José María de Tavira

Acting

José María de Tavira

Born 1983-09-27 · Mexico City, Mexico

Acting credits

The Mask of Zorro poster
6.6

It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped from prison he transforms troubled bandit Alejandro into his successor, in order to foil the plans of the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero who robbed him of his freedom, his wife and his precious daughter.

The Mask of Zorro

1998

Love Hurts poster
8.1

Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.

Love Hurts

2002

Un hombre por semana poster
7.5

A divorced woman reconstructs her life and opens herself to love. Her search for dating apps takes her through fun and unpredictable moments to discover self-love.

Un hombre por semana

2026

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

A Deadly Invitation poster
5.7

Eccentric millionaire Olivia sends her half sister Agatha, and a group of old acquaintances, a mysterious invitation for a weekend on her yacht, where they will discover the true motive behind this invitation: the celebration of… a murder?

A Deadly Invitation

2023

DeadTectives poster
5.9

A team of reality TV paranormal investigators go to Mexico's most haunted house in the pursuit of better ratings. However, when the true dark secrets of the mansion begin to reveal themselves, the hapless team quickly discover that this house is no hoax. With zero genuine ghost-hunting experience, they have to figure out how to stop the ghosts and escape the house with their lives.

DeadTectives

2019

Amarte poster
NR

He lives in his own universe. She is a famous soap opera star who needs to disappear from hers. When they meet by accident, what seems like a bad idea becomes a getaway as absurd as it is irresistible. As they flee from the press, between increasingly out of place situations, delirious moments and a connection that no one saw coming, both discover that escaping from reality can be much more fun... and dangerously irresistible for the heart. But when the real world reaches them again, they will have to decide if that encounter was just a perfect fantasy or if it is worth the risk of experiencing something real.

Amarte

2026

I Stay with You poster
4.9

Natalia and her friends go out one night out and end up subjecting a man to their sexual will. An essay on violence that revolves around three themes: power structures, machismo and the media.

I Stay with You

2014

Art Is Dark and Full of Horrors poster
NR

This corrosive satire of the Mexican art world unfolds during a week of ferocious preening, dealing and partying. Star artist Chema rules the scene – but if he falls, every vulture of the art market is ready to swoop in.

Art Is Dark and Full of Horrors

2026

Tired of Kissing Frogs poster
6.3

A romantic comedy about a young interior decorator who, as a result of a romantic disappointment, becomes the female counterpart of Don Juan. The misadventures of the manizer make her rediscover the value of love.

Tired of Kissing Frogs

2006

Que pena tu vida poster
4.9

A man loses his job an his girlfriend, but he really wants to start dating his best friend.

Que pena tu vida

2016

File of Attempted Murder poster
6.3

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.

File of Attempted Murder

2010

El baile de San Juan poster
4.6

It is the final decade of the 18th century in New Spain. We are in Mexico City, inhabited by local adventurers, native inhabitants and Europeans of every kind. In these surroundings, our characters, Jerónimo Marani, court choreographer, Giovanni, his mestizo son, and Victoria, the daughter of the most prominent family in the city, who is in love with Giovanni, live a life of love and aversion, court intrigue and popular grievances, Viceregal dogmas and dreams of freedom. Mexico´s war of independence is only a few years in the future.

El baile de San Juan

2010

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

No artwork available
10.0

Two best friends, Javier and Lucio, decide to take a trip to the best surf beaches in Mexico.

Surfing Your Dreams

2013

The Vineyard poster
5.2

The legend of the 'Tierra De Sangre' vineyard... A tale that takes place a century ago, where love and death collide, and the mystery is darker than anyone could possibly imagine.

The Vineyard

2014

The Imperialists Are Still Alive! poster
4.1

Juggling the sudden abduction of her childhood sweetheart as well as a blooming love affair, a French Manhattanite makes her way as an artist in an indifferent, sometimes hostile world.

The Imperialists Are Still Alive!

2010

Todo lo invisible poster
3.0

When a car accident causes Jonás to completely lose his vision, he finds himself unable to live the life he used to know. Despite his refusal to accept his new condition or to show any vulnerability in the presence of his wife and daughters, the circumstances will lead him to discover new and unsuspected paths that will allow him to carry on.

Todo lo invisible

2020

Lost Girl poster
6.9

Shattered by the unexpected news of their irreversible break-up, an aspiring orchestra conductor is puzzled by his girlfriend's mysterious and seemingly inexplicable case of disappearance.

Lost Girl

2019

Left High And Dry poster
7.6

A man is left at the altar by his bride, so his two cousins decide to bring him to the place they used to go on vacation when they were kids.

Left High And Dry

2019

Perpetuum Mobile poster
2.7

An itinerant mover works from the streets of Mexico City with his partner and lives with his beleaguered mother. A heightened tension within the home – by the absent older brother and unmentioned father. Gabino's casual pursuit of a career is interrupted by a series of intense and almost satirically telenovela-esque domestic vignettes.

Perpetuum Mobile

2009

Where Are Their Stories? poster
4.8

Vicente (Gabino Rodríguez) is a young farmer in a rural village who scrapes by while taking care of his ill grandmother. Several of Vicente’s uncles intend to their ailing mother’s land without her knowledge. Vicente seeks help from the municipal president who, between shooting hoops on a desolate court, tells him that if he wants justice, he must head to the capital to meet with government officials. Although he hasn’t seen her since he was a child, Vicente sets off in search of his mother, who works as a maid in maze-like Mexico City. With the help of his mother’s employer, a sophisticated middle-aged woman, he finds the government offices where he presents his case. His situation isn’t easily resolved, especially since he does not have the deed to his grandmother’s plot of land, and Vicente finds the complexities of the legal system to be completely overwhelming.

Where Are Their Stories?

2007

Enemigos íntimos poster
4.2

Tells the stories of eight characters suffering from different ailments: a doctor who does not acknowledge his homosexuality, a woman who refuses to accept that she is growing old, a mute nurse, a failed writer, an autistic child, a young pregnant woman and an adolescent in a coma, who are linked together by the fact that one of them, Guillermo is diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his kidney.

Enemigos íntimos

2009

The Opposite Of Death poster
NR

Set of stories of couples who sign either their love or death sentence. Intimate, specific and diverse situations that give a panorama of the vast terrain of love relationships. Life is not the opposite of death, but rather its intermediate point. The opposite of death is love, because that is where the human being is more alive than ever.

The Opposite Of Death

2025