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?

1

All About My Mother

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

2

Talk to Her

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

3

Pain and Glory

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

4

Volver

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

5

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

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

6

The Skin I Live In

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

7

Bad Education

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

8

Julieta

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

9

Parallel Mothers

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

10

The Flower of My Secret

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

11

Law of Desire

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

12

The Room Next Door

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

13

Broken Embraces

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

14

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

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

15

Live Flesh

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