Film director and scriptwriter Spanish born in Calzada de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, September 25, 1951. His film career behind the cameras has grown since its inception in the world of short film at the end of the seventies to the point of becoming a personality of prestigious international film scene.

It is the Spanish filmmaker more resonance outside their country of origin, prizes and awards by the main and most important film festivals worldwide. With two Oscar awards, including one for best screenwriter-a milestone in the history of Spanish cinema, Pedro Almodovar is a reference in the cultural landscape and Spanish film.

The Almodovar film cultivates a naturalism that destroys the usual bourgeois costumbrismo Spanish cinema. Usually represent, by contrast, a reality marginal or sub-urban and abounds in outrageous and provocative elements: corrupt policemen, drug use, abuse, prostitution, teenage children, philosophical palette, Maruja desperate, torn homosexuality, and so on.

All this without renouncing its irreverent humour and without circumventing the explicit sex, as the golden rain. In later films as Ataman!, Initially classified as X in the United States. They also abound, among its sources of inspiration, mostly autobiographical, elements buñuelescos and anticlerical, as black humor or cure pederast.

His experience as an actor and singer has done become an important actor and director as a screenwriter pergeñar particularly well the female characters and stories full of drama.

They belong to their creation among many other titles; Back, 2006, Talk to Her, 2004, All About My Mother, 1999, Live Flesh, 1997, The Flower of My Secret, 1995, the forbidden lovers, 1993, Kika, 1993, Tacones distant, 1991, Ataman, 1989, Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, 1988, The Law of desire, 1987, Matador, 1986, What I have done to deserve this?, 1984, Among mists, 1983, of Labertinto passions, 1982, Pepi Luci Bom and other girls of the pile, 1980.