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Carmen Maura

Carmen Maura


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  • Law Of Desire
  • Law Of Desire review by A customer from Glasgow, Scotland
    Rated - 4.0 stars Very watchable 10 February 2005
    ...cters are human: unpredictable, passionate, capable of tenderness or cruelty. Carmen Maura is excellent and it's worth watching for young Antonio Banderas making the most...   Read customer review

Carmen Maura - filmography


  • Volver on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Yohana Cobo,  Carmen Maura,  Lola Duenas
    Director: Pedro Almodovar
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Pedro Almodovar's acclaimed supernatural-themed comedy starring Penelope Cruz. Cruz plays a Madrid mother and housewife of a drunk husband. She and her hairdressing sister are orphans by dint of a house fire back home in rural LaMancha. When their sole surviving relative there - their mum'..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 45,417 members
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  • Free Zone on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Natalie Portman,  Carmen Maura,  Hana Laszlo
    Director: Amos Gitai
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Two women embark on a road trip after they are brought together by circumstance. Rebecca (Portman) flees her hotel after a fight with her mother-in-law (Maura) and hails a taxi driven by Hanna (Lazlo).
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 632 members
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  • Le Pacte Du Silence on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Elodie Bouchez,  Carmen Maura,  Gerard Depardieu
    Director: Graham Guit
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    French thriller based on the novel by Marcelle Bernstein. Gérard Depardieu stars as a Jesuit priest, Dr Joachim Ferrer. Harbouring a secret from his violent past and having found solace in the church, he soon finds himself caught in a web of intrigue when a young Carmelite nun, Sarah (Elodie ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,150 member
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  • Valentin on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Carmen Maura,  Rodrigo Noya,  Julieta Cardinali
    Director: Alejandro Agresti
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Alejandro Agresti's film is semi-biographical in that it centres on an eight-year-old boy growing up in Buenos Aires during the mid Sixties. Valentin lives with his eccentric grandmother (Carmen Maura) while his divorced father (played by Agresti) lives in the city and only visits occassionally. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 1,334 member
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  • 800 Bullets on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Carmen Maura,  Sancho Garcia
    Director: Alex De La Iglesia
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Alex de la Iglesia's look back to Spanish filmmaking of old centres on Carlos (Luis Castro), a young boy on a mission to find the grandfather denied him by his mother. The grandfather, Julian (Sancho Gracia), who was once a stuntman on spaghetti westerns, is now reduced to doing stunt ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 279 members
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  • Alice Et Martin on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Carmen Maura,  Mathieu Amalric,  Juliette Binoche
    Director: Andre Techine
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Martin Sauvagnac (Alexis Loret) did not meet his father, Victor (Pierre Maguelon) and three half-brothers, Francois, Frédéric and Benjamin, until he was ten years old. However, with the encouragement of his mother Lucie (Marthe Villalonga), he moved in with them for ten years. Now Victor is dead, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,537 member
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  • Le Bonheur Est Dans Le Pre (1995)
    Starring: Sabine Azema,  Carmen Maura,  Eric Cantona
    Director: Etienne Chatiliez
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Francis is a man whose home life mirrors the troubles he is having at work. His wife and daughter are planning to spend all of his money on an extravagant wedding, while his work-force are in rebellion. He needs a way out of his complicated life and he thinks he finds it when he sees a woman on ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,076 member
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  • Baton Rouge (1988)
    Starring: Victoria Abril,  Carmen Maura,  Antonio Banderas
    Director: Rafael Monleón
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A gigolo seduces a wealthy woman and with the help of her psychiatrist, conspires to murder the woman's husband and frame her for the crime. But the plan backfires, setting off a chain of deceit and double-crosses.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 4 members
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  • Law Of Desire on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Antonio Banderas,  Carmen Maura,  Eusebio Poncela
    Director: Pedro Almodovar
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Law Of Desire (1987): At its core 'Law Of Desire' features a fabulous trio: the famous Madrid director Pablo (Poncela) for whom men are prepared to die, his new love-crazed boyfriend Antonio (Banderas) and Pablo's flamboyant and gorgeous transsexual sister Tina. Pablo is suffering because Juan, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,409 members
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  • Matador on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Vernica Forque,  Antonio Banderas,  Carmen Maura
    Director: Pedro Almodovar
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A bullfighter forced to retire early from his career due to a goring, finds that his obsession for killing still lingers, but now bulls are substituted by girls. To make love to a woman and kill her at the very last moment is the closest thing to the ineffable pleasure of an afternoon in the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,819 members
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Carmen Maura facts

5 most recent films

Tetro - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Tetro - 3.0 stars
The Garden of Eden - 4.0 stars
Volver - 3.5 stars
Free Zone - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Women on the 6th Floor - 4.0 stars
Valentin - 3.5 stars
Comunidad, La - 3.5 stars
Volver - 3.5 stars
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Baton Rouge - 3.0 stars
The Garden of Eden - 4.0 stars
Free Zone - 2.0 stars
How To Be A Woman And Not Die In The Attempt - 2.5 stars
Alice Et Martin - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Antonio Banderas - 4 times - show films
Leticia Bredice - 2 times - show films
Mike Amigorena - 2 times - show films
Sofía Gala - 2 times - show films
Lola Duenas - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Pedro Almodovar - 6 times - show films
Alex De La Iglesia - 2 times - show films
Francis Ford Coppola - 2 times - show films
Ana Belen - 1 times - show films
Andre Techine - 1 times - show films