Victoria AbrilFilmography

Musée Haut, Musée Bas

Actors: Michel Blanc, Simon Abkarian, Victoria Abril, Pierre Arditi, Alfredo Arias, John P. Arnold, Sophie Artur, Helene Babu, Josiane Balasko

Synopsis: With this high-concept, all-star French comedy (it features at least sixteen Gallic marquee names including Michel Blanc and Josiane Balasko), director Jean-Michel Ribes sets out to skewer the pretentiousness of the European art world. It's just a typical, ordinary day at a French art museum, but Read More

Solo Quiero Caminar

Actors: Victoria Abril, Ariadna Gil, Elena Anaya, Pilar Lopez de Ayala, Jose Maria Yazpik, Diego Luna

Synopsis: This tense and brutal, Spanish-language crime thriller from Mexico concerns four female bank robbers (Pilar Lopez de Ayala, Ariadna Gil, Victoria Abril and Elena Anaya) whose latest heist puts them in a head-to-head clash with the local mob in Mexico City. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Read More

Oscar. Una pasion surrealista

The Maidens' Conspiracy

Actors: Leonor Watling, Victoria Abril, Giancarlo Giannini, Ingrid Rubio, Casper Zafer

The Way of the English

Actors: Alberto Amarilla, María Ruiz, Félix Gómez, Raúl Arévalo, Fran Perea

Synopsis: Director Antonio Banderas's reflective sophomore drama follows nascent poet Miguelito (Alberto Amarilla) and his best friends, Paco (Félix Gómez) and Babirusa (Raúl Arévalo), as they confront their pasts and ponder their futures while coming of age in 1970s-era southern Spain. Based on the novel Read More

The White Knight

Actors: Paz Vega, Casper Zafer, Esther Nubiola, Leonor Watling, Ingrid Rubio, Charlie Cox

Synopsis: Writer-director Vincente Aranda adapted his sweeping historical saga Tirante el Blanco (AKA The White Knight, 2006) from the bestselling European novel by Joanot Martorell. Casper Zafer (La Femme Musketeer) plays the titular soldier, Tirante. Ordered by the Emperor of Byzantium to free Read More

School of Seduction

Actors: Victoria Abril

Swindled

Synopsis: A con man finds himself up against an adversary he hasn't the strength to challenge in this crime drama from Spain. Ernesto (Ernesto Alterio) is a man who grew up learning the easier way to get out of trouble was to lie, and over the years, he's built a career out of his gift for twisting the Read More

The 7th Day

Actors: Juan Diego, José Luis Gómez, José Garcia, Victoria Abril, Yohana Cobo

Cause Toujours!

Actors: Victoria Abril, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Sylvie Testud, Didier Bezace, Claude Perron

Synopsis: This way-offbeat comedy from Gallic director Jeanne Labrune concerns two young French women, best friends Léa and Jacinthe. While Jacinthe develops a fixation with the moths that begin to cluster in frightening quantities throughout her apartment, Léa finds herself drawn to a dim-witted fellow Read More

Mari del Sud

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Giulia Steigerwalt, Victoria Abril, Antonio Stornaiolo, Vivian de la Cruz

Synopsis: Directed by Marcello Cesena, Mari del Sud (Our Tropical Island) follows a dysfunctional family whose idea of concealing their bankruptcy from friends and family is hiding in the basement of their palatial home while they're presumed to be vacationing. The basement is a disgusting place to live; Read More

Don't Tempt Me

Actors: Victoria Abril, Penélope Cruz, Demián Bichir, Fanny Ardant, Gael García Bernal

Synopsis: Two of Spain's biggest female stars headline this offbeat comedy about the battle of wills between good and evil. Heaven is not getting its fair share of business for the afterlife, so Lola (Victoria Abril), an angel who sings in a nightclub located beyond the pearly gates, is sent to Earth to Read More

Et après?

Actors: Rachid El Ouali, Siham Assif, Victoria Abril

101 Reykjavík

Actors: Victoria Abril, Hilmir Snær Gudnason, Hanna María Karlsdóttir, Baltasar Kormákur, Olafur Darri Olafsson

Synopsis: A slacker finds himself dealing with girl trouble he never knew existed in this offbeat comedy set in Iceland. Hlynur (Hilmir Snær Gudnason) is a 28-year-old layabout who lives with his mother, Berglind (Hanna María Karlsdóttir), in a run-down section of Reykjavík. Though he doesn't have a job Read More

My Father, My Mother, My Brothers and My Sisters

Actors: Victoria Abril, Charlotte de Turckheim, Alain Bashung, Philippe Giangreco, Marc Andréoni

Synopsis: In this sly comedy of manners, Anne (Victoria Abril) is a free-spirited single mother whose three children were all fathered by different men, none of whom are currently in contact with Anne and none of whom know that Anne bore their offspring. Anne's son Victor (Pierre-Jean Cherit) has started Read More

Between Your Legs

Actors: Victoria Abril, Javier Bardem, Carmelo Gómez, Juan Diego, Sergi López

Synopsis: Often referred to as a cousin to Pedro Almodovar or Bigas Luna, Manuel Gomez Pereira has been covering up his sharp social satire behind nice exteriors in his previous five films. No more nice guy, says Pereira, in an erotic tale of sex-o-mania. And with who else but ravishing Victoria Abril in Read More

La Femme Du Cosmonaute

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Victoria Abril, Rossy de Palma, Bernard Verley

Three Lives and Only One Death

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes, Melvil Poupaud

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni plays several different roles in this off-beat, witty exploration of a man with multiple personalities from world-class filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. Mastroianni first appears as Parisian traveling salesman Mateo Strano who suddenly shows up at the home of Maria, the wife he abandoned Read More

Libertarias

Synopsis: This big-budget Spanish drama pays tribute to the courageous women who sacrificed their lives during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Maria's peaceful life as a nun is shattered when revolutionary anarchists force her and her sisters to flee their convent sanctuary. Maria ends up hiding in a brothel Read More

French Twist

Actors: Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabat, Ticky Holgado

Synopsis: In this French comedy, a man discovers that he has something unexpected in common with his wife -- they're both involved with another woman. Loli (Victoria Abril) is a woman of Spanish blood married to a French businessman, Laurent (Alain Chabat). Loli is not especially happy as a housewife Read More

Nadie Hablara de Nosotras Cuando Hayamos Muerto

Synopsis: This stylish, taut and unpredictable Spanish thriller is laced with black comedy and social consciousness as it tells the convoluted tale centering on alcoholic, unlucky Gloria Duque, an impoverished Mexico City prostitute. She is first seen performing fellatio on several crooks as they make Read More

Jimmy Hollywood

Actors: Joe Pesci, Christian Slater, Victoria Abril, Jason Beghe, John Cothran, Jr.

Synopsis: Clad in a blonde wig, Joe Pesci stars as the title character, a luckless actor. Unable to make it in the real showbiz world, Jimmy starts fantasizing about fame and fortune. His delusions eventually turn into reality when, through a fluke, Jimmy becomes known to one and all as "Jericho," a Robin Read More

Casque Bleu

Actors: Victoria Abril, Valérie Lemercier, Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: More than a dozen years ago, Patrick (Gerard Jugnot) and Alicia (Victoria Abril) began their relationship by chance at the Peace Inn Hotel on a Mediterranean island. However, despite the fact that they have returned to the place where they first fell in love, it will take more than that for their Read More

Kika

Actors: Verónica Forqué, Peter Coyote, Victoria Abril, Alex Casanovas, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: Spanish director Pedro Almodovar returns to his recurring framework of offbeat sexuality and death with this colorful comedy. Kika (Veronica Forque) is a Madrid makeup artist who falls in love with Ramon (Alex Casanovas), a dead man whose face Kika is hired to prepare for a funeral. Kika's Read More

Intruso

Actors: Victoria Abril, Imanol Arias, Antonio Valero, Alicia Agut, Susana Buen

Synopsis: In this drama, a dying man makes a final, desperate bid to steal his ex-wife away from her new spouse. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Demasiado Corazon

Aventis

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, María Botto

Synopsis: In the year of The Mambo Kings, Antonio Banderas - then on the very cusp of stardom - also headlined the Spanish-language drama Aventis, directed by Vincente Aranda. Translated, the title refers to a Spanish blend of historical recounting and mythmaking. The story involves a doctor and nurse who Read More

High Heels

Actors: Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bose, Féodor Atkine, Pedro Diaz del Corral

Synopsis: Written and directed by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almódovar, Tacones Lejanos is a murder mystery centering on flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo (Marisa Paredes) and her daughter Rebecca (Victoria Abril), a television anchorwoman. After being estranged for 15 years, Becky re-enters Rebecca's life Read More

Une Epoque Formidable

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Ticky Holgado, Chick Ortega

Synopsis: Like the factory boss in The Full Monty, Berthier (Gérard Jugnot) is a former executive who finds it easier to pretend to his family that he wasn't fired than to suffer their concern and pity, and possibly the loss of their love. He goes off to "work" each day and returns home with presents for Read More

Lovers

Actors: Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdú

Synopsis: Vicente Aranda's Lovers is set in Spain, mostly in Madrid, during the 1950s. The story line is reminiscent of Theodore Dreiser's classic An American Tragedy (which was filmed as A Place in the Sun), wherein a passive, amoral, and shallow protagonist inadvertently destroys the lives of two women Read More

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Actors: Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Loles Leon, Julieta Serrano, Francisco Rabal

Synopsis: "I'll never love you . . . ever!" the sexy and attractive Marina (Victoria Abril) states emphatically to the love-struck Ricky (Antonio Banderas). You know she means what she says because when she makes this statement she is handcuffed and lashed to a bed, not exactly the proper way to warm anyone Read More

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

If They Tell You I Fell

Actors: Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, Antonio Banderas, Guillermo Montesinos

Synopsis: This complex and confusing Spanish feature intercuts stories from 1936, 1940, 1970 and 1988, and has Victoria Abril play three different parts in them. The lives of many people are shown to be tangled together in nearly incomprehensible ways, and many of the characters are prone to engage in Read More

Ada Dans La Jungle

Actors: Marie Louisa, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Isaach de Bankolé, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: This tepid actioner is taken from the popular comic strip by Francesco Altan. Ada (Marie Louisa) is the heir who promises her dying father she will look for the son he left behind in Africa 20 years before. Her scheming cousin Nancy (Charley Boorman) tries to get Ada disinherited. Ada runs into Read More

Sans Peur et Sans Reproche

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Remi Martin, Victoria Abril, Gérard Darmon, Martin Lamotte, Ann-Gisele Glass, Gerard Klein, Ticky Holgado

Synopsis: Bayard (Remi Martin) is a lowly squire who joins the army of King Charles (Patrick Timsit) after he is rejected by the noblewoman Blanche de Savoie (Anne-Gisel Glass). Bellabre (Gerard Jugnot) is the army captain who trains Bayard for the proposed invasion of Naples. Bayard returns a conquering 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

Juego Mas Divertido

Actors: Victoria Abril, Antonio Resines, Maribel Verdú, Santiago Ramos

Synopsis: Sara (Victoria Abril) and her co-star Bruno (Antonio Valero) are popular soap opera stars who try to take a quiet vacation in this screwball comedy. They escape to a remote mountain village but are recognized by the locals who faithfully watch the daily program. Plenty of sight gags and sexual Read More

El Lute - Camina O Revienta

Actors: Imanol Arias, Victoria Abril, Antonio Valero, Diana Penalver

Synopsis: Policemen everywhere are sometimes lampooned for their self-importance and pomposity, and it is not unusual for a particularly impudent thief to become a national hero. However, Spain's Guardia Civil in the 1960s were an unusually self-righteous lot, and the otherwise not particularly Read More

Placer De Matar

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Mathieu Carrière, Victoria Abril, Berta Riaza, Walter Vidarte

Synopsis: Director Felix Rotaeta adapted the screenplay of Placer de Matar from own novel. Victoria Abril, who was incredibly busy when the film was made in 1987, plays the leading role (she wasn't exactly the heroine), while Berta Riaza costars as her mother. It's a thriller with plot twists aplenty; to Read More

Barrios Altos

Max, Mon Amour

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Diana Quick, Christopher Hovik, Milena Vukotic

Synopsis: Fabled Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima was the guiding hand behind the fast-paced French comedy Max, Mon Amour. The "Max" with whom the elegant Charlotte Rampling falls in love is a circus chimpanzee (played by a short-statured man in a monkey suit). Charlotte's British-ambassador husband Anthony Read More

Nini Terno-Secco

Tiempo De Silencio

Actors: Imanol Arias, Victoria Abril, Charo Lopez, Francisco Rabal, Juan Echanove

Synopsis: Set at the end of the 1940s, this drama about Pedro (Imanol Arias), a medical researcher, and his relationships with his family and women underscores the mood of repression that dominated Spain during Franco's fascist regime. Pedro lives in a boardinghouse and is attracted to Dorita (Victoria Abril Read More

After Darkness

Actors: John Hurt, Julian Sands, Victoria Abril, Pamela Salem, William Jacques

Synopsis: In this otherwise routine film, John Hurt is outstanding as the deceptively unbalanced Peter, brother of Laurence (Julian Sands), an inmate for the last many years in a mental institution in Geneva, Switzerland. An unusual accident cost the life of Laurence's twin brother, when they were just Read More

La Hora Bruja

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Concha Velasco, Victoria Abril, Sancho Gracia, Asuncion Balaguer

Synopsis: An accomplished and "enchanting" fantasy-romance, this story of a couple's love for each other and a pixie's benevolent intervention in their lives is entertaining from beginning to end. Cesar (Francisco Rabal) is a fake sorcerer and travels with his wife Pilar (Concha Velasco) in a combination Read More

Rouge Gorge

Actors: Philippe Léotard, Leatitia Leotard, Jerome Zucca, Victoria Abril

Padre Nuestro

Actors: Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal, Victoria Abril, Emma Penella, Amelia de la Torre

Synopsis: Fernando Rey plays a Spanish cardinal who returns to his home town thirty years after leaving for Rome. Rey knew that he'd left an illegitimate daughter behind, but was unaware that he also has a granddaughter (Victoria Abril). The girl is embroiled in an affair with Rey's own brother (Francisco Rabal Read More

On the Line

Actors: David Carradine, Scott Wilson, Victoria Abril, Sam Jaffe

Synopsis: Essentially a tale of romance mixed in with a dash of politics, this engrossing story involves Engracia (Victoria Abril), a young Mexican prostitute working just south of the border with the U.S., and two American border guards who are among her clients: Mitch (Scott Wilson), a tough Read More

Las Bicicletas Son Para El Verano

Actors: Amparo Soler Leal, Agustin Gonzalez, Victoria Abril, Patricia Adriani

Synopsis: In his second successful starring role in 1983, Agustín Gonzalez is a father who runs a wine shop in Madrid, a city under a three-year siege (1936-1939) because the Nationalists forces of Francisco Franco need to take Madrid before the fascist dictator can be installed in power. The siege has left Read More

Le Voyage

Actors: Christophe Malavoy, Victoria Abril, Victor Cavallo, Michel Jacob

Synopsis: The emotional interplay between an arguing couple, in love but not happy with their relationship, is meant to be the sustaining force in this crime drama with little other action. Thomas (Christophe Malavoy) has been blackmailed into carrying a shipment of explosives in his Peugeot to Egypt, where Read More

L'Addition

Actors: Richard Berry, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Farid Chopel, Fabrice Eberhard

Synopsis: This technically impressive throwback to the early days of film noir stars Richard Berry as Bruno, a young actor who seems to get blamed for everything. Spotting a gorgeous female shoplifter (Victoria Abril) in trouble, Bruno decides to help her and gets arrested in her place. While lamenting his Read More

La Noche Más Hermosa

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Victoria Abril, Bibi Andersen, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Oscar Ladoire

Synopsis: This ostensible comedy about the affairs or non-existent affairs of television executive Federico José Sacristán and his actress wife Elena Victoria Abril) is almost as hard to believe as director Manuel Gutiérrez-Aragón's previous effort Feroz. Federico convinces a friend to attempt to seduce his Read More

The Moon in the Gutter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Dominique Pinon

Synopsis: Filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix followed up the surprise international success of his first feature, Diva, with this stylish but downbeat drama. Gerard (Gerard Depardieu) is a dock worker who becomes an emotional wreck following the rape and suicide of his sister. As his relationships with his Read More

Le Batard

Actors: Gerard Klein, Julie Jezequel, Didier Flamand, Brigitte Fossey, Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis: Based on Erskine Caldwell's novel, Le Batard could also refer to this French film born from an American novel, with the American South transformed into the south of France. An unemotive Gerard Klein is Patrice, the Paris automobile mechanic who travels to Marseille to identify the body of his Read More

Asesinato En El Comite Central

Actors: Patxi Andion, Victoria Abril, Conrado SanMartin, Jose Vivo, Héctor Alterio

Synopsis: When the lights go off at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, no one suspects anything more than the usual power outage -- until the Secretary General, Santiago Carrillo, ends up murdered in that short span of time. The Party calls in a private investigator, and the Read More

La Colmena

Actors: Victoria Abril, Ana Belén, Francisco Rabal, Mario Pardo

Synopsis: Based on a 1943 book of the same title by Camilo José Cela, Colmena features the comings and goings of a wide variety of characters, all trying to survive in a poverty-stricken Madrid during World War II. Rather than feature any single story line, these people from all walks of life cross paths Read More

Sem Sombra de Pecado

J'ai épousé une ombre

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Francis Huster, Richard Bohringer, Madeleine Robinson, Guy Tréjan

Synopsis: A young woman is abandoned by her lover after she tells him she is pregnant. Deeply depressed and longing for home, she boards a train out of town. Unfortunately a terrible train wreck ensues. She survives and ends up taking on the identity of one of the dead passengers. Now comfortable and secure Read More

Comin' at Ya!

Actors: Tony Anthony, Gene Quintano, Victoria Abril, Ricardo Palacios, Lewis Gordon

Synopsis: This violent spaghettiesque western was filmed in 3-D and chronicles the adventures of a brave gunslinger who is determined to save his fiancee from her abductors, a brutal group of white slavers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mater Amatisima

Actors: Victoria Abril

Synopsis: The slow mental and emotional disintegration of the mother of an autistic child is the main theme of this evocative psychological drama by J.A. Salgot. Since incest and murder are also involved, this is not exactly a film for all audiences. Clara (Victoria Abril) is graphically shown giving birth Read More

Mieux Vaut Etre Riche Et Bien Portant

Actors: Victoria Abril, Claus Obalski

La Muchacha de Las Bragas de Oro

Actors: Lautaro Murúa, Victoria Abril, Isabel Mestres, Hilda Vera

Synopsis: Slow in parts but still engaging and well-acted, this drama by Vicente Aranda explores the changing nature of a former fascist, Luis Forest (Lautaro Murua), and his relationship to his niece Mariana (Victoria Abril). Luis has retired to the seacoast to devote himself to writing his memoirs and Read More

Doña Perfecta

Actors: José Luis Lopez Vasquez, Julia Gutierrez Caba, Victoria Abril

Synopsis: Jose Luis Lopez Vasquez stars in Dona Perfecta as a young citizen of Madrid who responds to his aunt's summons to her village with curiosity and some skepticism. She has arranged for him to marry her daughter, his first cousin. Romantically, everything works out wonderfully, as the two fall in Read More

Cambio de Sexo

Actors: Victoria Abril

Synopsis: Themes long forbidden in Spain under the Franco dictatorship began to be explored in the years just following his demise. In this 1976 film, an unhappy and very effeminate man (played by a woman, Victoria Abril), experiences one difficulty after another. As a boy in Cataluña, his father attempts Read More

Robin and Marian

Actors: Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw, Richard Harris, Nicol Williamson

Synopsis: Though the story told in Robin and Marian is unfamiliar to most audiences, it is actually quite faithful to several of the ancient Robin Hood legends. During the Crusades, Robin (Sean Connery) is still loyal to King Richard the Lionheart (Richard Harris), but even he has trouble adjusting to the Read More

El Puente

Actors: Alfredo Landa, Paco Algora, Victoria Abril, Pilar Bardem

Synopsis: On long summer weekends, Juan (Alfredo Landa) is in the habit of hopping on his motorcycle in Madrid and driving for many hours to Torremolinos, a popular hangout for foreign tourists. There, he indulges in his fondness for romancing foreign girls. In this movie, which won a Gold Prize at the 1977 Read More

Esposa Y Amante

Synopsis: A troubled wife reminisces about the events from her marriage that may have led to her daughter's suicidal depression in this Spanish drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More