
Acting
Bruno Bichir
Born
1967-10-06 (59)
Place of birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
76 titles
Bruno Bichir (born Bruno Bichir Nájera October 6, 1967, Mexico City) is one of the most prolific actors of the contemporary cinema of Mexico as well as telenovelas and theater. Bruno is a member of the Bichir family of Lebanese origin whose members are prominent actors. Both of his parents, Alejandro Bichir and Maricruz Nájera, and two older brothers Odiseo and Demián Bichir are actors.
Known for
7.8A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.
Titans
2018
8.2A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
Ozark
2017
8.1A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
Narcos
2015
7.3A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.
Absentia
2017
7.4In 1971, four women defy ultraconservative norms and join Mexico's first female police force—only to discover that it's a publicity stunt to distract the media from a serial killer. As the body count grows, they make a pact to bring the killer to justice.
Women in Blue
2024
6.7Allie 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
Film credits
2020s · 12 titles
7.9Toto and his friends must rescue his egg children after they're taken away for a gourmet food event in Africa.
An Egg Rescue
2021
5.8Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna.
Kiss of the Spider Woman
2025
8.4When a human baby crosses the Eternal Mirror, the portal between the living and the dead opens its path to the beings from the underworld.
Las leyendas: El origen
2021
7.7Toto and his family must travel to the South Pole to fulfill a promise: return a polar bear and some Spanish penguins to their home. To achieve this, they will have to overcome obstacles that teach them how important teamwork is.
Little Eggs: A Frozen Rescue
2022
5.2A man on the run from his own sins, finds himself in a small border town in Texas, impersonating a reverend. The town are quickly drawn to the man's unorthodox sermons, but so is a police chief who has his suspicions.
The Quarry
2020
6.6Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and other cast members open up about the show's characters and creators, plus what they'll miss most.
A Farewell to Ozark
2022
6.0A single mother must protect her daughter and herself during a heist gone wrong at a high-tech storage facility.
Locked In
2021
7.6Maggie is in her final days of pregnancy, when she and her husband Sean are attacked in their isolated home by two people who decide to wait with them until Monday to empty the family's bank accounts.
Instincts
2025
2.0Patricio’s (Bruno Bichir) wife has asked for a divorce, he can’t see his daughter and he has lost millions of dollars. Talk about a streak of bad luck! His eccentric friend offers him a room in a mansion that houses resident artists. There he meets Natalia (Karla Coronado), a young woman in charge of the mansion’s organic garden, with whom he establishes a relationship. A video installation about nuclear war will help him find his way again.
Until the End of Time
2023
7.8It follows an unconventional family who find themselves embroiled in a personality swap after little Zoe has a mystical encounter with an ancient god. As a result, each family member finds themselves in the body of another.
Switched Up
2024
4.8A group of lottery employees plan the biggest fraud in Mexican history using a powerful weapon: the magic of television.
Corazonada
2022
8.0Story of six interwoven narratives in Mexico City, exploring the human condition against intermittent rain. With each encounter, the characters experience a moment of absurdity, brightness, or strangeness that reveals their true selves.
Rain
2025
2010s · 9 titles
6.9Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
7.0Toto has grown and now is a young cock. An evil rancher tricks the female owner of the ranch where they live and forces her to bet the property in a cockfight in the arena. Toto is the only option to defend their home, so he must train in just one week and win the championship of the arena.
Huevos: Little Rooster's Egg-Cellent Adventure
2015
7.0A group of longtime friends get together for dinner. When they decide to share the content of every text message, email, and phone call they receive, secrets are unveiled and the balance is upset.
Perfectos desconocidos
2018
6.1The Runway is inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who landed his plane near Mallow, in 1983. Against all odds, the people of the town came together to build a runway to get him home and briefly caught the imagination of the nation. It is the story of Paco, a young boy without a father who adopts the pilot and convinces the town to build a runway to get him home.
The Runway
2010
6.6Santos, an overweight pacheco fighter suffers from his recent divorce with La Tetona Mendoza, a voluptuous and wild female fighter. To get out of his depression, Santos begins a campaign to help Sahuayo Zombies. However, his philanthropic campaign soon becomes a very profitable business that leverages Santos for their benefit. The population becomes a zombie plague and Santos threatens to dispose of them. However, the Peyote Murderer gets rid of the zombies. But the world without zombies turns out to be worse than anyone could have imagined and the only choice to save the nation is for Santos and Peyote to work together to repopulate the world.
El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza
2012
5.0Rafael faces the complications of the revolution and discovers true love with Luisa.
Citizen Buelna
2013
6.7Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Expedition" proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century.
Chicogrande
2010
6.6Mexico 1914. During the Revolution, a raid by the army in a small mining town leaves Gapo, 11, orphaned. Taken captive to be turned into a child soldier he escapes with the help of Juan Escopeta, a gunman for hire. Together they travel through a country absorbed in civil war in search of Gapo’s older and only brother: a famed revolutionary outlaw.
La Revolución De Juan Escopeta
2011
5.0Lucas is a successful writer, creator of "Woman is a Goddess", a novel that makes it very successful with women. His girlfriend Sandy is a millionaire with whom he is about to get engaged. Despite being committed, Lucas continues his love affairs ... and the engagement party, Sandy catches him kissing another woman. After a heated argument, Sandy decides to forgive him on the condition take counseling. Therapy which gives the result as a diagnostic: Sex Addiction! and the only solution is the temporary isolation of Lucas. Dagoberto, its editor, offers his cabin in the woods to get cured and finished his new novel, and the urgency to get something fresh to the market. So Lucas is recast in a cabin in the woods, where he has no idea what is about to happen less expected, making this story has an unexpected ending!
Todas mías
2013
2000s · 17 titles
6.8Ernesto Guevara, known as 'Che', leads a group of Cuban exiles under Fidel Castro in a revolution to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba.
Che: Part One
2008
5.6Two angels, one from Heaven and one from Hell, come to Earth to save the soul of a boxer.
Don't Tempt Me
2001
6.5After almost 10 years of marriage, attractive Zoe discovers that her marriage lacks passion and surprise, and is seduced by the possibility of finding those sensations already forgotten in her husband's brother. From this premise a series of events lead these three characters to a dangerous game of revenges, secrets and passions. Two brothers and one woman: the triangle is outlined in a disquieting way. It is a bomb that triggers family secrets, the contained rage of desire and the unmanageable power of love. An exciting story that subjugates the viewer from beginning to end. Even though Zoe/Sonia has been married to Ignacio/Ishan for about a decade, they are unable to have children. She wants to be intimate but he prefers to be ready for intimacy on Saturdays only, and she gets physically drawn to his artistic brother, Gonzalo/Rohan. Then things get complicated for her after she tests positive for motherhood and finds that her husband may be gay.
My Brother's Wife
2005
5.9These three stories are about sex, relationships and fantasy. A couple in their 30's is looking to satisfy their sexual fantasies, so they invite a nurse to join them for a threesome. A nurse falls in love with the wrong man, an old doctor friend. A young kid meets a troubled girl outside a club.
Erotica: Moonlight
2008
7.9A small egg named Toto decides that he wants to fulfill his purpose in life and become a chicken instead of dying in a frying pan; so he starts a quest to return to the farms along with his new friend, the noisy egg Willy and a crazy bacon stripe. The three friends will face lot of obstacles in their quest.
A Movie of Eggs
2006
6.7An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
Julia
2008
6.3Bogotá, 1980. During the government of President Turbay. An urban cell of the M-19 invades the Embassy of the Dominican Republic, taking 14 ambassadors as hostages. They demand that they be exchanged for political prisoners. The film focuses on the events that took place during those two months of captivity.
La toma de la embajada
2000
5.6A group of women, including Skipper, the wealthy young Jennifer and the domineering Nan, journey from the United States to South America in hopes of easily adopting children. Unfortunately, their plans are complicated by local laws that require the women to live in the foreign nation for an extended period before they can take in orphaned kids. While stuck in another country, the women bond as they share their aspirations and anxieties.
Casa de los Babys
2003
4.7A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.
A Breakfast Chronicle
2000
4.6Though around them a criminal world seethes, Julie and Antonio are a young and loving couple with a new baby and a solid, white-collar sense of stability. But when a loose social connection suddenly ties them to a major political assassination, the two become innocents desperately trying to adapt to a world of murderous politicians and police that, moment to moment, threatens their lives
Rabbit on the Moon
2004
7.8Toto, now a chicken, tries to live as such, while Willy and Bibi deal some problems between them. A sorcerer egg desert needs a chicken heart to cast a spell. He sends his armies of eggs vulture, ostrich and scorpion to kidnap Toto. His friends embark on a journey through the desert to rescue the chicken, where they live countless adventures
Another Egg and Chicken Movie
2009
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Esperanza
2005
5.4Adapted by writer/director Fernando Sariñana from the stories by Juan Madrid, Ciudades Oscuras (Dark Cities) tells a story of interwoven lives in the seedy underbelly of Mexico City. The several different story lines concern hooker Lola (Dolores Heredia); her drug addict son Fede (Diego Luna); her friend Zeze (Zaide Silvia Gutierrez); Zeze's daughter Susana (Jimena Ayala); and junkie Vicente (Roberto Sosa). Also on the scene are two corrupt cops (Alejandro Tommasi and Jesus Ochoa) and one good cop (Odiseo Bichir), while Chicken (Hector Suarez) and Casimiro (Alonso Echanove) each tell their separate stories to the same bartender (Demian Bichir). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
Dark Cities
2002
7.4A man is wrongfully buried alive, and starts to descend to the Underworld.
Down to the Bone
2002
3.8Five stories blend with love, sex, the emptiness of being unloved, passion and desire: Carlos and Susana go to some uncle´s apartment to make love. Meanwhile, Benito, an 80-year-old, performs a serenade to his wife. His neighbor Adela is told that her mother has Alzheimer and that she will be relocated since the Buenos Aires building she lives in will be demolished. Amado catches his son Carlos stealing his money. Gabriel asks Martha´s parents for her hand in marriage but they condition them to get married at their favorite church. And Patricia, 40, a creative agent, sexually abuses Joel, who directs a beer commercial.
Amar
2009
5.7Marcelo and Sofía love each other, but both suspect the other of infidelity. Marcelo, a film director, accidentally discovers condoms in Sofías purse. They are really for Marcelos younger sister, but he thinks the discovery confirms his suspicions and keeps one as evidence. Sofía discovers the condom in Marcelos wallet and takes for granted that he is cheating on her. Pepe, Marcelos cousin, pretends to be him to impress a girl, further complicating the mix up.
Mosquita muerta
2007
8.0What would happen if the world's largest city ran out of clean water? The situation is portrayed through the eyes of a mature couple who are reluctant to leave their home and who defend their last drops of water at gunpoint.
El Día Menos Pensado
2005
1990s · 19 titles
6.4A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption, dangerous drug runners and the consequences of his often morally gray actions.
Highway Patrolman
1991
7.3Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.
Midaq Alley
1995
8.3On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
Red Dawn
1990
7.0Alcoholic prostitute Gloria is in the middle of a business deal with gangsters when a fatal confrontation occurs. She flees Mexico City, returning to her native Madrid, where she's reunited with her comatose husband and his mother, while hitman Eduardo is pursuing her to retrieve information.
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
1995
No synopsis available yet.
Ciudad que se escapa
1998
7.7The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
The Beginning and the End
1994
5.7In 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
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Espiritus
1995
5.5"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in "La Nueva Jerusalem".
Divine
1998
7.2Tijuana is a mystical city and the scene of different stories, where the characters search for meaning in their lives.
The Garden of Eden
1994
6.0A bureaucrat gets a house and even a car on credit thanks to the support of a compadre who is a union leader, but then has difficulty paying because he is fired in a job cut despite the many years he has been working.
Golpe de suerte
1992
5.5A Spanish movie directed by Carlos García Agraz.
Algunas nubes
1995
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Tu vida y mi vida
1994
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Luna de miel al cuarto menguante
1990
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Anatomy of a Rape
1991
6.1Two young girls used to play Serpents and Ladders. One of them always won, but they are very close friends. When they grow up, the winner is still the lucky one in the game of life, but life can be treacherous...
Serpientes y escaleras
1992
6.7Bruno, a novelist with no luck goes to call for help from his love always sofia, who is in Veracruz desolate without knowing what to do with the corpse of her boyfriend who died because of a heart attack while they made love
Dama de Noche
1993
5.2Filmmaker Ernesto Rimoch looks at the potent combination of love and ambition in this film about a couple who's so happy their daughter is marrying into a rich clan that they throw the best wedding ever, even if they can't afford it. When the father (Damián Alcázar) loses the money to pay for the musician, mayhem ensues. The film itself is made to look like a videotaping of the wedding, revealing who's responsible for the crime.
El Anzuelo
1996
5.8Sofia 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
1980s · 3 titles
6.7Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
Under Fire
1983
5.5This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
Frida Still Life
1986
6.8The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's mother (Mariana). Carlos is impressed because this family is not like the ordinary mexican families of the time, because they have many expensive American things, although they are not rich. The drama begins when Carlos gets out of school to go to declare his love to Mariana, and is discovered by his teachers.
Mariana Mariana
1987
Series credits
7.8A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.
Titans
2018
8.2A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
Ozark
2017
8.1A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
Narcos
2015
7.3A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.
Absentia
2017
7.4In 1971, four women defy ultraconservative norms and join Mexico's first female police force—only to discover that it's a publicity stunt to distract the media from a serial killer. As the body count grows, they make a pact to bring the killer to justice.
Women in Blue
2024
6.7Allie 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
6.7Allie 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
6.6A murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juarez bring together El Paso detective Sonya Cross and Chihuahua State Police detective Marco Ruiz.
The Bridge
2013
7.2A 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
10.0Háblame de amor is a Mexican telenovela produced by TV Azteca for Azteca Digital. It is a remake of Amor en silencio by Eric Vonn.
Háblame de amor
1999
6.0La 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
7.3La calle de las novias is a Mexican telenovela produced by TV Azteca and Zuba Producciones. Directed by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, it stars Silvia Navarro and Juan Manuel Bernal as protagonists.
Bride's Avenue
2000
7.3No synopsis available yet.
Las Lunas del Auditorio
2002
7.8The five Acosta children navigate daily life struggles to survive as a family unit after their parents are suddenly deported back to Mexico.
Party of Five
2020
7.3Vladimiro's illusion of finding peace and quiet away from his family in his underground fallout bunker is ruined when he's forced to share it with a shady tycoon hounded by kidnappers, terrorists and activists.
Bunker
2021
