Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar

September 25, 1949 · 76 years old

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born September 25, 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…

Known For

33 titles
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Wild Tales

Wild Tales

2014 · 2h 2m · Movie

Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.

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Sirat

Sirat

2025 · 1h 54m · Movie

A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.

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Pain and Glory

Pain and Glory

2019 · 1h 53m · Movie

A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.

7.9
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The Room Next Door

The Room Next Door

2024 · 1h 47m · Movie

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

6.8
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The Skin I Live In

The Skin I Live In

2011 · 2h 0m · Movie

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.

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Strange Way of Life

Strange Way of Life

2023 · 31m · Movie

After twenty-five years Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his friend Sheriff Jake. They celebrate the meeting, but the next morning Jake tells him that reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their fr...

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Talk to Her

Talk to Her

2002 · 1h 52m · Movie

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

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Volver

Volver

2006 · 2h 1m · Movie

After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.

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All About My Mother

All About My Mother

1999 · 1h 41m · Movie

A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.

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Julieta

Julieta

2016 · 1h 39m · Movie

After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events involving her estranged daughter.

7.2
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Bad Education

Bad Education

2004 · 1h 46m · Movie

An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.

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El Angel

El Angel

2018 · 1h 58m · Movie

The angelic face of Carlos, a 17-year-old teenager, hides a dark facet of robberies, lies and murders.

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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

1988 · 1h 28m · Movie

A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.

7.5
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Broken Embraces

Broken Embraces

2009 · 2h 7m · Movie

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.

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Parallel Mothers

Parallel Mothers

2021 · 2h 3m · Movie

The story of two mothers who bond in unexpected way after giving birth the same day.

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The Clan

The Clan

2015 · 1h 48m · Movie

The true story of the Puccio Clan, a family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s.

7.0
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Live Flesh

Live Flesh

1997 · 1h 43m · Movie

After leaving jail, Víctor is still in love with Elena, but she's married to the former cop -now basketball player- who became paralysed by a shot from Víctor's gun...

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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

1990 · 1h 41m · Movie

An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him.

7.0
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My Life Without Me

My Life Without Me

2003 · 1h 46m · Movie

A young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before.

7.4
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I'm So Excited!

I'm So Excited!

2013 · 1h 30m · Movie

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.

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High Heels

High Heels

1991 · 1h 52m · Movie

A singer returns after 15 years abroad to perform in Madrid and finds her 27 y.o. daughter married to one of her mom's ex-lovers.

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Kika

Kika

1993 · 1h 54m · Movie

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?

6.5
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Law of Desire

Law of Desire

1987 · 1h 42m · Movie

A gay filmmaker becomes involved with an obsessive fan while still pining for his absent true love. Meanwhile, he shares a close but complex relationship with his trans sister, an actress.

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The Secret Life of Words

The Secret Life of Words

2005 · 1h 55m · Movie

A hearing impaired factory worker gives up her first holiday in years and instead travels out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man suffering from severe burns.

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Matador

Matador

1986 · 1h 50m · Movie

A matador is wounded by a bull and can no longer kill in the arena. It is just one of the problems of one of the characters that unexpectedly collide in this film.

6.9
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What Have I Done to Deserve This?

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

1984 · 1h 41m · Movie

The vicissitudes of Gloria, a neurotic housewife, and her family's peculiar characters.

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Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom

Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom

1980 · 1h 22m · Movie

Pepi is raped by the policeman who catches her growing marijuana in her apartment. She seeks revenge by getting his masochist wife to leave him.

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The Headless Woman

The Headless Woman

2008 · 1h 27m · Movie

After hitting something with her car, a bourgeois Argentine woman's life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation, as she fears she may have killed someone.

6.5
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Labyrinth of Passion

Labyrinth of Passion

1982 · 1h 40m · Movie

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). When Riza Niro discovers that Sadec and his colleague...

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The Holy Girl

The Holy Girl

2004 · 1h 46m · Movie

16-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul of a middle-aged doctor.

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Arrebato

Arrebato

1980 · 1h 55m · Movie

A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.

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Chavela

Chavela

2017 · 1h 33m · Movie

The life of pioneering singer Chavela Vargas, from her birth in Costa Rica in 1919 to her death in Mexico in 2012.

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Amarga Navidad

Amarga Navidad

2026 · 1h 51m · Movie

A woman being abandoned by her partner during Christmas time.

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