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Carmen Maura

Carmen Maura

Spanish actress
September 15, 1945 (79 years old)

Rainbow

V.O.: El maravilloso Mago de Oz
Esp. 2022. Fantasy comedy by Paco Leon with Dora Postigo, Carmen Maura, Carmen Machi. A teenage girl who has run away to find her mother meets three men on her way who will help her in her quest.
Runtime: 117 min.
Suis. 2015. Dramatic comedy by Lionel Baier with Patrick Lapp, Carmen Maura, Ivan Georgiev. An architect, who has called upon an agency specialized in assisted suicide, gives his companion an appointment in a motel on the outskirts of Lausanne.
Runtime: 75 min.
Runtime: 98 min.

Witching and Bitching

V.O.: Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi
Esp. 2013. Horror comedy by Alex de la Iglesia with Carmen Maura. In their escape by taxi to France, two burglars and the young son of one of them cross a village inhabited by witches who want to take revenge on men.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 2012. Comedy by Jérôme Enrico with Bernadette Lafont, Paco Boublard, Ismaël Dramé. To make ends meet and under the nose of her cop son-in-law, a widowed grandmother starts selling hashish in her underprivileged city.
Runtime: 85 min.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 2010. Comedy by Pascal Bourdiaux with José Garcia, Gilbert Melki, Carmen Maura. A timid bank clerk is forced by the police to impersonate his missing twin brother, a pimp who was tipping off an investigator about the activities of a drug dealer.
Runtime: 92 min.

The Women on the 6th Floor

V.O.: Les Femmes du 6e étage
Fr. 2010. Comedy by Philippe Le Guay with Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natalia Verbeke. Fascinated by his new maid, a Parisian financier discovers the world of Spanish maids who live in the lofts of his building.
Runtime: 106 min.
U.S. 2009. Drama by Francis Ford Coppola with Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, Maribel Verdu. In Buenos Aires, a young American tries to reconnect with his older brother who had cut ties with family.
Runtime: 127 min.
G.-B. 2008. Drama by John Irvin with Mena Suvari, Jack Huston, Caterina Murino.
Runtime: 97 min.
Esp. 2006. Dramatic comedy by Pedro Almodovar with Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Duenas. The life of a Madrid worker is turned upside down when her teenage daughter kills her husband and the ghost of her mother moves in with her sister.
Runtime: 120 min.
Isr. 2005. Drama by Amos Gitaï with Hanna Laslo, Natalie Portman, Hiam Abbass. The fates of three women from different backgrounds intersect in a free zone in Jordan.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2004. Comedy by Agnès Obadia with Roxane Mesquida, Carmen Maura, Yann Trégouët. Because her employee's eczema is driving away customers, the owner of a hair salon uses false pretenses to make her leave.
Arg. 2002. Dramatic comedy by Alejandro Agresti with Alejandro Agresti, Rodrigo Noya, Carmen Maura. In Buenos Aires, in the 1960s, a boy abandoned by his mother and neglected by his father dreams of a united family.
Runtime: 82 min.

Mes chers voisins

V.O.: La Comunidad
Esp. 2000. Police comedy by Alex de la Iglesia with Carmen Maura, Eduardo Antuna, Maria Asquerino. After discovering a hoard of cash in a deceased old man
Runtime: 110 min.
Esp. 1999. Thriller by Antonio Hernandez with Sergi Lopez, Carmen Maura, Federico Luppi. A canvasser finds himself embroiled in a violent conflict between members of the same family after giving a stranger a ride in his car.
Runtime: 100 min.

Alice and Martin

V.O.: Alice et Martin
Fr. 1998. Psychological drama by André Téchiné with Juliette Binoche, Alexis Loret, Mathieu Amalric. A violinist has a love affair with a young model haunted by a dramatic family secret.
Runtime: 124 min.
Lux. 1997. Mores drama by Luis Galvao Teles with Carmen Maura, Marthe Keller, Miou-Miou. Five friends in their forties go through various romantic tribulations.
Fr. 1996. Court drama by Gilles Béhat with Carmen Maura, Alexandra Vandernoot, Diego Montes.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 1992. History by Roger Planchon with Maxime Mansion, Carmen Maura, Paolo Graziosi. In 1649, while the Queen Mother was regent until Louis XIV came of age, a revolt organized by nobles erupts in Paris.
Runtime: 140 min.
Bel. 1991. Drama by Marion Hansel with Carmen Maura, Didier Bezace, Samuel Mussen. In the week she is due to give birth, a journalist hears her unborn baby tell her that they do not want to be born.
Runtime: 80 min.

Ay Carmela!

V.O.: Ay, Carmela!
Esp. 1990. Dramatic comedy by Carlos Saura with Carmen Maura, Andres Pajares, Gabino Diego. During the Spanish Civil War, three jugglers fall into the hands of Franco's troops, who want them to perform a show in honour of Franco.
Runtime: 103 min.
Esp. 1988. Mores drama by Rafael Moleon with Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril. A gigolo plots the murder of a rich man whose wife he has seduced.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

V.O.: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
Esp. 1988. Mores comedy by Pedro Almodovar with Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Maria Barranco. A television actress tries to reach her lover who has just left her.
Runtime: 89 min.

Law of Desire

V.O.: La Ley del deseo
Esp. 1986. Dramatic comedy by Pedro Almodovar with Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas. A gay filmmaker who suffers from amnesia is wrongly suspected of a former lover's murder.
Runtime: 101 min.

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

V.O.: Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!
Esp. 1984. Mores comedy by Pedro Almodovar with Carmen Maura, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma. The tribulations of a cleaning lady who works hard from morning to night to support her family.
Runtime: 101 min.

Pepi, Luci, Bom and the Other Girls

V.O.: Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del monton
Esp. 1980. Satire by Pedro Almodovar with Carmen Maura, Eva Siva, Alaska.
Runtime: 81 min.
Fr. 1975. Fantasy by Juan Luis Bunuel with Michel Piccoli, Liv Ullmann, Ornella Muti. A widowed lord remarries but remains obsessed by the memory of his first wife whom he revives with magical formulas.
Runtime: 99 min.

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