Pedro AlmodóvarFilmography

Born:: September 25, 1951 in Calzada de Calatrava, La Mancha, Spain
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Splashing his colorful films across the dour post-Franco Spanish landscape with the irreverent glee of a prostitute arriving late to church after a long night, Pedro Almodóvar has been called the most influential Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel. Beginning in the 1980s, Almodóvar started...Read More

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The Headless Woman

Crew: Producer

Actors: Guillermo Arengo, Cesar Bordon, Claudia Cantero, Inés Efron, Daniel Genoud

Synopsis: Acclaimed Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel steps back behind the camera for her third feature film with this tense thriller concerning a woman who fails to recognize the people surrounding her as well as their intentions after inadvertently killing a dog while driving on the highway. Budgeted Read More

8/19/09
Broken Embraces

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Penélope Cruz, Blanca Portillo, Lluís Homar, José Luis Gómez, Ruben Ochandiano

Synopsis: A follow-up to Spanish enfant terrible Pedro Almodóvar's 2006 arthouse sensation Volver, Los Abrazos Rotos finds the filmmaker re-teaming with actress Penélope Cruz and working on a canvas much broader than those of his previous outings, in terms of genres covered, narrative scope, and Read More

3/18/09
La Piel que habito

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Penélope Cruz

Synopsis: Pedro Almodóvar directs Penélope Cruz in an adaptation of author Thierry Jonquet's dark 1995 novel Mygale, in which an unhinged plastic surgeon exacts terrifying revenge on the men who raped his beloved daughter. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
Volver

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo

Synopsis: Two sisters learn that the bonds of family don't always end after death in this gentle observational comedy drama that marks celebrated Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's 16th feature. The story explores the interactions between three generations of women in a Spanish family. Raimunda (Penélope Cruz Read More

11/3/06
The Holy Girl

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Mercedes Morán, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Maria Alche, Julieta Zyleberberg

Synopsis: Lucrecia Martel directed this potent drama of love, sex, misunderstanding, and coming-of-age. Amalia (María Alche) is a girl edging into her early teens who has begun to ripen into adulthood. Amalia lives in a big hotel owned and operated by her divorced mother, Helena (Mercedes Morán), and her Read More

5/6/04
Bad Education

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fele Martínez, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Jiménez Cacho, Lluís Homar

Synopsis: Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar takes a look at his own adolescence as well as confronting the issue of sexual misconduct in the Catholic Church in this stylish drama, which was chosen to open the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Enrique Goded (Fele Martínez) is a Spanish filmmaker who is having trouble Read More

3/19/04
Epreuves d'Artistes

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

2004
Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus

Actors: Hany Abu-Assad, Pedro Almodóvar, Vicente Aranda, Bruno Barde, Xavier Beauvois

2004
My Life Without Me

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sarah Polley, Scott Speedman, Deborah Harry, Mark Ruffalo, Leonor Watling, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros

Synopsis: Isabel Coixet's Mi Vida Sin Me (My Life Without Me) is a tale of a woman dying before her time. Sarah Polley plays Ann, a 24-year-old mother of two. Ann is married to Don (Scott Speedman), and they live near Ann's mother (Deborah Harry), who is bitter about the fact that Ann's father is serving a Read More

9/26/03
Talk to Her

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Javier Camára, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Pedro Almodóvar follows his international success All About My Mother with an offbeat drama that explores the friendship of two men brought together under unusual but strangely similar circumstances. Benigno (Javier Camára) is a male nurse whose apartment overlooks a dance studio run by Katerina (Geraldine Chaplin Read More

11/22/02
All About My Mother

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penélope Cruz, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Eloy Azorín, Rosa María Sardà

Synopsis: Pedro Almodóvar directed this story of a woman and her circle of friends who find themselves suffering a variety of emotional crises. Manuela (Cecilia Roth) is a single mother who has raised her son, Esteban (Eloy Azorín), to adulthood on her own and has come to emotionally depend on him. One Read More

11/19/99
Live Flesh

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal, Ángela Molina, Jose Sancho, Penélope Cruz

Synopsis: This Pedro Almodóvar melodrama examines how several lives are changed by a single gunshot. Adapting the novel Live Flesh by British mystery author Ruth Rendell, Almodóvar has given the material a Spanish makeover with added political thrust. Beginning in 1970 in Franco's Madrid, when a prostitute (Penelope Cruz Read More

10/29/97
The Flower of My Secret

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Imanol Arias, Carmen Elias, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: From Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar (Live Flesh, All About My Mother) comes this offbeat drama about Leo Macías (Marisa Paredes), a romance novelist who writes her trashy tomes under the pseudonym Amanda Gris. When her marriage begins to dissolve, Leo finds herself falling into despair, leading Read More

1995
Kika

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Verónica Forqué, Peter Coyote, Victoria Abril, Alex Casanovas, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: Spanish director Pedro Almodovar returns to his recurring framework of offbeat sexuality and death with this colorful comedy. Kika (Veronica Forque) is a Madrid makeup artist who falls in love with Ramon (Alex Casanovas), a dead man whose face Kika is hired to prepare for a funeral. Kika's Read More

1993
Acción Mutante

Crew: Producer

Actors: Antonio Resines, Frederique Feder, Alex Angulo, Saturnino Garcia

Synopsis: Waging war against all things glamorous and beautiful, crippled terrorists Accion Mutante plot a series of attacks on society's elite, gaining a fearsome reputation before their activities are stalled with the jailing of their leader and mastermind, Ramon. Soon reunited with their newly released Read More

1993
High Heels

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bose, Féodor Atkine, Pedro Diaz del Corral

Synopsis: Written and directed by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almódovar, Tacones Lejanos is a murder mystery centering on flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo (Marisa Paredes) and her daughter Rebecca (Victoria Abril), a television anchorwoman. After being estranged for 15 years, Becky re-enters Rebecca's life Read More

12/20/91
Truth or Dare

Actors: Madonna, Warren Beatty, Sandra Bernhard

Synopsis: Truth or Dare is an outrageous, insightful, carefully controlled and (to non-fans) overlong documentary of singer Madonna's 1990 Blonde Ambition tour. Though much of the film is a paean to self-love and self-aggrandizement, we are permitted to see Madonna at her worst as well as her best. Just Read More

5/10/91
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Loles Leon, Julieta Serrano, Francisco Rabal

Synopsis: "I'll never love you . . . ever!" the sexy and attractive Marina (Victoria Abril) states emphatically to the love-struck Ricky (Antonio Banderas). You know she means what she says because when she makes this statement she is handcuffed and lashed to a bed, not exactly the proper way to warm anyone Read More

5/4/90
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Fernando Guillén, Julieta Serrano, Maria Barranco, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: Though the kinky characters and aberrant social behavior common to the works of Spanish director Pedro Almodovar are very evident in his Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the film is at heart a door-slamming farce in the grand tradition. The tiny apartment of pregnant actress Carmen Maura Read More

11/11/88
Matador

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martinez, Eva Cobo, Julieta Serrano

Synopsis: Once-great Spanish matador Nacho Martinez has been reduced to starring in gruesome "snuff" films. Martinez is idolized by Antonio Banderas, who has no notion of his idol's current illegal profession. Terrified at the thought of drawing blood in the bullring, Banderas nevertheless seeks out Read More

1986
The Law of Desire

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Miguel Molina, Manuela Velasco

Synopsis: Popular film director Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela) has found a new love in the form of handsome blue-collar Juan (Miguel Molina). Not altogether comfortable with his lifestyle, Juan decides to leave Pablo for a while to contemplate his future. Pablo insists that Juan keep in touch by sending Read More

1986
Dark Habits

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Julieta Serrano, Marisa Paredes, Carmen Maura, Mary Carrillo

Synopsis: In this Pedro Almodóvar 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 takes drugs Read More

1984
What Have I Done to Deserve This?

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Carmen Maura, Ángel de Andrés Lopez, Verónica Forqué, Gonzalo Suárez, Chus Lampreave

Synopsis: Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, the Luis Buñuel 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 keep Read More

1984
Labyrinth of Passion

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Production Designer, Screenwriter, Set Designer

Actors: Cecilia Roth, Imanol Arias, Helga Liné, Fernando Vivanco

Synopsis: Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's films are colorful, sexy, and very funny, and this one is a perfect introduction to his work. An emperor's son, Reza Niro (Imanol Arias), comes to Madrid in disguise and sleeps with Sadeq (Antonio Banderas), an Islamic terrorist with a highly developed sense of Read More

1982
Pepi, Luci, Bom y Otras Chicas del Montón

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Carmen Maura, Eva Siva, Félix Rotaeta

Synopsis: An outrageous comedy that throws viewers into a culture shock. A suggestive satire about women who ignore society's rules. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1980