Carmen Maura
Date of birth: 1945-09-15
Place of birth: Madrid, Spain
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 카르멘 마우라, Carmen García Maura, Carmen G. Maura, María del Carmen García Maura
Biography
Carmen García Maura is a Spanish actress. In a career that has spanned six decades, Maura is best known for her collaborations with noted Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar.
Movie Credits
Volver
2006-03-17
Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, s
Law of Desire
1987-02-07
Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, conc
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988-03-25
After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out
A Diary of a Murderess
1975-05-04
A beautiful young woman sets her sights on an aging millionaire. She seduces him, and moves into his
Pepi, Luci, Bom
1980-10-27
After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s
Valentin
2002-09-29
Valentin, an 8-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, is surrounded by
The Killer Is One of Thirteen
1973-09-24
A recent widow has invited a group of family friends to her large and secluded country home. However
Eugenia Grandet
1977-12-14
Adaptation of the famous Balzac novel
Free Zone
2005-06-18
Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her
Common Wealth
2000-09-29
After finding an enormous amount of money hidden in a dead man's apartment, real estate agent Julia
Queens
2005-04-08
In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons wi
Matador
1986-03-07
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death becom
Garden of Eden
2008-01-01
A young American writer completes his service in WWI and travels across Europe with his wife and her
Dark Habits
1983-10-03
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorit
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
1984-10-25
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her
El espíritu
1969-01-01
The haunting spirit of a woman comes to the call of the participants in a séance.
The Pimp
2010-02-16
A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.
Ay, Carmela!
1990-03-16
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of
Happiness Is in the Field
1995-12-06
Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employ
800 Bullets
2002-10-18
Almería, Tabernas desert, Spain, 2002. Texas Hollywood is a dilapidated and dusty town where Western
The Pact of Silence
2003-03-05
Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalis
To the Other Side
2005-06-01
This drama features three stories about the bonds between children and absent parents. A Cuban boy w
The Black Virgin
2008-10-24
Life of inhabitants of a small fishing village of the caribbean , changes drastically after the appa
The Women on the 6th Floor
2011-02-16
Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzan
Women
1997-10-17
Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.
Le ventre de Juliette
2002-08-28
The 20-year-old Juliette tries to come to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, despite a lack of supp
25 Degrees in Winter
2004-07-21
An Ukranian woman enters Belgium illegally and hides in the van of a driver abandoned by his wife. H
La promesa
2004-08-13
A psychological thriller about an obsessive compulsive, deeply religious woman who flees her abusive
Alice and Martin
1998-10-23
Martin, the illegitimate son of an industrialist and a hairdresser, was sent to live with his wealth
Move Over, Mrs. Markham
1985-12-05
Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have manage
Arroz y tartana
2003-11-20
Manuela de Fora, an elegant woman, widow of Pajares, lives with the sole obsession of marrying well
How to Be Miserable and Enjoy It
1994-02-10
Carmen, an attractive 40 year old woman, suddenly belongs a widow. For her, the emptiness feeling is
Searching for Love
2004-12-10
When Ana married Felix, the leader of a rock band and son of a travel agent, she thought her life wo
La Celestina
1974-10-27
To the End of the Road
2000-02-18
An executive and his girlfriend, a medical doctor, are kidnapped by a couple to pass them to France
Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven
1980-11-17
A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic
The Notice of the Day
2001-08-02
The story revolves around the life of Leopold, a middle-class father; his wife Isabel working for a
La reina anónima
1992-10-18
Anna Luz, a married woman, rethinks her life when she receives the visit of a stranger who claims to
Clara y Elena
2001-10-31
Escalade
2011-06-15
A group of teenagers, under the guise of celebrating their headmistress’s birthday, turn into her to
Coarse Salt
1984-02-06
A famous composer creative in crisis and must compose a new album, but is going through a painful se
Rainbow
2022-09-18
In search of her mother, a teenager and her eccentric group of companions set off on a journey, tryi
How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt
1991-04-05
Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Ove
Paulette
2012-10-04
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no
Tata Mía
1986-01-01
Elvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and return
Between Heaven and Earth
1992-05-26
Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her ca
Mieux vaut courir
1989-01-01
Crossfire between a suspect and the police. In the middle of the case, a girl.
Que parezca un accidente
2008-11-12
A women is planning to kill her son-in-law after she finds out that he is unfaithful to her daughter
Lisboa
1999-07-23
Joao sells video tapes in road bars between Portugal and Spain. One day he finds a middle aged woman
My Other Jon
2023-10-20
Merche, about to turn 76, is told that she doesn't have long left to live. Unable to travel to watch
New York: La capital del Mundo
2004-09-20
Amores que matan
1996-02-02
Consuelo is a bored housewife. Her husband is away on business in Berlin, and her only company would
Shadows in a Conflict
1993-09-10
Ana, a former member of the Basque terrorist group ETA who lives in a small village near the Portugu
El menor de los males
2007-03-10
Eduardo is a middle-aged man, married with children; He lives in Madrid and is dedicated to politics
Louis, the Child King
1993-11-04
January 1649: Since the death of his father, the young Louis XIV must undergo the hard apprenticeshi
Blindfolded Eyes
1978-06-06
A drama teacher casts a woman in a play about torture, and the two eventually become lovers. As prod
Witching & Bitching
2013-09-20
A gang of gold thieves land in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual... and in
Baton Rouge
1988-10-08
Poor gigolo tries to frame his rich mature mistress, but gets tangled in his own wiles.
The Hold-Up
2001-05-03
Lola's a single mom, broke, working as a janitor and maid. Silvia is pregnant, and her lover (her bo
Paper Tigers
1977-09-01
Spain, 1977. The first general elections are about to take place after the long dictatorship and the
Parella de tres
1995-09-15
Ana and Marta are good friends but very different women. Ana is a housewife whereas Marta is an agre
King of the River
1995-02-24
An air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby
Beyond the Walls
1985-09-01
This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued
Femenino singular
1982-10-25
Tetro
2009-06-11
In Buenos Aires, 17-year-old Bennie seeks out his estranged brother Tetro, a once-promising writer h
Chicas
2010-03-10
Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the man
Enthusiasm
1998-12-25
A man’s enthusiasm turns into greed and causes trouble for his family.
The Angry Cid
1983-12-19
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, “Mio Cid”, is in love with Jimena, but the Count of Oviedo, his father, chall
The Harem of Madame Osmane
2000-07-12
In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad tem
The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
2023-11-10
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes
La madre
2013-10-30
What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
1978-08-16
Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape
The Black Hand
1980-01-01
Three old schoolmates, who in their time as students had formed a kind of secret society called The
The Lame Pigeon
1995-10-06
Little Felipe has been sick for a long time. To hasten his recovery, his parents send him to spend t
Holiday Assassins
2002-04-17
In 1955 Buenos Aires, a broke theater troupe turns to scamming funerals for survival. Their big brea
A Village Almost Perfect!
2014-11-15
"Saint-Loin-la-Mauderne", a tiny village hurt by the financial crisis and the desertification. Its
People You May Know
2016-07-07
'People You May Know' tells the story of four friends in their 40s in Los Angeles. All them will hav
Como el mar
2024-03-28
Paula & Azul. A funeral, a family secret and a road trip that will change their lives forever.
Leonor
1975-09-01
Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family
Tortilla y Cinema
1997-04-30
Benjamin Ballon wants to be a filmmaker, and has devoted a large part of his life for the past few y
El Cometa
1999-01-15
After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictators
Vanity
2015-09-02
David Miller wants to die and chooses assisted euthanasia. He planned everything: the place, the tim
Musical Chairs
2015-07-29
Perrine, a single, slightly awkward musician, loves birthday parties. One day she accidentally cause
Superlove
1999-06-09
The Virgin Mary appears to Mario, a provincial barber who dreams of becoming a successful singer. He
Alliance cherche doigt
1997-09-17
Geneviève Lechat is the director of a marriage agency. At 50, she is still very desirable and very f
Pomporrutas imperiales
1976-07-04
Two middle aged Spanish men bump into each other at a music store: Calvo, who is a TV actor, and Cas
Crazy Old Lady
2025-10-10
Pedro receives a desperate message from an ex-girlfriend asking him to look after her senile mother,
Seeds
2018-09-07
The coming of age story of a boy that after a traumatic event is taken to beautiful Cuernavaca, wher
Un cine como tú en un país como éste
2010-10-26
Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmake
Vaca Paloma
2015-09-22
El futuro ya no es lo que era
2016-04-29
A famous TV fortune-teller tries to better his life and reconnect with his stranded sons and ex wife
Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
2006-10-27
What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profes
Sofia and the Stubborn Man
2012-08-03
An old lady lives in a quiet village in the Andes and has never seen the sea. For many years her hus
Dirty Kids
2017-07-19
French seniors enroll in summer camp.
El libro de buen amor II
1976-04-22
La mujer es cosa de hombres
1976-02-26
Love Ravings
1986-11-13
In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to
El hombre de moda
1980-11-14
Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhil
That House in the Outskirts
1980-10-19
A young girl's husband rents a lovely home just outside of Madrid so she can spend the last three mo
La petición
1976-09-21
An ambitious young woman from a wealthy family, but unsatisfied with her social position, will not h
Vida íntima de un seductor cínico
1975-01-01
Man in Hiding
1971-10-28
Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalis
El crimen de la calle Fuencarral
1985-05-17
July 1, 1888. The body of a woman is discovered during a house fire, but the examination reveals tha
50 años de... Canciones
2009-11-12
The Kids Are Back
2017-12-22
A retired couple will have to defend their home against an unpredicted menace: Their kids moving bac
Fuck... Fuck... Fuck Me, Tin!
1978-12-16
A poor girl works in a general store with a blind boyfriend playing guitar. He becomes famous and sh
A Chaste Spanish Man
1973-10-29
Don Santiago, a forty-year-old owner of a pastry shop in Madrid de los Austrias, receives surprising
In Family I Trust
2019-01-18
Bea is a successful architect who lives in Barcelona (Catalonia, northeast to Spain) with her boyfri
Oh! Mammy Blue
2018-06-29
Venice
2021-06-17
Reencountering the only man she ever loved is Gringa’s dream. She is the owner of a brothel in the i
All About Mothers
2018-05-23
They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving
Querido Fotogramas
2018-10-05
The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through
¡Ay, Carmen!
2018-10-29
The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director
Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
2016-09-11
When looking at Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography, it becomes evident that women are everywhere; in fact
Chasing Wonders
2021-06-04
A coming-of-age story set across the lush wine country of both Australia and Spain, a young man expl
My Family and the Wolf
2019-08-21
When Hugo, a boy who spends his summer vacation with his cousins, discovers that the wolf Rong inten
Chatarra
1991-10-11
Zabu was a dancer in a small cabaret in Bilbao. Twelve years later she is living with her daughter L
Usted tiene ojos de mujer fatal
1975-01-13
Madrid, Spain, early thirties. The charming playboy Sergio Hernán is an unscrupulous womanizer who o
La corte de Ana
2020-03-19
She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starrin
Fierce Love, or When Children Play at Love
1975-08-25
Vicente and Margarita are a traditional and middle class married couple whose life is surrounded by
La peur du vide
2017-01-25
Simone is an isolated old lady, whose daily life is punctuated by a strange pile of rubbish, so impo
Stories of Our Cinema
2019-11-22
In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country ar
El libro del buen amor
1974-04-23
Sombras y luces: Cien años de cine español
1996-05-14
Barefoot in the Kitchen
2013-06-14
What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragmen
La mujer feliz
1990-02-09
A young innocent man pursued for murder finds refuge with a bored married woman. Soon they become lo
Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido!
2005-10-06
Abandoned by her husband, a woman takes to the streets in search of money to feed her children. (Pro
Let My People Go !
2011-12-28
Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappoin
Miracles of Our Lady
1976-04-19
A film based on a collection of reported miracles of Mary, mother of Jesus, written around 1260 by S
Deconstructing Almodóvar
2007-01-30
A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection that deconstructs his career through
Directed by Almodóvar
2007-01-30
A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection featuring interviews with many of hi
Viva Pedro: The Life & Times of Pedro Almodóvar
2007-01-30
The genius that is Almodóvar is expressed in this film with interviews from his family, co-workers,
Hormigueddon
2020-09-07
Calle Malaga
2025-10-31
Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, Morocco, and enjoys her daily ro
El apagón
2001-06-01
La Cuidadora
When Carmen, an 80-year-old widow, suffers a domestic accident, her daughter Lourdes decides to hire