José Sefami

Acting

José Sefami

Known for

Acting

Credits

72 titles

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 profe…

Known for

Don't Leave the Kids Alone poster
6.8

A mother moves into a new house with her two children. One night she must leave the siblings home alone. What begins as a blast of carefree play soon turns into a claustrophobic horror story.

Don't Leave the Kids Alone

2026

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

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

Club de Cuervos poster
8.4

When the patriarch of a prominent family dies, his heirs battle to determine who will gain control of his beloved soccer team: The Cuervos of Nuevo Toledo.

Club de Cuervos

2015

Nothing Personal poster
7.5

Police chief Fernándo Gomez Miranda kills his friend, the well-respected lawyer and likely candidate for Attorney General, Raúl de Los Reyes and his youngest daughter of only thirteen in a vehicle ambush. Gomez' son, Luis Mario – a sad-eyed broadcast journalist of passionate conviction – arrives on the scene soon after with his camera and discovers a wounded survivor in the car; Camila, the eldest daughter of de Los Reyes. Luis rushes her to the hospital, saving her life and thereby creating a bond between them that he cannot escape. Luis' half-brother, police detective Alfonso Carbajal, is assigned to the case. An old schoolmate of Camila's, Alfonso has long been in love with her and conflicts arise when all evidence points to Camila being involved in the drug trade. The two brothers find themselves caught between their professional duty that would require them to expose Camila and their desire to protect her.

Nothing Personal

1996

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

Film credits

2020s · 17 titles

Don't Leave the Kids Alone poster
6.8

A mother moves into a new house with her two children. One night she must leave the siblings home alone. What begins as a blast of carefree play soon turns into a claustrophobic horror story.

Don't Leave the Kids Alone

2026

Blackout poster
5.1

A man wakes in a hospital with no memory, and quickly finds himself on the run in a locked down hospital with the Cartel on his tail.

Blackout

2022

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

¡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

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

Mother's Day Is Cancelled poster
7.3

Lidia and Manuel are a newlywed couple whose families have only met once. Now, they get together again to celebrate Mother’s Day. But there is a secret in the family that as soon as it explodes, will change it all. Esmeralda and Rosa must lean on each other to get through the day that seems to have something against them.

Mother's Day Is Cancelled

2023

War of Likes poster
7.7

In order to advance her career in the dynamic world of publicity in Mexico City, Raquel tries to reunite with her high school friend Cecy who has become the queen of social media. But unlike followers, friendships do not come instantly.

War of Likes

2021

Valentino, be your own hero or villain poster
7.3

The life of Gonzalo, a former soap opera superstar, gets complicated when his demons appear as an alter ego named Valentino. Gonzalo must try to get the role of his career in a new TV series of a famous producer who is about to celebrate his wedding with Carmen, a cardiologist who steals Gonzalo's heart. What no one expects is that Valentino will make constant appearances and ruin everything.

Valentino, be your own hero or villain

2022

The Black Minutes poster
6.0

In the late 1970s, a group of young cops lead by ex-musician turned detective Vicente Rangel will face the darkest minutes of their lives while attempting to catch a serial killer of young girls in a corrupt oil town in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Black Minutes

2021

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

Maria, I'm Dying! poster
6.2

“Maria, I'm dying!” is a comedy about a hypochondriac man, the only being in the world capable of even terminal colds, and his wife who has to put up with it until he decides to do something about it. The fear of death has never been so fun.

Maria, I'm Dying!

2024

Corazonada poster
4.8

A group of lottery employees plan the biggest fraud in Mexican history using a powerful weapon: the magic of television.

Corazonada

2022

Be Careful What You Wish For poster
6.6

Pamela is an eight-year-old girl who loves horror movies and fairy tales. When his uncle gives her away a doll named "Hellequin" as a birthday gift, a tale of betrayal begins to unfold before her eyes.

Be Careful What You Wish For

2020

Abracadaver poster
4.4

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

El precio de educarlos poster
7.0

When the Rebolledo accountants' children finally leave their home, their lonely parents, feeling abandoned, come up with the crazy plan to win the lottery in order to regain the interest of Pali and Marcelo. Posing as millionaires works wonders, so much so that their children give up their personal ventures in order to be close to them. But things get out of control when they demand the same luxuries.

El precio de educarlos

2024

Mighty Victoria poster
7.4

Feature film located at the beginning of the 20th-century which tells the story of the town "La Esperanza", whose dying mining boom receives a fatal blow.

Mighty Victoria

2021

Can't Quit Mom poster
7.7

At the Holly Day of The Deaths, a mother returns and finds that her three sons are desconsidered, ugly and lazy.

Can't Quit Mom

2022

2010s · 26 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

Miss Bala poster
6.3

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

Outlaws - For Greater Glory poster
6.9

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

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

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

Gonzalo poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gonzalo

2014

Neither You Nor I poster
5.2

The Black Falcon is no longer in his glory years a wrestler since his brother left him. When his brother returns, this may be his last chance to fix both his professional and personal live.

Neither You Nor I

2018

Belzebuth poster
7.1

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

Cantinflas poster
6.6

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

Days of Grace poster
6.6

Mexico City. 2002, 2006, 2010. A cop. A hostage. A wife. Corruption, violence, vengeance. Three destinies, during 30 days, during three Soccer World Cups. Three ways to fight in order to survive.

Days of Grace

2012

Compadres poster
6.8

A disgruntled Mexican cop is forced to work with a teenage hacker to hunt down the criminals who killed his wife, and dismantle their operation.

Compadres

2016

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

Mexican Gangster poster
6.5

Tells the story of the most prominent bank robber in the history of Mexico, his crimes, his different personalities, his career as a charro with a mariachi band, his getaways and the strange relationship he had with the one who finally came to stop him. Based on the true story of Alfredo Ríos Galeana.

Mexican Gangster

2014

Colosio poster
7.0

It's 1994 in Mexico, the nation was witnessing a turbulent year since its beginnings. An indigenous rebellion shakes the country. Three months later, the ruling party's presidential candidate is brutally murdered during a rally in Tijuana. The country is concerned. Nobody knows who's behind this event, it all points to a conspiracy. Andrés Vázquez, an intelligence expert, is commissioned to lead a secret investigation parallel to the official government issued one. But another expert agent, el Seco, has received orders to wipe out all witnesses and get rid of the evidence surrounding the candidate's murder. As Andrés begins putting the pieces of this intricate puzzle together and comes closer to the truth, he realizes he's also putting his life and that of his loved ones in peril.

Colosio

2012

Paraíso poster
5.2

Carmen and Alfredo live a happy, quiet life in the suburbs surrounded by friends and family. After Alfredo receives a promotion, the two move away to Mexico City where they immediately feel the social pressure of being overweight in a bustling metropolis full of beautiful people. Taking the initiative, Carmen convinces her husband to join her in losing weight, but their relationship is put to the test when Alfredo’s program yields far better results than Carmen’s. From award-winning director Marianna Chenillo comes a touching comedy about how true beauty comes from the inside and paradise is closer to home than you might think.

Paraíso

2013

Moronga poster
5.5

A psychotic US marine becomes an agent of chaos in a village in southern Mexico during a social uprising. On his journey towards Death, he discovers the truth behind a local tragedy involving a mysterious pregnant girl, and decides to do something about it... but gets it all wrong.

Moronga

2018

Eddie Reynolds and The Iron Angels poster
5.6

They are not wild and crazy anymore, or at least they think so. Now, thanks to an offer nobody can't refuse, they will try to recapture that old rock and roll magic and give themselves a second chance.

Eddie Reynolds and The Iron Angels

2014

The Evil That Men Do poster
5.8

Two hired assassins working for a Mexican cartel are faced with something unimaginable: they get to custody a 10-years-old girl, the daughter of the head of their rival clan, who has kidnapped the son of their boss. The situation is terrible: or an exchange takes place, or somebody will have to carry out a job that no amount of blood on their hands could ever have prepared them for.

The Evil That Men Do

2015

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

Pastorela poster
7.3

Agent Jesus Juarez (aka Chucho) has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play. This Christmas, when the new pastor of the church recasts the role, the two men engage in a battle between good and evil.

Pastorela

2011

La hora de Salvador Romero poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

La hora de Salvador Romero

2017

Fierro Viejo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fierro Viejo

2018

Tequila, historia de una pasión poster
3.9

Tequila in Mexico, 1940s: Honor and dignity come first here. The town is protecting a certain secret. In spite of all prohibitions, Antonio, a respected young landowner, has an affair with Lola, his uncle Vicent's young wife. She is sexually dissatisfied from her older husband. Also butler's young daughter Milagros is in love with him and sees him when he leaves Lola's room after they had sex. She threatens him to disclose the secret.

Tequila, historia de una pasión

2011

The Last One and then We Go poster
7.8

A group of mariachis receives a letter to be part of the National Mariachi Contest in Mexico City. In order to be able to win they will need to travel together and solve their differences since their prime was 30 years ago.

The Last One and then We Go

2015

Colores verdaderos poster
5.0

After spending seven years in jail, Carlos tries to start a quiet new life. However, fate leads him to return to his old occupation: counterfeiting money.

Colores verdaderos

2018

Penalty Kick poster
5.3

How far does a soccer fan goes for his beloved national team? Mariano Cárdenas will risk his job, wife and family to support his soccer team during the World Cup qualifiers.

Penalty Kick

2018

2000s · 16 titles

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

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

Amor Xtremo poster
5.8

Two brothers travel from Mexico City to Las Vegas for the U.S. Motocross Open.

Amor Xtremo

2006

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

Sex, Love And Other Perversions II poster
2.8

The private, the forbidden and the obscene. Eight short stories to be moved, surprised and have fun. Three different views about relationships, love, sex; three directors will take you from comedy to drama and backford, from the story of an old lady with cancer having a love affair to the love between two teenagers who try to make love for the first time or to the burning desire of a cop who is bewitched by cupid.

Sex, Love And Other Perversions II

2006

7 Days poster
7.6

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

Christmas, Inc. poster
7.1

With Christmas approaching, Santa Claus has to contend with the fact that the North Pole is melting and find a way to rid the holiday of its capitalist nature.

Christmas, Inc.

2008

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

Pink Punch poster
3.6

Jimmy Morales is a young fighter with a short career but with a promising future in the world of boxing. One night, after watching a movie, he witnesses a cold-blooded murder committed by Germán Corona, a known gangster of the neighborhood. Their eyes meet, Jimmy fears the worst, but the murderer runs away inexplicably. From that moment, a peculiar relationship between the boxer and gangster develop.

Pink Punch

2004

When Things Happen poster
4.2

Sebastian, a renowned orchestra conductor, loses his son in a motorcycle accident for which his wife blames him, leading to the family's disintegration. With the intention to recover his daughter's affection, he takes her to Guanajuato, where he has a presentation. However, the unexpected encounter with a mortally wounded old man, who asks him for help to fulfill his last wish, will involve them in that mysterious murder, starting at that point a battle against their conscience and their own survival... a dangerous race against the clock. A touching story of drama and action, which shows us how a common family can be, when they less expect it, the main players in a surprising and dangerous adventure, for in life anything can change... when things happen.

When Things Happen

2007

Espías en la ciudad poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Espías en la ciudad

2002

Sin retorno poster
3.5

Mau and Chespi, two lifelong friends, find themselves at a critical moment in their lives. Both are on the verge of their 30th birthday, and both empty-handed. An unexpected event gives them the opportunity they have always been waiting for, to have "everything" overnight. Mau and Chespi embark on a journey that has no map - and no return. In less than twenty-four hours they find eight-hundred thousand dollars and gain the power to access the impossible. However, not everything is destined to fall their way, and their prize turns out to be nothing but payment for a shipment that never arrives.

Sin retorno

2009

Love 'Till Death poster
7.0

Alejandro is frustrated due to the constraints put on his life by his rich and corrupt father. He flees and goes to a town where he falls in love with Rosa, who is under the thumb of a local gangster.

Love 'Till Death

2009

Todos los días son tuyos poster
4.5

While investigating the terrorist activities of a Basque nationalist group, Mexico City photographer Eliseo (Mario Oliver) becomes obsessed with his neighbor, a gorgeous young separatist named Maria (Bárbara Lennie). But when Maria is murdered, Eliseo is the prime suspect. Pursued by both the police and Maria's killer -- who has slain other Basque separatists -- Eliseo fights to stay alive and clear his name in this fast-paced thriller.

Todos los días son tuyos

2007

Seis días en la oscuridad poster
5.7

Claudio, Juan and Vampire have been friends since their teenage years. One night, Claudio tells his friends he is being extorted by a police officer, so he needs a large sum of money. He asked them to perform a fake kidnapping, so they can obtain the money he needs from his own family. But soon after they got the money, Claudio has been kidnapped for real.

Seis días en la oscuridad

2003

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

Series credits

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

Club de Cuervos poster
8.4

When the patriarch of a prominent family dies, his heirs battle to determine who will gain control of his beloved soccer team: The Cuervos of Nuevo Toledo.

Club de Cuervos

2015

Club de Cuervos poster
8.4

When the patriarch of a prominent family dies, his heirs battle to determine who will gain control of his beloved soccer team: The Cuervos of Nuevo Toledo.

Club de Cuervos

2015

Nothing Personal poster
7.5

Police chief Fernándo Gomez Miranda kills his friend, the well-respected lawyer and likely candidate for Attorney General, Raúl de Los Reyes and his youngest daughter of only thirteen in a vehicle ambush. Gomez' son, Luis Mario – a sad-eyed broadcast journalist of passionate conviction – arrives on the scene soon after with his camera and discovers a wounded survivor in the car; Camila, the eldest daughter of de Los Reyes. Luis rushes her to the hospital, saving her life and thereby creating a bond between them that he cannot escape. Luis' half-brother, police detective Alfonso Carbajal, is assigned to the case. An old schoolmate of Camila's, Alfonso has long been in love with her and conflicts arise when all evidence points to Camila being involved in the drug trade. The two brothers find themselves caught between their professional duty that would require them to expose Camila and their desire to protect her.

Nothing Personal

1996

Cóyotl, Hero and Beast poster
7.6

In a small town in northern Mexico, where two drug cartels rule, the young man Lupe embraces his dangerous fate. He transforms into Coyotl, a mythical creature that is half man and half beast. With this transformation, Lupe wants to become the protector his people so desperately need.

Cóyotl, Hero and Beast

2025

El Mochaorejas poster
8.1

The story of Daniel Arizmendi's rise, the corruption and fear that allowed his gang to terrorize Mexico in the 1990s, where he became known as "el mochaorejas" for his shady crimes

El Mochaorejas

2026

La Hermandad poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Hermandad

2016

Una Familia Complicada poster
9.0

For the Navarro family, appearances are everything. But after the sudden death of Alberto, the family patriarch, their carefully constructed façade begins to crumble. Doña Telma takes control of the family fortune and reputation while struggling to contain the conflicts among her children, whose betrayals, ambitions, and reckless decisions bring them dangerously close to crime.​ Amid secrets, deception, marriages of convenience, and forbidden relationships, the Navarro family is drawn into a spiral of chaos. Yet Doña Telma’s greatest challenge will be the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, a silent threat that could erase not only her memories, but also the secrets holding her family together.

Una Familia Complicada

2026

Las Bravas F.C. poster
8.4

A former soccer player who was once the best in the world becomes the new coach of his town's women's soccer team and promises to make them champions in order to avoid going to jail.

Las Bravas F.C.

2022

I Have to Die Every Night poster
8.6

Snapshot of the sophisticated and exclusive gay nightlife of one of the most emblematic clubs in 1980s’ Mexico City, where people living under the weight of a repressive society that marginalized them felt the need to express an exacerbated sense of freedom. Through the eyes of a young man eager to explore the world and live freely in the capital city, the series recreates a slice of life and a decade that shook the world.

I Have to Die Every Night

2024

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lucho en Familia

2011

El capo - El amo del túnel poster
10.0

After a daring escape from prison, a powerful Mexican drug lord becomes the target of police and criminals alike in this drama inspired by 'El Chapo.'

El capo - El amo del túnel

2017