Mario Iván Martínez

Acting

Mario Iván Martínez

Born

1962-02-03 (64)

Place of birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 titles

Mario Iván Martínez Morales is an actor, known for La habitación azul (2002), Como agua para chocolate (1992) and Cronos (1993). He's the son of actress Margarita Isabel.

Known for

Clear and Present Danger poster
6.6

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.

Clear and Present Danger

1994

The Blue Room poster
6.6

A couple meet each other often in a motel room.

The Blue Room

2002

Original Sin poster
6.2

A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.

Original Sin

2001

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear poster
6.3

When a magical artifact is lifted from his library, a meek librarian sets out to ensure its safe return.

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

2004

La Culpa poster
6.0

La Culpa is a Mexican telenovela produced by Yuri Breña and Pinkye Morris for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from August 12 to October 11, 1996. Created by Nora Alemán, with literary editing by Marco García, the telenovela stars Tiaré Scanda and Raúl Araiza. Due to low ratings, it was shortened to 45 episodes. The story follows Isabel Lagarde, the adopted daughter of a wealthy family, who falls in love with Miguel Nava, the son of a former boxing champion. Their lives are torn apart after Miguel becomes involved in the accident that kills Isabel's sister, Juana Inés. As grief, suspicion, and revenge threaten to destroy their relationship, Isabel and Miguel must uncover the truth behind the tragedy and identify the real person responsible.

La Culpa

1996

Like Water for Chocolate poster
7.3

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.

Like Water for Chocolate

1992

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

2010s · 5 titles

2000s · 7 titles

The Blue Room poster
6.6

A couple meet each other often in a motel room.

The Blue Room

2002

Original Sin poster
6.2

A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.

Original Sin

2001

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear poster
6.3

When a magical artifact is lifted from his library, a meek librarian sets out to ensure its safe return.

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

2004

Operation Sandman poster
4.5

In the heat of an American desert, Captain Jean Farrell arrives at a secret military installation, run by the enigmatic Doctor Harlan Jessup. Jessup is conducting 'Operation Sandman', an experiment involving a group of soldiers who have volunteered to be injected with 'the Juice', a drug which enables them to function without sleep. The team of soldiers, led by gruff and abusive 'Gunny' Riggins continually takes part in Virtual Reality scenarios whereby they face terrorists, kidnappers, guerrillas and a plethora of other situations that demand split-second timing, and undying obedience in the face of danger.

Operation Sandman

2000

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

Caso terminal poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Caso terminal

2006

Otaola o la república del exilio poster
5.2

A blend of documentary and fiction about the death of Simón Otaola.

Otaola o la república del exilio

2000

1990s · 12 titles

Clear and Present Danger poster
6.6

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.

Clear and Present Danger

1994

Like Water for Chocolate poster
7.3

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.

Like Water for Chocolate

1992

Cronos poster
6.7

Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.

Cronos

1993

Immortal Combat poster
5.6

Two police officers discover an island laboratory where a madwoman is turning martial artists into superkillers.

Immortal Combat

1994

Death and the Compass poster
5.7

In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)

Death and the Compass

1992

The Harvest poster
4.7

A screenwriter is sent to Mexico to develop a story that can be used to wrap up a movie presently in production. Given a very short time allotment, the writer immerses himself in the seamier side of a Mexican beach resort, but soon finds himself involved in a 'body organ for profit' operation. Drugged, he has one of his own kidneys removed, and then, with a woman he isn't sure he can trust, he sets out to expose the ring...

The Harvest

1993

Perfect Target poster
6.3

A soldier now a mercenary, has been brought to a foreign country by a former associate to aid in the security of that country's president. But it appears that he's been set up as the man to take the fall for the president's assassination. He escapes and joins the rebels to clear his name and to expose the true person behind the president's assassination.

Perfect Target

1997

A Civilized Arrangement for Divorce poster
NR

A young couple in crisis finds an unorthodox solution to their conflict.

A Civilized Arrangement for Divorce

1992

By Our Own Correspondent poster
10.0

William Benton, a rich British landowner and cattle baron was murdered, creating one of the most bizarre and sensational international scandals in history. Thomas Canning, an inexperienced photo journalist from London, is sent to Mexico seeking fame and glory but eventually he reaches the camp of Pancho Villa to be told several conflicting versions of Benton's murder.

By Our Own Correspondent

1994

Katuwira, donde nacen y mueren los sueños poster
5.8

Sofia meets a stranger man who hacks the computer system where she works before she has an accident. After the accident, she is the only one that remember seeing this man, so she decides to search for him.

Katuwira, donde nacen y mueren los sueños

1996

Pueblo viejo poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Pueblo viejo

1993

Sucesos distantes poster
6.3

One couple (Carlos & Irene) are having troubles, because he suspects that Irene's hiding something about her past in Russia. To make things worst her ex-husband goes to Mexico and tells Carlos that her other ex-husband also is going to claim her as his property.

Sucesos distantes

1996

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