Madrid, mothers and melodrama in primary colours.
A mother writes to the daughter who cut her off; Alice Munro relocated to Spain.
A director, a childhood friend and a story about a priest; noir in a Catholic school.
A surgeon keeps a woman in his house and grows her a new skin; Almodovar's horror.
A television newsreader confesses to murder on air, and her mother is the star in the audience.
A discharged patient kidnaps an actress and waits for her to love him; the film that changed US ratings.
A blind screenwriter remembers the film and the woman that blinded him; Penelope Cruz.
A retired bullfighter and a lawyer share a taste for killing; Banderas early.
A film director, his trans sister and an obsessive lover; Almodovar's breakthrough in Spain.
Two women give birth on the same day, and Spain digs up a Civil War grave.
A war reporter asks a friend to be there when she dies; Almodovar's first English feature, and a Golden Lion.
A Madrid housewife on amphetamines kills her husband with a ham bone.
A shooting binds five lives across twenty years of Spain.
A romance novelist who can no longer write romance; the turn towards Almodovar's mature films.
Two men caring for two comatose women; Almodovar's Oscar for the screenplay.
Penelope Cruz, her dead mother returned and a body in the freezer; Almodovar's La Mancha.
Gazpacho with sleeping pills and a Madrid penthouse; the film that made Almodovar international.
Antonio Banderas as an ageing director looking back; Almodovar's autobiography.
A mother loses her son and goes to Barcelona to find his father; Almodovar's women.
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