Main content | Search | Section navigation menu | Site-wide navigation menu

Main menu

 
 
 

Gael Garcia Bernal

Actor

 
Amores PerrosAmores Perros (Love's a Bitch) (2000) Aro Favourite
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 TambienY Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too!) (2001) Aro Favourite
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, TheCrime of Father Amaro, The (El Crimen del padre Amaro) (2002) Recommended
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 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 IDot 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 DiariesMotorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) (2004) Recommended
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 EducationBad Education (Mala Educación, La) (2004) Recommended
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, TheKing, 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…
BabelBabel (2006) Recommended
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, TheScience of Sleep, The (2006) Recommended
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…
BlindnessBlindness (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 CursiRudo and Cursi (Rudo y Cursi) (2008) Recommended
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, TheLimits 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…
MammothMammoth (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 JulietLetters 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 HeavenA 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, TheLoneliest 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 PadreCasa 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…
NoNo (2012) Aro Favourite
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…
RosewaterRosewater (2014) Recommended
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…
ZoomZoom (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…
DesiertoDesierto (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 FireSalt 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…
NerudaNeruda (2016) Recommended
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…
CocoCoco (2017) Recommended
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, TheKindergarten 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…
EmaEma (2019) Recommended
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…
OldOld (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…

Results Page   | 1 |

Display
Display
Order
Order