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Victoria Abril

What members say | Filmography

Victoria Abril - what members say

101 Reykjavik review by A customer from London

Quirky and offbeat 11 October 2004
...uite capture the book's humour, but is definitely worth a watch, especially for Victoria Abril's fantastic performance as Lola. ...

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! review by birdieann from U.K.

Sexy, stylish and rather challenging! 26 January 2005
... for the studio where Marina, an ex-porn star and junkie (beautifully played by Victoria Abril), is filming a new movie with wheelchair-bound obsessed director, Maximo. Ricky...

Kika review by Thomas Savage from London, England

Wild, wacky, self-conscious - and a bit of let-down 4 October 2006
...The third part of Almodovar's unoffical Victoria Abril trilogy, each focussing on an aspect of family life. 'Kika' is an improvement on 'Tacones lejanos', but, in itself, is...

Victoria Abril - filmography

- our price: £5.93
Swindled on DVD (2004)
Starring: Victoria Abril, Federico Luppi, Manuel Alexandre
Director: Miguel Bardem
Certificate:
Ernesto (Ernesto Alterio) is apprenticed to well-seasoned con artists Manco (Manuel Alexandre) and Federico (Federico Luppi), when the trio decide to execute their coup de grace in this plot-twisted thriller. In order to pull off this large job, they enlist the help of Pilar (Victoria Abril), a ..read more »

Rate this: 60% from 110 members

Don't Tempt Me (2001)
Starring: Victoria Abril, Penelope Cruz, Demian Bichir
Director: Agustin Diaz Yanes
Certificate:
Two angels, one from the heaven (Victoria Abril) and one from the hell (Penélope Cruz), come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.

Rate this: 72% from 9 members

- our price: £12.73
101 Reykjavik on DVD (2000)
Starring: Victoria Abril, Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Hanna Maria Karlsdottir
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Certificate:
A lad who lives with his mother refuses to grow up and has no inclination to explore the outside world. But life is not planned and he finds himself in a predicament of having slept with his mother's girlfriend... Black comedy.

Rate this: 67% from 454 members

- our price: £10.93
Between Your Legs on DVD (1999)
Starring: Victoria Abril, Javier Bardem, Carmelo Gomez
Director: Manuel Gamez Pereira
Certificate:
Miranda's daily dog walking strolls are excuses to pursue sexual encounters with men, who she readily discards afterwards. In order to deal with her sex addiction, she signs up for therapy...

Rate this: 52% from 382 members

- our price: £3.93
Jimmy Hollywood on DVD (1994)
Starring: Victoria Abril, Joe Pesci, Christian Slater
Director: Barry Levinson
Certificate:
Unlike most people, when Jimmy Alto (Oscar winner Joe Pesci) is robbed, he sees it as a great career-boosting opportunity. The struggling actor cannot get a break in the film industry for love or money. So, with the help of best friend William (Christian Slater), he takes to secretly videotaping ..read more »

Rate this: 45% from 40 members

- our price: £12.73
French Twist on DVD (1994)
Starring: Josiane Balasko, Victoria Abril, Alain Chabat
Director: Josiane Balasko
Certificate:
When Loli becomes fed up with her husband's philandering, she invites a butch, cigar-smoking lesbian to move in with them.

Rate this: 62% from 353 members

- our price: £13.93
Kika on DVD (1993)
Starring: Veronica Forque, Peter Coyote, Victoria Abril
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Certificate:
Black comedy from Pedro Almodovar about a make-up artist and her relationship with a philandering American writer living in Madrid. Features the usual roster of Almodovar comic stalwarts such as a rapist-thief, a narcoleptic son, a roving camerawoman voyeur, a lesbian housemaid and various ..read more »

Rate this: 62% from 947 members

- our price: £7.93
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! on DVD (1990)
Starring: Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Francisco Rabal
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Certificate:
Antonio Banderas caught the world's attention with his portrayal of Ricky, an orphaned mental patient who stalks and kidnaps Marina (Victoria Abril), a porn actress and junkie, in order to make her love him in this decided departure for iconoclastic Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar. Suspense, ..read more »

Rate this: 67% from 2,209 members

- our price: £7.93
Max Mon Amour on DVD (1986)
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Certificate:
A suspicious husband discovers that the object of his wife's infidelity is none other than a chimpanzee named Max. Not wanting to appear old-fashioned, he invites the simian lover to move in. In his obssession to discover the reason for his wife's attraction to a beast, the husband loses sight of ..read more »

Rate this: 39% from 108 members

After Darkness on DVD (1985)
Starring: John Hurt, Julian Sands, Victoria Abril
Director: Dominique Gerrard, Sergio Guerraz
Certificate:
The disturbing story of Peter Hunningford, who discharges his insane brother from a clinic and moves into a rundown apartment with him to provide the care he needs. But eventually the illness spreads to Peter. Tragedy follows...

Rate this: 37% from 119 members

Victoria Abril facts

5 most recent films

Swindled - 3.0 stars
Don't Tempt Me - 3.5 stars
101 Reykjavik - 3.0 stars
Between Your Legs - 2.5 stars
Jimmy Hollywood - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! - 3.0 stars
Kika - 3.0 stars
101 Reykjavik - 3.0 stars
Swindled - 3.0 stars
French Twist - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Jimmy Hollywood - 2.5 stars
Don't Tempt Me - 3.5 stars
After Darkness - 2.0 stars
Max Mon Amour - 2.0 stars
Between Your Legs - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Carmelo Gomez - 1 times - show films
Julieta Serrano - 1 times - show films
Ernesto Alterio - 1 times - show films
Anthony Higgins - 1 times - show films
Thruder Vilhjalmsdottir - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Pedro Almodovar - 2 times - show films
Manuel Gamez Pereira - 1 times - show films
Dominique Gerrard - 1 times - show films
Sergio Guerraz - 1 times - show films
Baltasar Kormakur - 1 times - show films