Kiti ManverFilmography

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Pagafantas

Actors: Gorka Otxoa, Sabrina Garciarena, Oscar Ladoire, Kiti Manver

Synopsis: A hopelessly lovesick young man finds himself repeatedly cast into a platonic role vis-à-vis the girl of his dreams, in this contemporary romantic comedy from Spain. Lanky and awkward teen Chema (Gorka Otxoa) still struggles to come to terms with a recent break-up from Elisa (Barbara Santa Cruz). Read More

7/3/09
Broken Embraces

Actors: Penélope Cruz, Blanca Portillo, Lluís Homar, José Luis Gómez, Ruben Ochandiano

Synopsis: A follow-up to Spanish enfant terrible Pedro Almodóvar's 2006 arthouse sensation Volver, Los Abrazos Rotos finds the filmmaker re-teaming with actress Penélope Cruz and working on a canvas much broader than those of his previous outings, in terms of genres covered, narrative scope, and Read More

3/18/09
Lola, the Movie

Actors: Gala Evora, José Luis García Pérez, Ana Fernandez, Carlos Hipolito, Antonio Morales, Alfonso Begara

Synopsis: Fugitives director Miguel Hermoso explores the life of celebrated flamenco artist Lola Flores in this biopic that follows the mercurial dancer from her working-class roots in Jerez, Spain through her turbulent relationship with singer Manolo Caracol and eventual rise to nationwide stardom. As a Read More

2007
Take My Eyes

Actors: Laia Marull, Luis Tosar, Candela Peña, Rosa María Sardà

Synopsis: Spanish actress/author/filmmaker Icíar Bollaín writes and directs the family drama Te Doy Mis Ojos (Take My Eyes), co-written by Alicia Luna. Pilar (Laia Marull) leaves her abusive husband, Antonio (Luis Tosar), during the middle of winter in Toledo, Spain. She and her son, Juan (Nicolás Fernández Read More

3/17/06
La Luz Prodigiosa

Actors: Alfredo Landa, Nino Manfredi, Kiti Manver, José Luis Gómez, Ivan Corvacho Cervantes

Synopsis: Miguel Hermoso's La Luz Prodigiosa (Marvelous Light) examines what might have happened if famed Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca had not been executed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. In Grenada in 1936 Joaquin (Ivan Corvacho Cervantes) delivers a man he decides to call Galapago (Sergio Villanueva Read More

2003
Noche de Reyes

Actors: Joaquín Climent, Kiti Manver, Elsa Pataky, Luna McGill, Melani Olivares

Synopsis: Miguel Bardem's Christmas comedy Noche de Reyes (Twelfth Night) intercuts a variety of story lines. Ernesto Cuspineda (Joaquin Climent) is a businessman whose life comes unglued during a party. His wife learns of his affair, and his daughter is expecting a baby. There are wise men who have Read More

2002
Don Quixote, Knight Errant

Actors: Juan Luis Galiardo, Carlos Iglesias, Jose Luis Torrijos, Victor Clavijo, Santiago Ramos

Synopsis: The infamous man from La Mancha and his devoted sidekick embark on a new quest in this slightly off-kilter version of author Miguel de Cervantes' classic novel Don Quixote, as envisioned by director and screenwriter Manuel Gutierrez Aragon in his 2002 adaptation entitled Don Quixote, Knight Read More

2002
A Galope Tendido

Actors: Ana Alvarez, Aitor Merino, Ramon Langa, Kiti Manver

Synopsis: A man gets an unexpected chance to be the cowboy he's always wanted to be in this drama. Jaime (Aitor Merino) is a young man whose Uncle Boni (Sancho Gracia) was once a film director, making low-budget Westerns in Spain. While Jaime has a job working as a railway clerk, he takes after his uncle in Read More

2000
Things I Left In Havana

Actors: Jorge Perugorría, Violeta Rodriguez, Kiti Manver, Broselianda Hernandez, Isabel Santos

Synopsis: Veteran director Manuel Gutierrez Aragon provided a portrait of Cubans in Spain with this Spanish film, a winner of the Silver Spike at the 1997 Valladolid Film Festival. Three sisters -- aspiring actress Nena (Violeta Rodriguez), timid Ludmila (Broselianda Hernandez), and motherly Rosa (Isabel Santos Read More

1997
The Flower of My Secret

Actors: Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Imanol Arias, Carmen Elias, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: From Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar (Live Flesh, All About My Mother) comes this offbeat drama about Leo Macías (Marisa Paredes), a romance novelist who writes her trashy tomes under the pseudonym Amanda Gris. When her marriage begins to dissolve, Leo finds herself falling into despair, leading Read More

1995
El Seductor

Actors: Maria Barranco, Santiago Ramos, Antonio Hortelano

Synopsis: A fifteen-year old boy schemes to get out of his family vacation so that he may set about seducing his married, thirty-five-year old physical therapist neighbor in this inter-generational coming of age sex comedy starring Antonio Horelando and Maria Barranco. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
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

1992
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

1991
Todo Por la Pasta

1991
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

11/11/88
Luna De Lobos

Actors: Santiago Ramos, Antonio Resines, Alvaro de Luna, Kiti Manver, Fernando Vivanco

Synopsis: When the forces of Gen. Francisco Franco overthrow the duly elected (but leftist) Republican government, soldiers loyal to the government head for the hills in northern Spain. The soldiers survive by making raids for food and by committing robbery and the kidnapping of a wealthy local. They spend Read More

1988
Pasodoble

Actors: Fernando Rey, Juan Diego, Antonio Resines, Caroline Grimm, Cassen

Synopsis: In this romantic farce, Macarena is a pretty French girl who has come to Cordoba in southern Spain in search of a man she believes may be her father. She finally tracks him and his clan down in a minor city museum: they have become squatters there during one of the museum curator's brief absences. Read More

1987
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

1984
Kargus

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Patricia Adriani, Francisco Algora, Agustin Gonzalez, Héctor Alterio

Synopsis: A series of vignettes is woven into a larger story in this first film to be written and directed by Juan Minon and Miguel A. Trujillo. A writer who works in a bookshop to earn a living meets a wealthy American named Kargus looking for talent to ensconce in his projected art colony in the Gilbert Read More

1981
Opera Prima

Actors: Oscar Ladoire, Paula Molina, Antonio Resines, Kiti Manver

Synopsis: Directed by Fernando (Belle Epoque) Trueba, the Spanish/ French Opera Prima stars Oscar Ladiore as a young divorced employee at a news agency. Outside the subway one evening, Ladione chances to meet his beautiful cousin, played by Paula Molina (sister of actress Angela Molina). The two commence an Read More

1980
El Curso En Que Amamos A Kim Novak

Actors: Kiti Manver, Cecilia Roth, Beatriz Elorrieta

Synopsis: A college student in the late 1950s has a huge crush on movie star Kim Novak in this sentimental drama. Pictures of the actress are hung everywhere in his room at the local boarding house. When he sees a young woman at a party who looks like Novak, the young man is too shy and must overcome his Read More

1980
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

1980
Tiempos De Constitucion

Actors: Verónica Forqué, Héctor Alterio, Francisco Algora, Jose Bodalo

Synopsis: In this non-narrative film by first-time director Rafael Gordon, a young limousine driver and his friends discuss their qualms about the society they live in, while they drift from situation to situation. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
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

1977
Cantico

Actors: Fernando Hilbeck

Synopsis: A group of female patrons in a bar are interviewed in this pretentious feature that pretends to have religious and psychological interest. A 14 year old girl is raped by a vicious landowner. the incident leaves her unable to love and trust men, although they constantly pursue her as the most Read More

1970