Assumpta Serna Filmography

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

Actors: Amira Casar, Gottfried John, Cesar Sarachu, Assumpta Serna, Ljubisa Lupo-Grujcic

Synopsis: The Brothers Quay return for their first film in a decade with this live-action story of an 19th-century opera singer who is murdered on-stage shortly before her upcoming wedding. Soon after being slain by the nefarious Dr. Emmanuel Droz (Gottfried John) during a live performance, Malvina van Read More

Pourquoi pas Moi?

Actors: Amira Casar, Julie Gayet, Bruno Putzulu, Alexandra London, Carmen Chaplin

Synopsis: The story of this gay comedy reminds one of the fashionable boulevard theatre of 1950's Paris whose major theme was bourgeois adultery. A couple would invite another couple to dinner, and half way through the second course it would be revealed that the husband was having an affair with his best Read More

Sharpe: The Legend

Subjudice

Actors: Silvia Munt, Abel Folk, Icíar Bollaín, Jordi Dauder, Assumpta Serna

Synopsis: Veteran filmmaker Josep Maria Forn directed this Spanish thriller about sexual harassment. When feminist attorney Elena (Silvia Munt) tells stockbroker Sergi (Abel Folk) she's wants a child, he responds by informing her that he had a vasectomy. With the support of her friend Cati (Pepa Lopez) Read More

Managua

Actors: Louis Gossett, Jr., John Savage, Assumpta Serna

Synopsis: Following the death of an American war correspondent (John Rice) in Nicaragua, his best friend, a New York stock broker (Louis Gossett, Jr.) is sent down by the State Department to claim the body. Upon his arrival to the nation's capitol, Managua, he discovers that the body has supposedly already Read More

Momentos Robados

Actors: Assumpta Serna, Jorge Rivera Lopez, François-Eric Gendron, Martin Carpan, Betiana Blum

Synopsis: This Argentine homage to Hollywood of the '40s focuses on bored Patagonian housewife, Letty (Assumpta Serna), married to older Tomas (Jorge Rivera Lopez), a doctor in an Argentina seaside community. The year is 1947, and Letty spends much time at the local cinema watching American films. Then one Read More

The Craft

Actors: Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Rachel True, Skeet Ulrich

Synopsis: After killing her mother in childbirth, growing up in San Francisco with her father and stepmother, attempting suicide, and moving to Los Angeles, Sarah (Robin Tunney) makes a brief stab at popularity at her new Catholic high school. Ostracized due to the untrue kiss-and-tell tales of football Read More

Kiss and Tell

Actors: Peter Howitt, Daniel Craig

Synopsis: In this low-budget screwball-mystery, the death of an L.A. woman leads to a surreal murder investigation on the outer fringes of la-la land. When Molly McMannis (Justine Bateman) turns up dead, still impaled with the murder weapon -- a carrot -- the police launch a probe into the colorful world Read More

The Shooter

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Randy Travis, Valerie Wildman

Synopsis: In this actioner, US Marshal Mickey Dane is sent back to his native Prague to investigate the assassination of a Cuban UN ambassador. The prime suspect is professional hit woman Simone Rosset, the lesbian co-owner of a posh restaurant there. The other owner is Simone's girl friend. Mickey catches Read More

Belle Al Bar

Synopsis: A neurotic and unhappily married man falls in love with his transvestite cousin in this quirky Italian comedy. Leo is an obsessive and unhappy man. He is married to Simona and the two are miserable. He suffers many psychosomatic ailments and real phobias, such as an allergic reaction to cheese Read More

A Hundred and One Nights

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More

Sharpe's Company

Actors: Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Hugh Fraser, Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: Sean Bean returns as the stubbornly independent Captain Richard Sharpe in this historical adventure. Sharpe, an officer in the British Army, and his men are in Spain, fighting against Napoleon's forces, when he learns that Teresa (Assumpta Serna), his mistress, has given birth to his daughter. As Read More

Hidden Assassin

Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Maruschka Detmers, Assumpta Serna, John Ashton, Gavan O'Herlihy

Synopsis: Brimming with international intrigue and a love story on the side, this thriller centers on a U.S. Marshall (born in Czechoslovakia) who is assigned to apprehend the beautiful but deadly French assassin the U.S. government suspects killed a Cuban UN ambassador. But as the Marshall and the hit Read More

Day of Reckoning

Desvio al Paraiso

Actors: Charles Dance, Assumpta Serna, Morgan Weisser, Katrina Gibson, Gladys Rodriguez

Synopsis: A psychopathic building super wreaks havoc upon his tenants in this Spanish-Puerto Rican psychodrama that was entirely filmed in Puerto Rico. A killer on the run. To hide from the authorities he kills the newly hired superintendent of the seedy Paradise Condominiums and assumes his identity. When Read More

The New Age

Actors: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Patrick Bauchau, Corbin Bernsen, Jonathan Hadary

Synopsis: A wealthy Beverly Hills husband and wife are forced to reevaluate their lives after losing their jobs in writer-director Michael Tolkin's aloof satire. Peter Witner (Peter Weller) and Katherine Witner (Judy Davis) have become so accustomed to their high-class, shallow lifestyle that they feel Read More

Sharpe's Enemy

Actors: Sean Bean, Assumpta Serna, Pete Postlethwaite, Daragh O'Malley, Hugh Fraser

Synopsis: In this war adventure a brave British GI saves the beautiful wife of a colonel from a group of AWOL soldiers. The plot is based on a Bernard Cornwell novel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Der Grun Heinrich

Actors: Thibault de Montalembert, Florence Darel, Assumpta Serna, Arno Chevrier, Dominique Sanda, Mathias Gnädinger

Synopsis: Kissing seems to be a popular activity in this Swiss epic costume drama based on an 1880 novel. The story begins in Munich with lots of people vigorously kissing in the midst of a bacchanalia carnival. Two men, Lys and Henry are even going at it. Henry, a sensitive artist, is wearing a green suit Read More

Havanera

Actors: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Fernando Guillen Cuervo, Abel Folk, Jordi Dauder, Patrick Bauchau

Synopsis: This action-filled Spanish melodrama takes dramatic license with the facts surrounding the illegal slave trade in early nineteenth century Cuba. It is 1820 and Amelia has recently been wed to Ton, a Cuban plantation owner whom she barely knows as part of a business contract. With Ton's sinister Read More

Nostradamus

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, F. Murray Abraham, Rutger Hauer, Amanda Plummer, Julia Ormond

Synopsis: This period drama explores the life and times of the 16th century doctor and scientist who some believed could see into the future. Michel de Nostradamus (Tcheky Karyo) was the son in a Jewish family who posed as Catholics to be spared the wrath of the Inquisition. As a student of the renowned Read More

Sharpe's Rifles

Actors: Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Hugh Fraser, Jason Durr, Allie Byrne

Synopsis: In this action adventure, author Bernard Cornwell's fictional Major Sharpe is faced with the daunting task of teaching a ceremonial battalion to fight for real. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sharpe's Eagle

Synopsis: In this historical drama produced for television, Richard Sharpe (Sean Bean) is an officer in the British Army who has his own way of doing things, but has risen to a rank of power thanks to his bravery and steely intelligence under fire. Sharpe is a Captain of the Battalion of South Essex, a Read More

Chain of Desire

Actors: Linda Fiorentino, Elias Koteas, Grace Zabriskie, Assumpta Serna, Tim Guinee, Patrick Bauchau, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: Temistocles Lopez's Chain of Desire, based on Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde, plays like an AIDS-era version of The Yellow Rolls Royce, in which a series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a "chain of desire." The film begins as Alma D'Angeli (Linda Fiorentino) flees from a lover and runs Read More

El Maestro de Esgrima

Actors: Omero Antonutti, Assumpta Serna, Joaquim de Almeida, Alberto Closas

Synopsis: For Astarlos, living in Madrid at the time of the troubled rule of Isabel the Second in 1868, fencing is not an outmoded method of personal combat, but it is a way of life. It teaches lessons about comportment, attention, responsiveness to others, and taking responsibility for one's own life. Read More

Extramuros

Synopsis: Behind the peaceful walls of an impoverished medieval Spanish convent lies a teeming hotbed of ambition, lies and double-crossing as can be seen in this powerful, thought-provoking drama that is based upon Jesus Fernandez Santos' novel. The convent is set in an arid area and sole support comes Read More

Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel, Part 1

Actors: Julie Carmen, Dennis Farina, John Glover

Synopsis: Meticulously researched and elaborately produced, the two-part TV movie Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel is based on a true story. In addition, to quote the original print ads, "This is the one we won!" Incorruptible agents of the DEA declare war against Colombia's Medelin drug lords. To undermine Read More

Revolver

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV actioner, a stray bullet forced a secret service agent into a wheelchair and early retirement. Much of the story centers on his attempts to adjust to his new life. The rest chronicles his revenge against the gangster that destroyed his life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

À Quoi Tu Penses Tu

Actors: Richard Anconina, Isabelle Pasco, Martin Lamotte, Assumpta Serna

The Day of Reckoning

I, the Worst of All

Actors: Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Héctor Alterio, Lautaro Murúa

Synopsis: Sister Juana (Assumpta Serna) is a gentle poet and a none-too-pious nun, living in seventeenth-century Mexico. She is protected by the Governor and his wife from a ferociously misogynistic Archbishop, who some believe is using his hatred of women to hide from his very powerful lust for them. Read More

L'home de Neo

Actors: Féodor Atkine, Assumpta Serna

Synopsis: Not so many Spanish films originate in Cataluna and feature dialogue in Catalan. This thriller follows the story of David (Feodor Atkine), a Barcelona man who lives just at the edge of poverty, in a violent and crime-ridden neighborhood. Despite that, he enjoys his lively city existence. Between Read More

Valentina

La Nuit de L'ocean

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Assumpta Serna, Jean-Pierre Bisson

Lo del Cesar

Actors: Humberto Zurita, Assumpta Serna, Angélica Aragón, Manuel Ojeda, José Carlos Ruiz

Synopsis: Claudio is a young landowner who is troubled by his position at the top of Mexico's steep hierarchy of power but is unable to find any way to alter his big-boss behavior. He treats the help really badly, moodily plays the cello, is distracted by his foreboding while making love to beautiful women Read More

Lucky Ravi

Actors: Michel Didym, Assumpta Serna, Rüdiger Vogler, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Alain Cuny

Synopsis: In this slow-paced and chaotic film, Ravi has been bedding a beauty queen who is on the outs with her former lover and has been drinking a lot. They are at a hotel in Provence which a local landowner has a grudge against. Before the hotel came, the main livelihood in the region was fruit-growing. Read More

La Brute

Actors: Xavier DeLuc, Assumpta Serna, Jean Carmet, Georges Claisse, Rosette, Paul Crauchet

Synopsis: This mystery is taken from the novel by best-selling author Guy des Cars. While on a voyage with his philandering wife (Assumpta Serna), Jacques (Xavier Deluc), in spite of the fact that he is blind, deaf, and mute, is accused of murdering an oily lounge singer. Deliot (Jean Carmet) is the defense Read More

Lulu De Noche

Actors: Imanol Arias, Amparo Muñoz, Antonio Resines, Assumpta Serna, Patricia Adriani

Synopsis: Film noir and comedy are successfully thrown together in this off-beat story about Germain (Antonio Resines), a stage producer trying to put together the two leads and backing for his next drama. Germain is looking for a man to play a psychotic obsessed with his mother and a woman to play a Read More

Matador

Actors: Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martinez, Eva Cobo, Julieta Serrano

Synopsis: Once-great Spanish matador Nacho Martinez has been reduced to starring in gruesome "snuff" films. Martinez is idolized by Antonio Banderas, who has no notion of his idol's current illegal profession. Terrified at the thought of drawing blood in the bullring, Banderas nevertheless seeks out Read More

A Balada Da Praia Dos Caes

Actors: Raul Solnado, Assumpta Serna, Patrick Bauchau, Sergi Mateu, Carmen Dolores

Synopsis: Captain Luis Dantas (Patrick Bauchau) is the escaped military officer found murdered in this often surrealistic crime drama. Inspector Elias (Raul Solnado) is called on to investigate the man's death, and the story is told by the sleuth in narrative form with the help of flashbacks. The inquiry Read More

Cronica Sentimental En Rojo

La Vieja Musica

Actors: Federico Luppi, Charo Lopez, Eva Cooper, Antonio Resines, Assumpta Serna

Synopsis: In this downbeat and drawn-out story of personal woe in exile, Martin (Federico Luppi) takes his daughter and leaves Uruguay to live in a specific city in northwestern Spain. Passing himself off as a basketball coach (a total scam -- he knows zip about the game), he manages to support the two of Read More

Extramuros

Actors: Carmen Maura, Mercedes Sampietro, Aurora Bautista, Antonio Ferrandis

El Jardin Secreto

Actors: Assumpta Serna, Xavier Elorriaga, Taida Urruzola, Cecilia Roth

Synopsis: This is an off-beat, fast-paced, and well-wrought love story involving two very different people: Lucia (Assumpta Serna) is a computer operator whose sexual inclinations are alternately normal and kinky, and Arturo (Xabier Elorriaga) is a company representative from another town, with a wife and 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

Le Cercle des Passions

Actors: Giuliano Gemma, Max von Sydow, Assumpta Serna, Marcel Bozzuffi, Françoise Fabian

Synopsis: Director Claude D'Anna has tried for epic proportions in this less-than-epic film about incest, murder, suicide, and insanity in an aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti (Max Von Sydow) has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his Read More

Coto de Caza

Soldados de Plomo

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Silvia Munt, Assumpta Serna, Amparo Rivelles

Synopsis: Confusion seems to settle over this drama like dust on a polished surface, until the layers are so thick that nothing is seen clearly any more. Andrés (José Sacristán) goes back to Spain from Mexico because a lawyer has sent for him. Andrés has inherited an enormous piece of property -- an old Read More

Bajo En Nicotina

La Rebelion de Los Pajaros

Actors: Assumpta Serna

Synopsis: In this children's film about the values of fighting air pollution, a young singing group (Regaliz) is joined by other pre-teens to discover why all the birds have deserted Barcelona -- and what will bring them back again? When it appears that the culprit is the city's smog-filled air, the Read More

Vecinos

Actors: Antonio Resines, Assumpta Serna, Mario Pardo

Synopsis: A young married couple living in Madrid decide to go their separate ways, a decision brought on by the person who moves into the apartment next to them. The jealous husband leaves his wife and takes up an apartment in another section of the building, taking some of the furniture with him when he Read More

Dulces Horas

Actors: Inaki Aierra, Assumpta Serna, Alvaro de Luna

Synopsis: In this story (within a story) a man is remembering his years as a little boy living in Madrid during World War II, particularly important because his mother committed suicide in 1942. Scenes flip back and forth between the man in the present, and the man as a little boy, very much attached to his Read More

Pepi, Luci, Bom y Otras Chicas del Montón

Actors: Carmen Maura, Eva Siva, Félix Rotaeta

Synopsis: An outrageous comedy that throws viewers into a culture shock. A suggestive satire about women who ignore society's rules. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

La Orgia