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Pedro Almodóvar

09/24/1949 (74 years old) | Calzada de Calatrava, Spain | Director | Male

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular songs, irreverent humor, strong colors, glossy décor and LGBT themes. Desire, passion, family and identity are among Almodóvar’s most prevalent themes. His films enjoy a worldwide following and he has become a major figure on the stage of world cinema.He founded Spanish film production company El Deseo S.A. with his younger brother Agustín Almodóvar who has produced almost all of Pedro’s films. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.

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Pedro Almodóvar Top Movies and TV Shows in 2024

Chart List

1.	Pain and Glory	21
2.	The Skin I Live In	15
3.	Strange Way of Life	13
4.	Law of Desire	12
5.	High Heels	10
6.	Julieta	9
7.	Kika	8
8.	Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios	6
9.	Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!	5
10.	All About My Mother	4
11.	I'm So Excited!	0
12.	Bad Education	0
13.	Volver	0
14.	The Human Voice	0
15.	What Have I Done to Deserve This?	0

Pain and Glory

Movie | Spain | 03/22/2019 | Drama | Psychological

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

7.5/10

96%

279

The Skin I Live In

Movie | Spain | 09/02/2011 | Drama | Revenge

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

7.6/10

81%

2,147

Strange Way of Life

Movie | 05/26/2023

After twenty-five years, Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his friend, sheriff Jake. They celebrate the meeting, but the next morning, Jake tells him that reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their friendship.

67%

Law of Desire

Movie | Spain | 02/06/1987 | Comedy

When porn director Pablo reluctantly breaks up with his boyfriend, Juan, he encourages him to stay in touch. Juan moves away to live in a lighthouse and eventually writes his ex, but in the interim Pablo has taken up a psychotic new lover, Antonio (Antonio Banderas). Antonio intercepts their correspondence and flies into a towering rage, terrifying Pablo but inspiring him creatively as he works on a play about his transsexual sister.

7.1/10

100%

High Heels

Movie | Spain | 10/23/1991 | Comedy | Rom Com

7.0/10

53%

Julieta

Movie | Spain | 04/08/2016 | Drama | Family Ties

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.

7.1/10

83%

Kika

Movie | Spain | 10/28/1993 | Drama | Relationship

Kika, a young cosmetologist, is called to the mansion of Nicolas, an American writer to make-up the corpse of his stepson, Ramon. Ramon, who is not dead, is revived by Kika's attentions and she then moves in with him. They might live happily ever after but first they have to cope with Kika's affair with Nicolas, the suspicious death of Ramon's mother and the intrusive gaze of tabloid-TV star and Ramon's ex-psychologist Andrea Scarface.

6.5/10

59%

Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios

Movie | Spain | 03/14/1988 | Drama

A breakup leads Pepa Marcos (Carmen Maura) into a chain of ludicrous and hilarious events.

7.5/10

168

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Movie | Spain | 12/12/1989 | Comedy

Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.

7.0/10

All About My Mother

Movie | Spain | 04/19/1999 | Drama | LGBT

A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress' autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy's father about the death of the son he never knew he had.

7.8/10

98%

184

I'm So Excited!

Movie | Spain | 03/08/2013 | Comedy | Situation

The film is an ensemble comedy written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. 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.

5.6/10

46%

113

Bad Education

Movie | Spain | 03/19/2004 | Drama | Social Issues

Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.

7.4/10

88%

Volver

Movie | Spain | 03/16/2006 | Romance | Rom Com

Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) works and lives Madrid with her husband Paco and daughter Paula. Her sister Sole (Lola Duenas) lives nearby and they both miss their mother Irene (Carmen Maura), who died several years ago in a house fire along with their father. A former neighbor from their hometown reports that she has seen the ghost of Irene and both daughters do not believe her. After a murder and a family tragedy, Irene's spirit materializes around her daughters to help comfort them.

7.6/10

91%

234

The Human Voice

Movie | Spain | 09/03/2020

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 that his master has abandoned him.

6.9/10

445

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

Movie | Spain | 10/24/1984 | Comedy

7.1/10

78%

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