Eligio Meléndez

Acting

Eligio Meléndez

Born

1950-06-20 (76)

Place of birth

Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Eligio Meléndez is a Mexican film, theater and television director and actor, born on June 20, 1950, in Mexico City. He studied at the Andrés Soler Acting Institute, with the renowned Luis Gimeno, Carlos Ancira, Miguel Círcega and Soledad Ruíz as teachers. One of the most recognized personalities in theater, the actor has participated in more than 30 works, including The Flower of the Heart, Borges with Music, The Enchanted Mirror, The Old Men, Trufaldino Servant of Two Patrons, Mexican Entremeses, Mexico Pachuco, Soldado Razo, among others. In film, Eligio made his debut in the film Perseguida (1991), and then built an interesting and lucrative career with roles in films such as The Colonel…

Known for

The Dead Girls poster
7.4

The story of the Baladro sisters, known as “Las Poquianchis”, who built a brothel empire and became merciless killers in 1960s Mexico.

The Dead Girls

2025

Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires poster
7.6

In the time of the Aztec empire, tragedy strikes Yohualli Coatl when his father is murdered by Spanish conquistadors. To warn King Moctezuma and his high priest, Yoka, of imminent danger, Yohualli escapes to Tenochtitlán. There, he trains in the temple of the bat god Tzinacan with his mentor, developing equipment and weaponry to confront the Spanish invasion and avenge his father’s death. Along the way, he encounters key figures like the fierce Jaguar Woman and the conquistador Hernán Cortés.

Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires

2025

Dreams poster
6.1

A powerful socialite and a promising ballet dancer begin a dangerous affair. When he secretly crosses the US-Mexico border, she takes desperate measures to protect their future together.

Dreams

2025

The Impostor poster
7.2

La Impostora, is a Spanish-language telenovela presumably to be produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami.

The Impostor

2014

Border Hunters poster
6.2

After his police officer brother is killed by a drug dealer who flees to the protection of his cartel-connected uncle in Mexico, an American man with a diverse law enforcement/military background goes south of the border to get revenge

Border Hunters

2025

El colapso poster
7.1

An exploration of the societal consequences when a nation's financial, technological, political, and environmental systems collapse. Told in eight stand-alone episodes filmed in one continuous shot.

El colapso

2023

Film credits

2020s · 25 titles

Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires poster
7.6

In the time of the Aztec empire, tragedy strikes Yohualli Coatl when his father is murdered by Spanish conquistadors. To warn King Moctezuma and his high priest, Yoka, of imminent danger, Yohualli escapes to Tenochtitlán. There, he trains in the temple of the bat god Tzinacan with his mentor, developing equipment and weaponry to confront the Spanish invasion and avenge his father’s death. Along the way, he encounters key figures like the fierce Jaguar Woman and the conquistador Hernán Cortés.

Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires

2025

Dreams poster
6.1

A powerful socialite and a promising ballet dancer begin a dangerous affair. When he secretly crosses the US-Mexico border, she takes desperate measures to protect their future together.

Dreams

2025

Border Hunters poster
6.2

After his police officer brother is killed by a drug dealer who flees to the protection of his cartel-connected uncle in Mexico, an American man with a diverse law enforcement/military background goes south of the border to get revenge

Border Hunters

2025

New Order poster
6.4

In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wealthy family. After the riots have been quashed, they discover the bride has gone missing and plea with the military to help locate her.

New Order

2020

La Civil poster
7.9

Cielo 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

Sex, Shame and Tears 2 poster
6.7

Twenty years have passed since those two apartments in the heart of Mexico City were the battlefield of a war of the sexes between Ana, Carlos, Andrea, Miguel, Tomás and María. All that is left of those apartments are memories and the image of Tomás' dead body at the bottom of the elevator shaft. Their lives have changed, their families have grown and new and unexpected characters have come to unsettle their daily lives and trigger a chain of events that will make them realize that modesty has been replaced by public disclosure; sex is only an app away; but love...love is still something elusive that everyone in today's banal and chaotic world is seeking.

Sex, Shame and Tears 2

2022

Tragic Jungle poster
6.1

Deep in the jungle, a group of Mexican gum workers crosses their path with Agnes, a mysterious Belizean woman. Her presence enlivens the fantasies and desires of those men, without knowing that they have woken up an ancient Mayan legend.

Tragic Jungle

2020

The Great Seduction poster
6.7

When a golden opportunity arises to boost the fortunes of a forgotten fishing town, its residents set out to trick their way to making it happen.

The Great Seduction

2023

Disappear Completely poster
6.8

An ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer falls victim to a mysterious illness that makes him lose, one by one, his five senses.

Disappear Completely

2024

No artwork available
NR

Waiter #2 is the character of a movie who interprets himself and becomes self-aware. Sarah is a kleptomaniac with a fond for kid's bicycles trying to overcome her sickness. Sami is a mascot costume who discovers contemporary dance and desires to become a professional dancer. Lazarus enjoys watching people die, since he was resurrected 2000 years ago and became immortal. These characters reunite in a drugsture to find the meaning of life.

*****… (Los Asteriscos…)

2024

The Day Everything Changed poster
7.5

Mario, used to be a man who had planned a happy future with his wife; until one night, a robbery ends up taking her life. From that moment on, his only objective is now to avenge on those who took away his happiness.

The Day Everything Changed

2024

Desechos poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Desechos

2026

More Tomorrow Than Before poster
NR

It is the story of resilience of a mother and her son, each living with a chronic degenerative disease, and how they reconcile with each other when they accept that their disease has united and transformed them forever.

More Tomorrow Than Before

2022

Quietud poster
NR

An old man struggles with the passing of time, the passing of his wife, and himself

Quietud

2024

Underdog poster
8.5

Two Tarahumara brothers, with a deep spiritual connection and a fervent desire to become the best ultramarathon runners in the world, will see their dreams shattered when they are violently recruited by a dangerous cartel as drug runners, putting their family at risk and forcing them to join forces to finally take control of their own destiny.

Underdog

2024

Living all of Life poster
10.0

After a lifetime together, Susana has been abandoned by her husband. She is in denial and holds on to the past. One day, she needs the help of her neighbor, Gloria, a free-spirited woman that she can’t stand. But the friendship that emerges between them awakens Susana's desire to live in the present.

Living all of Life

2022

Medusa poster
6.0

When teacher Nora comes home after being held the day before, the Medusa protocol app shows her in three videos what happened in her absence between her beloved husband and who impersonated her.

Medusa

2022

Recurring Patients poster
2.0

A dysfunctional and hilarious group of rehab addicts seek to fulfill the dream of an indigenous girl with terminal cancer. As they try to bring her back home, they dare to confront the mistakes of their own pasts.

Recurring Patients

2022

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Siete en punto

2021

Mi Amigo Bernardo poster
NR

After losing his mother, Efraín moves in with his grandfather and enters a new school where he meets Bernardo, a boy who is being bullied. As May 10th approaches, he discovers the reason.

Mi Amigo Bernardo

2025

Fuego en el sur poster
NR

A Mexican town is intervened by the military in search of the leader of a guerrilla group. Bernardino, an ally of the group, is on a mission to help his wounded companions, but the militia will get in the way, putting his loved ones at risk.

Fuego en el sur

2025

Public Phone poster
NR

After a nocturnal earthquake in Oaxaca, phone systems across Mexico collapse, forcing people to turn to public phones to communicate. Personal tensions and crises emerge amid the disconnection, revealing deep internal struggles and complex social dynamics in a chaotic context.

Public Phone

2025

#Rats poster
6.0

When the authorities failed to help him out, a musician tries to find the thieves who stole his money creating the hashtag #Rats. This leads to people trying to find their own robbers and seek for justice on their own with the aid of social media.

#Rats

2024

The Perfect Tomato poster
10.0

An aging farmer refuses to leave his longstanding way of life behind at the risk of losing what truly matters to him.

The Perfect Tomato

2024

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jefecita

2023

2010s · 12 titles

I Dream in Another Language poster
7.8

An indigenous language is in peril, as its last two speakers had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over 50 years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge of bringing the old friends back together and convincing them to speak once again so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it.

I Dream in Another Language

2017

El Día de la Unión poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

El Día de la Unión

2018

Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada poster
5.4

From his jail cell at Chihuahua's Military Hospital, Hidalgo begins to remember moments of his life, particularly his tenure as Parish Priest in the town of San Felipe Torres Mochas where he translated and produced the stage play "Tartuffe" by Moliere. During this time he fell in love with Josefa Quintana with whom he had three children and for whom he left the priesthood during a brief period in his life.

Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada

2010

One for the Road poster
7.0

Friday night in Mexico City... guided by three different ways of understanding the world, 20-year-olds, Juan, Rodrigo and Christian live after-hour adventures of friendship, love, and respect in a city marked by social differences.

One for the Road

2010

The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man poster
5.5

A Mexican boy bound for Chicago tries to cross the border, but is the crowded wagon he rides in going the right way? An offbeat, allegorical odyssey that blends absurd humor with pastoral imagery. A young man and a dead man journey north through a subtly surreal desert landscape, picking up a wagonful of odd characters as they go in this darkly humorous satire of contemporary Mexico. Written by TIFF LAFF

The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man

2011

Bleak Street poster
6.1

Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.

Bleak Street

2015

The Reasons of the Heart poster
6.0

In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her life. One day, she loses the two things which makes everything beareable: her lover and her credit card.

The Reasons of the Heart

2011

Fireflies poster
6.1

Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico. There his nostalgia and melancholy are confronted with new friendships, while he starts to rediscover his own desires.

Fireflies

2018

This Is Tomas poster
6.7

Leo and his band decide to bring Thomas to play in a wedding. They have no idea how complex it is to spend a day with someone with autism.

This Is Tomas

2019

Yerbamala poster
5.0

Jesús Andrade, a young thug, has decided to rob a stagecoach. At the time of the robbery he realizes that this is one of many stagecoaches of Governor Francisco Carreño and without giving enough importance he continues to theft, then suddenly he falls in love.

Yerbamala

2014

Ismael poster
NR

Ismael, widower of his beloved wife Teresa, walks the streets of the city in search of cardboard, in his extensive travels he has confrontations with Juan - a mental patient who thinks he is a dog and with Luigi - the most famous baker in the city. , who always scolds her daughter, because she did not inherit his gift in baking. But the destiny of these people is about to change, thanks to a magical event that Ismael will unleash.

Ismael

2012

Vultures poster
5.0

A distinguished writer declares in an interview that he should die consumed by flames, but he actually dies without any identification. An assistant coroner and a woman photographer kidnap the body to fake his suicide. The case is assigned to a judicial policeman who is oppressed by the deaths that sorround him.

Vultures

2014

2000s · 7 titles

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

The Virgin of Lust poster
6.8

In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows she's unbalanced. Don Lázaro warns Nacho about Lola, and Nacho knows his love will be unrequited, but he'll do anything, regardless of how degrading, to be near her. Lola, for her part, can be sadistic. Republican exiles who are regulars at the café encourage Lola's desire to assassinate Franco. Nacho in turn mixes this political mirage with his fascination with the plot of "The Mikado." Where do fantasies and obsessions lead?

The Virgin of Lust

2002

Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You poster
7.9

Yessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while Miriam shares a calm, loving household with her mother. The girls' friendship is shattered after Jorge arranges to have one of his friends rape Yessica.

Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You

2001

The Ruination of Men poster
6.1

A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.

The Ruination of Men

2000

In The Country Where Nothing Happens poster
6.4

A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.

In The Country Where Nothing Happens

2000

¿De qué lado estás? poster
6.0

A former East Germany secret agent runs away fron his past and lands in Mexico under a fake identity. However he's caught by the Mexican secret police and forced to infiltrate a political activist group in the movement of 68. Helmut Busch (now Bruno) meets Adela, one of the activists, and he then faces dilemma.

¿De qué lado estás?

2002

Curandero poster
5.7

A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City

Curandero

2005

1990s · 6 titles

Series credits

The Dead Girls poster
7.4

The story of the Baladro sisters, known as “Las Poquianchis”, who built a brothel empire and became merciless killers in 1960s Mexico.

The Dead Girls

2025

The Impostor poster
7.2

La Impostora, is a Spanish-language telenovela presumably to be produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami.

The Impostor

2014

El colapso poster
7.1

An exploration of the societal consequences when a nation's financial, technological, political, and environmental systems collapse. Told in eight stand-alone episodes filmed in one continuous shot.

El colapso

2023

El Candidato poster
6.9

Rookie CIA field operative Isabel Alfaro works alongside infamous CIA legend Wayne Addison to bring down Rafael Bautista, Mexico's most vicious and brilliant narco. Her mission brings her into conflict with Eduardo Yzaguirre, her former boyfriend and the current Mayor of Mexico City, the cleanest and most inspirational politician in the country.

El Candidato

2020

An Unknown Enemy poster
8.0

Fernando Barrientos, Head of the National Security Directorate, Mexico's Secret Police, is trying to reach the highest position in the country. On his way, he'll have to manipulate, betray, and kill, and he's well prepared for it. However, his path will be full of obstacles. Nobody, not even his family, will be immune to the chaos left in his quest for total power.

An Unknown Enemy

2018

Cecilia poster
7.6

The story of a woman whose world seemingly crumbles when she suffers a stroke. What at first seems like a tragedy ends up being an opportunity to reunite her family and rebuild her life.

Cecilia

2021

Consuelo poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

Consuelo

2024

Guardia García poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Guardia García

2018