Direction: Pedro Almodóvar
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Talk to Her
2002 · Movie · 112 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Javier Cámara · Leonor Watling · Darío Grandinetti · Rosario Flores
Plot The curtain of salmon colored roses and heavy gold fringing which covers the stage is pulled back to reveal a Pina Bausch spectacle, Café Müller. Among the spectators, two men...
7.1
54K votes
7.1
54K votes
To Return
2006 · Movie · 116 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Penélope Cruz · Carmen Maura · Chus Lampreave · Lola Dueñas
Plot Three generations of women survive easterly wind, fire, madness, superstition and even death through goodness, lies and an unlimited vitality. They are: Raimunda, married to an unemployed worker, and her...
7.1
70K votes
7.1
70K votes
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
1984 · Movie · 101 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Carmen Maura · Verónica Forqué · Luis Hostalot · Gonzalo Suárez
Plot Almodóvar has described his fourth film as a homage to Italian Neorealism, although this tribute also involves jokes about paedophilia, prostitution, and a telekenetic child. The film, set in the...
7.1
15K votes
7.1
15K votes
All About My Mother
1999 · Movie · 105 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Cecilia Roth · Marisa Paredes · Penélope Cruz · Candela Peña
Plot A Greek saying states that only women who have washed their eyes with tears can see clearly. This saying does not hold true for Manuela. The night a car ran...
7.1
75K votes
7.1
75K votes
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988 · Movie · 89 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Carmen Maura · Antonio Banderas · Julieta Serrano · Rossy de Palma
Plot A woman's lover leaves her, and she tries to contact him to find out why he's left. She confronts his wife and son, who are as clueless as she. Meanwhile...
7.0
49K votes
7.0
49K votes
Pain and Glory
2019 · Movie · 108 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Antonio Banderas · Asier Etxeandia · Penélope Cruz · Leonardo Sbaraglia
Plot A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.
6.9
29K votes
6.9
29K votes
The Law of Desire
1987 · Movie · 100 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Eusebio Poncela · Carmen Maura · Antonio Banderas · Micky Molina
Plot Pablo and Tino are brothers. Their parents separated when both were boys. Tino became Tina, after he went to live with his father. He began a relationship with his father,...
6.6
10K votes
6.6
10K votes
The Skin I Live In
2011 · Movie · 117 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Antonio Banderas · Elena Anaya · Marisa Paredes · Jan Cornet
Plot Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he...
6.6
55K votes
6.6
55K votes
The Human Voice
2020 · Movie · 30 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Tilda Swinton · Agustín Almodóvar · Miguel Almodóvar · Pablo Almodóvar
Plot A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn’t understand...
6.5
3K votes
6.5
3K votes
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
1989 · Movie · 97 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Antonio Banderas · Victoria Abril · Francisco Rabal · Loles León
Plot Antonio Banderas plays Ricky, an orphan who spent most of his youth escaping and returning to the orphanage. Upon his release, he goes to find B-movie actress Marina and kidnaps...
6.5
19K votes
6.5
19K votes
The Flower of My Secret
1995 · Movie · 102 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Marisa Paredes · Imanol Arias · Juan Echanove · Carme Elías
Plot Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her...
6.3
10K votes
6.3
10K votes
Julieta
2016 · Movie · 96 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Emma Suárez · Adriana Ugarte · Daniel Grao · Inma Cuesta
Plot Julieta lives in Madrid and has just lost her husband Xoan. Her daughter, Antía, has just turned 18 and decides to run away. Julieta searches by all means to find...
6.3
17K votes
6.3
17K votes
High Heels
1991 · Movie · 113 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Victoria Abril · Miguel Bosé · Marisa Paredes · Cristina Marcos
Plot 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...
6.3
14K votes
6.3
14K votes
Broken Embraces
2009 · Movie · 125 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Penélope Cruz · Lluís Homar · Blanca Portillo · José Luis Gómez
Plot A man (Lluis Omar) writes, lives and loves in the darkness. He was the victim of a brutal car accident fourteen years ago. Not only did he lose his sight,...
6.3
25K votes
6.3
25K votes
Dark Habits
1983 · Movie · 99 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Cristina Sánchez Pascual · Julieta Serrano · Marisa Paredes · Carmen Maura
Plot 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...
6.1
7K votes
6.1
7K votes
Bad Education
2004 · Movie · 105 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Gael García Bernal · Fele Martínez · Javier Cámara · Juan Fernández
Plot Bad Education tells the story of two friends – and first loves – and the sexual abuse they endure at a strict Salesian Catholic school. The complex narrative skilfully dramatizes...
6.0
39K votes
6.0
39K votes
Strange Way of Life
2023 · Movie · 31 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Ethan Hawke · Pedro Pascal · Jason Fernández · José Condessa
Plot A man crosses the desert that separates him from Bitter Creek. He comes to visit the Sheriff Jake. Twenty-five years before, both - the Sheriff and Silva, the rancher- worked...
6.0
4K votes
6.0
4K votes
Live Flesh
1997 · Movie · 101 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Javier Bardem · Francesca Neri · Liberto Rabal · Ángela Molina
Plot Victor (Liberto Rabal), a pizza delivery man, is obsessed with Elena (Francesca Neri), a beautiful Italian junkie he met and slept with a few days ago. When his aggressive courting...
6.0
15K votes
6.0
15K votes
Parallel Mothers
2021 · Movie · 123 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Penélope Cruz · Milena Smit · Israel Elejalde · Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Plot Two women coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and is exultant....
5.9
15K votes
5.9
15K votes
The Cannibalistic Councillor (S)
2009 · Movie · 8 min. · Spain
Direction Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Carmen Machi · Penélope Cruz · Marta Aledo
Plot This short film is part of the film-within-the-film Girls and Suitcases (Chicas y maletas), the film being shot in Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos). "The Cannibalistic Councillor" basically consists of...
5.8
5K votes
5.8
5K votes