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Penélope Cruz has 48 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by All About My Mother.
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Little Ashes
2008
Drama · Romance

Angel
2007
Romance · Drama

Coco Chanel
2008
Drama · Romance

Love in the Time of Cholera
2007
Drama · Romance

Death Defying Acts
2007
Drama · Romance

G
2002
Drama · Romance

The Notorious Bettie Page
2006
Comedy · Drama

Tamasha
2015
Romance · Drama

Blow
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 12%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Open Your Eyes
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Max · Included

Twice Born
2012 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Starz · Included

Vanilla Sky
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Paramount+ · Included

Gothika
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 37%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Official Competition
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 38%AMC+ · Included

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

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

The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.
Dir. Ted Demme · With Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente

Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.
Dir. Alejandro Amenábar · With Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera

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

Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.
Dir. Sergio Castellitto · With Penélope Cruz, Emile Hirsch, Adnan Hasković

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo

David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.
Dir. Cameron Crowe · With Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz

After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murdering her husband Dr. Douglas Grey — but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham, of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.
Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz · With Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton
In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.
Dir. Fernando Trueba · With Jorge Sanz, Penélope Cruz, Miriam Díaz-Aroca

When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body... and his desire for vengeance on the man who put him there. After his release and still madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over even if means revenge, for Elena has married David, the cop who sent him to prison!
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal

When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?
Dir. Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn · With Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Oscar Martínez
While waiting for the brain surgery of his daughter Angela, victim of a motorcycle accident, the surgeon Timoteo recalls his torrid affair with and passion for Italia, a simple woman from slums in the periphery of the big city where he lives. The ghost of the beloved and sexual object of desire Italia chases him in his memories.
Dir. Sergio Castellitto · With Penélope Cruz, Sergio Castellitto, Claudia Gerini

When Jack crosses paths with a woman from his past, he's not sure if it's love...or if she's a ruthless con artist using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth.
Dir. Rob Marshall · With Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush

During the Spanish Civil War, a troupe of Spanish filmmakers is invited to shoot a film at UFA studios in Nazi Germany.
Dir. Fernando Trueba · With Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz

Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde

A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride is born. But what ensues is beyond what either of them imagined.
Dir. Maggie Gyllenhaal · With Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Peter Sarsgaard

José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.
Dir. Bigas Luna · With Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Juan Diego

A day in the life of Azucena, who is running out of time to keep herself and her family from being evicted; Rafael, a lawyer who sets out to reunite a mother with her daughter; and Teodora, a sick old woman who searches for her long-lost son before it is too late.
Dir. Juan Diego Botto · With Penélope Cruz, Luis Tosar, Adelfa Calvo

Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
Dir. Asghar Farhadi · With Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darín
An intense portrait of the iconic filmmaker, writer, actor, comedian and musician Woody Allen: his life, family and friends; his writing and directing habits, and his relationship with performers.
Dir. Robert B. Weide · With Woody Allen, Letty Aronson, Antonio Banderas
Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, "Woman on Top" is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music. Meet Isabella, a sultry enchantress born with the special gift of melting the palates and hearts of men everywhere. When she decides to break free from her rocky marriage and the stifling kitchen of her husband's restaurant in Brazil, she spirits off to San Francisco in pursuit of her dreams of a real culinary career.
Dir. Fina Torres · With Penélope Cruz, Murilo Benício, Mark Feuerstein

When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance…and a few good heists.
Dir. Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg · With Penélope Cruz, Salma Hayek Pinault, Steve Zahn

A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
Dir. Simon Kinberg · With Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong'o, Penélope Cruz

Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.
Dir. Louis Leterrier · With Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Isla Fisher

Clara and Felice struggle to raise their three children in 1970s Rome. The eldest, Andrea, is transgender and yearns for another life where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Clara instinctively strives to protect her son by escaping into their imaginations to defuse family tensions.
Dir. Emanuele Crialese · With Penélope Cruz, Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato

Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have vanished long ago, the main draw being the treasure supposedly hidden within the lost vessel. When the daring duo come across Dr. Eva Rojas, a beautiful scientist who is juggling an escape from a warlord and a mission to stop the spread of a powerful plague, their desert expedition begins to heat up.
Dir. Breck Eisner · With Matthew McConaughey, Penélope Cruz, Steve Zahn

The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.
Dir. Fernando León de Aranoa · With Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Dir. Isabel Coixet · With Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson
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