Pedro Almodóvar films, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 19 films on Boxlist

Known for All About My Mother, Talk to Her and The Skin I Live In.

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All About My Mother
1999 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
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.
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Talk to Her
2002 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
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The Skin I Live In
2011 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
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.
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Volver
2006 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Raimunda lives and works in Madrid with her husband Paco and their daughter Paula. Raimunda's sister Sole lives nearby. The two sisters miss their mother Irene who died several years ago in a house fire along with their father. When a...
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Pain and Glory
2019 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
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...
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
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Bad Education
2004 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
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...
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The Human Voice
2020 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
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.
Parallel Mothers
2021 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, middle-aged, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.
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Law of Desire
1987 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
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...
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Bitter Christmas
2026 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
After her mother dies in December, advertising director Elsa immerses herself in work to cope. When a panic attack forces her to take a break, she decides to travel to Lanzarote with her friend Patricia. The story of these women run...
The Room Next Door
2024 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life...
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The Flower of My Secret
1995 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than happy...
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Julieta
2016 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
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.
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Live Flesh
1997 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A scorned ex-convict forces himself into the lives of the couple who put him behind bars.
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Matador
1986 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
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Strange Way of Life
2023 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
After 25 years, an ex hired gun visits his old colleague, who is now a small town sheriff. Their past relationship is explored, as is how they reflect on it in the present.
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
1989 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.
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High Heels
1991 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and...
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