Gael García Bernal

Date of Birth: 30 Nov 1978
Country: Mexico
Biography: One of cinema's brightest new stars, Bernal got his start in Mexican soap operas before making a successful transition to the big screen. He's chosen roles wisely, and has starred in some of the most memorable films of the past few years.
Total Credits at Criticker: 56 (Actor), 5 (Director), 2 (Writer), 1 (Creator)
Find more information about Gael García Bernal at The Internet Movie Database
A bold, intensely emotional, and ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. (Lion Gate Films)
In the early 60s, two boys - Ignacio and Enrique - discover love, movies and fear in a Christian school. Father Manolo, the school principal and Literature teacher, both witnesses and takes part in these discoveries. The three characters come against one another twice again, in the late 70s and in 1980. These meetings are set to change the life and death of some of them. (Club Cultura)
Politics and sexual passions threaten to corrupt a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town. (imdb)
Times have been tough for Heaven, with Hell winning the battle between good and evil. So when Heaven's managers have the opportunity to win the soul of a boxer and shift the balance of power, they send their best angel for the job, Lola Nevado (Abril). When Hell gets wind of this, they counter by sending their most experienced operative to Earth, Carmen Ramos (Cruz). The battle between Heaven and Hell is on! (First Look Pictures)
A sexy love triangle forms on the eve of her wedding when Carmen (Verbeke) recklessly
kisses an attractive stranger named Kit (Garcia Bernal). Having recently fled a violent
and volatile relationship in Spain, Carmen has found comfort and safety with her adoring
fiancé Barnaby (D'Arcy); but her passions are aroused by one kiss from Kit and she is
immediately torn between her emotions and her loyalty to the man she is to marry. (Summitt Entertainment)
This film follows an inspiring journey of self-discovery and traces the youthful origins of a revolutionary heart, Che Guevara. (Focus Features)
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Elvis Valderez (Bernal) is a twenty-one year old dreamer who has just been honorably discharged from the US Navy. With his duffle bag and rifle, he travels back to his hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas, where he intends to seek out his father -- a man he has only heard about from his Mexican mother, who has since passed away. (ThinkFilm)
The Science of Sleep is a playful romantic fantasy set inside the topsy-turvy brain of Stephane Miroux (Bernal) an eccentric young man whose dreams constantly invade his waking life. (Warner Independent Pictures)
In the remote sands of the Moroccan desert, a rifle shot rings out -- detonating a chain of events that will link an American tourist couple's frantic struggle to survive, two Moroccan boys involved in an accidental crime, a nanny illegally crossing into Mexico with two American children and a Japanese teen rebel whose father is sought by the police in Tokyo. (Paramount Vantage)
Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentina), she returns to solve a family problem related with the inheritance that her sick father wants to leave him. Their return trip results in the unavoidable memories of the torture that that was object during the dictatorship and a dramatic revelation. (imdb)
A couple decides to split after 12 years together. The man (Bernal) find it easy to move on, but difficult to prevent his ex from hounding him, or the new women in his life. (imdb)
Two different social classes get together at a family gathering in Mexico. Based on the TV project "Ruta 32". (imdb)
The Last Post (2001) - Short Film
A young British soldier fighting in Buenos Aires in the early 80s finds himself separated from his unit. Stumbling across a young Argentinian fighter, the two young men reach a grudging understanding.
A doctor's wife becomes the only person with the ability to see in a town where everyone is struck with a mysterious case of sudden blindness. She feigns illness in order to take care of her husband as her surrounding community breaks down into chaos and disorder. Based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago. (imdb)
Dumped by the man she thought was perfect, newly-single Lucy continues her search for Mr. Right through a series of blind dates. (DVD Case)
Leo and Ellen are a successful New York couple, totally immersed in their work. Leo is the creator of a booming website, and has stumbled into a world of money and big decisions. Ellen is a dedicated emergency surgeon who devotes her long shifts to saving lives. Their 8-year old daughter Jackie spends most of her time with her Filipino nanny Gloria, a situation that is making Ellen start to question her priorities... (Memfis Film)
Chevolution is a documentary about both Guevara and Albert Korda, but most of all, it's about the image of Che, and its multitudes of meaning to people around the world. Since Guevara's assassination in 1968, he has become the dead rock star-cum-Christ of the Cuban revolution, of course - but Korda's image resonates far beyond the realm of ideology and history. (Kosmorama.no)
The story of a mysterious loner, a stranger in the process of completing a criminal job.
By responding to a letter addressed to Shakespeare's tragic heroine Juliet Capulet, a young American woman (Amanda Seyfried) vacationing in Verona, Italy, sets in motion a series of events that leads her -- and the missive's lovelorn author (Vanessa Redgrave) -- in search of romance.
In March, 1958, Cuba goes dark as Castro's rebels destroy the power plants. Amid eruptions of violence and neighbor turning on neighbor, life for an 11-year-old boy still holds infatuations, mischief, celebrations and heartache. Upon his father's immigration to America, he is protected by his grandfather Che, who brokers deals with both factions to afford the family safety, and devoted grandmother Beta, whose love of movies provides a refuge in fantasy.
Filmmaker Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal) travels to Bolivia to shoot a film about the Spanish conquest of America. He and his crew arrive during the tense time of the Cochabamba water crisis. The lines between past and present, fiction and film, become increasingly blurred... (Wikipedia)
A documentary about the issues of marijuana decriminalization in Brazil leaded by the ex president Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
A local guide takes a young couple through a backpacking trip across the Georgian wilderness. (tiff.net)
It's a comedy about a guarded woman who finds out she's dying of cancer, but when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death. (imdb)
Scheming on a way to save their father's ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord. (imdb)
An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum. (imdb)
An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for identity leads us back across a continent to seek out the people left behind and the meaning of a mysterious tattoo. (whoisdayanicristal.com)
A mysterious man emerges from the Argentinean rainforest to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a poor farmer after mercenaries murder her father and take over his property. (imdb)
A journalist is detained in Iran for more than 100 days and brutally interrogated in prison. (imdb)
Mozart in the Jungle (2014) - TV Series
Sex, drugs and classical music illustrate what happens behind the curtains at the symphony can be just as captivating as what occurs on stage.
A group of people trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States encounter a man who has taken up border patrol duties in his own racist hands.
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others. (imdb)
Social document charting Argentina's troubled history of social conflict and horrifically bloody dictatorships through the eyes of a general, a transporter, a dictator and revolutionaries, all tormented by the memory of Eva Peron. (imdb)
A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster. (imdb)
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party (imdb)
Aspiring musician Miguel teams up with charming trickster Hector on an extraordinary journey through the Land of the Dead. (imdb)
A kindergarten teacher in New York becomes obsessed with one of her students who she believes is a child prodigy. (imdb)
Dante's Lunch (2017) - Short Film
Every dog has his day, but poor Dante can't seem to catch a break. Dive into the beautiful world of Disney/Pixar's Coco in this look into the adventures of Miguel's dog, Dante, who just wants to enjoy a nice bone. What happens when the bone has other plans? (imdb)
In 1985, a group of criminals mock the security of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City to extract 140 pre-Hispanic pieces from their showcases. (imdb)
Eligio's endeavours to find and recover his wife, Susana, who without a word, left Mexico City behind for a writer's conference held in the chilly U.S. heartland.
Dolores lived the life of a higher-class student until her best friend was found brutally murdered. Two years later, she's the only indicted suspect for a crime that attracts a lot of media attention and has placed her in the center of the public eye. The best lawyer is not enough, they obsessively control around her: how she looks, what she does, eats and who she sees. But as the trial moves forward and pressure grows, suspicion and secrets emerge within the family...
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine. (imdb)
The story of five Cuban political prisoners who had been imprisoned by the United States since the late 1990s on charges of espionage and murder.
A couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart. (imdb)
A family on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly, reducing their entire lives into a single day.
Werewolf by Night (2022) - TV Movie
It follows a lycanthrope superhero who fights crime using the abilities given to him by a curse brought on by his bloodline (imdb.com).
While fleeing from dangerous assailants, an assassin comes out of hiding to protect her daughter she left earlier in life.
Fidel (2002) - TV Movie
Biopic on Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro, a lawyer who rose to power by assembling a small army and overthrowing a dictatorship friendly to the USA.
Follows the true story of Cassandro, the ''exotico'' character created by Saúl Armendáriz, gay amateur wrestler from El Paso who rose to international stardom.
Two people who have loved each other, and continue to love each other, even after one of them dies.
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons (2024) - TV Mini-Series
Lego Pixar shorts follow beloved characters like Miguel, Merida, Nemo, the Incredibles and Lightning McQueen on whimsical new adventures, from a bear encounter to a race prep with Mater. (imdb)
La Máquina (2024) - TV Mini-Series
Follows an aging boxer whose crafty manager secures one last shot at a title. But if they want to make it to fight night, they must navigate a mysterious underworld force and the boxer's own ailing mind. (imdb)
Nancy's (Nicole Kidman) picture-perfect life in quaint Holland, Michigan crumbles, when she and a friend uncover a twisted secret in their midst. (imdb)
A portrayal of Ferdinand Magellan and Beatriz Barbosa's 1517 marriage in Seville, focusing on their brief time together before his departure on the Spanish crown's expedition.