Gustavo Sánchez Parra

Gustavo Sánchez Parra

1966-11-08 Mexico City, Mexico 84 Credits

Biography

Gustavo Sánchez Parra studied at the most famous Dramatic Art school in Mexico, the Centro Universitario de Teatro. He landed his first role in Alejandro González Iñárritu's debut, Amores Perros, for which he was nominated for an Ariel for Best Supporting Actor. Then he worked in national and international productions such as Ridley Scott's The Fire of Vengeance; The Three Burials of Melquíades Estrada, by Tommy Lee Jones; Rabia, by Sebastián Cordero, and Crónicas, produced by Guillermo del Tor...

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Olmo

Olmo

2025

as Nestor

7.0
Acting

1979, New Mexico, USA. Olmo is stuck. Today is his turn to take care of his sick father even though he is only 14-years-old and would much rather be h...

The Wingwalker

The Wingwalker

2024

as Camilo

8.0
Acting

A young widower is deported as his daughter is scheduled for a heart transplant, this will lead him to orchestrate the boldest border crossing plan in...

Blue Salt

Blue Salt

2023

10.0
Acting

A toxic relationship makes Connie think she’s gone crazy until she discovers she’s been manipulated by her partner who’s hiding a dark secret.

Pet Shop Days

Pet Shop Days

2023

as Priest

1.0
Acting

In an act of desperation, impulsive black sheep Alejandro flees his home in Mexico. On the run from his unforgiving father, Alejandro finds himself in...

Sound of Freedom

Sound of Freedom

2023

as El Calacas

8.0
Acting

The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers...

Journey

Journey

2023

as Pedro

Acting

Roberto is a young man who is trying to find his way back home to his family. His desire to push forward despite facing seemingly insurmountable obsta...

There Are No Saints

There Are No Saints

2022

as Bailarín

5.2
Acting

A man is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. When his wife is murdered and his son kidnapped and taken to Mexico, he devises an elaborate and dan...

Caballero Águila

Caballero Águila

2022

as Daniel

Acting

After high school is over, three friends have to choose their paths. Pastor dreams of flying and winning Flor´s love, while her jealous brother Nacho ...

La Guadalupana

La Guadalupana

2021

as Fresco

Acting

Pray for us sinners...

Killing Cabos 2: The Mask of El Máscara

Killing Cabos 2: The Mask of El Máscara

2021

as Nico

7.7
Acting

Faced with the unexpected death of his estranged father -El Máscara- and the subsequent theft of his precious mask, Rubén -Mascarita- will find himsel...

El mesero

El mesero

2021

as Pasilla

8.0
Acting

A waiter pretends to be an important businessman in order to reach the upper class through his entrepreneurial dreams.

Aztech

Aztech

2020

5.3
Acting

Fragments of a meteor crash in Mexico and United States. Thirteen stories in different spaces and times happen in places of collisions .

New Order

New Order

2020

as General Oribe

6.5
Acting

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, th...

El Camino

El Camino

2020

as Rojo

5.7
Acting

In order to sustain his family, a troubled pilot accepts one last crooked deal to transport a dangerous cargo inside his spaceship.

Not A Minute To Lose

Not A Minute To Lose

2019

8.0
Acting

Elisa is an old-fashioned girl who receives the visit of her future self, who advises her to take the risk and invite Carlos, his best friend, on a d...

The Mongolian Conspiracy

The Mongolian Conspiracy

2019

as Fu Manchú

6.3
Acting

1963, the Soviet Union intercepts a rumour that China pretends to assassinate the president of the US in his visit to Mexico. Filiberto Garcia, a loca...

Beyond The Mountain

Beyond The Mountain

2019

as Arturo

6.9
Acting

Miguel is a lonely boy letting his life pass by in a monotonous routine. He works in a public kiosk, takes care of his mother Consuelo and dreams with...

Escorpio

Escorpio

2019

5.0
Acting

Juan is a modest young man who is new to the city. Falling in love with his neighbor Maria, he begins to uncover the mysteries that surround the Motel...

Cygnus

Cygnus

2018

as Gerardo

6.1
Acting

An astronomer who works at the Mexican Large Millimeter Telescope discovers a misterious signal coming from the Cygnus constellation, which starts cau...

El Día de la Unión

El Día de la Unión

2018

as Benjamín

6.5
Acting
I Am Pepito

I Am Pepito

2018

as El Tijuana

3.0
Acting

Humor, crime, action, drama, compassion and risk are the ingredients that this wonderful story uses to create a scenario that seems to be a dead-end a...

Shake Off Your Sorrows

Shake Off Your Sorrows

2018

as González

8.4
Acting

Prisoner González dedicates his life-in-jail to narrate the adventures of Pepe Frituras, one of the most renowned Mexican dancers who lost his freedom...

Anya

Anya

2018

4.1
Acting

Anya is kidnapped and isolated by Emilio who will psychologically and physically abuse her, leading to a breaking point where the only exit will be to...

Violeta at Last

Violeta at Last

2017

as Francisco

6.0
Acting

Recently divorced, 72-year-old Violeta lives alone in her childhood house, tending to her lush tropical garden and making plans to turn her property i...

Como te ves, me vi

Como te ves, me vi

2017

5.7
Acting

A family man remember his youth while he realizes his son starts behaving like him when he was younger.

Tamara and the Ladybug

Tamara and the Ladybug

2016

as Policeman Huicho

5.6
Acting

Tamara, a woman with a mental disability, tries to return a borrowed baby to his parents, but she can't remember where she found him.

The Chosen

The Chosen

2016

as Balderas

5.8
Acting

Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret m...

The Similars

The Similars

2015

as Ulises

6.0
Acting

Eight people experience a strange phenomenon while waiting for a bus at a remote station on a rainy October night.

Sleep Over

Sleep Over

2015

as Man

5.2
Acting

A man is awaken abruptly by his doorbell at 3:31 in the morning but no one seems to be outside - What about inside?

Sealed Cargo

Sealed Cargo

2015

as Mariscal

5.0
Acting

In 1995, several cargo containers are discovered high in the Bolivian Andes. Inside are potentially toxic chemicals, and local policeman Mariscal soon...

Plastic

Plastic

2015

8.0
Acting

Ana and Leo, are marked since childhood by a sudden event: the suicide of their father. Separately, they take life as they can, without removing the f...

Tome la pistola y empiece a despachar

Tome la pistola y empiece a despachar

2015

Acting
The Thin Yellow Line

The Thin Yellow Line

2015

as Mario

8.3
Acting

Five men are hired to paint the yellow line the road between two villages in Mexico forgotten. Aboard an old pickup truck, initiated the work of more ...

The Perfect Dictatorship

The Perfect Dictatorship

2014

as El Charro

7.4
Acting

TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit ...

Perpetual Sadness

Perpetual Sadness

2014

as Silvestre

7.0
Acting

Cheba and Ángeles became pregnant by the same man, Silvestre. Silvestre was Cheba's lover while Cheba's husband was working abroad. He is also Ángeles...

Potosí

Potosí

2013

as Carlos

5.0
Acting

Potosi, 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 roa...

Nahuales

Nahuales

2013

Acting

According to legend, the ancient priests could shed their skin and slowly transform themselves into another living creature.

The Searches

The Searches

2013

as Hombre

6.0
Acting

Revenge, redemption and chance are the topics that underpin José Luis Valle’s new film. A man runs his errands: cleans the house, picks up the dry cle...

Citizen Buelna

Citizen Buelna

2013

as Obregón

5.0
Acting

Rafael faces the complications of the revolution and discovers true love with Luisa.

Morelos

Morelos

2012

4.6
Acting

The final years of Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon (1812-1815), leader in the Mexican war for independence who, after outsmarting Calleja´s blocade in Cuau...

Soundreals

Soundreals

2012

Acting

Two brothers wasting the night away break into an empty house.

Days of Grace

Days of Grace

2012

as Cara Sanguinetti

6.4
Acting

Mexico City. 2002, 2006, 2010. A cop. A hostage. A wife. Corruption, violence, vengeance. Three destinies, during 30 days, during three Soccer World C...

Colosio

Colosio

2012

as Ortiga

7.0
Acting

It's 1994 in Mexico, the nation was witnessing a turbulent year since its beginnings. An indigenous rebellion shakes the country. Three months later, ...

Cloroform

Cloroform

2012

as Gomorra

Acting

Life of boxing in Mexico city, bets, deception, love, crime and courage takes place in the lives of amateur boxers to professional fighters.

Get the Gringo

Get the Gringo

2012

as Size 11

6.6
Acting

A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.

Todos hemos pecado

Todos hemos pecado

2011

as El Tartamudo

6.3
Acting

No one could ever imagine that one day La Chingada Vieja would fall in love. Because she is always alone, because no one has ever turn to see her, bec...

Asalto al cine

Asalto al cine

2011

as Vigilante

5.2
Acting

The story of four teenagers: Negus, Chale, Sapo and Chata. Childhood friends living in public housing in a rundown area of Mexico City, search to trum...

Lichtblau - Neues Leben Mexiko

Lichtblau - Neues Leben Mexiko

2011

4.3
Acting

Barbara and Thomas Lichtblau have been married for 15 years.Today it's Barbara's birthday and Thomas has forgotten her birthday.So Barbara has a gift ...

Depositarios

Depositarios

2010

as Mario

4.5
Acting

In the near future, medicine, computing and genetics have made it possible to end the human physical and psychological pain, filtering it through othe...

Leap Year

Leap Year

2010

as Arturo

6.4
Acting

Journalist Laura works at home, isolating herself from others. While she lies to her mother and brother, Raul, on the phone about having an active soc...

Gloves of Stone

Gloves of Stone

2009

as Rigoberto Torres

4.3
Acting

Abner is trapped in the rough life of Mexico City. His escape? Boxing. Dr. Frank Irwin (Martin Sheen) and his son Jimmy, a pro boxer, come together to...

Me importas tú... y tú

Me importas tú... y tú

2009

4.7
Acting

Nerdy college boy gets romantic advice from the apparition of a dead film star.

Rage

Rage

2009

as José María

5.6
Acting

A romantic thriller about a construction worker in hiding for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a maid.

El cártel

El cártel

2009

as Rojas

5.5
Acting

Based on Mexico's current criminal climate, EL CÁRTEL is a rare look into the values and practices of the world's most intriguing and enigmatic indust...

7 Suns

7 Suns

2009

as El Negro

6.6
Acting

A man called "The Black" is hired to smuggle a group of undocumented migrants into the United States. He wants to quit the smuggling business and clai...

Bala mordida

Bala mordida

2009

7.5
Acting

Mauro Hernandez, a young preventive policeman, gets involved in a coke deal, and to keep some of the money he has for paying for the transaction, give...

Walking Vengeance

Walking Vengeance

2008

as Recepcionista del hotel

5.3
Acting

Frantic to be free of Felix, her wealthy but drunken and violent drug-lord husband, Ana tricks her fresh-from-prison sister, Aurora, and two other ex-...

Casi divas

Casi divas

2008

as Satán

6.6
Acting

Four ambitious and beautiful young women. From four very different corners of Mexico. Just like hundreds of others, they are caught up in the frenzy t...

Enlightened Blood

Enlightened Blood

2008

6.0
Acting

Six characters narrate their complex existence through his slides from one to another body, to form a network of shared memories and experiences. The ...

My Mexican Shivah

My Mexican Shivah

2007

as Sargento Antúnes

6.0
Acting

After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.

Under the Same Moon

Under the Same Moon

2007

as Manuel

7.7
Acting

Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illeg...

A Wonderful World

A Wonderful World

2006

as Camillero 1

7.6
Acting

A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.

10:15

10:15

2006

as Fulano

Acting

10:14 PM, a woman arrives to her home while a misterious man is lurking outside. As soon as she arrives, she finds something suspicious inside the hou...

Estamos por todos lados

Estamos por todos lados

2006

Acting
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

2005

as Tomas

7.0
Acting

When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise...

The Legend of Zorro

The Legend of Zorro

2005

as Guillermo Cortez

6.1
Acting

Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega...

Ver, oir y callar

Ver, oir y callar

2005

5.0
Acting

Danilo gets caugh while robbing a security vault, but officer Montero gives him a second chance, he will set him free if Danilo helps him exposing a c...

Innocent Voices

Innocent Voices

2005

as Teniente Ruíz

8.2
Acting

A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to av...

Killing Cabos

Killing Cabos

2004

as Nico

7.9
Acting

Two young men get involved with some criminals while trying to free the tycoon they kidnapped.

Puerto Vallarta Squeeze

Puerto Vallarta Squeeze

2004

as Desk Clerk

4.7
Acting

An American government hit man on the run makes a pact with two travelers to help him disappear in the Mexican jungle.

Seis días en la oscuridad

Seis días en la oscuridad

2003

5.0
Acting

Claudio, Juan and Vampire have been friends since their teenage years. One night, Claudio tells his friends he is being extorted by a police officer, ...

Leftie

Leftie

2003

as Chupacabras Jefe

7.2
Acting

Futuristic movie about Alejandro, a gifted left-handed child marble player who must win a competition as the entire town's hopes - and money - rest on...

Sobreviviente

Sobreviviente

2003

5.0
Acting

A stylized look at the life of a Mexican urban youngster, Tonatiuh (Busto), who, despite living in the largest city of the world, feels as lonely and ...

I Murder Seriously

I Murder Seriously

2002

as El Foca

5.7
Acting

A cop sets out to find a man who has been delivering too much of a good thing in this offbeat comedy. Police detective Martinez (Jesus Ochoa) has been...

¿De qué lado estás?

¿De qué lado estás?

2002

5.0
Acting

An east german agent is forced to infiltrate student movement of 1968 at Mexico.

Life Kills

Life Kills

2002

as Encargado de vulcanizadora

5.0
Acting

A romantic comedy of our times about passion, friendship and lies, on one of those days when the city and its inhabitants go crazy and anything seems ...

Streeters

Streeters

2001

as Pink amigo del Cero

7.0
Acting

Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have m...

Powder Keg

Powder Keg

2001

as Soldier with Radio

6.8
Acting

The Driver is drafted by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from out of hostile territory. While they are leaving Jacobs ...

Red Ink

Red Ink

2000

Executive Producer

6.7
Producing

Peru, early 2000s. Alfonso wants to be a writer, but he decides to work first as a journalist. He is assigned to the crime section of a newspaper, a j...

Amores Perros

Amores Perros

2000

as Jarocho

7.6
Acting

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his s...

Azar

Azar

2000

Acting

Chickens

N/A

Acting

A lonely man, who is looking for a job has an unexpected encounter. But his selfishness destroys his new and only friendship.

Die At Night

N/A

Acting

Searching for answers, Alex finds his father, who he thought was gone forever.

El hombre de la multitud

N/A

Acting

Enrique Metinides, renowned crime photographer, discovers his passion as a child when his camera captures a haunting image of death. This obsession wi...