José Sefami

Acting

José Sefami

Renowned actor, with more than thirty years of career. He has participated in dozens of plays, television projects, and films, both feature films and short films. Throughout his career he has collaborated with some of the most important Mexican directors such as Jorge Fons, Luis Estrada, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Luis Mandoki and Carlos Bolado, in emblematic feature films of Latin American cinema such as “Amores Perros”, “Arráncame la vida” , “El Infierno”, “Colosio: El Asesinato”, “Cantinflas”, among many more. On the small screen, he lists projects such as “Nada personal”, “Fear The Walking Dead”, “Rosario Tijeras”, “La Doña” and “Diablo Guardianián”. His character, dedication and professionalism have made him an essential part of the Mexican acting scene.

Acting credits

Chapo: El Escape Del Siglo poster
5.5

A famous drug kingpin escapes from prison. The mexican president wants him back in jail whereas the U.S. government wants him dead.

Chapo: El Escape Del Siglo

2016

Amores Perros poster
7.6

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.

Amores Perros

2000

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

El cártel poster
6.1

Based on Mexico's current criminal climate, EL CÁRTEL is a rare look into the values and practices of the world's most intriguing and enigmatic industry - the multi-billion dollar business of drug trafficking. When Jules Land, a naïve business journalist, approaches Mexico's most notorious drug cartel and requests an audience with its leader, a one-time-priest turned murderous cutthroat, he quickl

El cártel

2009

Miss Bala poster
6.4

Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength.

Miss Bala

2019

7 Days poster
7.5

Claudio Caballero decides to gamble $500,000 in a desperate attempt to raise the cash necessary to bring the world's biggest band (U2) to Mexico.

7 Days

2005

Café Paraíso poster
7.3

Gallo rehearses his heroic resignation, with which he hopes to regain his youth, his dignity and even a love.

Café Paraíso

2008

Trade poster
7.0

A Texas cop, whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Polish woman who was promised a better life in America also becomes a victim.

Trade

2007

Potosí poster
5.1

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.

Potosí

2013

Belzebuth poster
7.2

While leading a police investigation of a massacre in a public school at the border of Mexico and U.S.A, special Agent Emanuel Ritter links this strange case to the coming and rising of the ancient demon Belzebuth. But in order to stop the trail of upcoming infanticides, Ritter shall have to confront himself before dealing with the forces of good and evil.

Belzebuth

2019

Goy poster
NR

A Jewish teenager is about to compete in the swimming nationals when a goy who works at a radio station invites her to a concert. The adventures and romance between these two will test their beliefs and family bond. While experiencing the worst economic and political crisis in the country, her father will do whatever it takes to keep her away from him and preserve his family pure. Confronting him, she will struggle to build her own destiny

Goy

2023

Outlaws - For Greater Glory poster
6.8

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

Outlaws - For Greater Glory

2012

Tear This Heart Out poster
7.9

A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.

Tear This Heart Out

2008

Peligro Inminente poster
NR

When a ruthless terrorist threatens to detonate explosives across Mexico's most strategic military bases, a daring secret agent races against time to stop the attack. As the mission intensifies, he faces relentless enemies, brutal take-downs, and a heart-pounding skydiving sequence that takes the action to new heights.

Peligro Inminente

2026

No artwork available
NR

A Dominican journalist must face his new life after the death of his ex-wife and daughter. He travels to the Dominican-Haitian border post-2010 earthquake, trying to find the missing piece of the puzzle that torments him

Fronteras

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas poster
7.2

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.

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas

2012

¡Que viva México! poster
7.3

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

Las lloronas poster
5.1

"Las Lloronas" is an adaptation of the legend of "La Llorona"(Weeping Woman). It's based on the story of three generations of women within a Mexican familiy. Cursed by la llorona, these women fight to overcome the situations that arise by this. Through the struggles that these women face, they must eventually come to terms with destiny. "Las Lloronas" is a story of love, loss and triumph of the spirit, as well as the inner strength that each women has within.

Las lloronas

2004

No manches, Frida 2: paraíso destruido poster
7.9

Zequi and Lucy are about to get married. Although he promises not to overdo it during the bachelor party, things get out of control.

No manches, Frida 2: paraíso destruido

2019

Snake Skin poster
6.0

After returning from a trip, a young dentist discovers that her home has been ransacked. Determined to recover part of her belongings, the protagonist initiates a criminal process within a corrupt and ineffective justice system that turns her life into a nightmare.

Snake Skin

2002

A Not So Merry Christmas poster
6.7

A curse is placed on grinchy Chuy, who wakes up to find he's lived a full year, but is doomed to remember only Christmas Day. Every year. From now on.

A Not So Merry Christmas

2022

Abracadaver poster
3.8

To save their father's life, three siblings skilled in magic, escapism, and swindling must steal a priceless mummy from an old hacienda during the "Night of the Dead" party. Success means fortune and peace; failure brings severe consequences.

Abracadaver

2024

Little Saints poster
5.0

After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza to challenge her own beliefs and face her fears in order to be reunited with her beloved daughter.

Little Saints

1999

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