Pedro Almodóvar

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Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born September 25, 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.

24-09-1949

Birthday

Libra

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Total Films

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero, 페드로 알모도바르, 阿莫多瓦, პედრო ალმოდოვარი

Also known as (male)

Calzada de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Place of Birth

24-09-1949

Birthday

Libra

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Pedro Almodovar, Almodovar-McNamara, Mateo Blanco, Pepe Patatia

Also Known As (male)

Calzada de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Place of Birth

Popular works

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Creative career

actor

44 Works

producer

16 Works

director

104 Works

writer

44 Works

other

2 Works

Un hombre libre

This documentary recognises the figure of Agustín Gómez Arcos, a Spanish writer who achieved a lot of success in France while being repudiated in Spain.

0.0

Year:

2025

Almodóvar, l'insolent de la Mancha

An anti-conformist, Pedro Almodovar has dared everything in his immense cinematic career. Confronting impulses, drugs and unbridled sexuality, cross-dressing identities, over the years he has allowed a colorful, uninhibited, taboo-free post-Franco cinema to blossom. In a Spain now caught up in its past, the native of La Mancha embodies all those Spanish generations who know how important it is to remember and protect this artistic insolence at all costs.

8.7

Year:

2023

Icónica Chamorro

Journalist Paloma Chamorro symbolized openness and modernity in Spain in the early 1980s. Her personality and her shows on TVE (then the only TV channel in the country) made her an influential transgressive icon.

2.0

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2023

El viaje de Julieta

0.0

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2023

Making Parallel Mothers

A behind-the-scenes featurette of four sections: Art Design, Photography & Sound, Costume & Makeup, and Production Design.

0.0

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2022

We Are Cinema

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

9.5

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2021

The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode

A recorded Q&A hosted by Mark Kermode, where Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swintondiscuss the inspirations they drew on for the film, how THE HUMAN VOICE fits within the 'Almodóvar oeuvre', and what Pedro will be making next - including a great surprise for Tilda. Recorded under lockdown conditions, the discussion features visual references and clips to create a dynamic and interesting companion piece to the short film.

0.0

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2020

The Making of Pain and Glory

A B-roll behind-the-scenes featurette providing insight into Pain and Glory’s production, with interviews from Almodóvar and Banderas.

0.0

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2020

Todos los nombres de Sara

Born in Campo de Criptana, a small village in the Spanish region of La Mancha, Sara Montiel (1928-2013) conquered Mexico, Hollywood, and the hearts of people. The recognition of an unparalleled professional career, an intimate dialogue with a tireless worker who took the stage at the age of twelve and never got off. A movie star who seduced millions of viewers around the world, a singer who reinvented a musical genre, a woman who broke the mold…

4.0

Year:

2019

¡Ay, Carmen!

The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant artist in her own right.

5.3

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2018

Chavela

Inspired by an exclusive interview and performance footage of Chavela Vargas shot in 1991 and guided by her unique voice, the film weaves an arresting portrait of a woman who dared to dress, speak, sing, and dream her unique life into being.

6.9

Year:

2017

Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas

When looking at Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography, it becomes evident that women are everywhere; in fact, his work revolves around them. His divas are the best to create a real portrait of Almodóvar and evoke the emotional power of his films. These women are the ideal observers of a cinematic career that, from La Mancha to Hollywood, has changed the image of Spain in the world.

7.5

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2016

Untied! Reflections on Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Produced in 2014, this documentary about the making of TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! features interviews with director Pedro Almodóvar; actors Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Loles León, and Rossy de Palma; producer Agustín Almodóvar; production manager Esther García; and cinematographer José Luis Alcaine.

0.0

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2014

Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother

Shot in 1999, "All About My Mother" is Pedro Almodóvar's thirteenth feature film. The director was a key figure in the turbulent Movida (the movement for cultural renewal and liberation in post-Franco Spain), explores Barcelona society at the turn of the millennium through the lives of five women.

8.0

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2012

The Making of The Skin I Live In

A behind-the scenes featurette documenting the making of Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In.

0.0

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2012

The Making of All About My Mother

A documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan; production manager Esther García; and author Didier Eribon.

0.0

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2012

Life Remote Control

A series of miscellaneous film footage are put together, to represented, life as if watching it in front of a television screen with a remote control.

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2011

Frenesí en la gran ciudad

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2011

Brunes et Blondes

Actresses' hairstyle in movies always carries a strong aesthetic statement associated with erotic, social, and historical meanings. In a bold and unexpected way, the film revisits this ultimate symbol of femininity in international cinema.

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2010

Arrebatados: recordando a Iván Zulueta

A portrait of the film director Iván Zulueta and his film Arrebato. It features contributions from friends and people who worked with him such as José Luis Borau, Pedro Almodóvar, Antonio Gasset and Julio Médem.

6.0

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2010

50 años de... Canciones

5.0

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2009

Wandering Heart

Wandering Heart intimately follows Caetano from São Paulo to New York and Japan, during the release of his first album recorded solely in English. It takes considerably more than a week-long series of shows at Carnegie Hall, accolades in the New York Times, or the admiration of friends like Pedro Almodóvar, David Byrne and Michelangelo Antonioni to make Caetano feel comfortable outside of Brazil.

5.0

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2009

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.

6.4

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2008

The Making of Volver

A short featurette about the emotions of the cast and crew while shooting Volver.

0.0

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2007

Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones

Documentary about the personal and professional life of Pablo G. del Amo. He is the most influential movie editor in Spain.

6.0

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2005

El Calentito

Early 80's, Sara is a good-family girl, she has never been with a man, does not drinks, does not take drugs. Following her love, she enters in "El Calentito" a bar where the group "las Siux" is singing.

4.7

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2005

Impressions from the Shoot: Making Bad Education

A short featurette of behind the scenes footage from Almodóvar’s Bad Education (2004).

0.0

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2004

Words in Progress

Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.

4.0

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2004

God Save the Queens

Creative documentary on the drag queen movement and its origins in Paris, New York and Madrid.

0.0

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1995

Madonna: Truth or Dare

From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary follows Madonna on her 1990 'Blond Ambition' concert tour. Filmed in black and white, with the concert pieces in glittering MTV color, it is an intimate look at the work of the icon, from a prayer circle before each performance to bed games with the dance troupe afterwards.

6.3

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1991

Pictures of Europe

What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between American independent and Hollywood movies and films from European directors. Featuring luminary iconoclasts from European cinema such as Agnes Varda, Bernardo Bertolucci and Pedro Almodovar, as well as American counterpoints from Paul Schrader, and those who have crossed back and forth, such as Paul Verhoeven

0.0

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1990

Law of Desire

Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.

7.2

Year:

1987

Matador

A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.

6.7

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1986

Tatuaje

A short film starring Pedro Almodóvar and Marisa Paredes, parodying a 1940s torch song, the famous Spanish copla "Tatuaje".

0.0

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1985

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.

7.2

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1984

Dark Habits

After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.

6.7

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1983

Labyrinth of Passion

An array of outrageous people, including a desperate nymphomaniac and a terrorist with an acute sense of smell, seek love and happiness in Madrid.

6.2

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1982

Pepi, Luci, Bom

After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends.

6.4

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1980

Rapture

José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.

6.8

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1980

A Man Called Autumn Flower

Lluis de Serracant leads a double life. By day he's a young lawyer, scion of a Catalan bourgeois family. At night he's a transvestite performer known to his fans as "Flower of Autumn".

5.4

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1978

Tiempos de constitución

3.0

Year:

1978

What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape

4.0

Year:

1978

Around Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

A featurette containing interviews with cast members who discuss their contributions to Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and Pedro Almodovar's directing methods.

0.0

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Almodóvar en La habitación de al lado

Cristina Teva moves to the Almodóvar universe by the hand of the director from La Mancha. In the offices of El Deseo, the journalist talks to a Pedro who shares his vision on the issues surrounding his film The Room Next Door.

9.0

Year: