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

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

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

Volver
(2006) [M]

Pedro Almodovar makes a triumphant return to the screen in this rich tale of three generations of women who manage to survive everyday life by means of goodness, occasional lies and boundless vitality. Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) is struggling to make ends meet, holding down several jobs while...  More

The Women on the 6th Floor
(2010) [PG]

It's Paris, 1962. Wealthy stockbroker Jean-Louis (POTICHE s Fabrice Luchini) lives a staid and bourgeois existence with his perfectly-presented socialite wife (Sandrine Kiberlain, MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON). But when the family s maid abandons them, into the residence comes Maria, who is young,...  More