Pedro Almodóvar
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Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.
Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular songs, irreverent humor, strong colors, glossy décor and LGBT themes. Desire, passion, family and identity are among Almodóvar’s most prevalent themes. His films enjoy a worldwide following and he has become a major figure on the stage of world cinema.
He founded Spanish film production company El Deseo S.A. with his younger brother Agustín Almodóvar who has produced almost all of Pedro’s films. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.
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The Human Voice (2020)
A short film adaptation of Jean Cocteau's one-act play. It follows a desperate woman who waits for the phone call of the lover who has just abandoned her.
Runtime: 30 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Tilda Swinton | Agustín Almodóvar | Miguel Almodóvar | Pablo Almodóvar
Pain and Glory (2019)
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 immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia | Julieta Serrano | Antonio Banderas | Asier Etxeandia | Nora Navas
Julieta (2016)
The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Darío Grandinetti | Adriana Ugarte | Daniel Grao | Inma Cuesta | Emma Suárez
I'm So Excited! (2013)
The film is an ensemble comedy written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. When it appears as though the end is in sight, the pilots, flight crew, and passengers of a plane heading to Mexico City look to forget the anguish of the moment and face the greatest danger, which we carry within ourselves.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Penélope Cruz | Antonio Banderas | Carlos Areces | Raúl Arévalo | Javier Cámara
The Skin I Live In (2011)
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Elena Anaya | Antonio Banderas | Roberto Álamo | Marisa Paredes | Jan Cornet
The Cannibalistic Councillor (2009)
Spin Off from "Los Abrazos Rotos"
Runtime: 8 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Carmen Machi | Penélope Cruz | Marta Aledo
Broken Embraces (2009)
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Lluís Homar | Penélope Cruz | José Luis Gómez | Blanca Portillo | Rubén Ochandiano
Volver (2006)
Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) works and lives Madrid with her husband Paco and daughter Paula. Her sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) lives nearby and they both miss their mother Irene (Carmen Maura), who died several years ago in a house fire along with their father. A former neighbor from their hometown reports that she has seen the ghost of Irene and both daughters do not believe her. After a murder and a ...
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Penélope Cruz | Lola Dueñas | Carmen Maura | Blanca Portillo | Yohana Cobo
Bad Education (2004)
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Fele Martínez | Lluís Homar | Gael García Bernal | Daniel Giménez Cacho | Francisco Maestre
Talk to Her (2002)
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Leonor Watling | Darío Grandinetti | Javier Cámara | Mariola Fuentes | Rosario Flores
All About My Mother (1999)
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.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Penélope Cruz | Marisa Paredes | Candela Peña | Cecilia Roth | Antonia San Juan
Live Flesh (1997)
A scorned ex-convict forces himself into the lives of the couple who put him behind bars.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Ángela Molina | Penélope Cruz | Javier Bardem | Francesca Neri | Liberto Rabal
The Flower of My Secret (1995)
Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than happy relationship with her husband Paco, a military officer stationed in Brussels then later in Bosnia, who is distant both physically and emotionally.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Chus Lampreave | Rossy de Palma | Carme Elias | Marisa Paredes | Juan Echanove
Kika (1993)
Kika, a young cosmetologist, is called to the mansion of Nicolas, an American writer to make-up the corpse of his stepson, Ramon. Ramon, who is not dead, is revived by Kika's attentions and she then moves in with him. They might live happily ever after but first they have to cope with Kika's affair with Nicolas, the suspicious death of Ramon's mother and the intrusive gaze of tabloid-TV ...
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Rossy de Palma | Victoria Abril | Verónica Forqué | Peter Coyote | Àlex Casanovas
High Heels (1991)
High Heels is a murder mystery comedy centering on flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo and her daughter Rebecca, a television anchorwoman. After being estranged for 15 years, Becky re-enters Rebecca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebecca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughter begin making up for lost time, when suddenly, a murder occurs...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Cristina Marcos | Marisa Paredes | Victoria Abril | Miguel Bosé | Anna Lizaran
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)
Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Julieta Serrano | Antonio Banderas | Loles León | Victoria Abril | María Barranco
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Rossy de Palma | Julieta Serrano | Antonio Banderas | Carmen Maura | María Barranco
Law of Desire (1987)
When porn director Pablo reluctantly breaks up with his boyfriend, Juan, he encourages him to stay in touch. Juan moves away to live in a lighthouse and eventually writes his ex, but in the interim Pablo has taken up a psychotic new lover, Antonio (Antonio Banderas). Antonio intercepts their correspondence and flies into a towering rage, terrifying Pablo but inspiring him creatively as he works on a play ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Antonio Banderas | Eusebio Poncela Aprea | Carmen Maura | Miguel Molina | Manuela Velasco
Matador (1986)
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Julieta Serrano | Antonio Banderas | Assumpta Serna | Nacho Martínez | Eva Cobo
Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido (1985)
Short written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar to promote his movie "What Have I Done to Deserve This?".
Runtime: 17 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Josele Román | Bibiana Fernández | Ángel Alcázar
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Almodóvar has described his fourth film as a homage to Italian Neorealism, although this tribute also involves jokes about paedophilia, prostitution, and a telekenetic child. The film, set in the towerblocks around Madrid, depicts female frustration and family breakdown.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Chus Lampreave | Carmen Maura | Gonzalo Suárez | Verónica Forqué | Ángel de Andrés López
Dark Habits (1983)
A nightclub singer seeks refuge with gay nuns on dope in a Madrid convent.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Chus Lampreave | Julieta Serrano | Carmen Maura | Marisa Paredes | Cristina Sánchez Pascual
Labyrinth of Passion (1982)
A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner).
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Imanol Arias | Antonio Banderas | Marta Fernández Muro | Helga Liné | Cecilia Roth
Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980)
Almodovar's first film of life in Madrid during the punk era and not one for the squeamish. He covers everything from drugs and sexual violence, to female masochism.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Julieta Serrano | Carmen Maura | Félix Rotaeta | Eva Siva | Kiti Mánver
Fuck... Fuck... Fuck Me, Tim! (1978)
A poor girl works in a general store with a blind boyfriend playing guitar. He becomes famous and she also becomes blind.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Carmen Maura | Eva Siva | Kiti Mánver
Salomé (1978)
Short film by Almodovar, which tells the origin of the veil.
Runtime: 12 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Agustín Almodóvar | Fernando Hilbeck | Isabel Mestres
Sexo Va, Sexo Viene ()
A short comedy by Pedro Almodovar
Runtime: 17 min.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
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