Fermín Martínez

Acting

Fermín Martínez

Place of birth

Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

68 titles

Fermín Martínez is a film, television and theater actor, born in Mexico City, in 1962.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 23 titles

A Time for Bravery poster
7.5

A psychoanalyst on community service aids an agent shattered by infidelity; together, they will confront danger and discover second chances.

A Time for Bravery

2025

Vasiliy poster
6.1

A story about twin brothers who grew in an orphanage. They promised each other that they would always be together but Kolya betrayed Vasya and left for the USA under the guise of his brother. However, brothers will meet again.

Vasiliy

2025

Borrón y Vida Nueva poster
8.3

Ulises wakes up in a hospital "with no memory". Now he'll reclaim the life he lost: the ex who keeps to stalking her, the business that was stolen from him, and the house of his dreams; however, not everything is as he remembered it.

Borrón y Vida Nueva

2025

¡Que viva México! poster
7.4

After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.

¡Que viva México!

2023

I Am Mario poster
NR

Mario is a trans taxi driver who gets pregnant. He has the possibility of fulfilling his desire to become a father, but this confronts him with his expectations regarding his masculinity. Before exposing himself to a "macho" and prejudice-filled society, he must face himself.

I Am Mario

2026

Presencias poster
6.7

A man returns to his father's cabin where he spent a good part of his childhood and where his younger sister drowned.

Presencias

2022

Rock, Weed and Wheels poster
7.1

In 1971, two young entrepeneurs decide to organize a race car with lots of indie rock bands livening up the event in Avandaro, Mexico. When only 25 thousand tickets are sold but more than 200 thousand people arrive, things start to get out of control.

Rock, Weed and Wheels

2025

Falcons poster
NR

Andy is trained by his ex-hitman father to infiltrate Hell's Cartel, but when his sister is kidnapped and betrayal hits, the plan unravels, sparking the H-Game, turning child violence into global control.

Falcons

2026

Mexico 86 poster
6.9

A Guatemalan activist battles a corrupt dictatorship in 1976 and flees to Mexico, leaving her son. Ten years later he joins her, forcing a choice between motherhood and her cause

Mexico 86

2025

Clown & Out poster
NR

Paco Saavedra is a struggling comedian whose life flips overnight when a livestreamed scuffle with a gangster goes viral. Suddenly, he’s a national hero, a meme, and the internet’s newest obsession. But fame is a double-edged sword. As Paco is thrust into instant stardom, he battles to separate his true identity from the clown persona the world demands — even if it costs him the woman he loves.

Clown & Out

2026

Disappear Completely poster
6.8

An ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer falls victim to a mysterious illness that makes him lose, one by one, his five senses.

Disappear Completely

2024

La Entrevista poster
NR

A woman is in a job interview at a renowned law firm. Everything is going smoothly until one of the employees recognizes her from a previous job.

La Entrevista

2020

1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil poster
8.2

A chronicle of the Mexican oil expropriation in 1938 through the eyes of President Lazaro Cardenas and journalist Alberto Miranda.

1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil

2025

El viento del sur poster
NR

Omar, a Mexican migrant working in Canada, is the only bilingual worker at his factory. One day, he is ordered to translate devastating news for his colleague Joaquín. The news? The death of Joaquín's son.

El viento del sur

2025

Tetanis poster
NR

María, Pablo, and Juanito live in an orphanage under the care of Father Sócrates, which is on the verge of closing due to a lack of resources. Juanito is diagnosed with a heart condition, further complicating their situation. Don Lucho, the owner of the town's seafood restaurant, tells the children an old urban legend about "Tétano," an ancient race car that used to beat everyone and win every race but stopped competing by the pilot's choice. The only solution to pay off all the debts and save Juanito's life with an operation is to convince Tétano's pilot to race again.

Tetanis

2024

Eternal Return poster
NR

A young artist named Massad doesn't know he has the power to talk to the spirits. When he faces the struggle of his community with a serious drought, he will have to become the spirit of the deer in order to save his loved ones embracing the powers of shaman.

Eternal Return

2026

Un mexicano en la Luna poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un mexicano en la Luna

2024

Malibu poster
5.8

Ernesto has found a peculiar way to meet people and earn a living: provoking car accidents.

Malibu

2021

Ok, It's Fine poster
8.1

It's been six years since Mariano graduated from film school. He's about to turn 30 and he still lives with his mom, spends most of his time watching movies and has never written a single screenplay. His comfortable routine changes when his 15-year-old cousin, Ramiro, moves in with them.

Ok, It's Fine

2020

Family Sunday poster
5.7

In a peripheral zone of Mexico City, the collection of money from merchants and residents of the area is an everyday occurrence. On a sunny Sunday, in a housing unit located in one of these areas, a merchant has not paid his fee and the hired killers have come to give him an ultimatum.

Family Sunday

2025

Cruz poster
NR

A young boy from Oaxaca travels to the coast in search of new opportunities. But leaving home won’t bring about anything different: he finds degradation with every step he takes, making it clear that his reality leaves no room for ambition

Cruz

2020

Llueven las flores, los piratas y el tesoro de la bruja poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Llueven las flores, los piratas y el tesoro de la bruja

2023

The Janitor poster
NR

At 75 years old, Ricardo has problems balancing his job as a janitor at an elementary school and the care his wife requires in a wheelchair. Since it is impossible for him to survive on the pension he would receive, he must continue working and the conflict with a student will end up causing him to lose everything.

The Janitor

2025

2010s · 23 titles

El Infierno poster
8.0

After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

El Infierno

2010

The Thin Yellow Line poster
8.5

Five men are hired to paint the yellow line the road between two villages in Mexico forgotten. Aboard an old pickup truck, initiated the work of more than two hundred kilometers of asphalt and yellow paint to be completed in less than a fortnight

The Thin Yellow Line

2015

The Empty Hours poster
6.7

Stuck managing his uncle's deserted motel on Veracruz's lonely coast, 17-year-old Sebastian finds solace in unexpected company. Miranda, a beautiful yet seemingly forlorn guest, whiles away the hours waiting for her perpetually late lover. As conversations between them blossom into a connection neither anticipated, a forbidden spark ignites. Will they succumb to the fiery temptation of a fleeting passion, or will they cage their desires for a life dictated by circumstance?

The Empty Hours

2013

Reacciones adversas poster
6.7

Daniel is a young man suffering from low selfesteem, who is incapable of defending himself from the abuses of employers and of society in general. He is medicated with antidepressants to make his monotonous life more bearable; however, far from helping him, the medication worsens hiscondition with hallucinations and psychotic thoughts of vengeance that lead him to a state of total confusion.

Reacciones adversas

2011

The Chosen poster
5.8

Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.

The Chosen

2016

Hakeldama poster
NR

Three bandits decide to hide in a remote cabin, but soon fear and suspicions will grow between them.

Hakeldama

2014

How to Break Up with Your Douchebag poster
6.9

This comedy takes its cue from such female-centered films as "Bridesmaids" and "Trainwreck." Pic centers on a woman who makes a living from breaking up couples and decides to take on the task of splitting up her sister's relationship with her jerk of a boyfriend.

How to Break Up with Your Douchebag

2017

Becloud poster
4.9

Alejandro Gerber Bicecci's "Vaho" (Becloud) tells the story of three childhood friends, Andres, Felipe, and Jose, and their lives in a dusty, run down corner of Mexico City. The boys were inseparable until they witnessed a tragedy that haunts them to the present day. The tragedy shaped each boy differently, and had a profound effect on their lives.

Becloud

2010

Smile poster
NR

A hitman decides to put aside his life of crime to pursue his lifelong dream: to become a profesional comedian.

Smile

2019

You Live for Me poster
4.5

A tale about the fragile lives of four characters during a month of their lives. One of them, Ana, is waiting for a kidney donor.

You Live for Me

2017

The Future poster
NR

A mother and her son look for the possibly dead body of a relative while everyone else seems more interested in a soccer tournament.

The Future

2018

México Bárbaro II poster
6.4

In this new horror anthology, nine Mexican directors come together to tell stories about the most brutal, ruthless and bizarre Mexican traditions and legends.

México Bárbaro II

2017

The Bed poster
4.0

La cama is a story that gives a voice to reveal the secrets held by beds. If your bed could speak, what stories would it tell? We spend more than a third of our life in bed; it is the uttermost intimate space. In them lay our secrets; perhaps that is why we never think about them. They are a direct witness of who we are, or who we wish to be. Who would give their bed a voice? Surely nobody in his or her right mind. What secrets are held by motel beds, that of a teenager, a newly divorcée, that of your neighbors?

The Bed

2013

Esmeralda’s Twilight poster
6.8

With the death of her husband and the absence of her son, Esmeralda has lost interest in life. Living in a small town, within the walls of her house, she regains hope when a baby pig comes into her life.

Esmeralda’s Twilight

2018

Los tiempos de Héctor poster
NR

"The Times of Héctor" - Hector is a lonely man who attends suicides in Mexico City. Monica is a young woman who longs for death. Their meeting will unleash unsuspected consequences for both.

Los tiempos de Héctor

2017

No artwork available
NR

Helena, a woman in her early 40's, is obsessed with getting pregnant. After failing her last try, her neighbors get back from the hospital with their new born baby. Helena breaks in to their house when they´re gone, steals the baby monitor and starts listening to what happens next door.

Australia

2016

Habemus Latroni poster
NR

A thief decides to rob a church, but before achieving his robbery, he must Confront a parishioner for emotional support.

Habemus Latroni

2012

Juan And Vanesa poster
5.6

When Juan, a 35-year-old truck driver learns he has a daughter, he decides to become responsible. He quits alcohol and takes one last chance at his job, to deliver various goods to Mexico City. At a gas station, Vanesa, a Mexican Lolita with pink-dyed hair convinces Juan to let her go with him. A rebellious teenager and a broken man start a journey where they confront each other and their own demons only to realize that this strange encounter can awake something unexpected and beautiful in them.

Juan And Vanesa

2018

Antes del olvido poster
5.3

The life of Fermín goes by, divided between his work as a diablero and the confinement he lives in within his house. Like him, other families live in a vecindad in the heart of Mexico City. One day, a company colluded with the government threatens to evict the vecindad tenants in order to build a mall. Facing the threat of an eviction, the tenants join in solidarity to come out of their self-absorption and fight for a common cause.

Antes del olvido

2018

Vladimir In Me poster
5.0

Vladimir doesn’t know what he is. He has all the money he wants, he is afraid of becoming schizophrenic; he is a vampire, an extraterrestrial, an eccentric millionaire, or all three at the same time. There is no doubt that he is a lady’s man who plays soccer perfectly, who can study the movements of a cabdriver and seduce the most beautiful and intelligent woman he meets.

Vladimir In Me

2013

Thoroughbred poster
6.8

5 professionals rob a Horce Racetrack and a Casino Complex but when one of them makes too many mistakes, the police starts a deadliest manhunt to recover the money.

Thoroughbred

2016

El Jefe del Cartel de los Sicarios poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El Jefe del Cartel de los Sicarios

2013

Oasis poster
NR

Ophelia goes to El Oasis, a tavern where men pick up men, looking for her husband. Her suspicions confirmed, she faints and a transgender prostitute unexpectedly helps her.

Oasis

2017

2000s · 11 titles

The Mexican poster
6.0

Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.

The Mexican

2001

Frida poster
7.4

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

Frida

2002

Rudo & Cursi poster
7.2

Tato and Beto are poor stepbrothers living on a banana plantation in Mexico. Both are talented soccer players, but their dreams lay elsewhere: tone-deaf Tato wants to be a singer, while Beto is content to remain on the plantation. One day, a sports agent sees the two young men playing soccer and offers to take one of them to Mexico City for a chance at sports stardom.

Rudo & Cursi

2008

The Zone poster
6.4

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.

The Zone

2007

Nora's Will poster
7.1

Jose learns that Nora, the woman he was married to for 30 years and from whom divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains Joseph that due to the celebrations this time of the year, if Nora is not buried that same day, they should wait at least 5 days for the funeral. Nora had planned before his death, a Machiavellian plan in order that Joseph was the one who has to take care of his funeral. But Nora forgot a small detail, a mysterious photograph stored under her bed, that will remind Joseph that the greatest love stories, sometimes are hidden in the smallest places.

Nora's Will

2008

A Wonderful World poster
7.7

A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.

A Wonderful World

2006

Love, Pain and Vice Versa poster
5.3

Chelo is an architect, withdrawing from her social life because of realistic dreams she's having of a romance with a strange man. She's convinced the man is real, out there, destined to be with her. She reports a rape to the police, describing the man of her dreams to a sketch artist. The police find a suspect: he's Marcos, a physician. Chelo tells the police this is not the man who raped her, but now she has Marcos in her sights. Her plan for him to fall in love with her is complicated by his having a fiancée. What can Chelo do? Meanwhile, Marcos has violent dreams about an unfamiliar woman. Chronologies overlap, glass breaks. Can a mind lie to itself?

Love, Pain and Vice Versa

2008

In The Country Where Nothing Happens poster
6.4

A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.

In The Country Where Nothing Happens

2000

The Other American Dream poster
6.9

On Mexico's northern border, adolescent Sandra tries to cross to the United States in the search of the American Dream.

The Other American Dream

2004

The Violin poster
7.0

In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a field. A family of grandfather, son, and grandson are among the rebels in the hills. The grandfather, with his violin over his shoulder, tries to pass the checkpoint, ostensibly to tend his corn crop. The commanding officer lets him pass but insists on a daily music lesson.

The Violin

2005

Two Embraces poster
6.1

Four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom he is infatuated, an enraged and embittered cabbie, and the estranged daughter of one of his fares. Per the film's title, these characters pair off, finding unexpected hope and salvation in one another.

Two Embraces

2007

Series credits

Narcos: Mexico poster
7.9

See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.

Narcos: Mexico

2018

La Máquina poster
6.7

After a devastating loss, Esteban “La Máquina” Osuna is at a low point in his boxing career. Lucky for him, his manager and best friend Andy Lujan is determined to get him back on top. But when a nefarious organization rears its head, the stakes of this rematch become life or death. Esteban must juggle his own personal demons and protect his family.

La Máquina

2024

The Mosquito Coast poster
6.7

Allie Fox—a brilliant inventor and stubborn idealist—uproots his family for a dangerous quest through Mexico to flee the U.S. government and find safety.

The Mosquito Coast

2021

The Dead Girls poster
7.4

The story of the Baladro sisters, known as “Las Poquianchis”, who built a brothel empire and became merciless killers in 1960s Mexico.

The Dead Girls

2025

Bandidos poster
7.2

A gang of skilled misfits ventures to uncover a long-hidden Mayan treasure. Their strategy? Hazy. Their dynamic? Off. Luckily, they're pretty ingenious.

Bandidos

2024

Bandidos poster
7.2

A gang of skilled misfits ventures to uncover a long-hidden Mayan treasure. Their strategy? Hazy. Their dynamic? Off. Luckily, they're pretty ingenious.

Bandidos

2024

Eternamente Amándonos poster
2.0

Paula Bernal and Rogelio Iturbide are two people with very different lives who, when they meet, decide to get married without notifying Rogelio's family, especially the matriarch of the family, Martina Rangel.

Eternamente Amándonos

2023

Hasta que te conocí poster
8.8

"Hasta que Te Conocí" unravels the life of the Divo de Juárez: Juan Gabriel. Gabriel's extraordinary talent as a singer-songwriter allowed him to rise above poverty, betrayal, and prejudice, eventually making him one the most beloved performers in all of Ibero-America.

Hasta que te conocí

2016

Sin miedo a la verdad poster
7.9

No synopsis available yet.

Sin miedo a la verdad

2018

High Tide poster
7.5

After the death of a teenager, the threatening messages that arrive from her social media account will disturb the apparent calm of a coastal city.

High Tide

2022