Ilse Salas

Acting

Ilse Salas

Born 1981-08-26 · Mexico City, Mexico

Ilse Salas (born 26 August 1981) is a Mexican actress. She appeared in more than fifteen films since 2010. She is known for Las niñas bien (2018), Cantinflas (2014), Güeros (2014) and Sabrás qué hacer conmigo (2015). For her lead role in the films Güeros and Las niñas Salas received two nominations for the Ariel Award for Best Actress and won for the latter one.

Acting credits

The Follies poster
6.4

Six women share a common 'friend': madness. It visits us all, pushes us to decide reality, to make daring decisions and to transform our lives.

The Follies

2025

Pedro Páramo poster
6.9

A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrated love.

Pedro Páramo

2024

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NR

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Domani

The Good Girls poster
6.5

Sofía, a well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.

The Good Girls

2019

Plaza Catedral poster
6.4

Alicia is a 42-year-old-woman whose grief has caused her estrangement from society. Her world is turned upside down when 14-year-old Chief, a young boy who looks after people’s cars, stumbles into her house, bleeding.

Plaza Catedral

2021

You're Killing Me Susana poster
6.6

An actor's world comes crashing down after he learns that his wife has left him.

You're Killing Me Susana

2016

Medea poster
NR

Medea delves deeper into the causes that lead Maria (Medea), the town's woman, to punish her honor, her honesty and her loyalty to her brother and her family, for the privilege of having the love of a man. Pedro (Jasón), a popular...

Medea

Cantinflas poster
6.7

Mike Todd is a Broadway producer struggling to produce the film. Around the World in 80 Days. In Mexico, Mario Moreno, a young entertainer is struggling to get some respect, and he manages to become a star. A twist of faith makes them partners. Together they won the Oscar for Best Picture.

Cantinflas

2014

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Seis tramposos

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NR

This is not a regular day in Daniel's life. Ever since dawn there's something different about his wife. Unwillingly, Daniel begins a journey to unravel the truth about her wife, the reason why everything feels so out of place. Capgras is a journey of doubt, sex and violence.

Capgras

2015

Museo poster
6.5

Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away with a loot of more than hundred invaluable pieces of Mayan art, unaware of the consequences of their outrageous act.

Museo

2018

Güeros poster
7.5

Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for an aging legendary musician. Shot in black-and-white, Güeros brims with youthful exuberance.

Güeros

2014

Restos poster
5.0

A sleepwalker and a battered woman on her honeymoon establish a strange relationship.

Restos

2012

Que pena tu vida poster
4.9

A man loses his job an his girlfriend, but he really wants to start dating his best friend.

Que pena tu vida

2016

Familia poster
7.0

As a family discusses the future of their idyllic olive farm over a meal, the complexity of their relationships emerges through laughs and confessions.

Familia

2023

Modern Loves poster
6.1

A fateful day reunites an estranged family in Mexico City, where a chain of events shifts their romantic relationships and uncovers a monumental secret.

Modern Loves

2019

You Will Know What to Do With Me poster
5.6

Nicolás, a photographer, has suffered epilepsy since childhood and he is forced to take care of himself and sacrifice a lot, though he lives a normal life. On the other hand, Isabel is a woman who, apparently, has her whole life figured out although her mother is ill and she has no choice but to try to save her. Isabel and Nicolás fall in love in spite of themselves, their demons, their ghosts, and their weaknesses. Suddenly engaged in a relationship none of them would have even dared to imagine, they experience the love, passion, insecurity, fear, and allergy to commitment typical in people who are drifting away.

You Will Know What to Do With Me

2016

Mi Maestra se comió a mi amigo poster
7.1

Tomás, an 11-year-old boy living in his own fantasy world, must use his vast monster knowledge to fight against his new English teacher: a wicked woman who is, in fact, a child-eating monster.

Mi Maestra se comió a mi amigo

2023

The Last Call poster
6.1

Turmoil becomes the order of the day when a Mexican theatrical company begins its rehearsals of absurdist philosopher Albert Camus's “Caligula” for an influential upcoming international theater festival.

The Last Call

2013

Making It Up poster
7.2

Ana and Rita are flat broke. So when unpredictable Alex offers them a job, they kind of have to say yes -- to the gig and to a big ol' mess.

Making It Up

2023

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NR

Grandma feels good, but everyone tells her she is about to die

Sirenas de fondo

2007

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Lúa and Noé's job is to select natural actors for a sci-fi movie. Working together for the first time, Noé, who comes from the countryside, doesn't think Lúa, an unemployed actress from the city, is the person for the job. Together they will travel to remote areas and make their provisional abode in the homes of the country people who take them in. Submerged in a foreign reality, they will encounter a Mexico that embraces them, but which also confronts them with their own fears and prejudices, testing their tolerance, their resistance and their fragility.

Galerna

Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada poster
5.2

From his jail cell at Chihuahua's Military Hospital, Hidalgo begins to remember moments of his life, particularly his tenure as Parish Priest in the town of San Felipe Torres Mochas where he translated and produced the stage play "Tartuffe" by Moliere. During this time he fell in love with Josefa Quintana with whom he had three children and for whom he left the priesthood during a brief period in his life.

Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada

2010

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NR

Cruz is an actress who works as a simulated patient for medical students. One night, while jogging at the gym in her building, she sees a body fall, but instead of helping, she keeps on jogging. Her actions are caught by security cameras and leads to a police inquiry. Unable to explain what happened, she realizes that her work has desensitized her, compelling her to set out on a journey to recover her repressed emotions.

To Die on Your Feet