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El Deseo (also known as El Deseo S.A.) is a film production company owned by Spanish film producers the Almodóvar brothers (Pedro and Augustin).
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(2013)Filmography of El Deseo (17 films)
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Pain and Glory (2019)
, 1h53Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Nora Navas, Julieta Serrano
Salvador Mallo est un réalisateur qui a connu le succès mais qui ne réalise plus de films à cause de nombreuses douleurs physiques dont il souffre. Par hasard, il retrouve Alberto Crespo, un acteur avec qui il s'est fâché trente ans auparavant. Il se remémore son enfance avec sa mère à Paterna.
Silencio (2016)
, 1h36Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Adriana Ugarte, Emma Suárez, Rossy de Palma, Darío Grandinetti, Inma Cuesta, Pilar Castro
À la veille de quitter Madrid pour s'installer au Portugal avec son amant Lorenzo, Julieta rencontre fortuitement Beatriz, amie d'enfance de sa fille Antía. Elle apprend ainsi que cette fille qui est partie sans donner de nouvelles il y a plus de douze ans vit encore, en Suisse, avec trois enfants.
The Clan (2015)
, 1h52Directed by Pablo Trapero
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical, Crime
Actors Guillermo Francella, Juan Pedro Lanzani
The story is based on the case of the Puccio family, who kidnapped four people in Buenos Aires in the 1980s, murdering three of them.
Wild Tales (2014)
, 2h2Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Ricardo Darín, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Darío Grandinetti, Nancy Dupláa, María Onetto, Érica Rivas
Two plane passengers discover that they know a man named Pasternak: the woman is his former girlfriend, and the man is a music critic who savagely reviewed his work. They discover that everybody on the flight is connected to Pasternak. An air stewardess reveals that Pasternak is the plane's pilot and has locked himself into the cockpit. Pasternak crashes the plane into his parents' house.
I'm So Excited! (2013)
, 1h30Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Javier Cámara, Cecilia Roth, Raúl Arévalo, Lola Dueñas, Hugo Silva, Carlos Areces
The film opens as ground technician León (Antonio Banderas) removes the chocks from the wheels of an Airbus A340 for Peninsula Flight 2549. He waves to his wife Jessi (Penélope Cruz ), who is towing a luggage cart across the tarmac. The distraction causes her to crash into another ground technician who was checking Twitter. León checks on his wife to make sure she is okay, and she reveals that she is pregnant.
The Skin I Live In (2011)
, 1h57Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Rape and revenge films, Auto-justice, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Blanca Suárez, Eduard Fernández
Plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard was successful in cultivating an artificial skin resistant to burns and insect bites, which he calls "GAL", that he says he has been testing on athymic mice. He presents his results in a medical symposium but when he privately discloses he has also conducted illegal transgenic experiments on humans, he is forbidden to continue with his research.
José & Pilar (2010)
, 1h57Directed by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
Origin Portugal
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about writers, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Gael García Bernal, Fernando Meirelles
"The Elephant's Journey", in which Saramago narrates the adventures and antics of an elephant transported from the court of King John III of Portugal to that of the Austrian Archduke Maximillian, is the starting point of José and Pilar.
Broken Embraces (2009)
, 2h9Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about disabilities, La cécité, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, Lola Dueñas, José Luis Gómez, Ángela Molina
"Harry Caine" is a blind writer who shares his life with his agent Judit and her adult son, Diego. Slowly, events in the present begin to bring back memories of the past. Harry hears that millionaire Ernesto Martel has died; a young filmmaker, Ray X, appears and turns out to be Martel's son, Ernesto, Jr. After Diego is hospitalized for an accidental drug overdose in a Madrid nightclub, Harry collects Diego from the hospital and looks after him to avoid worrying his traveling mother. The main storyline is told in flashback as Harry reluctantly tells Diego a tragic tale of fate, jealousy, abuse of power, betrayal, and guilt.
The Cannibalistic Councillor (2009)
, 8minutesDirected by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Comedy
Actors Carmen Machi, Penélope Cruz, Marta Aledo
Chon, une conseillère municipale, attend dans l'appartement de son amie Pina après le départ de celle-ci. Elle veille sur Maribel, endormie dans la cuisine après avoir bu du gaspacho contenant des somnifères. Exubérante et bavarde, Chon soliloque et raconte ses fantasmes...
Volver (2006)
, 2h1Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Assassinat, Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave
Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) and Soledad (Lola Dueñas) are sisters who grew up in Alcanfor de las Infantas, a small village in La Mancha, but now both live in Madrid. Their parents died in a tragic fire three years prior to the beginning of the film. The events which occurred on the night of the fire are only gradually revealed, and are central to the plot.
Bad Education (2004)
, 1h45Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Films about children, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about television, L'usurpation d'identité, LGBT-related films, Films about pedophilia, Transgender in film, Escroquerie, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Actors Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Javier Cámara, Lluís Homar, Leonor Watling
In Madrid in 1980, Enrique Goded, a young film director, is looking for his next project when he receives the unexpected visit of an actor looking for work. The actor claims to be Enrique's boarding school friend and first love, Ignacio Rodriguez. Ignacio, who is using now the name Ángel Andrade, has brought with him a short story titled "The Visit" hoping that Enrique would be interested in making a film out of it giving him the starring role. Enrique is intrigued since "The Visit" described their time together at the Catholic school and it also includes a fictionalized account of their reunion many years later as adults.
Talk to Her (2002)
, 1h52Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Pregnancy films, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Sports films, Bullfighting films, Rape in fiction, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin, Rosario Flores, Mariola Fuentes
The story unfolds in flashbacks, giving details of two separate relationships that become intertwined with each other.
Live Flesh (1997)
, 1h41Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, José Sancho or Pepe Sancho, Ángela Molina, Penélope Cruz, Pilar Bardem
Madrid, Christmas 1970: with the nation under a state of emergency ordered by the Franco regime, a young prostitute, Isabel Plaza Caballero (Penélope Cruz), gives birth on a bus to a son she names Victor. Twenty years later, Victor Plaza (Liberto Rabal) shows up for a date he made with Elena (Francesca Neri), a junkie with whom he had sex a week earlier. Waiting for her dealer to arrive, Elena is not interested in seeing Victor and tells him to leave. Finally she gets a gun and orders him out of the flat. Enraged, Victor wrestles the gun from her; in the process Elena gets knocked out, and the gun goes off.
Gentlemen Children (1997)
, 1h40Directed by Pierre Boutron
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Pierre Arditi, Catherine Jacob, François Morel, Zinedine Soualem, Daniel Pennac, Jean-Louis Richard
Caught out by their French teacher, Joseph, Igor and Nourdine end up with punishment for the following topic : "You wake up one morning and you see that in the night, you were transformed into adults. Completely distraught, you rush into your parent's room. They were transformed in children. Tell result." Unfortunately for them, the subject will become reality.
Le Maître des éléphants (1995)
, 1h35Directed by Patrick Grandperret
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un éléphant, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jacques Dutronc, Sotigui Kouyate, Sidy Lamine Diarra, Saskia Cohen-Tanugi
À la mort de sa mère, Martin, adolescent de douze ans, rejoint en Afrique un père qu'il ne connaît pas. Reçu plutôt fraîchement par ce père plus préoccupé par la réserve dont il a la charge que de ce nouveau fils, Martin va découvrir ce pays et ses contradictions grâce à l'amitié de Fofana et Victor. La disparition des éléphants va rapprocher le père et le fils.