Carmen Maura

Carmen Maura

Born: September 15, 1945
in Madrid, Spain
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.

Movies for Carmen Maura...

Title: Land of Women
Character: Julia
Released: June 26, 2024
Type: TV
A New York socialite is forced to flee to a charming Spanish wine town with her mother and daughter. She finds herself navigating small-town quirks while also confronting her deepest family secrets—and a pair of bumbling hitmen.
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Como el mar
Title: Como el mar
Released: February 8, 2024
Type: Movie
Paula & Azul. A funeral, a family secret and a road trip that will change their lives forever.
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The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
Title: The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
Character: Self - Actress
Released: November 10, 2023
Type: Movie
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.
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Mi otro Jon
Title: Mi otro Jon
Character: Merche
Released: October 20, 2023
Type: Movie
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Rainbow
Title: Rainbow
Character: Coco Cabrera
Released: September 18, 2022
Type: Movie
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.
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Venice
Title: Venice
Character: Gringa
Released: June 17, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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Chasing Wonders
Title: Chasing Wonders
Released: June 4, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Deudas
Character: Pepa Carranza
Released: January 24, 2021
Type: TV
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Title: Someone Has to Die
Character: Amparo
Released: October 16, 2020
Type: TV
In 1950s Spain, a couple summon their son home from Mexico to introduce him to his fiancée, but are shocked when he returns with a ballerino.
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La corte de Ana
Title: La corte de Ana
Character: Herself - Actress
Released: March 19, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Stories of Our Cinema
Title: Stories of Our Cinema
Character: Herself - Actress
Released: November 22, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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My Family and the Wolf
Title: My Family and the Wolf
Character: Grandma Sara
Released: August 21, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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In Family I Trust
Title: In Family I Trust
Character: Ángela
Released: January 18, 2019
Type: Movie
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 ...
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¡Ay, Carmen!
Title: ¡Ay, Carmen!
Character: Self - Actress
Released: October 29, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Querido Fotogramas
Title: Querido Fotogramas
Character: Herself
Released: October 5, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Seeds
Title: Seeds
Character: Carmen
Released: September 7, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Oh! Mammy Blue
Title: Oh! Mammy Blue
Released: June 29, 2018
Type: Movie
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La Fête des mères
Title: La Fête des mères
Character: Thérèse
Released: May 23, 2018
Type: Movie
They are the President of the Republic, a nanny, a baker, an actress, a teacher, a florist, a journalist, unemployed, a pediatrician. They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in full possession of their means or losing their mind. Alive or already a memory ... Son or daughter, we remain their child no matter what, with the desire that they let us go and the fear that they leave us. And then we become mom ... and it will be our party! Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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The Kids Are Back
Title: The Kids Are Back
Character: Adelina
Released: December 22, 2017
Type: Movie
A retired couple will have to defend their home against an unpredicted menace: Their kids moving back.
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Dirty Kids
Title: Dirty Kids
Character: Teresa
Released: July 19, 2017
Type: Movie
French seniors enroll in summer camp.
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La peur du vide
Title: La peur du vide
Character: Simone
Released: January 25, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
Title: Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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People You May Know
Title: People You May Know
Character: Rodrigo's mom
Released: July 7, 2016
Type: Movie
'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.
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El futuro ya no es lo que era
Title: El futuro ya no es lo que era
Character: Carmen
Released: April 29, 2016
Type: Movie
A famous TV fortune-teller tries to better his life and reconnect with his stranded sons and ex wife.
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Vaca Paloma
Title: Vaca Paloma
Released: September 22, 2015
Type: Movie
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Vanity
Title: Vanity
Character: Esperanza
Released: September 2, 2015
Type: Movie
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.
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Musical Chairs
Title: Musical Chairs
Character: Lucie
Released: July 29, 2015
Type: Movie
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.
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A Village Almost Perfect!
Title: A Village Almost Perfect!
Character: Carmen
Released: November 15, 2014
Type: Movie
"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'
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La madre
Title: La madre
Character: la madre
Released: October 30, 2013
Type: Movie
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Witching & Bitching
Title: Witching & Bitching
Character: Graciana Barrenetxea
Released: September 20, 2013
Type: Movie
A gang of gold thieves lands in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual... and in need of a sacrifice.
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Barefoot in the Kitchen
Title: Barefoot in the Kitchen
Character: (archive footage)
Released: June 14, 2013
Type: Movie
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.)
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Title: Letter to Eva
Character: Paca
Released: May 30, 2013
Type: TV
Juana Doña, a communist woman; Carmen Polo, dictator Franco's wife; and Eva Duarte, President Perón's wife, the first lady of Argentina, the idolized Evita, crisscross their lives during Evita's official visit to Spain, an autarchic country isolated from the world, in June 1947. Behind the pomp of reception there is a pharaonic preparation, hidden businesses, battles in the Caudillo's court and the possibility of saving a human life.
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Paulette
Title: Paulette
Character: Maria
Released: October 4, 2012
Type: Movie
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
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Title: Stamos okupa2
Character: Lucía Piqueras
Released: September 14, 2012
Type: TV
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Sofia and the Stubborn Man
Title: Sofia and the Stubborn Man
Character: Sofía
Released: August 3, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Let My People Go!
Title: Let My People Go!
Character: Rachel
Released: December 28, 2011
Type: Movie
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?
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Escalade
Title: Escalade
Character: Alice
Released: June 15, 2011
Type: Movie
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The Women on the 6th Floor
Title: The Women on the 6th Floor
Character: Concepcion
Released: February 16, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Un cine como tú en un país como éste
Title: Un cine como tú en un país como éste
Character: Herself
Released: October 26, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Las chicas de Oro
Character: Rosa
Released: September 13, 2010
Type: TV
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Chicas
Title: Chicas
Character: Pilar
Released: March 10, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Le Mac
Title: Le Mac
Character: La mère
Released: February 16, 2010
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.
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50 años de... Canciones
Title: 50 años de... Canciones
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 12, 2009
Type: Movie
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Tetro
Title: Tetro
Character: Alone
Released: June 11, 2009
Type: Movie
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 discovery of his brother's near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding their shared past and renewing their bond.
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Title: Red Eagle
Character: Olivia, duquesa de Fournier
Released: February 19, 2009
Type: TV
Red Eagle is a series of adventure and intrigue on the courage, nobility, friendship and love. The protagonist is an unsung hero of justice of the seventeenth century, known by the nickname of Red Eagle, who helps the weak and who is determined to uncover the conspiracy behind the murder of his young wife.
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Que parezca un accidente
Title: Que parezca un accidente
Character: Pilar
Released: November 12, 2008
Type: Movie
A women is planning to kill her son-in-law after she finds out that he is unfaithful to her daughter.
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The Black Virgin
Title: The Black Virgin
Released: October 24, 2008
Type: Movie
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
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Garden of Eden
Title: Garden of Eden
Character: Madame Aurol
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Círculo rojo
Character: Victoria Villalobos
Released: May 8, 2007
Type: TV
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El menor de los males
Title: El menor de los males
Character: Julia
Released: March 10, 2007
Type: Movie
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Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
Title: Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
Character: Self
Released: October 27, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: El hormiguero
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 24, 2006
Type: TV
El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.
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Volver
Title: Volver
Character: Irene
Released: March 17, 2006
Type: Movie
While a woman attempts to cover up her daughter's murder and reinvent her life, her sister is visited by their mother, who was thought to have died.
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Trailer for Lovers of the Prohibited
Title: Trailer for Lovers of the Prohibited
Character: Self / Gloria (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 2005
Type: Movie
Short written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar to promote his movie "What Have I Done to Deserve This?".
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To the Other Side
Title: To the Other Side
Character: Esperanza
Released: June 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Free Zone
Title: Free Zone
Character: Mrs. Breitberg
Released: April 18, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Queens
Title: Queens
Character: Magda
Released: April 8, 2005
Type: Movie
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 charge of the ceremony; the entrepreneur in hotel business Magda is hosting the guests in her hotel and is responsible for the banquet, while facing a strike leaded by her lover and chef; the nymphomaniac Nuria is facing problems due to her disease; the wealthy Reyes is having a crush for the father of her son's mate and her gardener; and the Argentinean cooker Ofelia is facing financial problems and difficulties in with her son's mate. Along three days, they have complicated relationships with their sons and mates, ex-husbands, lovers and employees.
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Searching for Love
Title: Searching for Love
Character: Ana
Released: December 10, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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New York: La capital del Mundo
Title: New York: La capital del Mundo
Character: Presentadora
Released: September 20, 2004
Type: Movie
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La promesa
Title: La promesa
Character: Celia
Released: August 13, 2004
Type: Movie
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
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25 Degrees in Winter
Title: 25 Degrees in Winter
Character: Abuelita
Released: July 21, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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Arroz y tartana
Title: Arroz y tartana
Character: Doña Manuela de Fora
Released: November 20, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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The Pact of Silence
Title: The Pact of Silence
Character: Mère Emmanuelle
Released: March 5, 2003
Type: Movie
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?
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800 Bullets
Title: 800 Bullets
Character: Laura
Released: October 18, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Valentin
Title: Valentin
Character: Abuela
Released: September 29, 2002
Type: Movie
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 youngster dreams of being reunited with his mother, who's separated from Valentin's abusive father.
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Le Ventre de Juliette
Title: Le Ventre de Juliette
Character: Julia
Released: August 28, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Assassini dei giorni di festa
Title: Assassini dei giorni di festa
Character: Illuminata
Released: April 17, 2002
Type: Movie
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Clara y Elena
Title: Clara y Elena
Character: Elena
Released: October 31, 2001
Type: Movie
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The Notice of the Day
Title: The Notice of the Day
Character: Isabel
Released: August 2, 2001
Type: Movie
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.
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Clouds: Letters to My Son
Title: Clouds: Letters to My Son
Character: (Voice, Spanish version)
Released: May 17, 2001
Type: Movie
Marion Hänsel directed this personal meditation on the joys and responsibilities of parenthood, in which a narrator reads Hansel's philosophic musings on raising her young son on her own, while carefully shot and selected footage of different cloud formations from around the world provide a striking visual backdrop. Catherine Deneuve read Hänsel's text in the original French-language version of Nuages; Charlotte Rampling did the honors for the English-language print, while Barbara Auer, Carmen Maura, and Antje De Boeck respectively lent their voices to the German, Spanish, and Dutch editions of the film.
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The Hold-Up
Title: The Hold-Up
Character: Maite
Released: May 3, 2001
Type: Movie
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.
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Common Wealth
Title: Common Wealth
Character: Julia
Released: September 29, 2000
Type: Movie
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 wrath of the very peculiar inhabitants of the condominium, headed by an unscrupulous administrator.
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The Harem of Madame Osmane
Title: The Harem of Madame Osmane
Character: Madama Osmane
Released: July 12, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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To the End of the Road
Title: To the End of the Road
Released: February 18, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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The Comet
Title: The Comet
Released: August 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Lisboa
Title: Lisboa
Character: Berta
Released: July 23, 1999
Type: Movie
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?
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Superlove
Title: Superlove
Character: Teresa
Released: June 9, 1999
Type: Movie
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…
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Enthusiasm
Title: Enthusiasm
Character: Maria
Released: December 25, 1998
Type: Movie
A man’s enthusiasm turns into greed and causes trouble for his family.
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Alice and Martin
Title: Alice and Martin
Character: Jeanine
Released: October 23, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: A las once en casa
Released: January 12, 1998
Type: TV
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Women
Title: Women
Character: Linda
Released: October 17, 1997
Type: Movie
Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.
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Alliance cherche doigt
Title: Alliance cherche doigt
Character: Geneviève Lechat
Released: September 17, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Tortilla y Cinema
Title: Tortilla y Cinema
Released: April 30, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Sombras y luces: Cien años de cine español
Title: Sombras y luces: Cien años de cine español
Released: May 14, 1996
Type: Movie
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Amores que matan
Title: Amores que matan
Released: February 2, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Happiness Is in the Field
Title: Happiness Is in the Field
Character: Dolores Thivart
Released: December 6, 1995
Type: Movie
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...
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The Lame Pigeon
Title: The Lame Pigeon
Released: October 6, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Parella de tres
Title: Parella de tres
Character: Ana
Released: September 15, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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King of the River
Title: King of the River
Character: Carmen
Released: February 24, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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How to Be Miserable and Enjoy It
Title: How to Be Miserable and Enjoy It
Character: Carmen
Released: February 10, 1994
Type: Movie
Carmen, an attractive 40 year old woman, suddenly belongs a widow. For her, the emptiness feeling is new and disorienting. Trying to rebuild her life, Carmen finds that men around her are interested in offering her more than a shoulder to mourn. The unexpected pregnancy of his daughter, putting even more pressure on Carmen. She brings her daughter back and to look after the baby together. This becomes one more element to overcome in their efforts to organize themselves.
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Louis, the Child King
Title: Louis, the Child King
Character: Anne d'Autriche
Released: November 4, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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Shadows in a Conflict
Title: Shadows in a Conflict
Character: Ana
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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La reina anónima
Title: La reina anónima
Character: Ana Luz
Released: October 18, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Between Heaven and Earth
Title: Between Heaven and Earth
Character: Maria Garcia
Released: May 26, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Chatarra
Title: Chatarra
Character: Zabú
Released: October 11, 1991
Type: Movie
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.
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How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt
Title: How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt
Character: Carmen
Released: April 5, 1991
Type: Movie
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?
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Ay, Carmela!
Title: Ay, Carmela!
Character: Carmela
Released: March 16, 1990
Type: Movie
Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute assistant, Gustavete, they journey into rebel territory by mistake. They are arrested, fear a firing squad, and receive a reprieve from an Italian Fascist commander who loves the theatre. He arranges a performance for his troops, bargaining with Paulino to stage a burlesque of the republic in exchange for the actors' freedom. Will the fiery and patriotic Carmela consent?
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La mujer feliz
Title: La mujer feliz
Released: February 9, 1990
Type: Movie
A young innocent man pursued for murder finds refuge with a bored married woman. Soon they become lovers. What is going to happen next?
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Title: La mujer de tu vida
Character: Marisa Novoa
Released: February 9, 1990
Type: TV
A young innocent man pursued for murder finds refuge with a bored married woman. Soon they become lovers.
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Mieux vaut courir
Title: Mieux vaut courir
Character: Anna
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Crossfire between a suspect and the police. In the middle of the case, a girl.
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Baton Rouge
Title: Baton Rouge
Character: Isabel
Released: October 8, 1988
Type: Movie
Poor gigolo tries to frame his rich mature mistress, but gets tangled in his own wiles.
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Title: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Character: Pepa
Released: March 25, 1988
Type: Movie
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
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Law of Desire
Title: Law of Desire
Character: Tina Quintero
Released: February 7, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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Love Ravings
Title: Love Ravings
Character: Carmen (segment "Delirio 3") (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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Matador
Title: Matador
Character: Julia
Released: March 7, 1986
Type: Movie
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
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Tata Mía
Title: Tata Mía
Character: Elvira
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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 ...
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Move Over, Mrs. Markham
Title: Move Over, Mrs. Markham
Character: Carmen
Released: December 5, 1985
Type: Movie
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...
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Beyond the Walls
Title: Beyond the Walls
Character: Sor Ana
Released: September 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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.
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El crimen de la calle Fuencarral
Title: El crimen de la calle Fuencarral
Character: Higinia Balaguer
Released: May 17, 1985
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: La Huella del Crimen
Character: Higinia Balaguer
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: TV
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What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Title: What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Character: Gloria
Released: October 25, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Coarse Salt
Title: Coarse Salt
Character: Presentadora T.V.
Released: February 6, 1984
Type: Movie
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
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The Angry Cid
Title: The Angry Cid
Character: Jimena
Released: December 19, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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Dark Habits
Title: Dark Habits
Character: Sor Perdida
Released: October 3, 1983
Type: Movie
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.
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Femenino singular
Title: Femenino singular
Character: Luisa Matas
Released: October 25, 1982
Type: Movie
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Title: Cervantes
Character: Costanza Cervantes
Released: April 6, 1981
Type: TV
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Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos
Title: Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos
Character: Begoña
Released: November 17, 1980
Type: Movie
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.
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El hombre de moda
Title: El hombre de moda
Character: Carmen
Released: November 14, 1980
Type: Movie
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.
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Pepi, Luci, Bom
Title: Pepi, Luci, Bom
Character: Pepi
Released: October 27, 1980
Type: Movie
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.
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That House in the Outskirts
Title: That House in the Outskirts
Character: Social Assistant
Released: October 19, 1980
Type: Movie
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 clinic is long-gone, but this doesn't ease the woman's disquiet. Things get even worse when she learns that her upstairs neighbor is the old abortionist's assistant.
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The Black Hand
Title: The Black Hand
Character: Rosa
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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.
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Fuck... Fuck... Fuck Me, Tin!
Title: Fuck... Fuck... Fuck Me, Tin!
Released: December 16, 1978
Type: Movie
A poor girl works in a general store with a blind boyfriend playing guitar. He becomes famous and she also becomes blind.
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What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Title: What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Character: Rosa
Released: August 16, 1978
Type: Movie
Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape
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Blindfolded Eyes
Title: Blindfolded Eyes
Character: La enfermera
Released: June 6, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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Eugenia Grandet
Title: Eugenia Grandet
Character: Eugenia Grandet
Released: December 14, 1977
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the famous Balzac novel
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Paper Tigers
Title: Paper Tigers
Released: September 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Curro Jiménez
Character: Remedios
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: TV
Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez
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La petición
Title: La petición
Character: Chica que se insinua a Julián
Released: September 21, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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Pomporrutas imperiales
Title: Pomporrutas imperiales
Released: July 4, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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El libro de buen amor II
Title: El libro de buen amor II
Character: Virtuosa
Released: April 22, 1976
Type: Movie
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La mujer es cosa de hombres
Title: La mujer es cosa de hombres
Character: Manolita
Released: February 26, 1976
Type: Movie
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Leonor
Title: Leonor
Released: September 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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Fierce Love, or When Children Play at Love
Title: Fierce Love, or When Children Play at Love
Character: María José
Released: August 25, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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A Diary of a Murderess
Title: A Diary of a Murderess
Character: The Nun
Released: May 4, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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Usted tiene ojos de mujer fatal
Title: Usted tiene ojos de mujer fatal
Character: Leonor
Released: January 13, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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Vida íntima de un seductor cínico
Title: Vida íntima de un seductor cínico
Character: Mujer de Jorge
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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La Celestina
Title: La Celestina
Character: Melibea
Released: October 27, 1974
Type: Movie
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El libro del buen amor
Title: El libro del buen amor
Character: Dª Garoza
Released: April 23, 1974
Type: Movie
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A Chaste Spanish Man
Title: A Chaste Spanish Man
Character: Profesora de Música
Released: October 29, 1973
Type: Movie
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.
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The Killer Is One of Thirteen
Title: The Killer Is One of Thirteen
Character: Laura
Released: September 24, 1973
Type: Movie
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.
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Man in Hiding
Title: Man in Hiding
Character: Belén
Released: October 28, 1971
Type: Movie
Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalist forces.
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El espíritu
Title: El espíritu
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
The haunting spirit of a woman comes to the call of the participants in a séance.
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Crazy Old Lady
Title: Crazy Old Lady
Character: Alicia
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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...