Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
(1988) [M]

This colourful hit put director Pedro Almodovar on the international map and cemented the reputation of its star, Carmen Maura. The film is a peppy little soap bubble as TV actress Pepa (Maura) wakes up to find a note from her lover, Ivan (Fernando Guillun), informing her he is leaving. Desperate...  More

Law Of Desire
(1987) [R]

Law of Desire is an unbridled send-up of the absurdities of human desire, a wildly funny film that took American and European audiences by storm and immediately established director Pedro Almodovar. Law of Desire features a fabulous trio - Pablo, a famous Madrid director for whom men are prepared...  More

Ay Carmela
(1990) [PG]

Set against the political passion and turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, the story follows Carmela and Paulino, the Republican-supporting owners of a touring cabaret group. While retreating to the safety of Valencia, they pick up a young waif before being captured by Franco's army. Spanish...  More

How To Be A Woman And Not Die In The Attempt
(1991) [M]

How To Be A Woman And Not Die In The Attempt is a bittersweet, amusing look at the trials and tribulations of life as a working wife. Carmen (Carmen Maura), a hard working wife, journalist and mother of three is typical of women everywhere. Her workaholic third husband Antonio (Antonio Resines)...  More

Matador (1986)
(1986) [R]

At his school in Madrid, ex-bullfighter Diego Montes instructs his students the corrida, 'the art of the kill'. Trainee bullfighter Angel, sexually repressed and mother fixated, is taunted about his suspected homosexuality by Diego. To prove his masculinity Angel attempts to assault Diego's...  More

Le Bonheur Est Dans Le Pre
(1995) [M]

Lots of people wish they could be someone else, but a French businessman decides to do something about it in this satirical comedy. Francis Bergeade (Michel Serrault) runs a factory in a small town that makes toilet seats. With his employees on strike and his wife plundering his bank account as...  More

What Have I Done To Deserve This?
(1984) [MA]

Filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, the Luis Bunuel of the 1980s, cooks up another perversely funny descent into urban hell in What Have I Done to Deserve This? Carmen Maura plays a middle-class housewife hemmed in by her wildly eccentric relatives. Her principal purpose in life is a balancing act: to...  More

Pepi, Luci, Bom (& The Other Girls)
(1980) [R]

Pepi, Luci and Bom (1980) is a twisted sexually perverse comedy from Pedro Almodovar. The story revolves around three working class women living in Madrid, Spain. Carmen Maura (an Almodovar regular) is the star of this very low budget film. A meek house wife is slowly seduced by her lesbian next...  More

Alice et Martin
(1998) [M]

A love story betweem two emotionally damaged outsiders, Alice et Martin marks auteur Andre Techine's return to the haunting and intense territory of The Wild Reeds and reunites him with Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche. Following the death of his father, 20 year old Martin goes missing. He...  More

The Pact of Silence
(2003) [M]

Sarah (Elodie Bouchez) a young Carmelite nun, collapses in pain, dazed and spouting a nonsense phrase. Concurrently, a great distance away, her identical twin sister, Gaelle (also Bouchez), in prison, wakes up to find her cell in flames. While Gaelle, the victim of an attack by her fellow...  More