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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Como el mar
2024
as Mecha
Paula & Azul. A funeral, a family secret and a road trip that will change their lives forever.

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
2023
as Self - Actress
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical res...

Mi otro Jon
2023
as Merche

Rainbow
2022
as Coco Cabrera
In search of her mother, a teenager and her eccentric group of companions set off on a journey, trying to avoid the clutches of a wicked woman.

Venice
2021
as Gringa
Reencountering the only man she ever loved is Gringa’s dream. She is the owner of a brothel in the interior of Brazil and even though she is blind and...

Chasing Wonders
2021
as Maribel
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 th...
Hormigueddon
2020
as Carmen Maura

La corte de Ana
2020
as Herself - Actress
She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a gi...

Stories of Our Cinema
2019
as Herself - Actress
In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country are projected. From that event, the Spanish actor An...

My Family and the Wolf
2019
as Grandma Sara
When Hugo, a boy who spends his summer vacation with his cousins, discovers that the wolf Rong intends to take his grandmother Sara, he devises a plan...

In Family I Trust
2019
as Ángela
Bea is a successful architect who lives in Barcelona (Catalonia, northeast to Spain) with her boyfriend and boss, Víctor, a CEO of an important compan...

¡Ay, Carmen!
2018
as Self - Actress
The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant arti...

Querido Fotogramas
2018
as Self
The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic ...

Seeds
2018
as Carmen
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 ...

Oh! Mammy Blue
2018

All About Mothers
2018
as Thérèse
They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in full possession of their wits, or lo...

The Kids Are Back
2017
as Adelina
A retired couple will have to defend their home against an unpredicted menace: Their kids moving back.

Dirty Kids
2017
as Teresa
French seniors enroll in summer camp.

La peur du vide
2017
as Simone
Simone is an isolated old lady, whose daily life is punctuated by a strange pile of rubbish, so imposing in her small apartment that it prevents her f...

Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
2016
as Self
When looking at Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography, it becomes evident that women are everywhere; in fact, his work revolves around them. His divas are the...

People You May Know
2016
as Rodrigo's mom
'People You May Know' tells the story of four friends in their 40s in Los Angeles. All them will have to confront a new reality when Delia gets pregna...

El futuro ya no es lo que era
2016
as Carmen
A famous TV fortune-teller tries to better his life and reconnect with his stranded sons and ex wife.

Vaca Paloma
2015

Vanity
2015
as Esperanza
David Miller wants to die and chooses assisted euthanasia. He planned everything: the place, the time and the manner. However, nothing goes right. Wit...

Musical Chairs
2015
as Lucie
Perrine, a single, slightly awkward musician, loves birthday parties. One day she accidentally causes a man to fall into a skip at the waste disposal ...

A Village Almost Perfect!
2014
as Carmen
"Saint-Loin-la-Mauderne", a tiny village hurt by the financial crisis and the desertification. Its last hope : Start back the Smoked Salmon factory. ...

La madre
2013
as la madre

Witching & Bitching
2013
as Graciana Barrenetxea
A gang of gold thieves land in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual... and in need of a sacrifice.

Barefoot in the Kitchen
2013
as (archive footage)
What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragments of different films, both fiction and non-fictio...

Paulette
2012
as Maria
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

Sofia and the Stubborn Man
2012
as Sofía
An old lady lives in a quiet village in the Andes and has never seen the sea. For many years her husband has promised to take her to the Caribbean Sea...

Let My People Go !
2011
as Rachel
Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappointing lover, a thief who can’t help himself, and po...

Escalade
2011
as Alice

The Women on the 6th Floor
2011
as Concepcion
Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of ...
Un cine como tú en un país como éste
2010
as Herself
Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmakers like Fernando Colomo, Fernando Trueba, Imanol U...

Chicas
2010
as Pilar
Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the manager of the building in which she lives, she organ...

The Pimp
2010
as La mère
A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.

50 años de... Canciones
2009
as Self (archive footage)

Tetro
2009
as Alone
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 disco...

Que parezca un accidente
2008
as Pilar
A women is planning to kill her son-in-law after she finds out that he is unfaithful to her daughter.

The Black Virgin
2008
Life of inhabitants of a small fishing village of the caribbean , changes drastically after the apparition of a Black Virgin, which disallowed the ski...

Garden of Eden
2008
as Madame Aurol
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...

El menor de los males
2007
as Julia
Eduardo is a middle-aged man, married with children; He lives in Madrid and is dedicated to politics. His sister Julia awaits his visit in the old Gal...

Deconstructing Almodóvar
2007
as Self
A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection that deconstructs his career through interviews with many of his frequent collaborator...

Directed by Almodóvar
2007
as Self
A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection featuring interviews with many of his frequent collaborators.

Viva Pedro: The Life & Times of Pedro Almodóvar
2007
as Self
The genius that is Almodóvar is expressed in this film with interviews from his family, co-workers, and Almodóvar experts.
Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
2006
as Self
What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profession. Thirty-six Spanish actors reflect on their w...

Volver
2006
as Irene
Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality.

Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido!
2005
as Self / Gloria (archive footage)
Abandoned by her husband, a woman takes to the streets in search of money to feed her children. (Promotional short for the film What Have I Done to De...

To the Other Side
2005
as Esperanza
This drama features three stories about the bonds between children and absent parents. A Cuban boy who lives in poverty with his mother longs to visit...

Free Zone
2005
as Mrs. Breitberg
Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, a...

Queens
2005
as Magda
In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, are entwined: Judge Helena is in c...

Searching for Love
2004
as Ana
When Ana married Felix, the leader of a rock band and son of a travel agent, she thought her life would be plenty of excitement and travels. Now, in h...
New York: La capital del Mundo
2004
as Presentadora

La promesa
2004
as Celia
A psychological thriller about an obsessive compulsive, deeply religious woman who flees her abusive husband and accepts a nanny position for a weatlh...

25 Degrees in Winter
2004
as Abuelita
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 ...

Arroz y tartana
2003
as Doña Manuela de Fora
Manuela de Fora, an elegant woman, widow of Pajares, lives with the sole obsession of marrying well her two daughters from her second marriage, Concha...

The Pact of Silence
2003
as Mère Emmanuelle
Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has...

800 Bullets
2002
as Laura
Almería, Tabernas desert, Spain, 2002. Texas Hollywood is a dilapidated and dusty town where Western movies have not been shot for decades. Julián Tor...

Valentin
2002
as Abuela
Valentin, a 9-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, believes his family has problems that only he can solve. The youngs...

Le ventre de Juliette
2002
as Julia
The 20-year-old Juliette tries to come to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, despite a lack of support from the father of the child and from her moth...

Holiday Assassins
2002
as Illuminata
In 1955 Buenos Aires, a broke theater troupe turns to scamming funerals for survival. Their big break comes with a wealthy embalmer's inheritance, but...

Clara y Elena
2001
as Elena

The Notice of the Day
2001
as Isabel
The story revolves around the life of Leopold, a middle-class father; his wife Isabel working for a decadent comedian; Beto, the son, a taxi driver; a...
El apagón
2001

Clouds: Letters to My Son
2001
as (Voice, Spanish version)
Marion Hänsel directed this personal meditation on the joys and responsibilities of parenthood, in which a narrator reads Hansel's philosophic musings...

The Hold-Up
2001
as Maite
Lola's a single mom, broke, working as a janitor and maid. Silvia is pregnant, and her lover (her boss) won't leave his wife. Maite, newly a widow, di...

Common Wealth
2000
as Julia
Julia, a real estate agent, finds an enormous amount of money hidden in a dead man's apartment, a stroke of luck that will force her to face the wrath...

The Harem of Madame Osmane
2000
as Madama Osmane
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...

To the End of the Road
2000
An executive and his girlfriend, a medical doctor, are kidnapped by a couple to pass them to France by car. The kidnappers intended to flee to Rio de ...

Lisboa
1999
as Berta
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...

Superlove
1999
as Teresa
The Virgin Mary appears to Mario, a provincial barber who dreams of becoming a successful singer. He introduces her to his parents who decide to adopt...

El Cometa
1999
After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a s...

Enthusiasm
1998
as Maria
A man’s enthusiasm turns into greed and causes trouble for his family.

Alice and Martin
1998
as Jeanine
Martin, the illegitimate son of an industrialist and a hairdresser, was sent to live with his wealthy father in the countryside as a young boy. Alice ...

Women
1997
as Linda
Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

Alliance cherche doigt
1997
as Geneviève Lechat
Geneviève Lechat is the director of a marriage agency. At 50, she is still very desirable and very fulfilled, especially emotionally. She offers her s...
Tortilla y Cinema
1997
Benjamin Ballon wants to be a filmmaker, and has devoted a large part of his life for the past few years to getting to the point of filming an indepen...

Sombras y luces: Cien años de cine español
1996
Amores que matan
1996
Consuelo is a bored housewife. Her husband is away on business in Berlin, and her only company would be a mysterious neighbor, a science professor who...

Happiness Is in the Field
1995
as Dolores Thivart
Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only...

The Lame Pigeon
1995
as Tía Victoria
Little Felipe has been sick for a long time. To hasten his recovery, his parents send him to spend the summer of 1958 in the villa of his grandparents...
Parella de tres
1995
as Ana
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 ...

King of the River
1995
as Carmen
An air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby is born, she gives it to her sister that has alrea...

How to Be Miserable and Enjoy It
1994
as Carmen
Carmen, an attractive 40 year old woman, suddenly belongs a widow. For her, the emptiness feeling is new and disorienting. Trying to rebuild her life,...

Louis, the Child King
1993
as Anne d'Autriche
January 1649: Since the death of his father, the young Louis XIV must undergo the hard apprenticeship of royal power. He must face the intrigues of th...

Shadows in a Conflict
1993
as Ana
Ana, a former member of the Basque terrorist group ETA who lives in a small village near the Portuguese border working as a veterinarian and sharing h...

La reina anónima
1992
as Ana Luz
Anna Luz, a married woman, rethinks her life when she receives the visit of a stranger who claims to be her neighbor from the floor below. His arrival...

Between Heaven and Earth
1992
as Maria Garcia
Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down e...

Chatarra
1991
as Zabú
Zabu was a dancer in a small cabaret in Bilbao. Twelve years later she is living with her daughter Lola and a small delinquent called Lino in a squali...

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt
1991
as Carmen
Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her ...

Ay, Carmela!
1990
as Carmela
Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute ...

La mujer feliz
1990
A young innocent man pursued for murder finds refuge with a bored married woman. Soon they become lovers. What is going to happen next?

Mieux vaut courir
1989
as Anna
Crossfire between a suspect and the police. In the middle of the case, a girl.

Baton Rouge
1988
as Isabel
Poor gigolo tries to frame his rich mature mistress, but gets tangled in his own wiles.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988
as Pepa
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciousl...

Law of Desire
1987
as Tina Quintero
Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring hi...

Love Ravings
1986
as Carmen (segment "Delirio 3") (uncredited)
In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young ma...

Matador
1986
as Julia
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.

Tata Mía
1986
as Elvira
Elvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and returns home to settle in Madrid with his beloved nanny,...

Move Over, Mrs. Markham
1985
as Carmen
Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country...

Beyond the Walls
1985
as Sor Ana
This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued by the radical Christian Inquisition, one of a pl...

El crimen de la calle Fuencarral
1985
as Higinia Balaguer
July 1, 1888. The body of a woman is discovered during a house fire, but the examination reveals that she died victim of a stabbing, not the flames. H...

What Have I Done to Deserve This?
1984
as Gloria
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her heads...

Coarse Salt
1984
as Presentadora T.V.
A famous composer creative in crisis and must compose a new album, but is going through a painful separation that prevents him from concentrating. In ...

The Angry Cid
1983
as Jimena
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, “Mio Cid”, is in love with Jimena, but the Count of Oviedo, his father, challenges him to a duel and is killed. He before him c...

Dark Habits
1983
as Sor Perdida
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.

Femenino singular
1982
as Luisa Matas

Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven
1980
as Begoña
A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success....

El hombre de moda
1980
as Carmen
Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, ...

Pepi, Luci, Bom
1980
as Pepi
After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of ou...

That House in the Outskirts
1980
as Social Assistant
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. Unfortu...

The Black Hand
1980
as Rosa
Three old schoolmates, who in their time as students had formed a kind of secret society called The Black Hand, in order to embitter teachers' lives, ...

Fuck... Fuck... Fuck Me, Tin!
1978
A poor girl works in a general store with a blind boyfriend playing guitar. He becomes famous and she also becomes blind.

What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
1978
as Rosa
Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape

Blindfolded Eyes
1978
as La enfermera
A drama teacher casts a woman in a play about torture, and the two eventually become lovers. As production of the play develops, the director begins t...

Eugenia Grandet
1977
as Eugenia Grandet
Adaptation of the famous Balzac novel

Paper Tigers
1977
Spain, 1977. The first general elections are about to take place after the long dictatorship and the progressive environment of Madrid is easily palpa...

La petición
1976
as Chica que se insinua a Julián
An ambitious young woman from a wealthy family, but unsatisfied with her social position, will not hesitate to use all that is within her reach to ach...
Pomporrutas imperiales
1976
Two middle aged Spanish men bump into each other at a music store: Calvo, who is a TV actor, and Casado. They were school mates and haven't met for a ...

El libro de buen amor II
1976
as Virtuosa

Miracles of Our Lady
1976
as La abadesa encinta
A film based on a collection of reported miracles of Mary, mother of Jesus, written around 1260 by Spanish poet Gonzalo de Berceo.

La mujer es cosa de hombres
1976
as Manolita

Leonor
1975
Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his secon...

Fierce Love, or When Children Play at Love
1975
as María José
Vicente and Margarita are a traditional and middle class married couple whose life is surrounded by a sea of confusion and uncertainty when their chil...

A Diary of a Murderess
1975
as The Nun
A beautiful young woman sets her sights on an aging millionaire. She seduces him, and moves into his mansion with him. She soon tires of him, though, ...

Usted tiene ojos de mujer fatal
1975
as Leonor
Madrid, Spain, early thirties. The charming playboy Sergio Hernán is an unscrupulous womanizer who over the years has seduced and abandoned hundreds o...

Vida íntima de un seductor cínico
1975
as Mujer de Jorge

La Celestina
1974
as Melibea

El libro del buen amor
1974
as Dª Garoza

A Chaste Spanish Man
1973
as Profesora de Música
Don Santiago, a forty-year-old owner of a pastry shop in Madrid de los Austrias, receives surprising news: a woman, in fact his real mother, leaves hi...

The Killer Is One of Thirteen
1973
as Laura
A recent widow has invited a group of family friends to her large and secluded country home. However, what the guests don't know is that the reason th...

Man in Hiding
1971
as Belén
Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalist forces.

El espíritu
1969
The haunting spirit of a woman comes to the call of the participants in a séance.

Crazy Old Lady
N/A
as Alicia
Pedro receives a desperate message from an ex-girlfriend asking him to look after her senile mother, Alicia. What seems like a simple mission soon bec...
Calle Malaga
N/A
“Calle Malaga” revolves around Maria Angeles, a 74-year old woman who belongs to the Spanish community of Tangier and enjoys the quietness of her life...
La Cuidadora
N/A
as Carmen
When Carmen, an 80-year-old widow, suffers a domestic accident, her daughter Lourdes decides to hire an assistant to help her in her daily life. Accus...