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Review Tartan Video / Dark Habits [VHS] [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Laura Cepeda
  • Pedro Almodóvar
  • Cristina Sánchez Pascual
  • Julieta Serrano
  • Miguel Zúñiga
  • Will More
Release date: 1995-04-24
Run time: 116 min.
Creator: Luis Calvo
RRP: £15.99
Price: £19.09

Review Dark Habits [VHS] [1983] / Tartan Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Pedro Almodóvar
  • Eva Cobo
  • Assumpta Serna
  • Nacho Martínez
  • Julieta Serrano
  • Antonio Banderas
Release date: 1993-02-22
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Antonio Banderas
Price: £21.99

Review Matador [VHS] [1986] / Tartan Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Rossy De Palma
  • Pedro Almodovar
  • Antonio Banderas
  • Julieta Serrano
  • Carmen Maura
  • Maria Barranco
Release date: 1991-01-28
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Antonio Banderas
RRP: £10.99
Price: £13.99

Review Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown [1985] [VHS] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review Tartan Video / What Have I Done To Deserve This [VHS] [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Pedro Almodóvar
  • Carmen Maura
  • Ángel de Andrés López
  • Gonzalo Suárez
  • Ryo Hiruma
  • Luis Hostalot
Release date: 1993-05-24
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Roald Dahl
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.84

Review What Have I Done To Deserve This [VHS] [1984] / Tartan Video:


Review Pathe Distribution / All About My Mother [VHS] [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Candela Peña
  • Antonia San Juan
  • Marisa Paredes
  • Cecilia Roth
  • Pedro Almodóvar
  • Penélope Cruz
Release date: 2000-02-28
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Michel Ruben
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.99

Review All About My Mother [VHS] [1999] / Pathe Distribution:

After her son is killed in an accident, Manuela (Cecilia Roth) leaves Madrid for her old haunts in Barcelona. She reconnects with an old friend, a pre-op transsexual prostitute named La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), who introduces her to Rosa (Penélope Cruz), a young nun who turns out to be pregnant. Meanwhile, Manuela becomes a personal assistant for Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes), an actress currently playing Blanche DuBois in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire. All About My Mothertraces the delicate web of friendship and loss that binds these women together. The movie is dedicated to the actresses of the world, so it's not surprising that all the performances are superb. Roth in particular anchors All About My Mother with compassion and generosity. But fans of writer-director Pedro Almodóvar needn't fret-as always, Almodóvar's work undermines conventional notions of sexual identity and embraces all human possibilities with bright colours and melodramatic plotting. However,All About My Mother approaches its twists and turns with a broader emotional scope than most of Almodóvar's work; even the more extravagant aspects of the story are presented quietly, to allow the sadness of life to be as present as the irrepressible vitality of the characters. Almodóvar embraces pettiness, jealousy and grief as much as kindness, courage and outrageousness, and the movie is the richer for it. -Bret Fetzer.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! [VHS] [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • María Barranco
  • Pedro Almodóvar
  • Loles León
  • Julieta Serrano
  • Antonio Banderas
  • Victoria Abril
Release date: 1995-04-03
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Yuyi Beringola
RRP: £5.99
Price: £8.49

Review Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! [VHS] [1990] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Tartan Video / Matador [VHS] [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Nacho Martínez
  • Eva Cobo
  • Assumpta Serna
  • Antonio Banderas
  • Pedro Almodóvar
  • Julieta Serrano
Release date: 1993-09-20
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Antonio Banderas
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.39

Review Matador [VHS] [1986] / Tartan Video:


Review Electric Pictures / The Flower Of My Secret [VHS] [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Juan Echanove
  • Rossy de Palma
  • Carme Elias
  • Chus Lampreave
  • Pedro Almodóvar
  • Marisa Paredes
Release date: 1996-07-08
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Dorothy Parker
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.99

Review The Flower Of My Secret [VHS] [1996] / Electric Pictures:


Review Electric Pictures / Kika [VHS] [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Rossy de Palma
  • Àlex Casanovas
  • Verónica Forqué
  • Pedro Almodóvar
  • Peter Coyote
  • Victoria Abril
Release date: 1996-07-08
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Agustín Almodóvar
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.99

Review Kika [VHS] [1994] / Electric Pictures:


Actors & Directors
  • Daniel Gimenez Cacho
  • Fele Martinez
  • Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Pedro Almodovar
Release date: 2004-10-04
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Fele Martinez
Price: £12.99

Review Bad Education (aka La Mala Educacion) (Subtitled) (Sell Through) [VHS] / Pathe Distribution:


Review Tartan Video / Labyrinth Of Passion [VHS] [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Helga Liné
  • Fernando Vivanco
  • Cecilia Roth
  • Pedro Almodóvar
  • Marta Fernández Muro
  • Imanol Arias
Release date: 1993-05-24
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Terry Lennox
Price: £15.99

Review Labyrinth Of Passion [VHS] [1982] / Tartan Video:


Review Pathe Distribution / Talk To Her [VHS] [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Mariola Fuentes
  • Pedro Almodóvar
  • Leonor Watling
  • Rosario Flores
  • Darío Grandinetti
  • Javier Cámara
Release date: 2003-02-24
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Michel Ruben
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.94

Review Talk To Her [VHS] [2002] / Pathe Distribution:

Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her is his least stylised, most accessible and arguably greatest movie. Covering the same, highly provocative terrain as Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle and The Smiths' "Girlfriend in a Coma", Almodovar forges a work that's funny, compassionate, engaging and deeply touching. Unusually for Almodovar, the emphasis is on the two male characters, with the female leads spending much of the film as "objects" in a vegetative state. Dario Grandinetti plays Marco, a journalist who befriends Lydia (Rosario Flores), a female bullfighter. Following a goring in the ring, she lapses into a coma. At the clinic where she is kept on life support, Marco meets a somewhat effete male nurse, Benigno (Javier Camara) who lovingly tends to a ballet student, Alicia, also chronically comatose. They strike up a friendship, their respective stories emerging through flashbacks. Both, however, respond to their common fate in different ways. Marco is distraught at the loss of Lydia, whereas the dysfunctional Benigno is blissful, tending to Alicia, for whom he nourished an obsession prior to accident. Reduced to being a vegetable, she is fully, unresistingly, his. [+]
It's a tribute to Almodovar that he is able to handle the outlandish, potentially appalling subject matter of Talk To Her with such finesse. Emotionally, it's often on a knife edge; there are moments when you don't know whether to laugh, gasp or sigh. But when ultimately you find yourself welling with tears of sympathy for an alleged rapist, you realise what a master filmmaker Almodovar is. On the DVD: Talk To Her offers an excellent transfer of a visually handsome movie. Extras are a little disappointing-just trailers for Almodovar's more outlandish Live Flesh and All About My Mother. -David Stubbs.

Review Pathe Distribution / Live Flesh [VHS] [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Liberto Rabal
  • Javier Bardem
  • Ángela Molina
  • Francesca Neri
  • Pedro Almodóvar
  • José Sancho
Release date: 1998-11-02
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Ruth Rendell
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.50

Review Live Flesh [VHS] [1998] / Pathe Distribution:


Actors & Directors
  • Carmen Maura
  • Miguel Molina
  • Pedro Almodovar
  • Eusebio Poncela
  • Antonio Banderas
Release date: 2004-02-09
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Carmen Maura
RRP: £12.99
Price: £15.99

Review Law Of Desire [VHS] [1987] / Bluelight:


Review 2 Entertain Video / High Heels [VHS] [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Victoria Abril
  • Miguel Bose
  • Pedro Almodovar
  • Ana Lizaran
  • Marisa Paredes
  • Feodor Atkine
Release date: 1996-11-04
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Marisa Paredes
RRP: £4.99
Price: £15.99

Review High Heels [VHS] [1991] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Tartan Video / Pepi, Luci, Bom [VHS] [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Eva Siva
  • Olvido Gara
  • Carmen Maura
  • Pedro Almodóvar
  • Félix Rotaeta
  • Concha Grégori
Release date: 1995-05-01
Run time: 77 min.
Creator: Pepón Coromina
Price: £15.99

Review Pepi, Luci, Bom [VHS] [1981] / Tartan Video:


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Dark Habits [VHS] [1983], Matador [VHS] [1986], Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown [1985] [VHS], What Have I Done To Deserve This [VHS] [1984], All About My Mother [VHS] [1999], Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! [VHS] [1990], Matador [VHS] [1986], The Flower Of My Secret [VHS] [1996], Kika [VHS] [1994], Bad Education (aka La Mala Educacion) (Subtitled) (Sell Through) [VHS], Labyrinth Of Passion [VHS] [1982], Talk To Her [VHS] [2002], Live Flesh [VHS] [1998], Law Of Desire [VHS] [1987], High Heels [VHS] [1991], Pepi, Luci, Bom [VHS] [1981]

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