Juan Manuel Bernal Movies

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...

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

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

Ernesto, a Cuban actor who decides to audition in Mexico, is stranded in the gigantic city when he fails to achieve a leading role in an important...

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

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...

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...

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

Based on a real event, where the municipal president, in order to clean the image of his people before a politician's visit, "throws" a group of...

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...

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...

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...

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 woman is searching for her son who got lost under mysterious circumstances.

A desperate photographer kidnaps his own newborn daughter after his deceased fiance's ex-husband manipulates the law to gain custody of the child.

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

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...