Directed by:
Pedro AlmodóvarScreenplay:
Pedro AlmodóvarCinematography:
Affonso BeatoComposer:
Alberto IglesiasCast:
Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Carmen Balagué, Pedro Almodóvar, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo (more)VOD (3)
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This Oscar-winning melodrama, one of Pedro Almodóvar’s most beloved films, provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) loses the teenage son she raised on her own. Grief-stricken, she sets out to search for the boy’s long-lost father in Barcelona, where she reawakens into a new maternal role, at the head of a surrogate family that includes a pregnant, HIV-positive nun (Penélope Cruz); an illustrious star of the stage (Marisa Paredes); and a transgender sex worker (Antonia San Juan). Beautifully performed and bursting with cinematic references, All About My Mother is a vibrant tribute to female fortitude, a one-of-a-kind family portrait, and a work of boundless compassion. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Cecilia Roth
Argentina
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Talk to Her (2002)
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Marisa Paredes
Spain
Best movies:
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
All About My Mother (1999)
Talk to Her (2002)
Antonia San Juan
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Stones (2002)
The Platform (2019)
Penélope Cruz
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Blow (2001)
Live Flesh (1997)
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Peru
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Anna and the Wolves (1973)
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Carmen Balagué
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Aquí no hay quien viva (2003) (series)
Morocco: Love in Times of War (2017) (series)
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
The Ministry of Time (2015) (series) - a.f.
Bad Education (2004)
Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
The Ministry of Time (2015) (series)
A Gun in Each Hand (2012)
Candela Peña
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Take My Eyes (2003)
Princesses (2005)
Eloy Azorín
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Gran Hotel (2011) (series)
Mad Love (2001)
Fernando Guillén
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
The Dark Night of the Soul (1989)
Fito Páez
Argentina
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
La peli (2007)
Carme Fortuny
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Ready to Wear (1994)
José Luis Torrijo
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
The Ministry of Time (2015) (series)
Rosa Maria Sardà
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Take My Eyes (2003)
Maktub (2011)
Agustín Almodóvar
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Talk to Her (2002)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
Esther García
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Talk to Her (2002)
My Life Without Me (2003)
Juan José Otegui
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
The Flower of My Secret (1995)
High Heels (1991)
Patxi Freytez
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
La caza (2019) (series)
Crime Wave (2018)
Yael Barnatán
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Lugares comunes (2002)
Chill Out! (2003)