Pedro Almodóvar
27 titles · european arthouse
Melodrama reclaimed and turned up. Almodóvar takes the disreputable machinery of soap — coincidence, secret parentage, coma, revenge — and plays it in saturated colour with complete sincerity, usually with women at the centre and desire treated as ordinary.
Signature
- Primary reds and greens; interiors designed to the millimetre.
- Women's solidarity as the emotional engine; men frequently absent or ruinous.
- Trans, gay and queer lives depicted as unremarkable rather than as subject.
- Film-within-film and story-within-story structures.
All About My Mother
Volver
Pain and Glory
Talk to Her
Bad Education
Parallel Mothers
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Julieta
Live Flesh
Broken Embraces
I'm So Excited!
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
The Room Next Door
High Heels
Strange Way of Life
Law of Desire
Kika
Matador
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
The Flower of My Secret
The Human Voice
Dark Habits
Pepi, Luci, Bom
Labyrinth of Passion
Fuck... Fuck... Fuck Me, Tin!
Two Whores, or a Love Story That Ends in a Wedding
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