Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Birthday: 1933-11-08
Place of Birth: Puerto de Veracruz, Mexico
Biography: Ernesto Gómez Cruz (November 8, 1933 - April 6, 2024) was a prolific Mexican actor with more than 154 films. In his beginnings, he began as a photographer in his native Veracruz, where he met a friend who invited him to study dramatic art. In his notes from yesterday, he mentions that he wanted to be a singer, but his shyness and lack of preparation led him to abandon this path. He has more than two hundred films to his credit. He has worked with great directors such as Miguel Littin, Felipe Cazals, Arturo Ripstein and Luis Estrada; He has also worked with actors of the stature of Damián Alcázar, Ignacio López Tarso and Pedro Armendáriz Jr., among others. His long artistic career has allowed him to be deserving and awarded with different recognitions; one of the most recent was in 2014, at the 56th Ariel award, where he was awarded the Ariel de Oro. He is the second Mexican actor with the most Ariel awards and nominations. In 2018 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially invited him to be a special part of its new members.
Movies
The Crime of Padre Amaro
Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge ...
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Bandidas
When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peas...
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Latino Bar
A woman working in a caribean Cabaret meets a man in the harbour that just went out of jail. They re...
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Herod's Law
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. ...
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Tespis Teporocho
In "Tespis Teporocho", a boy who interacts with vagabonds thirsty for knowledge, finally absorb them...
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El lado oscuro de la noche
Valeria and Pablo, her husband, own an important hotel chain, which she inherited and he manages. Va...
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El Norte
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through...
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Midaq Alley
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose live...
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A Wonderful World
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico....
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El Infierno
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that ha...
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Another Mexican
Antonio (Ricky Mergold) is a 16 year old boy from a village in the Mexican province, living the awak...
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Emiliano Zapata
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution....
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Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
Based on the true story of boys from Brazilian jails taken to the state border and abandoned without...
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In the Land of Light Feet
During his vacations, 12-year-old Manuel travels by train with his mother to the Sierra Tarahumara t...
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The Fifth Commandment
Víctor, a psychopath, loves carving crosses onto women post-mortem, blames paedophile priest and mot...
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Mariana Mariana
The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's m...
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Las Armas
A group of peasants and teachers of education, tired of abuse, take up arms and decide to attack the...
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The Cousin
A married woman, who's husband leaves her alone way too many times, is seduced by a junior spoiled y...
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The Prodigious Teacher
Three stories make up this film, each with a teacher as the protagonist of the struggle against the ...
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The Stork's Mistake
India María raises a kidnapped newborn and is pursued by criminals who want the boy....
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Vagabunda
Vagabunda is the story of young girl (Flor), well aware about her seductive skills, who arrives from...
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Rulfo aeternum
Adaptation of Juan Rulfo's classic short tale "La herencia de Matilde Arcángel". Tranquilino Herrera...
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Nocturno a Rosario
A tragic romance follows Mexican poet Manuel Acuña's passionate life and his deep love for Rosario d...
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Sandino
Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was ...
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Arizona
Tragedy strikes a group of immigrants crossing the border between Arizona and Mexico....
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Angeles Infernales
A gang of cross-dressers terrorize a city and a vengeful cop is after them....
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Zapata en Chinameca
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata....
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Operation Marihuana
Thousands of peasants are kidnapped by the mafia and are forced to work in marijuana fields. Facing ...
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The Evil That Men Do
A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his frien...
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Erendira
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house cat...
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Caminando pasos... caminando
In a community of the Matlatzinca ethnic group, a teacher tries to integrate the inhabitants into th...
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Tacos al Carbón
Tacos al carbón is a mexican movie released on june 8th 1972 on Mexico City....
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Tú, yo, nosotros
Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection....
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Paty chula
Paty, an employee of an advertising company, is summoned to a business dinner by Mr. Gutiérrez, a su...
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Mudstained Flower
A married, middle-aged well-known biochemist and university teacher Augusto, leaves his wife, his jo...
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Life Sentence
After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortun...
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Reed: Insurgent Mexico
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first re...
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Cháman, viento de muerte
Two ambitious brothers take jobs with the region's most powerful man, willing to risk everything - e...
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Los Caifanes
A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime dr...
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Los confines
Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous sibli...
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Living Is What Matters
A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he get...
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The Widow of Montiel
Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabri...
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A Shred Of Mist
After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman wi...
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Familia Gang
A senior official of the Mexican political system decides to fake the capture and death of The Coyot...
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El rutas
The film got its inspiration from a real life character that killed policemen in the streets. The fi...
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El baile de la iguana
Faced with the hardships of a tenant, landlord Don Fulberto insists on collecting rent in kind, givi...
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The Realm of Fortune
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything th...
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Así es la Suerte
Ramiro is a theater actor who lives estranged from his father and half brother. One morning, he runs...
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De la infancia
Niebla, a teenage gangster, is killed in a shootout and his ghost returns to help Francisco, a ten-y...
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Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good
The attack on a popular singer known as Pachito -who becomes the favorite candidate to win the presi...
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Baroque
A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative...
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Santos Peregrinos
When greed comes calling, say goodbye to saintliness. An irresistible comedy about what happens when...
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Desires
Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his fat...
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The Prophet Mimi
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder ....
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Días de Combate
A private detective starts a game of cat and mouse with a psychopath who strangles women who leaves ...
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Las delicias del poder
A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out of the campaign unless her twin sister...
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Alta Tensión
A retired man that used to work for the National Electricity Company fight with his sons who want to...
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Teo's Journey
Separated from his father after illegally crossing the Mexico-U.S. border, young Teo and his new fri...
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A Married Woman
Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep...
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Cosa fácil
This is a story of revenge, as detective Shayne's own clients sabotage his actions, and leave him bl...
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Rattlesnake
A filmmaker is commissioned to film a documentary on the social reality of the Lacandon people in th...
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest...
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La sangre de un valiente
General Pershing invades Mexican territory in retaliation for Villa's attack on the town of Columbus...
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El águila descalza
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something bi...
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Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadv...
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Uno y medio contra el mundo
Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society....
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Crazy Carnival
In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who c...
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La revancha
Industrial spies are holed up in a safe-house after killing a half-dozen people to steal some data. ...
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The Mongol Plot
In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that Ch...
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The Coming of the King Olmos
After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexi...
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Nosotros los pelados
Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood....
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The Gates of Paradise
Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several stat...
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Maten al León
A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders ...
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Los gemelos alborotados
Gumaro and his buddy Chon are among the First Citizens locally. One day, unexpectedly, twin brothers...
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Long live Tepito!
Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum famil...
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Peregrina
Biopic: the last year or so in the life of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatan in the early ...
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Trampas de amor
Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance....
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Viaje al paraíso
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong....
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Zone of Silence
Several fantastic stories occur in the Mexican "Zone of Silence." It begins in the 1920s when a man ...
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Satanic Sect: Messenger of the Lord
A satanic preacher comes to a small town where he unleashed the terror of the inhabitants....
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The Throne of Hell
A group of archeologists excavating Aztec ruins in Mexico City uncover a bizarre statue, which unlea...
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Roots of Blood
A deadly riot breaks out after unfair labor practices at a garment factory raises tensions between M...
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La muerte de Pancho Villa
After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated....
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The Human Hyena
The dead body of a young man who was kidnapped is found, the police looks for the kidnappers as a we...
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La Generala
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of th...
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El guapo
Unattractive man receives a large inheritance on condition that he use the money to get plastic surg...
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El Quelite
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales...
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La guerra es un buen negocio
Comatose little village gets rich overnight selling minerals to arms manufacturers....
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En la cuerda del hambre
Owners of two small farms try to move forward in life by wholesaling their own produce instead of re...
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Auandar Anapu
People's hero is Anapu... He extracts the water from a rock, befriends, and baptize and get it to Ma...
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Una papa sin catsup
Gloria's grandmother is kidnapped by "La greñas", a gang leader, and is forced to impersonate her to...
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The Eve
Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's...
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Cómo Filmar Una XXX
Ulises Alpuyeca, a film initiate, wants to make his debut feature and he accepts the first opportun...
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Tivoli
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commerci...
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The Recourse to the Method
Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from bein...
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Highway Patrolman
A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with wide...
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Una buena forma de morir
After his wife is murdered by gang members, a man must take revenge....
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Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is ...
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Lost Objects
Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi stop, of...
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Sin salida
Ex-con trying to go straight is backed into a corner by "former associates."...
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The Mexican
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to ...
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Tiempo de lobos
Two young emigres return home from USA to their family farm to visit for a week....
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Dos pistoleros violentos
Two little boys grow up and go after the two blackhats that killed their parents....
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Figuras de la Pasión
This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an pla...
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La loteria
Four stories that tell the tales of lottery winner. Each story features a different cast of street v...
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El primer paso... de la mujer
Three girls from different social classes are forced to take that first step into adulthood that lea...
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Crónica de familia
Esteban and María are a young couple of lovers, both belonging to aristocratic families. When María ...
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Ya la hicimos
Virginia and Nacho, is a poor marriage, living precariously on their meager salaries, insufficient t...
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The Overturning Of The Heart
1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute...
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Sweet Release
The love secrets of a large family are revealed during a trajinera tour on Xochimilco, culminating i...
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Those Years
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from Fr...
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Letters from Marusia
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in C...
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¿Y si Platicamos de Agosto?
It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to l...
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Everyone's Hell So Feared
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, l...
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The Perfect Dictatorship
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Gove...
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