Carmen Maura
1) Lisbon
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
On a countryside highway in Spain, a tragic accident kills a driver, his wife and child. On the same highway, a porn video salesman meets a stranded, rich housewife who is desperately fleeing her family and trying to get to Lisbon. Ignorant of the complete picture, Joao agrees to give Berta a lift to Lisbon. But what starts as a casual drive turns into a neck-to-neck car chase, and it becomes clear this mysterious woman is tied to a deadly conspiracy....
Language
Español
Description
Distraught by the break-up with her actor boyfriend Iván (Fernando Guillén), pregnant actress Pepa (Carmen Maura) prepares a gazpacho laced with sleeping pills. She is however saved from suicide by her best friend Candela (María Barranco), a fugitive from justice. Pepa's ex-lover's grown son (Antonio Banderas) arrives with wife-to-be Marisa (Rossy de Palma) in answer to Carmen's "room to let" newspaper ad. Marisa inadvertently ingests the gazpacho...
Series
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
"Esta es la tragicómica historia de Gloria, una humilde ama de casa que debe enfrentar su vida cotidiana con más fuerza y entereza que si se tratara de una guerra mortal. Adicta a las anfetaminas, Gloria debe también compartir su existencia con su esposo, taxista de profesión, sus caóticos hijos, su suegra y un lagarto." --
"An absurd black comedy that centers on Gloria, a very resourceful working class housewife and cleaning woman, who is hooked...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Explores the relationships of a gay movie director, who has a transsexual brother (now a woman living with her daughter) and two lovers, one of whom murders the other and takes the director's sister (brother) hostage in order to see the director one more time.
7) La promesa
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Español
Description
A fanatically religious housewife forcibly frees herself from her abusive husband and becomes a nanny to the son of a wealthy family. But she becomes convinced that the mansion is haunted and that the child must be rescued--by all means necessary.
8) Volver
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her drunk husband Paco. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. Years ago, in the sisters birth village, they lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive. When the old aunt dies the situation changes and the past...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis lives a bourgeois existence with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne while their children are away at boarding school. The couple's world is turned upside down when they hire Maria, a Spanish maid who introduces Jean-Louis to an alternative reality a few stories up on the sixth floor. Befriending a group of sassy Spanish maids, the women teach him there's more to life than stocks and bonds, and their influence on the house...
10) Valentin
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
Valentin is a nine-year-old boy whose feuding parents have left him to be raised by his eccentric grandmother. With his father visiting only occasionally, Valentin is left to look to the other men in the neighborhood for father figures, and to replace his absent mother, he warms to Leticia, one of his father's many short-term girlfriends. When he tells her personal secrets about his father, however, Valentin jeopardizes their relationship. One of...
11) Tetro
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Naive, 17-year-old Bennie goes to Buenos Aires to search for his older brother whom he has not seen for ten years. With the success of their father Carlo, a renowned symphony conductor, the family moved from Argentina to New York. When Bennie finds his brother, Tetro, he is surprised to find that he is not the person he remembered. While staying with Tetro and his girlfriend Miranda, the two brothers grapple with the haunting experiences of their...
13) Chasing wonders
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Encouraged by his grandfather to live a life of hope and possibility, a boy sets off on the adventure across the Australian desert and to Spain in order to find the magical Emu Plains.
Series
Criterion collection ; 855
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"While attempting to contact her ex-lover Iván, actress Pepa Marcos is enmeshed in a series of unexpected meetings with and revelations involving Iván, his mentally unbalanced ex-wife Lucía, his and Lucía's son Carlos, Carlos's fiancée Marisa, Lucía's lawyer Paulina Morales, and Candela, Pepa's model friend who has unwittingly become involved with Shiite terrorists." --
15) Free zone
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An unlikely relationship begins for an American girl living in Jerusalem, a cab driver on her way to Jordan, and a Palestinian woman who has information for both.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Jesuit priest, Dr. Joachim Ferrer, is harboring a secret from his violent past. He soon finds himself caught in a web of intrigue when a young Carmelite nun, Sarah, is rushed to his hospital. Suffering from inexplicable pain and delusions, Joachim recognizes in Sarah the familiar symptoms of repression and denial. She shares a terrifying secret with her twin sister, Gaelle. Caught between his obsession to uncover the truth and his growing attraction...
Series
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Español
Description
"Cocaine-snorting homosexual hedonist writer-director Pablo Quintero is bereft because his boyfriend Juan has just moved out. Pablo meets Antonio at a party, and they share a few passionate nights, but Antonio soon proves far too clingy for Pablo's taste. All hell breaks loose when Antonio comes across a sad, yearning love note from Juan, which ignites in Antonio a bonfire of jealous possessiveness. Pablo's transsexual sister Tina and her daughter...
18) Matador
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
An ex-bullfighter who is obsessed with killing confesses to a string of murders he didn't commit. The attractive lawyer he hires winds up falling for him and reveals some dark secrets of her own. After the two begin a romantic relationship a police inspector begins to fathom who the real killer, or killers, may be.