
Acting
Arcelia Ramírez
Born 1967-12-07 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Arcelia Ramírez (born 7 December 1967) is a Mexican actress who appeared in over 50 films and television shows since 1985. At a young age she became interested in acting. She studied acting at the Centro Universitario de Teatro (CUT), from where she was prepared for several plays produced by the same institution, including La pasión de Pentesilea, La séptima morada, La noche de Hernán Cortés, Las mujeres sabias, Freda y otras griegas and Relaciones peligrosas. She lived in France from 2007 to 2011, a period in which she kept up her work pace, coming to Mexico to film movies as diverse as Arturo Ripstein's "Las razones del corazón" and Victor Avelar's "Cómo no te voy a querer". Meanwhile, her life in Paris was like that of a nameless woman who was beginning to raise a family. Throughout her career, which began in 1985 with the film "El centro del laberinto", she has been nominated for important awards, such as the Ariel, at the Cannes Festival, at the Havana Festival, at the Latin American Film Festival in Lérida, among others. She has been nominated four times for the Ariel Award, twice for Best Actress (1997, 2000) and twice for Best Supporting Actress (2001 and 2003). The first actress attended the Cannes Film Festival 2021 for her performance in the film "La civil", first fiction of the Belgian-Romanian director Teodora Mihai. In the film she plays Cielo, a mother searching for her daughter kidnapped by organized crime in northern Mexico. After the screening on July 10 at the Debussy Hall, Ramirez received an eight-minute standing ovation from the audience. An unprecedented and almost unbelievable experience for Arcelia Ramírez, she explained, so much so that it marked her life and brought tears to her eyes.
Acting credits
7.7Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.
Instructions Not Included
2013
5.1Potosi, 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
5.9A female Psychologist who has stopped practicing medicine, decides to take the case of Veronica de la Serna, a young woman whose previous therapist has mysteriously disappeared.
Veronica
2017
7.3Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
Like Water for Chocolate
1992
5.3After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman with a severe character, who subjects the child to multiple abuses and psychological torture.
A Shred Of Mist
2014
NRA family gathers and sells waste. One day, the mother finds a cylinder in an abandoned hospital and takes it home. The family situation becomes worse when, without them realizing it, the cylinder begins to change them from within.
About Family
2017
5.3An anodyne environment and a perennial lack of affection, push Lucia and Braulio to turn in the fiction world; to materialize their dreams. Neither inclement reality can stop them.
No One Will Ever Know
2018
4.0No synopsis available yet.
Aquí estoy
2024
6.5Lola is looking forward to her birthday tomorrow. The 15th is widely celebrated in Mexico as a rite of passage. At the so-called Quinceañera Lola is allowed to dress up, the pink princess dress and the golden shoes are already ready. But first she has to help her uncle out one evening as a waitress.
Reina
2020
Using gambling as an escape from her social isolation, Valeria, a disabled woman with limited use of her hands, recruits a poor AfroMexican industrial worker to help her play the casinos and attempts to seduce him. When her ultra religious mother threatens to destroy their burgeoning love affair, Valeria must move beyond the limits of her disabilities.
Cancuncito
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6.1The economy has collapsed. In a universe of moral and economic impoverishment, we find Flavia, a spoiled teenager with artistic aspirations that are somewhat frustrated when she is not accepted at the University. Her neighbor Martin, a mature man with rigid routines, is her antipode. When Flavia meets Martin, there are sparks of friction at all times, and the situation is unlikely to get any better.
Open Cage
2014
6.0Gilberto Cortés is an actor in a theatre play about a father fighting to save his son from the death penalty. Years later, he faces the same dilemma in real life when his own son is accused of the murder of a child molester.
Ultima llamada
1996
6.6Refugio, a romantic dreamer whose years long quest to find true love takes him from the circus life in Mexico to the nightlife of New Orleans, where he unexpectedly falls for a beautiful exotic dancer with a complicated past and a dangerous ex-lover who refuses to let her go.
A Circus Tale & A Love Song
2024
3.0Fausto faces the frustration of his ruined plans to study photography in Barcelona and the pregnancy of Carmen, he returns to Mexico and is diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Yo Fausto
2021
8.3In a country with hundreds of missing people, Alejandra, a frivolous, divorced mother of two children, faces the disappearance of her brother Salvador, a documentalist of the ecological depredation of a Canadian mining company. Life becomes more difficult with job and family losses. Alejandra will fight to protect her family and learn that love conquers all.
Volveré
2023
6.3The life of great playwright Alejandro del Rey, his searches, his principles, his women and a hostile environment are the backdrop for a wonderful tale of carnal passions, aesthetic obsessions and love for living.
Rizo
1999
5.0Gabriel is a young man with a normal life until the tragic death of his mother. Constant fights with his sister and being abandoned by his brother lead him to run away. When everything seems lost, he meets a king young girl named Cielo. They both face hardships including her Brother, "Gato," who forces Gabriel into a life of crime. His life on the streets is much harder and more dangerous than he imagined.
Cielo
2007
7.0An epic love story spanning decades is sparked by a chance encounter between two men in provincial Mexico. Based on a true story, ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.
I Carry You with Me
2021
5.9"Cilantro y perejil" is a comedy about couples from the same family, hit by the economic crisis in Mexico. The plot turns around the eternal question of whether it is worth it to live as a couple. The conclusions are fun, unpredictable and very human. After ending a ten-year marriage, Carlos and Susana try to fall in love with other people without success. As the days go by, Carlos realizes that without Susana he is unable to do many things, including distinguishing cilantro from parsley.
Recipes to Stay Together
1996
NRA young photojournalist in the city of Veracruz, Mexico, will risk his life to dig up a shocking truth after picking up the investigation that his journalist friend and mentor left unfinished when getting killed by the organized crime.
Crocodiles
2025
7.9After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With no papers or money, and without knowing the language, he barely survives living on the street until he meets Ruth, an old retired nurse who doesn’t speak Spanish. Beyond language barriers and prejudices, they discover that solidarity and humanity make life bearable.
Good Day, Ramon
2013
7.7Gabino, a very dedicated and hardworking young high school student, he is infatuated with Maty and tries to make her fall in love with him. After an incident in the school, where Gabino and his two friends are suspended for harassing Maty, she rejects him for the last time causing Gabino to plan a revenge against Maty.
Nadie te ve: La niña en la piedra
2007
5.9After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel Francisco I. Madero, who is in San Antonio, Texas. That is how Valentina begins a long journey as a member of a traveling circus, where she finds love next to Victor, who, fascinated by the cinematographer, films everything that occurs before his eyes, in times of great political turbulence.
El Cometa
1999
7.9Cielo is a mother whose teenage daughter is kidnapped in Northern Mexico. When the authorities offer no support in the search, Cielo takes matters into her own hands and transforms from housewife into a vengeful militant.
La Civil
2021