Agustín Almodóvar
Also Known As: Tinín Almodóvar
Biography: Agustín Almodóvar Caballero is a film producer and younger brother of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. He was born in Calzada de Calatrava and obtained a degree in chemistry from the Complutense University of Madrid. He began his career in film production as a messenger in Fernando Trueba's film Sé infiel y no mires con quién. In 1986, he and Pedro founded their own production company, El Deseo S.A. Through this company he has produced all of Pedro's films since 1986, and several French co-productions. He is a member of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain.
Department: Production
Place of Birth: Calzada de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Birthday: May 25, 1955
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Gender: Male
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Bad Education
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-03-19
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Overview: Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-22
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Law of Desire
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-02-07
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Overview: Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-03-25
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Pepi, Luci, Bom
Overview: After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-10-27
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Dark Habits
Overview: After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-10-03
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Salomé
Overview: Short film by Almodovar, which tells the origin of the veil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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I'm So Excited!
Overview: Something has gone wrong with the landing gear of a plane en route from Madrid to Mexico City. The group of eccentric travelers on the flight, defenseless in the face of danger, indulge in colourful confessionals, while the outlandish crew attempts to find ways to entertain them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-03-08
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Live Flesh
Overview: When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body... and his desire for vengeance on the man who put him there. After his release and still madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over even if means revenge, for Elena has married David, the cop who sent him to prison!
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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Kika
Overview: When American author Nicholas brings in a cosmetologist named Kika to prepare the corpse of his recently deceased son, she inadvertently revives the young man, then falls in love with him. Forces conspire against the couple, though, as Nicholas wants Kika for himself.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-10-29
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The Skin I Live In
Overview: A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-08-17
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What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-10-25
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Broken Embraces
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-03-18
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Parallel Mothers
Overview: Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-10-08
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Untied! Reflections on Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Overview: Produced in 2014, this documentary about the making of TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! features interviews with director Pedro Almodóvar; actors Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Loles León, and Rossy de Palma; producer Agustín Almodóvar; production manager Esther García; and cinematographer José Luis Alcaine.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-08-19
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The Making of All About My Mother
Overview: A documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan; production manager Esther García; and author Didier Eribon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Julieta
Overview: The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-08
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Volver
Overview: Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-03-17
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All About My Mother
Overview: Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-04-16
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¡Ay, Carmen!
Overview: The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant artist in her own right.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-29
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Pain and Glory
Overview: Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-03-22
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Matador
Overview: A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-03-07
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High Heels
Overview: After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughter begin making up for lost time, when suddenly, a murder occurs...
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-10-23
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Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother
Overview: Shot in 1999, "All About My Mother" is Pedro Almodóvar's thirteenth feature film. The director was a key figure in the turbulent Movida (the movement for cultural renewal and liberation in post-Franco Spain), explores Barcelona society at the turn of the millennium through the lives of five women.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-05-16
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Talk to Her
Overview: Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-03-15
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The Human Voice
Overview: A woman watches time pass beside 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-03
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Labyrinth of Passion
Overview: An array of outrageous people, including a desperate nymphomaniac and a terrorist with an acute sense of smell, seek love and happiness in Madrid.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-09-29
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Deconstructing Almodóvar
Overview: A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection that deconstructs his career through interviews with many of his frequent collaborators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-30
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Directed by Almodóvar
Overview: A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection featuring interviews with many of his frequent collaborators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-30
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Viva Pedro: The Life & Times of Pedro Almodóvar
Overview: The genius that is Almodóvar is expressed in this film with interviews from his family, co-workers, and Almodóvar experts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-30
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