Juan Manuel Bernal Movies

"Cilantro y perejil" is a comedy about couples from the same family, hit by the economic crisis in Mexico. The plot turns around the eternal question...

1931, a year of nationalisms and excesses: The Chinese are expelled from Sonora; the US deports Mexicans and closes its borders. Twelve desperate...

The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not addressed...

Alan and his father Alberto flee from the painful loss of his mother. While hiding in a secluded housing unit, Alan discovers hidden messages from...

Claudia and Antonio have been married for 15 years. After so many years of marriage they have lost track of each other. One night, after a strong...

The newly separated Leonor comes from the monied class, while sixteen year old aspiring ballerina Emilia does not. They begin a tense pas de deux...

The story of four teenagers: Negus, Chale, Sapo and Chata. Childhood friends living in public housing in a rundown area of Mexico City, search to...

A house is to be demolished to make a parking lot. In the process, the children of an orphanage and the old people of an asylum, both neighbors of...

Mexico’s half-forgotten B-movie master, “involuntary surrealist” Juan Orol (1897–1988), receives a pitch-perfect tribute in...

Football captain Cristóbal discovers that his neighbor and classmate, Mariana, has changed a lot over the summer. Meanwhile, Luli is still as...

Character study of a stay-at-home daughter, 1930s through the 1950s.

A retired man that used to work for the National Electricity Company fight with his sons who want to get his money.

Felix (56) a criminal boss in the south of Mexico, has always wanted to go to San Francisco so see how drawbridges rise for ships to go through....

A young musician and single parent battles every day to communicate with his autistic son through music, until one day the kid s mother, shows off...

A pawnbroker clerk meets a very peculiar old man, who brings an Olympic medal to the store to get some money and, at the same time, has a great and...

Laura and Beatriz are two sisters in search of a dream in common: to run a guest house abroad and live off the rents. Laura travels to Spain to start...

A voluble hypochondriac and an HIV patient clash. On the phone, Tomás agrees to see his new girlfriend that evening, so he begs off study when...

Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Expedition" proved to be the last major campaign of...

The lives and relationships of a colorful array of characters become irretrievably entwined: neurotic B-list TV director Orlando; his new-age wife...