Farnesio de Bernal

Farnesio de Bernal

Born: November 20, 1926
in Zamora, Michoacán, México

Movies for Farnesio de Bernal...

Doctor Funes Formula
Title: Doctor Funes Formula
Released: September 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Martin, a child of the 21st century, through his telescope discovers Doctor Funes, the inventor of a formula to become young again and the envy of Doctor Moebius, who also wants to regain his youth. Martin goes to visit old Funes, but instead finds twelve year old Pablo, whom he shelters in his house without telling his parents what is going on. Pablo turns the biology teacher into a baby girl with a pacifier, and a group of the elderly into children. Martin dreams of a world of only children, but Doctor Moebius steals the formula, not knowing that its effects are unpredictable.
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Más allá del muro
Title: Más allá del muro
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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Propiedad Ajena
Title: Propiedad Ajena
Character: Elzear de Fuentes
Released: November 16, 2007
Type: Movie
The discovery of a diary, written in 1848 in Texas, Mexican territory, triggers Miranda Sámano's decision to travel, illegally to that land, in search of her roots and her origin and to unravel the mysteries written by Amalia Sámano in that diary. The love affair that Miranda has with Matt in Texas seems to be the continuation of the one that Doña Amalia and the Houston army colonel Robert Crossman had almost 160 years ago; and it definitely resembles the relationship that Mexico and the United States have had throughout history and whose tragic outcome we can avoid if we do an exercise of our memory.
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Clasificados
Title: Clasificados
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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El malogrado amor de Sebastián
Title: El malogrado amor de Sebastián
Released: May 27, 2006
Type: Movie
Sebastian meets Antonio and it is love at first sight. But the obstacles do not wait.
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Espíritu deportivo
Title: Espíritu deportivo
Character: Maraca
Released: October 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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Medalla al Empeño
Title: Medalla al Empeño
Character: Old Man
Released: August 16, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Title: In the Time of the Butterflies
Character: Magic Eye
Released: October 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops.
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Pilgrim
Title: Pilgrim
Character: Lopez
Released: March 31, 2000
Type: Movie
A beautiful artist helps an amnesiac piece together his identity and evade a gangster on his trail.
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Las delicias del poder
Title: Las delicias del poder
Character: Gonzalo
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out if the campaign unless her twin sister may be able to supplant her while she recovers.
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A Middle Class Married Couple Afternoon
Title: A Middle Class Married Couple Afternoon
Character: Husband
Released: October 1, 1997
Type: Movie
An elderly couple spends together the afternoon in their living room. Suddenly she breaks the silence.
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Title: Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
Character: Farnesio de Bernal
Released: September 26, 1997
Type: TV
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Esmeralda Comes by Night
Title: Esmeralda Comes by Night
Character: Priest in Church
Released: September 5, 1997
Type: Movie
Esmeralda is married with 5 husbands at the same time, so she has to explain to the judge why she has done this.
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Romeo + Juliet
Title: Romeo + Juliet
Character: Undertaker
Released: November 1, 1996
Type: Movie
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.
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Solo
Title: Solo
Character: Father Cerna
Released: August 23, 1996
Type: Movie
An android fighting-machine is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American war who are fighting to maintain their freedom and protect their village. Contrary to his programming, Peebles decides to stay and assist the rebels in their plight. Having gained this information, his "creators" develop a more powerful android to try and defeat him.
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Enemies
Title: Enemies
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Doble indemnización
Title: Doble indemnización
Character: Don Pablo
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Two Crimes
Title: Two Crimes
Character: Dr. Canalejas
Released: May 26, 1995
Type: Movie
After being falsely accused of a murder, Marcos runs away to the small and quiet town of Cuevano. There he finds that the family matters are more complicated than his.
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Cronos
Title: Cronos
Character: Manuelito
Released: November 5, 1993
Type: Movie
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.
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Like Water for Chocolate
Title: Like Water for Chocolate
Character: Cura
Released: April 16, 1992
Type: Movie
Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
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Cabeza de Vaca
Title: Cabeza de Vaca
Character: Fray Suárez
Released: October 11, 1991
Type: Movie
An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.
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One Man’s War
Title: One Man’s War
Character: Judge
Released: April 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to him since he's opposed to the military dictatorship of the country. The doctor and his family will take lots of risk while trying to prove that the government was involved in the murder.
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Benjamín's Wife
Title: Benjamín's Wife
Character: Román
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: Movie
Benjamin is an old bachelor who lives with his sister. One day he falls in love with the young Natividad. Seeing that the love letter strategy doesn't work with the girl, Benjamín decides to kidnap her.
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Deceitful Appearances
Title: Deceitful Appearances
Character: Amigo de Adrián
Released: March 24, 1983
Type: Movie
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.
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'Ora Sí ¡Tenemos Que Ganar!
Title: 'Ora Sí ¡Tenemos Que Ganar!
Released: October 22, 1981
Type: Movie
The abuse of authority and the employer of a mining town make workers, influenced by reading articles from Ricardo Flores Magon in newspaper Regeneration, organize clandestinely and mutiny against the US, owner of the mine, which is refuses to rescue a group of workers trapped by a landslide.
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La leyenda de Rodrígo
Title: La leyenda de Rodrígo
Released: May 28, 1981
Type: Movie
Rodrigo is a seminarist that soon will be a priest, but a demon woman seduce him. He doesn't know what path choose.
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Eagle's Wing
Title: Eagle's Wing
Character: The Monk
Released: July 26, 1979
Type: Movie
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.
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Maria of My Heart
Title: Maria of My Heart
Character: Empleado de la Delegación
Released: May 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
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Naufragio
Title: Naufragio
Character: Don Benito
Released: November 2, 1978
Type: Movie
One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.
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Free Love
Title: Free Love
Character: Borracho
Released: August 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.
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The Children of Sanchez
Title: The Children of Sanchez
Released: June 16, 1978
Type: Movie
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
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Pubertinaje
Title: Pubertinaje
Released: February 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.
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La Güera Rodríguez
Title: La Güera Rodríguez
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
In 1809, a woman participates in the conspiracy for the independence of Mexico and her husband blames her for infidelity.
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Three Stories of Love
Title: Three Stories of Love
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Three people live in the same building: An anxious teenager, a girl who wants to be kidnapped by a prince, and a maid who wants to explore eroticism.
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Matinée
Title: Matinée
Character: Adolfo
Released: September 18, 1977
Type: Movie
Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in the robberies until the adventure turns into something more sinister and dangerous.
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The Domino Principle
Title: The Domino Principle
Character: Bank Official
Released: March 23, 1977
Type: Movie
Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.
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Maten al León
Title: Maten al León
Character: Bonilla
Released: January 27, 1977
Type: Movie
A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion).
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Coronation
Title: Coronation
Character: Don Aldo
Released: June 3, 1976
Type: Movie
The traumatic story of an old bourgueoise in Mexico City, his relationship with his crazy grandmother, his sexually troubled past and his sick crush on the young and beautiful maid of the house.
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El perro y la calentura
Title: El perro y la calentura
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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The Living Forces
Title: The Living Forces
Released: November 20, 1975
Type: Movie
It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.
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A Home of Our Own
Title: A Home of Our Own
Character: Chicken Farmer
Released: October 19, 1975
Type: Movie
The story of Father William Wasson, who founded and operated a home for abandoned and orphaned children in Mexico.
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El valle de los miserables
Title: El valle de los miserables
Character: Sacerdote
Released: April 16, 1975
Type: Movie
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Title: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Character: Bernardo
Released: August 1, 1974
Type: Movie
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
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The Holy Inquisition
Title: The Holy Inquisition
Character: Fray Hernando
Released: June 6, 1974
Type: Movie
A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he reports them, leading to devastating consequences for the whole family.
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Those Years
Title: Those Years
Character: Mariscal Aquiles Bazaine
Released: March 21, 1974
Type: Movie
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
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The Master of Ballantrae
Title: The Master of Ballantrae
Character: Lic. Luciano Mendiolea
Released: March 13, 1974
Type: Movie
Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.
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Magdalena’s True Vocation
Title: Magdalena’s True Vocation
Character: Armando
Released: November 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Sex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows marriage as a matter of interests (economical and social) in the modern society. emphasizing the education, lose of tradition and customs in the gap generation of sixties youth and its parents. Angelica María, plays the best character in his career, being a kind and vulnerable girl raised in a hard moral education
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Emiliano Zapata
Title: Emiliano Zapata
Released: November 20, 1970
Type: Movie
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
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Patsy My Love
Title: Patsy My Love
Character: El Viudo
Released: October 9, 1969
Type: Movie
Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world.
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Familiarities
Title: Familiarities
Character: Farnesio Pídalos
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.
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Por mis pistolas
Title: Por mis pistolas
Character: Cantinero
Released: August 21, 1968
Type: Movie
Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
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Blue Demon: Destructor of Spies
Title: Blue Demon: Destructor of Spies
Character: (uncredited)
Released: July 11, 1968
Type: Movie
Blue Demon returns in one of his best adventures like Agent Zero, who this time is facing a criminal organization that attempts to poison the world with a deadly gas (whose formula is unknown). This time, Zero (Blue Demon) is the only one qualified to investigate and prevent Hans plans, the evil leader of the organization.
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Birds of Prey
Title: Birds of Prey
Character: Le President
Released: April 6, 1968
Type: Movie
1938, a Central America country. A Frenchman who goes by the name "Le Rital" is hired to take out the local dictator. Young Chico is assigned as his right-hand man, whom he impresses. Will a friendship form between them?
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Your Excellency
Title: Your Excellency
Character: Representante asamblea (uncredited)
Released: May 3, 1967
Type: Movie
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.