Carmen Balagué

Acting

Carmen Balagué

Born 1952-07-17 · Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Acting credits

All About My Mother poster
7.6

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.

All About My Mother

1999

África poster
6.3

Martín (Zoe Berriatúa) is a teenager living in the San Blas district of Madrid. He is upset with his father Arturo (Imanol Arias) because he blames him for his mother's death. With the help of his girlfriend África (Elena Anaya), who will become his stepsister, he tries to get revenge on him.

África

1996

Hablar poster
6.0

An anthology film with 20 stories on the subject of words, communication, linked to one another over a 400-metre stretch: from Madrid's Lavapiés Square to the Sala Mirador. A journey between theatre and cinema, filmed in a single fixed shot running continuously over 80 minutes and half a kilometer, in Madrid's popular Lavapiés district. The characters talk, argue, laugh, cry, threaten, whisper, shout, steal, make dates, get angry with and hug one another, prompting the spectator to reflect on the immense power of words.

Hablar

2015

The Dinner poster
6.9

Spain, April 15, 1939. With the Civil War concluded, and with the intention of celebrating his victory, General Franco attends a dinner with his generals at the Palace Hotel.

The Dinner

2025

Fallen Cape poster
5.2

Magno, the Great Spanish superhero, vanished from public life after his implication in a child molestation scandal. 20 years have passed and now a documentary filmmaker follows the trail of the fallen hero to make a movie about him.

Fallen Cape

2013

Between Your Legs poster
5.4

A radio-show assistant meets a budding screenwriter during a group-therapy session for sex addicts.

Between Your Legs

1999

Pink Sauce poster
5.4

Ana's husband is the perfect wealthy middle-class man. Koro's husband is a cook with no more ambitions. One day, Ana meets Koro in a night club and she proposes Ana to seduce each others husbands. The following morning Ana thinks this was a joke, but things are not always what it seems.

Pink Sauce

1992

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health poster
6.1

Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health

1997

Against the Wind poster
4.3

Juan flees Madrid and an incestuous relationship with his sister, Ana, working at a mine on the Andalucian coast. When his friendship with Rosario, a local shop girl, becomes romance, Ana shows up wanting to rekindle their affair. He resists at first, but she stays, asserting that Juan is the only man she can ever love. Juan distances himself from Rosario. The mine has problems: high cancer rates in the area caused by poorly stored radioactive waste. A foreign safety engineer, Petersen, tries to connect with Ana, is rebuffed, but lets her stay in his sea-front bungalow. Juan seeks her out to demand she leave, only to argue with Petersen. Death, desire, and longing play out.

Against the Wind

1990

Mediterranean Food poster
5.3

Sofia's story, the best chef in the world, and the two men who helped her to become a legend.

Mediterranean Food

2009

I Get Off at the Next Stop, What About You? poster
5.4

A divorcing couple remembers the best years of their lives.

I Get Off at the Next Stop, What About You?

1992

No Shame poster
6.2

Acting teacher Isabel happens upon a script written by her old lover, film director Mario Fabra, based on their relationship 20 years prior. Chaos ensues when her students, including Isabel's daughter Belén, ageing actress Ronda, and Mario's TV actress girlfriend Cecilia all scheme to get cast in the film.

No Shame

2001

Retrato de mujer con hombre al fondo poster
4.0

Cristina is a 35-year-old woman who has life figured out: she has a job she loves and a beautiful house. However, her life begins to change when she starts feeling attracted to one of her clients.

Retrato de mujer con hombre al fondo

1997

Va a ser que nadie es perfecto poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Va a ser que nadie es perfecto

2006

Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena poster
5.1

Hortensia is a mature officer of the INEM office. She has been abandoned by her husband so she doesn't believe in love anymore. One day Eduardo Fernandez goes to the employment office because after overcoming a deep depression, he has decided that his life has to get better.

Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena

2004

Km. 0 poster
6.4

Located in Madrid's Plaza del Sol, Km. 0 is the point from which all distances in Spain are measured from the capital. In Km. 0, it is also the meeting point for a gallery of characters. Bored, affluent housewife Marga meets up with gigolo Miguel, who co-habitates with gay Benjamin. Sergio, a soon-to-be-married office clerk who can't wait to lose his virginity, makes the acquaintance of prostitute Tatiana, while gay dancer Bruno meets Maximo. Meanwhile, wannabe director Pedro arranges to meet up with Silvia, an actress who wants to work in musicals directed by Gerardo, and bartender Mario is caught between Amor, who wants to marry him, and her little sister Roma, who is truly in love with him.

Km. 0

2000

Norbert(a) poster
6.1

A working-class couple in their 60s plan a heist to finance the husband's gender-affirming surgery.

Norbert(a)

2024

What Makes Women Laugh? poster
6.0

Luci, Graci and Mar­, three sisters that make a comedy trio, go to the wedding of their father with a woman who is 45 years younger than him. During the feast Luci's husband dies in an accident. Despite the tragedy, the trio have to fulfill their commitment acting during August in Benidorm. The widow discovers thanks to a notebook that her husband cheated on her, so she decides to flirt with everyone.

What Makes Women Laugh?

1997

¡Hasta enterrarlos! poster
NR

A group of neighbors has been evicted from the communal housing where they had lived all their lives. They decide to take revenge on the speculator responsible for the injustice. Led by Lázaro, the oldest neighbor and a man of strong convictions, their aim is making him pay for the consequences of his greed and send a message to the rest of the world.

¡Hasta enterrarlos!

2025

All Men Are the Same poster
6.5

Three divorced men who share a flat live together without trouble until they hire a cleaning lady.

All Men Are the Same

1994

La Trinca: Biografia no autoritzada poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Trinca: Biografia no autoritzada

2011

Women poster
4.3

Eight stories about women, adapted from the book "Women" by Isabel-Clara Simó.

Women

2000

Shout Out poster
4.5

Miranda Vega is the host of a struggling talk show with a tumultuous off-screen life. In an effort to boost the plummeting ratings, the show welcomes a series of eccentric guests who will bring chaos live on air.

Shout Out

1998

Mobbing poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mobbing

2006