Ángela Molina Filmography

14, Fabian Road

Actors: Ana Torrent, Julieta Cardinali, Cuca Escribano, Ángela Molina, Omero Antonutti

Synopsis: A woman losing her grip on her sanity discovers that the caring stranger who comes to her aid may ruin her life in this thriller. Fernanda Segovia (Cuca Escribano) and Enrique Gonzalvo (Fele Martinez) are a pair of editors and literary agents who have guided the career of writer Camila Ponte Read More

The Lark Farm

Actors: Paz Vega, Arsinée Khanjian, Tchéky Karyo, Moritz Bleibtreu, Mohammad Bakri

Synopsis: As adapted from the roman by Antonia Arslan and co-directed by legendary Italian brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, The Lark Farm marks one of the few international features to tackle the Armenian genocide head-on. The story (with its thematic parallels, in the early scenes, to De Sica's Read More

The Borgias

Actors: Lluís Homar, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Sergio Muniz, Maria Valverde, Eloy Azorín

Synopsis: The story of Spain's most infamous family is brought to the screen with surprising subtlety in this historical drama. Near the end of the 15th century, the Borgias are one of the most wealthy families in Europe, with their numbers divided between Spain and Italy, and when Rodrigo Borgia (Lluis Read More

El Triunfo

Actors: Juan Diego, Antonio Fernández "Farruco" Montoya, Pep Cruz, Marieta Orozco, Cheto, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: For her sophomore feature, El Triunfo (aka El Triunfo: The Beat of the Streets), filmmaker Mireia Ros (La Moños, 1997) crafts a somewhat gentle, evocative crime drama -- a period piece -- laden with heavy doses of colorful Spanish rumba music and dance, but undergirded with the ever-present threat Read More

Carnage

Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Ángela Molina, Lucia Sanchez, Esther Gorintin, Marylin Even

Synopsis: Carnage, an example of what the French call un film chorale, tells several intertwining stories. In the central tale, a young second-generation bullfighter, Victor (Julien Lescarret), is gored, and is rushed to the hospital in critical condition. A little girl, Winnie (Raphaëlle Molinier) Read More

South From Granada

Actors: Matthew Goode, Verónica Sánchez, Guillermo Toledo, Antonio Resines, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: From Spanish director Fernando Colomo comes this adaptation of Gerald Brenan's comedic autobiographical book Al sur de Granada. Matthew Goode stars as Brenan, a young Englishman of affluent and noble stock. Motivated by idealism and with a desire to become a great writer, Gerald moves to a small Read More

Piedras

Actors: Antonia San Juan, Najwa Nimri, Vicky Pena, Ángela Molina, Monica Cervera

Synopsis: Stones is a film about shoes which functions on the old Native American proverb, "Never judge a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins." The shoes, in this case, belong to an ensemble of wacky characters whose lives are anchored to a brothel on the outskirts of Madrid. Adela is a Read More

Anna's Summer

Actors: Ángela Molina, Herbert Knaup, Dimitris Katalifos, Rosana Pastor, Agis Emmanouil

Un Delitto Impossibile

Actors: Carlo Cecchi, Ángela Molina, Ivano Marescotti, Lino Capolicchio, Rinaldo Rocco

Synopsis: An attorney's reckless personal life catches up with him -- or does it? -- in this whodunit. Valerio Grau (Lino Capolicchio) is a successful lawyer with a secret. For the past ten years, he's been having an affair with Lauretta (Angela Molina), who is also an attorney and also married. One day Read More

Sagitario

Actors: Ángela Molina, Eusebio Poncela, Enrique Alcides

Synopsis: A woman finds herself going from having no man in her life to having more suitors than she can handle in this offbeat romantic drama. Rosa (Angela Molina) is an artist in her early forties who is recently divorced and looking for a new relationship. Unfortunately, few immediate prospects are on Read More

El Mar

Actors: Bruno Bergonzini, Roger Casamajor, Antonia Torrens

Synopsis: Agusti Villaronga directs this intensely morbid love story about fascist executions, disease, bloody animal abuse, and violent homoeroticism. Set in a small village on the island of Mallorica during the Spanish civil war, four children witness the execution of leftists at the hands of pro-Franco Read More

A propósito de Buñuel

Actors: Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: Surrealist master Luis Bunuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently Read More

One of the Hollywood Ten

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Greta Scacchi, Ángela Molina, Christopher Fulford, Antonio Valero

Synopsis: The troubled career of blacklisted director Herbert Biberman, who endured a considerable struggle to make the 1954 pro-Labor film Salt of the Earth, provides the centerpiece for this historical drama. The film opens at the 1937 Academy Awards, where Biberman's wife, Gale Sondergaard (Greta Read More

El Viento se llevo lo que

Actors: Vera Fogwill, Ángela Molina, Fabian Vena, Jean Rochefort, Ulises Dumont

Synopsis: Argentine director Alejando Agresti directed this surreal, allegorical Argentine-French-Dutch- Spanish comedy-drama. Winner of the "Golden Shell Grand Prize" at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival, the absurdist tale is set during the '70s. Young Buenos Aires cabdriver Soledad (Vera Fogwill) Read More

Live Flesh

Actors: Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal, Ángela Molina, Jose Sancho, Penélope Cruz

Synopsis: This Pedro Almodóvar melodrama examines how several lives are changed by a single gunshot. Adapting the novel Live Flesh by British mystery author Ruth Rendell, Almodóvar has given the material a Spanish makeover with added political thrust. Beginning in 1970 in Franco's Madrid, when a prostitute (Penelope Cruz Read More

Oedipus Mayor

Edipo Alcalde

Synopsis: One might consider this violent adaptation of the classical Greek tragedy as Sophocles with a South American twist. Set amidst the rebel wars (representing the Theban plagues) of contemporary Colombia, Mayor Edipo (Oedipus) must mediate a peace deal between conflicting guerrilla groups and the Read More

Con Gli Occhi Chiusi

Synopsis: This gentle Italian drama is based upon the 1919 autobiographical novel by Federico Tozzi. The film tells the story of teenagers Ghisola and Pietro whose closeness is born of the pain the two experience in their daily lives. Ghisola, only 14-years old, must work in the fields away from her family. Read More

Coitado Do Jorge

Actors: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: Ema (Angela Molina) shares a home with Jorge (Jerzy Radziwilowicz), a college instructor. She herself is a scholar, and may soon be moving to Boston to study, if her grant comes through. Meanwhile, she and Jorge are talking of getting married. One day, they come home to discover a young punkster Read More

Krapatchouk

Actors: Guy Pion, Piotr Zaitchenko, Ángela Molina, Didier Flamand, Jean-Pierre Sentier

Synopsis: Two young men have left their obscure Balkan country to earn some money as "guest workers" in western Europe. On their way back home, they attempt to change trains in Paris but encounter surprising difficulties from the ticket authorities there. It seems that political changes have rendered their Read More

Nero

Actors: Sergio Castellitto, Chiara Caselli, Hugo Pratt

Synopsis: Bear witness to the rise of the most corrupt and ruthless ruler ever to preside over the Roman Empire as filmmaker Paul Marcus tells the tale of Nero's unlikely ascent to the throne, and his historical fall at the hands of his own vengeful kingdom. After murdering his sister's husband on grounds Read More

1492: Conquest of Paradise

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Wincott, Loren Dean, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: This, the second of 1992's 500th anniversary Christopher Columbus films (the first being Warner Bros. Christopher Columbus: The Discovery), adheres to the historical facts of Columbus's (Gerard Depardieu) possessed quest to discover the New World, and his solicitation of Queen Isabella (Sigourney Weaver Read More

L'Homme Qui A Perdu Son Ombre

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Dominic Gould, Ángela Molina, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: Paul (Dominic Guard) is a journalist who is up to date on the latest horrors of the modern world and is heartsick about them. He has a wife (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) and a steady job but leaves both of them suddenly for parts unknown. His wife is worried about him, and she is angry that he left Read More

Una Mujer Bajo la Lluvia

Actors: Ángela Molina, Antonio Banderas, Imanol Arias, Kiti Manver

Synopsis: The name of mystery writer Edgar Neville may be relatively unknown in the U.S., but his novels have been the source for quite a number of films made in Europe. In this humorous story, set in Madrid, a woman (Angela Molina) standing in the rain is offered rides from two different cars. Either ride Read More

Le Voleur d'enfants

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Ángela Molina, Michel Piccoli, Daniel Martin, Virginie Ledoyen

Synopsis: Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned children, raising them in his mansion as if they Read More

Volevo i pantaloni

Actors: Giulia Fossa, Lucia Bosé, Ángela Molina, Natasha Hovey, Pino Colizzi

Sandino

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Dean Stockwell, Ángela Molina, Victoria Abril

Synopsis: Guerilla wars against the major powers have been a factor in Central American politics for a long time. This biographical drama is based on the life of Nicaragua's prototypical 20th century guerilla, Augusto C. Sandino (born as Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino). His name and life were the Read More

Rio Negro

Actors: Ángela Molina, Frank Ramirez, Marie-José Nat, Fanny Bastien

Synopsis: In 1912, the Rio Negro in the northern part of the Amazon was one of the places where ambitious men went to try and get rich quick in the rubber trade and other jungle-related businesses. In this story, the local population endures the excesses of strong men who vie with one another for power. Read More

Barroco

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Ángela Molina, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Roberto Sosa, Alberto Pedro

Synopsis: Also known as Baroque, this Spanish-Cuban-Mexican film stars Francisco Rabal and Angela Molina. An exercise in allegory and symbolism, the film traces the history of Spain, from the days of the conquistadors onward. Somehow, all this logically concludes in a modern disco. Adapted from a novel by Read More

Las Cosas Del Querer

Actors: Ángela Molina, Ángel de Andrés Lopez, Manuel Bandera, Maria Barranco, Amparo Baro

Synopsis: Dora (Angela Molina) is a music-hall type singer who is more than a bit of a floozy. She goes out with lots of men, has sex with them, and quite appreciates it when they pay for it. She met the piano player Juan (Angel de Andres Lopez) during an air raid at the time of the Spanish Civil War. Read More

La Barbare

Actors: Murray Head, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: The Savage in this film is Sophie (Aurelie Gilbert), the 17-year old girl who comes into the lives of Michael and Alice (Murray Head and Angela Molina). Her father, a friend of theirs, has just died. It seems that he abandoned Sophie and her mother many years before. She has borne a tremendous Read More

La Mitad Del Cielo

Actors: Ángela Molina, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Margarita Lozano, Antonio V. Valero, Nacho Martinez

Synopsis: Rosa (Angela Molina) has one burning desire: to escape the grinding poverty in which she was born. To this end, Rosa takes a job at a fancy eatery in Madrid. Slowly and methodically, she becomes the city's Number One restaurateur. Not that she hasn't had a little "extra help" along the way: in Read More

Esquilache

Actors: Ángela Molina, Concha Velasco, Adolfo Marsillach

Synopsis: After the death of Carlos II in 1700, the throne of Spain was up for grabs, and all the European powers got involved. Even after the next king was crowned, anarchy and poverty marred the lives of the Spanish for many years. Finally, Carlos III, attempted to bring significant reforms with the Read More

Laura

Actors: Ángela Molina, Juan Diego, Sergi Mateu, Terele Pavez, Alfredo Luchetti

Synopsis: Laura (Angela Molina) is caught in a love triangle with her husband Tomas (Juan Diego) and his half-brother Adrian (Sergi Mateu) in this routine melodrama. When Tomas ignores her, Laura finds love in the arms of a local textile manufacturer, only to discover later that the man is her husband's Read More

Luces Y Sombras

Actors: José Luis Gómez, Jack Shepherd, Ángela Molina, Fermi Reixach, Marti Galindo

Synopsis: This film within a film is based on the painting Las Meninas by Diego de Velazquez. A young boy enters the canvas of the famous picture of the Spanish king and his court. In order to return to the real world, he must convince the artist to create his famous painting. The other plot involves a film Read More

La Sposa Era Bellissima

Actors: Ángela Molina, Marco Leonardi, Massimo Ghini, Stefania Sandrelli, Simona Cavallari

Synopsis: To seek work, Maria's husband was forced to leave their Sicilian village for Germany after the birth of their son. That was years ago, and he has never returned, though Maria knows he is still alive. This is a common situation in the poverty of Sicily, and the women who suffer from it are called Read More

Streets of Gold

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adrian Pasdar, Wesley Snipes, Ángela Molina, Elya Baskin

Synopsis: Klaus Maria Brandauer stars in this drama as Alek Neuman, a one-time boxing champion in the Soviet Union. While he was one of the top-ranked Russian fighters of his day, he was never allowed to box in the Olympics, because the Soviets would not permit Jews to compete on their national teams. Many Read More

Un Complicato Intrigo Di Donne, Vicoli E Delitti

Actors: Ángela Molina, Harvey Keitel, Daniel Ezralow, Francisco Rabal, Paolo Bonacelli

Synopsis: The vicious drug-related killings of young pre-teen boys are the fuel that moves this mystery-actioner into high gear. After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow) she is saved from being raped by a Camorra (organized crime) boss when the gangster is Read More

Rio De Oro

Actors: Ángela Molina, Bruno Ganz, Francesca Annis, Stefan Gubser, Nacho Rodriguez

Synopsis: This is an enigmatic tale of a man's attempt to regain a lost period of youthful happiness. Peter (Bruno Ganz) and his somewhat broken-down wife arrive at a friend's house for an extended visit. Peter has been attracted to the woman of the house; he also once spent an idyllic summer here. He takes Read More

Fuegos

Actors: Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Ángela Molina, Catherine Rouvel, Valentina Vargas

Bras De Fer

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Christophe Malavoy, Ángela Molina, Mathieu Carrière, Pierre-Loup Rajot

Synopsis: Complex and more cerebral than a wartime action-thriller, this espionage drama focuses on the relationship of two former buddies who were fencing masters before the war and in love with the same woman. Now Delancourt (Bernard Giraudeau) is apparently living a good life managing a gym in a Paris Read More

Lola

Actors: Ángela Molina, Patrick Bauchau, Féodor Atkine, Assumpta Serna, Angela Gutierrez

Synopsis: This suspense thriller about a bad relationship concerns Lola (Angela Molina), who is working hard for a living but becomes caught up in a sado-masochistic affair with the vicious Mario (Feodor Atkine). Finally breaking away from her own neurosis and a punishing lifestyle, Lola meets and marries Read More

Fuego Eterno

Actors: Ángela Molina, Imanol Arias, François-Eric Gendron, Ovidi Montllor

Synopsis: This routine story of love, murder, and witchcraft is set in 17th century northern Spain (in Basque country). A priest is trying to ferret out the truth in a 20-year-old tragedy involving a woman accused of witchcraft, her husband, and a jealous lover. Through a series of flashbacks, it is Read More

Bearn o la Sala de las Muñecas

Actors: Fernando Rey, Ángela Molina, Amparo Soler Leal, Imanol Arias

Synopsis: In this inconclusive, confusing story about an aristocratic Majorcan family with connections to the Pope and much more darkly, to the secrets of a Masonic Order kept in a doll's room, the patriarch of the family (Fernando Rey) and his wife and cousin come to no good end for reasons that are never Read More

Gli Occhi, la bocca

Actors: Lou Castel, Ángela Molina, Emmanuelle Riva, Michel Piccoli, Antonio Piovanelli

Synopsis: Giovanni (Lou Castel) comes home after his brother's suicide to encounter the same family problems that have been around for years: his mother is a religious fanatic now obsessed with her son's errant spirit, his older brother has a cold and uncaring relationship with his children and his wife Read More

Demonios En El Jardin

Actors: Ángela Molina, Ana Belén, Encarna Paso, Imanol Arias, Eusebio Lazaro

Synopsis: Demons in the Garden (Demonios En El Jardin) dwells upon three generations of an agrarian Spanish family. Most or all the family members have come of age since their country's Civil War. Fact becomes legend and legend becomes fact concerning that conflict, while the family is destroyed from within Read More

Dies Rigorose Leben

Actors: Ángela Molina, Vera Tschechowa, Viveca Lindfors, Elfriede Kuzmany

Synopsis: Mayhem and tangled love knots in the Southwest U.S. desert are the scourge of a group of stranded German immigrants living in a few mobile homes at the crossroads of two desert highways. Joe loves Rosa, and kills someone she had slept with because he thought their union was consentual (a rape) Read More

Kaltgestellt

Actors: Helmut Griem, Ángela Molina, Martin Benrath, Hans-Günther Martens

Synopsis: Injustices and misdemeanors in agencies like the local police and the National Security Bureau (West Germany's equivalent of the American FBI) are featured in this highly politicized drama about Brasch, a teacher (Helmut Griem) and Koerner (Martin Benrath), a NSB agent. A polarized society is, at Read More

Buone Notizie

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Ángela Molina, Aurore Clément, Paolo Bonacelli, Ombretta Colli

Synopsis: A junior executive (Giancarlo Giannini) is exasperated with his sexually repressed wife (Angela Molina) in this black comedy dripping with satire. The couple later ends up in bed with the man's mistress (Ombretta Colli) for a menage a trois. The man is pestered by his frantic friend Gualitiero (Paolo Bonacelli Read More

Operazione Ogro

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Eusebio Poncela, Ángela Molina, Saverio Marconi, José M. Sacristán

Synopsis: This thriller is based on the still politically sensitive story of the assassination of General Francisco Franco's heir apparent General Carrero Blanco. The General was to have been kidnapped by the Basque separatists, but when that proved too difficult, they arranged to bomb his car (with him in Read More

La Sabina

Actors: Carol Kane, Jon Finch, Harriet Andersson, Simon Ward, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: A British writer goes to live in a Spanish village while he looks into the mysterious life of a 19th century wanderer who was allegedly slain by La Sabina, a mythical lady dragon. The writer becomes lovers with an American visitor and then falls in love with an enigmatic beauty from town. Things Read More

El Corazon Del Bosque

Actors: Norman Briski, Ángela Molina, Luis Politti, Santiago Ramos

Synopsis: Told in a manner more common during the Franco era, this movie tells the story of a man who fought with the Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and has been hiding in the hills for 10 years. Local people help him avoid constant searches by the police, who know he is there. A Read More

La Portentosa Vida Del Padre Vincent

Actors: Ovidi Montllor, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: The Spanish Saint from Valencia, Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419) was a Dominican priest whose life was marked by extraordinary asceticism. He was noteworthy for his preaching tours through Europe: his sermons convinced many people of that time to take their faith seriously. This Spanish film is a spoof Read More

Los Restos Del Naufragio

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Ángela Molina, Ricardo Franco, Alfredo Mayo

Synopsis: Whatever his reasons or intent, when the young man carrying a cello begins working at the old-folks home, he strikes up an acquaintance with the man known as "the Maestro" (Fernando Fernan Gomez), who is full of plans to produce a play based on a Caribbean love affair and adventure in his youth. Read More

A Un Dios Desconocido

Actors: Héctor Alterio, Xavier Elorriaga, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: Circumstances surrounding the tragic death of famed Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) emerge in counterpoint with the current life of a homosexual stage-magician. Jose (Hector Alterio) was making love to the poet's brother in the Garcia Lorca family garden in 1936 when Read More

Nunca Es Tarde

Actors: José Luis Gómez, Ángela Molina, Madeleine Christie

Synopsis: In this bizarre Spanish film, a kindly 73-year old spinster finds herself fixated with a newlywed couple in the apartment across from hers. She can see right into their window and spends many hours watching them. She soon gets acquainted with them, and frequently drops by, especially when the wife Read More

That Obscure Object of Desire

Actors: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau, André Weber

Synopsis: Adapted from Pierre Louys' 1898 novel La Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire is the 30th and final film from the great Luis Buñuel. Recounted in flashback to a group of railway travellers, the story wryly details the romantic perils of Mathieu (Buñuel favorite Fernando Rey), a Read More

Camada Negra

Actors: José Luis Alonso, Maria Luisa Ponte, Ángela Molina, Joaquin Hinojosa

Synopsis: This shocking film would have been impossible to make just two years before, in 1975. It tells the story of a group of right-wing terrorists, led by a strangely seductive older woman, whose destructive attacks on anyone it considers to have betrayed Spain to any form of leftism are cynically Read More

El Hombre Que Supo Amar

Actors: Timothy Dalton, Antonio Ferrandis, Jonathan Burn, Jose Maria Prada, Queta Claver

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Jose Cruset, and packed with violence and riotousness, this film tells the story of a humanitarian bookseller in 16th-century Granada who manages to open Spain's first mental institution. The story takes place several generations after the expulsion of the Jews and Moors from Read More

Las Largas Vacaciones del 36

Actors: Concha Velasco, Ismael Merlo, Ángela Molina, Francisco Rabal, Charo Soriano

Synopsis: Set near Barcelona at the time of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, this epic drama explores the adventures suffered by an uncommitted vacationing family caught unawares by the conflict. In focusing on the war's effects on the family, this film was able to offer much more devastating Read More

La Ciudad Cremada

Actors: Xavier Elorriaga, Francisco Casares, Montserrat Salvador,