What is the best Pedro Almodóvar movie?

From camp provocations to Oscar-winning melodramas, Almodóvar's filmography spans four decades of passion, pain, and brilliant filmmaking. Where does your favorite land?

All About My Mother

1999 Oscar-winning celebration of motherhood and female solidarity through performance and personal tragedy.

1/15

Talk to Her

2002 Academy Award winner for Best Original Screenplay exploring obsessive devotion and moral ambiguity.

2/15

Pain and Glory

2019 metatextual career statement in which a director reckons with creative block, addiction, and lost love.

3/15

Volver

2006 warmly comedic and deeply emotional story of women confronting trauma across generations in La Mancha.

4/15

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

1988 deliriously funny farce about female hysteria and male indifference that became Almodóvar's international breakthrough.

5/15

The Skin I Live In

2011 body-horror psychological thriller in which a plastic surgeon's obsession leads to shocking revelations.

6/15

Bad Education

2004 dark neo-noir exploring childhood abuse in a Catholic school through layers of memory and performance.

7/15

Julieta

2016 intimate portrait of a woman haunted by guilt and estrangement from her daughter over decades.

8/15

Parallel Mothers

2021 drama weaving two mothers' entangled lives with Spain's unresolved trauma from the Civil War.

9/15

The Flower of My Secret

1995 mid-career shift toward emotional sincerity, following a romance novelist's private crisis of identity.

10/15

Law of Desire

1987 queer melodrama about a gay director and his transgender sister becoming objects of dangerous obsession.

11/15

The Room Next Door

2024 Golden Lion-winning drama in which an old friend accompanies a dying woman through her final weeks.

12/15

Broken Embraces

2009 romantic noir in which a blind screenwriter reconstructs a tragic past love affair through cinema.

13/15

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

1989 controversial dark comedy about obsession and captivity that challenged censorship and divided critics.

14/15

Live Flesh

1997 tense neo-noir thriller about a bullet that connects four strangers across years of love and rivalry.

15/15