Carmen Maura Movies

She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a...

The coming of age story of a boy that after a traumatic event is taken to beautiful Cuernavaca, where he has to find his father while trying to adapt...

What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragments of different films, both fiction and...

They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in full possession of their wits, or...

After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes...

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

Don Santiago, a forty-year-old owner of a pastry shop in Madrid de los Austrias, receives surprising news: a woman, in fact his real mother, leaves...

A beautiful young woman sets her sights on an aging millionaire. She seduces him, and moves into his mansion with him. She soon tires of him, though,...

A young shop worker and her guitar-playing boyfriend navigate sudden fame and personal transformation in this early Super 8 work by Pedro...

Three old schoolmates, who in their time as students had formed a kind of secret society called The Black Hand, in order to embitter teachers' lives,...

The story revolves around the life of Leopold, a middle-class father; his wife Isabel working for a decadent comedian; Beto, the son, a taxi driver;...

An Ukranian woman enters Belgium illegally and hides in the van of a driver abandoned by his wife. He ends up helping her to find her husband who had...

A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with...

Poor gigolo tries to frame his rich mature mistress, but gets tangled in his own wiles.

A coming-of-age story set across the lush wine country of both Australia and Spain, a young man explores the nature of father-son relationships and...

An ambitious young woman from a wealthy family, but unsatisfied with her social position, will not hesitate to use all that is within her reach to...

This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued by the radical Christian Inquisition, one of a...

The genius that is Almodóvar is expressed in this film with interviews from his family, co-workers, and Almodóvar experts.

Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmakers like Fernando Colomo, Fernando Trueba,...

A famous TV fortune-teller tries to better his life and reconnect with his stranded sons and ex wife.