"Actor: Carmen Maura"

• Volver | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Penelope Cruz stars in the latest Pedro Almodovar film about three generations of women and how they deal with death.

• Women on The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown | DVD | (20/02/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Iván (Fernando Guillén) jilts long-time lover, actress Pepa (Carmen Maura), she plans her suicide; lacing her gazpacho soup with barbiturates. She is, however saved by her best friend Candela (Maria Barranco), a fugitive from the law. Further adding to the chaos, Ivan's son (Antonio Banderas) and his finance Marisa (Rossy de Palma) turn up at the apartment. Bored with the situation, Marisa inadvertently ingests the gazpacho and as she blissfully snoozes, her fiancé inaugurates an affair with Carmen's fugitive friend. Pedro Almodóvar directs this fact-moving, surreal farce of obsessive love, garnering him an Academy Award® nomination. Extras: Around Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Introduction by José Arroyo Trailer

• Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £13.16   |  Saving you £5.82 (57.23%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Creating 'one of the jauntiest of all war-of-the-sexes comedies' (Pauline Kael), Pedro Almodovar, Spain's premiere writer-director, creates an off-kilter universe of madness, mayhem and pure fun. Nominated for the 1988 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and co-starring Antonio Banderas, Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown is 'a wild, wanton, wickedly witty farce' (People)!; ; High atop one of Spain's poshest penthouses, three women have come to the end of their mental ropes. ...

• 800 Bullets | DVD | (05/01/2010) from £9.95   |  Saving you £-0.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A gleeful gloriously wicked blend of action hilarity and luminous panoramic photography 800 Bullets is cult auteur Alex De La Iglesia's hyper-stylized tribute to the classic spaghetti westerns. Young Carlos (Luis Castro) upon discovering his grandfather was an infamous stuntman on the Almeria-sets where hundreds of epic westerns were filmed including those Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood embarks on a journey that will change his life forever. With his mother's (acting legend Carmen Maura) credit card in his pocket and her on his tail he sets his sights on Texas-Hollywood where he discovers a band of outsiders still brawling battling and chasing their dreams of stardom amidst the arid dust of the scorching Spanish desert. Calamity hilarity and death defying feats of stupidity and bravery are never far away in this acclaimed action comedy from one of modern cinema's unsung masters.

• Pedro Almodóvar: The Ultimate Collection | DVD | (26/12/2011) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-6.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.49

  Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down Ricky (Antonio Banderas) is released from a mental hospital, and knows exactly what he wants to do with his life, and his new found freedom. He hunts down Marina (Victoria Abril), a porn film star he once had sex with, and tries to convince her to be his wife. She is a bit reluctant, so Ricky ties her up until she falls in love with him...Will this approach endear him to her? This dark comedy from Oscar winning director Pedro Almodovar brings you an alternative love story... with strings attached! Bad Education Academy Award winning filmmaker Pedro Almodovar takes a look at his own adolescence as well as confronting the issue of sexual misconduct in the Catholic Church in this stylish thriller, which was chosen to open the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. In 1980s Madrid two young men, filmmaker Ignacio (Fele Martinez, Talk To Her) and aspiring actor Enrique (Gael Garcia Bernal, Motorcycle Diaries, Y Tu Mama Tambien) open up dark secrets as they revisit their early years together at a Catholic school. As they try to uncover the truth about themselves, each other and the diverse characters in their story, they realise that things and people are not as they first seem. All About My Mother From acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, a stunning valentine to femininity in all its disguises, motherhood in all its glory and to classic Hollywood melodramas and their diva actresses. A birthday treat turns into heart-rending tragedy for single mother Manuela (Cecilia Roth) when her teenage son is killed in a car accident after a performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' starring his favourite actress Huma Roja (Marisa Paredes). Determined to exorcise her overwhelming guilt, Manuela goes to Barcelona to finally tell his father about the son he never knew he had. There, the reason why she has kept the identity of her forbidden lover a secret for so long is revealed. He is a transvestite named Lola who is dying from an AIDS related illness. However in confronting her own past, Manuela forges a new future with Lola's transsexual best friend Agrado (Antonia San Juan), church social worker Sister Rosa (Penelope Cruz) and Huma, when her play comes to town. But even as the women from different fringes of society form a bond, further heartbreak, misfortune and ultimate joy lies in store for each. Considered by critics worldwide to be the finest movie Almodovar has directed in his entire glittering career, and featuring glorious acting from the cream of Spanish cinema, All About My Mother combines warmth, love, tears and humour as it builds to an unforgettable emotional crescendo. Talk To Her In this ravishing tale of romantic obsession, loneliness and friendship. Director Pedro Almodovar crafts a life affirming story of two tragic woman and the men who love them. After a chance encounter at a theatre, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny. Volver Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) and her sister Sol (Lola Duenas) are visited by the apparition of their mother (Carmen Maura), who has returned to reconcile with her daughters and resolve an issue that has haunted the family since her death. Broken Embraces The latest film from Pedro Almodovar, starring Penelope Cruz. It starts in present-day Madrid. Mateo Blanco (Lluis Homar) is a filmmaker who's been blind ever since a car accident on the island of Lanzarote that also claimed the life of his lover Lena (Penelope Cruz). Since the tragedy, he's been known only by his pen name Harry Caine, repressing his former self in order to live life to the full, looked after by his age-old friend Judit (Blanca Portillo) and her son Diego. The Skin I Live In Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault. In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice. And as for the human guinea pig...

• How To Be A Woman And Not Die In The Attempt | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A year in the life of feisty journalist Carmen (Maura) wife and mother of two as she attempts to overcome the chores and responsibilities associated with being married to an alcoholic...

• Law Of Desire | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £8.89   |  Saving you £12.09 (204.91%)   |  RRP £17.99

  At its core Law Of Desire features a fabulous trio: the famous Madrid director Pablo (Poncela) for whom men are prepared to die his new love-crazed boyfriend Antonio (Banderas) and Pablo's flamboyant and gorgeous transsexual sister Tina. Pablo is suffering because Juan his lover shares his steamy passion but not his commitment and has returned to his village in southern Spain. Trying to forget him Pablo is seduced by the tall dark handsome and heterosexual Antonio who

• What Have I Done To Deserve This | Blu Ray | (20/02/2017) from £11.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  What Have I Done To Deserve This? is a perfect example of director Pedro Almodóvar's earlier work, containing all the elements which earned his films a cult international following. Starring the incomparable Carmen Marua as Gloria, a prescription drug addicted mother battling to make sense of her life and family as the world around her goes crazy. Intelligent, offensive, risqué, hilarious, eccentric, ironic, compelling, sad and sext, this early film shows Almodóvar's genius at it's more raw and untamed, his explosive energy shining through right to the last frame. Extras: Around What Have I Done To Deserve This? Introduction by José Arroyo Trailer

• Almodovar - Vol. 1 | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A collection of films from acclaimed Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar comprising: Dark Habits (1983): Nothing is quite what it seems in this early Almodovar comedy in which the unconventional nuns of a dilapidated Madrid convent write soft porn get high and still find time to design fabulous evening wear! Pepi Luci Bom (1980): Pepi (Carmen Maura) is an unemployed heiress whose illegal plants indiscreetly placed on the balcony lead to an unwelcome visit from a police

• Seeds | DVD | (25/03/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk DOES NOT have English audio and subtitles.

• Valentin | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £12.04   |  Saving you £7.95 (66.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An 8-year-old boy, raised by his grandmother, is surrounded by problems in his family that he finds only himself capable of solving.

• Volver | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £7.44   |  Saving you £15.54 (349.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Penelope Cruz stars in the latest Pedro Almodovar film about three generations of women and how they deal with death.

• Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) pregnant actress Pepa (Carmen Maura) is distraught by a break-up with her actor boyfriend Ivn (Fernando Guilln) and prepares a gazpacho laced with sleeping pills. She is however saved from suicide by her best friend Candela (Mara Barranco) a fugitive from justice. Pepa's ex-lover's grown son (Antonio Banderas) arrives with wife-to-be Marisa (Rossy de Palma) in answer to Carmen's ""room to let"" newspaper ad. Marisa inadvertently ingests the gazpacho and as she blissfully snoozes her fianc inaugurates an affair with Carmen's fugitive friend.

• Almodóvar Collection | Blu Ray | (19/09/2016) from £39.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (25.01%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The most celebrated Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel, director, screenwriter, composer and actor Pedro Almodóvar was born in Calzada de Calatrava, La Mancha, in 1951. Aged sixteen, Almodóvar moved to Madrid and purchased his first movie camera and became familiar with what would later drive his formative films: the dramas and miseries of the Spanish middle classes at the beginning of the age of consumerism. The films in this box set include, Dark Habits (1983), What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) Law of Desire (1987) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988). As well as sealing the collaborations that Almodóvar had made with the actors he met from his days in an independent theatre group (including Carmen Maura), the films from this period also display his acute visual style and recurring thematic obsessions including sexual violence, female masochism and addiction. It was this epoch that also bought the first of numerous Academy Award® nominations for Women on the Verge. Kika (1993) and The Flower of My Secret (1995) continue the director's fascination with strong female protagonists, transgression, pain and regeneration. This stunning collection is a must-have for all fans of Almodóvar - each film has been beautifully restored - showcasing the work of one of the world's most celebrated filmmaker. EXTRAS: DISC 1 DARK HABITS Around Dark Habits Introduction by José Arroyo DISC 2 WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS? Around What Have I Done to Deserve This? Introduction by José Arroyo Trailer DISC 3 LAW OF DESIRE Around Law of Desire Introduction by José Arroyo Trailer DISC 4 WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN Around Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Introduction by José Arroyo DISC 5 KIKA Around Kika Introduction by José Arroyo Pedro Almodóvar interview Cast and crew interviews The Characters The Music Trailer DISC 6 THE FLOWER OF MY SECRET Around The Flower of My Secret Introduction by José Arroyo Pedro Almodóvar interview Cast and crew interviews Trailer

• Alice Et Martin | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £16.18   |  Saving you £1.81 (11.19%)   |  RRP £17.99

  After the mysterious death of his father 20-year-old Martin (Alexis Loret) spends three weeks on the run eventually arriving in Paris at the door of his half-brother Benjamin (Mathieu Amalric The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Quantum of Solace) a struggling actor.Benjamin's friend Alice (Juliette Binoche The English Patient) answers hesitantly inviting Martin into the apartment and into the unconventional life she shares with Benjamin. Alice is nervous and brittle obviously harbouring her own private grief. At first she resents Martin's presence in the apartment however she gradually begins to care for the young man and eventually falls deeply in love with him. Their happiness is short lived when Martin's past comes back to haunt him and Alice begins a quest to find out exactly how Martin's father died.Alice et Martin is a meditation on family romance and the search for contentment from French director Andr'' T''chin'' (Les Voleurs Ma Saison Pr''f''r''e).

• Pepi, Luci, Bom | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Almodvar's provocative first feature Pepi Luci Bom (1980) is set during Madrid's punk era. The film is an outrageous comedy which follows docile housewife Luci (Eva Silva) her trendy marijuana smoking neighbour Pepi (Carmen Maura) and rock star Bom (Olvido Gara) who are close friends. Events take a shocking turn when Pepi is raped by a policeman. Pepi vows revenge and of course her friends are on hand to make sure she gets it.

• Let My People Go | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £5.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (168.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A sweet and hilarious fusion of gay romantic comedy, Jewish family drama and French bedroom farce, Mikael Buch s Let My People Go! follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Reuben (Regular Lovers Nicolas Maury), a French-Jewish gay mailman living in fairytale Finland (where he got his MA in Comparative Sauna Cultures ) with his gorgeous Nordic boyfriend. But just before Passover, a series of mishaps and a lovers quarrel exile the heartbroken Reuben back to Paris and back to his zany ...

• Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown | Blu Ray | (20/02/2017) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Iván (Fernando Guillén) jilts long-time lover, actress Pepa (Carmen Maura), she plans her suicide; lacing her gazpacho soup with barbiturates. She is, however saved by her best friend Candela (Maria Barranco), a fugitive from the law. Further adding to the chaos, Ivan's son (Antonio Banderas) and his finance Marisa (Rossy de Palma) turn up at the apartment. Bored with the situation, Marisa inadvertently ingests the gazpacho and as she blissfully snoozes, her fiancé inaugurates an affair with Carmen's fugitive friend. Pedro Almodóvar directs this fact-moving, surreal farce of obsessive love, garnering him an Academy Award® nomination. Extras: Around Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Introduction by José Arroyo Trailer

• Almodóvar Collection | DVD | (19/09/2016) from £32.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (21.22%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The most celebrated Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel, director, screenwriter, composer and actor Pedro Almodóvar was born in Calzada de Calatrava, La Mancha, in 1951. Aged sixteen, Almodóvar moved to Madrid and purchased his first movie camera and became familiar with what would later drive his formative films: the dramas and miseries of the Spanish middle classes at the beginning of the age of consumerism. The films in this box set include, Dark Habits (1983), What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) Law of Desire (1987) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988). As well as sealing the collaborations that Almodóvar had made with the actors he met from his days in an independent theatre group (including Carmen Maura), the films from this period also display his acute visual style and recurring thematic obsessions including sexual violence, female masochism and addiction. It was this epoch that also bought the first of numerous Academy Award® nominations for Women on the Verge. Kika (1993) and The Flower of My Secret (1995) continue the director's fascination with strong female protagonists, transgression, pain and regeneration. This stunning collection is a must-have for all fans of Almodóvar - each film has been beautifully restored - showcasing the work of one of the world's most celebrated filmmaker. EXTRAS: DISC 1 DARK HABITS Around Dark Habits Introduction by José Arroyo DISC 2 WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS? Around What Have I Done to Deserve This? Introduction by José Arroyo Trailer DISC 3 LAW OF DESIRE Around Law of Desire Introduction by José Arroyo Trailer DISC 4 WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN Around Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Introduction by José Arroyo DISC 5 KIKA Around Kika Introduction by José Arroyo Pedro Almodóvar interview Cast and crew interviews The Characters The Music Trailer DISC 6 THE FLOWER OF MY SECRET Around The Flower of My Secret Introduction by José Arroyo Pedro Almodóvar interview Cast and crew interviews Trailer

• Memories Of Murder | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £33.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This is a true story... 1986 to 1991: in a small town outside Seoul over the course of six years 10 women are raped and murdered in a radius of just 2km. Against a backdrop of air raid drills and fear of invasion from the north South Korean society's first serial killer takes the lives of 10 victims ranging from a 71 year-old grandmother to a 13 year old schoolgirl. At a time in South Korea when a murder investigation only meant grilling those who knew the victim for these offic