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Something wrong?The Spanish director who turned melodrama, desire, and motherhood into a visual language of bold color and irreverent wit - building a cult following that made him one of Europe's most internationally recognized filmmakers.
A life in dates
Cara al Show con Marc GiróSeries
Bitter ChristmasFilm, 2026Director, Writer2025
Pedro x JavisSeries2024
The Room Next DoorFilm, Director, Writer2023
Beau gesteSeries2021
Directors on DirectorsSeries2020
Pongamos que hablo deSeries
The Human VoiceFilm, 2020Director, Writer2019“I rely on it, it’s an addiction, the need to tell stories.”In their wordsOn how much filmmaking means to Almodóvar in “Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I can no longer hide’” in The Guardian (2019 Aug 11)“In fact I was never the son my parents wanted. I mean, I think that they really loved me. But it’s something I realised from a very young age.”In their wordsOn his relationship with his parents in “Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I can no longer hide’” in The Guardian (2019 Aug 11)“I've had a very good relationship with my mother, but there's a whole generation of Spanish women who have struggled: very strong fighting figures who carry their families.”In their wordsOn the dilemmas faced by generations of Spanish women in “Pedro Almodóvar on Aging, Mom and 'Pain and Glory'” in AARP Magazine (2019 Oct 4)“But it’s one of my worries, I can’t get over it in my mind. I mean, I can’t even reconcile myself to the fact that death is real.”In their wordsOn his views on death in “Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I can no longer hide’” in The Guardian (2019 Aug 11)2018Adopted Son of MadridAward
El AngelFilm, 2018Producer2015
Close Up with The Hollywood ReporterSeries2014
Wild TalesFilm, Producer2012Honorary Doctor of Paris 8 UniversityAward2011“I'm an artist…and I'm part of every decision in a movie. This is not how they work in Hollywood. There, the director is part of the crew, not the main creator.”In their wordsOn why Almodóvar has forgone directing a Hollywood film in “Pedro Almodóvar interview for The Skin I Live In” in The Telegraph (2011 Aug 13)“Whenever I've shot my previous films, I've felt phantoms of my own cinema past and personal past hovering over me. They accompanied me through those films.”In their wordsOn how his 2011 film The Skin I Live In differed from his earlier efforts in “Pedro Almodóvar interview for The Skin I Live In” in The
The Skin I Live InFilm, 2011Director, Writer2009Honorary Doctor of Harvard UniversityAward2007
The Graham Norton ShowSeries2006Best Screenplay AwardAwardEuropean Film Award for Best FilmAward
VolverFilm, 2006Director, Writer2004
Bad EducationFilm, Director, Writer2002European Film Award for Best FilmAwardEuropean Film Award for Best ScreenwriterAward2000BAFTA Award for Best DirectionAward1999Cannes Best Director AwardAwardEuropean Film Award for Best FilmAwardGoya Award for Best DirectorAward
All About My MotherFilm, 1999Director, Writer1995
Lo + plusSeries
The Flower of My SecretFilm, 1995Director, Writer1990
La mujer de tu vidaSeries
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!Film, 1990Director, Writer1989Goya Award for Best Original ScreenplayAward1987Teddy AwardAward
Law of DesireFilm, 1987Director, Writer1983
Dark HabitsFilm, Director, Writer1980
Pepi, Luci, BomFilm, Director, Writer1953
The OscarsSeries1949Born25 September 1949Also in Deutsch
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Almodóvar in 1988
Almodóvar at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival
Almodóvar with Victoria Abril, star of High Heels, at the 1993 César Awards in Paris
Almodóvar (left) and Tim Burton (right) at the première of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Madrid, in 2007
Almodóvar with Rossy de Palma (left) and Penélope Cruz at the premiere of Broken Embraces at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
Almodóvar with his brother Agustín, Nora Navas, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Penélope Cruz, and Antonio Banderas at the red carpet of the 34th Goya Awards in 2020
Almodóvar won the Golden Lion at the 81st Venice International Film FestivalIn their own words 7
, I rely on it, it’s an addiction, the need to tell stories.
In fact I was never the son my parents wanted. I mean, I think that they really loved me. But it’s something I realised from a very young age.
I've had a very good relationship with my mother, but there's a whole generation of Spanish women who have struggled: very strong fighting figures who carry their families.
Filmography 40
BCBitter Christmas
SISirātTDThe Room Next Door
SLStrange Way of Life
PMParallel MothersTVThe Human Voice
PGPain and Glory
TOThe Silence of OthersEAEl Angel
JUJulieta
TCThe ClanWTWild Tales
IEI'm So Excited!TIThe Skin I Live In
BEBroken Embraces
TCThe Cannibalistic Councillor
TWThe Headless Woman
RDRoman Polanski: Wanted and DesiredVOVolver
TWThe Secret Life of WordsBEBad Education
TGThe Holy Girl
MMMy Life Without Me
THTalk to HerAMAll About My Mother
LFLive FleshTSThe Flower of My Secret
KIKika
MAMutant Action
HHHigh Heels
MDMadonna: Truth or DareTDTie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
WBWomen on the Verge of a Nervous BreakdownLDLaw of Desire
MAMatador
WTWhat Have I Done to Deserve This?DHDark Habits
LPLabyrinth of PassionPBPepi, Luci, Bom
RARapture166 credits on file
Television 17
CGCara al Show con Marc GiróPJPedro x Javis
LRLa Revuelta
ARAlaska Revelada
FCFaut Voir - L'Hebdo cinémaBGBeau geste
FLFleeting Lies
LDLa Noche DDDDirectors on DirectorsPDPongamos que hablo de
LMLate motivCRClose Up with The Hollywood ReporterTSThe Graham Norton ShowLPLo + plus
EUEurotrashLVLa mujer de tu vidaTOThe OscarsAwards
In their orbit
Sibling: Agustín AlmodóvarAbout this person
Born 25 September 1949, Almodóvar's career took shape during La Movida Madrileña, the cultural renaissance after Franco's death, and his early films captured that sense of sexual and political freedom. In 1986 he founded El Deseo with his brother Agustín, who has produced his work ever since. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) broke him through with an Oscar nomination, and collaborations with Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz followed through the '90s. All About My Mother (1999) won Best Foreign Language Film, Talk to Her (2002) won Best Original Screenplay. Later work - Volver, The Skin I Live In, Pain and Glory, Parallel Mothers - kept the acclaim coming, and in 2024 he made his first English-language feature, The Room Next Door, which took the Golden Lion at Venice.
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