Known for Acting
Carmen García Maura is a Spanish actress. In a career that has spanned six decades, Maura is best known for her collaborations with noted Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar.
Born
September 15, 1945 (age 81)
Birthplace
Madrid, Spain
Filmography
137 films, 19 shows


Misión imposible, no... lo siguiente
2026
country: Spain


Calle Malaga
2025 · 1h 56m
country: Morocco
An aging Spanish woman in Tangier resists her daughter's plan to sell her home. She fights to keep her home, reclaims belongings and rediscovers love and desire.


Crazy Old Lady
2025 · 1h 34m
country: Argentina
Pedro receives a desperate message from an ex-girlfriend asking him to look after her senile mother, Alicia. What seems like a simple mission soon becomes his worst nightmare. Pedro needs to escape; but Alicia won’t let him...


Como el mar
2024 · 1h 27m
country: Argentina
Paula & Azul. A funeral, a family secret and a road trip that will change their lives forever.


The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
2023 · 1h 32m
country: Spain
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances.


My Other Jon
2023 · 2h 4m
country: Unknown
Merche, about to turn 76, is told that she doesn't have long left to live. Unable to travel to watch the sea for last time, she accepts a medical experimental process to get it.


Rainbow
2022 · 1h 57m
country: Spain
In search of her mother, a teenager and her eccentric group of companions set off on a journey, trying to avoid the clutches of a wicked woman.


Venice
2021 · 1h 30m
country: Brazil
Reencountering the only man she ever loved is Gringa’s dream. She is the owner of a brothel in the interior of Brazil and even though she is blind and very sick, she insists on fulfilling her last wish: to go to Venice to apologize to the lover she abandoned decades ago. To take her to the Italian city, Tonho, Rita and the other girls who work for Gringa come up with a fantastic plan with help from a circus troupe.


Chasing Wonders
2021 · 1h 25m
country: Australia
A coming-of-age story set across the lush wine country of both Australia and Spain, a young man explores the nature of father-son relationships and the pathway toward understanding and forgiveness.
Hormigueddon
Hormigueddon
2020
country: Unknown


La corte de Ana
2020 · 1h 25m
country: Spain
She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a girl who, in time, would become a symbol of freedom and a total artist. Actress, singer, friend, lover. This is the story of Ana Belén.


Stories of Our Cinema
2019 · 2h
country: Spain
In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country are projected. From that event, the Spanish actor Antonio Resines intends to compile a series of anecdotes to shape the amazing history of Spanish cinema, holding several conversations with prominent figures of the Spanish film industry.


My Family and the Wolf
2019 · 1h 27m
country: Belgium
When Hugo, a boy who spends his summer vacation with his cousins, discovers that the wolf Rong intends to take his grandmother Sara, he devises a plan to save her.


In Family I Trust
2019 · 1h 34m
country: Spain
Bea is a successful architect who lives in Barcelona (Catalonia, northeast to Spain) with her boyfriend and boss, Víctor, a CEO of an important company. During a night celebration of an important contract signed to make a skyscraper designed by Bea, in the bar appears the famous TV reporter and anchorwoman Rebecca Ramos, Victor's personal erotic fantasy. Not measuring the consequences of her actions due to the alcohol she drank, Bea makes a meeting between Víctor and Rebecca. When to the next day she wakes up, Víctor proposes to wed Bea and she accepts, but after she arrives to the job, Bea learns about a videotape where Víctor and Rebecca make the love in a car that it's in all TV channels. In front of all CEOs during a full meeting, Bea slaps Víctor and destroys her design, being fired from the job. Looking for a break, she travels her natal coastal town, Santa Clara, just to discover that her rest isn't so easy as it seems: her eccentric, free-spirited and eternal smiling mother ...


¡Ay, Carmen!
2018 · 1h 15m
country: Spain
The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant artist in her own right.


Querido Fotogramas
2018 · 1h 16m
country: Spain
The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic of voices represented by people who make films, those who write them and those who consume them. The documentary pays tribute to the readers of “Fotogramas” helped by the leading figures of Spanish cinema, who will read to the camera the most representative letters received at its offices in the history of the magazine.


Seeds
2018 · 1h 28m
country: Mexico
The coming of age story of a boy that after a traumatic event is taken to beautiful Cuernavaca, where he has to find his father while trying to adapt to life with his grandmother, who has problems of her own.


Oh! Mammy Blue
2018
country: Germany


All About Mothers
2018 · 1h 41m
country: France
They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in full possession of their wits, or losing their heads. Alive or already a memory. They are mothers, and it’s their party.


The Kids Are Back
2017 · 1h 40m
country: Mexico
A retired couple will have to defend their home against an unpredicted menace: Their kids moving back.


Dirty Kids
2017 · 1h 28m
country: France
French seniors enroll in summer camp.


La peur du vide
2017 · 15m
country: France
Simone is an isolated old lady, whose daily life is punctuated by a strange pile of rubbish, so imposing in her small apartment that it prevents her from living normally. One day, Simone dares to touch it.


Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
2016 · 51m
country: France
When looking at Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography, it becomes evident that women are everywhere; in fact, his work revolves around them. His divas are the best to create a real portrait of Almodóvar and evoke the emotional power of his films. These women are the ideal observers of a cinematic career that, from La Mancha to Hollywood, has changed the image of Spain in the world.


People You May Know
2016 · 1h 41m
country: Spain
'People You May Know' tells the story of four friends in their 40s in Los Angeles. All them will have to confront a new reality when Delia gets pregnant from Joe, her best friend who happens to be gay.


El futuro ya no es lo que era
2016 · 1h 46m
country: Spain
A famous TV fortune-teller tries to better his life and reconnect with his stranded sons and ex wife.


Vaca Paloma
2015 · 13m
country: Spain


Vanity
2015 · 1h 25m
country: Switzerland
David Miller wants to die and chooses assisted euthanasia. He planned everything: the place, the time and the manner. However, nothing goes right. With Esperanza, member of the association, and Tréplev, young prostitute, David embarks on his ultimate night with total strangers.


Musical Chairs
2015 · 1h 23m
country: France
Perrine, a single, slightly awkward musician, loves birthday parties. One day she accidentally causes a man to fall into a skip at the waste disposal centre. When she learns that he´s in a coma, the young woman tries everything to awaken himand starts to meddle in his life.


A Village Almost Perfect!
2014 · 1h 38m
country: France
"Saint-Loin-la-Mauderne", a tiny village hurt by the financial crisis and the desertification. Its last hope : Start back the Smoked Salmon factory. The only issue : Insurances require a permanent doctor on site. But it s has been 5 years the previous doctor retired without setting a replacement. The whole village,supporting their surly major Germain, will try everything to convince the very Parisian Doctor Maxime Meyer that happiness is only at Saint-Loin-la-Mauderne! This movie is the french remake of the Canadian movie 'la Grande Seduction'


La madre
2013
country: Unknown


Witching & Bitching
2013 · 1h 49m
country: Spain
A gang of gold thieves land in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual... and in need of a sacrifice.


Barefoot in the Kitchen
2013 · 1h 24m
country: Spain
What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragments of different films, both fiction and non-fiction. (Followed by “Manda huevos,” 2016.)


Paulette
2012 · 1h 27m
country: France
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.


Sofia and the Stubborn Man
2012 · 1h 24m
country: Colombia
An old lady lives in a quiet village in the Andes and has never seen the sea. For many years her husband has promised to take her to the Caribbean Sea, but the plans are always thwarted for different reasons.


Let My People Go !
2011 · 1h 36m
country: France
Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappointing lover, a thief who can’t help himself, and possibly a murderer to boot. The only person who doesn't know who Ruben is is Ruben himself. When he comes to a major turning point in his life, Ruben cannot make up his mind which way to go. Should he follow his people or his heart?


Escalade
2011
country: France
A group of teenagers, under the guise of celebrating their headmistress’s birthday, turn into her tormentors. They have been cheating all year and plan to steal Baccalaureat answers to pass without effort. The night unfolds with a tense blackmail situation as they hold the headmistress hostage.


The Women on the 6th Floor
2011 · 1h 46m
country: France
Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet boring life. At least until, due to fortuitous circumstances, Maria, the charming new maid at the service of Jean-Louis' family, makes him discover the servants' quarter on the sixth floor of the luxury building he owns and lives in. There live a crowd of lively Spanish maids who will help Jean-Louis to open to a new civilization and a new approach of life. In their company - and more precisely in the company of beautiful Maria - Jean-Louis will gradually become another man, a better man.
Un cine como tú en un país como éste
Un cine como tú en un país como éste
2010 · 1h 13m
country: Spain
Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmakers like Fernando Colomo, Fernando Trueba, Imanol Uribe, Carmen Maura and Antonio Resines, protagonists of the so called 'New Spanish Cinema' in the 80s. His first films were produced between friends, her back to the industry. Rolled with minimal budget and with the sole intention of having fun ... And big surprise were critical and box office successes. And also true generational manifestos.


Chicas
2010 · 1h 24m
country: France
Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the manager of the building in which she lives, she organizes a lunch in her home with the intention of introducing him to the rest of the family. The reunion goes wildly wrong and the family's craziness overtakes.


The Pimp
2010 · 1h 30m
country: France
A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.


50 años de... Canciones
2009
country: Spain


Tetro
2009 · 2h 7m
country: United States
In Buenos Aires, 17-year-old Bennie seeks out his estranged brother Tetro, a once-promising writer haunted by their family’s past. As Bennie uncovers Tetro’s hidden manuscript, old secrets and rivalries resurface, forcing both men to confront the truth about their father and the tangled legacy that tore their family apart.


Que parezca un accidente
2008 · 1h 30m
country: Spain
A women is planning to kill her son-in-law after she finds out that he is unfaithful to her daughter.


Garden of Eden
2008 · 1h 51m
country: United Kingdom
A young American writer completes his service in WWI and travels across Europe with his wife and her attractive Italian girlfriend. Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.


The Black Virgin
2008 · 1h 26m
country: Venezuela
Life of inhabitants of a small fishing village of the caribbean , changes drastically after the apparition of a Black Virgin, which disallowed the skies to get dark, stopped the vandals from invaden town. After months of intense changes in the chaotic life of this fishing town, the inhabitants had to face the most cruel of changes in their lives.La vida de los habitantes de un pueblo pesquero del caribe, cambia drásticamente tras la aparición de una Virgen Negra, ésta no permitió que el cielo volviera a oscurecer, impidió que los vándalos invadieran el pueblo. Luego de meses de intensos cambios en la caótica vida de este pueblo pesquero, sus habitantes tuvieron que enfrentarse al más cruel de los cambios en sus vidas


El menor de los males
2007 · 1h 48m
country: Spain
Eduardo is a middle-aged man, married with children; He lives in Madrid and is dedicated to politics. His sister Julia awaits his visit in the old Galician family house. But the meeting of the two brothers has a reason.


Deconstructing Almodóvar
2007 · 52m
country: United States
A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection that deconstructs his career through interviews with many of his frequent collaborators.


Directed by Almodóvar
2007 · 27m
country: United States
A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection featuring interviews with many of his frequent collaborators.


Viva Pedro: The Life & Times of Pedro Almodóvar
2007 · 25m
country: United States
The genius that is Almodóvar is expressed in this film with interviews from his family, co-workers, and Almodóvar experts.
Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
2006 · 1h 22m
country: Spain
What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profession. Thirty-six Spanish actors reflect on their work and contrasted their experiences. As thread, the contrast between the voices of veterans and images of young theater students , for whom everything is still possible. Among the many actors are interviewed Javier Bardem, Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Luis López Vázquez, José Coronado, Emma Suarez, Alberto San Juan, Ariadna Gil, Ana Belén, Pilar Lopez de Ayala and many other.


Volver
2006 · 2h 1m
country: Spain
Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.


Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido!
2005 · 19m
country: Spain
Abandoned by her husband, a woman takes to the streets in search of money to feed her children. (Promotional short for the film What Have I Done to Deserve This?, directed by Pedro Almodóvar.)


Free Zone
2005 · 1h 30m
country: Israel
Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna is on her way to Jordan, to the Free Zone, to pick up a large sum of money.


To the Other Side
2005 · 1h 30m
country: Mexico
This drama features three stories about the bonds between children and absent parents. A Cuban boy who lives in poverty with his mother longs to visit his father in the United States, a Moroccan girl attempts to reunite with her father, and in Mexico, and a boy disobeys his father to visit a strange lagoon. These related vignettes showcase the powerful hold that parents have upon their children, which often remains strong despite their absence.


Queens
2005 · 1h 47m
country: Spain
In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, become entwined.


Searching for Love
2004 · 1h 50m
country: Spain
When Ana married Felix, the leader of a rock band and son of a travel agent, she thought her life would be plenty of excitement and travels. Now, in her forties, she leads a monotonous life with her husband and her daughter, giving cooking lessons and taking French courses. But one day she receives an invitation to give a cooking course in Paris.
New York: La capital del Mundo
New York: La capital del Mundo
2004
country: Spain


La promesa
2004 · 1h 45m
country: Spain
A psychological thriller about an obsessive compulsive, deeply religious woman who flees her abusive husband and accepts a nanny position for a weatlhy family in a different town. The woman's state of mind is extremely fragile, and is made worse by her visits to a Gothic church where things are not as they seem


25 Degrees in Winter
2004 · 1h 30m
country: Belgium
An Ukranian woman enters Belgium illegally and hides in the van of a driver abandoned by his wife. He ends up helping her to find her husband who had emigrated long before. They are joined by his wacky Spanish mother and cute young daughter.


Arroz y tartana
2003 · 2h
country: Spain
Manuela de Fora, an elegant woman, widow of Pajares, lives with the sole obsession of marrying well her two daughters from her second marriage, Concha Blanca Jara and Amparo. She also has Juanito, son from her first marriage, but she despises him for wanting to be a merchant, like his father. Who really appreciates the laborious Juanito is his uncle Juan, a man of austere habits that blames his sister Manuela for wasting money to pretend being of high social position.


The Pact of Silence
2003 · 1h 35m
country: France
Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has been in prison for a heinous crime. Sarah comes to the attention of Fr. Joachim, a priest and physician; he can find no cause for her debilitating abdominal pain. When Sarah and he are transferred to Paris, Joachim looks for Gaëlle, now on probation and finding no respite from society's approbation. An enterprising reporter is digging into Gaëlle's life, the mother superior of Sarah's convent hovers over her, and Joachim investigates the phenomenon of twin's symmetry. Is there any release from the past?


800 Bullets
2002 · 2h 4m
country: Spain
Almería, Tabernas desert, Spain, 2002. Texas Hollywood is a dilapidated and dusty town where Western movies have not been shot for decades. Julián Torralba and his partners, veteran film stuntmen, survive there, recreating pathetic action scenes for the pleasure of the few foreign tourists who visit the isolated region.


Valentin
2002 · 1h 23m
country: Argentina
Valentin, an 8-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, is surrounded by problems in his family he finds only himself capable of solving.


Le ventre de Juliette
2002 · 1h 32m
country: Spain
The 20-year-old Juliette tries to come to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, despite a lack of support from the father of the child and from her mother.


Holiday Assassins
2002 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
In 1955 Buenos Aires, a broke theater troupe turns to scamming funerals for survival. Their big break comes with a wealthy embalmer's inheritance, but the lead actor's immersion in a female role triggers an unexpected identity crisis.


Clara y Elena
2001
country: Spain


The Notice of the Day
2001 · 1h 43m
country: Argentina
The story revolves around the life of Leopold, a middle-class father; his wife Isabel working for a decadent comedian; Beto, the son, a taxi driver; and Martita, the daughter, a divorced and unemployed hairdresser. All live in 'harmony' in a 40 square-meter apartment. One day Leopoldo takes it upon himself to donate blood. The next day, he is summoned once more to the hospital. His life is about to change, and radically so.
El apagón
El apagón
2001
country: Spain


The Hold-Up
2001 · 1h 27m
country: Spain
Lola's a single mom, broke, working as a janitor and maid. Silvia is pregnant, and her lover (her boss) won't leave his wife. Maite, newly a widow, discovers she's penniless but wants to maintain appearances and give her daughter a fancy wedding, and Pecholata, a punk kid living in a youth center, will soon be turned out on the streets. Lola, who cleans a bank every morning, decides to rob it, convincing the others to join her: they'll use replica guns, dress as men, take Silvia hostage, and all will be smooth. But things go awry, including the fact that Lola's ex, Gustavo, is a cop. Desperation may be the mother of invention - and a corrupt bank manager its father.


Common Wealth
2000 · 1h 49m
country: Spain
After finding an enormous amount of money hidden in a dead man's apartment, real estate agent Julia must face the wrath of the very peculiar inhabitants of the apartment building, who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the money.


The Harem of Madame Osmane
2000 · 1h 40m
country: Algeria
In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad temper. Her husband left her and the fear to lose her respectability haunt her. The former member of the Resistance during the Independence War persists in controlling the slightest moves of the households rather than struggle against her own frustrations. Learning her daughter is in love, the possibility of finding herself alone will push her to the limit: The symbolical Mrs Osmane "harem" is about to collapse.


To the End of the Road
2000 · 1h 27m
country: Spain
An executive and his girlfriend, a medical doctor, are kidnapped by a couple to pass them to France by car. The kidnappers intended to flee to Rio de Janeiro with the strange idea of starting a restaurant. She is a simple cook without trouble with the law, but so persistent that manages to convince her husband to elope with her release from prison for a weekend.


Lisboa
1999 · 1h 37m
country: Spain
Joao sells video tapes in road bars between Portugal and Spain. One day he finds a middle aged woman in the middle of nowhere. Somebody is looking for her and she has to escape to Lisboa. But what is the secret of this woman? Why does she want to go to Lisboa?


Superlove
1999 · 1h 28m
country: France
The Virgin Mary appears to Mario, a provincial barber who dreams of becoming a successful singer. He introduces her to his parents who decide to adopt her and give her a room in their house. The presence of the Holy Mother will soon break the monotony of the household. Teresa, Mario’s mother, starts to talk to a chandelier. Carolina, his sister, thinks she has become invulnerable and begins to hit her teacher. As for Mario, he thinks he has been invested with a special mission, to tell the truth at all times to everyone he meets. It soon turns out the Virgin is not what she pretends to be…


El Cometa
1999 · 1h 32m
country: France
After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel Francisco I. Madero, who is in San Antonio, Texas. That is how Valentina begins a long journey as a member of a traveling circus, where she finds love next to Victor, who, fascinated by the cinematographer, films everything that occurs before his eyes, in times of great political turbulence.


Enthusiasm
1998 · 2h
country: France
A man’s enthusiasm turns into greed and causes trouble for his family.


Alice and Martin
1998 · 2h 4m
country: France
Martin, the illegitimate son of an industrialist and a hairdresser, was sent to live with his wealthy father in the countryside as a young boy. Alice is a musician living with Martin's half-brother in Paris. When Martin shows up at Alice's door after fleeing his father's home under troubled circumstances, their lives become intertwined.


Women
1997 · 1h 55m
country: Belgium
Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.


Alliance cherche doigt
1997 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
Geneviève Lechat is the director of a marriage agency. At 50, she is still very desirable and very fulfilled, especially emotionally. She offers her son, André, to open an agency branch on the Internet.


Tortilla y Cinema
1997
country: France
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 level-headedness, calmness, and general good sense that keeps the project moving along, despite Benjamin's inexperience and a very temperamental male lead. On one occasion when the male lead is hours late for a shoot, her calm is the only thing which keeps the crew from walking out. The title comes from Maura's habit of bringing homemade tortillas to meetings, and using them to get her way.


Sombras y luces: Cien años de cine español
1996 · 1h 43m
country: Unknown
Amores que matan
Amores que matan
1996 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
Consuelo is a bored housewife. Her husband is away on business in Berlin, and her only company would be a mysterious neighbor, a science professor who spends a lot of time gardening (?) One fine morning, Consuelo is compelled to find an excuse to speak with her neighbor. She asks him for some sugar, and then starts discussing gardening. During the rest of the film we find out what may be below the well-manicured flowers, and what secrets involving everyone, these may conceal.


Happiness Is in the Field
1995 · 1h 46m
country: France
Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only joy is sharing lunch with his friend Gerard. Then a TV show called "where are you?" shows a woman from Gers who is searching for her husband who disappeared 28 years ago. The lost husband looks like an identical twin of Francis...


The Lame Pigeon
1995 · 1h 54m
country: Spain
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 different story as all the relatives within are a tad strange. There Felipe meets his great-grandmother and her tough nurse Adoracion who patiently listens to grandmama's reminiscence's of the bandoleros who died for her. Felipe is not allowed to leave his bed, but his hours pass pleasantly thanks to the ministrations of the sexy Mari, a virgin, who loves to tease her four strapping aspiring lovers. As the summer progresses, Felipe interacts with all of his relatives and from their strange behavior finds himself learning an awful lot about life and love.
Parella de tres
Parella de tres
1995 · 1h 35m
country: Unknown
Ana and Marta are good friends but very different women. Ana is a housewife whereas Marta is an agressive lawyer, single and very independent. Ana is married to Santi and after a crisis she proposed Marta to be the lover of her husband to save her matrimony. Santi does not suspect anything and the triangle works fine during years... till Santi begins to go out with another person.


King of the River
1995 · 1h 43m
country: Spain
An air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby is born, she gives it to her sister that has already two children. The child grows up as another member of the family. Although the adults keep the secret, the children know that he is different.


How to Be Miserable and Enjoy It
1994 · 1h 25m
country: Spain
Carmen suddenly becomes a widow at 40 just as her daughter finds herself pregnant. Carmen will try to piece her life back together.


Louis, the Child King
1993 · 2h 42m
country: France
January 1649: Since the death of his father, the young Louis XIV must undergo the hard apprenticeship of royal power. He must face the intrigues of the great ones of the kingdom who lead La Fronde, the agreements and the betrayals of those close to him. He is helped in this by his mother Anne of Austria and by the Cardinal Mazarin.


Shadows in a Conflict
1993 · 1h 46m
country: Spain
Ana, a former member of the Basque terrorist group ETA who lives in a small village near the Portuguese border working as a veterinarian and sharing her days with her partner Darío and their daughter Amalia, meets José, an attractive man who participated in the dirty anti-terrorist war against ETA criminals who took refuge in France.


La reina anónima
1992 · 1h 25m
country: Spain
Anna Luz, a married woman, rethinks her life when she receives the visit of a stranger who claims to be her neighbor from the floor below. His arrival coincides with the entry of a series of extravagant characters who, as in a dream, invade his house. Ana is then immersed in this succession of strange and wonderful events that will forever ruin what until then was a normal life.


Between Heaven and Earth
1992 · 1h 20m
country: Belgium
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 man she's not very interested in. It's not at all irrelevant that her news beat includes stories on terrorism, the greenhouse effect, pollution and genetic engineering, because when her baby's due date comes and goes, she starts hearing from her infant from in the womb. It is telling her that it and many other babies are refusing to be born into such a horrible world. She learns that this is true, and that the children born through induced labor are dying.


Chatarra
1991 · 1h 36m
country: Spain
Zabu was a dancer in a small cabaret in Bilbao. Twelve years later she is living with her daughter Lola and a small delinquent called Lino in a squalid suburb of an industrial city. She dreams of leaving for Australia.


How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt
1991 · 1h 40m
country: Spain
Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company when she prefers solitude, his treating her work as less important than his, his casual and cruel dismissal of her opinions, her boss assigning her an incompetent editor, bartenders ignoring her, her passage into middle age. She can be feisty and edgy, which sometimes gets in the way of what would make her happy. And she regularly threatens to leave Antonio. Will she, and on what terms? What will he do?


Ay, Carmela!
1990 · 1h 42m
country: Italy
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.


La mujer feliz
1990 · 1h
country: Spain
A young innocent man pursued for murder finds refuge with a bored married woman. Soon they become lovers. What is going to happen next?


Mieux vaut courir
1989 · 1h 25m
country: France
Crossfire between a suspect and the police. In the middle of the case, a girl.


Baton Rouge
1988 · 1h 30m
country: Spain
Poor gigolo tries to frame his rich mature mistress, but gets tangled in his own wiles.


Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988 · 1h 28m
country: Spain
After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.


Law of Desire
1987 · 1h 42m
country: Spain
Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.


Love Ravings
1986 · 1h 20m
country: Spain
In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young man.


Matador
1986 · 1h 45m
country: Spain
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.


Tata Mía
1986 · 1h 40m
country: Spain
Elvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and returns home to settle in Madrid with his beloved nanny, seeking help to overcome their crisis. However, the country has changed so much in his years of confinement that has little or nothing to do with his childhood memories ...


Move Over, Mrs. Markham
1985 · 1h 34m
country: Spain
Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him use his house for a love tryst while Fernando wines and dines Adela. At the same time, Paco's wife, Carmen, will be taking her lover to Rosa's house. From here on the rout begins, as Paco tries to get rid of Silvia, his secretary, and Carmen, her husband. Fernando thinks Rosa is cheating on him with Oscar, who thinks Fernando is gay and having an affair with his partner, while the soldier thinks his girlfriend is a professional...


Beyond the Walls
1985 · 1h 58m
country: Spain
This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued by the radical Christian Inquisition, one of a plethora of difficulties Spaniards faced at the time. Spanish super star Carmen Maura plays a nun who agrees to a selfless scam, a fake stigmata, only to avoid separation from her lover, another nun. It's a serious and passionate work, highlighting the theme of outspoken women-against-repression, seen in other good gay and lesbian films. This is not a lesbian "Nun sense" or another "Dark Habits" (by Almodovar, which also starred Carmen Maura, and also set in a Spanish convent, with some lesbian nuns). Perhaps, best of all, 'Extramuros' is realistic and frank. It isn't shy about its characters' sexuality. Their sexuality, and the film as a whole are genuine.


El crimen de la calle Fuencarral
1985 · 54m
country: Spain
July 1, 1888. The body of a woman is discovered during a house fire, but the examination reveals that she died victim of a stabbing, not the flames. Her maid and pet dog are found drugged in another room.


What Have I Done to Deserve This?
1984 · 1h 42m
country: Spain
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.


Coarse Salt
1984 · 1h 36m
country: Spain
A famous composer creative in crisis and must compose a new album, but is going through a painful separation that prevents him from concentrating. In this situation, your manager will provide a time extension


The Angry Cid
1983 · 1h 24m
country: Spain
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, “Mio Cid”, is in love with Jimena, but the Count of Oviedo, his father, challenges him to a duel and is killed. He before him curses Rodrigo, that if he marries Jimena, he will lose his manly faculties. And, in fact, when he gets married, Rodrigo becomes effeminate.


Dark Habits
1983 · 1h 40m
country: Spain
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.


Femenino singular
1982
country: Spain


Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven
1980 · 1h 38m
country: Spain
A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to reconsider her life--work, family, friendships, men-- causing a psychological and emotional crisis pushes her toward a drastic decision.


El hombre de moda
1980 · 1h 43m
country: Spain
Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the job as a teacher through an old friend, Bruno Baena, who is the head master of the school. Aurora starts going to Pedro's classes. Pedro will become "El hombre de moda", very soon.


Pepi, Luci, Bom
1980 · 1h 22m
country: Spain
After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends.


That House in the Outskirts
1980 · 1h 41m
country: Spain
A young girl's husband rents 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 illegal abortion some years before.


The Black Hand
1980 · 1h 28m
country: Spain
Three old schoolmates, who in their time as students had formed a kind of secret society called The Black Hand, in order to embitter teachers' lives, meet again years later with very different lives. One is a dad's son who is distracted as best he can; another has become a writer of espionage novels and is persecuted by the CIA, and the third leads an indolent life without further ado. The reunion of the three friends will make the society of La Mano Negra revive.


Folle... Folle... ¡Fólleme Tín!
1978 · 1h 30m
country: Spain
A young shop worker and her guitar-playing boyfriend navigate sudden fame and personal transformation in this early Super 8 work by Pedro Almodóvar, a rarely seen and largely inaccessible film from his pre-feature period.


What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
1978 · 1h 25m
country: Spain
Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape


Blindfolded Eyes
1978 · 1h 50m
country: France
A drama teacher casts a woman in a play about torture, and the two eventually become lovers. As production of the play develops, the director begins to receive threatening letters.


Strawberry, Lemon and Mint
1978 · 1h 39m
country: Spain
A saleswoman gets involved in a meaningless conversation between a military man and a film director.


Eugenia Grandet
1977 · 54m
country: Spain
Adaptation of the famous Balzac novel


Paper Tigers
1977 · 1h 33m
country: Spain
Spain, 1977. The first general elections are about to take place after the long dictatorship and the progressive environment of Madrid is easily palpable. Protagonists, Carmen and Juan were once married and now living separately, both have a child. It's one of the only reasons they maintain cordial to one another. Their separation, the political context and the contradictions of the progressives of the time will not defeat the affinity between the two.


La petición
1976 · 1h 32m
country: Spain
An ambitious young woman from a wealthy family, but unsatisfied with her social position, will not hesitate to use all that is within her reach to achieve her ascent in society.
Pomporrutas imperiales
Pomporrutas imperiales
1976 · 11m
country: Spain
Two middle aged Spanish men bump into each other at a music store: Calvo, who is a TV actor, and Casado. They were school mates and haven't met for a long time. They begin to remember old times, for instance, when they had to sing the post civil war Spanish anthem and they mistook the lyrics. But suddenly Calvo gets mad, breaks some discs, takes Casado to a small room, and acts as if he were the priest at the school. This priest has found that Casado had dirty magazines in his bedroom, and threatens him to tell his family if he doesn't give away the name of the boy who commits vandalism in the school. Terrified, Casado gives Calvo's name. Calvo comes back to the present, says he wasn't guilty, quietly pays the broken discs, and leaves the store.


El libro de buen amor II
1976
country: Unknown


Miracles of Our Lady
1976 · 57m
country: Spain
A film based on a collection of reported miracles of Mary, mother of Jesus, written around 1260 by Spanish poet Gonzalo de Berceo.


La mujer es cosa de hombres
1976
country: Spain


Leonor
1975 · 1h 41m
country: France
Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to get her back. But when she returns, she is a murderous vampire.


Fierce Love, or When Children Play at Love
1975 · 1h 27m
country: Spain
Vicente and Margarita are a traditional and middle class married couple whose life is surrounded by a sea of confusion and uncertainty when their children begin to make their own decisions. They have discovered love and will not let their parents tell them what to do or who they have to love. The principles and traditions of the family will be replaced by each of the young people who will represent the different social problems of the time. Thus, the coexistence between them will change without Vicente and Marga can do anything to avoid it.


A Diary of a Murderess
1975 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
A beautiful young woman sets her sights on an aging millionaire. She seduces him, and moves into his mansion with him. She soon tires of him, though, and after she gets rid of him, she goes after his son.


Usted tiene ojos de mujer fatal
1975 · 1h 30m
country: Spain
Madrid, Spain, early thirties. The charming playboy Sergio Hernán is an unscrupulous womanizer who over the years has seduced and abandoned hundreds of women with the complicity of Oshidori, his cynical butler. However, his brief encounter with Elena Fortún, blonde, posh and a bit cheesy, unexpectedly leaves an indelible mark on his soul.


Vida íntima de un seductor cínico
1975
country: Spain


La Celestina
1974
country: Spain


El libro del buen amor
1974
country: Spain


A Chaste Spanish Man
1973 · 1h 36m
country: Spain
Don Santiago, a forty-year-old owner of a pastry shop in Madrid de los Austrias, receives surprising news: a woman, in fact his real mother, leaves him with a brothel in England.


The Killer Is One of Thirteen
1973 · 1h 33m
country: Spain
A recent widow has invited a group of family friends to her large and secluded country home. However, what the guests don't know is that the reason they've been assembled is that their host suspects one of them might be her husband's killer and she's intent on uncovering the identity of his murderer. As the guests begin to suspect each other, revealing long-kept and sinister secrets in the process, an unknown, black-gloved killer begins bumping them off in a variety of nasty ways.


Man in Hiding
1971 · 1h 36m
country: Spain
Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalist forces.


El espíritu
1969 · 13m
country: Spain
The haunting spirit of a woman comes to the call of the participants in a séance.