Premio Goya: Mejor actriz protagonista
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1. Something Is About to Happen (2023)
122 min | Horror, Romance
A woman's life takes a definitive turn the day that she loses her job as a computer programmer.
Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza | Stars: Malena Alterio, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Rodrigo Poisón, José Luis Torrijo
Votes: 1,522
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: MALENA ALTERIO
2. Lullaby (2022)
104 min | Drama
Amaia, who has just become a mother, decides to return for guidance after her partner is temporarily away, to her parents' house along the Basque coast.
Director: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa | Stars: Laia Costa, Susi Sánchez, Ramón Barea, Mikel Bustamante
Votes: 3,658
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: LAIA COSTA
3. Maixabel (2021)
115 min | Biography, Drama
11 years after her husband was killed by the Basque group ETA, Maixabel Lasa agrees to a request to meet one of the assassins who is in prison, in an attempt to find some kind of restorative justice.
Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Blanca Portillo, Luis Tosar, María Cerezuela, Urko Olazabal
Votes: 3,429
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: BLANCA PORTILLO
4. Ane Is Missing (2020)
100 min | Drama, Mystery
Lide discovers that her daughter Ane has gone missing and together with ex-husband Fernando investigates her whereabouts.
Director: David Pérez Sañudo | Stars: Patricia López Arnaiz, Jone Laspiur, Mikel Losada, Aia Kruse
Votes: 728
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: PATRICIA LÓPEZ ARNAIZ
5. The Endless Trench (2019)
TV-MA | 147 min | Drama, History
1936. A country taken by the fascism. A husband marked for the killing. A wife determined to all for saving him. An endless incarceration in his own home.
Directors: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño, Jose Mari Goenaga | Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Belén Cuesta, Vicente Vergara, José Manuel Poga
Votes: 7,291
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: BELÉN CUESTA
6. Sunday's Illness (2018)
PG-13 | 113 min | Drama
Wealthy Anabel, 65, receives an unexpected visit from Chiara, the daughter she abandoned 30 years ago. Chiara has a request: that they spend 10 days together. Anabel goes out of guilt, but there are conditions of which she is unaware.
Director: Ramón Salazar | Stars: Bárbara Lennie, Susi Sánchez, Greta Fernández, Bruna González
Votes: 4,015
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: SUSI SÁNCHEZ
7. Can't Say Goodbye (2017)
96 min | Drama
Carla gets a call from the small town where she grew up in the South of Spain. Her father, who she hasn't spoken with in many years, is very ill. She refuses to face it and decides, against... See full summary »
Director: Lino Escalera | Stars: Juan Diego, Nathalie Poza, Lola Dueñas, Pau Durà
Votes: 518
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: NATHALIE POZA
8. Julieta (2016)
R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events involving her estranged daughter.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Inma Cuesta
Votes: 33,908 | Gross: $1.49M
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: EMMA SUÁREZ
9. Food and Shelter (2015)
93 min | Drama
A single mother struggles to pay the rent and put food on the table for her 10 year old son.
Director: Juan Miguel del Castillo | Stars: Natalia de Molina, Jaime López, Natalia Roig, Mariana Cordero
Votes: 1,022
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: NATALIA DE MOLINA
10. Magical Girl (2014)
127 min | Drama, Thriller
The father of a terminally ill girl is determined to grant his daughter's last wish, a ridiculously expensive collectors' costume from a Japanese TV series. The request will drive him into a journey within his city's dark underbelly.
Director: Carlos Vermut | Stars: José Sacristán, Marina Andruix, Raimundo de los Reyes, Lucía Pollán
Votes: 7,483
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: BÁRBARA LENNIE
11. Wounded (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Ana, 30, is an ambulance driver. Though good at her job, she has problems relating in her personal life. She doesn't know it, but she suffers from a condition known by psychiatrists as ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Franco | Stars: Marian Álvarez, Rosana Pastor, Manolo Solo, Andrés Gertrúdix
Votes: 1,344
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: MARIAN ALVÁREZ
12. Snow White (2012)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy
A twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.
Director: Pablo Berger | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Emilio Gavira, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ángela Molina
Votes: 11,633 | Gross: $0.28M
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: MARIBEL VERDÚ
13. The Skin I Live In (2011)
R | 120 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes
Votes: 165,787 | Gross: $3.19M
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: ELENA ANAYA
14. Black Bread (2010)
Unrated | 108 min | Crime, Drama
In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to ... See full summary »
Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: Francesc Colomer, Marina Comas, Nora Navas, Roger Casamajor
Votes: 5,068
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: NORA NAVAS
15. Yo, también (2009)
103 min | Drama
Daniel - a recent university graduate with Down's Syndrome - falls in love on his first day at work in the Department of Social Services. Laura is an outsider who spends her nights in the ... See full summary »
Directors: Antonio Naharro, Álvaro Pastor | Stars: Lola Dueñas, Pablo Pineda, Isabel García Lorca, Antonio Naharro
Votes: 2,830
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: LOLA DUEÑAS
16. Camino (2008)
TV-14 | 138 min | Drama
The young daughter of sectarian religious fanatics faces a deadly illness soon after falling in love for the first time.
Director: Javier Fesser | Stars: Nerea Camacho, Carme Elias, Mariano Venancio, Manuela Vellés
Votes: 5,337
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: CARME ELÍAS
17. Siete mesas de billar francés (2007)
116 min | Comedy, Drama
Angela and her young son Guille travel to the big city to see Leo, her father and the boy's grandfather, when he suddenly takes ill. However, they arrive to discover that he has just passed... See full summary »
Director: Gracia Querejeta | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Blanca Portillo, Jesús Castejón, Víctor Valdivia
Votes: 1,329
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: MARIBEL VERDÚ
18. Volver (I) (2006)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama
After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo
Votes: 107,456 | Gross: $12.90M
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: PENÉLOPE CRUZ
19. Princesses (2005)
109 min | Drama
Friendship and love in the world of prostitution in Madrid.
Director: Fernando León de Aranoa | Stars: Candela Peña, Micaela Nevárez, Mariana Cordero, Llum Barrera
Votes: 5,611 | Gross: $0.03M
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: CANDELA PEÑA
20. The Sea Inside (I) (2004)
PG-13 | 126 min | Biography, Drama
The factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 28-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas, Mabel Rivera
Votes: 85,244 | Gross: $2.09M
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: LOLA DUEÑAS
21. Take My Eyes (2003)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, Romance
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...
Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Laia Marull, Luis Tosar, Candela Peña, Rosa Maria Sardà
Votes: 7,476 | Gross: $0.03M
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: LAIA MARULL
22. Common Ground (2002)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired ... See full summary »
Director: Adolfo Aristarain | Stars: Federico Luppi, Mercedes Sampietro, Arturo Puig, Carlos Santamaría
Votes: 2,072
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: MERCEDES SAMPIETRO
23. Mad Love (2001)
R | 115 min | Biography, Drama, History
The love story that transformed Juana, Queen of Spain, into Juana "the Mad". A story of passions, lies and jealousy with a political motive behind.
Director: Vicente Aranda | Stars: Pilar López de Ayala, Daniele Liotti, Rosana Pastor, Giuliano Gemma
Votes: 4,053 | Gross: $0.28M
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: PILAR LÓPEZ DE AYALA
24. Common Wealth (2000)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The accidental discovery of a big fortune hidden in the apartment of a deceased man will fill the heart of a real estate agent with greed and dreams of a luxurious life, but the neighbours think otherwise.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Carmen Maura, Eduardo Antuña, María Asquerino, Jesús Bonilla
Votes: 12,871
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: CARMEN MAURA
25. All About My Mother (1999)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, and overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan
Votes: 102,842 | Gross: $8.26M
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: CECILIA ROTH
26. The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to produce a film. Problems soon arise.
Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz, Rosa Maria Sardà
Votes: 4,514
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: PENÉLOPE CRUZ
27. Martín (Hache) (1997)
123 min | Drama
19-year-old Argentina Martin has a nearly fatal drug overdose. After that his mother sends him to Madrid, where his film director father (also called Martin) lives with his new much younger lover Alicia and bisexual actor friend Dante.
Director: Adolfo Aristarain | Stars: Federico Luppi, Juan Diego Botto, Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth
Votes: 4,753
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: CECILIA ROTH
28. The Dog in the Manger (1996)
119 min | Comedy, Romance
Having taken a fancy to her secretary, Teodoro, spunky young beauty Countess Diana of Belflor is alarmed to learn of his engagement to one of her maids, Marcela. She intervenes to separate ... See full summary »
Director: Pilar Miró | Stars: Emma Suárez, Carmelo Gómez, Fernando Conde, Ana Duato
Votes: 1,058
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: EMMA SUÁREZ
29. Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995)
104 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Escaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime, Gloria (Victoria Abril), a young woman of lower class, comes back to Madrid, Spain and to her family. There she ... See full summary »
Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes | Stars: Victoria Abril, Pilar Bardem, Federico Luppi, Ángel Alcázar
Votes: 2,208
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: VICTORIA ABRIL
30. All Men Are the Same (1994)
102 min | Comedy, Romance
Three divorced men share a flat. They live together without trouble till they hire a cleaning lady with whom the three flirt.
Director: Manuel Gómez Pereira | Stars: Imanol Arias, Antonio Resines, Juanjo Puigcorbé, Cristina Marcos
Votes: 681
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: CRISTINA MARCOS
31. Kika (1993)
Unrated | 114 min | Comedy
Kika, a cute cosmetologist, prepares Ramon for funeral when he revives. He proposes to the much older Kika who has his dad as lover. Did Ramon's dad murder his mom? What about the escaped rapist and the PSYCHOlogist video reporter?
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Peter Coyote, Verónica Forqué, Victoria Abril, Àlex Casanovas
Votes: 15,047 | Gross: $2.09M
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: VERÓNICA FORQUÉ
32. Belle Epoque (1992)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A 1931 Spanish military deserter finds himself on a lonely farm until the farmer's four daughters pay a visit and he falls for all of them.
Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Jorge Sanz, Penélope Cruz, Miriam Díaz-Aroca
Votes: 11,392 | Gross: $5.97M
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: ARIADNA GIL
33. Butterfly Wings (1991)
108 min | Crime, Drama
The bitter life of a girl whose mother wants a boy.
Director: Juanma Bajo Ulloa | Stars: Silvia Munt, Tito Valverde, Susana García Díez, Laura Vaquero
Votes: 906
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: SILVIA MUNT
34. Oh, Carmela! (1990)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Carmen Maura, Andrés Pajares, Gabino Diego, Armando De Razza
Votes: 3,336 | Gross: $0.30M
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: CARMEN MAURA
35. El mar y el tiempo (1989)
100 min | Drama
Jesús, a Spaniard who went into exile to Argentina after the Civil War, returns to Madrid in 1968 with the illusion of spending his last years in the longed-for settings of his youth. ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Fernán Gómez | Stars: Rafaela Aparicio, Pepe Soriano, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Votes: 264
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: RAFAELA APARICIO
36. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, Rossy de Palma
Votes: 46,432 | Gross: $7.18M
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: CARMEN MAURA
37. La vida alegre (1987)
92 min | Comedy
Ana is a doctor who works at a clinic for STDs, meeting characters from all walks of life, while outrageous situations ensue.
Director: Fernando Colomo | Stars: Verónica Forqué, Antonio Resines, Ana Obregón, Guillermo Montesinos
Votes: 373
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: VERÓNICA FORQUÉ
38. Hay que deshacer la casa (1986)
Comedy
Director: José Luis García Sánchez | Stars: Amparo Rivelles, Amparo Soler Leal, Joaquín Kremel, Josep Maria Pou
Votes: 122
MEJOR ACTRIZ PROTAGONISTA: AMPARO RIVELLES
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