With El Deseo (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. A Pele Onde Eu Vivo (2011)
M/16 | 120 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes
Votes: 142,045 | Gross: $3.19M
2. Relatos Selvagens (2014)
M/16 | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.
Director: Damián Szifron | Stars: Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa, Diego Starosta
Votes: 182,337 | Gross: $3.11M
3. A Voz Humana (2020)
M/14 | 30 min | Short, Drama
A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him. Two living beings facing abandonment.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Agustín Almodóvar, Miguel Almodóvar, Pablo Almodóvar
Votes: 1,762
4. Dor e Glória (2019)
M/16 | 113 min | Drama
A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Nora Navas
Votes: 51,385
5. Voltar (I) (2006)
M/12 | 121 min | Comedy, Drama
After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo
Votes: 96,214 | Gross: $12.90M
6. Ata-me! (1989)
M/16 | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Loles León, Julieta Serrano
Votes: 25,301 | Gross: $4.09M
7. Tudo Sobre a Minha Mãe (1999)
M/16 | 101 min | Drama
Young Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his second mother, a trans woman, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan
Votes: 90,962 | Gross: $8.26M
8. Mulheres à Beira de um Ataque de Nervos (1988)
M/12 | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, Rossy de Palma
Votes: 37,014 | Gross: $7.18M
9. Fala com Ela (2002)
M/12 | 112 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Rosario Flores, Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling
Votes: 105,884 | Gross: $9.28M
10. Má Educação (2004)
M/16 | 106 min | Crime, Drama
An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Javier Cámara, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Votes: 56,558 | Gross: $5.21M
11. Nas Costas do Diabo (2001)
M/12 | 106 min | Drama, Horror
After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve
Votes: 62,614 | Gross: $0.75M
12. Em Carne Viva (1997)
M/16 | 103 min | Drama
After leaving jail, Víctor is still in love with Elena, but she's married to the former cop -now basketball player- who became paralysed by a shot from Víctor's gun...
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Liberto Rabal, Francesca Neri, Javier Bardem, Ángela Molina
Votes: 28,967 | Gross: $1.54M
13. Abraços Desfeitos (2009)
M/12 | 127 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez
Votes: 39,039 | Gross: $5.01M
14. Julieta (2016)
M/14 | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events about her stranded daughter.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Inma Cuesta
Votes: 29,578 | Gross: $1.49M
15. Os Amantes Passageiros (2013)
M/16 | 90 min | Comedy, Musical
When it appears as though the end is in sight, the pilots, flight crew, and passengers of a plane heading to Mexico City look to forget the anguish of the moment and face the greatest danger, which we carry within ourselves.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Javier Cámara, Pepa Charro, Cecilia Roth, Lola Dueñas
Votes: 22,537 | Gross: $1.37M
16. El Ángel (2018)
118 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The angelic face of Carlos, a 17-year-old teenager, hides a dark facet of robberies, lies and murders.
Director: Luis Ortega | Stars: Lorenzo Ferro, Cecilia Roth, Luis Gnecco, Malena Villa
Votes: 9,447 | Gross: $0.09M
17. A Lei do Desejo (1987)
M/18 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A gay filmmaker becomes involved with an obsessive fan while still pining for his absent true love. Meanwhile, he shares a close but complex relationship with his trans sister, an actress.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Miguel Molina
Votes: 11,126
18. Saltos Altos (1991)
M/16 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A singer returns after 15 years abroad to perform in Madrid and finds her 27 y.o. daughter married to one of her mom's ex-lovers.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé, Anna Lizaran
Votes: 14,311 | Gross: $1.71M
19. A Minha Vida Sem Mim (2003)
M/12 | 106 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before.
Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Sarah Polley, Scott Speedman, Mark Ruffalo, Leonor Watling
Votes: 24,361 | Gross: $0.40M
20. Madres paralelas (2022)
Drama | Post-production
The story of two mothers who give birth the same day.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Rossy de Palma, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Daniela Santiago
21. Kika (1993)
M/16 | 114 min | Comedy
Kika, a cute cosmetologist, prepares Ramon for funeral when he revives. He proposes to the much older Kika who has his dad as lover. Did Ramon's dad murder his mom? What about the escaped rapist and the PSYCHOlogist video reporter?
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Peter Coyote, Verónica Forqué, Victoria Abril, Àlex Casanovas
Votes: 12,627 | Gross: $2.09M
22. Zama (2017)
M/14 | 115 min | Drama, History
Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan Minujín
Votes: 5,856 | Gross: $0.20M
23. O Clã (2015)
M/14 | 108 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The true story of the Puccio Clan, a family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s.
Director: Pablo Trapero | Stars: Guillermo Francella, Gastón Cocchiarale, Peter Lanzani, Stefanía Koessl
Votes: 12,522 | Gross: $0.19M
24. It Snows in Benidorm (2020)
117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Peter has worked all his life at a Manchester bank. When he is awarded an early retirement, he decides to visit his brother in Benidorm, only to discover that he's disappeared.
Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Timothy Spall, Sarita Choudhury, Carmen Machi, Pedro Casablanc
Votes: 254
25. A Flor do Meu Segredo (1995)
M/12 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
Leo writes trashy romance novels under a pseudonym but as she struggles in her relationship with her husband, she finds her output becoming darker.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Carme Elias, Rossy de Palma
Votes: 10,666 | Gross: $1.16M
26. A Vida Secreta das Palavras (2005)
M/12 | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A hearing impaired factory worker gives up her first holiday in years and instead travels out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man suffering from severe burns.
Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Javier Cámara
Votes: 12,082 | Gross: $0.02M
27. Acción mutante (1993)
90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In a future ruled by attractive people, mutant terrorists kidnap a rich man's daughter to claim rights for the ugly. Escaping police, the mutant leader crashes into a planet of crazy miners where no women live.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Antonio Resines, Álex Angulo, Frédérique Feder, Juan Viadas
Votes: 4,988
28. O Silêncio dos Outros (2018)
M/12 | 96 min | Documentary
The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day. Filmed over six years, the film ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo | Stars: María Martín, Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler, José María Galante
Votes: 1,757 | Gross: $0.07M
29. A Mulher sem Cabeça (2008)
M/12 | 87 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After hitting something with her car, a bourgeois Argentine woman's life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation, as she fears she may have killed someone.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: María Onetto, Claudia Cantero, César Bordón, Daniel Genoud
Votes: 4,825 | Gross: $0.10M
30. A Rapariga Santa (2004)
R | 106 min | Drama
16-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul of a middle-aged doctor.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: Mercedes Morán, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta, María Alche
Votes: 3,705 | Gross: $0.30M
32. Close to His Chest (2019)
74 min | Comedy, Drama
These men are undergoing a crucial stage of self-discovery, but for better or worse - they will not go through it alone. A selection of shorts about the complexities of gay and male sexuality.
Directors: Jerry Carlsson, José Manuel Carrasco, Jose A. Cortés Amunarriz, Pablo Guerrero, Enrique Rey, Carlos Ruano, Anette Sidor | Stars: Álex Villazán, Ferran Vilajosana, Cayetana Payno Del Rio, Juana Acosta
Votes: 30
33. O Último Verão da Boyita (2009)
M/12 | 93 min | Drama
A teenage girl, feeling babyish and awkward compared to her older sister, finds solace in a childhood friend while spending a countryside summer in her father's old van.
Director: Julia Solomonoff | Stars: Guadalupe Alonso, Nicolás Treise, Mirella Pascual, Gabo Correa
Votes: 884
34. La concejala antropófaga (2009)
8 min | Short, Comedy
The story of genius dandelion in glasses about an aspiring writer obsessed with the desire to eat a man's legs.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Carmen Machi, Penélope Cruz, Marta Aledo
Votes: 1,172
36. El patio de mi cárcel (2008)
100 min | Drama
In Madrid, a petty thief who cannot adjust to life outside of jail puts together a theater troupe her friends -- a prostitute, a gypsy, and a Colombian immigrant -- in an attempt to make a go at a relatively straight life.
Director: Belén Macías | Stars: Candela Peña, Verónica Echegui, Ana Wagener, Violeta Pérez
Votes: 342
37. El tiempo de los monstruos (2015)
97 min | Comedy
Victor, who claims to have filmed a number of films he's not been able to release, unites around his deathbed his most faithful collaborator to present his posthumous work.
Director: Félix Sabroso | Stars: Javier Cámara, Candela Peña, Carmen Machi, Julián López
Votes: 152
39. José e Pilar (2010)
M/6 | 117 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary on Nobel Prize Winner José Saramago and his feelings over his wife, his country and life, as a whole.
Director: Miguel Gonçalves Mendes | Stars: João Afonso, Àngels Barceló, Pilar del Río, Juan Echanove
Votes: 2,340
40. Descongélate! (2003)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
Just Santos, cabaret actor with a talent for imitation, receives the offer of a role in a movie that could change his life and his family.
Directors: Dunia Ayaso, Félix Sabroso | Stars: Pepón Nieto, Candela Peña, Loles León, Rubén Ochandiano
Votes: 375
41. Mujeres (2006)
Comedy, Drama
The lives of 3 generations of women living in the Spanish city of Madrid.
Stars: Chiqui Fernández, Teresa Lozano, Carmen Ruiz, Inma Cuevas
Votes: 81
42. Messieurs les enfants (1997)
100 min | Comedy
To punish three troublemakers, Albert Castraing, their French teacher, gives them an essay to do, in which they must imagine what their lives would be if they were suddenly transformed into... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Boutron | Stars: Pierre Arditi, François Morel, Zinedine Soualem, Catherine Jacob
Votes: 50
43. Cobrador: In God We Trust (2006)
92 min | Drama
1) globalization of violence, violence of globalization? 2) serial killers, social killers? 3) a mine in brazil some murders in new york others in miami how are they connected? 4) "who's ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Leduc | Stars: Peter Fonda, Lázaro Ramos, Antonella Costa, Milton Gonçalves
Votes: 190
44. La Fiebre del Loco (2001)
97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Entrepreneurs visit a Chilean town, where they temporarily allow the fishing of a shellfish in danger of extinction.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Emilio Bardi, Luis Dubó, Loreto Moya, Luis Margani
Votes: 373
45. Fallait pas!... (1996)
95 min | Comedy
Bernard Leroy returns from an internship organized by his company and must join the manor of his future in-laws for his marriage. A car accident will lead him to ask for help in a chalet where the guru is about to eliminate the members.
Director: Gérard Jugnot | Stars: Michèle Laroque, Gérard Jugnot, François Morel, Martin Lamotte
Votes: 393
46. La Deuda (I) (2019)
74 min | Drama
Director: Gustavo Fontán | Stars: Belén Blanco, Edgardo Castro, Andrea Garrote, Walter Jakob
Votes: 48
47. Mi nombre es sombra (1996)
90 min | Drama
Director: Gonzalo Suárez | Stars: François-Eric Gendron, Amparo Larrañaga, Jean-Claude Adelin, Elena Bagutta
Votes: 63
48. Princesa de hielo (2017)
16 min | Short
Director: Pablo Guerrero | Stars: Juana Acosta, Romeo Babiano, Boré Buika, Selu Nieto
Votes: 12
49. Tengo una casa (1996)
85 min | Comedy
Director: Mónica Laguna | Stars: Nancho Novo, Pedro Alonso, Silke, Ernesto Alterio
Votes: 93
50. Terra Fria (1992)
M/12 | 100 min | Drama
In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he'll close a ... See full summary »
Director: António Campos | Stars: Joaquim de Almeida, Cristina Marcos, Maria Arminda, Luis Baptista
Votes: 14