[11] He also featured in the film, titled Scorpion in Love (2013), as a boxing coach, and won nominations to the Goya both for Best Adapted Screenplay and for Best Supporting Performance.

[12] He portrayed evangelical pastor and charlatan Elías in Mexican thriller González: falsos profetas (2013), receiving a nomination for the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor.

[15] Continuing his work in Mexico, he played a football agent in comedy-drama series Club de Cuervos,[16] which debuted on Netflix in 2015.

[20] Bardem play the villanous Count Flaín of León, an antagonist to Ruy Díaz de Vivar, in the Prime Video series El Cid, set in 11th-century Iberia.

[21] He featured as the authoritarian father of Bob Pop [es] in the former's autofictional series Queer You Are (2021), in a role in which Bardem's face is not displayed onscreen.

[23] His 2023 novel Badaq (Plaza & Janés) is a moral fable and criticism of the Spanish empire dealing with the plight of an Indonesian female rhinoceros captured in the island of Pawu and taken to Madrid in the 16th century.