Juan Manuel Bernal
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Biography: Juan Manuel Bernal (born as Juan Manuel Bernal Chávez on December 22, 1967 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal,Mexico), is a Mexican actor known for Capadocia (2008), La habitación azul (2002) and Hasta morir (1994).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: December 22, 1967
Age: 57 years old
Gender: Male
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Tiempo cautivo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Confessions
Overview: 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 each member of the family, revealing their deepest and most shocking secrets.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-11-02
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At Midnight
Overview: Alejandro's life is disrupted when actress Sophie Wilder stays at his hotel. To their surprise, the two fall for one another, meeting at midnight.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-10
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To Love Too Much
Overview: 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 off the project, and Beatriz remains alone in Mexico waiting for the right moment to catch up to her sister. While Beatriz nurtures the desire of moving away, she begins to feed off dreams and fantasies. In the midst of easy love affairs that earn her enough money to support Laura, Beatriz meets Carlos, a man with whom she travels throughout Mexico, discovering the inimaginable beauty of her country, her soul and her own body.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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Tired of Kissing Frogs
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-12-20
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Midaq Alley
Overview: Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-05-05
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Rage
Overview: 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 his uncle that lead him to believe that his father is a werewolf. His life and his neighbors’ lives are in danger. Alan decides to do something once for all. Destroying the beast does not seem a far-fetched plan in the violent reality he lives day by day.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-06-03
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The Blue Room
Overview: A couple meet each other often in a motel room.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-05-04
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Recipes to Stay Together
Overview: "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. After ending a ten-year marriage, Carlos and Susana try to fall in love with other people without success. As the days go by, Carlos realizes that without Susana he is unable to do many things, including distinguishing cilantro from parsley.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-12-31
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Tlatelolco, Summer of 68'
Overview: 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 student photographer and daughter of a high-ranking official, finds herself embroiled in the movement and is swept off her feet by Félix, a working-class architecture student. This film remembers the events that led to one of the darkest chapters in Mexico’s recent history: the massacre at Tlatelolco, 10 days before the opening of the Olympic Games.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-05-19
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En cualquier parte fuera de este mundo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Mina
Overview: Character study of a stay-at-home daughter, 1930s through the 1950s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-10-21
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Without Rhyme or Reason
Overview: Orlando (Juan Manuel Bernal) is a neurotic dubbing director of series B that desqui-ta of all your frustrations and anger with their coworkers. Orlando lives with Sonia (Mariana Gaja), a woman "new age" in quest for inner peace. He, in crisis, stifled by the love of So-nia and tempted by the novelty of another woman, can not desci-FRAR the complicated language of life as a couple of young people, and going from flower to flower revealing its inability of being alone. On the other hand we have to Mauritius (José María Yazpik), a young and awkward to relate hermit who loves and despises while René (Cecilia Suárez), a beautiful woman "postmodern"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-06-12
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Heartbeat
Overview: 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 waiting out Emilia’s pregnancy in a remote country home, isolated from the world and each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-12-07
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4 Moons
Overview: Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-03-21
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Life in Silence
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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The Fantastic World of Juan Orol
Overview: Mexico’s half-forgotten B-movie master, “involuntary surrealist” Juan Orol (1897–1988), receives a pitch-perfect tribute in this deft, irresistible love letter to a self-made man of showbiz whose career spanned half a century and nearly 60 films. Abetted by an all-pro cast, del Amo’s brilliant interpretation of Orol’s life exudes a droll underdog charm, and almost every frame is an infectious homage to the golden age of cinema, the wiles of memory, and the art of fantasy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-09-14
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Perfect Obedience
Overview: 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 until 2006 and only publicly acknowledged in 2009. But director Luis Urquiza chooses to structure his film through the largely uncomprehending, wondering eyes of 13-year-old Julián, who travels from the arms of his loving pastoral family into the austere, hallowed halls of the seminary. Singling out the boy as his intimate disciple, installing him in his palatial private quarters and redubbing him “Sacramento Santos,” Father Ángel begins Julian’s instruction into the mysteries of “perfect obedience,” whose cardinal rule is: Never question a superior’s actions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-05-02
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Asalto al cine
Overview: 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 stance, each find the motivation to complete the deed. The adventure pushes them to face their own realities and jeopardizes the only valuable possession: friendship
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-05-01
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Km 31-2
Overview: A woman is searching for her son who got lost under mysterious circumstances.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-11-04
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Esperanza
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Genres: Drama Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-12-31
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Medalla al Empeño
Overview: 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 exciting story to tell.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-08-16
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Hasta Morir
Overview: A street kid's wish to run away to Tijuana is hampered by lies and betrayal
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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Two Tragedies
Overview: There are two tragedies in life: one is not to achieve what the heart wants... the other is to achieve it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-12-15
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Alta Tensión
Overview: A retired man that used to work for the National Electricity Company fight with his sons who want to get his money.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-06-06
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Cuatro labios
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-10
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Viva High School Musical: Mexico
Overview: Football captain Cristóbal discovers that his neighbor and classmate, Mariana, has changed a lot over the summer. Meanwhile, Luli is still as vain as ever and overshadows her poor brother, Fernando. As a new year begins at High School Mexico (HSM, initially interpreted), the school has announced a "Battle of the Bands" contest hosted by Jesse & Joy. Working against the clock and with limited resources, Cristobal, Mariana, and a few of their peers unite as a band. In a desperate effort, Luli dares the impossible task of separating Cristobal from his friends. But only one band will be the winner; the one who understands that teamwork, personal development, and hard work will not only make them better artists but also better people.
Genres: Family Music Romance Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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Traición
Overview: 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. Misela (23), whose romantic partners die if they make her cry, seeks comfort in her mother and wants to know where she is buried. They are father and daughter, and one must betray the other in order to go on living.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-03-10
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Más allá del muro
Overview: 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 and personality, a strange complicity arises between them, creating strong bonds of friendship.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Marioneta
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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You Live for Me
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-07-19
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No existen diferencias
Overview: 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 pills: AZT. Tomas presses Pablo, who admits he is HIV-positive. Tomás throws a fit: how could Pablo be so selfish as to expose him to AIDS! Pablo tells Tomás to relax, but anger follows. Pablo is leaving when Tomás's mom arrives and insists he stay for supper. Table talk turns to homosexuality. With rancor in the air, Pablo tells his story. The doorbell rings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-11-12
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Chicogrande
Overview: 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 U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-05-28
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Renegade
Overview: U.S Marshal Mike Donovan has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the Americans and the natives who had temporarily adopted and taken care of him. The evil actions of a white sorcerer lead him to confront the villain in the Sacred Mountains, and, through shamanic rituals conquer his fears and uncover a suppressed memory he would much rather deny.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-09
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The Big Promise
Overview: A desperate photographer kidnaps his own newborn daughter after his deceased fiance's ex-husband manipulates the law to gain custody of the child.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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Las siete muertes
Overview: After the strange death of her boyfriend and beloved ones, one by one, Clara lives terrified and mistrustful, suspecting revenge from a famous writer she worked with ten years ago. A circle that will only close with the seventh victim.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-10-10
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Sonora: The Devil’s Highway
Overview: 1931, a year of nationalisms and excesses: The Chinese are expelled from Sonora; the US deports Mexicans and closes its borders. Twelve desperate people cross the Sonoran desert in a 1929 Chrysler, hoping to find peace in Baja California. As their sojourn exposes both the best and the worst of human nature, racism, greed, and paranoia prove as deadly as the merciless landscape around them.
Genres: Drama Thriller Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-09-06
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If I Were You
Overview: 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: Antonio's soul is trapped in the body of Claudia and Claudia's in Antonio's body.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-19
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Marionette
Overview: 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 spontaneous actress who tells stories or lies in exchange for some coins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-01-17
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Infierno Grande
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-19
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El Jeremías
Overview: In Sonora, Mexico. Jeremías, an eight year old, who finds out he is a gifted child initiates a journey of self discovery. When an opportunistic physiologist makes contact with Jeremías, a new world of experiences open up to him but at the expense of being away from the family he loves. Jeremías must choose between this exciting but lonely new world he finds himself in or returning home to his loving family.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-10-21
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