Alfonso Cuarón Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Among the most successful and talked-about Mexican filmmakers of his generation, director Alfonso Cuarón has shown a remarkable versatility, able to embrace old-school Hollywood elegance as well as rough-edged and darker-themed contemporary stories. Cuarón was born in Mexico City in 1961, and grew...Read More

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Rudo y Cursi

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna

Synopsis: Y Tu Mamá También co-stars Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna are reunited on the big screen under the direction of Carlos Cuarón (brother of Alfonso) for this comedy drama detailing the love/hate relationship shared between two professional soccer-playing siblings. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Read More

1/1/08
Paris, je t'aime

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Twenty acclaimed filmmakers from around the world look at love in the City of Lights in this omnibus feature. Paris Je T'aime features eighteen short stories, each set in a different part of Paris and each featuring a different cast and director (two segments were produced by two filmmakers in Read More

5/4/07
Year of the Nail

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Diego Cataño, Eireann Harper, Salvador Elizondo, Michele Alban, Cristina Orozco

Synopsis: The first directorial effort by Alfonso Cuaron's son Jonas Cuaron, Year of the Nail concerns a teenage boy who thinks of nothing but sex. The film chronicles his attempts to seduce a young woman who finds herself traveling through Mexico. Cuaron utilizes a series of still images rather than Read More

2007
Pan's Labyrinth

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ariadna Gil, Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones

Synopsis: Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro returns to the phantasmagorical cinema that defined such early fare as Cronos and The Devil's Backbone with this haunting fantasy-drama set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and detailing the strange journeys of an imaginative young girl who may be the Read More

12/29/06
Children of Men

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Claire-Hope Ashitey

Synopsis: Y Tu Mamá También and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón returns to the helm to tell this futuristic tale in which society is without hope since humankind lost its ability to procreate. The year is 2027, and women can no longer give birth. The youngest inhabitant of Read More

9/22/06
Sólo Con Tu Pareja

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer

Actors: Daniel Jiménez Cacho, Claudia Ramirez, Luis De Icaza

Synopsis: Tomas is a very busy fellow and is about to grow much, much busier. He has his current girlfriend in bed in one apartment, and his lady boss in bed in the next one, and is crossing from one to the other on a window ledge. Neither one has figured out what he is up to. His juggling act becomes much Read More

9/20/06
Parc Monceau

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nick Nolte, Ludivine Sagnier

Synopsis: Despite its five-minute running time, this short from Children of Men director Alfonso Cuarón packs in a surprise ending. The sequence stars Nick Nolte and Ludivine Sagnier as an older man and much younger woman who connect and embark on a stroll in nighttime Paris. Parc Monceau was Cuarón's Read More

2006
Crónicas

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Leguizamo, Leonor Watling, Damián Alcázar, Jose Maria Yazpik, Alfred Molina

Synopsis: A man with a secret forms an uneasy alliance with an opportunistic reporter in this drama from Mexico. Manolo Bonilla (John Leguizamo) is a broadcast journalist for a Latin-American tabloid television series who has been sent to Ecuador to cover the funeral services of three children who fell Read More

7/8/05
Black Sun

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Hugues de Montalembert

Synopsis: In 1978 New York artist and filmmaker Hugues de Montalembert's world went black. Viciously assaulted by two men who had broken into his apartment looking for money, de Montalembert's vision was forever darkened when one of the thieves threw a vial of paint thinner in his face. In the painful days Read More

2005
The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson, Michael Wincott, Mykelti Williamson, Naomi Watts

Synopsis: The true story of a man who, on February 22, 1974, was thwarted from an ambitious plan for political assassination provides the basis for this striking psychological drama. Sam Bicke (Sean Penn) is a salesman for an office-supply company whose life is slowly beginning to unravel. Bicke's job is Read More

12/29/04
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Crew: Director

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane

Synopsis: After directing the first two movies in the Harry Potter franchise, Chris Columbus opted to serve as producer for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and passed the baton to Y Tu Mamá También director Alfonso Cuarón. Though "immensely popular" is an understatement when it comes to Harry Potter Read More

6/4/04
Y Tu Mamá También

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Diana Bracho, Emilio Echeverria

Synopsis: Mexican-born, New York-based filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón directed this Mexican box-office smash hit about a pair of randy upper-class buddies that sparked some controversy for its frank depiction of drug use and sexual exploration. With their respective girlfriends away in Europe, Julio (Gael García Bernal Read More

3/15/02
Great Expectations

Crew: Director

Actors: Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft, Robert De Niro

Synopsis: Alfonso Cuaron (The Little Princess) directed this Mitch Glazer screenplay, a modernization of the 1860-61 classic by Charles Dickens. Some situations in the film are presented as memories -- the way the central figure, Finnegan Bell (Ethan Hawke) recalls events many years later. At a Florida Read More

1998
A Little Princess

Crew: Director

Actors: Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, Liesel Matthews, Rusty Schwimmer, Arthur Malet

Synopsis: A privileged, free-spirited young girl tries to adapt to life in a strict boarding school in this charming, critically acclaimed children's fantasy. Adapting a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, also the author of The Secret Garden, the film shifts the story's setting to World War I. 10 year-old Read More

1995
Fallen Angels, Vol. 1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This film noir style, made-for-TV movie contains three parts, each based on stories by three different authors (Jim Thompson, Cornell Woolrich, and James Elroy). It looks as if a con-artist (Peter Gallagher) has finally met someone who can pull the wool over his eyes in "The Frightening Frammis." Read More

1993
Les Pyramides Bleues

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Omar Sharif, Arielle Dombasle, Hippolyte Girardot, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Pierre Vaneck

Synopsis: Elise (Arielle Dombasle) is content being the lover of Alex (Omar Sharif), a wealthy magnate who lavishes her with attention and money. When she gets religious and decides to hide from him in a French convent, Alex hires agents to bring her back. He offers money to the corrupt cult leader Noah (Pierre Vaneck Read More

1988