Movies starring Penelope Cruz
The spy movie category isn’t so sparsely populated that the arrival of a mediocre entry like The 355 is going to excite anyone. Notable exclusively for having a quintet of female leads, the movie resides somewhere above Ocean’s 8 and below...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-01-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Simon Kinberg
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Penelope Cruz, ...
The Pedro Almodovar of the late 1990s is not the same director who once engaged audiences with his kinky and offbeat views of sex and relationships. This new, kinder, gentler Almodovar is more concerned about conventional film elements like plot a...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-11-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Cast: Cecilia Roth, Eloy Azorín, Marisa Paredes, ...
"Belle Epoque is the story of Paradise: too good to last. It's about the discovery of life, but the real one, I mean: freedom, art, love, sex, friendship...all the things that make life interesting. It's an oasis... Maybe it's too idealistic, b...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE/DRAMA
Director: Fernando Trueba
Cast: Jorge Sanz, Fernando Fernan Gomez, Penelope Cruz, ...
Perhaps Almodovar and film noir simply don't mix. This is the second time in three films the acclaimed Spanish director has attempted to apply his unique style to a twisty mystery and, as was the case with Bad Education, it's not a marriage made i...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Cast: Penelope Cruz, Lluis Homar, Jose Luis Gomez, ...
Sony Pictures wisely decided not to unveil The Brothers Grimsby to critics. Would that they had shown the same deference to the general public… There are bad films and then there are bad films. This is a textbook example of the latter - a productio...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-03-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Louis Leterrier
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Isla Fisher, ...
When I first heard about The Counselor, it became one of my most anticipated titles of 2013. The talent alone made it seem like a "can't miss" proposition: Ridley Scott directing; Cormac McCarthy, the man responsible for the source material of No C...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-10-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, ...
Elegy, based on Philip Roth's The Dying Animal, provides an incisive perspective of how a person's inability to believe in love destroys a single, fragile chance at happiness. The movie tells the poignant tale of how one man - intelligent, urbane,...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-08-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Isabel Coixet
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, ...
With Ferrari, Michael Mann falls afoul of one of the pitfalls of the bio-pic: by focusing too tightly on one brief period in the main character’s life, he creates an “is that all there is?” feeling. Although the real Enzo Ferrari was a large...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Gruesome Images)
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Adam Driver, Shailene Woodley, Penelope Cruz, ...
I feel bad for Hoyt Yeatman. I really do, although perhaps not as bad as I feel for myself for having sat through his feature debut. But here's a guy who has paid his dues. He got started way back in 1977 helping out in the special effects depar...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-07-24
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Hoyt Yeatman
Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Kelli Garner, Bill Nighy, ...
Jamon, Jamon, a "tale of ham and passion" (and literally translated Ham, Ham) could perhaps be described as a "Grade B art film." Although possessing a biting wit and excellent sense of the offbeat, too much of Jamon, Jamon follows obvious paths. ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Bigas Luna
Cast: Penelope Cruz, Anna Galiena, Javier Bardem, ...