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Rossy de Palma has 24 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
Una festa esagerata
2018
Comedy

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 29%Max · Included

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%Prime Video · Included

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
2014 · Movie · Voice
Top 47%Prime Video · Included

Parallel Mothers
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 51%Starz · Included

Honeymoon Crasher
2025 · Movie · Actor
Top 80%Netflix · Included

Madame
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 82%Prime Video · Included

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
A group of patients meet at a prestigious psychologist's office. Apart from the day and time of the appointment, something else unites them all: all six suffer from OCD. But the plane bringing the doctor is unexpectedly delayed, which forces them to spend an endless wait until the doctor shows up. Will they be able to keep their manias, impulses, convulsions, obsessions and rituals at bay during the wait?
Dir. Vicente Villanueva · With Alexandra Jiménez, Paco León, Rossy de Palma

As a child, Jack believed the tender lie his parents told him, that Gio was a special being with superpowers, as in a comic book. Now that he is about to go to high school, however, Jack no longer believes that his brother is a superhero, in fact, he is almost ashamed of him, especially since he met Arianna, the first love of his life.
Dir. Stefano Cipani · With Alessandro Gassmann, Isabella Ragonese, Rossy de Palma

After being released from a mental hospital, a troubled young man tracks down an actress he once had sex with and forces her into captivity, determined to make her part of his life.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Loles León

Claudia is married with Giovanni, a rather dull type. Meek Giacomo is happily divorced, until he meets her. Aldo is a colorful cabbie with whom she had an affair. Who'll win her heart?
Dir. Massimo Venier · With Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti

Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth.
Dir. Terry Gilliam · With Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård

Jack is born with his heart frozen solid on the coldest day in history. A wise midwife saves him by replacing it with a cuckoo clock. Now Jack must abide by three rules to keep his mechanical heart safe: never touch the clock's hands, master his anger, and never fall in love. He tries his best, but when he meets a girl named Acacia he falls in love, threatening the delicate balance of his artificial heart.
Dir. Mathias Malzieu, Stéphane Berla · With Mathias Malzieu, Olivia Ruiz, Grand Corps Malade
A man rescues a mermaid in Paris and slowly falls in love with her.
Dir. Mathias Malzieu · With Nicolas Duvauchelle, Marilyn Lima, Rossy de Palma
When American author Nicholas brings in a cosmetologist named Kika to prepare the corpse of his recently deceased son, she inadvertently revives the young man, then falls in love with him. Forces conspire against the couple, though, as Nicholas wants Kika for himself.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Verónica Forqué, Victoria Abril, Peter Coyote

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

Middle-aged romance author Leo writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works overseas, is distant both physically and emotionally. As she reevaluates her life and writing, Leo is led to an unexpected relationship with Ángel, a sensitive newspaper editor.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Carme Elias
An ultraconservative family father must spend a weekend with his dysfunctional children for the burial of his wife.
Dir. Álvaro Díaz Lorenzo · With Jordi Sánchez, Rossy de Palma, Megan Montaner

Ruth, a young researcher at a college, is invited to the weddings of three of her exes. She enlists the help of her assistant to find a companion for each wedding; will one of them turn out to be her soulmate?
Dir. Javier Ruiz Caldera · With Inma Cuesta, Martiño Rivas, Quim Gutiérrez
After winning the lottery, a convict must chase down the warden who has his winning ticket.
Dir. Frédéric Forestier, Alain Berbérian · With Benoît Poelvoorde, Gérard Lanvin, José Garcia

Adolfo, a thirty something security guard, is going through a bad patch. Not only his lifetime girlfriend has just to finished with him to be a guy with no ambition but, moreover, he becomes the target of a series of thugs led by Vázquez, a dangerous criminal who has just escaped from jail. Also he discovers that his father has a double identity. He is not a farmer engaged in the production of cold meat – as Adolfo has believed all his life, but Anacleto, a secret agent who is a bit down and the man who locked Vázquez up in jail thirty years ago. Adolfo will have to leave his comfort zone and work with his father, the person that Adolfo get on worse with in the world to survive the revenge of Vazquez and while, between shootouts and chases, trying to get his girlfriend back.
Dir. Javier Ruiz Caldera · With Imanol Arias, Quim Gutiérrez, Berto Romero

When his fiancée dumps him at the altar for her ex, a young man is left with no alternative but to go on his romantic honeymoon with his mother.
Dir. Nicolas Cuche · With Michèle Laroque, Julien Frison, Rossy de Palma

Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid as a noblewoman to even out the number of guests. When the maid runs off with a wealthy guest, Anne must chase her around Paris to thwart the joyous and unexpected love affair.
Dir. Amanda Sthers · With Toni Collette, Harvey Keitel, Rossy de Palma

Emma, a French novelist aged 27, decide to go to Berlin and join a brothel to uncover the prostitution world, the subject of her new book. Such as gonzo journalism, Emma become a prostitute and her experience, which was supposed to last a few weeks, will last two years. Was writing her book an excuse for Emma to live a shameful fantasy?
Dir. Anissa Bonnefont · With Ana Girardot, Aure Atika, Rossy de Palma
Clumsy policeman Rayane has three days to rescue his kidnapped grandmother from a Mexican cartel.
Dir. Tarek Boudali · With Tarek Boudali, Philippe Lacheau, Julien Arruti
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
Dir. Robert Altman · With Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Michel, who's crazy about jazz, has just found a rare album that he dreams of quietly listening to in his living room. But the world seems to have conspired against him: his wife chooses this moment to divulge an ill-timed revelation, his adult son makes a surprise visit, one of his friends knocks on the door, while his mother keeps calling him on his smartphone. Not to mention that today the residents in his apartment building are holding their annual House Party. Manipulative and a liar, Michel is ready to do anything to have a moment of peace and quiet. Is it still possible, in this day and age, to just have one hour of peace?
Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Christian Clavier, Carole Bouquet, Valérie Bonneton
Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities in their luxurious mansion in the south of France. When a criminal car sabotage related to threatening letters wreak havoc in the villa, Tranchant goes in search of the best agent for the investigation. In the middle of this hot summer, only the arrogant and incompetent agent Boullin is available... To catch the suspect and solve the mystery, he will have no choice but to impersonate a newly hired butler and will turn everyone’s vacation into a hilarious game of ‘Cluedo’!
Dir. Nicolas Benamou · With Christian Clavier, Benoît Poelvoorde, Thierry Lhermitte
After getting dumped on Christmas Eve, Angela must rebuild her life surrounded by her rebellious teenager, her tyrannical mother, her hysterical best friend, and a weird psychologist.
Dir. Michèle Laroque · With Michèle Laroque, Kad Merad, Françoise Fabian
Ben and Bill are the two worst, completely useless agents - real losers. But who else would you send on a super-difficult top-secret mission? The French have just sold a new high-power M51 rocket to the Russians for crazy money. Unfortunately for them, the rocket was hijacked before they could get it of their hands. However, not just any fool is up to neutralizing this threat, but only the craziest and most stupid of them can cope with such a task.
Dir. Gérard Pirès · With Éric Judor, Ramzy Bedia, Édouard Baer
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