repartidores de muerte

    4 1993 HD

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  • 1997
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    Reencuentros

    Reencuentros

    5 1997 HD

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  • 2002
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    ¿De qué lado estás?

    ¿De qué lado estás?

    5 2002 HD

    An east german agent is forced to infiltrate student movement of 1968 at Mexico.

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  • 2002
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    The Virgin of Lust

    The Virgin of Lust

    6.9 2002 HD

    In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an...

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  • 2010
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    One for the Road

    One for the Road

    6.9 2010 HD

    Friday night in Mexico City... guided by three different ways of understanding the world, 20-year-olds, Juan, Rodrigo and Christian live after-hour...

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  • 2010
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    Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada

    Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada

    4.3 2010 HD

    Hidalgo, en su celda del Hospital Militar de Chihuahua, recuerda algunos pasajes de su vida, principalmente su estancia como párroco en San...

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  • 2021
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    Siete en punto

    Siete en punto

    1 2021 HD

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  • 2022
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    Living all of Life

    Living all of Life

    10 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 2023
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    Jefecita

    Jefecita

    1 2023 HD

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  • 1970
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    El Extraordinario Hombre Halcón

    El Extraordinario Hombre Halcón

    1 1970 HD

    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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  • 2015
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    Bleak Street

    Bleak Street

    6.1 2015 HD

    Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.

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  • 2000
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    In The Country Where Nothing Happens

    In The Country Where Nothing Happens

    5.4 2000 HD

    A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.

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  • 2024
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    Underdog

    Underdog

    8.509 2024 HD

    Two Tarahumara brothers, with a deep spiritual connection and a fervent desire to become the best ultramarathon runners in the world, will see their...

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  • 1991
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    Perseguida

    Perseguida

    3.7 1991 HD

    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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  • 2017
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    I Dream in Another Language

    I Dream in Another Language

    7.9 2017 HD

    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....

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  • 2018
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    Fireflies

    Fireflies

    5.9 2018 HD

    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,...

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  • 2001
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    Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening

    Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening

    7.9 2001 HD

    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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  • 2018
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    El Día de la Unión

    El Día de la Unión

    6.5 2018 HD

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  • 2020
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    Tragic Jungle

    Tragic Jungle

    6.2 2020 HD

    Deep in the jungle, a group of Mexican gum workers crosses their path with Agnes, a mysterious Belizean woman. Her presence enlivens the fantasies...

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  • 2014
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    Yerbamala

    Yerbamala

    5 2014 HD

    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...

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  • 1996
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    The Overturning Of The Heart

    The Overturning Of The Heart

    4 1996 HD

    1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.

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  • 2020
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    New Order

    New Order

    6.5 2020 HD

    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,...

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  • 2005
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    Curandero

    Curandero

    5.6 2005 HD

    A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City

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  • 2021
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    La Civil

    La Civil

    7.8 2021 HD

    Cielo is a mother whose teenage daughter is kidnapped in Northern Mexico. When the authorities offer no support in the search, Cielo takes matters...

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  • 1970
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    Quietud

    Quietud

    1 1970 HD

    An old man struggles with the passing of time, the passing of his wife, and himself

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  • 2019
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    This Is Tomas

    This Is Tomas

    6.7 2019 HD

    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.

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  • 2018
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    Guardia García

    Guardia García

    2 2018 HD

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  • 2014
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    The Impostor

    The Impostor

    7.2 2014 HD

    La Impostora, is a Spanish-language telenovela presumably to be produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami.

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  • 2020
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    El Candidato

    El Candidato

    6.9 2020 HD

    Rookie CIA field operative Isabel Alfaro works alongside infamous CIA legend Wayne Addison to bring down Rafael Bautista, Mexico's most vicious and...

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  • 2023
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    El colapso

    El colapso

    7.3 2023 HD

    An exploration of the societal consequences when a nation's financial, technological, political, and environmental systems collapse. Told in eight...

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