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Victoria Abril has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
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The Wedding Banquet
1993
Comedy · Drama

Home for the Holidays
1995
Comedy · Drama

As Good as It Gets
1997
Drama · Comedy

Muriel's Wedding
1994
Comedy · Drama

Forget Paris
1995
Comedy · Drama

An Ideal Husband
1999
Drama · Comedy

Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994
Comedy · Drama

Waiting to Exhale
1995
Comedy · Drama

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

After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughter begin making up for lost time, when suddenly, a murder occurs...
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé
Michel Berthier, a senior executive at a mattress manufacturing company, has just been fired. As he does not dare to tell the truth to Juliette, his partner, he goes into debt to maintain the family’s standard of living, showering them with gifts. But soon he can no longer lie, and he decides to leave the house. After losing his money, his car, and his shoes, he meets Toubib, Mimosa, and Crayon, three “homeless” people who wash themselves in the restrooms at the Gare de l’Est. They take him under their wing and lead him to break into his former company in order to get sleeping bags and beds.
Dir. Gérard Jugnot · With Gérard Jugnot, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril

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
Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée. He meets up with Frède, just out of prison after a three year sentence and, in between numerous arguments and Jacques' break-up with his girlfriend, the two of them get drunker together, going across Paris in search of more alcohol and adventure.
Dir. Bernard Nauer · With Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, Gérard Jugnot

After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
Dir. Josiane Balasko · With Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabat

as la mère de Gilles
At last, Josephine has found her perfect non-smoker-cat-loving-amazing-cook-perfect-man-soulmate. They’ve been in love for two years and everything is peachy. Until she realizes she’s… pregnant. Time for Josephine to transform her life, mature into a responsible adult, not become like her mother, get a job, hold on to her man, refrain from falling out with her friends, and tell her sister, who's been crashing at her place, that she's got to move out. A bunch of overwhelming challenges that Josephine will have to face in her own, special way.
Dir. Marilou Berry · With Marilou Berry, Mehdi Nebbou, Medi Sadoun
A 30-year-old slacker who lives with his mother finds his life turned upside down when his mother's flamenco-dancing friend moves in.
Dir. Baltasar Kormákur · With Victoria Abril, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Hanna María Karlsdóttir
A resort for individuals who want to lose weight is helps several women discover friendships, acceptance with body image and hard truths.
Dir. Charlotte de Turckheim · With Victoria Abril, Lola Dewaere, Catherine Hosmalin
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