Carmen Maura

An aging Spanish woman in Tangier resists her daughter's decision to sell her home. Determined to stay, she does everything she can to keep her home and reclaim the belongings of a lifetime. Along the way, she rediscovers love and desire.

It follows Gala as her life is turned upside down when her husband implicates the family in financial improprieties, and she is forced to flee the city alongside her mother and daughter. (imdb)

In search of her mother, a free-spirited teen and her eccentric companions set out on a whimsical journey while avoiding the clutches of a wicked woman. (Netflix)

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 the pathway toward understanding and forgiveness. (imdb)

After finding about the unfaithfulness of her boyfriend with a famous TV reporter and having doubts about her actual job, a woman goes back to her hometown with her family to find herself.

9 years old Hugo spends the summer holidays with his cousins and his grandma Sara. When they learn that the wolf is coming to pick her up, the children are mobilizing to save their grandmother and embark on an unforgettable adventure.

They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in full possession of their wits or losing their heads. Alive or already a memory. They are mothers, and it's their party. (imdb)

A retired couple will have to defend their home against an unpredicted menace: Their kids moving back. (imdb)

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 to life with his grandmother, who has problems of her own. (imdb)

Perrine is a violin player, living in France. She also has to play at children's birthday parties to make ends meet. One day, as she is on her way to an old age pensioners party, she stops to ask someone her way at a tip. The man is surprised and falls over into the skip. Perrine calls for help, then panics and runs. The man is taken to hospital, in a coma. Perrine soon finds out which one! Struggling with feelings of guilt, she decides to visit him every day. (imdb)

David Miller is sick and has decided to end it all. But despite choosing the place, the date and the method, nothing goes according to plan (imdb)

"Saint-Loin-la-Mauderne", a small village hit hard by the crisis and desertification. His last hope: revive the salmon smoking factory. Only problem, insurance require the presence of a doctor at home. However, the last retired there more than five years without ever finding a replacement.

After robbing a pawn shop in the middle of Madrid, recently divorced José flees the city with his partner and his young son. Their escape leads them to the town of Zugarramurdi, where the witches from the famous 17th Century Basque trials are awaiting them to use them for a ritual to exterminate patriarchal society.

The fiction deals about how the lives of three different women—Eva Perón (first lady of Argentina), Carmen Polo (Francisco Franco's wife) and Juana Doña (a communist militant)—intertwine during the official visit paid by the first one to Spain in 1947, when the country was internationally isolated and the population starving. (wikipedia)

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet. One evening when she attends a curious traffic incident outside her building, Paulette sees the sign of destiny. She decides to start selling cannabis. After all, why should she not? Paulette was formerly pastry chef. Her gift for trade and cooking skills are assets towards finding original solutions in the conducting of her new business. (imdb)

When a group of charming teenagers ring the bell of their high school headmistress with a big bouquet of flowers and a birthday present, we are far from thinking that they are the protagonist of a machiavellian plan. (imdb)

French Jew Ruben works as a village postman in rural Finland, living with hunky blonde boyfriend Teemu in a lakeside cabin. All is idyllic until a misunderstanding over a dead body and a stash of Euros sees Teemu kick Ruben out. (nzcinema.co.nz)

Paris in 1960. Jean-Louis and Suzanne Joubert are no longer exactly youthful. This stockbroker and his wife live a quiet, middle-class existence in an elegant tenement building. You might even describe their lives as dull - especially since the children have been packed off to boarding school. Things are a good deal livelier on the sixth floor of their building where all the female staff live. (berlinale.de)

A young American writer completes his service in WWI and travels across Europe with his wife and her attractive Italian girlfriend. Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.

A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp. (imdb)

Bennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's discovery of his brother's near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding their shared past and renewing their bond.

Julia is a good-natured woman, in her 50s, and a writer. She suddenly gets visited by Eduardo, her younger brother, an up-and-coming and very ambitious politician in Madrid, with his assistant and his two bodyguards. He needs her house because he's going to have a "meeting" with his lover. Julia immediately notices there's something strange going on, something that goes beyond the secrecy of an adulterous affair, and she will soon enough get involved in a web of lies, betrayal, and dark affairs.

In a wind-swept village and the suburbs of Madrid, two sisters struggle with the ghosts of their past—literally and figuratively. After the death of their aunt, the spirit of their mother returns to resolve unfinished business and comfort her daughters. This vibrant story blends comedy and tragedy, focusing on female resilience, generational secrets, and the enduring bonds of family.

Amos Gitai's beautiful new film is a quietly sweeping movie about intersected lives in transit. (New Yorker Films)

A whimsical, contemporary ensemble comedy, Queens stars five of Latin Cinema's most celebrated and beloved actresses as hard-hitting mothers coping with the marriages of their sons during Spain's first-ever gay wedding en masse. (Regent Releasing)

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 emigrated long before. They are joined by his wacky Spanish mother and cute young daughter.

A documentary on the life and career of the Spanish auteur.

After killing her abusive and unfaithful husband, the religious and schizophrenic housewife Gregoria leaves Madrid and travels to Galicia to visit a church where a stranger told her that everyone should go, dead or alive. When Gregoria arrives, she saves the life of the boy Daniel and his mother Dorita in gratitude invites her to have lunch at her house. Gregoria changes her name to Celia and accepts to work as nanny and chambermaid for Dorita and her dysfunctional husband Leandro. (Claudio Carvalho)

Sister Sarah is living in Brazil, 25 years old, a Carmelite, and just about to move back to France. Her twin sister Gaelle has just been released from prison in Paris after serving ten years. Sarah begins experiencing severe abdominal pain, spawning the curiosity of Joachim a priest and doctor of medicine. (Written by k wedgwood)

This hyper-stylized tribute to spaghetti westerns finds a young boy searching for his father after his curiosity is sparked after thumbing through old photographs. (TLA Releasing)

A coming of age story told through the eyes of a precocious 10-year old boy who lives with his grandmother in turbulent 1969 Argentina. (Miramax)

Trying to forge an independent life for herself after leaving her husband, Lola works as a cleaning woman in a bank and nurses hopes for a better future. But things only get worse when Lola is mugged and, soon after, evicted from her house. Deciding it's time she took something back, Lola and her best friend Silvia plot to rob the bank she's been working at. (movies.yahoo.com)

Julia finds 300 million pesetas hidden in a dead man's house while selling an apartment. She's a 40-ish real estate agent (played by Carmen Maura) now forced to face the wrath of a very peculiar community (of neighbors), headed by an unscrupulous administrator. Black humour gives way to suspense, closely folowed by horror that doesn't take long in coming to a head in undisguised pandemonium. (imdb)

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad temper. Her husband left her and the fear to lose her respectability haunt her. The former member of the Resistance during the Independence War persists in controlling the slightest moves of the households rather than struggle against her own frustrations. Learning her daughter is in love, the possibility of finding herself alone will push her to the limit.

Joao sells video tapes in road bars between Portugal and Spain. One day he finds a middle aged woman in the middle of nowhere. Somebody is looking for her and she has to escape to Lisboa. But what is the secret of this woman? Why does she want to go to Lisboa? (themoviedb.org)

At the age of 20, Martin leaves his home town and comes to Paris, where he fortunately becomes a model by chance. He meets Alice, his brother's friend, and falls in love with her. They start a passionate relationship, although Martin remains very mysterious about his past and the reasons why he left his family. But when Alice tells him she's pregnant, he is suddenly almost driven to madness, as his past comes back to his mind. Alice will now do anything she can to help him. (imdb)

Five women, all near the wrong side of forty, face life's ups and downs together with laughter, tears, and sometimes irony. Their only imperative: live, love and live some more.

Ana and Marta are good friends but very different women. Ana is a housewife whereas Marta is an agressive lawyer, single and very independent. Ana is married to Santi and after a crisis she proposed Marta to be the lover of her husband to save her matrimony. Santi does not suspect anything and the triangle works fine during years... till Santi begins to go out with another person. (imdb)

The title of this major French costume drama means "Louis, child-king", and indeed it's a fascinating fresco about the formative years of the young king Louis XIV, before he became the Sun-king at Versailles. (imdb)

A week before its delivery, a baby warns his pregnant mother he doesn't want to come out in this world and prefers to die instead. (imdb)

A housewife has a very strange day.

Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute assistant, Gustavete, they journey into rebel territory by mistake. They are arrested, fear a firing squad, and receive a reprieve from an Italian Fascist commander who loves the theatre. He arranges a performance for his troops, bargaining with Paulino to stage a burlesque of the republic in exchange for the actors' freedom. (imdb)

When a voice-over actress is abruptly dumped by her lover via an answering machine message, her frantic attempts to find him lead to a chaotic series of encounters. Her apartment becomes a crossroads for a distraught best friend, a vengeful wife, and a series of accidental guests. This vibrant farce explores heartbreak and coincidence through a lens of high-fashion aesthetics and dark humor.

A successful film director becomes entangled in a complex love triangle when he begins a passionate affair with a deeply obsessive young man. As the director remains emotionally attached to his former lover, his new suitor's devotion spirals into a dangerous and violent fixation. This stylish melodrama explores the intense nature of passion, the complexity of desire, and the sacrifices made for love.

A retired bullfighter who finds sexual gratification in killing becomes entangled with a mysterious female lawyer who shares his lethal obsession. As they are drawn together by their dark desires, a series of murders leads a young, psychic student to confess to crimes he did not commit. This provocative thriller explores the thin line between passion and death, art and violence, and the ultimate consummation of desire.

In the middle of the Spanish Golden Age, a Castilian convent is about to be closed and the nuns residing there dispersed. Then, one of the sisters comes up with a saving idea that could restore well-being to the community: to pretend that she has stigmata on her hands. (imdb)

Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him use his house for a love tryst while Fernando wines and dines Adela. At the same time, Paco's wife, Carmen, will be taking her lover to Rosa's house [...] (imdb)

A famous composer faces a creative crisis due to a painful breakup.

A frustrated housewife lives in a cramped Madrid apartment with her unfaithful husband, two eccentric sons, and a quirky mother-in-law. Juggling multiple cleaning jobs and an addiction to amphetamines, she struggles to keep her dysfunctional family afloat amidst surreal domestic chaos. This dark comedy serves as a biting social satire on the struggles of the working class and the invisibility of women.

A nightclub singer flees to a convent of eccentric nuns to escape the police after her boyfriend dies of an overdose. She discovers the sisters have unconventional methods of redemption, including drug use, tiger-rearing, and writing pulp fiction. This provocative satire explores the collision of sacred and profane worlds, examining faith and sisterhood through a lens of dark humor and subversion.

A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to reconsider her life--work, family, friendships, men-- causing a psychological and emotional crisis pushes her toward a drastic decision. (imdb)

A young girl's husband rents a lovely home just outside of Madrid so she can spend the last three months of her pregnancy in peace and luxury. Unfortunately, just as they arrive at the home, the girl realizes that it is the place where she had secretly had an illegal abortion some years before. (Written by Ørnås (imdb)

After being assaulted by a corrupt policeman, an independent young woman plots her revenge by befriending the officer's submissive wife. She introduces the housewife to the wild underground scene of Madrid, where they connect with a provocative punk singer. This transgressive comedy captures the spirit of the Movida Madrileña, exploring themes of liberation, friendship, and the breaking of social taboos.

Rosa, divorced and with two children, lives in anguish because her ex-husband is still trying to control her life. Through a friend of hers she discovers a new world in the nightlife of 1970's Madrid.

Juan and Carmen take advantage of their new freedoms after dictator Franco's death by taking drugs and joining new political parties.

A widow invites a number of guests to stay at her mansion. She reveals that she knows that one of the group killed her husband. Soon they too are being murdered one by one.