
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…

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

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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

A woman being abandoned by her partner during Christmas time.