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

Belle Epoque
(1992) [M]

A young army deserter seeks sanctuary on a country estate and finds true love. Spanish dialogue with English subtitles. Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film in 1994.  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

Viridiana
(1961) [M]

After 25 years' exile, Luis Bunuel was invited to his native Spain to direct Viridiana -- only to have the Spanish government suppress the film on the grounds of blasphemy and obscenity. Regarded by many as Bunuel's crowning achievement, the film centers on an idealistic young nun named Viridiana...  More

Cronos
(1993) [M]

The first feature from writer/director Guillermo del Toro (Mimic, The Devil's Backbone), Cronos caused a sensation upon its release, winning several awards at many international film festivals, including Cannes and the Mexican Academy Awards. A modern vampire tale, elevated from the usual...  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

What Have I Done To Deserve This?
(1984) [MA]

Filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, the Luis Bunuel of the 1980s, cooks up another perversely funny descent into urban hell in What Have I Done to Deserve This? Carmen Maura plays a middle-class housewife hemmed in by her wildly eccentric relatives. Her principal purpose in life is a balancing act: to...  More