The best Pedro Almodóvar’s drama movies

Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar

24/09/1949 (74 años)
Today we present the best Pedro Almodóvar’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Pedro Almodóvar’s movies.
Available on:

Matador

Matador
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 07/03/1986
  • Character: Francisco Montesinos (uncredited)
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.

Bad Education

Bad Education
7.4/10
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.

Law of Desire

Law of Desire
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaThriller
  • Release: 07/02/1987
  • Character: Dependiente ferretería (uncredited)
Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.

Dark Habits

Dark Habits
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/03/1983
  • Character: Passagier in Bus
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.

Labyrinth of Passion

Labyrinth of Passion
6.1/10
A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner).

Rapture

Rapture
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasyHorror
  • Release: 09/06/1980
  • Character: Gloria's Voice (voice) (uncredited)
José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

What Have I Done to Deserve This?
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/10/1984
  • Character: Play-Back 'La bien pagá'
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.

El Calentito

El Calentito
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaHistory
  • Release: 24/06/2005
  • Character: Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Early 80's, Sara is a good-family girl, she has never been with a man, does not drinks, does not take drugs. Following her love, she enters in "El Calentito" a bar where the group "las Siux" is singing.

¿Qué hace una chica como tú en un sitio como éste?

¿Qué hace una chica como tú en un sitio como éste?
5/10

Brunes et Blondes

Brunes et Blondes
Actresses' hairstyle in movies always carries a strong aesthetic statement associated with erotic, social, and historical meanings. In a bold and unexpected way, the film revisits this ultimate symbol of femininity in international cinema.

A Man Called Autumn Flower

A Man Called Autumn Flower
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/09/1978
  • Character: Lola Nicaragua, la Reina de la Banana
Lluis de Serracant leads a double life. By day he's a young lawyer, scion of a Catalan bourgeois family. At night he's a transvestite performer known to his fans as "Flower of Autumn".

Related actors