Mario Escalante

Movies

God Is a Bullet
Screwdriver on the neck
Based on true events and the novel of the same name. Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.
Mambo Dreams
Chacho
Dámaso Pérez Prado, known as "el rey del mambo", came back from the dead to look for the love of his life.
Close Quarters
Luis
Manuel and Lupe want to have a baby. When Manuel discovers he is infertile, he starts to fall apart both physically and emotionally. After exploring several options, Manuel turns to Rubén, his new friend, to act as their donor.
My Best Friend's Wedding
Chef
A woman is determined to stop the wedding of her best friend, since she has been secretly in love with him.
How to Murder a Dead Husband
Victor
Carolina, married to Germán, decides to put an end to her husband's deceptions and after surprising him with her new lover, she decides to leave him but now Germán has taken her daughters away and everything she loves. Germán dies but he has kept a last surprise up his sleeve and even after death, will continue tormenting Carolina.
I'm Not A Rebel
Nerón
Mexico 1968: students are the public enemy. Mitch, a wealthy student of Monterrey, hijacks a plane to retrieve Beatrice, who has been kidnapped by the secret police six months ago. Armed with a gun, which he doesn't know how to use, and helped by his two friends as allies, Mitch will face the most bloodthirsty General and force him to release the love of his life.
The Heirs
Panzón
Teenagers’ leisure at full swing: a group of friends spend their holidays at parties, having sex, boozing, and partaking in any adventure that brings them a boost of adrenaline. As they use violence for entertainment and to fulfill their authoritarian fantasies, their adventures will show the cracks and the collapse of the perfect world they live in.
File 253
Mateo
In 2013 a psychiatric clinic which served for more than 50 years caring for patients in Mexico City was demolished. A few months before its demolition, four young men came to investigate the clinic, determined to discover the truth about rumors of strange and paranormal events, recording everything with which they encounter. Today, the whereabouts of these four young men are unknown, remaining only fragments of their recordings.
Vultures
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.
Vladimir en mí
Vladimir doesn’t know what he is. He has all the money he wants, he is afraid of becoming schizophrenic; he is a vampire, an extraterrestrial, an eccentric millionaire, or all three at the same time. There is no doubt that he is a lady’s man who plays soccer perfectly, who can study the movements of a cabdriver and seduce the most beautiful and intelligent woman he meets.