Penélope Cruz films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 35 films on Boxlist

Known for La bola negra, The Invite and All About My Mother.

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Starring Penélope Cruz

La bola negra
2026 · Film
8.7/10 · TMDBIn cinemas
The intertwined lives of three men in three different eras, three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain, and legacy.
The Invite
2026 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places.
All About My Mother
1999 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress' autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy's father about the death of the son he never knew he had.
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Volver
2006 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Raimunda lives and works in Madrid with her husband Paco and their daughter Paula. Raimunda's sister Sole lives nearby. The two sisters miss their mother Irene who died several years ago in a house fire along with their father. When a...
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Pain and Glory
2019 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an...
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Parallel Mothers
2021 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, middle-aged, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.
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Open Your Eyes
1997 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2008 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
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Official Competition
2021 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with...
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Belle Époque
1992 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which...
Live Flesh
1997 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A scorned ex-convict forces himself into the lives of the couple who put him behind bars.
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Ferrari
2023 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A biopic of automotive mogul Enzo Ferrari, whose family redefined the idea of the high-powered Italian sports car and practically spawned the concept of Formula One racing.
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Everybody Knows
2018 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
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Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Iconic writer, director, actor, comedian and musician Woody Allen allowed his life and creative process to be documented on-camera for the first time. With this unprecedented access, Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Robert B. Weide...
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Blow
2001 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes...
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L'immensità
2022 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
The story of love between Clara and her children, set in Rome in the '70s.
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On the Fringe
2022 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A day in the life of Azucena, who is running out of time to keep herself and her family from being evicted; Rafael, a lawyer who sets out to reunite a mother with her daughter; and Teodora, a sick old woman who searches for her long-lost...
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Vanilla Sky
2001 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines...
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The Bride!
2026 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride is born. But what ensues is beyond what either of them...
Bandidas
2006 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Set in the late 19th century. When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance…and a few good heists.
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To Rome with Love
2012 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an...
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The 355
2022 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
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Wasp Network
2019 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love -- or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge...
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Loving Pablo
2017 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.
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Grimsby
2016 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.
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Nine
2009 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and...
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The Counselor
2013 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.
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Head in the Clouds
2004 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A romantic drama set in 1930s England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic...
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Noel
2004 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile...
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Gothika
2003 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband—but she has no memory of...
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2001 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
When a Greek fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander. The film is based on a novel about an Italian soldier's experiences during the Italian occupation of the...
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G-Force
2009 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
A team of trained secret agent animals, guinea pigs Darwin, Juarez, Blaster, mole Speckles, and fly Mooch takes on a mission for the US government to stop evil Leonard Saber, who plans to destroy the world with household appliances. But...
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Zoolander 2
2016 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDB
Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.
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Sex and the City 2
2010 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda are all married now, but they're still up for a little fun in the sun. When Samantha gets the chance to visit one of the most extravagant vacation destinations on the planet and offers to bring them all...
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