Screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...