Eligio Meléndez

Eligio Meléndez

Birth : 1950-06-20, Mexico

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Eligio Meléndez

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*****… (Los Asteriscos…)
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.
Disappear Completely
Elías Lozano Mata
After visiting a crime scene, an ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer falls victim to a mysterious illness.
The Great Seduction
Simón
After industrialization ended economic activity and filled the inhabitants of the fishing island of Santa María del Mar with disappointment, their destiny is about to take a turn with the opportunity for a fish packing company to settle in the town. The only requirement: convince a doctor to move there.
Medusa
Esposo
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.
More Tomorrow Than Before
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.
Sex, Shame and Tears 2
Old Man
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have come to unsettle their daily lives and trigger a chain of events that will make them realize that modesty has been replaced by public disclosure; sex is only an app away; but love...love is still something elusive that everyone in today's banal and chaotic world is seeking.
La Civil
Quique
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.
New Order
Rolando
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.
Tragic Jungle
Mundo
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.
Fireflies
Jorge
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.
El Día de la Unión
Achichincle
I Dream in Another Language
Evaristo
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.
Bleak Street
Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.
Yerbamala
Anselmo
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.
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.
Ismael
Ismael
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.
The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man
Adulto
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
The Reasons of the Heart
Lawyer
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.
Curandero
Gomez
A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City
Love Hurts
Martin
Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.
Violet Perfume
Padrastro de Yessica
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.
The Ruination of Men
The Guard
A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.
En el país de no pasa nada
Don Jacinto
A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.
The Overturning Of The Heart
1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.
Perseguida
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...
#Rats
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.