Gael García Bernal

Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.

Dir. Lee Unkrich · With Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.

Dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu · With Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Vanessa Bauche

Cagalera and Moloteco are two teenagers from San Gregorio Atlapulco who are desperate to get out and move up and away from oppressive circumstances. When they hear of an opportunity to buy a spot in the electrician’s union, which could transform their lives, they quickly devolve into the criminal, adult underworld of Mexico City in a bid to buy their freedom.

Dir. Gael García Bernal · With Benny Emmanuel, Gabriel Carbajal, Leidi Gutiérrez

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.

Dir. Alfonso Cuarón · With Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna

On a dark and somber night, a secret cabal of monster hunters emerge from the shadows and gather at the foreboding Bloodstone Temple following the death of their leader. In a strange and macabre memorial to the leader’s life, the attendees are thrust into a mysterious and deadly competition for a powerful relic—a hunt that will ultimately bring them face to face with a dangerous monster.

Dir. Michael Giacchino · With Gael García Bernal, Laura Donnelly, Harriet Sansom Harris

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

Dir. Walter Salles · With Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mercedes Morán

An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

Dir. Gary Winick · With Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Gael García Bernal

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho

Tato and Beto are poor stepbrothers living on a banana plantation in Mexico. Both are talented soccer players, but their dreams lay elsewhere: tone-deaf Tato wants to be a singer, while Beto is content to remain on the plantation. One day, a sports agent sees the two young men playing soccer and offers to take one of them to Mexico City for a chance at sports stardom.

Dir. Carlos Cuarón · With Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Guillermo Francella

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

Dir. Michel Gondry · With Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Miou-Miou

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

Dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu · With Brad Pitt, Rinko Kikuchi, Adriana Barraza

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

Dir. Pablo Larraín · With Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Néstor Cantillana

A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.

Dir. Niki Caro · With Jennifer Lopez, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick

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. Dolores spends her days preparing for the trial, secluded in her house as her parents work as a team ready to do anything to defend their daughter. 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. Cornered, increasingly isolated and just when any mistake could prove disastrous, Dolores puts the entire strategy at risk.

Dir. Gonzalo Tobal · With Lali Espósito, Gael García Bernal, Leonardo Sbaraglia

In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on my Grave" comes an insider’s look into the secret world of classical musicians. From her debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall to the Broadway pits of "Les Miserables" and "Miss Saigon," Blair Tindall has played with some of the biggest names in classical music for twenty-five years. Now in "Mozart in the Jungle," Tindall exposes the scandalous rock and roll lifestyles of the musicians, conductors, and administrators who inhabit the insular world of classical music.

Dir. Jason Schwartzman, Roman Coppola, Alex Timbers · With Gael García Bernal, Lola Kirke, Saffron Burrows

As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.

Dir. Icíar Bollaín · With Luis Tosar, Gael García Bernal, Juan Carlos Aduviri

Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.

Dir. Elia Suleiman · With Elia Suleiman, Ali Suliman, Gael García Bernal

A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

Dir. M. Night Shyamalan · With Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell

An actor's world comes crashing down after he learns that his wife has left him.

Dir. Roberto Sneider · With Gael García Bernal, Verónica Echegui, Ashley Hinshaw

A spirited princess with the heart of a warrior embarks on a mission to fulfill an ancient prophecy and save humanity from the wrath of vengeful gods.

Dir. Jorge R. Gutierrez · With Zoe Saldaña, Jorge R. Gutierrez, Sandra Equihua

A guarded woman finds out she's dying of cancer but, when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death.

Dir. Nicole Kassell · With Kate Hudson, Gael García Bernal, Romany Malco

Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Gastón is beyond repair, following a decision to give up on their adopted child Polo. She sets out on a mission to get him back, not caring who she’ll need to fight, seduce or destroy to make it happen.

Dir. Pablo Larraín · With Mariana di Girolamo, Gael García Bernal, Santiago Cabrera

A group of Mexican emigrants attempts to cross the Mexican-US border. What begins as a hopeful journey becomes a harrowing, bloody and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante and his loyal Belgian Malinois dog chase the group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous borderland. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they discover there’s nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer.

Dir. Jonás Cuarón · With Gael García Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Diego Cataño

Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an affair with. Likewise, the girl's mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must choose between a holy or sinful life.

Dir. Carlos Carrera · With Gael García Bernal, Ana Claudia Talancón, Sancho Gracia

The true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso that rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world but also his own life.

Dir. Roger Ross Williams · With Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Perla de la Rosa

Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away with a loot of more than hundred invaluable pieces of Mayan art, unaware of the consequences of their outrageous act.

Dir. Alonso Ruizpalacios · With Gael García Bernal, Leonardo Ortizgris, Alfredo Castro

Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and freedom to nurture his talent.

Dir. Sara Colangelo · With Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Gael García Bernal

In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.

Dir. Jon Stewart · With Gael García Bernal, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Kim Bodnia

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

Dir. Fernando Meirelles · With Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover

A fiery Spanish woman is about to marry a kind British man when she meets a Brazilian actor who ignites in her a flame of lust she can't ignore.

Dir. Matthew Parkhill · With Gael García Bernal, Natalia Verbeke, James D'Arcy