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Carmen Maura has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Volver.
2017
Comedy · Drama
Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas
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.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano
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.
Dir. Alejandro Agresti · With Rodrigo Noya, Carmen Maura, Julieta Cardinali
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.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Carmen Maura, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma
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.
Dir. Álex de la Iglesia · With Carmen Maura, Eduardo Antuña, María Asquerino
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...
Dir. Étienne Chatiliez · With Michel Serrault, Eddy Mitchell, Sabine Azéma
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.
Dir. Philippe Le Guay · With Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natalia Verbeke
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.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Cristina Sánchez Pascual, Will More, Laura Cepeda
A gang of gold thieves land in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual... and in need of a sacrifice.
Dir. Álex de la Iglesia · With Hugo Silva, Gabriel Ángel Delgado, Mario Casas
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.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Carmen Maura, Eva Siva, Alaska
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martínez
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 ...
Dir. Patricia Font · With Clara Lago, Carmen Maura, Alexandra Jiménez
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
Dir. Jérôme Enrico · With Bernadette Lafont, Carmen Maura, Dominique Lavanant
French seniors enroll in summer camp.
Dir. Frédéric Quiring · With Thomas Solivérès, Issa Doumbia, Carmen Maura
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.
Dir. Álex de la Iglesia · With Sancho Gracia, Ángel de Andrés López, Carmen Maura
A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.
Dir. Pascal Bourdiaux · With José Garcia, Gilbert Melki, Carmen Maura
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.
Dir. Manolo Caro · With Ernesto Alterio, Carmen Maura, Carlos Cuevas
"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'
Dir. Stéphane Meunier · With Didier Bourdon, Lorànt Deutsch, Lionnel Astier
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