Marisa Paredes

AKA:
0.3292

1946-04-03

Madrid, Spain

Biography

María Luisa Paredes Bartolomé, (3 April 1946-17 December 2024) born in Madrid was better known in showbusiness as Marisa Paredes. She was a Spanish actress known for All About My Mother and Life is Beautiful.

Crew Roles

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Huma

1999-04-16 7.63

All About My Mother

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outsp ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Carmen

2001-04-20 7.283

The Devil's Backbone

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Horror, Thriller

Dora's Mother

1997-12-20 8.44

Life Is Beautiful

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a c ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Executive Director

2007-04-27 0

Després de la pluja

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Leo Macías

1995-09-22 6.8

The Flower of My Secret

Middle-aged romance author Leo writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works overseas, is distant both physically and emotionally. As she reevaluates her l ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Zoila Gómez

1980-04-02 5.9

Opera Prima

Matias meets Violeta, his cousin one morning in Madrid at the Plaza de Opera. He is twenty-five. She is 18. He's a divorced journalist trying to write a thriller. She studies violin. She's a vegetaria ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Reyes

2005-04-08 5.8

Queens

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 charge of the ceremony; the entrepreneur in hotel b ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Sor Estiércol

1983-10-03 6.6

Dark Habits

After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Becky del Páramo

1991-10-23 7.051

High Heels

After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's e ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

2001-09-26 5.8

Savages

Spanish drama about anti-immigrant racism and family problems. Berta is a single nurse raising her deceased sister's three teenage children in a Spanish port city. The two boys are neo-Nazis with a fl ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Marilia

2011-08-17 7.492

The Skin I Live In

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession. ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

1985-04-10 0

Tatuaje

A short film starring Pedro Almodóvar and Marisa Paredes, parodying a 1940s torch song, the famous Spanish copla "Tatuaje". ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Griselda

1986-08-06 6.8

In a Glass Cage

A mysterious teenager named Ángelo cares for Klaus, a German doctor with a dark past who lives trapped in an iron lung. ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, Thriller

María Luisa

1984-01-20 6.8

Bicycles Are for the Summer

In Madrid, the family of Don Luis, his wife Dolores and their children, Manolita and Luisito, share the daily life of the Civil War with their maid and neighbours. Despite having failed his exams, Lui ...
Genre :Drama

Maria

1996-05-15 6.4

Three Lives and Only One Death

Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that con ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery

Ana

2009-04-20 5

Amores locos

Genre :Romance, Drama

Doña Consuelo

1998-10-30 5.4

Talk of Angels

This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War

Lola

1999-06-02 5.3

No One Writes to the Colonel

Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife als ...
Genre :Drama

D. Filipa Sanches

2012-10-04 5.716

Lines of Wellington

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal. ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Carmen - Prima política de Toni

1974-01-01 7

Larga noche de julio

Tony wants to carry out a perfect robbery and get a lot of money during the celebration of the 24 Hours of Montjuic, a motorcycle race. To accomplish this, he counts with the complicity of Peter, a ru ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mujer desconocida

1992-10-18 4.167

La reina anónima

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 coincides with the entry of a series of extravaga ...
Genre :Comedy

Adela

1988-01-21 4.5

Tu novia está loca

Amaya is a modern girl, independent, who runs an advertising gency. The business is doing well and is enmaorada of her boyfriend, a lawyer of lost causes somewhat confused. Its stable and happy life i ...
Genre :Comedy

Elvira Rey García

1970-02-23 0

El señorito y las seductoras

Antonio is a millionaire who spends his time conquering beautiful women aided by his faithful butler, Pablol. He tries to seduce the beautiful Marta, but when he realizes that she prepares a trap to f ...
Genre :Comedy

Suzana

1993-09-01 6.3

Lost in Transit

A traveller who has lost his passport in a Paris airport while between flights is restricted to a special transit zone. There he finds a group of similarly lost people hiding out and living from hand- ...
Genre :Comedy

Paloma

1986-01-01 5.5

Tata Mía

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, seeking help to overcome their crisis. However, t ...
Genre :Drama

María

1999-11-10 6.4

Jonas and Lila, Til Tomorrow

It’s December 1999, and 25-year-old Jonah has just graduated from film school. As the new millennium begins, Jonah marries his longtime sweetheart Lila. Over the course of six months, the couple meet ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

María Luisa

2010-07-16 2

The God of Wood

Yao and Moroccan Rachid arrive illegally in Valencia, Spain, and separate. Yao sells pirated DVDs in the street and wanders disconsolately around the barrio until he glimpses divorcee Maria Luisa work ...
Genre :Drama

Pilar

2012-04-10 5

Photo

Her mother has just died. Her father is not what she had thought. Caught between an uncertain past, which she knows only through the photographs her mother has left behind, and the prospect of a marri ...
Genre :Drama

Olga

1987-01-20 5.8

Silver-beet Face

On a road in the deep Spain, a wanderer with no fixed course and light luggage awaits someone to take him somewhere. His name is Antonio and this is how he will end up in a small provincial town, wher ...
Genre :

2004-11-22 3.7

Cold Winter Sun

Rich kid Adrian is released form the psychiatric institution where he has lived since he was a child and goes to live in the house he's been given by his father, who he's not seen for years. On the ot ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2023-01-09 0

El viaje de Julieta

Genre :Documentary

Madre

2014-10-16 7

Silencios

Genre :Drama

2007-09-14 3.5

Les pel·lícules del meu pare

The protagonist has no memory of her father. However, as she watches the films he made before she was born, in which several young girls appear, she begins to suspect if there had been nothing between ...
Genre :Drama

Maria

2013-09-28 5.4

Dreamland

An affluent city is covered in snow, all seems perfect – on the surface. Divorcé Rolf is doing his best to rebuild his relationship with his daughter. Pregnant Lena appears to be living a faultless fa ...
Genre :Drama

Marisa

1987-09-01 5

Mientras haya luz

Marisa, a 38 years old woman, tells a stranges story to her daughter while they're walking through a level crossing in Madrid. An anthropologist, Jaime, is chased by a mysterious jeep. In the course ...
Genre :Crime

2003-09-05 2

Una preciosa puesta de sol

Three women from three different generations meet at last in a trip to a resort in northern Spain. ...
Genre :

Elise von Sekt, Milady

1998-02-25 5.5

Doctor Chance

Angstel trades in forged paintings, under the guidance of his mother, Milady. Their network extends into other murky affairs, provoking the wrath of a rival gang. Angstel falls in love with Ancetta, a ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, Mystery

Clara

2004-06-25 5

Red Sunset

Michel, was born in Latin America, "on the other side of the world", as the script emphasizes, of a French father he hardly knew at all. He goes to Paris to start a new life. His only possession is a ...
Genre :Drama

Madame Moreau

1998-08-12 0

Le serpent a mangé la grenouille

Yves Le Guen, a black man with a degree in economics, is hired as a handyman on the property of Mr. Moreau, a rich public works contractor. His arrival is going to upset the daily life of the inhabita ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Xulia

1989-11-24 2.5

Continental

At the end of the 50s, after assassinating the legendary capo Goncalves and dividing their domains, Ventura and Otálora, rival and old friends, fight with their bands for the control of prostitution ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Clara

1975-09-26 0

En provincia

Genre :Drama

1971-01-01 0

El espíritu del animal

Genre :Drama

Veronica

2007-01-11 5.2

Four Last Songs

A comic drama set on a Mediterranean island, where a motley collection of characters is seeking musical redemption. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance

Le Maîtresse de Cérémonie

1992-09-24 4.7

Golem, the Spirit of Exile

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblical Ruth) and her sisters, who are forced into exile ...
Genre :Drama

Ramona

2015-03-19 5.7

Latin Lover

The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Julia Márquez

1995-04-13 6.5

Ship of Fools

In a small town in Patagonia (Southern Argentina), a Mapuche Indian chief sets a tourist complex under construction on fire. He denies all attempts to defend himself. Locked up, he waits for the arriv ...
Genre :Drama

Irene Gallardo

1996-09-09 6.8

Deep Crimson

Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Self

2012-01-01 0

The Making of All About My Mother

A documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan; production ma ...
Genre :Documentary

Espectadora (uncredited)

2002-03-15 7.577

Talk to Her

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Invitada de la fiesta (segment "Delirio 3") (uncredited)

1986-11-13 4.75

Love Ravings

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 man. ...
Genre :Comedy

Elizabeth (segment "Victor Frankenstein")

1971-01-01 5

Cake of Blood

Four part anthology horror film, with segments featuring witchcraft, ghosts, Frankenstein and his monster, and ancient Christians battling Celtic vampires. ...
Genre :Horror

Olga

1993-01-28 4

Tierno verano de lujurias y azoteas

A youngster recently arrived to Spain from Russia falls in love with his own cousin who is an astonishingly beautiful actress and, besides, much older than him. ...
Genre :Comedy

Herself

2010-11-13 2

1st Time 16mm

Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon, Venice, Paris and Madrid. ...
Genre :Drama

1989-01-01 5

Párpados

Párpados (the literal translation, “Eyelids”, misses the homophonic “par pa’ dos,” or “a couple for two”) is a 1989 television episode with an intricate script involving a delirious array of doubles, ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Jessica

1967-08-22 0

El mercader de Venecia

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the ...
Genre :

Carmen

1980-12-17 3.8

Sus años dorados

María, a young and attractive woman, loses her job, meets Luis, a young man with no stable job neither, his wife supports him. Luis wants to start a relationship with María, but she doesn't. She prefe ...
Genre :Comedy

Marisa

2018-10-19 6.2

Petra

Petra doesn’t know who her father is. Her entire life, it’s been hidden from her. After the death of her mother, she embarks on a search that leads her to Jaume, a famous artist and a powerful, ruthle ...
Genre :Drama

Judit Canalès

2011-03-23 5.4

His Mother's Eyes

A writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way into the lives of a star television journalist and his lead ballerina daughter to write, unbeknownst to them, a non-authorized biography. M ...
Genre :Drama

Monja

2006-03-09 6.4

Magic Mirror

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire was to see the Virgin Mary. Now come ...
Genre :Drama

Odette

2010-06-06 3.471

Gigola

George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some y ...
Genre :Drama

Dottoressa Campo

2008-10-24 5.8

The Man Who Loves

A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved. ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2004-01-01 5.8

Que es un Fantasma?: The Making of 'The Devil's Backbone'

The making of “The Devil’s Backbone” by Guillermo del Toro. ...
Genre :Documentary

Soledad

1969-01-01 0

La revoltosa

Genre :Music

Self

2018-10-05 4

Querido Fotogramas

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 of voices represented by people who make films, th ...
Genre :Documentary

1965-05-10 7.065

Life Goes On

Madrid, Spain. Eloísa, a self-sacrificing wife and efficient mother, lives in the neighborhood of Maravillas with her husband, a violent policeman; her sanctimonious son, who spends his life studying ...
Genre :Drama

Carmen

2019-03-16 6

Despite Everything

Sara, Lucía, Sofía and Claudia are sisters, 4 modern women with very different personalities, who come together at their mother's funeral, after which they discover the man they've all called "dad" th ...
Genre :Comedy

Sarah Bernhardt

1992-09-23 4

Off Season

The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site’s empty halls and ballrooms. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Guerrillera

1977-12-02 5.4

A Dog Called... Vengeance

A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Self

2012-05-16 8.3

Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother

Shot in 1999, "All About My Mother" is Pedro Almodóvar's thirteenth feature film. The director was a key figure in the turbulent Movida (the movement for cultural renewal and liberation in post-Franco ...
Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

Madre di Luca

1995-02-23 4.2

Diary of a Rapist

This Italian film takes a chilling, nonexploitative look into the mind of a nice young man who compulsively rapes beautiful women. The rapes are graphically presented and may be disturbing to some vie ...
Genre :Drama

Klemp

1962-05-14 5.8

The Awful Dr. Orlof

Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face. He is assisted by Morpho, a deformed monstrosity who delights i ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller

Luisa Fernanda

1973-11-22 7

Luisa Fernanda

A 1973 TV adaptation of the classic spanish zarzuela ...
Genre :Music, TV Movie, Comedy

Nina

1968-08-23 4.833

Requiem for a Gringo

Returning home, Ross Logan immediately gets into conflict with the Carranza gang, which had just crossed the Mexican border and has occupied a nearby Hacienda. After his brother is killed he plans a c ...
Genre :Western

1967-07-10 5.8

Las salvajes en Puente San Gil

A revue troupe arrives in Puente San Gil, a small town, where they are received with hostility and contempt by the more conservative inhabitants. ...
Genre :Drama

1961-12-04 0

Cradle Song

In a Castilian convent of the late nineteenth century, the community of cloistered nuns celebrates the onomastic of their superior with a poem. She is also visited by the doctor, Don Jose, who diagnos ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1968-01-01 0

Tinto con amor

Genre :Comedy

1969-12-07 4.7

Carola de día, Carola de noche

Due to the triumph of a revolution, Carola, a young and beautiful heiress to the throne, leaves her country to save her life; but her new existence, constantly watched, threatened by her enemies, subj ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1960-11-07 5.8

Police Calling 091

A police inspector makes his service in a patrol car attenging emergency calls. A memory hauns him, the death of her daughter, who was killed hit by a car that fled. The car is located and the inspect ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1960-12-26 7

Los económicamente débiles

Genre :Comedy

Self (archive footage)

2005-10-06 6.765

Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido!

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 Deserve This?, directed by Pedro Almodóvar.) ...
Genre :Comedy

La Maja

1971-06-07 7.3

Goya: A Story of Solitude

A biography of the Spanish painter Francisco José de Goya (1746-1828), who went from being a court painter to creating heartbreaking images denouncing the atrocities and injustices of his time. ...
Genre :Drama

2022-11-04 0

Las cartas perdidas

Genre :Documentary

1972-01-01 0

Abismo

Genre :

2025-03-28 0

A Free Man

In the 1970s, Agustín Gómez Arcos rose to the top of French literature, while in his own country, Spain, his name remained hidden. A Free Man reflects on the recent history of Spain through silences, ...
Genre :Documentary

María Luisa

1988-12-31 0

La última cena... del 88

Genre :Comedy

(self)

2025-02-07 0

Break a Leg

4th February 1975. It's the first day of the historic actors strike that would bring the country's theatre activity to a halt for nine days. They demand one day off a week. What started out as a deman ...
Genre :Documentary

Woman on metro (uncredited)

2000-09-01 6.8

Leo

Salva working as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a girl who makes a living collecting cardboard. Gradually Salva be falling in love for the young ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Ana

2007-03-09 0

El camino de Ana

Genre :Drama

2025-11-13 0

Emergency Exit

It tells how 14 characters travel in a mysterious vehicle that they cannot easily get out of. Along the way, they fabricate about their identity and travel through unreal landscapes on a journey betwe ...
Genre :Drama

Susana

1998-01-01 0

Señores de Gardenia

Susana Gardenia, a seductive woman, feels a strange fascination with monsters and deformed beings. Feeling neglected, Vicente, her husband, follows her to a clandestine show. ...
Genre :Drama

2025-07-13 0

The Life of Mirrors

The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of the World. A commission by Serralves Foundation to Regina Guimarães and Saguenail, and constructed af ...
Genre :Documentary

Sheila

1966-02-04 7

Tales to Keep You Awake

Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Sofía de Grecia

2010-10-25 5

Felipe y Letizia

Dramatization of King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain's relationship before their marriage. ...
Genre :Drama

Ana Franca

1981-04-06 6.5

Cervantes

The life of Miguel de Cervantes, writer of the iconic novel Don Quixote of La Mancha. ...
Genre :Drama

Duquesa de Osuna

1985-05-13 6

Goya

Genre :Drama

Self - Presenter

2018-10-29 2

Lo Siguiente

Genre :Comedy

Self - Guest

1995-04-04 0

Lo + plus

Genre :Talk

Self - Guest

2023-10-09 0

Late Xou con Marc Giró

Marc Giró presents a very entertaining late night show with interviews with prominent personalities from the world of cinema, theatre, music, television, literature and social activism in our national ...
Genre :Comedy

República

2023-12-17 7.2

Dressed in Blue

Two years after publishing the memoirs of Cristina La Veneno ('Digo! Ni puta ni santa') Valeria Vegas has not written anything and feels more lost than ever. After watching again the documentary 'Vest ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2019-01-07 0

La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català

Genre :Documentary