From camp provocations to Oscar-winning melodramas, Almodóvar's filmography spans four decades of passion, pain, and brilliant filmmaking. Where does your favorite land?
1All About My Mother1999 Oscar-winning celebration of motherhood and female solidarity through performance and personal tragedy.
2Talk to Her2002 Academy Award winner for Best Original Screenplay exploring obsessive devotion and moral ambiguity.
3Pain and Glory2019 metatextual career statement in which a director reckons with creative block, addiction, and lost love.
4Volver2006 warmly comedic and deeply emotional story of women confronting trauma across generations in La Mancha.
5Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown1988 deliriously funny farce about female hysteria and male indifference that became Almodóvar's international breakthrough.
6The Skin I Live In2011 body-horror psychological thriller in which a plastic surgeon's obsession leads to shocking revelations.
7Bad Education2004 dark neo-noir exploring childhood abuse in a Catholic school through layers of memory and performance.
8Julieta2016 intimate portrait of a woman haunted by guilt and estrangement from her daughter over decades.
9Parallel Mothers2021 drama weaving two mothers' entangled lives with Spain's unresolved trauma from the Civil War.
10The Flower of My Secret1995 mid-career shift toward emotional sincerity, following a romance novelist's private crisis of identity.
11Law of Desire1987 queer melodrama about a gay director and his transgender sister becoming objects of dangerous obsession.
12The Room Next Door2024 Golden Lion-winning drama in which an old friend accompanies a dying woman through her final weeks.
13Broken Embraces2009 romantic noir in which a blind screenwriter reconstructs a tragic past love affair through cinema.
14Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!1989 controversial dark comedy about obsession and captivity that challenged censorship and divided critics.
15Live Flesh1997 tense neo-noir thriller about a bullet that connects four strangers across years of love and rivalry.
