Gustavo Sánchez Parra

Gustavo Sánchez Parra

Nascimento : 1966-11-08, Mexico City, Mexico

História

Gustavo Sánchez Parra is known for his work on El fuego de la venganza (2004), La leyenda del Zorro (2005) and Amores perros (2000).

Perfil

Gustavo Sánchez Parra

Filmes

Som da Liberdade
El Calacas
A história de Tim Ballard, um ex-agente do governo dos EUA, que largou seu emprego para dedicar sua vida a resgatar crianças de traficantes sexuais globais.
El mesero
Pasilla
A waiter pretends to be an important businessman in order to reach the upper class through his entrepreneurial dreams.
Journey
Roberto is a young man who is trying to find his way back home to his family. His desire to push forward despite facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles is the heart of his odyssey. Roberto on his path is constantly faced with the opportunity to quit and give in to defeat. However, it's the voice of those who came before him, which fuels his passion for Legacy
Aztech
Fragments of a meteor crash in Mexico and United States. Thirteen stories in different spaces and times happen in places of collisions .
Nova Ordem
General Oribe
Um casamento de famílias da alta-sociedade é interrompido pela chegada de inesperados convidados. Mas o que havia começado com uma série de protestos nos subúrbios de cidades mexicanas, acaba levando a uma violenta e opressora nova ordem.
El Camino
Rojo
In order to sustain his family, a troubled pilot accepts one last crooked deal to transport a dangerous cargo inside his spaceship.
Not A Minute To Lose
Elisa is an old-fashioned girl who receives the visit of her future self, who advises her to take the risk and invite Carlos, his best friend, on a date. She has always been attracted to him.
O Complô Mongol
Fu Manchú
Poucos dias antes da visita ao México do presidente dos Estados Unidos, Filiberto García, veterano da revolução mexicana, é recrutado pela polícia mexicana para investigar uma suposta conspiração dos mongóis para assassinar o Presidente John F. Kennedy.
Beyond the Mountain
Arturo
Miguel is a lonely boy letting his life pass by in a monotonous routine. He works in a public kiosk, takes care of his mother Consuelo and dreams with Carmela's love, one of his usual clients. One day, this perfect bubble of dissatisfaction pops when his mother dies. The tragic event, forces him to face his past and to make a radical decision: find the father that abandoned them, with the intention to kill him.
Cygnus
Gerardo
An astronomer who works at the Mexican Large Millimeter Telescope discovers a misterious signal coming from the Cygnus constellation, which starts causing strange events at the observatory.
El Día de la Unión
Benjamín
I Am Pepito
El Tijuana
Humor, crime, ação, drama, compaixão e risco são os ingredientes que esta história maravilhosa usa para criar um cenário que parece ser um beco sem saída e um pior pesadelo, que será resolvido da maneira mais surpreendente, inesperada e divertida. Tomando Pepito da vítima ao suposto bandido e do suposto bandido ao herói.
Violeta at Last
Francisco
Recently divorced, 72-year-old Violeta lives alone in her childhood house, tending to her lush tropical garden and making plans to turn her property into a boarding house. When she discovers the bank is about to take away her house, she breaks all the rules to hold onto her home and her freedom.
Como te ves, me vi
A family man remember his youth while he realizes his son starts behaving like him when he was younger.
Tamara and the Ladybug
Tamara has Intellectual disability and a love for ladybugs. One day, she decides to take care of a baby but she forgets where she took him from, so she will get assistance from the old lady who sell quesadillas so they can return the baby to his parents.
O Eleito
Balderas
Em 1937, o revolucionário espanhol Ramón Mercader treina para ser espião soviético e se passar por um belga rico como parte de um plano para assassinar Leon Trotsky no México.
Os Parecidos
Ulises
Em uma noite escura e chuvosa, um grupo de oito estranhos fica preso em uma remota estação de ônibus esperando pela condução até a Cidade do México. Coisas estranhas começam a acontecer e eles ficam presos em uma luta pela sobrevivência e sanidade mental.
Sleep Over
Man
A man is awaken abruptly by his doorbell at 3:31 in the morning but no one seems to be outside - What about inside?
Sealed Cargo
Mariscal
In 1995, several cargo containers are discovered high in the Bolivian Andes. Inside are potentially toxic chemicals, and local policeman Mariscal soon becomes charged with the task of smuggling the containers into neighboring Chile. He recommissions an old train to haul the toxic waste out of Bolivia, but encounters one mishap after another, beginning with the local townspeople who know what's inside, halting the train's path.
A Estreita Faixa Amarela
Mario
Cinco homens são contratados para pintar a faixa amarela central de mais de 200 quilômetros. Tendo que completar o trabalho em 15 dias, eles convivem diariamente embaixo de um sol escaldante, viajando em um caminhão. Solitários, eles enfrentam desafios, descobrimento a linha tênue entre as coisas, como o bom e o mal, a risada e o choro, e a vida e a morte.
A Ditadura Perfeita
El Charro
Depois de mais uma das frequentes gafes cometidas pelo presidente da República, o MX TV, maior TV do México, tem que ajudar seu aliado político antes que a polêmica gere uma crise na sua imagem. Para isso, a televisão tenta desviar a atenção do povo exibindo, em horário nobre, um vídeo onde o Governador Carmelo Vargas (Damián Alcázar) pratica corrupção. Desesperado para salvar seu futuro político, Vargas decide fechar um acordo secreto com a própria emissora que o denunciou para mudar sua imagem e torná-lo a nova estrela política do país. Mas para lançar esse possível novo candidato à presidência a qualquer custo, a situação acaba fugindo do controle.
Perpetual Sadness
Silvestre
It is laid out as a realistic film, with a screenplay based on the stories of hundreds of women that are forced to choose between their children and their mate in order to sustain their families. This is the story of Cheba and Serafina who, by abandoning their children get sick with tirisia, a perpetual sadness.
Potosí
Carlos
Potosi, a rural town in Latin America, is the crossfire of the ravaging that has devastated the north of the country. An accident along a deserted road connects three stories, an 82 year old goat herder that has not shot his gun in 40 years, a woman who is a victim of domestic violence and a humble peasant living on guard to protect his family from the country’s war against organized crime.
Nahuales
According to legend, the ancient priests could shed their skin and slowly transform themselves into another living creature.
Las Búsquedas
Hombre
Revenge, redemption and chance are the topics that underpin José Luis Valle’s new film. A man runs his errands: cleans the house, picks up the dry cleaning, pays his debts and buys groceries. Then, inexplicably commits suicide. His death smites his wife, Elvira, who is unaware of the reasons for suicide. At another point, Ulises is assaulted and stripped of the portfolio that held the only photo he kept of her deceased daughter. He sets out to find the thief and kill him. The lives of Elvira and Ulises intersect unexpectedly.
Citizen Buelna
Obregón
Rafael faces the complications of the revolution and discovers true love with Luisa.
Morelos
The final years of Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon (1812-1815), leader in the Mexican war for independence who, after outsmarting Calleja´s blocade in Cuautla, reorganized his troops and took the city of Oaxaca. However, with more than half the territory of Mexico in his hands, Morelos was determined to take the port of Acapulco while the royalist troops gained ground. It shows the relationship of Morelos with his lieutenants, his efforts to create institutions of his own and a disciplined army to confront the royalist troops. The film captures the two inseparable facets of the life of this Mexican hero: his contradictions and his passions.
Soundreals
Two brothers wasting the night away break into an empty house.
Colosio: O Assassinato
Ortiga
Em 1994, o candidato presidencial do México, Colosio, é brutalmente assassinado, ninguém sabe quem está por trás deste evento, onde todos os pontos levam a uma conspiração. Andrés Vázquez, um especialista em inteligência, é contratado para conduzir uma investigação secreta e se vê em perigo enquanto chega mais perto da verdade.
Cloroform
Gomorra
Life of boxing in Mexico city, bets, deception, love, crime and courage takes place in the lives of amateur boxers to professional fighters.
The Cinema Hold Up
Vigilante
The story of four teenagers: Negus, Chale, Sapo and Chata. Childhood friends living in public housing in a rundown area of Mexico City, search to trump idleness. They toy with the idea of robbing a movie theatre. Afflicted by their past and present stance, each find the motivation to complete the deed. The adventure pushes them to face their own realities and jeopardizes the only valuable possession: friendship
Lichtblau - Neues Leben Mexiko
Depositarios
Mario
In the near future, medicine, computing and genetics have made it possible to end the human physical and psychological pain, filtering it through other human beings created expressly for this task, known as "gatekeepers". The plot follows the story of two researchers who belong to the Police Special Branch dedicated to pursue the emerging crimes related to the implementation of this new technology.
Ano Bissexto
Arturo
Detalha a rotina de uma jornalista freelancer de 25 anos de idade, que vive isolada em seu pequeno apartamento e se aventura levando homens para casa, nunca indo além de uma noite na cama. Até que conhece um homem calmo e incompreensível. A dupla entra em um relacionamento sexual intenso e violento. A história se concentra na fascinante evolução desse relacionamento.
Gloves of Stone
Rigoberto Torres
Uma história contemporânea de boxe, de um pai e de seu filho que tentam superar as grandes diferenças para treinar um jovem boxeador mexicano proveniente das ruas da Cidade de México. O coração flui com os socos que atiramos para a vida.
Me importas tú... y tú
Nerdy college boy gets romantic advice from the apparition of a dead film star.
Rage
José María
A romantic thriller about a construction worker in hiding for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a maid.
El cártel
Rojas
Based on Mexico's current criminal climate, EL CÁRTEL is a rare look into the values and practices of the world's most intriguing and enigmatic industry - the multi-billion dollar business of drug trafficking. When Jules Land, a naïve business journalist, approaches Mexico's most notorious drug cartel and requests an audience with its leader, a one-time-priest turned murderous cutthroat, he quickl
7 Suns
El Negro
A man called "The Black" is hired to smuggle a group of undocumented migrants into the United States. He wants to quit the smuggling business and claims this is his last trip. His superiors, now suspicious, send Gavilan, a younger smuggler, to keep an eye on him. During the troubled crossing, the smugglers fight and eventually lose part of their human cargo. "The Black" escapes from his former associates but also needs to ecape from the Border Patrol.
Bala mordida
Mauro Hernandez, a young preventive policeman, gets involved in a coke deal, and to keep some of the money he has for paying for the transaction, gives his gun away to cover the deal. He argues to Joaquin, old drug dealer and ex-policeman and ends up threatening him. On his way out of the operation, Mauro and his partner policemen, a gang controlled by Joaquin, stop their way out start a wrangle where Mauro is wounded. His body armor couldn´t even stop a small touch of the knife. The scandal on the bad quality of body armors turns into an investigation of malversation of police funds which is exaggerated and misreported by the media. Apparently made in 2009, but not released until 2011.
Casi Divas
Satán
Quatro mulheres bonitas e cheias de ambição são escolhidas para estrelar um filme. Outra atriz, já com carreira estabelecida e amante do diretor do filme, resolve entrar na disputa pelo papel, e assim começa uma corrida rumo ao estrelato.
Enlightened Blood
Six characters narrate their complex existence through his slides from one to another body, to form a network of shared memories and experiences. The need to explain this strange condition connects them via objects, messages and memories.
Morirse está em hebraico
Sargento Antúnes
After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.
Estamos por todos lados
10:15
Três Enterros
Tomas
Após ser morto, Melquiades Estrada (Julio Cedillo) é rapidamente enterrado em um deserto localizado no oeste do Texas. Após ser encontrado o corpo é enterrado novamente, agora no cemitério da cidade de Van Horn. Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones), capataz de um rancho local e o melhor amigo de Melquiades, decide cumprir uma promessa feita a ele de que, caso morresse, levaria seu corpo para sua família no México. Para tanto Pete sequestra Mike Norton (Barry Pepper), um policial da fronteira que foi também o assassino de Melquiades, e o obriga a mais uma vez desenterrar o corpo. Com seu prisioneiro a reboque e carregando o corpo, que está amarrado em uma mula, Pete inicia uma jornada através do México.
A Lenda do Zorro
Guillermo Cortez
Tendo passado os últimos dez anos lutando contra a injustiça e a crueldade, Alejandro de la Vega está agora enfrentando o seu maior desafio: o amor de sua vida, Elena, lhe expulsou de casa! Elena entrou com pedido de divórcio e encontrou consolo nos braços do Conde Armand, um encantador aristocrata francês. Mas Alejandro sabe de algo que ela não sabe: Armand é a mente maligna por trás do plano terrorista de destruir os Estados Unidos. E assim, com seu casamento e o futuro do seu país em risco, é a vez de Zorro tentar salvar duas uniões antes que seja tarde demais.
Ver, oir y callar
Danilo gets caugh while robbing a security vault, but officer Montero gives him a second chance, he will set him free if Danilo helps him exposing a corrupt officer.
Vozes Inocentes
Teniente Ruíz
Anos 80. Chava (Carlos Padilla) é um garoto de 11 anos que, após seu pai abandonar a família em meio à guerra civil de El Salvador, se torna o "homem da casa". Por causa da guerra as forças armadas do governo recrutam garotos de 12 anos, retirando-os das salas de aula. Chava ainda tem um ano até ser também recrutado, sendo que neste período precisa conseguir um emprego para ajudar sua mãe (Leonor Varela) a pagar as contas e também escapar da violência diária causada pela guerra civil.
Killing Cabos
Nico
Uma comédia sombria e excêntrica sobre um grupo de adolescentes da Cidade do México envolvidos no sequestro de uma lenda da Luta Livre (wrestling) já aposentado e um papagaio.
Seis días en la oscuridad
Claudio, Juan and Vampire have been friends since their teenage years. One night, Claudio tells his friends he is being extorted by a police officer, so he needs a large sum of money. He asked them to perform a fake kidnapping, so they can obtain the money he needs from his own family. But soon after they got the money, Claudio has been kidnapped for real.
Leftie
Chupacabras Jefe
Futuristic movie about Alejandro, a gifted left-handed child marble player who must win a competition as the entire town's hopes - and money - rest on him.
I Murder Seriously
El Foca
A cop sets out to find a man who has been delivering too much of a good thing in this offbeat comedy. Police detective Martinez (Jesus Ochoa) has been handed a most unusual case -- a number of local prostitutes have been murdered, and it's up to Martinez to bring in the killer. What makes the case truly unusual, though, is the manner of death; it seems the hookers all died as a result of having orgasms so powerful they were literally fatal. Teaming up with cultural anthropologist Onofre (Daniel Giménez Cacho), Martinez hits the streets looking for clues, and eventually gets some unexpected help from Father Gorkisolo (Santiago Segura), a priest with a unusually deep knowledge of sexual matters. Asesino en Serio was the first feature film from director Antonio Urrutia; noted Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro served as executive producer.
Vivir mata
Encargado de vulcanizadora
A romantic comedy of our times about passion, friendship and lies, on one of those days when the city and its inhabitants go crazy and anything seems possible. Diego and Silvia meet each other and fall in love thanks to their masterly lies. The morning after, with their respective friends, they remember the encounter and slowly begin to realize how sincere and honest that relationship was. When the opportunity arises, both struggle to meet again on a day in which a sudden and unusual disorder reigns in Mexico City.
Powder Keg
Soldier with Radio
The Driver is drafted by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from out of hostile territory. While they are leaving Jacobs tells the Driver about the horrors he saw as a photographer, but he regrets his inability to help war victims. Jacobs answers the driver curiosity about why he is a photographer by saying how his mother taught him to see. He gives the Driver the film needed for a New York Times story and also his dog tags to give to his mother. When they reach the border, they are confronted by a guard who begins to draw arms as Jacobs begins taking pictures, trying to get himself killed. The Driver drives through a hail of gunfire to the border, but finds Jacobs killed by a bullet through the seat. The Driver arrives in America to visit Jacobs' mother and share the news of him winning the Pulitzer prize and hand over the dog tags, only to discover that she is blind.
Red Ink
Executive Producer
Peru, early 2000s. Alfonso wants to be a writer, but he decides to work first as a journalist. He is assigned to the crime section of a newspaper, a job from which he can know the nasty guts of tabloid publications.
Amores Brutos
Jarocho
Em plena Cidade do México, um terrível acidente automobilístico ocorre. A partir deste momento, três pessoas envolvidas no acidente se encontram e têm suas vidas mudadas para sempre. Um deles é o adolescente Octavio (Gael García Bernal), que decidiu fugir com a mulher de seu irmão, Susana (Vanessa Bauche), usando seu cachorro Cofi como veículo para conseguir o dinheiro para a fuga. Ao mesmo tempo, Daniel (Álvaro Guerrero) resolve abandonar sua esposa e filhas para ir viver com Valeria (Goya Toledo), uma bela modelo por quem está apaixonado. Também se envolve no acidente Chivo (Emilio Echevarría), um ex-guerrilheiro comunista que agora atua como matador de aluguel, após passar vários anos preso. Ali, em meio ao caos, ele encontra Cofi e vê a possibilidade de sua redenção.
Azar
Tome la pistola y empiece a despachar
Life in Short, Vol. 2
A doctor can predict the death of their patients (Terminal Case), an old man meets a teenager through an ad in the newspaper (Classifieds), two young people are assaulted in the historic center of Mexico City (We're Everywhere), a mechanic confesses that he did not fix the brakes on one of the cars in his workshop (Intolerant), two children witness how some students get beaten while riding the bus (Juliet), Mariana Rodriguez shows us forms in which murals by David Alfaro Siqueiros are constructed (Siqueiros Model), a desperate woman seeks medicine for her mother who has terminal cancer (Ambulance Music) and finally a voyeuristic man asks for assistance to his upstairs neighbors while someone is making love (Neighbours). Eight Mexican films packaged in a 90-minute feature, because life is SHORT.