Gael Garcia Bernal
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch) (2000)
- Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Feat. Emilio Echevarria, Gael Garcia Bernal, Goya Toledo…
- Bursting forth with passion, cinematic mettle and pungent local flavours, this debut feature, a triptych of stories set in polyglot Mexico City, is…
- Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too!) (2001)
- Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna
- Acclaimed universally (and here in NZ beset with censorship wrangles), this Mexican joyride, taken by two teenage boys and an older woman, is indeed…
- Crime of Father Amaro, The (El Crimen del padre Amaro) (2002)
- Dir. Carlos Carrera
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal
- Melodramatic and ironic critique of the crimes of the Roman Catholic church that was hugely successful in its native Mexico.
A young priest…
- Fidel and Che (TV Mini-series) (Fidel) (2002)
- Dir. David Attwood
Feat. Victor Huggo Martin, Gael Garcia Bernal
- Fairly balanced exploration of the Cuban Revolution as told through the rise of Fidel Castro, from revolutionary fighter, to popular leader and…
- Dot The I (El Punto sobre la I) (2003)
- Dir. Matthew Parkhill
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, James D'Arcy, Natalia Verbeke
- A skillfully moody London romance, in which the relationship of an engaged couple is disturbed by a pre–wedding ritual in which Verbeke must…
- Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) (2004)
- Dir. Walter Salles
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Mercedes Morán
- Sumptuously filmed two–wheeled road trip across 1950s South America with the youthful, asthmatic Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Bernal), and friend…
- Bad Education (Mala Educación, La) (2004)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez, Javier Camara
- Another fascinating work from Almodovar who, after TALK TO HER, again matches his renowned taste in decor with adventurous yet controlled…
- King, The (2005)
- Dir. James Marsh
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, William Hurt, Laura Elena Harring
- A brooding, accomplished slice of southern discomfort with Gael Garcia Bernal (in his first US film) playing recently dischargee from the Navy named…
- Babel (2006)
- Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Feat. Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal…
- A bold, virtuoso three–peat for the writer–director team behind AMORES PERROS and 21 GRAMS, grafting a biblical parable of ill…
- Science of Sleep, The (2006)
- Dir. Michel Gondry
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Emma de Caunes…
- A delightfully self–conscious, self–indulged fantasy for cine–wizard Michel Gondry, the director's follow–up to ETERNAL…
- Blindness (2008)
- Dir. Fernando Meirelles
Feat. Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Danny Glover…
- Psychological thriller set in a big city where a sudden epidemic of 'white blindness' strikes half the population, and those affected set up their…
- Rudo and Cursi (Rudo y Cursi) (2008)
- Dir. Carlos Cuarón
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna
- The charismatic stars and co–writer of Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN reunite in this biting satire about two brothers from rural stock who have an intense…
- Limits of Control, The (2009)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Isaach de Bankole, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton…
- Indie King Jim Jarmusch directs this mysterious and moody crime thriller, in which a Lone Man wanders through Madrid and Seville on an undisclosed…
- Mammoth (2009)
- Dir. Lukas Moodysson
Feat. Michelle Williams, Gael Garcia Bernal, Marife Necesito…
- Ambitious social drama concerned with the corrosive effects of globalisation. Williams and Bernal play a well–heeled New York couple who…
- Letters to Juliet (2010)
- Dir. Gary Winick
Feat. Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Gael Garcia Bernal…
- Picturesque romance set in Verona, the city of Romeo and Juliet, where a young American tourist discovers a love letter that will change her life.
- A Little Bit of Heaven (2011)
- Dir. Nicole Kassell
Feat. Kate Hudson, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rosemarie DeWitt…
- Colon cancer–sufferer Kate Hudson falls in love with her doctor (Mexican heartthrob Gael Garcia Bernal) in this hopelessly awkward romantic…
- Loneliest Planet, The (2011)
- Dir. Julia Loktev
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Hani Furstenberg
- A twentysomething couple backpacking through Eurasia witness a shocking incident while climbing the Caucasus Mountains in this powerful minimalist…
- Casa de mi Padre (House of My Father) (2012)
- Dir. Matt Piedmont
Feat. Will Ferrell, Diego Luna, Pedro Jr. Armendariz…
- Will Ferrell goes off the grid in this bizarre, no–budget Mexican melodrama. An inspired spoof, depending on your tolerance for inscrutable…
- No (2012)
- Dir. Pablo Larrain
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Alfredo Castro
- Gael Garcia Bernal plays an ad executive who conceives a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum in this unique celebration of…
- Rosewater (2014)
- Dir. Jon Stewart
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas…
- The Daily Show's Jon Stewart makes a searing directorial debut with this true story of an Iranian–Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari who was…
- Zoom (2015)
- Dir. Paulo Morelli
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Alison Pill, Jason Priestley…
- A multi–dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a…
- Desierto (2015)
- Dir. Jonás Cuarón
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Diego Cataño…
- Tense B–movie style thriller set in the borderlands between Mexico and the U.S.A, with Bernal as an illegal immigrant who must find a way to…
- Salt and Fire (2016)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Michael Shannon, Veronica Ferres, Gael Garcia Bernal
- Two ecologists posted in the remote Bolivian wilderness are kidnapped by a local businessman with mysterious intentions, but find they must unite…
- Neruda (2016)
- Dir. Pablo Larrain
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán
- Universally acclaimed biographical drama about poet and communist senator Pablo Neruda, who was forced into hiding with his artist wife when the Cold…
- Coco (2017)
- Dir. Lee Unkrich
Feat. Anthony Gonzalez, Gael Garcia Bernal, Benjamin Bratt…
- A charming Pixar film based on the Mexican holiday The Day of the Dead, that proves to be more than just a bunch of Halloween cliches. The story…
- Kindergarten Teacher, The (2018)
- Dir. Sara Colangelo
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar…
- English–language remake of the 2014 Israeli film of the same name about a jaded teacher, mother and aspiring poet who becomes obsessed with one…
- Ema (2019)
- Dir. Pablo Larrain
Feat. Mariana Di Girolamo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Santiago Cabrera…
- A bold and distinctive film from director Pablo Larrain (NO), with newcomer Mariana Di Girolamo playing a young dancer who is coping with an adoption…
- Old (2021)
- Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell…
- Thriller from director M. Night Shyamalan (THE SIXTH SENSE) about a family on vacation at a luxury resort who discover that the secluded beach…