Melina Matthews

Acting

Melina Matthews

Born 1986-11-01 · Barcelona, Spain

Acting credits

The Beloved poster
6.9

The acclaimed film director Esteban Martínez is a legend both for his films and for his past marked by violence and excess. For his new project, he offers his daughter Emilia a role under the pretext of helping her with her stalled acting career. Living together on set will foster a closeness they haven’t shared for years, but it will also reopen old wounds that never healed.

The Beloved

2026

Mama poster
6.3

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

Mama

2013

The Room Next Door poster
6.7

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

The Room Next Door

2024

The Gunman poster
5.8

Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Terrier's search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.

The Gunman

2015

Official Competition poster
6.6

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 massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?

Official Competition

2021

Megan Leavey poster
7.3

The true story of Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, who forms a powerful bond with an aggressive combat dog, Rex. While deployed in Iraq, the two complete more than 100 missions and save countless lives, until an IED explosion puts their faithfulness to the test.

Megan Leavey

2017

Crawlers poster
NR

Tenants at Paradiso Palms apartments fight a deadly spider invasion while the cunning building manager might be their only hope for survival.

Crawlers

2026

Savage Grace poster
5.7

This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on Antony, who is homosexual. As Barbara tries to "cure" Antony of his sexuality -- sometimes by seducing him herself -- the groundwork is laid for a murderous tragedy.

Savage Grace

2007

Pizza Movies poster
6.3

In the midst of a professional crisis, a couple decides to leave everything behind and start a new business.

Pizza Movies

2026

More the Merrier poster
6.6

Multiple stories about the oscillating world of couple relationships and how difficult it can be to separate sex from love.

More the Merrier

2021

An Affair to Die For poster
5.8

A weekend get-away for two lovers turns into a nightmare of psychological mind games when their infidelity is discovered.

An Affair to Die For

2019

Silencio poster
6.3

In order to save her son's life, Ana embarks on a quest to find a powerful stone from the Zone of Silence in Mexico. Someone finds out the power the stone possesses and believes it is a power worth killing for.

Silencio

2018

Classmate poster
6.8

A man and a woman meet on a bus. She's an engineer and married. He's homeless.

Classmate

2016

Realive poster
6.0

Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryogenically freeze himself. The love of his life is devastated. Seventy years later, Marc becomes the first cryogenic resuscitated person in history. But this doesn't happen in the idealized way he dreamt of.

Realive

2016

My Masterpiece poster
7.2

Arturo, the successful owner of an art gallery, and Renzo, a talented but decadent painter, are old friends who cannot stop bickering. One day, Arturo comes up with a solution to all their problems, but the plan they concoct turns out to be crazier and riskier than they originally expected.

My Masterpiece

2018

Nahid & Adele poster
NR

Nahid is a young woman of Nigerian origin who works in a hotel as a chambermaid. In the same hotel is staying Adele, a European actress who due to a filming is living a season in Spain. Nahid will gradually become involved in Adele’s intimacy until the encounter between them becomes inevitable.

Nahid & Adele

2025

The Returned poster
6.0

In a post-zombie world, where the infected live normal lives, their retroviral drug is running out.

The Returned

2013

Caronte poster
5.0

A self-absorbed teenager somehow contacts another universe after she's injured in a car accident.

Caronte

2017

The Chess Player poster
6.3

In 1934 Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Championship of Chess and meets a French journalist, Marianne Latour, and they fall in love. At the end of the Civil War, Marianne convinces Diego to live in France with their daughter, where shortly afterwards Diego will be accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned in an SS prison. In prison, Diego will try to survive in a hostile environment thanks to Colonel Maier's passion for chess.

The Chess Player

2017

Black Beach poster
5.8

Carlos, a ruthless Spanish negotiation expert working in Brussels, is tasked with handling the kidnapping of a senior oil company executive in a troubled West African country —with which he has old and deep ties—, torn by ethnic tensions and government abuses.

Black Beach

2020

Laura and the mystery of the bride that waited too long poster
7.6

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Laura and the mystery of the bride that waited too long

2023

Don't Speak poster
2.9

A group of friends are having a party on a boat. In the distance, a small town watches them in silence. Suddenly, one of them is seriously injured and the group approach the village for help. No one attends, the few inhabitants they find order them to be quiet and disappear into the darkness. The group split for help and strange and terrifying things start to happen, some of them are killed in terrible circumstances. Those who still live, increasingly terrified, discover the reason for all these murders. If they want to leave the village alive and the house where they are locked, they will have to survive in absolute silence.

Don't Speak

2015

Battle in Space: The Armada Attacks poster
4.8

In 2420, after aliens and powerful space wizards enslaved human villages, a group of rebels organize a counter attack against their alien overlords by piloting fully loaded spaceships.

Battle in Space: The Armada Attacks

2021

Negociador poster
6.3

Manu Aranguren is a Basque politician who acts as a mediator for the Spanish government in its negotiations with ETA. Far from being a solemn, calculated occasion, unexpected occurrences, slip-ups or misunderstandings soon kick in to influence the dialogue. And the personal relationship between negotiators will be key in solving the conflict.

Negociador

2014