Carmen Maura
Birthday: 1945-09-15
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
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.
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Volver
A resourcefull working-class woman living in Madrid gets her hands dirty in family secrets with the ...
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Law of Desire
Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, conc...
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves he...
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A Diary of a Murderess
A beautiful young woman sets her sights on an aging millionaire. She seduces him, and moves into his...
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Pepi, Luci, Bom
After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s ...
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Valentin
Valentin, a 9-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, believes his fami...
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The Killer Is One of Thirteen
A recent widow has invited a group of family friends to her large and secluded country home. However...
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Free Zone
Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her ...
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Common Wealth
Julia, a real estate agent, finds an enormous amount of money hidden in a dead man's apartment, a st...
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Queens
In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons wi...
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Matador
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death becom...
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Garden of Eden
A young American writer completes his service in WWI and travels across Europe with his wife and her...
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What Have I Done to Deserve This?
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ...
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Dark Habits
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorit...
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El espíritu
The haunting spirit of a woman comes to the call of the participants in a séance....
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The Pimp
A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp....
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Ay, Carmela!
Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civ...
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Happiness Is in the Field
Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employ...
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800 Bullets
Almería, Tabernas desert, Spain, 2002. Texas Hollywood is a dilapidated and dusty town where Western...
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The Pact of Silence
Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalis...
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To the Other Side
This drama features three stories about the bonds between children and absent parents. A Cuban boy w...
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The Black Virgin
Life of inhabitants of a small fishing village of the caribbean , changes drastically after the appa...
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The Women on the 6th Floor
Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzan...
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Women
Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life....
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Le ventre de Juliette
The 20-year-old Juliette tries to come to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, despite a lack of supp...
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25 Degrees in Winter
An Ukranian woman enters Belgium illegally and hides in the van of a driver abandoned by his wife. H...
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La promesa
A psychological thriller about an obsessive compulsive, deeply religious woman who flees her abusive...
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Alice and Martin
Martin, the illegitimate son of an industrialist and a hairdresser, was sent to live with his wealth...
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Move Over, Mrs. Markham
Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have manage...
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Arroz y tartana
Manuela de Fora, an elegant woman, widow of Pajares, lives with the sole obsession of marrying well ...
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How to Be Miserable and Enjoy It
Carmen, an attractive 40 year old woman, suddenly belongs a widow. For her, the emptiness feeling is...
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Searching for Love
When Ana married Felix, the leader of a rock band and son of a travel agent, she thought her life wo...
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To the End of the Road
An executive and his girlfriend, a medical doctor, are kidnapped by a couple to pass them to France ...
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Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven
A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic...
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The Notice of the Day
The story revolves around the life of Leopold, a middle-class father; his wife Isabel working for a ...
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La reina anónima
Anna Luz, a married woman, rethinks her life when she receives the visit of a stranger who claims to...
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Escalade
A group of teenagers, under the guise of celebrating their headmistress’s birthday, turn into her to...
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Coarse Salt
A famous composer creative in crisis and must compose a new album, but is going through a painful se...
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Rainbow
In search of her mother, a teenager and her eccentric group of companions set off on a journey, tryi...
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How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt
Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Ove...
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Paulette
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no ...
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Tata Mía
Elvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and return...
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Between Heaven and Earth
Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her ca...
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Mieux vaut courir
Crossfire between a suspect and the police. In the middle of the case, a girl....
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Que parezca un accidente
A women is planning to kill her son-in-law after she finds out that he is unfaithful to her daughter...
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Lisboa
Joao sells video tapes in road bars between Portugal and Spain. One day he finds a middle aged woman...
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My Other Jon
Merche, about to turn 76, is told that she doesn't have long left to live. Unable to travel to watch...
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Amores que matan
Consuelo is a bored housewife. Her husband is away on business in Berlin, and her only company would...
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Clouds: Letters to My Son
Marion Hänsel directed this personal meditation on the joys and responsibilities of parenthood, in w...
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Shadows in a Conflict
Ana, a former member of the Basque terrorist group ETA who lives in a small village near the Portugu...
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El menor de los males
Eduardo is a middle-aged man, married with children; He lives in Madrid and is dedicated to politics...
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Louis, the Child King
January 1649: Since the death of his father, the young Louis XIV must undergo the hard apprenticeshi...
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Blindfolded Eyes
A drama teacher casts a woman in a play about torture, and the two eventually become lovers. As prod...
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Witching & Bitching
A gang of gold thieves land in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual... and in ...
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Baton Rouge
Poor gigolo tries to frame his rich mature mistress, but gets tangled in his own wiles....
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The Hold-Up
Lola's a single mom, broke, working as a janitor and maid. Silvia is pregnant, and her lover (her bo...
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Paper Tigers
Spain, 1977. The first general elections are about to take place after the long dictatorship and the...
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Parella de tres
Ana and Marta are good friends but very different women. Ana is a housewife whereas Marta is an agre...
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King of the River
An air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby ...
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Beyond the Walls
This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued...
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Tetro
In Buenos Aires, 17-year-old Bennie seeks out his estranged brother Tetro, a once-promising writer h...
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Chicas
Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the man...
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The Angry Cid
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, “Mio Cid”, is in love with Jimena, but the Count of Oviedo, his father, chall...
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The Harem of Madame Osmane
In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad tem...
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The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes...
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What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape...
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The Black Hand
Three old schoolmates, who in their time as students had formed a kind of secret society called The ...
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The Lame Pigeon
Little Felipe has been sick for a long time. To hasten his recovery, his parents send him to spend t...
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Holiday Assassins
In 1955 Buenos Aires, a broke theater troupe turns to scamming funerals for survival. Their big brea...
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A Village Almost Perfect!
"Saint-Loin-la-Mauderne", a tiny village hurt by the financial crisis and the desertification. Its ...
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People You May Know
'People You May Know' tells the story of four friends in their 40s in Los Angeles. All them will hav...
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Como el mar
Paula & Azul. A funeral, a family secret and a road trip that will change their lives forever....
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Leonor
Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family...
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Tortilla y Cinema
Benjamin Ballon wants to be a filmmaker, and has devoted a large part of his life for the past few y...
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El Cometa
After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictators...
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Vanity
David Miller wants to die and chooses assisted euthanasia. He planned everything: the place, the tim...
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Musical Chairs
Perrine, a single, slightly awkward musician, loves birthday parties. One day she accidentally cause...
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Superlove
The Virgin Mary appears to Mario, a provincial barber who dreams of becoming a successful singer. He...
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Pomporrutas imperiales
Two middle aged Spanish men bump into each other at a music store: Calvo, who is a TV actor, and Cas...
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Alliance cherche doigt
Geneviève Lechat is the director of a marriage agency. At 50, she is still very desirable and very f...
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Crazy Old Lady
Pedro receives a desperate message from an ex-girlfriend asking him to look after her senile mother,...
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Seeds
The coming of age story of a boy that after a traumatic event is taken to beautiful Cuernavaca, wher...
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Un cine como tú en un país como éste
Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmake...
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El futuro ya no es lo que era
A famous TV fortune-teller tries to better his life and reconnect with his stranded sons and ex wife...
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Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profes...
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Sofia and the Stubborn Man
An old lady lives in a quiet village in the Andes and has never seen the sea. For many years her hus...
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Love Ravings
In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to...
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That House in the Outskirts
A young girl's husband rents a lovely home just outside of Madrid so she can spend the last three mo...
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El hombre de moda
Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhil...
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La petición
An ambitious young woman from a wealthy family, but unsatisfied with her social position, will not h...
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Man in Hiding
Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalis...
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El crimen de la calle Fuencarral
July 1, 1888. The body of a woman is discovered during a house fire, but the examination reveals tha...
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The Kids Are Back
A retired couple will have to defend their home against an unpredicted menace: Their kids moving bac...
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Fuck... Fuck... Fuck Me, Tin!
A poor girl works in a general store with a blind boyfriend playing guitar. He becomes famous and sh...
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A Chaste Spanish Man
Don Santiago, a forty-year-old owner of a pastry shop in Madrid de los Austrias, receives surprising...
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In Family I Trust
Bea is a successful architect who lives in Barcelona (Catalonia, northeast to Spain) with her boyfri...
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Venice
Reencountering the only man she ever loved is Gringa’s dream. She is the owner of a brothel in the i...
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All About Mothers
They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving...
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Querido Fotogramas
The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through...
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¡Ay, Carmen!
The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director...
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Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
When looking at Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography, it becomes evident that women are everywhere; in fact...
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Chasing Wonders
A coming-of-age story set across the lush wine country of both Australia and Spain, a young man expl...
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My Family and the Wolf
When Hugo, a boy who spends his summer vacation with his cousins, discovers that the wolf Rong inten...
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Chatarra
Zabu was a dancer in a small cabaret in Bilbao. Twelve years later she is living with her daughter L...
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Usted tiene ojos de mujer fatal
Madrid, Spain, early thirties. The charming playboy Sergio Hernán is an unscrupulous womanizer who o...
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La corte de Ana
She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starrin...
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Fierce Love, or When Children Play at Love
Vicente and Margarita are a traditional and middle class married couple whose life is surrounded by ...
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La peur du vide
Simone is an isolated old lady, whose daily life is punctuated by a strange pile of rubbish, so impo...
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Stories of Our Cinema
In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country ar...
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Barefoot in the Kitchen
What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragmen...
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La mujer feliz
A young innocent man pursued for murder finds refuge with a bored married woman. Soon they become lo...
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Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido!
Abandoned by her husband, a woman takes to the streets in search of money to feed her children. (Pro...
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Let My People Go !
Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappoin...
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Miracles of Our Lady
A film based on a collection of reported miracles of Mary, mother of Jesus, written around 1260 by S...
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Deconstructing Almodóvar
A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection that deconstructs his career through...
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Directed by Almodóvar
A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection featuring interviews with many of hi...
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Viva Pedro: The Life & Times of Pedro Almodóvar
The genius that is Almodóvar is expressed in this film with interviews from his family, co-workers, ...
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Calle Málaga
Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, Morocco, and enjoys her daily ro...
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La Cuidadora
When Carmen, an 80-year-old widow, suffers a domestic accident, her daughter Lourdes decides to hire...
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