Movies: Juan Manuel Bernal

When a young girl from a wealthy Mexico City family disappears, a man arrives to discuss the girl's return, asking for the confession of a family member that has committed a terrible act. One by one, confession by confession, the intruder exposes eac...

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 play. Facing the dilemma of returning defeated to his home, he accidentally meets Belén in the subway, ...

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 the house, invade it secretly searching for a new place to stay. In spite of their differences in age a...

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A couple meet each other often in a motel room....

"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 of whether it is worth it to live as a couple. The conclusions are fun, unpredictable and very human...

As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a ...

A romantic comedy about a young interior decorator who, as a result of a romantic disappointment, becomes the female counterpart of Don Juan. The misadventures of the manizer make her rediscover the value of love....

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 trump idleness. They toy with the idea of robbing a movie theatre. Afflicted by their past and present s...

A tale about the fragile lives of four characters during a month of their lives. One of them, Ana, is waiting for a kidney donor....

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

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 argument, the unusual alignment of the planets Venus, Earth and Mars causes a magical transformation: An...

Shot during a three year period, this true story views the separation process of the pop music group OV7 (previously Onda Vaselina), whose seven members worked and shared each other's lives for 15 years, from the age of nine until they turned 24....

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 mentally ill people into the desert....

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

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 after eight years of absence, only to reveal a truth that will change his life as he knew it....

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

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 Pablo arrives to work on their joint architecture thesis. Before Pablo leaves, Tomás discovers a vial of pi...

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