Roberto Sosa
Birthday: Born in 1970-04-17 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Deathday: Alive
Roberto Gonzalo Sosa Martínez ( Mexico City , April 17, 1970 ) is a Mexican television actor and director who has worked on television , in the theater and, above all, in the cinema.
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Bajo el Alma
Character: Mario "el alacrán"
Bajo el Alma is a Mexican telenovela produced by Azteca. It stars Matias Novoa & Barbara de Regil as the protagonists....
Los reyes de oriente
Character: Taiguer
A tight-knit crew of three reigns over a bustling barrio in Mexico City — until a sudden tragedy breaks their crowns and renders two of them rivals....
El sexo nuestro de cada día
Character: Roberto Sosa
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El Candidato
Character: Nestor
Rookie CIA field operative Isabel Alfaro works alongside infamous CIA legend Wayne Addison to bring down Rafael Bautista, Mexico's most vicious and brilliant narco. Her mission brings her into conflict with Eduardo Yzaguirre, her former boyfriend and the current Mayor of Mexico City, the cleanest and most inspirational politician in the country....
Sitiados: México
Character: Julián
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Clandestino. Historias de la Guerrilla Urbana
Character: Narrador
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Movie Credits
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
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Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality...
The Matador
Character: Skinny Mexican Man
The life of Danny Wright, a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory when he wanders into a Mexican bar and meets a mysterious stranger, Julian, who's very likely a hit man. Their meeting sets off a chain of events that will change their lives forever, as Wright is suddenly thrust into a far-from-mundane existence that he takes to surprisingly well … once he gets acclimated to it....
Wolves Aren't Meant For The Circus
Character: Chuy
After an all-nighter, Ricardo gets to his apartment only to find his family ready to have an intervention for him. His struggle with addiction is the least of his problems in this peculiar event where he faces his drug dealer, a prostitute and the worst company of all: his family....
Taxi
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Anything can happen to a foreigner who travels to meet his fiancée....
Cabeza de Vaca
Character: Cascabel / Araino
An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquis...
Enemigos íntimos
Character:
Tells the stories of eight characters suffering from different ailments: a doctor who does not acknowledge his homosexuality, a woman who refuses to accept that she is growing old, a mute nurse, a failed writer, an autistic child, a young pregnant woman and an adolescent in a coma, who are linked together by the fact that one of them, Guillermo is diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his kidney....
Seeds of Tragedy
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Coca leaves making their way from Peru to Downtown Los Angeles....
Three of Cups
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While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both....
Mi Canción
Character: El Patrón
"Mi Canción" follows the rise of young Guadalajara rapper C-Kan, as he realizes the danger he put himself in by working with the local Cartel. After falling in love with Valeria, she convinces him to leave this llife of crime and pursue his dream and become a Rap star. Conflicted, he decides to stop working with the Cartel, but that is easier said than done!...
The Heart of the Night
Character: Invitado en Fiesta
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society....
Lola
Character: Duende
A single mother sells clothes on the streets to support her daughter in Mexico City after the earthquake....
Get the Gringo
Character: Carnal
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....
Highway Patrolman
Character: Pedro
A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption, dangerous drug runners and the consequences of his often morally gray actions....
Pedro Páramo
Character: Rentería
A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrated love....
The Wall
Character: Sotomayor
La Pared, explores the nature of human instinct and the concept of action and reaction. Miguel finds himself struggling against the gossip he hears about his wife, Dolores. Both will realize, they have to be honest of who they are and what they want as husband and wife....
Caminando pasos... caminando
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In a community of the Matlatzinca ethnic group, a teacher tries to integrate the inhabitants into the struggle of a guerrilla group....
The flying pony
Character:
Mythical and fantastic story on the wishes of a peasant boy, Diego, who become reality in the course of a day and a night. On the eve of his birthday, the child's godfather gives her a shot of cardboard. At night, the little dreams that is mounted on the horse and find a nymph that describes the exact location of much needed water does to your family....
Parejas
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Comedy about different forms of love in this busy period in which we live. Two pairs of great friends celebrate together their weddings. Between drunkenness and friendship , things get confused. Will love defeat guilt? A prominent businessman lives unbeatable location : it has a beautiful lover, a new job, and wants a child with your partner. But she discovers that she cheats on him . Is a type of self- love?...
Victorio
Character: Lulú
A story of redemption, drama and action, where only love can overcome all obstacles....
Barrio 13
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Beginning and ending with the endless promises of Mexican politicians, Barrio 13 is a film based on the daily life of many Mexicans and Central Americans who struggle with the current realities: poverty, despair, misery and political betrayal....
Cartas a Elena
Character: Viejo Paniagua
In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since most are illiterate. Young Emilio quickly learns to read and write but feels saddened by the mostly difficult stories sent by relatives, that moved north to Denver, Colorado in pursuit of a better future. One day Teo becomes disabled and Emilio takes ...
Entre caníbales
Character: Horacio
A comedy about ties that can bind... or strangle. A successful businessman from gathers together his childhood friends with whom he played on a Little League baseball team called The Cannibals, to give them some news. Far from what the friends imagine, the news ends up showing the true reason for the meeting and puts their friendship on the line....
Maldita vecindad
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De la calle
Character:
Mexican feature film...
Dark Cities
Character: Vicente
Adapted by writer/director Fernando Sariñana from the stories by Juan Madrid, Ciudades Oscuras (Dark Cities) tells a story of interwoven lives in the seedy underbelly of Mexico City. The several different story lines concern hooker Lola (Dolores Heredia); her drug addict son Fede (Diego Luna); her friend Zeze (Zaide Silvia Gutierrez); Zeze's daughter Susana (Jimena Ayala); and junkie Vicente (Roberto Sosa). Also on the scene are two corrupt cops (Alejandro Tommasi and Jesus Ochoa) and one good c...
What Do You Think?
Character: Boy
Award-Winning filmmaker Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva, Reed: Insurgent Mexico, Barroco) directed this gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression, unhealthy conditions and violence in the marginal communities of Mexico's capital city....
The Queen of the Night
Character: Gimeno
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. S...
Men with Guns
Character: Bravo
Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, with sometimes disturbing results....
Optical Fibre
Character: Marco Antonio Gutiérrez
When a Brazilian woman is falsely accused of killing a prominent Mexican politician, Marco, a young journalist, is hired by a stranger to discover the real motive of the crime. He is assisted by his photographer girlfriend María, and they are trapped in a web of torture, prostitution, corruption and power struggle....
Cañitas, presencia
Character: Taxista
Based on the novel by Carlos Trejo - which is supposedly based on true events -, the film retells the story of a group of friends that played the Ouija one night together and started to die one by one in mysterious ways. The only survivor was the real-life author, Carlos Trejo....
Pulling Strings
Character: Hapi
Rachel is an intelligent, modern-day woman constantly on the move. Primarily focused on her career as a diplomatic consul for the U.S. embassy, she's literally lived her life on the move, globe-trotting from city to city. Currently working in Mexico City and set to leave for London, Rachel's world turns upside down on the eve of her own goodbye party when she gets drunk and passes out on the street. Saved by Alejandro, a handsome Mariachi singer and single father, Rachel wakes up in his apartmen...
Angel of Fire
Character: Sacramento
The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods....
City of the Blind
Character: Salvador
Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows and objects that come with the characters. The set is a great solitude, possible in a city of the blind....
The Fantastic World of Juan Orol
Character: Juan Orol
Mexico’s half-forgotten B-movie master, “involuntary surrealist” Juan Orol (1897–1988), receives a pitch-perfect tribute in this deft, irresistible love letter to a self-made man of showbiz whose career spanned half a century and nearly 60 films. Abetted by an all-pro cast, del Amo’s brilliant interpretation of Orol’s life exudes a droll underdog charm, and almost every frame is an infectious homage to the golden age of cinema, the wiles of memory, and the art of fantasy....
Tlatelolco, Summer of 68'
Character: President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a student photographer and daughter of a high-ranking official, finds herself embroiled in the movement and is swept off her feet by Félix, a working-class architecture student. This film remembers the events that led to one of the darkest chapters in ...
Mexico City
Character: Head Thug
When her brother disappears during a brief travel layover in Mexico, Mitch begins a desperate search that will eventually lead the young divorcee into the capital city's most notorious neighborhood. But even with the aid of the American Ambassador, her plight is only met with indifference and inaction from the authorities. As the story unfolds, Mitch is forced to look for help in the least likely places as she races against time in a dangerous quest to find answers and locate her brother....
El baile de San Juan
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It is the final decade of the 18th century in New Spain. We are in Mexico City, inhabited by local adventurers, native inhabitants and Europeans of every kind. In these surroundings, our characters, Jerónimo Marani, court choreographer, Giovanni, his mestizo son, and Victoria, the daughter of the most prominent family in the city, who is in love with Giovanni, live a life of love and aversion, court intrigue and popular grievances, Viceregal dogmas and dreams of freedom. Mexico´s war of independ...
Bala mordida
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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, gives his gun away to cover the deal. He argues to Joaquin, old drug dealer and ex-policeman and ends up threatening him. On his way out of the operation, Mauro and his partner policemen, a gang controlled by Joaquin, stop their way out start a wrangle where Mauro is wounded. His body armor couldn´t even stop a small touch of the knife. The scandal on ...
Borderland
Character: Luis
Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a sacrifice....
Lolo
Character: Lolo
Lolo lives in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City. One day he is assaulted and injured out of the factory where he works. After a week of hospitalization, Lolo loses his job and is forced to seek sustenance. The accidental death of an elderly woman, whom Lolo trying to steal a watch that his mother had insisted, facing the young people in your neighborhood and forces him to flee, full of guilt and shame....
Dollar Mambo
Character: The Thief
Music and dance nurture the story of a group of people who live in a popular neighborhood. The invasion of North American soldiers to Panama will break the tranquility of the place bringing a wave of violence with them....
Against the Wind
Character: Leonardo Ramírez
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 important technological companies in Mexico. But fate has prepared another surprise to this attractive exectutive. With her new position comes a problem as if it was waiting on the corner of her new dream office: a multimillion scam takes place with her name. Also, it is linked in a direct way to the murder of her best friend Sofia, who is found dead in he...
The Treasure
Character: Don Felipe
After learning the last will of her son, Clemencia poses as a clairvoyant capable of tracking down and finding hidden treasures. In order to redeem the life of her son, she will have to convince Karime, a desperate and ambitious widow, that there is a treasure buried in her garden, a space that actually hides a dark secret. With the help of Don Felipe, a humble farmer, Clemencia digs hard and with each shovel he gets closer and closer to the sinister truth that ties his life to that of KARIME an...
With Fear in the Veins
Character: Billy
Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes....
Las asesinas del panadero
Character:
Mexican feature film...
Baroque
Character: Alter Ego
A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?'...
Under the Volcano
Character: Few Fleas
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey an...
Lucky Bastards
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In a neighborhood in Mexico City several stories take place, different characters come together without knowing that they have seen each other, talked to each other, found each other, and their luck is about to change....
Barrio de campeones
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Extended family in working-class neighborhood; story mostly focuses on a young man who aspires to a pro boxing career, his grandma and the restaurant she owns....
Caballero Águila
Character: Halcón
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 gets seduced by the local gang, and falls in to crime....
A Breakfast Chronicle
Character: Chavo pelo rojo
A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind....
A Walk on the Moon
Character: Candy
A Peace Corps volunteer, bubbling o'er with idealism, learns to his delight that he has been assigned to a remote, backward Colombian village. When he arrives, he is confused by the cynical attitude of his predecessor...
Ciudad en guerra
Character: Chato
Two gangs fight for control over a small town....
Cesar Chavez
Character: Librado Chavez
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organiser torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken, Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to working people....
Espiritus
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The Green Door
Character: Edo
Emina, a 28-year-old single mother, embarks on a desperate journey to save her 7-year-old son, Benjamín, who is battling cancer. Their destination is Creel, where they hope to find Edo, a 70-year-old Tarahumara healer residing in the rugged mountains of Chihuahua. This poignant journey reveals the depths of a mother's love and the lengths she will go to protect her child....
Los confines
Character: Lisandro
Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous siblings "Talpa" while Juvencio Nava, of "Diles que no me maten", flee several men who pursue for killing Colonel Terrones....
Zona Invadida
Character:
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A Woman With No Filter
Character: Maestro Osiris
Paz, a kind woman, has allowed everyone around her to treat her as if she were worth nothing, keeping silent so as not to hurt feelings. Until one day, in her head, a phenomenon forces her to express what she feels....
Man on Fire
Character: Daniel Sanchez
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life....
The Mongolian Conspiracy
Character: El Licenciado
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 local policeman, has 72 hours to investigate the Mongolian Conspiracy....
Souvenir
Character: Felix
The enigmatic Isabel decides to rent her belly to give birth to the baby of Sara and Joaquin, a possessive couple obsessed with the idea of starting a family....
Miss Bala
Character: Police Officer
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, inventiveness, and strength....
Neza: Vice City
Character: Lopaka
Lopaka is a rather simple looking dude, but he controls all the drug pushing, gangs and whores....
Shake Off Your Sorrows
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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 due to a night of partying. Through stories that integrate music and dance, he will tell the exploits of a prisoner who achieved freedom through his imagination....
The Humiliated
Character: Leper
Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent....
In the Arms of an Assassin
Character: Javier
Victor (William Levy) is one of the world’s most handsome men, but he has a deep secret – he is a cold blooded assassin. Smooth talking and seductive, Victor was raised to do one thing only, which is to kill for money. When he is sent to the home of a brutal drug lord to collect payment for his most recent hit, he encounters the beautiful Sarai (Alicia Sanz), who has been forced to spend the last 9 years of her life with the drug lord....
Latino Bar
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A woman working in a caribean Cabaret meets a man in the harbour that just went out of jail. They recognise in each other common feelings of rage and fury and then they fall in love in a story without words....
Mighty Victoria
Character: El Indio Wixárrica
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 blow....
Que me perdone tu ñora
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Sweet Release
Character: Victor Hugo
The love secrets of a large family are revealed during a trajinera tour on Xochimilco, culminating in a suicide attempt during a jackpot drawing....
Aire
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A group of beings who live in constant fear, an ordinary man devastated by the death of his wife and daughter, a sixteen year old girl who tries to transcend the harsh reality through sex, a bloodthirsty guy with strange culinary habits and a man without wishes to live...
Death and the Compass
Character: Drug Addict I
In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)...
The Longest Dream I Remember
Character: Banche
As Tania leaves her hometown, she must confront what her absence will mean in the search for her disappeared father....
Welcome al Norte
Character: Leocadio
Polito is the manager of a courier and parcel branch in Yucatán, who seeks to fulfill his dream of receiving a promotion and having a place in Cancun to move in with his wife Teo and son. Pressured by his wife, he will be willing to do anything to get it and he plans a strategy where he will achieve his transfer but a little further north: Tijuana....
Salvador
Character: Rebel Youth
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children....