Carmen Maura

Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality.

Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring...

Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a...

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,...

After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her...

Valentin, a 9-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, believes his family has problems that only he can solve. The...

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...

Adaptation of the famous Balzac novel

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,...

Julia, a real estate agent, finds an enormous amount of money hidden in a dead man's apartment, a stroke of luck that will force her to face the...

In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, are entwined: Judge Helena is in...

A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.

A young American writer completes his service in WWI and travels across Europe with his wife and her attractive Italian girlfriend. Based on the...

After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.

A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her...

The haunting spirit of a woman comes to the call of the participants in a séance.

A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.

Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute...

Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His...

Almería, Tabernas desert, Spain, 2002. Texas Hollywood is a dilapidated and dusty town where Western movies have not been shot for decades....

Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and...

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...

Life of inhabitants of a small fishing village of the caribbean , changes drastically after the apparition of a Black Virgin, which disallowed the...

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...

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

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...

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...

A psychological thriller about an obsessive compulsive, deeply religious woman who flees her abusive husband and accepts a nanny position for a...

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...

Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the...

Manuela de Fora, an elegant woman, widow of Pajares, lives with the sole obsession of marrying well her two daughters from her second marriage,...

Carmen, an attractive 40 year old woman, suddenly belongs a widow. For her, the emptiness feeling is new and disorienting. Trying to rebuild her...

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...

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...

A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional...

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;...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

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...

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...

Crossfire between a suspect and the police. In the middle of the case, a girl.

A women is planning to kill her son-in-law after she finds out that he is unfaithful to her daughter.

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...

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...

Marion Hänsel directed this personal meditation on the joys and responsibilities of parenthood, in which a narrator reads Hansel's philosophic...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A gang of gold thieves land in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual... and in need of a sacrifice.

Poor gigolo tries to frame his rich mature mistress, but gets tangled in his own wiles.

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,...

Spain, 1977. The first general elections are about to take place after the long dictatorship and the progressive environment of Madrid is easily...

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...

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...

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...

Bennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's...

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...

A man’s enthusiasm turns into greed and causes trouble for his family.

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...

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...

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...

Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape

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,...

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...

In 1955 Buenos Aires, a broke theater troupe turns to scamming funerals for survival. Their big break comes with a wealthy embalmer's inheritance,...

"Saint-Loin-la-Mauderne", a tiny village hurt by the financial crisis and the desertification. Its last hope : Start back the Smoked Salmon factory....

'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...

Paula & Azul. A funeral, a family secret and a road trip that will change their lives forever.

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...

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...

After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes...

David Miller wants to die and chooses assisted euthanasia. He planned everything: the place, the time and the manner. However, nothing goes right....

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...

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...

Geneviève Lechat is the director of a marriage agency. At 50, she is still very desirable and very fulfilled, especially emotionally. She...

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...

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...

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...

Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmakers like Fernando Colomo, Fernando Trueba,...

A famous TV fortune-teller tries to better his life and reconnect with his stranded sons and ex wife.

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...

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...

French seniors enroll in summer camp.

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...

Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina,...

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....

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...

Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalist forces.

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....

A retired couple will have to defend their home against an unpredicted menace: Their kids moving back.

A poor girl works in a general store with a blind boyfriend playing guitar. He becomes famous and she also becomes blind.

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...

Bea is a successful architect who lives in Barcelona (Catalonia, northeast to Spain) with her boyfriend and boss, Víctor, a CEO of an...

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...

They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in full possession of their wits, or...

The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks...

The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a...

When looking at Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography, it becomes evident that women are everywhere; in fact, his work revolves around them. His...

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...

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...

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...

Madrid, Spain, early thirties. The charming playboy Sergio Hernán is an unscrupulous womanizer who over the years has seduced and abandoned...

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...

Vicente and Margarita are a traditional and middle class married couple whose life is surrounded by a sea of confusion and uncertainty when their...

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...

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...

What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragments of different films, both fiction and...

A young innocent man pursued for murder finds refuge with a bored married woman. Soon they become lovers. What is going to happen next?

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...

Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappointing lover, a thief who can’t help himself,...

A film based on a collection of reported miracles of Mary, mother of Jesus, written around 1260 by Spanish poet Gonzalo de Berceo.

A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection that deconstructs his career through interviews with many of his frequent...

A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection featuring interviews with many of his frequent collaborators.

The genius that is Almodóvar is expressed in this film with interviews from his family, co-workers, and Almodóvar experts.