Maribel Verdú

Maribel Verdú
Country: Spain
Total Credits at Criticker: 48 (Actor)
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Goya in Bordeaux
Explores the experiences and artistic evolution of Francisco Goya, the man considered to be the most important artist of the modern era. (Sony Pictures Classics)
Y Tu Mamá También
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
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Pan\
In 1944 fascist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her she's a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the the true princess and will never see her real father, the king, again. (imdb)
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Belle epoque
In 1931, a young soldier (Fernando) deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner (Manolo) due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters (Rocio, Violeta, Clara and Luz). Fernando likes all of her and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love (imdb)
Huevos de oro
Benito González works construction in Melilla and dreams big - of building the tallest building in Benidorm, a great phallic symbol of power, González Towers... (imdb)
La Zona
Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders. (imdb)
Amantes
Set in '50s Spain, a young man (Sanz) leaves the army and looks for a job so he and his fiancée (Verdu) can get married. He rents a room from a widow (Abril), and shortly begins a torrid affair with her. The fiancée figures it out and decides to win him back by offering herself to him and taking him to meet her family. Ultimately he has to make a decision. Based on a true story. (imdb)
Oviedo Express
A theater troupe arrives in the beautiful northern Spanish city of Oviedo to stage an adaptation of Leopoldo Alas' 19th-century classic, "La Regenta." The group includes arrogant egomaniac Benjamin Olmo, married to prima donna Mariola Mayo, and depressive alcoholic Alvaro Mesia, who's hopelessly in love with Mariola. Ernesto de Villamarin is the mayor of Oviedo, married to young doctoral student Emma. Emma's mother, wacky widow Mina, claims Emma's father was an angel... (movies.yahoo.com)
La Buena estrella
Marina, a woman with a glass eye, has the bad luck to be the victim of an assault witnessed by Rafael, a goodhearted butcher, who rescues her from her attacker, a man named Daniel. Rafael has physical problems of his own, but the two stay together as a couple. (imdb)
Tetro
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.
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Lisístrata
It is the year 411 BC and the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens has been raging for some 20 years. The women who want to see the conflict finally ended use a trick to make their husbands comply: led by the Feminist Lisístrata, they barricade themselves on the Acropolis, where the Athenian treasure is kept, and refuse to have sex with their husbands until peace is restored. (wikipedia)
Jericho Mansions
Leonard Grey (James Caan), the super of the Jericho Mansions building, is a loner who's built his life around maintaining the old building. But things become difficult when he's suspected of pilfering from some of the apartments. Pretty soon, a resident is murdered, and Leonard becomes Jericho Mansions' "Public Enemy No. 1." Will Leonard be able to clear his name before any other mishaps?
El palo
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)
La Celestina
The young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto's servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Celestina to further the romance. However Calisto's other servant Parmeno is suspicious of Celestina, as he knows about her tricks. After Celestina convinces Melibea of Calisto's love and arranges a brief clandestine meeting between them, Calisto gives Celestina a valuable chain of gold...
Siete mesas de billar francés
Angela and her young son Guille travel to the big city to see Leo, her father and the boy's grandfather, just to discover that he has just passed away. Charo, his lover, explains the problems suffered by the paternal business: a hall with seven billiard tables. Charo thinks the only way to pay off the debts is to sell it. But Angela decides to put her savings into getting the old place and its seven tables back up on its feet. (imdb)
Los girasoles ciegos
Ourense, Spain, 1940. Every time that Elena locks the door, she locks her secrets. Her husband Ricardo spend years hidden in his house with his children (Elenita and Lorenzo), trying to dodge persecution. Salvador, a priest confused after battling in the front, returns to seminary in Ourense (imdb)
The End
The first feature from Spanish director Jorge Torregrossa is a stunning apocalyptic thriller set against the awe-inspiring peaks of the Pyrenees, where a group of friends find themselves at the mercy of nature -- and their own psychic demons -- after a mysterious, all-encompassing blackout. (tiff.net)
Blancanieves
A gorgeous, black-and-white homage to the Golden Age of Europe's silent cinema, the intoxicating Blancanieves relocates the tale of Snow White to a sweepingly romantic vision of 1920s Spain, where a young girl escapes from her wicked stepmother to find fame as a matador. (tiff.net)
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Gente de mala calidad
After a long time working as a gigolo in the suburbs, Manual comes home.
Tuno negro
Students of the university of Salamanca are brutally murdered by a black masked minstrel. Alex, an architecture student who has recently moved to Salamanca discovers a pattern behind the killings; it seems as if the killer strikes regularly after the exams to free the campus from lousy students. (Written by Moritz Muehlenhoff (imdb)
Gente en sitios
Shot with no budget and camera in hand, "People in places" is a "kaleidoscopic narrative" that runs the comedy, the drama, the social story, horror and surrealism with the common denominator of "irreducible poetry of the human condition against the onslaught of the bizarre and chaotic ".
15 Years and One Day
Margo is struggling to deal with her son, Jon a rebellious and free-spirited teenager who runs with a bad crowd. After Jon is expelled from school, Margo sends him to live with his grandfather Max, a retired military officer who lives in a small coastal town and believes he can fix his grandson with his own style of discipline. (imdb)
El juego más divertido
Ada and Bruno are TV "stars", specialized in soap operas with love scenes. In their private life the couple has also a secret affair which can't come to anything due to the popularity of both of them, and their being surveyed from every place. [...] (imdb)
Felices 140
Elia wins the lottery (140 million euros) in her 40th birthday and her family secretly plots to get her money.
No Kids
A divorced and loving father of a 9 year old girl meets a beautiful woman from his past that happens to not like children. (imdb)
El Niño de Barro
Police try to hunt down a serial killer in 1912 Buenos Aires. (imdb)
De tu ventana a la mia
Interwoven emotions and struggles of three women of different generations aiming to build the lives they desire, their own future, love and dreams. All of them lose the love of their lives and they will have to pursue their happiness and fight for their dignity in a dark and hostile word. (imdb)
The Red Virgin
In 1933 political activist and champion for sexual freedom Aurora Rodriguez killed her Utopian 'project' and brilliant young daughter Hildegart. Selectively bred and educated by Aurora to become the world's first truly free woman to lead humanity into a new era, Aurora could bear finding out that Hildegart wanted independence, rather than following the fate her mother systematically raised her to follow.
El Año De Las Luces
April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, Manolo, surrounded by boys all much younger than he is, feels a bit like the cock of the walk since the only other man around is the handyman Emilio who looks after the gardens and does whatever needs to be done about the place. (imdb)
El faro de las orcas
A mother with an autistic child travel from Spain to Argentina looking to help her son to connect with his emotions. (imdb)
Abracadabra
A housewife struggles with her husband after he is possessed by a ghost.
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La estanquera de Vallecas
Leandro, a unemployed construction worker, and his friend Tocho try to rob a tobacco shop in the Madrid neighborhood of Vallecas, but Mrs. Justa, the tobacconist, prevents it by alerting the neighbors who notify the police. Meanwhile, inside the tobacco shop, the confrontation between the two friends and their 'hostages', the tobacconist and her niece, is relaxing and an incipient sympathy arises between them.
Empowered
After a visit to an Indian healer, Paz loses control over what she says and starts speaking out everything that comes to her mind. (imdb)
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La Punta del Iceberg
A CEO looking for the truth. An investigation too dangerous to be concluded (IMDB).
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No te puedes esconder
A nurse and her daughter flee her husband's drug-trafficking past in Mexico and assume new identities in Spain, but still face danger in Madrid. (imdb)
Superlópez
Juan López, an ordinary and anonymous office worker, decides to expose his superpowers to turn into the first Spanish superhero: Superlópez. (imdb)
Canción de cuna
In this latest Spanish-language remake of Gregorio Martinez Sierra's classic sentimental drama, a group of nuns finds an abandoned baby girl at the doorstep of their convent. (imdb)
27 horas
Jon, a twenty-year-old boy from San Sebastián, gets up at seven in the morning and, from that moment on, we watch how he lives his friendship with Patxi and Maite, love, family relationships, his confusion about the future, and, above all, his dark passion for drugs. (imdb)
El beso del sueño
The gorgeous Margot supports her agèd father by seducing men on trains, slipping them a Mickey Finn 'beso de sueño' and robbing them of money and jewelry. One night her victim is a currency smuggler taking 100 million pesetas out of Spain (imdb).
The Flash
Barry Allen / The Flash travels back in time to prevent his mother's murder, which brings unintended consequences to his timeline (wikipedia.com).
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Uno para morir
Seven people are kidnapped and suddenly find themselves part of a deadly game.
Al otro lado del túnel
Two screenwriters are sent to a monastery in the mountains to concentrate and finish their script for another Sean Connery film.
A Deadly Invitation
Olivia Uriarte is a woman recently divorced from her fifth husband and completely ruined. Intent on preventing the impending decline, Olivia hatches a detailed plan to bring about her death...or rather, her murder. (imdb)
Now and Then
A multi-layered thriller that explores the differences between youthful aspirations and the reality of adulthood, when the lives of a group of college friends are forever changed after a celebratory weekend ends up with one of them dead. (imdb)
Carreteras secundarias
Set in 1974, during last rales of Francoist dictatorship, plot follows journey of salesman Lozano and his son Felipe driving a Citroën DS along Spanish coast. (imdb)
Canguros
Canguros (1994) - TV Series
A comedy that tells adventures of Alicia, a medical student from county, and her roommates. (imdb)
Ana Tramel
Ana Tramel (2021) - TV Series
Ana Tramel is a brilliant criminal lawyer in her lowest hours. She receives a call from her brother, who has been accused of murdering the director of a famous casino. With a small team, she will have to face a huge corporation. (imdb0
When No One Sees Us
Set in Morón de la Frontera, follows Lucía Gutierrez, a sergeant in the Spanish Civil Guard who investigates weird incidents at the first Holy Week float processions as well as the inexplicable suicide of a neighbor there. (imdb)