Juan Manuel Bernal — Actor (13)

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To Love Too Much (2002)
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other title: Demasiado amor
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.

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Recipes to Stay Together (1996)
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other title: Cilantro y Perejil / 芫荽與歐芹 …
"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.

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Sonora: The Devil’s Highway (2019)
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other title: Sonora : El Camino Del Diablo / Sonora
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.

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Confessions (2023)
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other title: Confesiones / 忏悔
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.

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If I Were You (2018)
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other title: Si yo fuera tú / Si Yo Fuera Tú
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.

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七倍奉还 (2017)
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other title: Las siete muertes
年輕貌美的克拉拉,周旋於神秘作家諾曼及多位男子之間;某天當她遭受諾曼的侵犯,憤而對諾曼提出告訴。原以為法律會還她公道,並對諾曼做出制裁;卻沒想到怪事接踵而至。諾曼的妻女意外陳屍家中,緊接著克拉拉的父母、男友竟相繼身亡。克拉拉不得不懷疑這一切不是意外,而是和諾曼的瘋狂行徑與信仰有關。當她求助於記者,企圖將諾曼的惡行公諸於世,卻令自己深陷險境。究竟這一切都是意外,還是一場無形的殺戮?

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Perfect Obedience (2014)
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other title: 完美服从 / Obediencia Perfecta
When 13-year-old seminarian Sacramento Santos joins a new order, he hopes to rise through levels of obedience to “Perfect Obedience”. But this progression proves to be more than just a spiritual journey. Sacramento is adopted by the order's founding father, Ángel de la Cruz, and over the course the year they fall in love and surrender to the most intense, blissful, and contradictory episode of their lives. Years later, older and wiser, Sacramento leaves the order regretting that episode, and he decides to seek justice from his old tutor.