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He is also known for directing several short films including The Human Voice (2020), and Strange Way of Life (2023). Almodóvar has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, two Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and nine Goya Awards.
- “Bad Education” The MPAA slapped the tantalizingly lurid spectacle “Bad Education” with an NC-17 in 2004, and it was probably the best thing that could’ve happened to Almodóvar in years, because this dazzling and horrifying masterpiece of a movie ended up earning more than $40 million globally, and $5 million in the U.S. It’s one of the highest-grossing NC-17 films of all time, right there behind “Showgirls,” “Henry & June,” and “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.”
- “All About My Mother” Almodóvar rightly won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1999 for this luscious ode to the women and the films that have inspired him.
- “Talk to Her” Almodóvar won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award in 2003 for this sensuous and creepy story of two men, a nurse and a writer, who bond over the love they feel for two women in comas.
- “Volver” The 21st-century stretch of Almodóvar’s career has found the director working at the peak of his powers, and 2006’s “Volver” is no exception.
22 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom. 1980 1h 22m Not Rated. 6.1 (6K) Rate. Pepi is raped by the policeman who catches her growing marijuana in her apartment. She seeks revenge by getting his masochist wife to leave him. Director Pedro Almodóvar Stars Carmen Maura Félix Rotaeta Alaska. 2. Labyrinth of Passion.
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- Volver. Describing the plot to Volver is ridiculously challenging. Two sisters with a penchant for nasty relationships mourn their mother together, who died in a questionable house fire a few years prior.
- Live Flesh. Live Flesh is (loosely) based on a book by British author Ruth Rendell. It's pretty heavy. Javier Bardem plays a paraplegic ex-cop who stalks down the man he believes shot him and caused him to be in a wheelchair.
- Dark Habits. Dark Habits is a really scandalous, bizarre, and hilarious movie. Any movie with a pun for a title instantly has a huge advantage. The film is about a cabaret singer who flees from the cops after accidentally killing her lover with heroin.
- Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown. The movie's title is pretty astute to one of the most common recurring themes in Almodóvar's movies. Women just freaking out.
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- All About My Mother (1999) One of the few films guaranteed to have this writer sobbing uncontrollable for pretty much every minute of its running time, All About My Mother is a near-perfect distillation of everything that makes an Almodóvar movie worth watching: production design acting as a heightened mirror of the tense mental states of his characters; melodramatic, expressive performances that are just the right blend of kitsch and reality; generous, empathetic – and yet self-consciously artificial and Brechtian – writing that’s willing to see characters as far more than just black-and-white angels and demons.
- Talk to Her (2002) Transgressive, difficult, and complex in a way that perhaps only Pedro Almodóvar can manage. Talk to Her deals with the interior lives of two men, Benigno (Javier Camara) and Marco (Dario Grandinetti), who care for two comatose women.
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is the pinnacle of Almodóvar’s early years, a high-flying sex comedy that crashes into telenovela melodramatics and Sirkian satire via the affairs of the upper classes.
- The Skin I Live In (2011) Gender as a violent, oppressive construct, determined and adjudged by the patriarchy, backed up by the biases of supposedly objective science.
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From 1972 to 1978, he devoted himself to make short films with the help of of his friends. The "premieres" of those early films were famous in the rapidly growing world of the Spanish counter-culture. In few years, Almodóvar became a star of "La Movida", the pop cultural movement of late 70s Madrid.
