Mario Zaragoza

Mario Zaragoza

Nascimento : 1960-02-05, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

História

Mario Zaragoza is a steadily working character actor within the Mexican film industry. He has appeared in a variety of Mexican films and television programs from 1998 to the present. He is most famous for his extended cameo as a corrupt police officer who gets tortured by Denzel Washington in El fuego de la venganza (2004).

Perfil

Mario Zaragoza

Filmes

As Good as Dead
Cesar Valdez
An ex-cop in self-imposed witness protection in Mexico becomes a target when a fight video of his apprentice goes viral.
Ingrid
Taxista
One day on the life of a young girl living in Guadalajara, a city plagued by a sensation of unsafety at all time.
Si no crees, no existe
Iván
Iván lives in a small apartment in a large building. Resigned to observing a world in which he has little part, he believes that the only thing worth waiting for is to wait. An unexpected encounter with Alma will once again give him the opportunity to reconsider everything that he had considered real until then.
Historias de una prostituta 4
Don Cheto
Due to the death of their mother, two sisters are taken in by their only aunt, who forces them to work to pay her expenses. After the attempted rape by her uncle, they run away and find themselves alone and helpless.
Las amantes del narco IV
Mariano
In the rearrangement of the territories, the mafia puts all its cards into play, several capos have been released and revenge is activated, beautiful women are put into action, so that using their best weapons, they bring order among these capos.
Expira
Mexican feature film
The Seductress
Pervertidas III
Gonzalo Lima
Be careful not to fall into their networks, you can be deceived by their beauty. They are on the side of the corrupt police and they will push you to the limit of sex. Be careful, they exist and they are perverted.
Mujeres de la calle
Arcadio
The Promise
A talented rural student struggles with his teacher and fellow students.
El Día de la Unión
Román
The Voice of a Dream
At a pivotal moment in her singing career, Rocío discovers that her mother is ill and that her final wish is to meet with her again before she dies. After evading the past for 10 years, Rocío returns to her hometown from where she was once expelled. When confronting her family, she comes to understand that forgiveness is the key that will allow her to realize her full potential.
Tratante de blancas
Commander Saúl Montes
The story of a woman who is kidnapped along with other women and sold for sexual exploitation. Government authorities are involved in this business, and they are capable of anything to continue generating profits.
Perras de barrio 4
Víctor (Sapo)
Brenda and Sara are the most powerful women in Mexicali and they will do whatever it takes to maintain power no matter the consequences. A story full of action and eroticism that reflects today's society where the political class is involved with criminal groups to perpetuate themselves in power.
Influence
Leonora, a 16 year old teenager with a dangerous gift, when she draws a person, either by divination or by the action of the same drawing this person dies. Grandma knows and doesn't want to expose the world to such evil power. Leonora lives locked at the top of a huge apartment building believing that she's a Princess and the world is full of monsters and other dangers so she thinks one day her Prince savior will come.
Pervertidas
Don Rigo
September
Comandante Guerrillero
After a terrorist attack on Guatemala in the 1980's, a small child is left deaf and motherless. Now her father has to step up and take care of her by himself while the fear of inner armed conflict looms over the country.
Tratantes de blancas III
Jacinto
A policeman is fighting against the crimes of the region, and he will have to face the bureaucracy, the corruption of his corporation as well as his family to try to save his daughter.
Mujeres infieles 4
Vicente
After a hotel maid confronts her boss about secret cameras in the rooms, she insists on watching the videos, which reveal more than she imagined.
Cuernito Armani
El dinero no cae del cielo - El aerolito
Genaro
Three ranchers discover the burial of some drug traffickers in the region. Without giving it much thought, they decide to dig it up and keep it, causing them unimaginable trouble.
Zona Invadida
Aerosol
Tren (20), his girlfriend Drama (18) and their friends Trucas (19), Mico (16) and Weed (17), are youths who live on the outskirts of Mexico City. Through graffiti art, dancing, music and song, they have a good time imitating their idols in music, dance and television, dreaming of someday being great figures in show business. They gather at the F.B.I., which holds dance and graffiti contests, and which is also frequented by el Loco (28) and his gang of small time drug dealers in the barrio. At the same time, Tren’s brother Nuk (43) returns home after 23 years. Nuk finds the environment changed, with all the evils of society, only now they are stronger than when he left.
Alice in Marialand
Doctor Conejo
Tonatiuh and Maria experience a passionate and turbulent relationship. One night, in the heat of an argument, they suffer a dramatic automobile accident. Tonatiuh is left in a coma, where he sees Alicia, his nurse, including her in his dreams about Maria. Time later, Alicia has an accident and suffers amnesia while Tonatiuh wakes up. One year later, Tonatiuh and Alicia meet and an impossible love arouses from oblivion, haunted by the ghost of Maria's memories.
Die Legende der Maske
Hugo
Los hijos de Don Gregorio
12 segundos
Mateo
Uma jovem assistente sai à procura de seu chefe desaparecido, mas ao longo do caminho é assombrada por um ermitão e seu cachorro necrófago.
Vivo, ergo tu moris
Django
In a time when poor mexicans, contemptuously called indians, were treated as slaves by the rich. Things were unfair, unbalanced. Django, a mexican indian, runs for his life trying to escape his abusive patrón... but he fails. After a beating that renders him unconscious, he awakens to meet Dr. Shultz, a bounty hunter that likes to keep thing in balance. Dr. Shultz has a lot to teach Django, about bounty hunters and the way of the gun, so Django can live.
2 x One
Don Alejo
Ricardo and Andres are brothers who decide to break with routine and take a trip that will change the way they view and live their lives. A mixture of good and bad decisions bring them face to face with death; to survive, they will have to decide what is more important: love among brothers or the love of a woman; honor and justice, or the easy life.
Potosí
Luis
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.
Cinco de Mayo: The Battle
Juan Nepomuceno Almonte
On May 5th, 1862, a few thousand Mexican soldiers put their lives on the line against the world's largest and most powerful army in one legendary battle for freedom and for Mexico.
Ismael
Luigi
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 Walls Talk
Gutiérrez
A tragic and epic love that transcends time and generations unites Maria and Javier forever. During important periods in Mexico (The War of Independence, the Revolution and current times) these souls play out their destiny facing political squabbles, social pressures, family hatred and historical battles, seeking to make a relationship flower which seems fated to die.
The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas
Sarabia
In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún Umán, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.
I Hate Love
Chofer Taxi D.F.
A teenager loses his hearing after a terrible accident. Shortly after, he falls in love with a foreign girl living in México. He discovers that being in love makes him hear again.
Suave Patria
Gustavo Solis
Dois amigos que querem trabalhar como atores se envolvem com um policial corrupto e um homem de negócios malvado para concluir uma tarefa.
Heaven on the Lake
60-year-old Mario looks after Lupita, his 80-year-old mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. This night, just like many other nights, she cannot sleep. Mario takes her on a trip where she encounters her past and her future.
Plano de Fuga
Vasquez
Um criminoso americano que ultrapassa a fronteira entre Estados Unidos e México durante a fuga de um roubo a banco. Ele acaba preso pelas autoridades mexicanas e enviado para um presídio lotado de bandidos de alta periculosidade. Não bastasse essa experiência bizarra, ele acaba se envolvendo com uma família local e se metendo numa grande enrascada em terras estrangeiras porque a bandidagem agora quer a pele dele. Para sobreviver na prisão, ele terá que aceitar a ajuda de um garoto de apenas 9 anos (Kevin Hernandez), com quem irá planejar sua fuga.
Marcelo
Marcelo feels he's found the incarnation of his favorite superhero in Julio, his troublesome and eccentric neighbor whose biggest dream is to become a porn star, but Mrs. Martha, who still treats her son Marcelo like a kid, will never permit such a relationship to flourish. Emotionally disturbed, she will try to protect the only thing she's got left in the world: her son.
Days of Grace
Melquiades
Mexico City. 2002, 2006, 2010. A cop. A hostage. A wife. Corruption, violence, vengeance. Three destinies, during 30 days, during three Soccer World Cups. Three ways to fight in order to survive.
Sem Prada Nem Nada
Federico
As irmãs Nora (Camila Belle) e Mary Dominguez (Alexa PenaVega) cresceram acostumadas ao conforto e ao luxo, mas após a morte do pai elas veem seu mundo desabar. Elas então, são obrigadas a mudar-se para a casa da tia ao descobrirem que o pai estava falido. A partir daí, Nora e Mary precisarão se adaptar a um novo estilo de vida isento de riqueza e ostentação.
Ladies Mafia
Comandante Torres
Any Given Night
Leo
Leo meet Javier at a bus stop while he tries unsuccessfully to flirt with a colleague from work. Leo's comments make Javier suspect that he is getting into his head to read his mind.
File of Attempted Murder
Genovevo
Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.
The Vampire and the Starlet
Count Alucard
The very elegant Marsella comes to Mexico from Transylvania and is hired by Diamantina to work in her bar as a showgirl. She develops a relationship with one of the disco's choreographers, but things get complicated when she discovers that multiple men are in love with her. If that's not enough, chaos ensues when her international lover, who turns out to be a vampire, comes to Mexico to take her back with him.
Sin retorno
Marco
Mau and Chespi, two lifelong friends, find themselves at a critical moment in their lives. Both are on the verge of their 30th birthday, and both empty-handed. An unexpected event gives them the opportunity they have always been waiting for, to have "everything" overnight. Mau and Chespi embark on a journey that has no map - and no return. In less than twenty-four hours they find eight-hundred thousand dollars and gain the power to access the impossible. However, not everything is destined to fall their way, and their prize turns out to be nothing but payment for a shipment that never arrives.
La voladora
Something is happening that seems to be a karmic payback for city-bus drivers who have been responsible for running over pedestrians while on duty.
Arranca-me a Vida
Borracho
Catalina se casa muito jovem com um político em ascensão. O casamento não deixa de ser uma maneira de ambos sobreviverem aos conflitos da sociedade em que vivem. Mas, quando um diretor de orquestra entra na vida de Catalina, as coisas mudam.
The Desert Within
Elias
To redeem himself from a great sin, a man dedicates himself to building a church.
La Santa Muerte
Two stories of people who's life has changed after joining the cult of "La Santa Muerte" for both better and worse.
Zona do Crime
Comandante Rigoberto
Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders.
El quejido
Infierno Grande
Based on a real event, where the municipal president, in order to clean the image of his people before a politician's visit, "throws" a group of mentally ill people into the desert.
The Citrillo's Turn
Dijunto Melgarejo
1903, before the Revolution… The Citrillo’s Turns is a pulque bar in Mexico City, in which beings with no present or future gather to drink their lives away and tell stories of the dead and apparitions. Thus is woven a story of real passions –love, betrayal, jealousy, pillage- in an atmosphere of drunkenness and hallucination.
Chamas da Vingança
Jorge Gonzalez
Uma grande onda de sequestros e criminalidade varre a Cidade do México, fazendo com que muitos de seus cidadãos mais ricos contratem guarda-costas para seus filhos. John Creasy é um ex-agente da CIA. Sem emprego e bebendo mais do que deveria, ele aceita a proposta de ser guarda-costas da pequena Pita, uma garota de 9 anos que é filha de um industrial. O sequestro de Pita faz com que ele, mesmo ferido, parta para resgatá-la a qualquer custo.
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.
Streeters
Ochoa
Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have more trouble with corrupt cops, than with dirty and heavy work.
De ida y vuelta
After working for three years in the USA, Filiberto returns to his home town in Mexico. A proud man, he is searching for the recognition that will give him a new position in life. However, he finds that things have changed. His mother is dead, and Luis, his best friend, is married to his ex-girlfriend. Filiberto gets involved in the town’s disputes over a water spring.
I Want to Be
Juan
The short drama film follows the daily life of the Juan and Jorge, two brothers living on the streets of Mexico City. It won an Academy Award in 2001 for Best Live Action Short Film.
Sr. X
Todo el poder
Comandante Alfonso Moreno
Gabriel is a filmmaker in Mexico City, where he is a victim of crime and violence sometimes even three times a day. This is a black comedy that shows the extreme situation Mexico City is suffering as far as crime is concerned, and the tension the city and it's inhabitants live day after day.
Todo el poder
Alfonso Moreno
Gabriel is a filmmaker in Mexico City, where he is a victim of crime and violence sometimes even three times a day. This is a black comedy that shows the extreme situation Mexico City is suffering as far as crime is concerned, and the tension the city and it's inhabitants live day after day.
Un Embrujo
Eliseo
In the Yucatan coast of the thirties , Elisha, a boy of 13, is initiated into the art of love by Felipa , his schoolteacher. After discovering the relationship, Felipa runs away from the village , leaving Elisha mired in nostalgia. Forced to marry another woman and lead a routine life , recalling the years passed Eliseo romance with Felipa until ten years later, the woman returns , removing his wounds and changing forever the life of Elisha , his family and the whole town
La cruda de Cornelio
A silent watchman, named Cornelio, share joys and tequila with his friend Ray inside a car...
O Beco dos Milagres
Assistant Director
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.
Puerco
Police Commander
Una noche violenta
Horror film by Geuriel Danini about a serial killer in a rural area.