Juan Manuel Bernal Movies

There are two tragedies in life: one is not to achieve what the heart wants... the other is to achieve it.

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

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...

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

"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...

After the strange death of her boyfriend and beloved ones, one by one, Clara lives terrified and mistrustful, suspecting revenge from a famous writer...

Belén is a street actress who lies to survive, Ernesto is a Cuban actor searching for an opportunity in Mexico, their encounter will change...

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....

Shot during a three year period, this true story views the separation process of the pop music group OV7 (previously Onda Vaselina), whose seven...

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...

A street kid's wish to run away to Tijuana is hampered by lies and betrayal

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...

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...

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

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...

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...