Javier Bardem Filmography

Born:: March 1, 1969 in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Possessing a chameleon-like ability to disappear into his characters, which frequently renders him unrecognizable save for his piercing eyes, it's no wonder that Javier Bardem chose to pursue a career as an actor given his family's long history in show business. Always hesitant to play the same...Read More

Current News:: Javier Bardem wins top Spanish film award
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Killing Pablo

Actors: Javier Bardem, Christian Bale

Synopsis: The Yari Film Group moves forward with the biopic of Pablo Escobar with director Joe Carnahan heading up the adaptation of the book Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by author Mark Bowden. The film will follow the exploits of a Delta Force squad headed by Christian Bale as Read More

1/1/09
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Hall, Patricia Clarkson

Synopsis: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, and Rebecca Hall star in legendary filmmaker Woody Allen's tale of romance and misunderstanding set in the famed Spanish city of Barcelona. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

8/29/08
The Argentine

Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Javier Bardem, Julia Ormond, Ryan Gosling, Franka Potente, Demián Bichir

Synopsis: Steven Soderbergh's The Argentine stars Benicio Del Toro as Che Guevara. The film opens with Che as one of the important figures in the growing Cuban rebellion led by Fidel Castro (Demian Bichir). The movie charts how the two successfully built an underground army large enough to successfully Read More

1/1/08
Love in the Time of Cholera

Actors: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez's novel of the same name, director Mike Newell's Love in the Time of Cholera details a passionate love triangle that unfolds in turn-of-the-century South America. Oscar-winning Pianist scribe Ronald Harwood adapts the story of two young Read More

11/16/07
No Country for Old Men

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: When a Vietnam veteran discovers two million dollars while wandering through the aftermath of a Texas drug deal gone horribly awry, his decision to abscond with the cash sets off a violent chain reaction in a stripped-down crime drama from Joel and Ethan Coen. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) has just Read More

11/9/07
Goya's Ghosts

Actors: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, Randy Quaid, José Luis Gómez, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: The lives of a great artist, a corrupted holy man, and a beautiful woman cross paths at a crucial moment in history in this epic-scale historical drama from director Milos Forman. Near the end of the 18th century, Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgård) is a gifted but controversial artist whose Read More

7/20/07
Invisibles

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Javier Bardem

Synopsis: Filmmakers Isabel Coixet, Wim Wenders, Fernando Leon de Adanoa, Mariano Barroso, and Javier Corcuera team with Javier Bardim's Pinguin Films and the charitable organization Doctors Without Frontiers to explore a variety of social problems in Africa and Latin America. Acclaimed director Wenders' Read More

2007
The Sea Inside

Actors: Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas, Mabel Rivera, Celso Bugallo

Synopsis: Two of the most talented figures in contemporary Spanish cinema -- actor Javier Bardem and director Alejandro Amenábar -- collaborate for this powerful drama, based on a true story. Ramón Sampedro (Javier Bardem) was a fisherman and part-time poet who, at the age of 26, suffered an accident while Read More

12/17/04
Collateral

Actors: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg

Synopsis: A taxi driver is unexpectedly taken on the ride of his life in this stylish thriller from acclaimed director Michael Mann. Max (Jamie Foxx) is a cab driver who hopes to some day open his own limo company; one night behind the wheel begins promisingly when he picks up Annie (Jada Pinkett Smith), an Read More

8/6/04
The Last Face

2004
Mondays in the Sun

Actors: Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, José Ángel Egido, Nieve De Medina, Tejada Enrique Villen

Synopsis: Set in the Spanish port city of Vigo, Fernando León de Aranoa's Mondays in the Sun is a touching drama about a group of working-class men who find themselves suddenly unemployed and unwanted in their middle age. Laid off from the local shipyard, the men spend their days at the town bar, where they Read More

9/27/02
The Dancer Upstairs

Actors: Javier Bardem, Juan Diego Botto, Laura Morante, Elvira Mínguez, Alexandra Lencastre

Synopsis: Actor John Malkovich made his directorial debut with this tense political thriller, set in an unnamed Latin American nation and based on a novel by Nicholas Shakespeare. Agustin Rejas (Javier Bardem) is a former lawyer who became a police detective as a more direct way of dealing with crime and Read More

9/20/02
Don't Tempt Me

Actors: Victoria Abril, Penélope Cruz, Damián Bechir, 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
Before Night Falls

Actors: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn

Synopsis: For his sophomore feature film effort, visual artist Julian Schnabel chronicles the life of one of Cuba's most charismatic literary voices, the late Reinaldo Arenas. Working with Arenas' friends and family, Schnabel recounts the author's impoverished rural upbringing and the intense love and Read More

2000
Second Skin

Actors: Javier Bardem, Jordi Mollà, Ariadna Gil, Cecilia Roth, Javier Albala

Synopsis: Gerardo Vera directs this romantic drama about self-destructive love and sexual confusion. Alberto (Jordi Molla) is a respected aeronautical engineer married to artist Elena (Ariadna Gil) and has a son. Yet Alberto soon finds himself seduced by the wiles of hunky orthopedic surgeon Diego (Javier Bardem Read More

2000
Los Lobos De Washington

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Javier Bardem, Eduard Fernández, Jose Sancho, Ernesto Alterio, Antonio San Juan

Synopsis: A dark, noir-styled thriller with flashes of edgy wit, Los Lobos de Washington looks at a pair of low-level hoods who unknowingly betray each other on the way to a big score. Miguel (Eduardo Fernandez) and Alberto (Javier Bardem) both used to work for Claudio (Jose Sancho), a car dealer Read More

1999
Between Your Legs

Actors: Victoria Abril, Javier Bardem, Carmelo Gómez, Juan Diego, Sergi López

Synopsis: Often referred to as a cousin to Pedro Almodovar or Bigas Luna, Manuel Gomez Pereira has been covering up his sharp social satire behind nice exteriors in his previous five films. No more nice guy, says Pereira, in an erotic tale of sex-o-mania. And with who else but ravishing Victoria Abril in Read More

1998
Extasis

Actors: Javier Bardem, Federico Luppi, Silvia Munt

Synopsis: Three aimless, unemployed and penniless youths hatch a devious plot in order to escape their nowhere lives in this lively Spanish thriller that begins as Rober and Max rob a supermarket owned by their cohort Ona's parents. Their next target is Daniel Peligro, the biological father of Max. Peligro Read More

11/12/97
Live Flesh

Actors: Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal, Ángela Molina, Jose Sancho, Penélope Cruz

Synopsis: This Pedro Almodóvar melodrama examines how several lives are changed by a single gunshot. Adapting the novel Live Flesh by British mystery author Ruth Rendell, Almodóvar has given the material a Spanish makeover with added political thrust. Beginning in 1970 in Franco's Madrid, when a prostitute (Penelope Cruz Read More

10/29/97
Dance with the Devil

Actors: Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem, Harley Cross, Aimee Graham, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: The title character of this Alex de la Iglesia film made her first appearance in David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) and was originally played by Isabella Rossellini. Rosie Perez takes over the role in this blend of black comedy, graphic sex and violence, voodoo, and weirdness. Perdita Durango is Read More

1997
Mouth to Mouth

Actors: Javier Bardem, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Jose Maria Flotats

Synopsis: Victor wants to be a famous actor and so has come to Madrid in search of work. There he meets representatives of a Hollywood film company. They want him to appear in their next film as a real macho man. Meanwhile Victor works for a phone sex company and is called by lonely, closeted plastic Read More

1996
Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health

Actors: Ana Belén, Juanjo Puigcorbe, Penélope Cruz

Synopsis: This sophisticated Spanish romantic comedy charts the course of a long-time on-again-off again love affair between Diana Balaguer and Santi Garcia. The story begins at a sumptuous dinner party for the King of Spain. There the beauteous Diana Balaguer makes eye contact with security guard Santi Read More

1996
El Detective y la Muerte

Actors: Javier Bardem, Maria de Medeiros, Carmelo Gómez, Héctor Alterio, Charo Lopez

Synopsis: This surreal Spanish film offers a liberal re-tooling of Hans Christian Andersens' tale "The Story of the Mother," which follows a mother's quest through a maze-like forest as she seeks to retrieve her child from Death. This version of the tale is set in a violent and crime filled European city. Read More

1994
Running Out of Time

Actors: Carmelo Gómez, Ruth Gabriel, Candela Peña, Karra Elejalde, Javier Bardem

Synopsis: Imanol Uribe's Dias Contados recieved widespread critical acclaim for its compassionate but unsentimental, multi-layed analysis of the tumultuous relationship between a Basque terrorist assigned to bomb a Madrid police station and the neighboring prostitute with whom he falls in love. ~ Sandra Read More

1994
La Teta y la Luna

Actors: Mathilda May, Miguel Poveda, Gérard Darmon, Biel Duran, Abel Folk

Synopsis: This Spanish/French film presents a loving ode to a woman's breasts and the three men who love them. The fairy tale is told from the viewpoint of 9-year old Tete, who jealous of his new brother's access to his mother's breasts, implores the moon to give him a nurturing breast of his own. French Read More

1994
El Amante Bilingüe

Actors: Ornella Muti, Imanol Arias, Loles Leon, Javier Bardem

Synopsis: Juan (Imanol Arias) speaks Catalan and Spanish. He was active in political protests under the Franco regime. He is an astonishingly bad accordian player, and an acceptable ventriloquist, which enables him to scratch a living from the streets as an itinerant musician/entertainer. A long time ago Read More

1993
Huevos de Oro

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Javier Bardem, Maribel Verdú

Synopsis: In this soft-porn drama, the oversexed hunk Benito Javier Bardem) spends a good portion of his military service in north Africa dreaming of sex, money and power - but mostly sex. He can barely keep himself in control, and is constantly grabbing his crotch. Somehow, when he is released from the Read More

1993
Jamón Jamón

Actors: Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Juan Diego, Jordi Mollà

Synopsis: Class, sex, and food are the obsessions of this Spanish comedy drama, an international hit from writer and director J.J. Bigas Luna that plays like a cross between the lusty Like Water for Chocolate (1992) and the early work of Pedro Almodovar. In a small town in Spain's arid Monegros region Read More

1992
High Heels

Actors: Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bose, Féodor Atkine, Pedro Diaz del Corral

Synopsis: Written and directed by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almódovar, Tacones Lejanos is a murder mystery centering on flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo (Marisa Paredes) and her daughter Rebecca (Victoria Abril), a television anchorwoman. After being estranged for 15 years, Becky re-enters Rebecca's life Read More

12/20/91
Amo Tu Cama Rica

1991