Maria de MedeirosFilmography

Adan y Eva

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida, Karra Elejalde, Ana Bustorff, Cristina Carvalhal

Shelter Me

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Antonia Liskova, Mounir Ouadi, Gisella Burinato, Vitaliano Trevisan

Synopsis: When the heiress of a shoe manufacturing business returns to her home Italy after a trip to Tunisia and discovers an Arab teenager in her luggage, the makeshift family formed between the heiress, her faithful factory worker, and the runaway crumbles under the weight of the outside world. Heiress Read More

Call Me Elizabeth

Actors: Alba Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi, Stéphane Freiss, Yolande Moreau, Maria de Medeiros

Fallen Heroes

Actors: Bruno Todeschini, Elio Germano, Irène Jacob, Maria de Medeiros, Paolo Graziosi

Synopsis: French filmmaker Paolo Franchi's sophomore feature follows a psychologically damaged youth who makes the grim decision to kill his parents. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Midsummer Madness

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Dominique Pinon, Tobias Moretti, Chulpan Khamatova, Orlando Wells

Synopsis: Chaos and quirk reign in this sweetly funny film set in Latvia. An American's arrival in the Baltic country coincides with the Summer Solstice of the year, and he would rather be anywhere else in the world. As he searches for his half-sister, he encounters a cab driver who gives him fondness for Read More

Medea Miracle

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Tommaso Ragno, Giulietta de Bernardi, Lou Castel, Isabel Ruth

Synopsis: Director Tonino de Bernardi reworks the tragic myth of Medea into a passionate tale of a nightclub singer abandoned by her husband and forced to care for their two children alone. Irene (Isabelle Huppert) left her homeland in pursuit of Jason, the love of her life. Now Irene is a stranger in a Read More

The Saddest Music in the World

Actors: Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox, Ross McMillan

Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin directs The Saddest Music in the World, reworked from an original screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, the film involves a contest announced by the legless and glamorous Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) to find the saddest Read More

Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Hany Abu-Assad, Pedro Almodóvar, Vicente Aranda, Bruno Barde, Xavier Beauvois

Il Resto Di Niente

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Rosario Sparno, Imma Villa, Marco Manchisi, Enzo Moscato

My Life Without Me

Actors: Sarah Polley, Scott Speedman, Deborah Harry, Mark Ruffalo, Leonor Watling, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros

Synopsis: Isabel Coixet's Mi Vida Sin Me (My Life Without Me) is a tale of a woman dying before her time. Sarah Polley plays Ann, a 24-year-old mother of two. Ann is married to Don (Scott Speedman), and they live near Ann's mother (Deborah Harry), who is bitter about the fact that Ann's father is serving a Read More

Moi César 10 Ans 1/2 M 39

Actors: Jules Sitruk, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Maria de Medeiros, Mabo Kouyate, Josephine Berry

Stranded

Actors: Vincent Gallo, Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida, Maria "Luna" Lidon

Synopsis: An international party of astronauts crash lands on Mars. Bummer. Since rescue is, oh, 26 months away, and they only have air, food, and water for a few days, the astronauts must come to grips with the idea of dying slow and painful deaths. The captain (María Lidón) and two others explore the Read More

Agua e Sal

Porto Da Minha Infancia

Actors: Ricardo Trepa, Jorge Trepa, Rogério Samora, Antonio Fonseca, Agustina Bessa-Luis

Honolulu Baby

Actors: Maurizio Nichetti, Maria de Medeiros, Jean Rochefort, Paulina Gálvez, Giulia Weber

Synopsis: A guy finds himself living most men's fantasy, only to learn it isn't as much fun as he imagined in this offbeat Italian comedy. Alberto Colombo (Maurizio Nichetti) has spent 20 years working an insignificant desk job with a large multinational corporation, and he not only has little to show for Read More

L'Homme des Foules

Capitães de Abril

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stefano Accorsi, Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida, Frederic Pierrot, Fele Martínez

Synopsis: Renowned actress Maria de Medeiros directs this sweeping historical drama set in Portugal about the heady days leading up to April 25, 1974, when that country was finally freed from 40 years of Fascist rule. The film opens with a series of grisly black and white photographs of Portuguese war Read More

Spanish Fly

Actors: Daphna Kastner, Toni Canto, Martin Donovan, Danny Huston, Marianne Sägebrecht

Synopsis: Daphna Kastner directed this romantic comedy-drama, set in Spain. Interviewing Madrid men, journalist Zoe (Kastner) intends to expand her magazine article into a book. Her own experiences with men, however, haven't exactly made her an expert, but possibilities arise when she meets straight-talking Read More

Babel

Actors: Mitchell David Rothpan, Maria de Medeiros, Tchéky Karyo, Michel Jonasz, Sheena Larkin

Synopsis: An elaborate fantasy tale intended for family audiences, Babel tells the story of the Babels, a strange breed of four-foot-tall creatures who once coexisted happily with human beings on planet Earth. However, when the humans built a huge tower to taunt God, he became angry and drove the Babels Read More

Les Infortunes de la beauté

Actors: Arielle Dombasle, Maria de Medeiros, Thibault de Montalembert, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Louis-Dominique de Lencquesaing

Synopsis: This romantic comedy from France explores the misadventures of several friends looking for love and trying to define beauty. Daphne (Arielle Dombasle) is a lovely women who is nonetheless unsure about her looks, compounded by the fact that she's fallen in love with Vincent (Thibault de Montalembert Read More

Go for Gold!

Actors: Lars Rudolph, Saïd Taghmaoui, Antonio Carmona, Maria de Medeiros, Chick Ortega

Synopsis: Maniacal hyperactive Jeff Gold (Lars Rudolph) and his companion Moussa (Said Taghmaoui) flee Berlin for a Spanish tourist resort where they share a room with a flamenco act. When Jeff gets a job as a Wild Adventure tour guide, he feels tourists need more of a jolt. He devises alternatives to the Read More

Tempête Dans Un Verre D'eau

Actors: Jackie Berroyer, Arnold Barkus, Maria de Medeiros

Synopsis: American actor-director Arnold Barkus made this low-budget French film, a comedy set in New York, with scenes taking place in Chinatown, in a Franco-Greek cabaret, and on the Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn-born Max (Barkus) suspects his girlfriend Sophia has been cheating on him. His French pal Jean (Jackie Berroyer Read More

Le Polygraphe

Actors: Patrick Goyette, Peter Stormare, Maria de Medeiros

Synopsis: In this French thriller, an actress wins the role of a murder victim in a film based on the true story of an unsolved crime. She discovers her neighbor was the lover of the woman who was murdered in real life -- and is still a suspect. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Tiré à part

Actors: Terence Stamp, Daniel Mesguich, Maria de Medeiros, Amira Casar, Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Synopsis: Edward (Terence Stamp) is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he receives a very good manuscript from Nicholas (Daniel Mesguich), an old friend, who up until now has been a hack writer. The manuscript sheds light on events both men lived through, and Read More

Airbag

Actors: Karra Elejalde, Fernando Guillen-Cuervo, Alberto San Juan, Maria de Medeiros, Francisco Rabal

Synopsis: The third feature from popular Spanish filmmaker Juanma Bajo Ulloa is a sprawling and complex action comedy with a touch of Almodovar-esque surrealistic absurdity that simultaneously satirizes gangster movies, film noir, and the Catholic Church. Juantxo is the chief protagonist. Coming from a Read More

The Thousand Wonders of the Universe

Synopsis: Professor Larsen, the director of the International Center for Astro Monitoring is listening to radio transmissions from deep space when he receives a disturbing string of code, that to him heralds the coming of alien invaders. When thousands of people suddenly disappear from the red-light Read More

Des Nouvelles Du Bon Dieu

Actors: Marie Trintignant, Maria de Medeiros, Christian Charmettant, Jean Yanne

Synopsis: A little philosophy can be a dangerous thing. Especially if it comes from the sudden blinding insights of the none too bright. Such insights, based upon totally illogical conclusions form the basis of this devilishly dark, distorted French absurdist comedy. At the beginning of the eccentric tale Read More

Adao e Eva

Actors: Joaquim de Almeida, Maria de Medeiros

Synopsis: This Portuguese language comedy is about a very contemporary love triangle. Caterina (Maria de Medeiros) is a beautiful, opportunistic and charming woman, a TV journalist. She pretends to be smitten by a handsome political do-gooder in order to gain an exclusive interview with him. She also uses Read More

Pulp Fiction

Actors: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis

Synopsis: Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Director and co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized such seemingly disparate traditions as the syncopated language of David Mamet; the serious Read More

Les Bois Transparents

Actors: Didier Agostini, Philippe Ducroizet, Maria de Medeiros, Jean-Philippe Puymartin, Claude Aufaure

Synopsis: In this sensitively executed French drama, a young woman befriends a young Down's Syndrome patient and finds his companionship preferable to that of her serious lover the painter. Vero is the lively girlfriend of Alex, an artist who dwells in a remote country manse. He is frustrated with his work Read More

El Detective y la Muerte

Actors: Javier Bardem, Maria de Medeiros, Carmelo Gómez, Héctor Alterio, Charo Lopez

Synopsis: This surreal Spanish film offers a liberal re-tooling of Hans Christian Andersens' tale "The Story of the Mother," which follows a mother's quest through a maze-like forest as she seeks to retrieve her child from Death. This version of the tale is set in a violent and crime filled European city. Read More

Des Feux Mal Eteints

Actors: Manuel Blanc, Maria de Medeiros, Emmanuel Salinger, Hélène Vincent

Synopsis: A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and questioned about the politically sensitive Read More

Três Irmãos

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Marcello Urgeghe, Laura del Sol, Mireille Perrier

Synopsis: This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy and dutiful daughter upon whose shoulders the family traumas have fallen. In addition to a regular job she cooks, cleans, and studies. Her parents Read More

Huevos de Oro

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Javier Bardem, Maribel Verdú

Synopsis: In this soft-porn drama, the oversexed hunk Benito Javier Bardem) spends a good portion of his military service in north Africa dreaming of sex, money and power - but mostly sex. He can barely keep himself in control, and is constantly grabbing his crotch. Somehow, when he is released from the Read More

L'Homme de Ma Vie

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Thierry Fortineau, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Anne Letourneau, Ginette Garcin

Synopsis: As a way of getting on in the world, working for wages and constantly being in danger of being fired or laid off is a pretty poor system. In this movie, pretty, young Aimee decides that marriage to the right man is a much better bargain. Though she is very fond of an impoverished bookstore owner Read More

Paraiso Perdido

Akermania, Vol. 1

Synopsis: The multi-volumed Akermania consists of several early projects of avant-garde filmmaker Chantal Akerman. Volume one includes three titles. Saute Ma Ville (1968) is not only first on the bill, but also represents Akerman's very first directorial effort. Hotel Monterey (1972) is a remarkable Read More

Meeting Venus

Actors: Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Erland Josephson, Macha Meril

Synopsis: Meeting Venus is based on a play cowritten by the film's director, Istvan Szabo. Glenn Close plays a celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson who is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian Read More

Retrato de Familia

A Divina Comedia

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Luis Miguel Cintra, Mario Viegas, Leonor Silveira

Synopsis: In this symbolic and philosophically weighty film, all of the inhabitants of a Portuguese mental asylum suffer from religious delusions of one kind or another -- even the cynic who denies the value of any religions at all. One couple re-enacts the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden, and then the Read More

Henry & June

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Richard E. Grant, Kevin Spacey

Synopsis: The real-life relationship between two of the most controversial literary figures of the 20th century forms the basis for this drama. Anaïs Nin (Maria de Medeiros) is a struggling author trying to finish her first book, a study of the work of D.H. Lawrence. She also has a keen sexual curiosity Read More

A Idade Maior

Actors: Vincent Gallo, Teresa Roby, Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida

Synopsis: A number of colonial wars in Africa in the 1970s have resulted in the conscription of Alex's father Pedro into the Portuguese Army. The young man and his father write to one another frequently, and it seems as if they are still close. However, at some point, the letters stop coming. Alex and his Read More

1871

Actors: Ana Padrão, Roshan Seth, John Lynch, Jack Klaff, Timothy Spall

Synopsis: The bloody history of radical revolutionary movements in France has frequently provoked otherwise reasonable people in other countries to have an unreasoning fear of alternative political movements. In 1871, Napoleon III ruled France in a way that made him very popular with the rich and with Read More

La Lectrice

Actors: Miou-Miou, Christian Ruche, Maria Casarés, Patrick Chesnais, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: At the suggestion of a friend, Constance (Miou-Miou) places an ad in the paper offering her services as a reader in this romantic comedy drama. Her job leads her to a variety of employers and occasional romantic involvement. Maria Casares plays the widow of an East European general who has Read More

Le Moine et la Sorcière

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Christine Boisson, Jean Carmet, Raoul Billerey, Catherine Frot

Synopsis: Sorceress is not a remake of the 1982 erotic thriller of the same name. This 1987 film is set in medieval France, where, in certain quarters, witchcraft is accepted as a fact of life and an everyday occurrence. A travelling priest visits town after town, hoping to root out those still practicing Read More

Vertiges

Actors: Magali Noël, Krystyna Janda, Paulo Autran, Hélène Lapiower, Henri Serre

Synopsis: In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on the backstage melodramas of an opera company. The conductor for an upcoming performance of the Marriage of Figaro has his mind and heart on other Read More

Paris Vu Par... 20 Ans Apres

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Pascale Salkin, Julien Dubois, Daniel Mesguich

Synopsis: This anthology is comprised of six vignettes made by different Noveau Vague filmmakers. Each short film centers on a different aspect of Parisian life. The films and their directors include: J'ai Faim, J'ai Froid by Chantal Akerman; Place Clichy by Bernard Dubois; Rue Fontaine by Philippe Garrel Read More

Silvestre

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Teresa Madruga, Luis Miguel Cintra

Synopsis: Director Joao Cesar Monteiro has posed his actors in front of painted backdrops to act out the two 15th-c. fables that form the basis for this theatrical-literary film. Because of its static style, as though moving from one literary illustration to the other, the film does achieve some sense of Read More