Victoria Abril
Victoria Abril (born Victoria Mérida Rojas; 4 July 1959) is a Spanish film actress and singer. She is best known to international audiences for her performance in the movie ¡Átame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!). Born in Madrid, Abril became widely known in Spain in 1976 when she appeared for two years in the show Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez. Besides working in Spain, she also made films in France, where she resides, Italy, and Iceland. She has been nominated eight times for Goya Awards in the Lead Actress category and has won once. She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival for her role in Amantes. Two years later, she was awarded with the Berlinale Camera at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival. Victoria Abril performing on stage in 2006. She is also a singer. In 2005, she made her debut with a bossanova-jazz album called PutchEros do Brasil. She also tried to represent Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1979 with "Bang-Bang-Bang", but Betty Missiego was chosen instead.
High Heels
as RebecaAfter being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter...
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
as Marina OsorioRecently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with...
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French Twist
as LoliAfter learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move...
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Robin and Marian
as Queen IsabellaRobin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid...
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Kaena: The Prophecy
as Queen of the Selenites (french voice)Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena, a rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl will defy the...
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Law of Desire
as Girl with Juan (uncredited)Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan,...
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Kika
as Andrea CaracortadaWhen American author Nicholas brings in a cosmetologist named Kika to prepare the corpse of his...
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Josephine
as la mère de GillesJosephine doesn't like her job and keeps on having relationships without a future. Her sister...
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Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous
as la mère de GillesAt last, Josephine has found her perfect...
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Big is Beautiful
as SophieA resort for individuals who want to lose weight is helps several women discover friendships,...
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Between Your Legs
as MirandaA radio-show assistant meets a budding screenwriter during a group-therapy session for sex addicts.
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Lovers: A True Story
as LuisaSet in '50s Spain, a young man leaves the army and looks for a job so he and his fiancée can get...
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Don't Tempt Me
as Lola NevadoTwo angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.
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Jimmy Hollywood
as Lorraine de la PeñaJimmy Alto is an actor wannabe who stumbles into the role of a lifetime. He becomes a vigilante...
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Les Aristos
as La duchesse Pilar de Malaga i BenidormThe Arbac de Neuvilles are one of the oldest families in France. They have inhabited their...
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101 Reykjavik
as LolaThirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn...
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Nuit d'ivresse
as La compagne de JugnotJacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the...
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The Moon in the Gutter
as Bella - la maîtresse possessive de GérardA dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for...
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Une époque formidable
as Juliette BerthierMichel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme...
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The Grand Restaurant III
as Une cliente du restaurantHe had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment...
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Change of Sex
as José María / María JoséA seventeen-year-old boy follows the painful path to discovering that he is transsexual.
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Lute: Forge On or Die
as CheloIn Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as...
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Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
as SelfWhen looking at Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography, it becomes evident that women are everywhere; in...
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The Maidens' Conspiracy
as The Peaceful WidowConstantinople, 1401. The emperor of Byzantium asks the famous knight Tirant lo Blanc to free...
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Summer Rain
as Srta. del Casco CartaginésA coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at...
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Ternosecco
as BrigidaOn a hot summer night, Raffaele, the elderly manager of a Neapolitan counter-lot, is brutally...
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I Married a Shadow
as FifoAfter a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a...
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The Beehive
as JulitaAs in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with...
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Freedomfighters
as FlorenAt the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes...
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El hombre que supo amar
as AmeliaThe life of Juan de Dios and his struggle against social, political and religious structures.
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Entre paréntesis
as CarmenTwo men have problems committing to relationships with their partners. They live it up, in town...
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L'Addition
as PattyFor having wanted to defend a young girl accused of theft, a comedian finds himself in prison....
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Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
as Gloria DuqueA hit man searches for an alcoholic prostitute who has witnessed a crime and fled to Madrid.
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The 7th Day
as Luciana FuentesIsabel Jimenez is a teenager witnessing a horrible feud between her own family and the Fuentes...
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Bernarda
as JosefaBernarda is a loose adaptation of the play La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca ....
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Walking Vengeance
as Gloria DuqueFrantic to be free of Felix, her wealthy but drunken and violent drug-lord husband, Ana tricks...
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Max My Love
as MariaThe wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.
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Casque bleu
as AliciaWinegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another...
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If They Tell You I Fell
as Menchu / Ramona / Aurora NinIn the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell...
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Leur morale… et la nôtre
as MurielOn peut être un couple de bons Français, toujours amoureux, parents modèles, travailleurs et...
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Sans peur et sans reproche
as JeanneWithout fear and beyond reproach: the life of the brave knight de Bayard reviewed and corrected...
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Le Cœur à l'envers
as The hostessLaure is a 40-year-old psychologist who doesn't know her son, Jean. But the latter comes back to...
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The Great Restaurant
as Une cliente du restaurantFragments of the lives of the customers of a great restaurant and the inconvenience of its manager.
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On the Line
as EngraciaA Border Patrol agent is determined to catch his old nemesis, an American criminal who...
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Tiempo de silencio
as DoritaPedro Martín, a young and ambitious doctor, is studying the effect of cancerous cells on mice,...
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Born to Win
as VictoriaEncarna, a thirtysomething girl of Móstoles (Madrid) is trapped in a life without changes, at...
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A Day at the Museum
as ClaraUn conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un...
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De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
as Self (archive footage)For seven years, Antoine de Caunes and José Garcia made their mark on French comedy history each...
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Too Much Heart
as Ana y ClaraTwo twin sisters fall in love for the same man.
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Foul Play
as Lolita - hermana de PepiA 1977 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem that won the Golden Prize the 10th...
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Wishlist
as CarmenEva and Carmen are two women who meet in the worst place: the doctor’s office, waiting to hear...
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Girl with the Golden Panties
as MarianaLuys Forest is a writer with a Falangist political past. He lives isolated in a coastal town,...
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Murder in the Central Committee
as CarmelaThe plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from...
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El crimen del capitán Sánchez
as María Luisa SánchezMadrid, Spring 1913. During a visit to the casino, a beautiful 20 year-old woman catches the eye...
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Our Tropical Island
as SabinaA businessman is leaving for his family vacation in the South Pacific when he finds out that a...
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Our Father
as CardenalaThe story of a Spanish Cardinal who is told he only has one more year to live. He decides to...
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Swindled
as PilarIn a flashback, Ernesto, a young con man, tells us how he got to the edge of a big score:...
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Comin' at Ya!
as AbileneA young couple's wedding ceremony is brutally interrupted when a pair of outlaw brothers arrive...
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Bicycles Are for the Summer
as ManolitaIn Madrid, the family of Don Luis, his wife Dolores and their children, Manolita and Luisito,...
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Barrios altos
as VerónicaVeronica, recently divorced with a son, begins to organize her life and adapt to the new...
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School of Seduction
as Sandra Vega"Escuela de seducción" is an acceptable comedy which deals, for the umpteenth time, with the war...
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The Bastard
as BettyThe erratic life of Patrice who, after having murdered the pimp of his mother to avenge the...
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The Witching Hour
as SagaCésar and Pilar tour the Spanish countryside with their bus, showing films and doing magic...
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Esposa y amante
as MarisaLuisa's daughter attempted suicide. While attending the clinic and, contemplating the state of...
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La Femme du cosmonaute
as AnnaAnna and her husband Jean-Paul have to face a long and difficult separation since Jean-Paul is a...
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Neon Flesh
as PuraPura, Ricky's mother , just left jail. A simple fact that changes the whole existence of Ricky....
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Robin Hood, Arrow, Beans and Karate
as Lady Anne BirdsleyRobin Hood fights the evil Sheriff of Nothingham. Friar Tuck brings his friend Moi Kato, a Kung...
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48 Hours a Day
as AnnaA young professional woman takes radical action to force her husband's help with the household...
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Et après?
as uncreditedMustapha, a young Moroccan living on small shots, meets a couple of Spanish tourists. The latter...
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After Darkness
as PascaleTo salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a...
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Ada in the Jungle
as CarmenA dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.
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My Father, My Mother, My Brothers and My Sisters
as AnneYoung single mother has two sons and a daughter by three different fathers who are completely...
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Cause toujours !
as JacintheThis way-offbeat comedy from Gallic director Jeanne Labrune concerns two young French women,...
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Mater amatísima
as uncreditedClara- an attractive- sophisticated and unmarried woman- and the autistic child who transforms...
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Rouge-gorge
as MargueriteAfter graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down...
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El placer de matar
as uncreditedTwo assassins: Luis, young and impulsive and André, married teacher. Fate lets them cross their...
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Who Is That Splashing in the Mediterranean?
as MercedesTwo half-brothers have to go on a road trip to find their half-sister and receive a huge...
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El juego más divertido
as Ada/SaraTwo popular television actors, Ada and Bruno, are filming " Hotel de Fez ", a popular and...
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No Trace of Sin
as Maria da Luz / LuciliaA young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman...
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Baton Rouge
as Ana AlonzoPoor gigolo tries to frame his rich mature mistress, but gets tangled in his own wiles.
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La casa del paraíso
as VictoriaVictoria, a beautiful woman, breaks into a large house, where strage people live without ever...
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Intruso
as LuisaIn childhood and youth, the three were "the inseparables." Luisa married Ángel, then two years...
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The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears
as HelenaAfter her son's tragic death, Helena abducts her employee, Lucian, and travels with him and her...
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The Shack
as uncreditedVicente Blasco Ibáñez wrote in 1898 "La barraca" (The Shack), a novel with some cultural...
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Mejor que Nunca
as Isabel RomeroIsabel suffers a disorder after learning that her husband, due to his immaturity, falls in love...
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The House of Ulloa
as uncreditedSet in a crumbling Spanish mansion, this gloriously comic and gothic story follows the fortunes...
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Untied! Reflections on Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
as SelfProduced in 2014, this documentary about the making of TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! features...
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The Most Beautiful Night
as ElenaFederico, an executive of national television, begins to suspect that his wife Elena, an actress...
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La mujer lunática
as uncreditedA man falls in love with an unusual woman
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Star Academy
as SelfStar Academy is a French reality television show produced by the Dutch company Endemol. It...
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MasterChef Celebrity
as ConcursanteSpanish version of the reality cooking competition in which celebrities compete to win the...
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Joséphine, Guardian Angel
as Cécilia ArranzJosephine Delamarre is a guardian angel that Heaven sends to earth. With her psychological...
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Capitaine Marleau
as Mère LouiseBeneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes...
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Clem
as Caroline "Caro" MuñozClem follows the life of a young teenager, Clémentine, who becomes a mother at the age of...
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X Femmes
as uncreditedX Femmes is a French television series of short films shown on Canal+ in 2008–2009. They were...
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Sin identidad
as Fernanda DuqueMaría, a successful lawyer based in Madrid, is shocked to discover she is adopted. A search for...
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Three Days of Christmas
as MaríaFour sisters celebrate Christmas in their family home at 3 different times in their lives:...
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Tony's Revenge
as OlgaTony Roucas, a long-term convicted criminal, escapes from prison with Kenz, a small-town big...
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Los Jinetes del Alba
as MariánRiders of the Dawn is a 1990 Spanish film, written and directed by Vicente Aranda, an adaptation...
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El Lute: The Series
as CheloEleuterio Sánchez, alias "El Lute", a merchandise trader by birth and a chicken thief at the...
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