Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
(1988) [M]

This colourful hit put director Pedro Almodovar on the international map and cemented the reputation of its star, Carmen Maura. The film is a peppy little soap bubble as TV actress Pepa (Maura) wakes up to find a note from her lover, Ivan (Fernando Guillun), informing her he is leaving. Desperate...  More

All About My Mother
(1999) [M]

A birthday treat turns into heart-rending tragedy for single-mother Manuela when her teenage son is killed in a car accident after a performance of A Streetcar Named Desire starring his favourite actress Huma Roja. Determined to exorcise her overwhelming guilt, Manuela goes to Barcelona to...  More

The Flower Of My Secret
(1995)

Spain's high priest of hip returns with a brilliant combination of his familiar stylized comedy and a new departure into full-blooded melodrama. Leo leads a secret double life as an author of romantic fiction. However her success as the best-selling Amanda Gris hasn't brought her happiness and...  More

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
(1990) [R]

Ricky is released from a mental hospital, and knows exactly what he wants to do. He hunts down Marina, a porn film star he once had sex with, and tries to convince here to be his wife. She is a bit reluctant, so he ties her up... Will this approach endear him to her?

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Law Of Desire
(1987) [R]

Law of Desire is an unbridled send-up of the absurdities of human desire, a wildly funny film that took American and European audiences by storm and immediately established director Pedro Almodovar. Law of Desire features a fabulous trio - Pablo, a famous Madrid director for whom men are prepared...  More

High Heels (Tacones Lejanos)
(1991) [M]

A girl's mother returns after 15 years to find her daughter has married one of her (the mother's) old boyfriends. They try to mend their broken mother/daughter relationship and deal with their common lover. Released in the U.S. under the title High Heels, Tacones Lejanos was nominated for several...  More

Dark Habits
(1983) [R]

In this typical Pedro Almodovar film, a singer at a low-end nightclub hides out at a convent after her lover dies of a bad dose of drugs, and she meets a group of off-the-wall nuns while in hiding. The nuns range from one who writes sensationalist pulp fiction under a pseudonym, to another who...  More

Kika
(1993) [R]

Young cosmetologist Kika is called to the mansion of rich American Nicholas in order to make up the corpse of his stepson Ramon. As it turns out, Ramon is not actually dead and he begins an affair with Kika. However the path of true love never does run smooth and the pair must survive the threats...  More

Matador (1986)
(1986) [R]

At his school in Madrid, ex-bullfighter Diego Montes instructs his students the corrida, 'the art of the kill'. Trainee bullfighter Angel, sexually repressed and mother fixated, is taunted about his suspected homosexuality by Diego. To prove his masculinity Angel attempts to assault Diego's...  More

Live Flesh
(1997) [MA]

This Pedro Almodovar melodrama examines how several lives are changed by a single gunshot. Adapting the novel Live Flesh by British mystery author Ruth Rendell, Almodovar has given the material a Spanish makeover with added political thrust. Beginning in 1970 in Franco's Madrid, when a prostitute...  More