Pedro Almodóvar — Playwright (20)
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The Room Next Door (2024) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB NeoDB Douban
La habitación de al lado
7.5 (28 ratings) director: Pedro Almodóvar actor: Julianne Moore / Tilda Swinton …
other title: La stanza accanto / La Chambre d'à côté …
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
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Law of Desire (1987) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
La ley del deseo
director: 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.
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All About My Mother (1999) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Todo sobre mi madre
8.6 (8 ratings) director: 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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Pain and Glory (2019) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Dolor y gloria
director: 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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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB Test WikiData NeoDB
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
director: 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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High Heels (1991) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Tacones lejanos
director: 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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Bad Education (2004) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
La mala educación
8.0 (5 ratings) director: Pedro Almodóvar actor: Gael García Bernal / Fele Martínez …
other title: Dårlig Dannelse / Má Educação …
An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.
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Parallel Mothers (2021) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Madres paralelas
director: Pedro Almodóvar actor: Penélope Cruz / Milena Smit …
other title: Parallelle mødre / Parallele Mütter …
Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.
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Live Flesh (1997) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Carne trémula
director: 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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The Flower of My Secret (1995) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData NeoDB
La flor de mi secreto
director: 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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What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?
director: 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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Bitter Christmas (2026) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Amarga Navidad
director: Pedro Almodóvar actor: Bárbara Lennie / Leonardo Sbaraglia …
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.