José Sefami

José Sefami

108 Credits

Biography

Renowned actor, with more than thirty years of career. He has participated in dozens of plays, television projects, and films, both feature films and short films. Throughout his career he has collaborated with some of the most important Mexican directors such as Jorge Fons, Luis Estrada, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Luis Mandoki and Carlos Bolado, in emblematic feature films of Latin American cinema such as “Amores Perros”, “Arráncame la vida” , “El Infierno”, “Colosio: El Asesinato”, “Cantinfla...

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Don't Leave The Kids Alone

Don't Leave The Kids Alone

2025

as Licenciado

5.0
Acting

A mother moves into a new house with her two children. One night she must leave the siblings home alone. What begins as a blast of carefree play soon ...

María, ¡Me muero!

María, ¡Me muero!

2024

as Fernando

6.2
Acting

“Maria, I'm dying!” is a comedy about a hypochondriac man, the only being in the world capable of even terminal colds, and his wife who has to put up ...

Abracadaver

Abracadaver

2024

4.3
Acting

To save their father's life, three siblings skilled in magic, escapism, and swindling must steal a priceless mummy from an old hacienda during the "Ni...

El precio de educarlos

El precio de educarlos

2024

7.0
Acting

When the Rebolledo accountants' children finally leave their home, their lonely parents, feeling abandoned, come up with the crazy plan to win the lot...

Día de Muertos

Día de Muertos

2023

as Vecino

Acting

Camila, after a couple of months of the loss of her parents, continues to mourn during the Day of the Dead, the colorful and festive traditions do not...

Goy

Goy

2023

as Jacobo

Acting

A Jewish teenager is about to compete in the swimming nationals when a goy who works at a radio station invites her to a concert. The adventures and r...

Mother’s Day is Cancelled

Mother’s Day is Cancelled

2023

as Abogado

7.2
Acting

Lidia and Manuel are a newlywed couple whose families have only met once. Now, they get together again to celebrate Mother’s Day. But there is a secre...

¡Que viva México!

¡Que viva México!

2023

as Jaime Sampaolo

7.3
Acting

After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.

A Not So Merry Christmas

A Not So Merry Christmas

2022

as Néstor

6.8
Acting

A curse is placed on grinchy Chuy, who wakes up to find he's lived a full year, but is doomed to remember only Christmas Day. Every year. From now on.

Corazonada

Corazonada

2022

as Luque

5.2
Acting

A group of lottery employees plan the biggest fraud in Mexican history using a powerful weapon: the magic of television.

Can't Quit Mom

Can't Quit Mom

2022

as Tony

7.7
Acting

At the Holly Day of The Deaths, a mother returns and finds that her three sons are desconsidered, ugly and lazy.

Blackout

Blackout

2022

as Dr. Garza

5.1
Acting

A man wakes in a hospital with no memory, and quickly finds himself on the run in a locked down hospital with the Cartel on his tail.

Valentino, be your own hero or villain

Valentino, be your own hero or villain

2022

as Ernesto Acosta

7.3
Acting

The life of Gonzalo, a former soap opera superstar, gets complicated when his demons appear as an alter ego named Valentino. Gonzalo must try to get t...

The Black Minutes

The Black Minutes

2021

6.2
Acting

In the late 1970s, a group of young cops lead by ex-musician turned detective Vicente Rangel will face the darkest minutes of their lives while attemp...

Mighty Victoria

Mighty Victoria

2021

as Don Julián

7.3
Acting

Feature film located at the beginning of the 20th-century which tells the story of the town "La Esperanza", whose dying mining boom receives a fatal b...

War of Likes

War of Likes

2021

as Teniente Bravo

7.7
Acting

In order to advance her career in the dynamic world of publicity in Mexico City, Raquel tries to reunite with her high school friend Cecy who has beco...

Los dias que no estuve

Los dias que no estuve

2021

as Armando

7.6
Acting
Expiation

Expiation

2020

Acting

A father in search of how to help his sick daughter.

Be Careful What You Wish For

Be Careful What You Wish For

2020

as Hellequín (voice)

6.7
Acting

Pamela is an eight-year-old girl who loves horror movies and fairy tales. When his uncle gives her away a doll named "Hellequin" as a birthday gift, a...

Mutiny of the Worker Bees

Mutiny of the Worker Bees

2020

7.3
Acting

Omar gets an office job at Relotech, where he becomes the boss's favourite, which is great, until it’s not.

No manches, Frida 2: paraíso destruido

No manches, Frida 2: paraíso destruido

2019

as Cura

7.9
Acting

Zequi and Lucy are about to get married. Although he promises not to overdo it during the bachelor party, things get out of control.

Miss Bala

Miss Bala

2019

as Don Ramón

6.4
Acting

Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning,...

Belzebuth

Belzebuth

2019

as Demetrio Vega

7.2
Acting

While leading a police investigation of a massacre in a public school at the border of Mexico and U.S.A, special Agent Emanuel Ritter links this stran...

Motel Acqua

Motel Acqua

2018

as Adán Lozada

4.6
Acting

Perico has seen an adjustment of accounts between Narcos. The result; five million dollars. He decides to steal them. From that moment, his life will ...

Two Fridas

Two Fridas

2018

as Diego Rivera

6.5
Acting

This is not another standard biopic about Frida Kahlo. “Two Fridas” is a poetic film, based on the relation between the Mexican painter and the Costa ...

Fierro Viejo

Fierro Viejo

2018

as Raúl

Acting
Neither You Nor I

Neither You Nor I

2018

as Joaquín

5.8
Acting

The Black Falcon is no longer in his glory years a wrestler since his brother left him. When his brother returns, this may be his last chance to fix b...

La semilla del istmo

La semilla del istmo

2018

as Macario

5.0
Acting

A rural boy comes back to his town to discover that nothing is as it used to be.

Moronga

Moronga

2018

as Don Elizario

5.5
Acting

A psychotic US marine becomes an agent of chaos in a village in southern Mexico during a social uprising. On his journey towards Death, he discovers t...

Baja

Baja

2018

as Alejandro

5.6
Acting

Four 22 year-olds on a Mexican road trip seem bound for disaster until they, and their trip, are unexpectedly redeemed by a series of miraculous event...

Penalty Kick

Penalty Kick

2018

as Tío Pedro

5.5
Acting

How far does a soccer fan goes for his beloved national team? Mariano Cárdenas will risk his job, wife and family to support his soccer team during th...

Colores verdaderos

Colores verdaderos

2018

5.0
Acting

After spending seven years in jail, Carlos tries to start a quiet new life. However, fate leads him to return to his old occupation: counterfeiting mo...

At the Frontera

At the Frontera

2018

as Alvaro Manrique

3.0
Acting

When an ATF agent out of Houston is tasked to team up with the Mexico City District Attorney on a human trafficking case, he uncovers family ties with...

La hora de Salvador Romero

La hora de Salvador Romero

2017

as Alfonso

5.5
Acting
Sin rastro

Sin rastro

2017

as Policía 1

Acting

Three corrupt officers try to find a way to dispose of a body.

The 4th Company

The 4th Company

2017

as Memo López

6.0
Acting

Zambrano is a young criminal with the only hope of joining the legendary prison American football team known as The Dogs of Santa Martha. His hopes en...

Cheers to the Newlyweds!

Cheers to the Newlyweds!

2017

5.0
Acting

Armed with plenty of defiant optimism, this elderly woman prepares a birthday party, grapples with her husband and even rescues a wedding that is abou...

Compadres

Compadres

2016

as Coronado

6.8
Acting

A disgruntled Mexican cop is forced to work with a teenage hacker to hunt down the criminals who killed his wife, and dismantle their operation.

Chapo: El Escape Del Siglo

Chapo: El Escape Del Siglo

2016

5.3
Acting

A famous drug kingpin escapes from prison. The mexican president wants him back in jail whereas the U.S. government wants him dead.

The Evil That Men Do

The Evil That Men Do

2015

as Lucho

5.8
Acting

Two hired assassins working for a Mexican cartel are faced with something unimaginable: they get to custody a 10-years-old girl, the daughter of the h...

Dodo

Dodo

2015

5.0
Acting

Is a thriller that mixes different genres and styles, from comedy to Mexican wrestling films. It follows the story of a cop with a reputation for bein...

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...

The Last One and then We Go

The Last One and then We Go

2015

as Gaspar

7.8
Acting

A group of mariachis receives a letter to be part of the National Mariachi Contest in Mexico City. In order to be able to win they will need to travel...

Lonely Stars

Lonely Stars

2015

as Sacerdote

7.2
Acting

To the beat of punk and pop, Valentina and Joana pursue their most intimate and deepest dreams. On the road to success, they will find obstacles that ...

Mexican Gangster

Mexican Gangster

2014

as Comandante Íñiguez

6.5
Acting

Tells the story of the most prominent bank robber in the history of Mexico, his crimes, his different personalities, his career as a charro with a mar...

Eddie Reynolds and The Iron Angels

Eddie Reynolds and The Iron Angels

2014

as Gallo

5.8
Acting

They are not wild and crazy anymore, or at least they think so. Now, thanks to an offer nobody can't refuse, they will try to recapture that old rock ...

The Beginning of Time

The Beginning of Time

2014

5.3
Acting

Antonio and Bertha are an elderly couple, about 90 years old who find themselves in trouble when social security pensions are suspended due to a finan...

Cantinflas

Cantinflas

2014

as Diego Rivera

6.6
Acting

Mike Todd is a Broadway producer struggling to produce the film. Around the World in 80 Days. In Mexico, Mario Moreno, a young entertainer is struggli...

El ignoto

2014

Acting

A police chief falls in love with a sex worker whom he intends to help.

Gonzalo

Gonzalo

2014

as Sr. Umberto

4.0
Acting
Castle Chronicle

Castle Chronicle

2014

as León

Acting

Dramatized series that shows a mosaic of stories, which run in parallel and sometimes intertwine, around Tepito and its identity as a neighborhood, re...

Los Reyes del Juego

Los Reyes del Juego

2014

as Armando Santos

8.0
Acting

7 professional poker players compete for 10 million pesos. When one of them falls dead all become suspects, being forced to spend a long evening until...

Paraíso

Paraíso

2013

as Papá de Carmen

5.1
Acting

Carmen and Alfredo live a happy, quiet life in the suburbs surrounded by friends and family. After Alfredo receives a promotion, the two move away to ...

El mar muerto

El mar muerto

2013

5.0
Acting

There is a blackout in Mexico City. In the darkness some people are abandoned by God (their conscience) and commit a transgression (murder and infidel...

El Edificio

El Edificio

2013

5.0
Acting

In Mexico City, there is a building where supernatural events happen. It seems as it is just one more construction, but those who risk to go inside k...

Bolaetrapo

Bolaetrapo

2013

as Profe Filemón

5.0
Acting
Doctor Funes Formula

Doctor Funes Formula

2013

5.0
Acting

Martin, a child of the 21st century, through his telescope discovers Doctor Funes, the inventor of a formula to become young again and the envy of Doc...

Sin condón

Sin condón

2013

as Aristóteles

7.0
Acting
Martin at Dawn

Martin at Dawn

2013

as Josefo

5.0
Acting

When Martin's car breaks down in the middle of the desert, he has no choice but to head off across the empty landscape to look for help. Along the roa...

Potosí

Potosí

2013

as Tapón

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...

Retrato de una Mente Criminal

2013

as Edmundo

Acting
The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas

2012

as Lic. Cossío

7.0
Acting

In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing eac...

Days of Grace

Days of Grace

2012

as Comandante Jose

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 Torres

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, ...

Outlaws - For Greater Glory

Outlaws - For Greater Glory

2012

as Photographer

6.8
Acting

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

Pastorela

Pastorela

2011

as Tuerto

6.9
Acting

Agent Jesus Juarez (aka Chucho) has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play. This Christmas, when the new pastor of the church recasts the...

Tequila, historia de una pasión

Tequila, historia de una pasión

2011

as Sixto

4.2
Acting

Tequila in Mexico, 1940s: Honor and dignity come first here. The town is protecting a certain secret. In spite of all prohibitions, Antonio, a respect...

Against the Wind

Against the Wind

2011

as Román

5.4
Acting

Luisa Braniff who after many years of hard work, obtains the success she has always wished for: to be the General Director of one of the most importan...

Así es la Suerte

Así es la Suerte

2011

5.0
Acting

Ramiro is a theater actor who lives estranged from his father and half brother. One morning, he runs into a suicide, who says he is an evil omen. Desp...

Al acecho del leopardo

Al acecho del leopardo

2011

as El Gober

6.9
Acting

While traveling on vacation in the Mexican jungle, three young friends, witness the murder of a group of indigenous peasants.

Una cama para Valentina

Una cama para Valentina

2011

5.0
Acting

When Valentina s birthday is soon to come, Juan Pablo thinks a bed would make the prefect present for her.

Depositarios

Depositarios

2010

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...

Speed of Glory

Speed of Glory

2010

as Jimy

5.2
Acting

Roger Ramirez is an experienced stock car racer in Mexico. The team that leads the current season offers him to join their ranks and with it, the oppo...

El Infierno

El Infierno

2010

as Don Camilo

7.9
Acting

After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

File of Attempted Murder

File of Attempted Murder

2010

as Juez Guerrero

5.7
Acting

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porf...

Conozca la cabeza de Juan Pérez

Conozca la cabeza de Juan Pérez

2009

as Gorgo

7.3
Acting

Juan Perez is a wizard who begins to remember how he lost his head, after an economic crisis in the Circus where he works, he promises to mount a spe...

Sin retorno

Sin retorno

2009

as Don Juan

3.9
Acting

Mau and Chespi, two lifelong friends, find themselves at a critical moment in their lives. Both are on the verge of their 30th birthday, and both empt...

El cártel

El cártel

2009

as Don Amilkar

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...

Amar a Morir

Amar a Morir

2009

as Pedro Gómez

7.0
Acting
Christmas, Inc.

Christmas, Inc.

2008

as Bruno

7.1
Acting

With Christmas approaching, Santa Claus has to contend with the fact that the North Pole is melting and find a way to rid the holiday of its capitalis...

Tear This Heart Out

Tear This Heart Out

2008

as Poncho Peña

8.0
Acting

A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new fem...

Café Paraíso

Café Paraíso

2008

as Chuy

7.0
Acting

Gallo rehearses his heroic resignation, with which he hopes to regain his youth, his dignity and even a love.

Todos los días son tuyos

Todos los días son tuyos

2007

as Madrina

4.8
Acting

While investigating the terrorist activities of a Basque nationalist group, Mexico City photographer Eliseo (Mario Oliver) becomes obsessed with his n...

Two Embraces

Two Embraces

2007

as Amigo Apuestas

6.2
Acting

Four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom h...

When Things Happen

When Things Happen

2007

4.2
Acting

Sebastian, a renowned orchestra conductor, loses his son in a motorcycle accident for which his wife blames him, leading to the family's disintegratio...

El guapo

El guapo

2007

4.5
Acting

Unattractive man receives a large inheritance on condition that he use the money to get plastic surgery and create a better life for himself.

Trade

Trade

2007

as Don Victor

7.0
Acting

A Texas cop, whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth to find the boy's sister, who was abduct...

Amor Xtremo

Amor Xtremo

2006

as Canica

5.0
Acting

Two brothers travel from Mexico City to Las Vegas for the U.S. Motocross Open.

Sex, Love And Other Perversions II

Sex, Love And Other Perversions II

2006

as Cupido

3.0
Acting

The private, the forbidden and the obscene. Eight short stories to be moved, surprised and have fun. Three different views about relationships, love, ...

Secreto de amor

Secreto de amor

2005

3.5
Acting
7 Days

7 Days

2005

as Sigifredo Sami

7.2
Acting

Claudio Caballero decides to gamble $500,000 dollars in a desperate attempt to raise the cash necessary to bring the world's biggest band (U2) to Mexi...

Medalla al Empeño

Medalla al Empeño

2004

as The Appraiser

4.0
Acting

A pawnbroker clerk meets a very peculiar old man, who brings an Olympic medal to the store to get some money and, at the same time, has a great and ex...

Pink Punch

Pink Punch

2004

as Chato

3.2
Acting

Jimmy Morales is a young fighter with a short career but with a promising future in the world of boxing. One night, after watching a movie, he witness...

Las lloronas

Las lloronas

2004

as Alfonso

4.8
Acting

"Las Lloronas" is an adaptation of the legend of "La Llorona"(Weeping Woman). It's based on the story of three generations of women within a Mexican f...

Seis días en la oscuridad

Seis días en la oscuridad

2003

as Salmun

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, ...

Luz en Reposo

2002

as Saul

Acting
To Love Too Much

To Love Too Much

2002

as Jefe

4.5
Acting

Laura and Beatriz are two sisters in search of a dream in common: to run a guest house abroad and live off the rents. Laura travels to Spain to start ...

El Grito

El Grito

2002

4.2
Acting

Estela Duarte is divorcing her cheating husband, has moved her two children in with her mom, and has taken the only writing job she can find - as a re...

Espías en la ciudad

Espías en la ciudad

2002

Acting
Snake Skin

Snake Skin

2002

5.0
Acting

After returning from a trip, a young dentist discovers that her home has been ransacked. Determined to recover part of her belongings, the protagonist...

Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good

Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good

2001

as Amigo del dominó

7.6
Acting

The attack on a popular singer known as Pachito -who becomes the favorite candidate to win the presidential election in an imaginary Latin American co...

Without a Trace

Without a Trace

2001

as El Chaparro

7.1
Acting

A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.

Amores Perros

Amores Perros

2000

as Leonardo

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...

Little Saints

Little Saints

1999

as Dr. Ortíz

4.8
Acting

After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza t...

Podcast, rapaces nocturnos

Podcast, rapaces nocturnos

N/A

as Antonio Velarde

Acting

Fronteras

N/A

Acting

A Dominican journalist must face his new life after the death of his ex-wife and daughter. He travels to the Dominican-Haitian border post-2010 earthq...

La infalible (y otros éxitos)

La infalible (y otros éxitos)

N/A

as Gonzalo

Acting

The Absent’s Corner

N/A

Acting

Natalia, a radio host searching for her missing husband, becomes entangled with a smuggler seeking revenge and an amnesiac obsessed with her as his ke...