Bruno Bichir

Bruno Bichir

Birth : 1967-10-06, Mexico City, Mexico

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bruno Bichir (born Bruno Bichir Nájera October 6, 1967, Mexico City) is one of the most prolific actors of the contemporary cinema of Mexico as well as telenovelas and theater. Bruno is a member of the Bichir family of Lebanese origin whose members are prominent actors. Both of his parents, Alejandro Bichir and Maricruz Nájera, and two older brothers Odiseo and Demián Bichir are actors.

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Bruno Bichir
Bruno Bichir

Movies

Lluvia
"Lluvia" showcases six stories and different characters as they navigate the streets of Mexico City, pursued by intermittent rain. Each one faces a strange, luminous, or absurd event that reveals who they are, if only for a moment.
A Frozen Rooster
Toto (voice)
Follow the adventures of Toto and his family, who will have to travel to the South Pole to fulfill their promise to return a polar bear and some Spanish penguins to their home. In order to fulfill the promise, they will have to overcome some obstacles that will teach them how important teamwork is.
Corazonada
A group of lottery employees plan the biggest fraud in Mexican history using a powerful weapon: the magic of television.
A Farewell to Ozark
Self
Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and other cast members open up about the show's characters and creators, plus what they'll miss most.
An Egg Rescue
Toto (voice)
Toto and his friends must rescue his egg children after they're taken away for a gourmet food event in Africa.
Locked In
Lee
A single mother must protect her daughter and herself during a heist gone wrong at a high-tech storage facility.
Legend Quest: The Origin
When a human baby crosses the Eternal Mirror, the portal between the living and the death opens its path to the beings from the underworld.
The Quarry
David Martin
A man on the run from his own sins, finds himself in a small border town in Texas, impersonating a reverend. The town are quickly drawn to the man's unorthodox sermons, but so is a police chief who has his suspicions.
Perfectos desconocidos
Antonio
A group of longtime friends get together for dinner. When they decide to share the content of every text message, email, and phone call they receive, secrets are unveiled and the balance is upset.
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Angel
Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.
Ayotzinapa 26
Director
26 filmmakers bring their own vision in order to find the truth about the missing students of Ayotzinapa.
Huevos: Little Rooster's Egg-Cellent Adventure
Toto
Toto has grown and now is a young cock. An evil rancher tricks the female owner of the ranch where they live and forces her to bet the property in a cockfight in the arena. Toto is the only option to defend their home, so he must train in just one week and win the championship of the arena.
Todas mías
Lucas
Lucas is a successful writer, creator of "Woman is a Goddess", a novel that makes it very successful with women. His girlfriend Sandy is a millionaire with whom he is about to get engaged. Despite being committed, Lucas continues his love affairs ... and the engagement party, Sandy catches him kissing another woman. After a heated argument, Sandy decides to forgive him on the condition take counseling. Therapy which gives the result as a diagnostic: Sex Addiction! and the only solution is the temporary isolation of Lucas. Dagoberto, its editor, offers his cabin in the woods to get cured and finished his new novel, and the urgency to get something fresh to the market. So Lucas is recast in a cabin in the woods, where he has no idea what is about to happen less expected, making this story has an unexpected ending!
Citizen Buelna
Soto y Gama
Rafael faces the complications of the revolution and discovers true love with Luisa.
El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza
Cerdo Gutiérrez (voice)
Santos, a fighter finished pacheco overweight and suffers from his recent divorce with Busty Mendoza, a voluptuous and wild woman fighter. To get out of your depression, Santos begins a campaign to help Sahuayo Zombies (gray and harmless characters with which fully identifies). However, his philanthropic campaign soon becomes a very profitable business that leverages Santos for their benefit. The population becomes a zombie plague and Busty Santos threatens to dispose of them. However, the Peyote Murderer (rivals Santos) who gets rid of the zombies. But the world without zombies turns out to be worse than anyone could have imagined and the only chance to save the nation is that the Saints and the Peyote work together to return to repopulate the world Sahuayo zombies.
La Revolución De Juan Escopeta
El Zopilote
Mexico 1914. During the Revolution, a raid by the army in a small mining town leaves Gapo, 11, orphaned. Taken captive to be turned into a child soldier he escapes with the help of Juan Escopeta, a gunman for hire. Together they travel through a country absorbed in civil war in search of Gapo’s older and only brother: a famed revolutionary outlaw.
The Mural of Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros, recognized Mexican muralist, travels to Argentina in the thirties with the purpose of giving a few conferences and paint a mural of revolutionary subject matter, which faces local political rejection. The press mogul head of the newspaper Critica, Natalio Botana, personal friend to the President of the Nation Agustín P. Justo, propose Siqueiros to collaborate in the cultural supplement of the diary and paint a mural in the basement of his Villa Los Granados. Siqueiros accepts and does that his wife the poet Blanca Luz Brum meets him, his arrival to Los Granados and his romance with Botana provokes the jealousies of his powerful anarchist wife Salvadora Medina Onrubia and Siqueiros himself, which turns the Villa almost in one of the scenes of the Ejercicio Plástico, how Siqueiros named his work.
The Runway
Francisco de Caldus
The Runway is inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who landed his plane near Mallow, in 1983. Against all odds, the people of the town came together to build a runway to get him home and briefly caught the imagination of the nation. It is the story of Paco, a young boy without a father who adopts the pilot and convinces the town to build a runway to get him home.
Chicogrande
Ursulo
Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Expedition" proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century.
Another Egg and Chicken Movie
Toto
Toto, now a chicken, tries to live as such, while Willy and Bibi deal some problems between them. A sorcerer egg desert needs a chicken heart to cast a spell. He sends his armies of eggs vulture, ostrich and scorpion to kidnap Toto. His friends embark on a journey through the desert to rescue the chicken, where they live countless adventures
Amar
Doctor
Five stories blend with love, sex, the emptiness of being unloved, passion and desire: Carlos and Susana go to some uncle´s apartment to make love. Meanwhile, Benito, an 80-year-old, performs a serenade to his wife. His neighbor Adela is told that her mother has Alzheimer and that she will be relocated since the Buenos Aires building she lives in will be demolished. Amado catches his son Carlos stealing his money. Gabriel asks Martha´s parents for her hand in marriage but they condition them to get married at their favorite church. And Patricia, 40, a creative agent, sexually abuses Joel, who directs a beer commercial.
Erótica: Luz de Luna
Eduardo (husband)
These three stories are about sex, relationships and fantasy. A couple in their 30's is looking to satisfy their sexual fantasies, so they invite a nurse to join them for a threesome. A nurse falls in love with the wrong man, an old doctor friend. A young kid meets a troubled girl outside a club.
Julia
Diego
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
Mosquita muerta
Marcelo Donizetti
Marcelo and Sofía love each other, but both suspect the other of infidelity. Marcelo, a film director, accidentally discovers condoms in Sofía’s purse. They are really for Marcelo’s younger sister, but he thinks the discovery confirms his suspicions and keeps one as evidence. Sofía discovers the condom in Marcelo’s wallet and takes for granted that he is cheating on her. Pepe, Marcelo’s cousin, pretends to be him to impress a girl, further complicating the mix up.
An Egg-celent movie
Toto (voz)
A small egg named Toto decides that he wants to fulfill his purpose in life and become a chicken instead of dying in a frying pan; so he starts a quest to return to the farms along with his new friend, the noisy egg Willy and a crazy bacon stripe. The three friends will face lot of obstacles in their quest.
Peces Plátano
Julián
My Brother's Wife
Boris
After almost 10 years of marriage, attractive Zoe discovers that her marriage lacks passion and surprise, and is seduced by the possibility of finding those sensations already forgotten in her husband's brother. From this premise a series of events lead these three characters to a dangerous game of revenges, secrets and passions. Two brothers and one woman: the triangle is outlined in a disquieting way. It is a bomb that triggers family secrets, the contained rage of desire and the unmanageable power of love. An exciting story that subjugates the viewer from beginning to end. Even though Zoe/Sonia has been married to Ignacio/Ishan for about a decade, they are unable to have children. She wants to be intimate but he prefers to be ready for intimacy on Saturdays only, and she gets physically drawn to his artistic brother, Gonzalo/Rohan. Then things get complicated for her after she tests positive for motherhood and finds that her husband may be gay.
El día menos pensado
Rabbit on the Moon
Macedonio Ramirez
Though around them a criminal world seethes, Julie and Antonio are a young and loving couple with a new baby and a solid, white-collar sense of stability. But when a loose social connection suddenly ties them to a major political assassination, the two become innocents desperately trying to adapt to a world of murderous politicians and police that, moment to moment, threatens their lives
Dark Cities
Satanás
Adapted by writer/director Fernando Sariñana from the stories by Juan Madrid, Ciudades Oscuras (Dark Cities) tells a story of interwoven lives in the seedy underbelly of Mexico City. The several different story lines concern hooker Lola (Dolores Heredia); her drug addict son Fede (Diego Luna); her friend Zeze (Zaide Silvia Gutierrez); Zeze's daughter Susana (Jimena Ayala); and junkie Vicente (Roberto Sosa). Also on the scene are two corrupt cops (Alejandro Tommasi and Jesus Ochoa) and one good cop (Odiseo Bichir), while Chicken (Hector Suarez) and Casimiro (Alonso Echanove) each tell their separate stories to the same bartender (Demian Bichir). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
Down to the Bone
(voice)
A man is wrongfully buried alive, and starts to descend to the Underworld.
La toma de la embajada
Ambassador of Mexico
Bogotá, 1980. During the government of President Turbay. An urban cell of the M-19 invades the Embassy of the Dominican Republic, taking 14 ambassadors as hostages. They demand that they be exchanged for political prisoners. The film focuses on the events that took place during those two months of captivity.
Crónica de un desayuno
Marcos
A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.
Divine
Bruno Bichir
"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in "La Nueva Jerusalem".
Katuwira, donde nacen y mueren los sueños
Nicolás
Sofia meets a stranger man who hacks the computer system where she works before she has an accident. After the accident, she is the only one that remember seeing this man, so she decides to search for him.
El Anzuelo
Carlos
Filmmaker Ernesto Rimoch looks at the potent combination of love and ambition in this film about a couple who's so happy their daughter is marrying into a rich clan that they throw the best wedding ever, even if they can't afford it. When the father (Damián Alcázar) loses the money to pay for the musician, mayhem ensues. The film itself is made to look like a videotaping of the wedding, revealing who's responsible for the crime.
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
Many
Escaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime, Gloria (Victoria Abril), a young woman of lower class, comes back to Madrid, Spain and to her family. There she tries to find work and earn some money.
Algunas nubes
Carlos Vargas
A Spanish movie directed by Carlos García Agraz.
Midaq Alley
Abel
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.
Holy Mess
Wang Chong
During a weekend, a couple receives a visit from a couple of friends who unwittingly turn out to be their old flames.
The Beginning and the End
Nicolás Botero
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
Días de combate
Carlos Vargas
A novice private detective is on the trail of a serial strangler in Mexico City.
The Garden of Eden
Felipe
Tijuana is a mystical city and the scene of different stories, where the characters search for meaning in their lives.
¡Aquí espaantan!
Ghosts cause a lot of funny and chilling problems to a young couple that recently moved in their house.
Serpientes y escaleras
Raúl
Two young girls used to play Serpents and Ladders. One of them always won, but they are very close friends. When they grow up, the winner is still the lucky one in the game of life, but life can be treacherous...
Death and the Compass
Drug Addict II
In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)
Lucky Break
Vicente
A bureaucrat gets a house and even a car on credit thanks to the support of a compadre who is a union leader, but then has difficulty paying because he is fired in a job cut despite the many years he has been working.
Highway Patrolman
Anibal
A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption, dangerous drug runners and the consequences of his often morally gray actions.
Red Dawn
Sergio
On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
Mariana Mariana
Hector's friend
The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's mother (Mariana). Carlos is impressed because this family is not like the ordinary mexican families of the time, because they have many expensive American things, although they are not rich. The drama begins when Carlos gets out of school to go to declare his love to Mariana, and is discovered by his teachers.
Frida Still Life
Young Sandinista
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.