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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Gael Garcia Bernal
In Santa Cecilia, Mexico, Miguel dreams of becoming a musician, even though his family strictly forbids it. His great-great-grandmother Imelda was married to a man who left her and their daughter Coco to pursue a career in music, and when he never returned, Imelda discarded all forms of music from her family’s life before starting a shoemaking business.
Love, money, ambition and music intertwine in Mozart in the Jungle, a half hour comedic drama that looks at finding yourself and finding love while conquering New York City. A brash new maestro Rodrigo stirs up the New York Symphony as young oboist Hailey hopes for her big chance.
In 1952, a semester before Ernesto Fuser Guevara is due to complete his medical degree, he and his older friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist, leave Buenos Aires to travel across South America. They desire to see as much of Latin America as they can, more than 8,700 miles in just four and a half months
Following the passing of their commander, a clandestine club of monster hunters congregates at Bloodstone Castle to compete in a deadly game for a potent artifact that will pit them against a lethal monster.
Padre Amaro, a handsome young priest, arrives in a small town and encounters hypocrisy and corruption, as well as temptation from a beautiful young woman who tells him that she fantasizes about Jesus when she engages in self-pleasure.
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant “white blindness”. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hoarding the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. A woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague follows her afflicted husband to quarantine. There, keeping her sight a secret, she guides seven strangers who have become, in essence, a family.
In 2009, London-based Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained in Iran after he reports on violence against protesters of the country’s presidential election, as well as giving a satirical interview with Jason Jones of The Daily Show. While his pregnant fiancée waits for him, Bahari spends 118 days at Evin Prison being brutally interrogated.
A young American travels to Verona, Italy, where she joins a group of volunteers who answer letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. After responding to a letter from 1951, she inspires the author to travel to Italy to search for their long-lost love, leading to unexpected love for both of them.
In Havana in the early 1990s, pilot René González leaves his wife Olga and daughter Irma in Cuba to start a new life in the United States. González soon joins a group of Cuban exiles and Castro opponents, Brothers to the Rescue, who operate from Florida and act against the Cuban government through military operations and also aim to disintegrate the Cuban tourism industry.
A a chilling, mysterious thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly, reducing their entire lives into a single day.
Every summer, Dune, an 11-year-old, travels with her parents to their old house in Las Landes to spend the holidays. There, she reunites with her 9-year-old friend Mathilde. However, this summer is different from the others because Dune and her parents didn’t come last year and she senses that something has changed. Her mother is distant, her parents argue, Mathilde doesn’t seem to be growing up, and the pine trees, sand, and teenage love affairs in the area all feel different to Dune.
The meticulously planned backpacking journey of an engaged couple through the majestic Caucasus Mountains takes an unexpected turn when a single misstep jeopardizes the very foundation of their beliefs, both in each other and in themselves.