Matador (film)

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Matador
Directed by	Pedro Almodóvar
Produced by	Andrés Vicente Gómez
Written by	Pedro Almodóvar Jesús Ferrero
Starring	Antonio Banderas, Assumpta Serna
Release date(s)	1986
Running time	110 min
Language	Spanish
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Matador (1986, Spanish for killer) is a film by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar about a student matador, Ángel (Antonio Banderas), who confesses to murders he didn't commit and begins a romance with his lawyer, María (Assumpta Serna). Themes include sex, death, and religion.

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Diego Montes (Martínez) is a bullfighter, forced into early retirement by a horn-inflicted injury. He then switches his prey from bulls to women: after making love to them, he finds that killing them is his only way of reliving the intense emotions of the sunny afternoons of his past.

María Cardenal (Serna) is a criminal lawyer who secretly admires the art of the killer. During climax she kills her companions, recalling in her crimes the mythic ritual of bullfighting.

The two solitary accomplices, submerged in a world opposed to their nature, must meet, and no one, not even themselves, will be able to avoid the inevitable.

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Matador at the Internet Movie Database

Pedro Almodóvar
Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (1980) • Laberinto de pasiones (1982) • Entre tinieblas (1983) • ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer ésto? (1984) • Matador (1986) • La ley del deseo (1987) • Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988) • ¡Átame! (1990) • Tacones lejanos (1991) • Kika (1993) • La flor de mi secreto (1995) • Carne trémula (1997) • Todo sobre mi madre (1999) • Hable con ella (2002) • La mala educación (2004) • Volver (2006)

Pedro Almodóvar

Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (1980) • Laberinto de pasiones (1982) • Entre tinieblas (1983) • ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer ésto? (1984) • Matador (1986) • La ley del deseo (1987) • Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988) • ¡Átame! (1990) • Tacones lejanos (1991) • Kika (1993) • La flor de mi secreto (1995) • Carne trémula (1997) • Todo sobre mi madre (1999) • Hable con ella (2002) • La mala educación (2004) • Volver (2006)