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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Olmo
2025
as Nestor
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
2024
as Camilo
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
2023
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
2023
as Priest
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
2023
as El Calacas
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
2023
as Pedro
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
2022
as Bailarín
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
2022
as Daniel
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
2021
as Fresco
Pray for us sinners...

Killing Cabos 2: The Mask of El Máscara
2021
as Nico
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
2021
as Pasilla
A waiter pretends to be an important businessman in order to reach the upper class through his entrepreneurial dreams.

Aztech
2020
Fragments of a meteor crash in Mexico and United States. Thirteen stories in different spaces and times happen in places of collisions .

New Order
2020
as General Oribe
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
2020
as Rojo
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
2019
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
2019
as Fu Manchú
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
2019
as Arturo
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
2019
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
2018
as Gerardo
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
2018
as Benjamín

I Am Pepito
2018
as El Tijuana
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
2018
as González
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
2018
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
2017
as Francisco
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
2017
A family man remember his youth while he realizes his son starts behaving like him when he was younger.

Tamara and the Ladybug
2016
as Policeman Huicho
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
2016
as Balderas
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
2015
as Ulises
Eight people experience a strange phenomenon while waiting for a bus at a remote station on a rainy October night.

Sleep Over
2015
as Man
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
2015
as Mariscal
In 1995, several cargo containers are discovered high in the Bolivian Andes. Inside are potentially toxic chemicals, and local policeman Mariscal soon...

Plastic
2015
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
2015

The Thin Yellow Line
2015
as Mario
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
2014
as El Charro
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit ...

Perpetual Sadness
2014
as Silvestre
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
2013
as Carlos
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
2013
According to legend, the ancient priests could shed their skin and slowly transform themselves into another living creature.

The Searches
2013
as Hombre
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
2013
as Obregón
Rafael faces the complications of the revolution and discovers true love with Luisa.

Morelos
2012
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
2012
Two brothers wasting the night away break into an empty house.

Days of Grace
2012
as Cara Sanguinetti
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
2012
as Ortiga
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
2012
as Gomorra
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
2012
as Size 11
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
2011
as El Tartamudo
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
2011
as Vigilante
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
2011
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
2010
as Mario
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
2010
as Arturo
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
2009
as Rigoberto Torres
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
2009
Nerdy college boy gets romantic advice from the apparition of a dead film star.

Rage
2009
as José María
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
2009
as Rojas
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
2009
as El Negro
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
2009
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
2008
as Recepcionista del hotel
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
2008
as Satán
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
2008
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
2007
as Sargento Antúnes
After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.

Under the Same Moon
2007
as Manuel
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
2006
as Camillero 1
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.

10:15
2006
as Fulano
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
2006

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005
as Tomas
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
2005
as Guillermo Cortez
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
2005
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
2005
as Teniente Ruíz
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
2004
as Nico
Two young men get involved with some criminals while trying to free the tycoon they kidnapped.

Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
2004
as Desk Clerk
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
2003
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
2003
as Chupacabras Jefe
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
2003
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
2002
as El Foca
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?
2002
An east german agent is forced to infiltrate student movement of 1968 at Mexico.

Life Kills
2002
as Encargado de vulcanizadora
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
2001
as Pink amigo del Cero
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
2001
as Soldier with Radio
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
2000
Executive Producer
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
2000
as Jarocho
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
2000
Chickens
N/A
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
Searching for answers, Alex finds his father, who he thought was gone forever.
El hombre de la multitud
N/A
Enrique Metinides, renowned crime photographer, discovers his passion as a child when his camera captures a haunting image of death. This obsession wi...