 All About My Mother 1999  R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Cast: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penelope Cruz, Eloy Azorin, Candela Pena, Antonia San Juan, Rosa Maria Sarda, Toni Canto, Fernando Fernan Gomez, Cayetana Guillan Cuervo, Juan Jose Otegui, Carlos Lozano, Fernando Guillen, Manuel Moron, Jose Luis Torrijo
Seventeen-year-old Esteban (Eloy Azorin) has been keeping a journal he calls "All About My Mother." One evening, Esteban and his mother, Manuela (Cecilia Roth), attend a play, and moments after the play's end Esteban is killed by a car while he chases down the star for her autograph. The tragedy sets in motion Manuela's search for Esteban's father. The quest includes entering the worlds of a pregnant nun, lesbians, and transsexuals. But each character gives Manuela a sense of purpose in the healing process following her son's death. An Academy Award was received for Best Foreign Film.
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The Devil's Backbone 2001  R, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Eduardo(2) Noriega, Marisa Paredes, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Inigo Garces, Irene Visedo, Francisco Maestre, Jose Manuel Lorenzo, Junio Valverde
Centering on a Spanish Civil War orphan, 10-year-old Carlos (Fernando Tielve), who has been left at the Santa Lucia school, this gothic tale includes not only an undetonated bomb on the campus, but also a strong headmistress (Marisa Paredes), a bully (Inigo Garces), and a mysterious caretaker (Eduardo Noriega). A good ghost story.
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The Flower of My Secret 1995  R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Cast: Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Carmen Elias, Rossy de Palma, Chus Lampreave, Imanol Arias, Kiti Manver, Joaquin Cortes, Manuela Vargas, Gloria Munoz, Nancho Novo, Jordi Molla
Leo (Marisa Paredes) writes trashy romantic novels under the pseudonym "Amanda Gris." She has not been doing well in her professional life, and her personal life has hit a new low with her marriage in trouble. As if that weren't bad enough, Leo is now hired to write a negative article about "Amanda Gris."
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In a Glass Cage 1987 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Agustin Villaronga
Cast: Gunter Meisner, David Sust, Marisa Paredes, Gisele Echevarria, Imma Colomer, Josue Guasch, Alberto Manzano, David Cuspinera, Ricardo Carcelero
Nazi Dr. Klaus (Gunter Meisner) misses the torture against young boys he was allowed to practice during World War II, and now, after an accident, he is confined to an iron lung. When his wife (Marisa Paredes) and daughter (Gisele Echevarria) find his caretaking too difficult, they hire a male nurse, Angelo (David Sust). But Angelo suffers his own demons, and the relationship between Klaus and Angelo leads to the tormenting of a new generation of young boys.
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 Life Is Beautiful 1997 PG-13, 114 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Roberto Benigni
Cast: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Guistino Durano, Sergio Bini Bustric, Marisa Paredes, Horst Buchholz, Claudio Alfonsi, Giuliana Lojodice, Amerigo Fontani, Pietro De Silva
On the eve of World War II, Jewish waiter Guido Orefice (Roberto Benigni) marries Tuscan schoolteacher Dora (Nicoletta Braschi). During the war, the couple is sent to concentration camps–Guido and their young son to one camp, Dora to another. Academy Awards were received for Best Foreign Film, Best Actor (the first foreign language winner for an actor) and Best Original Musical Score. The four additional nominations included Best Picture and Director for this WWII comedy/drama.
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No One Writes to the Colonel 1999 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Arturo Ripstein
Cast: Fernando Lujan, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek, Rafael Inclan, Ernesto Yanez, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Esteban Soberanes, Patricia Reyes Spinola, Odiseo Bichir, Julian Pastor
Based on a novella by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, this is a powerful story of hope and despair in the face of poverty, sickness, and aging. Set in Mexico in the late 1940s, this is the story of the Colonel (Fernando Lujan), who fought in the war to overthrow the clerical rulers years before. Now he dresses up each week and goes to the pier awaiting the arrival of a letter that announces his pension–a letter that he knows will never arrive.
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Queens 2005  R, 107 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Romance
Director: Manuel Gomez Pereira
Cast: Marisa Paredes, Carmen Maura, Veronica Forque, Mercedes Sampietro, Betiana Blum, Gustavo Salmeron, Unax Ugalde, Hugo Silva, Daniel Hendler, Raul Jimenez, Paco Leon, Fernando Valverde, Lluis Homar, Jorge Perugorria
Five mothers (Marisa Paredes, Carmen Maura, Veronica Forque, Mercedes Sampietro, and Betiana Blum) cope in their own unique ways with the marriages of their gay sons at a mass wedding celebrating Spain's first legal gay marriages.
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Talk of Angels 1998 PG-13, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nick Hamm
Cast: Polly Walker, Vincent Perez, Franco Nero, Frances McDormand, Ruth McCabe, Francisco Rabal, Marisa Paredes, Ariadna Gil, Penelope Cruz, Rossy de Palma
During the Spanish Civil War, Mary (Polly Walker) leaves Ireland to serve as a governess for the children of Dr. Areavaga (Franco Nero). Once in Spain, Mary finds herself liberated and now embroiled in the anti-Franco controversy.
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Three Lives and Only One Death 1996 N/R, 123 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes, Melvil Poupaud, Chiara Mastroianni, Arielle Dombasle, Feodor Atkine, Jean-Yves Gautier, Jacques Pieiller, Pierre Bellemare
In a series of stories Marcello Mastroianni plays an ex-husband, a professor-turned-beggar, a killer, and a wealthy industrialist. The stories seem to come together (or do they?) at the end when the industrialist discovers members of the family that he has invented for himself are coming for a visit.
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| 1. All About My Mother (1999)
2. Deep Crimson (1996)
3. The Devil's Backbone (2001)
4. The Flower of My Secret (1995)
5. In a Glass Cage (1987)
6. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
7. No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)
8. Queens (2005)
9. Talk of Angels (1998)
10. Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
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