Carmen MauraFilmography

Que parezca un accidente

Actors: Carmen Maura, Federico Luppi, José Luis García Pérez, Javier Collado

Volver

Actors: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo

Synopsis: Two sisters learn that the bonds of family don't always end after death in this gentle observational comedy drama that marks celebrated Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's 16th feature. The story explores the interactions between three generations of women in a Spanish family. Raimunda (Penélope Cruz Read More

Queens

Synopsis: Writer and director Manuel Gómez Pereira takes a look at the funny side of same-sex marriage in this farcical comedy. Magda (Carmen Maura) is the manager of a posh resort hotel that is to be the site of a marriage ceremony bringing three gay couples together at once. One of the husbands-to-be is Read More

Free Zone

Actors: Natalie Portman, Hanna Laslo, Hiam Abbass, Carmen Maura, Makram Khoury

Synopsis: A Jewish-American woman still reeling from her breakup with her Spanish-Israeli fiancée hits the road with a middle-aged Israeli woman, who is looking to collect the 30,000-dollar debt owed to her by her husband's former business partner, and a Palestinian woman, who claims to know the elusive Read More

Lesser Evil

Actors: Carmen Maura, Roberto Alvarez, Veronica Echegui, Marta Belenguer, Antonio "Morris" Duran

Between Living and Dreaming

Actors: Carmen Maura, Alex Brendemühl, Thierry Lhermitte, Marta Etura, Manuel Manquina

Al Otro Lado

Actors: Adrian Alonso, Jorge Milo, Carmen Maura, Vanessa Bauche, Nuria Badith

Common Wealth

Actors: Carmen Maura, Eduardo Antuna, Jesus Bonilla, Sancho Gracia

Synopsis: The fifth feature of noted Spanish filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia, La Comunidad is a frenetic black comedy set in a decrepit old house in the center of Madrid. One of the house's new residents is Julia Garcia (Carmen Maura, whose performance won her a best actress award at the 2000 San Sebastian Read More

800 Bullets

Actors: Sancho Gracia, Ángel de Andrés Lopez, Carmen Maura, Eusebio Poncela, Luis Castro

Synopsis: A hyperstylized tribute to spaghetti westerns courtesy of fearless Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia, 800 Bullets finds young Carlos (Luis Castro) striking out on his own in search of his long-lost father. Swiping his shrewish businesswoman mother's (Carmen Maura) credit card and setting his Read More

Valentin

Actors: Rodrigo Noya, Carmen Maura, Alejandro Agresti, Julieta Cardinali

Synopsis: Venerable Argentinian filmmaker Alejandro Agresti turns his lens to his own childhood in this nostalgic coming-of-age tale. Set in the director's hometown of Buenos Aires circa 1964, Valentin centers around its title character (and ostensible stand-in for the director), a nine-year-old boy (Rodrigo Noya Read More

25 Degrees en Hiver

Actors: Carmen Maura, Jacques Gamblin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Raphaëlle Molinier, Pedro Romero

Synopsis: One man finds himself pulled in three directions at once by his family and a chance acquaintance in this breakneck comedy. Miguel (Jacques Gamblin) is a single parent and Spanish expatriate living in Belgium who has to deal with a young daughter, Laura (Raphaelle Molinier), his busybody mother Read More

The Promise

Actors: Carmen Maura, Ana Fernandez, Evaristo Calvo, Juan Margallo, Santiago Baron

Synopsis: Hector Carre's psychological thriller The Promise concerns a woman who liberates herself from a destructive marriage and becomes nanny to a boy. The boy's family lives in an ornate mansion, but the nanny becomes convinced that the house is haunted, and she goes to frightening lengths to protect Read More

La Ventre De Juliette

Actors: Jean-Marie Parmentier, Stephane Rideau, Carmen Maura, Nathalie Richard, Ariane Ascaride

The Pact of Silence

Actors: Isaac Sharry, Carmen Maura, Gérard Depardieu, Élodie Bouchez

Synopsis: Sarah (Élodie Bouchez) a young Carmelite nun, collapses in pain, dazed and spouting a nonsense phrase. Concurrently, a great distance away, her identical twin sister, Gaëlle (also Bouchez), in prison, wakes up to find her cell in flames. While Gaëlle, the victim of an attack by her fellow Read More

Angeles de Negro

Muerto de la Pena

Actors: Enrique Pinti, Carmen Maura, Damian Dreizik, Lucrecia Capello

El Palo

Actors: Adriana Ozores, Carmen Maura, Maribel Verdú

Synopsis: A pair of pink-collar workers short on cash decide to try a new part-time job -- bank robbery -- in this comedy. Lola (Ariana Ozores) and Silvia (Maribel Verdu) are two working-class women who are also best friends. Lola works on the cleaning crew at a bank and sometimes does odd jobs for her Read More

Le Harem De Mme Osmane

Actors: Nadia Kaci, Carmen Maura

Synopsis: An off-beat comedy that takes an unconventional look at the problems of contemporary Algeria, writer-director Nadir Mokneche's debut feature is set in 1993 Algiers. As the country veers toward civil war, Madame Osmane (Spanish actress and former Almodóvar mainstay Carmen Maura) exercises a casual Read More

El Entusiasmo

Actors: Maribel Verdú, Carmen Maura, Alvaro Escobar, Alvaro Rudolhpi, Gianfranco Lebrini

Synopsis: Set in Chile in the early 1990s, when the brutal oppression of the Pinochet regime had given way to a democratic government (and a capitalist economy that proved to have flaws of its own), El Entusiasmo/Enthusiasm begins in 1984, when Guillermo (Alvaro Rudolphi) introduces two of his friends to Read More

El Cometa

Actors: Diego Luna, Ana Claudia Talancón, Carmen Maura, Gabriel Retes, Patrick Le Mauff

Synopsis: A period piece that blends first love, the power of the cinema and the Mexican Revolution, El Cometa is set in 1910, as Medero's factions were organizing against the Profirio Diaz regime. Romualdo (Gabriel Retes) owns a traveling vaudeville show and has just lost his star attraction when his son Read More

Superlove

Actors: Isabelle Carré, Carmen Maura, Luis Rego, Marthe Villalonga

Synopsis: Can a gay man find happiness with the mother of Jesus Christ? Mario $Gregoire Colin) is a openly homosexual hairdresser who one day meets Marie-Helene (Isabelle Carre) when he sees her singing beside a tree in a park. They get to know each other and Mario discovers Marie-Helene believes she is the Read More

Lisboa

Actors: Carmen Maura, Federico Luppi, Sergi López, Antonio Birabent, Laia Marull

Synopsis: A salesman offers a ride to a sexy woman and soon finds himself deep in trouble in the thriller Lisboa. Joao (Segi Lopez) is a traveling salesman from Portugal who is somewhere outside of Madrid when he stops to offer a lift to Berta (Carmen Maura), an attractive hitch-hiker. Sparks soon fly Read More

Alice et Martin

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Alexis Loret, Carmen Maura, Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Maguelon

Synopsis: In this romantic French drama, auteur Andre Techine offers an intense, intimate look inside the complex relationship between two emotionally dysfunctional people. Neither Alice (Juliette Binoche) nor Martin (Alexis Loret) seem emotionally healthy enough to sustain a relationship, but somehow they Read More

Women

Actors: Miou-Miou, Carmen Maura, Marthe Keller, Marisa Berenson, Guesch Patti

Synopsis: Shot in Lisbon, this drama examines the issue of aging as seen from the viewpoints of five women facing middle age -- self-destructive actress-singer Branca (Guesch Patti), losing the respect of her daughter; single literature professor Eva (Miou-Miou), attracted to the son of her friend Barbara (Marthe Keller Read More

Alliance Cherche Doigt

Actors: François Morel, Guillaume Depardieu, Carmen Maura

Synopsis: Director Jean-Pierre Mocky has gone too far past the limits of bad taste, disgusting sex, and pastiche sequencing to attract many viewers to this release. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide Read More

Tortilla Y Cinema

Actors: Carmen Maura, Marc Duret, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: Benjamin Ballon wants to be a filmmaker, and has devoted a large part of his life for the past few years to getting to the point of filming an independent movie. He has been encouraged by Carmen Maura (playing herself), an established star, who has agreed to appear in his first film, and it is her Read More

Amores Que Matan

Actors: Carmen Maura, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Juanjo Puigcorbe

Synopsis: Set in the suburbs, this tale of seduction, philandering, vengeance and murder is told with an airy, comical twist. The tale begins in summer on the day in which jealous husband Marco chokes his wife to death and then buries her in his backyard. He killed her because he discovered that she was Read More

El Palomo Cojo

Synopsis: Little Felipe has been sick for a long time. To hasten his recovery, his parents send him to spend the summer of 1958 in the villa of his grandparents, located in the wealthy quarter of Cadiz. The warm climate of southern Spain is good for the boy, but the inhabitants of the great home may be a Read More

Le Bonheur Est Dans Le Pré

Actors: Michel Serrault, Eddy Mitchell, Sabine Azéma, Carmen Maura

Synopsis: Lots of people wish they could be someone else, but a French businessman decides to do something about it in this satirical comedy. Francis Bergeade (Michel Serrault) runs a factory in a small town that makes toilet seats. With his employees on strike and his wife plundering his bank account as Read More

Pareja de Tres

Synopsis: Pareja de Tres concerns two best friends, Ana and Marta, who decide to share a man as well. When he leaves both of them for a different woman altogether, the two friends strengthen their bond by setting out together to seek revenge. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Como Ser Infeliz y Disfrutarlo

Actors: Carmen Maura, Antonio Resines, Irene Bau, Ramon Madaula

Synopsis: A middle-aged woman comes into her own in this Spanish comedy. Carmen liked to have affairs. After one typically hot night playing poker and messing around with her male friends, she returns home in the morning to face her husband's jealous rage which causes him to die of a massive coronary. This Read More

Sombras En Una Batalla

Actors: Carmen Maura, Joaquim de Almeida, Fernando Valverde

Synopsis: Ana (Carmen Maura) is a veterinarian living in the country with her daughter. She has a comfortable, settled life. From time to time, Dario (Fernando Valverde), one of her co-workers, stops by her farmhouse for a meal, but otherwise her life seems placid and timeless. This all changes when she Read More

Louis, Enfant Roi

Actors: Maxime Mansion, Carmen Maura, Paolo Graziosi, Jocelyn Quivrin

Synopsis: History buffs will glory in the riches of Louis, Enfant Roi, others will perhaps find this complex story of intrigues and betrayals in the court of the young king tough sledding. When Louis the Fourteenth (1638-1715) was born, the power of government was shared between the monarchy, the church Read More

La Reina Anonima

Actors: Carmen Maura, Marisa Paredes, Juanjo Puigcorbe, Jesus Bonilla, Cristina Marcos

Synopsis: Ana Luz's husband has gone away for a little while. While he's away, she experiences every possible irruption into her house, from a troupe of actors to a woman claiming to be her husband's lover. She seems to kill a plumber with her screwdriver, and her neighbor apparently kills a policeman. Just Read More

Sur La Terre Comme Au Ciel

Actors: Carmen Maura, Didier Bezace, Samuel Mussen, Jean-Pierre Cassel, André Delvaux

Synopsis: Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down even for a minute, despite her pregnancy. She is, however, taking Lamaze classes and is quite competently coping with the romantic attentions of a 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

Ay, Carmela!

Actors: Carmen Maura, Andres Pajares, Gabino Diego, Jose Sancho

Synopsis: In Ay, Carmela, filmmaker Carlos Saura again harks back to his bitter childhood memories of the Spanish Civil War. Carmela (Carmen Maura), Paulino (Andres Pajares) and Gustavete (Gabino Diego) are travelling entertainers, trouping through Spain to perform their act before the Republican troops. Read More

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

Actors: Carmen Maura, Antonio Resines, Juanjo Puigcorbe, Carmen Conesa, Tina Sainz

Synopsis: In this comedy from Spain, Carmen (Carmen Maura) is a woman in her early 40s who is nearing the end of her rope juggling a career as a reporter, taking care of her two children, minding the house, and dealing with a husband (her third) who thinks that she doesn't pay enough attention to him, and Read More

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Actors: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Fernando Guillén, Julieta Serrano, Maria Barranco, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: Though the kinky characters and aberrant social behavior common to the works of Spanish director Pedro Almodovar are very evident in his Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the film is at heart a door-slamming farce in the grand tradition. The tiny apartment of pregnant actress Carmen Maura Read More

Baton Rouge

Actors: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Ángel de Andrés Lopez, Laura Cepeda

Synopsis: Antonio (Antonio Banderas) is a gigolo who is taken in by a wealthy middle-aged woman in this sultry crime drama. He moves into the posh apartment of Isabel Harris (Carmen Maura) and satisfies her sexual urges. When Isabel has reoccurring nightmares she is being raped, the couple visits a pretty Read More

Tata Mia

Actors: Imperio Argentina, Alfredo Landa, Carmen Maura, Xavier Elorriaga, Miguel Angel Rellan

Synopsis: Tata (Imperio Argentina) is a matronly nurse hired by a wealthy heiress who has spent the last 13 years in a convent. Fearing she is prone to nymphomania, Tata oversees the romantic antics of the sex-starved woman as she attempts to rejoin society. Satirical jabs at the military government, the 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

The Law of Desire

Actors: Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Miguel Molina, Manuela Velasco

Synopsis: Popular film director Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela) has found a new love in the form of handsome blue-collar Juan (Miguel Molina). Not altogether comfortable with his lifestyle, Juan decides to leave Pablo for a while to contemplate his future. Pablo insists that Juan keep in touch by sending Read More

Extramuros

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

Sé infiel y no mires con quién

Actors: Ana Belén, Carmen Maura, Antonio Resines, Santiago Ramos, Verónica Forqué

Synopsis: In this conventional comedy of manners, two men in the publishing business run into trouble both in the boardroom and in the bedroom. Their venture is starting to run out of black ink, and one of them is very suspicious of his wife's loyalties. Add in a right-wing author of children's stories, a Read More

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

Actors: Carmen Maura, Ángel de Andrés Lopez, Verónica Forqué, Gonzalo Suárez, Chus Lampreave

Synopsis: Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, the Luis Buñuel of the 1980s, cooks up another perversely funny descent into urban hell in What Have I Done to Deserve This? Carmen Maura plays a middle-class housewife hemmed in by her wildly eccentric relatives. Her principal purpose in life is a balancing act: to keep Read More

Dark Habits

Actors: Julieta Serrano, Marisa Paredes, Carmen Maura, Mary Carrillo

Synopsis: In this Pedro Almodóvar film, a singer at a low-end nightclub hides out at a convent after her lover dies of a bad dose of drugs, and she meets a group of off-the-wall nuns while in hiding. The nuns range from one who writes sensationalist pulp fiction under a pseudonym to another who takes drugs Read More

Chi Trova un Amico, Trova un Tesoro

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Gary Cooper, Que Estas En Los Cielos

Actors: Mercedes Sampietro, Jon Finch, Carmen Maura

Synopsis: In the three days before an operation on the cancer that is threatening to kill her, a film director (Mercedes Sampietro) remembers a few of the most poignant and meaningful relationships and dreams of her life. The premise for this partially autobiographical movie was taken from the real-life 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

El Hombre De Moda

Actors: Xavier Elorriaga, Marilina Ross, Maite Blasco, Isabel Mestres, Alicia Sanchez

Synopsis: One man's inability to develop any serious, committed relationships with women is the focus of this standard romantic drama by {$Fernando Mendez-Leite]. Pedro (Xabier Elorriaga) teaches literature in an all girls school and is clearly dedicated to his profession. After he meets Aurora (Marilina Ross Read More

La Mano Negra

Actors: Joaquin Hinojosa, Virginia Mataix, Carmen Maura, Mary Carrillo

Aquella Casa En Las Afueras

Actors: Javier Escriva, Silvia Aguila, Mara Goyanes, Carmen Maura

Synopsis: In this scary Spanish thriller, a young girl's husband rents her a lovely home just outside of Madrid so she can spend the last three months of her pregnancy in peace and luxury. Unfortunately, just as they arrive at the home, the girl realizes that it is the place where she had secretly had an Read More

La Peticion

Actors: Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Frederic de Pasquale, Maria Luisa Ponte

Synopsis: Teresa (Ana Belen) is an aristocrat's daughter and doesn't give a fig for the lives of mere servants. However, she is erotically drawn to one of her servant's sons, and that is not something she will ever ignore. On the night of a party celebrating her betrothal to another aristocrat, she lures Read More

Que Hace Una Chica Como Tu En un Sitio Como Este?

Los Ojos Vendados

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, José Luis Gómez, Xavier Elorriaga, Lola Cardona, André Falcon

Synopsis: While attending an international conference which seeks to reduce the incidence of the use of torture by nations around the globe, a movie director (Jose Luis Gomez) encounters a woman (Geraldine Chaplin) whom he decides to cast in a play about state torture. As events proceed, he and the woman Read More

Tigres de Papel

Actors: Carmen Maura

Synopsis: When Generalissimo Francisco Franco relinquished power and then died in 1975, Spain had lived with him as its leader for so long that everyone in the country (even his opponents) felt his absence keenly. An era had ended and a new one begun. At the same time, some serious partying could begin, and Read More

De Fresa, Limon Y Menta

Actors: Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Kiti Manver, Carmen Maura, Félix Rotaeta

Synopsis: In this non-narrative film, a salesgirl becomes embroiled in a lengthy discussion with a soldier and a film director. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

El Hombre Oculto

Actors: Yelena Samarina, Julieta Serrano, Luis Ciges, Carmen Maura

Synopsis: A man withdraws from society by staying in his attic for thirty years in this symbolic feature of isolation. His wife and daughter live in the house and remain his only contact to the outside world. He emerges after three decades to find himself completely incapable of acting or thinking as he did Read More