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FILMS BY PEDRO ALMODOVAR
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Matador
(Bullfighter)
Pedro
Almodovar
Spain -
1986 |
Ex-bullfighter who is getting turned on by killing, lady lawyer with
same problem and young man driven insane by over-religious upbringing -
these are the main characters in this stylish black comedy about dark
sides of human nature. |
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Mujeres Al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios
(Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown) |
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 her girlfriend is afraid the police are looking for her
because of her boyfriend's criminal activities. They talk to a female
lawyer, who turns out to be the lover's new lover, and everyone's path
keeps crossing each other's in a very complicated and confusing manner. |
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Pedro
Almodovar |
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Spain –
1988
Nominated |
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Atame
(Tie Me Up Tie Me Down) |
Ricky is released from a mental hospital, and knows exactly what he
wants to do. He hunts down Marina, a porn film star he once had sex
with, and tries to convince here to be his wife. She is a bit reluctant,
so he ties her up. |
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Pedro
Almodovar |
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Spain -
1990 |
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Carne Tremula
(Live Flesh)
Pedro
Almodovar
Spain -
1997 |
Pizza delivery man Victor is having an argument with Elena, whom he met
a few days ago, but she was high then and doesn't want to hear about
him. Reacting to the noise, two cops, young David and older Sancho,
arrive at the scene, the gun accidentally goes off.. Four years later
David is a wheelchair basketball star, he's married to Elena, Victor is
released out of prison and their destinies begin to cross again. |
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Todo Sobre Mi Madre
(All About My Mother)
Pedro
Almodovar
Spain –
1999 |
A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his 17th birthday as
he runs to seek an actress's autograph. She goes to Barcelona to find
the lad's father, a transvestite named Lola who does not know he has a
child. First she finds her friend, Agrado, also a transvestite; through
him she meets Rosa, a young nun bound for El Salvador, and by
happenstance, becomes the personal assistant of Huma Rojo, the actress
her son admired. She helps Huma manage Nina, the co-star and Huma's
lover, and she becomes Rosa's caretaker during a dicey pregnancy. With
echoes of Lorca, "All About Eve," and "Streetcar Named Desire," the
mothers (and fathers and actors) live out grief, love, and friendship. |
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Winner |
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Hable con Ella
(Talk to Her)
Pedro
Almodovar
Spain -
2002 |
After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet
at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a
bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so
happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a
young ballet student. The lives of the four characters will flow in all
directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an
unsuspected destiny. |
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Volver
(To Return)
Pedro
Almodovar
Spain -
2006 |
Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her husband Paco,
who is always drunk. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works
clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. The two sisters lost their
parents in a fire in La Mancha, their birth village, years ago. Their
aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her
sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive.
When the old aunt dies the situation changes and the past returns (volver)
in a twist of mystery and suspense. |
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A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years
before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the
accident, he not only lost his sight, he also lost Lena, the love of his
life. This man uses two names: Harry Caine, a playful pseudonym with
which he signs his literary works, stories and scripts, and Mateo
Blanco, his real name, with which he lives and signs the film he
directs. After the accident, Mateo Blanco reduces himself to his
pseudonym, Harry Caine. If he can't direct films he can only survive
with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his beloved Lena. |
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Los Abrazos Rotos
(Broken Embraces)
Pedro
Almodovar
Spain -
2009 |
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