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Cecilia Roth has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by All About My Mother.
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Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.
Dir. Luis Ortega · With Lorenzo Ferro, Chino Darín, Mercedes Morán

After having a nearly fatal drug overdose, 19-year-old Argentine Martin is sent to Madrid, where his film director father lives with his new, younger lover, Alicia, and his bisexual actor friend, Dante.
Dir. Adolfo Aristarain · With Federico Luppi, Juan Diego Botto, Eusebio Poncela

When her son is accused of raping and trying to murder his ex-wife, Alicia embarks on a journey that will change her life forever.
Dir. Sebastián Schindel · With Cecilia Roth, Miguel Ángel Solá, Benjamín Amadeo

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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

José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.
Dir. Iván Zulueta · With Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More
An array of outrageous people, including a desperate nymphomaniac and a terrorist with an acute sense of smell, seek love and happiness in Madrid.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Cecilia Roth, Imanol Arias, Helga Liné
High-profile architect Alexandra faces her worst nightmare when she gets a call from local cop Conrado to identify her husband Oscar's body, found on a pier in the beautiful Albufera landscape outside Valencia. Suicide? How can it be when they had made plans for their future just hours ago? But it only gets worse: Oscar had been leading a double-life with another woman, Veronica. Who is this woman? Who was the man she loved for 15 years? And what happened that fatal night on the pier?
Dir. Esther Martínez Lobato, Álex Pina · With Álvaro Morte, Verónica Sánchez, Irene Arcos
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