Acting

Miguel Couturier

Born 1945-01-01 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Acting credits

Once Upon a Time in Mexico poster
6.3

A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

2003

Casa desierta poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Casa desierta

The Legend of La Llorona poster
7.9

Based on a famous Mexican legend, a group of kids must stop the ghost of a woman whose guilt over the drowning of her own children leads her to abduct youngsters who wander the woods at night.

The Legend of La Llorona

2011

Miss Bala poster
6.7

The story of a young woman clinging on to her dream to become a beauty contest queen in a Mexico dominated by organized crime.

Miss Bala

2011

The Other Family poster
6.3

Jean Paul and Chema have been together ten years. They have successful careers, a comfortable home and many friends. But that's all turned turned upside down when close friend Ivana rescues Hendrix from his broken home and asks them to care for the boy. Hendrix's mother Nina is a drug addict who suffers at the hands of her abusive partner Patrick. The men begin to consider making Hendrix part of their family.

The Other Family

2011

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

2033 poster
4.2

In 2033, Mexico City is a hot, mechanical and chaotic megacity ruled by the military and a tyrannical government. It is an oppressed society with its religious faith and liberty of expression stolen. Pablo, the main character, is a young finantial yuppie that gets shelter in drugs and alcohol. He leaves his privileged life in order to help the unprotected and destroy the system that controls the population.

2033

2009

Angel Dust poster
3.6

In the city of Latinopolis a man named Sacro is hired by a powerful company to carry out a very dangerous mission with the help of Caos, an angel hunter. Meanwhile in another part of the city Susana and Miguel, two Alter-globalization supporters are looking for their sister Susana, who mysteriously disappeared. In their search they will cross paths with an assorted mix of characters that are lost somehow in this unbelievable but true story of craziness and love.

Angel Dust

2007

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

La Troca de Sinaloa poster
5.0

A retired police officer decides to go back on duty when his wife and child are killed by a gang of criminals.

La Troca de Sinaloa

2005

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cuestión de corbatas

2011

Zapata: The dream of a hero poster
5.5

This fictionalized portrayal of Emiliano Zapata as an Indigenous Mexican shaman, directed by Alfonso Arau, was reportedly the most expensive Mexican movie ever produced, with a massive ad campaign, and the largest ever opening in the nation's history. Unusual in the Mexican film industry, Zapata was financed independently.

Zapata: The dream of a hero

2004

The Book of Stone poster
4.9

Julieta is a young child psychologist hired by millionaire Eugenio Ruvalcaba, to work with his only daughter, Sylvia, who has severe emotional problems, while staying in their isolated island mansion. Once there, she finds out there's much more to Sylvia's imaginary friend than what everybody knows... and the results can be horrifying... Remake of Carlos Enrique Taboada's classic film from 1969.

The Book of Stone

2009

Two Embraces poster
6.1

Four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom he is infatuated, an enraged and embittered cabbie, and the estranged daughter of one of his fares. Per the film's title, these characters pair off, finding unexpected hope and salvation in one another.

Two Embraces

2007

The Magic Hour poster
4.4

Minerva, a middle age writer, decides to break the uncertainty that prevents her from creating the novel that for years she has nested in her mind. Unintentionally, she returns to the port where she was born and she encounters a past full of ghosts and chimeras. Paradoxically, she founds herself because of this journey back home, so she begins writing the story of her life, of her own childhood, with its magical past and tragedy.

The Magic Hour

2000

El tesoro del Pilar poster
5.3

A group of youngsters find a letter in a bottle that belonged to Ernest Hemingway and supposedly leads to a hidden treasure.

El tesoro del Pilar

2000

Desterrados poster
8.0

Andrés returns home on the occasion of his mother’s death. As he is reunited with his family, he discovers a new conflict which, once revealed, will force him to decide if he will stay and face it or run away again in order to save himself.

Desterrados

2014

First Movement for Twenty Men in an Empty Room poster
NR

Don Plascencio has a collection of men he uses like radio stations: in a routine aural examination each man plays a different musical piece instead of the usual heartbeat.

First Movement for Twenty Men in an Empty Room

2008