Pedro Almodóvar — Playwright (22)
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Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980)
Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pedro Almodóvar actor: Carmen Maura / Eva Siva …
other title: Pepi, Luci, Bom e le altre ragazze del mucchio / Pepi, Luci, Bom e Outras Garotas de Montão …
After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends.
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Bitter Christmas (2026)
Amarga Navidad
Pedro Almodóvar actor: Bárbara Lennie / Leo …
other title: Amarga Navidad / Bitteres Fest …
After her mother dies in December, advertising director Elsa immerses herself in work to cope. When a panic attack forces her to take a break, she decides to travel to Lanzarote with her friend Patricia. The story of these women run parallel to that of a screenwriter and film director, exploring how life and fiction are inseparably linked, sometimes painfully so.
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What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?
Pedro Almodóvar actor: Carmen Maura / Luis Hostalot …
other title: Che ho fatto io per meritare questo? / Que Fiz Eu Para Merecer Isto? …
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.
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The Flower of My Secret (1995)
La flor de mi secreto
Pedro Almodóvar actor: Marisa Paredes / Juan Echanove …
other title: Il fiore del mio segreto / A Flor do meu Segredo …
Leo is a middle-aged writer of popular romantic novels who writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works overseas, is distant both physically and emotionally. As she reevaluates her life and writing, Leo is led to an unexpected relationship with Ángel, a sensitive newspaper editor.
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Live Flesh (1997)
Carne trémula
Pedro Almodóvar actor: Javier Bardem / Francesca Neri …
other title: Carne tremula / Em Carne Viva …
When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body... and his desire for vengeance on the man who put him there. After his release and still madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over even if means revenge, for Elena has married David, the cop who sent him to prison!
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Matador (1986)
Matador
Pedro Almodóvar actor: Assumpta Serna / Antonio Banderas …
Un torero que se ha visto forzado a retirarse prematuramente debido a una cogida, se da cuenta de que su obsesión por matar no desaparece, solo que ahora su objetivo serán las mujeres. Hacer el amor y matar en el último instante es lo más parecido al inefable placer de una tarde en la plaza de toros. El problema se agrava cuando conoce a María, una mujer con tendencias similares a las suyas.
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High Heels (1991)
Tacones lejanos
Pedro Almodóvar actor: Victoria Abril / Marisa Paredes …
other title: Tacchi a spillo / De Salto Alto …
After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, 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...
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
★ 8.2 5 ratings
Pedro Almodóvar actor: Carmen Maura / Antonio Banderas …
other title: Donne sull'orlo di una crisi di nervi / Kvinder på randen af nervøst sammenbrud …
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.
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Pain and Glory (2019)
Dolor y gloria
Pedro Almodóvar actor: Antonio Banderas / Asier Etxeandia …
other title: Smerte og ære / Dor e Glória …
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 past can be his salvation.
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All About My Mother (1999)
Todo sobre mi madre
★ 9.1 12 ratings
Pedro Almodóvar actor: Cecilia Roth / Marisa Paredes …
other title: Tutto su mia madre / Alt om min mor …
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.
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Law of Desire (1987)
La ley del deseo
Pedro Almodóvar actor: Eusebio Poncela / Carmen Maura …
other title: La legge del desiderio / A Lei do Desejo …
Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.