Acting

René Pereyra

Known for

Acting

Credits

27 titles

Known for

The Unit poster
7.4

A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.

The Unit

2006

Acapulco H.E.A.T. poster
5.5

Acapulco H.E.A.T. is a 1993 syndicated television series that followed the Hemisphere Emergency Action Team [H.E.A.T.], a group of top-secret agents based in Acapulco, Mexico and recruited by C-5, a secret government coalition, to fight terrorism and international crime. The team kept a low profile, by acting as models and photographers who represented a Beach Fashion enterprise.

Acapulco H.E.A.T.

1993

Traffic poster
7.1

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.

Traffic

2000

Over There poster
6.8

Gritty, intense, evocative and emotional, "Over There" takes you to the front lines of battle and explores the effects of war on a U.S. Army unit sent to Iraq on their first tour of duty, as well as the equally powerful effects felt at home by their families and loved ones.

Over There

2005

Before Night Falls poster
6.6

Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

Before Night Falls

2000

Murder in Three Acts poster
6.0

In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

Murder in Three Acts

1986

Film credits

2000s · 5 titles

Traffic poster
7.1

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.

Traffic

2000

Before Night Falls poster
6.6

Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

Before Night Falls

2000

Between poster
4.2

Dianne travels alone to Mexico in search of her missing sister. Her investigation presents unsettling encounters leading her on a mind-bender as she attempts to unravel the truth.

Between

2005

Under the Salt poster
6.3

A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Victor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father's funeral home and spends his free time making crude animated horror films - who's strange behavior seems to point at him as the culprit of the crimes.

Under the Salt

2008

Fotonovela poster
5.0

An aspiring artist, Angel, wins a radio contest which allows him to become an intern to a famous fashion photographer. Angel tries to please his boss while also having twelve supermodels flirt with him.

Fotonovela

2008

1990s · 9 titles

Highway Patrolman poster
6.4

A 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

One Man’s War poster
7.2

Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to him since he's opposed to the military dictatorship of the country. The doctor and his family will take lots of risk while trying to prove that the government was involved in the murder.

One Man’s War

1991

Deep Crimson poster
6.8

Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder.

Deep Crimson

1996

Death and the Compass poster
5.7

In 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

The Burning Season poster
6.3

Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers, who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ranch land. The rich and the powerful will stop at nothing, and frequently resort to murder

The Burning Season

1994

Unlawful Passage poster
3.0

Erotic thriller about a rich couple who hires a new sailboat captain who's unbeknown to them also a drug smuggler.

Unlawful Passage

1994

Two Crimes poster
5.2

After being falsely accused of a murder, Marcos runs away to the small and quiet town of Cuevano. There he finds that the family matters are more complicated than his.

Two Crimes

1995

Algunas nubes poster
5.5

A Spanish movie directed by Carlos García Agraz.

Algunas nubes

1995

Lolo poster
6.0

Lolo lives in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City. One day he is assaulted and injured out of the factory where he works. After a week of hospitalization, Lolo loses his job and is forced to seek sustenance. The accidental death of an elderly woman, whom Lolo trying to steal a watch that his mother had insisted, facing the young people in your neighborhood and forces him to flee, full of guilt and shame.

Lolo

1993

1980s · 4 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Blue Angel, Night Club poster
6.0

Set in the 1990s, the story unfolds in a turbulent northern Mexican town where a queer nightclub stands on the brink of disappearing. Within this fragile space, drama and dark comedy intertwine to expose the contradictions of a community dominated by insecure “macho” men. Beneath their homophobic posturing lies a concealed, unspoken homosexuality that quietly shapes their lives. As the club’s survival hangs in the balance, it becomes a bittersweet symbol of both freedom and repression, reflecting the collision of desire, shame, and identity in a society desperate to preserve appearances.

The Blue Angel, Night Club

2024

The Blue Angel, Night Club poster
6.0

Set in the 1990s, the story unfolds in a turbulent northern Mexican town where a queer nightclub stands on the brink of disappearing. Within this fragile space, drama and dark comedy intertwine to expose the contradictions of a community dominated by insecure “macho” men. Beneath their homophobic posturing lies a concealed, unspoken homosexuality that quietly shapes their lives. As the club’s survival hangs in the balance, it becomes a bittersweet symbol of both freedom and repression, reflecting the collision of desire, shame, and identity in a society desperate to preserve appearances.

The Blue Angel, Night Club

2024

The Blue Angel, Night Club poster
6.0

Set in the 1990s, the story unfolds in a turbulent northern Mexican town where a queer nightclub stands on the brink of disappearing. Within this fragile space, drama and dark comedy intertwine to expose the contradictions of a community dominated by insecure “macho” men. Beneath their homophobic posturing lies a concealed, unspoken homosexuality that quietly shapes their lives. As the club’s survival hangs in the balance, it becomes a bittersweet symbol of both freedom and repression, reflecting the collision of desire, shame, and identity in a society desperate to preserve appearances.

The Blue Angel, Night Club

2024

The Arrival of Conrado Sierra poster
3.5

Although situated in the 40s, The Arrival of Conrado Sierra is an ode to women's freedom in all ages. Five sisters, known in the town as Las Josefitas vírgenes, anxiously await the arrival of a man who is only interested in marrying the youngest. But things aren't that easy, and, in the struggle to defend her love, the youngest sister faces the burden and prejudices of a stifling society.

The Arrival of Conrado Sierra

2012

The Arrival of Conrado Sierra poster
3.5

Although situated in the 40s, The Arrival of Conrado Sierra is an ode to women's freedom in all ages. Five sisters, known in the town as Las Josefitas vírgenes, anxiously await the arrival of a man who is only interested in marrying the youngest. But things aren't that easy, and, in the struggle to defend her love, the youngest sister faces the burden and prejudices of a stifling society.

The Arrival of Conrado Sierra

2012