Juan Carlos Barreto

Acting

Juan Carlos Barreto

Born 1957-03-11 · Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Juan Carlos Barreto (Monterrey, Nuevo León; March 11, 1957) is a Mexican film, theater and television actor who has stood out for his performances in the soap opera "Para Volver a Amar" and the Film "Fausto" by José Julián Vázquez, which was awarded best film at one of the oldest festivals in the United States, the BFF.

Acting credits

Terrorist Command poster
6.0

A group of terrorists puts the authorities on alert, creating hellish chaos.

Terrorist Command

1992

La señorita poster
5.8

Violent death of a loan shark investigated by diligent policeman.

La señorita

1994

Backyard poster
6.4

Officer Blanca Bravo arrives in Juarez, Mexico — a grim nexus of corporate colonialism and sexual tourism — to investigate a rash of killings targeting female migrant workers. But with no help from the locals, bringing the responsible parties to justice becomes a frustrating exercise. As Bravo rails against indifference and local corruption, she finds herself on a collision course with Mickey Santos, a Mexican mogul with a taste for young prostitutes.

Backyard

2009

Depositarios poster
4.5

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.

Depositarios

2010

Redemption of a Broken Mind poster
4.0

Fausto is destined to live the suicide of his beloved wife. After this tragic event, he’s inexplicably given the opportunity to travel back in time and change the faith of the woman who he loves.

Redemption of a Broken Mind

2017

Llamadas obscenas poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Llamadas obscenas

1996

Caceria de Viboras poster
NR

Valentin Trujillo videohome written by Carlos Enrique Taboada.

Caceria de Viboras

1994

Burn the Bridges poster
6.6

A story of two teens, brother and sister, who live with their dying mother in a rundown mansion in Zacatecas, sustain by a dangerously dependent relationship.

Burn the Bridges

2007

Love on a Weekend poster
4.0

One city. Three days, three social classes, three love songs, human beings who coexist without touching one another, joined by mirages and hopes. Their struggles to survive are individual and secret; there are no winners or losers. The seeming order is maintained and a weekend begins.

Love on a Weekend

2010

Asesino por instinto poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Asesino por instinto

1993

Imposible de matar poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Imposible de matar

1994

Amor que mata poster
5.7

Diego is a young musician who lives the terrible death of his uncle to AIDS. While in his deep depresion he meets Gabriela, which brings back a smile to his face. Just when life seems more promising than ever, one beutiful night death once again took a toll on his life. It seems as though the phantoms of the past are never going to let him go.

Amor que mata

1994

Lucía, Lucía poster
5.2

Lucia, an children's book author, tells the story of her husband's disappearance. One day on their way to Brazil he just disappears. She goes to the police, gets a ransom note, and makes friends with the old dude downstairs and the young dude upstairs as she tries to find him. Things take a bit of a twist as she realized the kidnapping may not be as simple as it seems on the surface.

Lucía, Lucía

2003

Another Mexican poster
5.5

Antonio (Ricky Mergold) is a 16 year old boy from a village in the Mexican province, living the awakening of consciousness with the intensity of the contradictions that surround him: a dogmatic religion, mediocre educational institutions, corrupt politicians an a society full of conformity. His life changes when a young teacher with a genuine desire to teach their students comes to the town, a guide that encourages them to live with dignity and to be critical of the world around them. This story is full of drama and misadventures, which Antonio lives without proper orientation and promiscuity.

Another Mexican

2010

Veinteañera, divorciada y fantástica poster
8.0

Regina, our young protagonist, always dreamed of getting married. And she did it - but the dream lasted much less than she thought and now she has to face life in a very funny way as a divorcee.

Veinteañera, divorciada y fantástica

2020

File of Attempted Murder poster
6.3

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.

File of Attempted Murder

2010

Juana la Cubana poster
6.2

The beautiful nightclub singer/dancer Juana the Cuban moonlights as freedom fighter “Commander Zeta”, joining forces with the C.I.A. to overthrow the brutal regime of a military dictator (played by Erik Estrada) who plans to unleash bacteriological warfare on the U.S.A.

Juana la Cubana

1994

Meat Stew, Original Recipe poster
6.2

A dysfunctional family reunites after the grandmother's death, who was a famous cooker of the traditional mexican dish: mole de olla.

Meat Stew, Original Recipe

2019

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Asalto bancario

1998

Under the Salt poster
6.1

A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Victor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father's funeral home and spends his free time making crude animated horror films - who's strange behavior seems to point at him as the culprit of the crimes.

Under the Salt

2008

Los cómplices del infierno poster
3.8

Sandra and Deborah are two women trying to escape from a tragic recent event. They go for a vacation on a beach house but are then followed by an evil cult.

Los cómplices del infierno

1995

Comando terrorista poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Comando terrorista

1992

No artwork available
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tiempo de muerte

1994

Los 6 mandamientos de la risa poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Los 6 mandamientos de la risa

1999

Behind the camera