Biography: Gael García Bernal (born 30 November 1978) is a Mexican actor and producer. He is best known for his performances in the films Bad Education, The Motorcycle Diaries (where he played a young Che Guevara), Amores perros, Y tu mamá también, Babel, Coco, and Old, and for his role as Rodrigo de Souza in the Amazon Studios streaming television series Mozart in the Jungle. He and Diego Luna founded Canana Films in Mexico City. García Bernal was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Motorcycle Diaries in 2005, and in 2016 won his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy for Mozart in the Jungle. In 2016, Time magazine named him in the annual Time 100 most influential people list. In 2020, The New York Times ranked him No. 25 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 30, 1978
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
2000-06-16
Overview: 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. Their lives are catapulted into unforeseen situations instigated by the seemingly inconsequential destiny of a dog.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-06-16
Popularity:
2004-03-19
Overview: Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-03-19
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2006-06-25
Overview: A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-25
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2002-10-01
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-10-01
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2006-10-26
Overview: In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-26
Popularity:
2001-06-08
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-06-08
Popularity:
2004-02-06
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-02-06
Popularity:
2023-05-04
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-04
Popularity:
2025-03-08
Overview: Nancy is a teacher whose life with her husband in Holland, Michigan, tumbles into a twisted tale when she and her colleague become suspicious of a secret.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-08
Popularity:
2006-05-05
Overview: A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian community church. Pastor Dave tells Elvis to stay away and, without telling his family that Elvis is his son from a pre-conversion liaison, tells them to have nothing to do with him. But Elvis has already connected with Malerie, the pastor's 16-year old daughter. Elvis embarks on the seduction of Malerie, while Dave examines his conscience and comes to a new conclusion. Can anyone get right with the Lord? Does the Lord hear?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-05
Popularity:
2008-12-19
Overview: Two brothers living a hard life of manual labor in rural Mexico have a simple dream: saving enough money to build their mother her dream house. But fate has other plans. A friendly game of soccer leads to first Rudo, then to Cursi being taken on by the nation’s top talent scout. Suddenly, they find themselves living the high life of star athletes: fame, fortune, fast cars and beautiful women.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-12-19
Popularity:
2002-09-04
Overview: It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what led up to that moment. So, Lucy tells about the five men she had blind dates with over the past year (Doug, Gabriel, Bobby, Barry, and Luke) and her experiences with each one. But which one of the five men is Lucy about to walk down the aisle with?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-04
Popularity:
2024-03-21
Overview: Set in a near-future when a new technology exists that can put the consciousness of a dead person back into a living body, in an attempt to ease the grief of separation, providing a little extra time to say goodbye.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-21
Popularity:
2008-05-14
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-14
Popularity:
2009-05-01
Overview: A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him across Spain, but also through his own consciousness.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-01
Popularity:
2022-09-25
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-25
Popularity:
2009-01-19
Overview: While on a trip to Thailand, a successful American businessman tries to radically change his life. Back in New York, his wife and daughter find their relationship with their live-in Filipino maid changing around them. At the same time, in the Philippines, the maid's family struggles to deal with her absence.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-19
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2002-01-27
Overview: Fidel Castro rises to power in Cuba.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-27
Popularity:
2011-02-03
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-03
Popularity:
2001-11-30
Overview: Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-11-30
Popularity:
2007-10-26
Overview: After 12 years, Sofía and Rímini decided to separate. While Rímini finds it easy to move on and start a new life, Sofía stays stuck in the past and constantly harasses him. She reappears again and again on Rímini's horizon to reconquer him, torture him or redeem him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-10-26
Popularity:
2003-01-18
Overview: Young lovers in London are wrapped up in a love triangle that may not be exactly what it seems. Carmen, a beautiful Spanish woman with a tendency to lose her temper at the drop of a hat, is about to be married to Barnaby, a caring, wealthy, but slightly boring Englishman. While out with friends on her 'hen night' she encounters a stranger who suddenly sparks a passion that has been sleeping within her. As her wedding date approaches, she finds herself struggling to put this newcomer out of her mind, but his effect on her keeps growing stronger. What is it that he sees in her, and why does she feel like she's being pushed inevitably into his arms?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-18
Popularity:
2012-03-15
Overview: Scheming of a way to save their father's ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-15
Popularity:
2012-05-25
Overview: Backpacking in the Caucasus Mountains, walking for hours, an engaged couple and their tour guide trade anecdotes and play games to pass the time, until a momentary misstep, that takes only two or three seconds, changes everything.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-25
Popularity:
2011-01-05
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-01-05
Popularity:
2010-10-18
Overview: A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and his wife, Pilar del Río. The film shows their whirlwind life of international travel, his passion for completing his masterpiece "The Elephant's Journey", and how their love quietly sustains them throughout.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-18
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2007-05-21
Overview: Cristóbal is the son of a corrupt politician with great power. Without his parents at home, he decides to have a party with his wealthy friends. In contrast, there will be the life of the house gardener.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-05-21
Popularity:
2004-01-01
Overview: In 1952, Ernesto Guevara, then a medical student aged 23, and his friend Alberto Granado, a biologist of 29, began a long journey through the South American continent. During their tour, which began with an old motorcycle to continue after hitchhiking, they witnessed the harsh living conditions of the population of the countries they travelled. Guevara, soon to be known as Che, recorded his impressions in a diary. In 2002, the Brazilian director Walter Salles began shooting a film about that odyssey, "The Motorcycle Diaries". This documentary follows the making of that movie in detail, incorporating interviews with various participants.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-01-01
Popularity:
2012-08-09
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-08-09
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2001-03-24
Overview: Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentina), she returns to solve a family problem related with the inheritance that her sick father wants to leave him. Their return trip results in the unavoidable memories of the torture that that was object during the dictatorship and a dramatic revelation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-24
Popularity:
2023-01-04
Overview: Every summer, 10-year-old Dune goes with her parents to the south-west coast of France, where she meets her best friend Mathilde. Together, they explore pine forests, contemplate the shape of clouds, follow teenagers and crash their parties, and secretly watch horror films. But this one summer is special for Dune – last year, the family skipped their usual holiday without her knowing why. She feels that something has changed. As childhood becomes a little more distant, she begins to see adults and teenagers differently and understand their secrets.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-04
Popularity:
2013-01-17
Overview: An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for identity leads us back across a continent to seek out the people left behind and the meaning of a mysterious tattoo.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-17
Popularity:
2010-09-16
Overview: Heroes of Flesh and Bones
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-16
Popularity:
2001-08-11
Overview: October 1982: War is waged between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands. A British soldier stumbles upon an Argentinean soldier. They share a few minutes of uneasy respite before national hostilities re-emerge.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-11
Popularity:
2014-11-07
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-07
Popularity:
2007-09-28
Overview: In Mexico there is a cult that is rapidly growing- the cult of Saint Death. This female grim reaper, considered a saint by followers but Satanic by the Catholic Church, is worshiped by people whose lives are filled with danger and/or violence- criminals, gang members, transvestites, sick people, drug addicts, and families living in rough neighborhoods. "La Santa Muerte" examines the origins of the cult and takes us on a tour of the altars, jails, and neighborhoods in Mexico where the saint's most devoted followers can be found.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-28
Popularity:
1996-01-01
Overview: The coming-of-age story of young milkboy Martín (García Bernal). While his friends Jesús (Altomaro) and Roberto (Mora) are cocky and apparently they have a lot of experience in sex, young Martín is shy, quiet and virgin. Everything changes when the young cocky boys want to prove they're men and go to a brothel without Martín.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
Popularity:
2015-04-12
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-12
Popularity:
2016-08-25
Overview: An actor's world comes crashing down after he learns that his wife has left him.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-08-25
Popularity:
2014-05-14
Overview: Kaí is a mysterious shaman who emerges from the Rio Paraná to help a poor farmer and his daughter, who are threatened by a band of cold-blooded mercenaries hired to force them to sell their land.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-05-14
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Overview: The western frontier reemerges. And as in the past, a hero answers the people's cry for justice.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
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2012-08-25
Overview: The modern-day story focuses on two beautiful young vampires who are living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize their immortality.
Genres: Comedy Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-25
Popularity:
2003-10-24
Overview: The year is 1958, and in Holguín, Cuba, a boy's world is about to change forever.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-24
Popularity:
2022-11-04
Overview: Acclaimed composer Michael Giacchino made his directorial debut with Marvel Studios' Special Presentation "Werewolf by Night." This behind-the-scenes special explores Giacchino's vision, style and approach to bringing the chilling story to life, as well as offering an insider's look at the between-the-scenes making of "Werewolf by Night."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-04
Popularity:
2008-04-01
Overview: Examines the history and legacy of the photo Guerrillero Heroico taken by famous Cuban photographer Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez. This image has thrived for the decades since Che Guevara's death and has evolved into an iconic image, which represents a multitude of ideals. The documentary film explores the story of how the photo came to be, its adoption of multiple interpretations and meanings, as well as the commercialization of the image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-01
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2015-09-11
Overview: A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-11
Popularity:
2015-11-05
Overview: In 1952, Argentina's beloved First Lady, Eva Perón, died of cancer at the age of thirty-three. A renowned embalmer was commissioned by the grieving Juan Perón to preserve her body for display, and Argentines flocked to be near "Evita". Three years later, when his government was overthrown by a military coup, Perón fled the country before he could make arrangements for the transportation of his wife's body. The military junta now in control kidnapped the corpse; so afraid were they of Eva's symbolic power that they even made it illegal to utter her name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-11-05
Popularity:
2016-12-07
Overview: A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-07
Popularity:
2004-12-24
Overview: A short featurette of behind the scenes footage from Almodóvar’s Bad Education (2004).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-12-24
Popularity:
2016-08-11
Overview: It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-08-11
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2020-12-15
Overview: A three-part documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Amores perros.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-15
Popularity:
2011-06-03
Overview: Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this groundbreaking new documentary uncovers the UN sanctioned war on drugs, charting its origins and its devastating impact on countries like the USA, Colombia and Russia. Featuring prominent statesmen including Presidents Clinton and Carter, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo and expose the biggest failure of global policy in the last 50 years
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-06-03
Popularity:
2017-10-27
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family Animation Music Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-27
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2001-01-31
Overview: This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during the military dictatorship.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-01-31
Popularity:
2017-11-30
Overview: Cast out of his insular community, a damaged and down on his luck man teeters between a life of crime and the path to redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-11-30
Popularity:
2018-08-23
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-08-23
Popularity:
2018-09-23
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-23
Popularity:
2001-06-08
Overview: On-set documentary about the making of the film "Y tu mamá también."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-06-08
Popularity:
2018-09-13
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-09-13
Popularity:
2019-09-26
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-09-26
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2020-01-29
Overview: Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-29
Popularity:
2010-11-08
Overview: This short documentary reviews the lives and experiences of mexican and centroamerican migrants as they try to reach the US border.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-11-08
Popularity:
2019-12-04
Overview: Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-04
Popularity:
2021-07-21
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-21
Popularity:
2023-09-14
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-14
Popularity:
2010-05-13
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-13
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Overview: An heiress accused of a white-collar crime hides away with her husband at a luxury resort in an Indian holy city. In deep denial of the growing scandal, they distract themselves with sexual escapades and spiritual dalliances. Meanwhile, the hotel staff who pamper them by the pool return each night to a village plagued by civil unrest and a deadly water crisis. When the couple ventures past the hotel gates that protect them, they awaken the sleeping giant of fate.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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2007-09-30
Overview: The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges of filming a deeply interconnected narrative across four continents. Directed by Carlos Armella and Pedro González-Rubio, the documentary reveals Iñárritu’s commitment to authenticity and cultural sensitivity, from collaborating with local actors and communities to meticulously recreating environments. Through behind-the-scenes footage and the director’s reflective commentary, it delves into themes of human connection, the boundaries we hold within ourselves, and the visceral nature of communication, offering profound insights into the philosophy behind the acclaimed film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-09-30
Popularity:
2025-12-25
Overview: Mary flees with her newborn son to protect him from the murderous King Herod's attempt to find and kill the child. A retelling of the Biblical tale of Herod's slaughter of innocents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-12-25
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