Cast: Manuel Poncelis

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Manuel Poncelis. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Herod's Law

1999 · Movie · 120 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Estrada

Cast Damián Alcázar · Pedro Armendáriz Jr. · Guillermo Gil · Isela Vega

Synopsis The story is set in 1949 in the authentically designed village of San Pedro de los Saguaros, a small town of 100 habitants, where the last few mayors have been lynched. Consequently, amidst the proximity of future elections, the ruling...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

I Dream in Another Language

2017 · Movie · 103 min. · Mexico

Direction Ernesto Contreras

Cast Fernando Álvarez Rebeil · Manuel Poncelis · Eligio Meléndez · Fátima Molina

Synopsis Martin arrives in a remote Mexican village to record a dying, ancient indigenous language. He finds the last two speakers of the language, but they refuse to speak to each other because of a 50 year grudge. Martin learns the...

6.8

631 votes

6.8

631 votes

Bajo California

1998 · Movie · 96 min. · Mexico

Direction Carlos Bolado

Cast Damián Alcázar · Jesús Ochoa · Claudette Mallé · Fernando Torre Laphame

Synopsis Part passion play, part western, and part road movie, Carlos Bolado's debut feature is breath-taking homage to the powers of nature, art, ritual, and love. A work of stirring beauty, Bajo California dramatizes the spiritual and physical odyssey of a...

6.7

146 votes

6.7

146 votes

Tótem

2023 · Movie · 95 min. · Mexico

Direction Lila Avilés

Cast Naíma Sentíes · Montserrat Marañon · Mateo Garcia · Marisol Gasé

Synopsis Seven-year-old Sol spends the day at her grandfather’s home, helping with the preparations for a surprise party for her father. Throughout the day, chaos slowly takes over, fracturing the family’s foundations. Sol will embrace the essence of letting go as...

6.5

921 votes

6.5

921 votes

Powder

2019 · Movie · 88 min. · Mexico

Direction José María Yazpik

Cast José María Yazpik · Mariana Treviño · Joaquín Cosío · Jesús Ochoa

Synopsis After a ten year absence, "El Chato" returns to San Ignacio, his hometown, in order to retrieve a shipment of cocaine that was dropped there by a cartel pilot.

6.4

83 votes

6.4

83 votes

Belascoarán, PI (TV Series)

2022 · Series · 75 min. · Mexico

Direction Ernesto Contreras · Hiromi Kamata · Gonzalo Amat

Cast Luis Gerardo Méndez · Paulina Gaitan · Irene Azuela · Silverio Palacios

Synopsis Héctor Belascoarán leaves his corporate job and dull marriage to become an independent detective and tackle shocking criminal cases in 1970s Mexico City.

6.4

186 votes

6.4

186 votes

Hernán (TV Series)

2019 · Series · 48 min. · Spain

Direction Amaya Muruzabal · Norberto López Amado · Julián de Tavira · Alvaro Ron

Cast Óscar Jaenada · Ishbel Bautista · Dagoberto Gama · Michel Brown

Synopsis The Spanish "Conquistador" Hernán Cortés arrives in the shores of what today is México and faces both local demons and those who've sailed with him.

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

5.6

75 votes

Aztech

2020 · Movie · 92 min. · Mexico

Direction Fernando Campos · Gigi Saul Guerrero · Ulises Guzmán · Jaime Jasso

Cast Gustavo Sánchez Parra · Sofía Espinosa · Fernando Becerril · Ximena Romo

Synopsis Ancient Aztec prophecies are fulfilled, after the fall of meteorite fragments and extraterrestrial material that impact the earth. Bizarre events occur, in the different spaces and times of the collisions.

4.1

26 votes

4.1

26 votes

Sitiados: México (TV Series)

2019 · Series · 60 min. · Mexico

Direction Álvaro Curiel · Sebastián del Amo

Cast Alfonso Herrera · Erendira Ibarra · Juan Manuel Bernal · Jorge Antonio Guerrero

Synopsis Veracruz, year 1683. With the intention of restocking his ship, a mysterious and refined captain arrives to the Governor's house, introducing himself as Lorenzo. No one knows his ulterior motives, although they don't take long to surface.

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Direction Adrián Burns

Cast Diana Bracho · Jimena Guerra · Fernando Becerril · Osvaldo de León

Synopsis Mexico City, 1968. Elena, the only child of an aristocratic family, discovers the unpredictability of feeling through Fernanda, her new step-mother, a Hollywood beauty of years gone bye. Fernanda struggles against being absorbed by Elena’s labyrinth of passion and desire,...

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I Don’t Want To Be Dust

2022 · Movie · 85 min. · Mexico

Direction Ivan Löwenberg

Cast Bego Sainz · Anahí Allué · Agustina Quinci · J.C. Montes-Roldan

Synopsis Bego is now terribly bored and afraid of being absolutely irrelevant in life, but this might change as the new-age meditation group she attends announces a great cataclysm.

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Marioneta

2019 · Movie · 109 min. · Mexico

Direction Álvaro Curiel

Cast Rafael Ernesto Hernández · Fátima Molina · Juan Manuel Bernal · Nicolasa Ortíz Monasterio

Synopsis Ernesto is a Cuban actor who decides to try his luck in Mexico in an important theater company. Failing to succeed in his attempt to land the lead role, he is stranded in Mexico City. Faced with the dilemma of...

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Disappear Completely

2022 · Movie · 103 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Javier M. Henaine

Cast Harold Torres · Tete Espinoza · Fermín Martínez · Vicky Araico

Synopsis After visiting a crime scene, an ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer falls victim to a mysterious illness.

Not rated

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Ulises (S)

2018 · Movie · 8 min. · Mexico

Direction Jorge Malpica

Cast Michelle Betancourt · Manuel Poncelis

Synopsis Ulysses goes to to the sea without knowing if he will ever come back to shore as he meets a mermaid who tries to capture him with her enchanting call.

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Not rated