Acting

René Pereyra

Acting credits

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
6.7

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

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

Murder in Three Acts poster
5.9

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

Sundown poster
5.8

High school seniors Logan and Blake prepare for an epic Spring Break as they travel to the beautiful and exotic Mexican beach resort of Puerto Vallarta hoping to hook up with their high school crushes. Surrounded by hot girls in teeny bikinis, the guys are truly in heaven. After meeting at a club, Logan falls for a mysterious local beauty named Gaby but then realizes the next morning, when his grandfather’s Rolex watch is missing, that she was after more than just his heart.

Sundown

2016

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

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

Death and the Compass poster
5.9

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

The Realm of Fortune poster
5.3

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.

The Realm of Fortune

1986

One Man Out poster
4.6

A soldier of fortune fights drug runners in Central America.

One Man Out

1989

Between poster
4.3

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

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

Algunas nubes poster
5.5

A Spanish movie directed by Carlos García Agraz.

Algunas nubes

1995

Under the Salt poster
6.1

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

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

I Love You Catalina poster
6.0

An unseen person enters a taxi late at night. Suddenly the taxi driver is stabbed with a large metal knitting needle. From there we meet our female killer. Catalina is a very plain Jane looking young lady. She wears some geeky glasses and usually dresses very conservatively. She lives with her grandmother and they both seem to loathe men. Catalina’s grandmother mentions that her late daughter/Catalina’s mother was troubled by men and that cost her her life. Catalina and her mother resemble each other. At night, Catalina awakens by the vengeful spirit of her mother to advise her to go out and kill men. The kind that only want to take advantage.

I Love You Catalina

1986

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

Behind the camera

The Blue Angel 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

2024

The Blue Angel 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

2024

The Blue Angel 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

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