María Asquerino

María Asquerino
Date of Birth: 25 Nov 1925
Country: Spain
Total Credits at Criticker: 14 (Actor)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (14)
That Obscure Object of Desire
Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next few hours he explains (and we see in flashback) how he became obsessed by her (so much so that he failed to notice that she was played by two different actresses, representing different sides of her personality), and how she tantalised him, but would never allow him to satisfy his desire for her...
Common Wealth
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)
Películas para no dormir: La habitación del niño
A couple with a recently born child arrive at their new home. It is a wonderful old house that has been completely renovated and the ideal place to start life as a family. The couple go to bed after a tiring day. Before going to bed, the couple go and check the child monitor that has been installed in the baby's bedroom. It is the very latest model. Not only does it allow you to listen in while the baby is sleeping, it lets you watch the baby as well... (imdb)
Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto
Escaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime, Gloria (Victoria Abril), a young woman of lower class, comes back to Madrid, Spain and to her family. (imdb)
Pagafantas
The desperately single Chema falls for a feisty Argentinean hairdresser he meets in a dumpster. Initially he believes that she is into him too - but slowly the signs emerge that she has placed him squarely in the dreaded "friend zone".
Lo scapolo
Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time? (imdb)
Las melancolicas
Tania, an asylum patient, is under the doctor's care while suffering raging behavioral effects that follow the death of her exorcised mother. (imdb)
Surcos
At the end of the civil war, a rural family moves to the city in hopes of a better life, but things don't come as easily as they'd hoped.
Fotos
Azucena is 22 years old and lives with her mother, who, due to a past trauma, can no longer speak. Azucena works in a photography lab with her best friend Paqui, and has just broken up with her latest boyfriend Dani. Azucena lives in fear of sex and physical contact, hiding in her own sheltered world. (Written by Anonymous (imdb)
Nadie oyó gritar
A woman sees a man throwing someone on a lift shaft. (Filmaffinity)
Mambrú se fue a la guerra
The news of the death of Franco has a special resonance in the family formed by Florentina, her daughter Encarna, her son Hilario and the children of the marriage, Juanita and Manolín. At the same time, Florentina informs the rest of the family of a much more important announcement than the dictator's death: her husband Emiliano, who had been given up for dead in the Spanish civil war, is alive. During Franco's regime he has remained hidden in the family home itself. (imdb)
Tarde de toros
A sellout in the bullring of Las Ventas in Madrid. A luxury poster is about to deal a cattle from Antonio Pérez Tabernero. A spontaneous jumps into the ring, the wife of one of those bullfighters is expecting a child secretly, one of the matadors is prey to nerves during slaughter, some spectators are cheering and discussed among themselves - Halfway between documentary and fiction, carries out this production which, as its title suggests, revolves around a bullfight. (jsanchez)
El mar y el tiempo
In Madrid in 1968, the sad daily life of a family whose parents fought for the Republic is interrupted by the appearance of a brother who had to go into exile in Argentina. (FILMAFFINITY)
La otra vida del capitán Contreras
Spain, 16th century: The brave captain Alonso Contreras is menaced by the inquisition, but he is not guilty. An alchemist, trying to help, gives Alonso a powerful potion in order to make him sleep until the danger flies. The potion is too much powerful and Alonso wakes up in the 20th century (wikipedia).