Starring Penélope Cruz

Starring Penélope Cruz

9 Episodes

A magnetic screen presence who brings passionate intensity and fearless emotional depth to her numerous acclaimed performances, Penélope Cruz has been a major force in both Spanish and American cinema for more than three decades. In this, her birthday month of April, we revisit a selection of career highlights, from her breakout roles in Spanish hits JAMÓN JAMÓN and OPEN YOUR EYES to her internationally renowned collaborations with director Pedro Almodóvar ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER and VOLVER and her Hollywood star turns in VANILLA SKY and VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Starring Penélope Cruz

9 Episodes

  • Starring Penélope Cruz Teaser
    01:05
    Starring Penélope Cruz Teaser
    Episode 1

    Starring Penélope Cruz Teaser

    Episode 1

  • Vanilla Sky
    2:16:04
    Vanilla Sky
    Episode 2

    Vanilla Sky

    Episode 2

    Directed by Cameron Crowe • 2001 • United States
    Starring Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz

    Cameron Crowe’s heady remake of Alejandro Amenábar’s Spanish science-fiction hit OPEN YOUR EYES reunites him with JERRY MAGUIRE star Tom Cruise as a man on a mind-bending search for his soul. Young,...

  • All About My Mother
    1:41:42
    All About My Mother
    Episode 3

    All About My Mother

    Episode 3

    Directed by Pedro Almodóvar • 1999 • Spain
    Starring Cecilia Roth, Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes

    This Oscar-winning melodrama, one of Pedro Almodóvar’s most beloved films, provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) loses the t...

  • Volver
    2:00:51
    Volver
    Episode 4

    Volver

    Episode 4

    Directed by Pedro Almodóvar • 2006 • Spain
    Starring Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Yohana Cobo

    Pedro Almodóvar’s VOLVER is set in Madrid’s lively working-class neighborhoods, where three generations of women survive wind, fire, and even death, thanks to goodness, audacity, and a limitless vital...

  • Jamón jamón
    1:34:48
    Jamón jamón
    Episode 5

    Jamón jamón

    Episode 5

    Directed by Bigas Luna • 1992 • Spain
    Starring Javier Bardem, Jordi Mollà, Penélope Cruz

    The pleasures of sex and food entwine to outrageous effect in this wickedly seductive, darkly surreal romance. A teenage Penélope Cruz makes a memorable film debut as Silvia, a worker in a small-town underwe...

  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    1:36:57
    Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Episode 6

    Vicky Cristina Barcelona

    Episode 6

    Directed by Woody Allen • 2008 • Spain, United States
    Starring Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem

    Woody Allen scored one of the biggest critical and commercial hits of his career with this witty, luminous tale of art, love, and sex under the Spanish sun. Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Jo...

  • Nine
    1:58:40
    Nine
    Episode 7

    Nine

    Episode 7

    Directed by Rob Marshall • 2009 • United States, Italy
    Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz

    A supernova ensemble cast—including Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren, and an Oscar-nominated Penélope Cruz—lights up this extravagant musical take on F...

  • Belle Époque
    1:49:22
    Belle Époque
    Episode 8

    Belle Époque

    Episode 8

    Directed by Fernando Trueba • 1992 • Spain, France, Portugal
    Starring Jorge Sanz, Penélope Cruz, Maribel Verdú

    Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this rollicking, sensual romp unfolds in early-1930s Spain, where Fernando (Jorge Sanz), a handsome young Civil War deserter,...

  • Open Your Eyes
    1:58:58
    Open Your Eyes
    Episode 9

    Open Your Eyes

    Episode 9

    Directed by Alejandro Amenábar • 1997 • Spain
    Starring Penélope Cruz, Eduardo Noriega, Chete Lera

    A dazzling science-fiction thriller circling around Hitchcockian themes of double identities and obsession, the sophomore feature from Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar (THE OTHERS) is a stylisti...

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