Born March 1, 1969, into a family of entertainers on the Canary Islands, Javier Bardem established a pattern early in his acting career of playing the hunk in Spanish director Bigas Luna's sexually charged films. Bardem also worked occasionally with acclaimed director Pedro Almodóvar, but it took an Oscar-nominated role in Before Night Falls (2000) -- the plaintive biopic about the life of Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas -- to propel Bardem into the international spotlight.Bardem chose his subsequent roles carefully, turning in nuanced performances in The Dancer Upstairs (2002), director Alejandro Amenábar's The Sea Inside and director Michael Mann's Collateral (both 2004).
In 2007, Bardem earned his first Oscar and Golden Globe statuettes and a slew of other accolades playing a stony gun-slinging killer in No Country for Old Men. 2011 brought him another Oscar nod for the haunting drama Biutiful.
BiutifulDiagnosed with terminal prostate cancer, Uxbal (Javier Bardem) -- a divorced father raising two children -- is determined to atone for his life as a black marketeer in this engrossing character study that unfolds in the slums of Barcelona, Spain. Co-starring Maricel Álvarez as Uxbal's estranged... Read More
The Sea InsideJavier Bardem stars in this moving film based on a true story as Ramon Sampedro, a Spaniard who's condemned to life as a quadriplegic. Determined to die with dignity, Sampedro leads a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life. His extraordinary example even inspires his lawyer, Julia (Belen... Read More
Love in the Time of CholeraA man obsessively in love with the childhood sweetheart who rejected him long ago and married another man remains on the sidelines of her life for the next 50 years, carving out a tortured relationship of longing and passion. Read More
Goya's GhostsAlthough he's initially favored by royalty, Spanish painter Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgård) is targeted by the Spanish Inquisition when he paints young Inés (Natalie Portman), whom the church views as a heretic, in this epic true story from Oscar-winning director Milos Forman. Years... Read More
Biutiful (2010) | R | |
Eat Pray Love (2010) | PG-13 | |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) | PG-13 | |
R | ||
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) | R | |
Zoom In (2007) | NR | |
Goya's Ghosts (2006) | R | |
Collateral (2004) | R | |
PG-13 | ||
R | ||
The Dancer Upstairs (2002) | R | |
Before Night Falls (2000) | R | |
NR | ||
UR | ||
R | ||
R | ||
Extasis (1996) | NR | |
R | ||
NR | ||
NR | ||
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