Damián Alcázar
Birthday: 1953-01-08
Place of Birth: Jiquilpan, Michoacan, Mexico
Biography: Jorge Damián Alcázar Castello is a renowned Mexican actor, born in Jiquilpan, Michoacan, on January 8, 1953. One of the most talented and recognized contemporary actors, Damián studied at the National Institute of Fine Arts, and later studied at the Centro of Theater Experimentation and, later, at the Faculty of Theater at the Universidad Veracruzana, where, years later, he would be a teacher. After several years in the theater, Damián made his film debut with The Center of the Labyrinth (1985), and later worked in films such as Romero (1989), The Naked City (1989), Bandidos (1991), Mujer del Puerto (1991). ), Lolo (1993), where he would win his first Ariel award, for best male co-acting, and Two crimes (1994), by Roberto Sneider, for which he was nominated, again, for the Ariel. The success of the film and his performance immediately propelled his career, which would lead him to participate in films such as En el aire (1995), El anzuelo (1996), Hombres armamos (1997), Baja California: El limit del tiempo ( 1998) and Herod's Law (1999), winning two consecutive Ariel Awards for both films, as best actor, in 1998 and 1999. With director Luis Estrada, Alcázar would star in a successful saga of films, with a social and critical spirit, with the films A Wonderful World (2006), Hell (2010) and The Perfect Dictatorship (2014), each one proving successful at the box office and criticismo. In 2018 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited him to be a special part of its new members. Alcazár has a vast filmography, which includes film and television. He is considered one of the most important actors of new Mexican cinema.
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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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, L...
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Satanás - Profile of a Killer
Based on the Mario Mendoza's book and inspired by true events, tells three interconnected stories ha...
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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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Men with Guns
Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, wit...
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The Portrait’s Secret
A true story, with multiple short stories that show human rights violations and economic exploitatio...
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Beyond the Sky
Malboro and Cucu, the starring characters, are two brothers who split after the older one, Malboro, ...
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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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Don't Let Me Drown
In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that someti...
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Safari
Dakota, a young American, arrives in the Dominican Republic at the dawn of the Trump era with little...
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Compassionate Sex
Dolores is a mature and kind woman whose husband abandons her because he can't stand her uncanny gen...
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Blue Beetle
Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that h...
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La mujer del puerto
Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor wi...
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Chicogrande
Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Ex...
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El Anzuelo
Filmmaker Ernesto Rimoch looks at the potent combination of love and ambition in this film about a c...
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Expiration Date
Ramona's compulsive life becomes a wreck when she finds out, after a long search that Osvaldo, her o...
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Tres minutos en la oscuridad
Four childhood friends decide to play a prank on an aunt of one of the four. Two enter the house and...
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Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7
Student nurses join some doctors to work in a medical station a few hours flying-time from the Mexic...
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Two Crimes
After being falsely accused of a murder, Marcos runs away to the small and quiet town of Cuevano. Th...
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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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Ana and Bruno
Ana, a nine year old girl, arrives with her mother to an isolated beach with the intention to rest a...
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Sofía
A volcano scientist (Issabela Camil) arrives in Mexico to study the Popocatepetl volcano. The journe...
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Abuelita de Bakman
A novelist cannot create new and original stories, his wife suggests that he go out and write about ...
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Romero
Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador,...
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Con el amor no se juega
Susana, a beautiful young girl living in 1990, is happily looking forward to her forthcoming marriag...
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The Last Commander
In the eve of the 30th anniversary of the triumph of Nicaragua's revolution a long forgotten Sandini...
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Silent Drift
"Silent Drift" is a romantic thriller with cinematic elements of film noir set in the Caribbean. Thi...
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Citizen Buelna
Rafael faces the complications of the revolution and discovers true love with Luisa....
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Mosh
Mosh, a 16-year-old dancer, lives with her terminally ill mother and a cousin who is involved in dru...
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Diplomatic Immunity
Cole Hickel, a Marine, pursues his daughter's killer when he is allowed to go back to Paraguay becau...
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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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The Four Altars
The intensity of Ana's life, a Spanish journalist, has reached its climax. On a trip to the Amazon t...
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Here Be Dragons
Follows Candelaria, a 18-year old who must survive a devastated country in a vaguely anachronistic 2...
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The Benetón Family
Toni, a grumpy in his fifties, avoids children at all costs. His life changes when he suddenly has t...
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The Thin Yellow Line
Five men are hired to paint the yellow line the road between two villages in Mexico forgotten. Aboar...
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Las Aparicio
Three generations of women who share a strange family tradition: all widowed in extraordinary circum...
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Bala mordida
Mauro Hernandez, a young preventive policeman, gets involved in a coke deal, and to keep some of the...
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Forgotten
José, a Bolivian retired general, is lying on his deathbed after a heart attack. Tormented by memori...
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Hágase tu voluntad
A woman has been diagnosed with breast cancer, so she decides to follow the trace of her father, who...
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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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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against ...
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The Citrillo's Turn
1903, before the Revolution The Citrillos Turns is a pulque bar in Mexico City, in which beings wi...
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Borderland
Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and ...
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García
García has managed to accomplish his wedding promise to his wife, Amalia: buy her a wretched farm ou...
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Of Love and Other Demons
Based on Gabriel García Márquez's novel, this is the unsettling story of 13-year-old noble Sierva an...
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Eddie Reynolds and The Iron Angels
They are not wild and crazy anymore, or at least they think so. Now, thanks to an offer nobody can't...
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Magallanes
Magallanes sees his humdrum life turn upside down the day Celina, a women he met in the violent year...
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Overkill
American Police officer Jack Hazard heads for South America after being ordered to take time off by ...
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Bandidos
In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, a band of pre-teen boys are forced to rely on their own resou...
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The Monroy Affaire
Ronnie Monroy has had an unmeaningful life as a public employee. About to turn 65 and face retiremen...
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A Wonderful World
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico....
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Under California: The Limit of Time
Damian is a married artist living in Los Angeles with his wife. After Damian accidentally hits a wom...
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On the Air
Alberto is a disc-jockey at a radio station. His life is torn apart by the memories of his ex-wife a...
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The two Perez
The story of two brothers. One lives in the city and one in the field, and they have different lives...
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Ave María
In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people....
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Katuwira, donde nacen y mueren los sueños
Sofia meets a stranger man who hacks the computer system where she works before she has an accident....
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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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Lolo
Lolo lives in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City. One day he is assaulted and injur...
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Mangoré
The life and times of famed Paraguayan musician Agustín Pío Barrios, from the years of his youth to ...
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Amber
Old Max remembers the time as a child when he was taken to the jungle where he met a prophet, a circ...
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A Breakfast Chronicle
A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, ...
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The Hotel
A single mother named Maria unespectedly inherits an hotel from her deceased father, where she will ...
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Crónicas
A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer...
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Morenitas: Jimena
Jimena, like Hannia and Sofía in the first two parts of this trilogy, is the thread that connects th...
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Morenitas: Hannia
A contemporary documentary that highlights and supports the beauty of young Mexican women with indig...
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Marea de Arena
Love, passion and madness are found in this film packed with intrigue, tension and suspicion. Juan, ...
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The Naked City
A gritty tale of survival set against a city ripe with violence and corruption. The Naked City tells...
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The Mongolian Conspiracy
1963, the Soviet Union intercepts a rumour that China pretends to assassinate the president of the U...
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Miss Bala
Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border...
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Héctor
Adolescent Hector faces a major lifestyle change after moving into his aunt's flat in a blue-collar ...
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Mighty Victoria
Feature film located at the beginning of the 20th-century which tells the story of the town "La Espe...
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Cita en el paraíso.
Alejandra (Gutiérrez), a drugstore clerk, receives a note from a strange man (Alcázar). The note onl...
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The Legend of a Mask
A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"...
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The King of All the World
Manuel is preparing his next show, a musical about making a musical show. He seeks the help of Sara ...
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La mesa servida
Carlos has an empty belly and tries to dominate nature by obeying it. The only two pigs in his villa...
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Tales of the City
"Alguien se acerca", "Viajeros", "Lilí" and "Azul celeste", four stories directed by Ramón Cervantes...
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¡Que viva México!
After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ens...
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Avocado: The Mexican Treasure
Damián Alcázar and Lorena de la Torre explore the avocado industry's deep roots in Michoacán, Mexico...
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The Gentleman
Aging ex-soldier Theo meets weekly with prostitute Olga to reminisce. After Olga's murder, Theo seek...
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Barren Land
Barren Land is the story of three friends. All three trapped between the abandonment of the institut...
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Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdr...
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