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Carlos Bardem

Carlos Bardem

Actor, also writer · Born March 7, 1963 (63) · Madrid, Spain

Carlos Encinas Bardem (born 1963) is a Spanish actor. He is the son of actress Pilar Bardem and brother of actors Mónica and Javier Bardem. Carlos Bardem won the 2008 Spanish Actors Union's "Newcomer Award for a Male" (Categoría Masculina) for La zona. Other films are Alacran enamorado (2013), Entrelobos (2010), Pickpockets: Maestros del robo (2018) and Alegría, tristeza (2018).

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
March 7, 1963 (63)
From
Madrid, Spain
Works as
Actor, also writer
Titles
35 on MovieCove · 76 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 155 days to Oct 26Down 5% in 30 days

What are Carlos Bardem's films like?

Across their 22 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Survival.

Genres

Action6 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 54th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Action movies
Drama5 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 37th percentile
: browse their Drama movies
Comedy3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 24th percentile
: browse their Comedy movies
Biography2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 74th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Biography movies
Crime2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 68th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Crime movies

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight
Morality
26%
Survival
23%
Bonds
20%
Power
12%
Self
12%
Society
4%
Ideas
3%
Family bonds7 titles, browse their movies with this themeSurvival6 titles, browse their movies with this themeDeception4 titles, browse their movies with this themeSacrifice3 titles, browse their movies with this themePower4 titles, browse their movies with this themeViolence3 titles, browse their movies with this themeDuty2 titles, browse their movies with this themeIdentity2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 20 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Dark: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their dark movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

Light 3 · Serious 5 · Dark 12

Stylized: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their stylized movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

A split, not a type: Grounded 11 · Stylized 5 · Heightened 4

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

A split, not a type: Gentle 1 · Charged 7 · Intense 12

Shifting: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their shifting movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 8 · Shifting 12 · Whiplash 0

Straight-faced: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their straight-faced movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 15 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 2

Even-paced: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their even-paced movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 7 · Even-paced 10 · Relentless 3

Engaged: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their engaged movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 2 · Engaged 15 · Full focus 3

Affecting: How much it costs you emotionally; whether you need recovery time. Browse their affecting movies.
Demand · Emotional cost
easyheavy

A split, not a type: Easy watch 3 · Affecting 3 · Heavy 14

Open-ended: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their open-ended movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

A split, not a type: Resolved 10 · Open-ended 6 · Ambiguous 4

Roles they play

10 analyzed roles

Usually the Shadow: 7 of 10 analyzed roles.

Shadow
7 of 10
Threshold guardian
2 of 10
Mentor
1 of 10
Show the 10 roles

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
15
Melancholic
10
Dread
9
Contemplative
6
Absurd
4
Other
16

How their films linger

Thought-provoking9 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling7 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHaunting6 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful5 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFun5 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet5 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 2 with a twist

  • Happy2
  • Bittersweet9
  • Tragic4
  • Ambiguous7

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Carlos Bardem's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 25 of their 35 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Carlos Bardem's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

76 credits, 35 with a MovieCove page; 2 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • In the Grey(2026)

    as Manny Salazar

    Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films

  • One Last Deal(2026)

    as Roberto Sanchez (voice)

    Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films

  • Una conversación pendiente (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    Actor

  • La agencia (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    Show 13 episodes · as Matías

  • DRAGN(2025)

    as Daniel

    Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all films

  • Papers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    as Raúl Fassano

  • Tabula rasa(2025)

    as Julio

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • Alix(2024)

    as Ramón

    Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • En haute mer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

    Show 4 episodes · as Tonio aka Bosco

  • The Chosen One(2023)

    Show 5 episodes · as Father Cruz

    Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all shows

  • Overdose(2022)

    as Alfonso Castroviejo

    Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all films

  • Centaur(2022)

    as Boro

    Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films

  • Mirror, Mirror(2022)

    as Ernesto

    Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all films

  • Echo 3(2022)

    Show as Colonel Pereira

    Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all shows

  • The King of all the World(2021)

    Actor

    Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films

  • Queer You Are(2021)

    Show 6 episodes · as Padre

    Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all shows

  • El Cid(2020)

    Show 5 episodes · as Flaín Fernández

    Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all shows

  • 30 Coins(2020)

    Show 1 episode · as Cardenal de la Cruz

    Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all shows

  • Inés of My Soul (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Show 8 episodes · as Almagro

  • Tales of the Lockdown (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Show 1 episode · as Andrés

  • Madres: amor y vida (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Show 8 episodes · as Héctor Buendía

  • Quarantine Diaries (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Show 8 episodes · as El neurótico

  • Adiós(2019)

    as Santacana

    Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films

  • Sanctuary (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Producer · Screenplay · as Carlos Bardem

  • Despite Everything(2019)

    as Pablo

    Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films

  • Alegría, tristeza (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    as Pedro

  • Loca Olivia (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    as Hombre misterioso

  • Pickpockets (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    as Chucho

  • Traición (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Show 9 episodes · as Julián Casas

  • The Zone (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Show 8 episodes · as Krusty

  • The Son(2017)

    Show 20 episodes · as Pedro García

    Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all shows

  • Assassin's Creed(2016)

    as Benedicto

    Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films

  • The Embassy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Show 11 episodes · Actor

  • Blanca (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    as Javier

  • El camino (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Actor

  • Club of Crows(2015)

    Show 14 episodes · as Eliseo Canales

    Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows

  • The Debt(2015)

    as Rubén Caravedo

    Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films

  • Elvira I Will Give You My Life But I'm Using It (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    as Gustavo

  • González: The False Prophet (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    as Pastor Elías

  • Escobar: Paradise Lost(2014)

    as Drago

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films

  • Black Souls(2014)

    as Miguel

    Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films

  • Violet (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    as Solomon

  • Diamantes negros(2013)

    as Ramón

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films

  • The Lord of the Skies(2013)

    Show 99 episodes · as Don Leonidas "El Chivo" Ahumada

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all shows

  • Scorpion in Love(2013)

    Writer · as Carlomonte

    Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all films

  • Days of Grace (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    as Victima X

  • Americano(2011)

    as Luis

    Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films

  • Transgression (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    as Carlos

  • Among Wolves(2010)

    as Ceferino

    Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films

  • Cell 211(2009)

    as Apache

    Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films

  • Malamuerte (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

    as Dorado

  • The Fish Child (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

    as Commissioner Pulido

  • Che: Part Two(2008)

    as Moisés Guevara

    Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films

  • Walking Vengeance(2008)

    as Ramón

    Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all films

  • The Signal (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    as Siracusa

  • The Zone (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    as Gerardo

  • Goya's Ghosts(2006)

    as French Colonel

    Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films

  • Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer(2006)

    as Alguacil

    Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films

  • La bicicleta (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)

    as Antonio

  • 100 maneras de acabar con el amor (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)

    as Carlos

  • The Outcome (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)

    as Rosendo

  • L'ombra cinese (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

    as Janvier

  • La trappola di Maigret (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

    as Janvier

  • Bestiario (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)

    Writer · as Demetrio

  • Cuéntame cómo pasó (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)

    Show 1 episode · as El Chino

  • Living It Up (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)

    Actor

  • Volaverunt(1999)

    as Romero

    Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films

  • Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law(1998)

    as Cayetano

    Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films

  • Perdita Durango(1997)

    as Reggie

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films

  • Not Love, Just Frenzy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

    as Miguel

  • 10-11 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Actor

  • Chiquito el grande (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Show 2 episodes · Actor

  • Lección de arte (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as Josep Renau

  • No lo grites (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Actor

  • The Knife Thrower (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as Viceroy Batista

  • Tránsito (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as Ramón

Career shape

Star power in the 98th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 75 titles, 69 of them dated from 1996 to 2026; peak year 2008.

Biggest box office

In the Grey (2026)

$28M worldwide

Highest rated

Cell 211 (2009)

Midcredits 94th

Most popular right now

In the Grey (2026)

Film career

MilestoneBreakout
19962026

Peak 2008 · back in prominent film roles after a quiet stretch. Top draw in 8 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting75 of 75: 72 only acting, 3 with another role · typical Midcredits score51stWriting3 of 75: 0 only writing, 3 with another roleProducing1 of 75: 0 only producing, 1 with another role

75 titles, 3 with more than one role — acting and writing overlap on 3 of them.

By decade

1990s4 · acting2000s17 · 17 acting · 1 crew2010s27 · 27 acting · 2 crew2020s21 · acting

Billing

usually 5th · top billed in 4% of 28 roles
97071217

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.

How do Carlos Bardem's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 50th percentile, the median of all 27; across their 20 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 57th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

57thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 20

Approval · how many liked their films

52ndpercentile
Typical film, the median of 20

Reach · how many have seen their films

74thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 20

Midcredits score across 35 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up5
  • 50th to 74th13
  • 25th to 49th10
  • Below 25th7

Shape of the crowd

18 of their 35 titles are Mixed.

  • Universally Loved2
  • Loved with Detractors1
  • Divisive1
  • Crowd Pleaser11
  • Broadly Agreed2
  • Mixed18

Most divisive · actor

Alix (2024)

99th percentile spread · 31% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · actor

Club of Crows (2015)

Midcredits 96th · 91% liked

Reviewers score the acting 70/100 in their films, across 16 reviewed titles; fans 82, detractors 44. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Is Carlos Bardem's work okay for kids?

Across up to 7 MovieCove titles with content scores, violence & gore, sex & nudity and profanity run heavier than most films.

Their medianMedian of all filmsMiddle 80% of their titles
Violence & Gore5 titles56–85 · median 67 · intenseheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 44
Sex & Nudity7 titles25–79 · median 48 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 32
Profanity5 titles45–87 · median 70 · intenseheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 36
Frightening / Intense3 titlesmedian 82 · severeMedian of all films: 39

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.

Who does Carlos Bardem work with?

People who share at least 2 of Carlos Bardem's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Vicente Romero shares the most, 3.

Writers

Actors

Composers and cinematographers

Producers