This is the movie that asks the question: What would it be like if the government were able to train guinea pigs to be secret agents? Penélope Cruz, Sam Rockwell, Nicolas Cage and others provide the voices for a group of high-IQ talking computer-generated guinea pigs that are specially trained to save humanity from a villain's plot to take over the world. The movie is in a 3-D digital format. Directed by Hoyt Yeatman. With Tracy Morgan, Will Arnett, Bill Nighy, and Zach Galifianakis and. Categories: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy. Year: 2009.
Penélope Cruz in G-Force
David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley), a charismatic professor and cultural critic, beieves that he is an independent, self-actualized man and as a result keeps his relationships with women brief and casual. All of that changes when Consuela Castillo (Penélope Cruz), a beautiful, confident student, awakens David's sexual possessiveness. Caught in the first serious relationship since his divorce, David's preconceptions about women are shattered by Concuela, but his jealous fantasies drive him to the point of obsession. Directed by Isabel Coixet. With Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper and Peter Sarsgaard. Categories: Drama, Romance, Based on a Novel. Year: 2008.
Penélope Cruz in Elegy
Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Christina (Scarlett Johansson) are two best friends vacationing in Barcelona. While Vicky is straight-laced and preparing to get married, Christina is free-spirited and sexually adventurous. During their travels they meet flamboyant artist José Antonio (Javier Bardem). After being invited back to his home, Christina immediately throws herself at José. Despite her best efforts, Vicky eventually falls in love with him as well, and when José's beautiful but insane ex-wife Maria (Penélope Cruz) returns, chaos results. Directed by Woody Allen. With Patricia Clarkson, Kevin Dunn and Chris Messina. Categories: Comedy, Drama, Romance. Year: 2008.
Penélope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Penélope Cruz and Salma Hayek star as two female Latinas who begin robbing banks in turn-of-the-century Mexico when a corrupt railroad baron starts bankrupting the locals. Cruz plays a farmer's daughter, while Hayek is from a wealthy family. Sam Shepherd plays the retired robber who shows them the ropes in this action-packed, comic Western. Directed by Espen Sandberg. Categories: Action, Comedy, Crime, Western. Year: 2006.
Penélope Cruz in Bandidas
Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) and Sole (Lola Dueñas) lose both of their parents in a fire in La Mancha, the village of their birth. The two, along with Raimunda's daughter, Paula (Yohana Cobo), return home to visit their aging aunt (Chus Lampreave). The aunt speaks of their mother, Irene (Carmen Maura), as if she were still alive, yet the daughters brush it off as senility. However, it is only a matter of time before their mother visits them too. Director: Pedro Almodóvar. With Blanca Portillo and Antonio de la Torre. Categories: Foreign Film, Drama. Year: 2006.
Penélope Cruz in Volver
Matthew McConaughey is an adventurer who finds a coin he is sure comes from a cargo of treasure that was lost in the ocean during the Civil War. The treasure has ended up underneath the Saharan Desert. He persuades an archeologist (Penélope Cruz) and an old buddy of his (Steve Zahn) to help him track down the treasure, which will be worth a fortune. But they aren't the only ones after the gold, and they face enemies from all sides as they pursue the loot. Directed by Breck Eisner. With Lennie James, William H. Macy and Lambert Wilson. Categories: Action, Adventure, Comedy. Year: 2005.
Penélope Cruz in Sahara
Halle Berry is an accomplished psychologist who works with disturbed patients in a mental hospital. After interviewing one of them, played by Penélope Cruz, the psychologist gets into a car accident caused by a young woman who suddenly appears in the road. Before she knows what is happening, the doctor finds herself a patient in the hospital where she used to work, accused of murdering her husband. Her former boss (Robert Downey Jr.) says she can trust him, but she isn't sure. Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Categories: Horror, Thriller, Mystery. Year: 2003.
Penélope Cruz in Gothika
The true story of how George Jung (Johnny Depp) almost single-handedly created America's cocaine industry, rising from Boston's blue-collar suburbs to become multi-billion dollar trafficker for the Colombian cartels. Rather than working in construction like his father (Ray Liotta), George pursues his own version of the American dream and ends up losing everything that ever mattered to him. Directed byTed Demme. With Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente, Rachel Griffiths, Paul Reubens, Ethan Suplee, Jordi Mollà and Cliff Curtis. Categories: Biography, Crime, Drama, Based on a True Story. Year: 2001.
Penélope Cruz in Blow
David Aames (Tom Cruise) is a wealthy, charismatic publishing executive who lives his life with little regard for others. Everything changes in an instant when a terrible car accident caused by his his sometimes-lover Julie (Cameron Diaz) leaves him disfigured and horribly depressed. Just when he has lost hope, David reconnects with Sofia Serrano (Penélope Cruz), a beautiful women whom he fell in love with after a brief meeting at a party. But, things are not quite what they seem, and eventually David's grasp on reality begins to weaken. Charged with Sophia's murder, David is interviewed by Dr. McCabe (Kurt Russell), and slowly begins to piece together what really happened to him. Directed by Cameron Crowe. With Jason Lee, Noah Taylor, Timothy Spall and Tilda Swinton. Categories: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery. Year: 2001.
Penélope Cruz in Vanilla Sky
In the process of coming to terms with the tragic loss of her only son, Esteban (Eloy Azorín), Manuela (Cecilia Roth) leaves Madrid and goes to Barcelona to find the boy's father, a transvestite named Lola (Toni Cantó). But first, she finds her transvestite friend, Agrado (Antonia San Juan), meets Rosa (Penélope Cruz), a young nun bound for El Salvador, and by happenstance, becomes the personal assistant of Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes), the actress her son admired. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Categories: Drama, Foreign Film. Year: 1999.
Penélope Cruz in All About My Mother