Gael García BernalFilmography

Born:: October 30, 1978 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Occupation:: Actor, Executive Producer
Biography:: An actor nearly all his life, the endearingly handsome Gael García Bernal began performing in stage productions with his parents in Guadalajara, Mexico, and later studied at the Central School for Speech and Drama back home in London. Bernal then appeared in several plays, soap operas, and short...Read More

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Voy a Explotar

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Maria Deschamps, Juan Pablo De Santiago, Daniel Jiménez Cacho, Rebecca Jones, Martha Claudia Moreno

Synopsis: Director Gerardo Naranjo transplants the myth of the last romantic couple to upper middle-class Mexico City with this vital and hectic tale of a young couple who throw caution to the wind and set out in search of their true fate. Román is the son of a contemptible, right-leaning congressman. Read More

8/14/09
Rudo y Cursi

Actors: Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Guillermo Francella

Synopsis: Carlos Cuarón, who co-wrote the script for his brother Alfonso Cuarón's breakthrough hit, Y Tu Mamá También, makes his feature directorial debut with Rudo y Cursi. The film also reunites the stars of the earlier film, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, and is the first release from the production Read More

5/8/09
The Limits of Control

Actors: Isaach de Bankolé, Hiam Abbass, Gael García Bernal, Paz de la Huerta, Alex Descas

Synopsis: A mysterious loner attempts to successfully complete his criminal mission while operating outside of the law in contemporary Spain. His objectives shrouded in secrecy, the untrusting lone wolf (Isaach de Bankolé) sets out on his latest assignment knowing that the law is never too far behind. Bill Murray Read More

5/1/09
Sin Nombre

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Paulina Gaitan, Edgar Flores, Kristyan Ferrer, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Diana Garcia

Synopsis: Student Academy Award winner Cary Joji Fukunaga makes his feature directorial debut with this epic dramatic thriller following a Honduran teenager who reunites with her long-estranged father and attempts to emigrate to America with him in order to start a new life. Inspired by the director's Read More

3/20/09
Mammoth

Actors: Michelle Williams, Gael García Bernal, Sophie Nyweide, Tom McCarthy, Marife Necisito, Run Srinikornchot

Synopsis: Three years after his "experimental" phase wrapped with the jarring, iconoclastic Container, Swedish enfant terrible Lukas Moodysson returned for this sprawling, ambitious social drama. Echoing Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel and featuring two Hollywood A-listers as his leads, Mammoth Read More

1/23/09
8

Crew: Director

Actors: Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Hringur Ingvarsson, Ranvir Shorey, Birsa Chatterjee

Synopsis: Eight internationally known filmmakers address vital issues concerning the Third World in this omnibus feature. In 2000, 191 countries affiliated with the United Nations agreed to take part in a program to cut world poverty in half before the year 2015 by observing eight Millennium Development Read More

2009
Blindness

Actors: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura

Synopsis: Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago's novel Blindness begins when an epidemic of blindness strikes the world. Mark Ruffalo stars as an eye doctor who awakens one morning to find that he suffers from the unexplained disorder. He, along with other victims, is Read More

10/3/08
Chevolution

Synopsis: On March 5, 1960, Che Guevara, one of the architects of the Cuban revolution, attended a memorial service for seventy-five men who died while explosive cargo was being unloaded from a ship in the Havana harbor. Photographer Alberto Korda snapped a picture of Guevara at the event, and while it went Read More

2008
Drama/Mex

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Fernando Becerril, Diana Garcia, Miriana Moro, Juan Pablo Castaneda, Emilio Valdes

Synopsis: For his sophomore effort, Drama/Mex, writer-director Gerardo Naranjo (Malachance) juxtaposes three back-to-back stories, set in the once lush and exclusive - now over-commercialized and garish - resort town of Acapulco, over the course of the same long, hot night. Naranjo mounts an experimental Read More

7/11/07
The Past

Actors: Gael García Bernal

2007
J.C. Chavez

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Mike Tyson, Diego Luna, Julio César Chávez, Steve Wynn, Carlos Salinas de Gortani

Synopsis: Y Tu Mamá También star Diego Luna makes his directorial debut with this documentary tracing the life and career of Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez. From his very first bouts to his unforgettable matches against such formidable opponents as Oscar De La Hoya and Kostya Tszyu, Luna's film merges Read More

2007
Saint Death

Synopsis: In Mexico City's rough-and-tumble Tepito district, crime and violence are unfortunate facts of life, and in a dominantly Catholic nation it's no surprise that the people of Tepito have turned to a favored saint for guidance and protection. However, in Tepito the saint in whom many have placed Read More

2007
Déficit

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Gael García Bernal, Camila Sodi, Luz Cipriota, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Alvaro Verduzco

Synopsis: Y Tu Mama Tambien star Gael García Bernal makes his feature directorial debut with this study of the class system in Mexico centered on a rowdy house party. Cristobal (García Bernal) is a privileged rich boy who loves a good party almost as much as he loves hip-hip. Cristobal has made plans for a Read More

2007
Babel

Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi, Adriana Barraza, Koji Yakusho

Synopsis: The tragic aftermath of human carelessness travels around the world in this multi-narrative drama from filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu. Richard (Brad Pitt) and Susan (Cate Blanchett) are a couple from the United States who have traveled to Morocco in Northern Africa on a vacation after the Read More

10/27/06
The Science of Sleep

Actors: Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: Inventive Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry takes a surreal trip through the mind of an introverted but wildly creative man whose attempts to balance his colorful dreams with his stark reality are complicated by the arrival of a beautiful woman into his life. Shy Read More

9/22/06
The King

Actors: Gael García Bernal, William Hurt, Paul Dano, Pell James, Laura Elena Harring

Synopsis: A young man exacts a thorough revenge against the father who abandoned him in this independent drama. Elvis (Gael García Bernal) is a young man in his early twenties who, after finishing a hitch in the Navy, learns that his biological father was Pastor David Sandow (William Hurt), a man of the Read More

5/19/06
Cochochi

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Luis Antonio Lerma Batista, Evaristo Lema Batista

Synopsis: Two young indigenous brothers from the La Sierra Tarahumara region of northwest Mexico return home from Benito Juarez elementary boarding school, only to find their fates pulling them in opposite directions in director Laura Amelia Guzmán's dramatic meditation on the value of culture and the cost Read More

2006
Dot the I

Actors: Gael García Bernal, Natalia Verbeke, James D'Arcy, Tom Hardy, Charlie Cox

Synopsis: The British erotic thriller Dot the I is the debut film of writer/director Matthew Parkhill. Carmen (Natalia Verbeke) is a young Spanish Flamenco dancer engaged to the wealthy Barnaby (James D'Arcy). Right before their wedding, she meets Brazilian actor Kit (Gael García Bernal). Following their Read More

3/11/05
The Motorcycle Diaries

Actors: Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mía Maestro, Gustavo Bueno, Jorge Chiarella

Synopsis: Brazilian director Walter Salles Jr. follows up the Golden Globe-nominated Behind the Sun with this filmed adaptation of Argentinian-born Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara's journals of the same name. The Motorcycle Diaries stars Gael García Bernal (Y Tu Mamá También, Amores Perros) as a Read More

9/24/04
Bad Education

Actors: Fele Martínez, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Jiménez Cacho, Lluís Homar

Synopsis: Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar takes a look at his own adolescence as well as confronting the issue of sexual misconduct in the Catholic Church in this stylish drama, which was chosen to open the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Enrique Goded (Fele Martínez) is a Spanish filmmaker who is having trouble Read More

3/19/04
Cuba Libre

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Iben Hjejle, Gael García Bernal, Andhy Mendez, Diana Bracho

2004
The Crime of Padre Amaro

Actors: Gael García Bernal, Sancho Gracia, Ana Claudia Talancón, Damián Alcázar, Angélica Aragón, Ernesto Gómez Cruz

Synopsis: A priest discovers the path of virtue can be steep, and temptation can demand a heavy price, in this controversial drama from Mexico. Father Amaro (Gael Garcia Bernal) is a young Catholic priest whose mentor, the Bishop (Ernesto Gomez Cruz), expects great things from him. However, like all Read More

11/15/02
I'm With Lucy

Actors: Monica Potter, Julianne Nicholson, John Hannah, Gael García Bernal, Anthony LaPaglia, Henry Thomas, David Boreanaz, Harold Ramis

Synopsis: A single New York woman endures a series of blind dates in search of the perfect spouse in director Jon Sherman's romantic comedy I'm With Lucy. Looking back on her search as she prepares for her wedding, Lucy (Monica Potter ) recalls the physical chemistry of her and Gabriel (Gael García Bernal) Read More

11/3/02
Y Tu Mamá También

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
Fidel

Actors: Victor Huggo Martin, Gael García Bernal, Patricia Velasquez, Maurice Compte, Margarita d'Francisco

Synopsis: Filmed in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, this massive biography of Cuban leader Fidel Castro begins in the 1950s, when the title character, then a young and hungry lawyer, bristles at the iniquities and corruption of the Batista political regime. Inspired by the words by left-wing radio Read More

2002
Don't Tempt Me

Actors: Victoria Abril, Penélope Cruz, Demián Bichir, Fanny Ardant, Gael García Bernal

Synopsis: Two of Spain's biggest female stars headline this offbeat comedy about the battle of wills between good and evil. Heaven is not getting its fair share of business for the afterlife, so Lola (Victoria Abril), an angel who sings in a nightclub located beyond the pearly gates, is sent to Earth to Read More

11/28/01
Vidas Privadas

Synopsis: When the father of a young woman with a dark past falls ill and needs her help to survive, she must learn to let go of the pain and forge on into the future in this harrowing and affecting drama from filmmaker Fito Paez. For years Carmen Uranga (Celia Roth) had suffered the torture inflicted upon Read More

2001
Amores Perros

Actors: Emilio Echeverria, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Alvaro Guerrero

Synopsis: Three stories of life along the margins in Mexico City converge in this inventive thriller. Octavio is sharing an apartment with his brother, which leads to a serious problem when he falls in love with Susanna, his sister-in-law. Octavio and Susanna want to run away together, but Octavio has no Read More

6/16/00