List of the best Pedro Almodóvar movies: Talk to Her(2002), All About My Mother(1999), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown(1988), Volver(2006), The Skin I Live In(2011), Pain and Glory(2019), Live Flesh(1997), Broken Embraces(2009), Julieta(2016), The Flower of My Secret(1995), Matador(1986), Dark Habits(1984) ... ...
Romance, Drama
Spain
2002
112 Minutes
Director
Javier Cámara Darío Grandinetti Rosario Flores Leonor Watling Geraldine Chaplin Mariola Fuentes Roberto Alvarez Elena Anaya Lola Dueñas Adolfo Fernández Chus Lampreave
male nurse bullfighter dancer journalist emotional tender bullfight spain madrid hospital accident romance bullfighting unrequited love coma love discovery 2000s
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Comedy, Drama
Spain|France
1999
99 Minutes
Director
Cecilia Roth Eloy Azorín Marisa Paredes Penélope Cruz Candela Peña Antonia San Juan Rosa María Sardá Toni Canto
single mother transvestite actress nun lesbian witty emotional melodramatic madrid street apartment cemetery theater death depression redemption drug addiction friendship show business discovery
Young Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his second mother, a trans woman, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela.
Comedy, Drama
Spain
1988
88 Minutes
Director
Carmen Maura Antonio Banderas Julieta Serrano María Barranco Rossy de Palma Fernando Guillén Kiti Manver Chus Lampreave Yayo Calvo Lotes Leon Ángel de Andrés López
boyfriend actress terrorist lawyer best friend playful offbeat amusing apartment airport street abandonment abduction missing persons pursuit mystery rescue 1980s
A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.
Comedy, Drama
Spain
2006
111 Minutes
Director
Penélope Cruz Carmen Maura Chus Lampreave Lola Dueñas Blanca Portillo Yohana Cobo Carmen Machi Pilar Castro Antonio de la Torre
ghost mother daughter grandchild father bad father amusing quirky melodramatic shocking outlandish beauty salon apartment restaurant madrid funeral la mancha, spain death deception sexual abuse
After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Spain
2011
120 Minutes
Director
Antonio Banderas Elena Anaya Marisa Paredes Jan Cornet Roberto Álamo Eduard Fernández Blanca Suárez Susi Sánchez Bárbara Lennie Fernando Cayo José Luis Gómez
plastic surgeon housekeeper patient daughter wife melodramatic striking dreamy toledo, spain mansion dress shop carnival medical experiments abduction obsession rape revenge discovery 2010s
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.
Drama
Spain|France
2019
113 Minutes
Director
Antonio Banderas Asier Etxeandia Penélope Cruz Leonardo Sbaraglia Julieta Serrano Nora Navas Raúl Arévalo Cecilia Roth Pedro Casablanc Susi Sánchez
director first love addict family mother laborer brooding cool creative engaging emotional heartwarming moving passionate profound somber spirited tender touching madrid
A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.
Drama
Spain|France
1997
103 Minutes
Director
Javier Bardem Francesca Neri Liberto Rabal Ángela Molina José Sancho Penélope Cruz Pilar Bardem Álex Angulo
ex-convict paraplegic wife police officer prostitute dark disturbing spain prison orphanage adultery addiction sex wheelchair basketball revenge love transformation 1990s
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...
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Spain
2009
128 Minutes
Director
Penélope Cruz Lluís Homar Blanca Portillo José Luis Gómez Tamar Novas Rubén Ochandiano Marta Aledo Agustín Almodóvar Enrique Aparicio Yuyi Beringola Javier Coll
stockbroker director producer actress son filmmaker melodramatic suspenseful intricate movie set house office funeral love triangle revenge death father/son relationship the past jealousy discovery
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.
Drama
Spain
2016
96 Minutes
Director
Emma Suárez Adriana Ugarte Daniel Grao Inma Cuesta Darío Grandinetti Michelle Jenner Pilar Castro Nathalie Poza Susi Sánchez Joaquin Notario Priscilla Delgado
mother love interest daughter friend calm moving emotional engaging madrid spain heartbreak love depression disappearance loneliness love 21st century
After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events about her stranded daughter.
Drama
Spain|France
1995
105 Minutes
Director
Marisa Paredes Juan Echanove Imanol Arias Carmen Elias Rossy de Palma Chus Lampreave Joaquin Cortes Manuela Vargas
writer husband editor amusing melodramatic emotional spain madrid romance writing marriage disillusionment new love love triangle love transformation 1990s
Leo writes trashy romance novels under a pseudonym but as she struggles in her relationship with her husband, she finds her output becoming darker.
Comedy, Drama
Spain
1986
102 Minutes
Director
Assumpta Serna Antonio Banderas Nacho Martínez Eva Cobo Julieta Serrano Chus Lampreave Carmen Maura Eusebio Poncela Bibi Andersen Luis Ciges Eva Siva
matador student mother model girlfriend lawyer shocking wild madrid bullring police station yard bullfighting father figure psychic phenomena murder cover-up sexual taboo forbidden love 1980s
A matador is wounded by a bull and can no longer kill in the arena. It just a one flaw besides many others from several characters whom unsuspected collide.
Comedy, Drama
Spain
1984
116 Minutes
Director
Carmen Maura Chus Lampreave Cristina S. Pascual Julieta Serrano Marisa Paredes Mary Carrillo Lina Canalejas Manuel Zarzo Berta Riaza Will More Laura Cepeda
A nightclub singer seeks refuge with gay nuns on dope in a Madrid convent.
Comedy
Spain|France
1993
115 Minutes
Director
Verónica Forqué Peter Coyote Victoria Abril Alex Casanovas Rossy de Palma Anabel Alonso Bibi Andersson Jesús Bonilla Karra Elejalde Charo López Santiago Lajusticia
author cosmetologist photographer maid convict reporter campy amusing melodramatic dark spain mansion apartment affair tabloid journalism coma rape father/son relationship love rivalry
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?
Drama
Spain
1982
100 Minutes
Director
Cecilia Roth Imanol Arias Helga Liné Marta Fernández Muro Fernando Vivanco Ofelia Angelica Angel Alcazar Concha Gregori Cristina S. Pascual Fany McNamara Antonio Banderas
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 ... See full summary »
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy
Spain
2013
89 Minutes
Director
Antonio de la Torre Hugo Silva Javier Cámara Raúl Arévalo Carlos Areces Paz Vega Blanca Suárez Lola Dueñas José María Yazpik Cecilia Roth Antonio Banderas
steward flight attendant passenger hilarious spain equipment malfunction sex death emergency landing transformation sacrifice discovery 2010s
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.
Comedy, Gay & Lesbian
1987
100 Minutes
Director
Eusebio Poncela Carmen Maura Antonio Banderas Miguel Molina Manuela Velasco Bibi Andersen Nacho Martínez Helga Liné Fernando Guillén Germán Cobos Maruchi Leon
porn star director transsexual sister obsessed fan struggling actor madcap raw creative fascinating frightening madrid movie set lighthouse bedroom spain cliff love triangle polyamory pornography
One man (Antonio Banderas) plots the death of another to gain the love of a Spanish filmmaker (Eusebio Poncela), who lives with a transsexual sibling (Carmen Maura).
Comedy, Drama
1984
100 Minutes
Director
Carmen Maura Ángel de Andrés López Verónica Forqué Gonzalo Suarez Chus Lampreave Juan Martinez Miguel Angel Herranz Amparo Soler Leal Luis Hostalot
wife husband son brother mother-in-law prostitute amusing dark outlandish madrid apartment family dysfunction accidental death homosexuality drug trafficking prostitution bad behavior wretched excess transformation 1980s
A Madrid housewife (Carmen Maura) tries to retain her sanity in a household full of difficult and odd relatives.
Comedy
1980
80 Minutes
Director
Carmen Maura Eva Siva Alaska Félix Rotaeta Concha Gregori Kiti Manver
The lives of three different women converge in 1980s Madrid. Written and directed by Pedro Almodovar.