Matador
Genres
Overview
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$286126
Runtime
105 min
Release Date
1986-03-07
Status
Released
Original Language
Spanish
Vote Count
254
Vote Average
6.7
Assumpta Serna
María
Antonio Banderas
Ángel
Nacho Martínez
Diego
Eva Cobo
Eva
Julieta Serrano
Berta
Chus Lampreave
Pilar
Carmen Maura
Julia
Eusebio Poncela
Police Commissioner
Bibiana Fernández
Flower Seller
Luis Ciges
Guard
Eva Siva
Assistant
Verónica Forqué
Journalist
Pepa Merino
María's Secretary
Lola Peno
Alumna 1ª
Marisa Tejada
Alumna 2ª
Mercedes Jiménez
Alumna 3ª
Francesca Prandi
Alumna 4ª
Jesús Ruyman
Tipo 1º
Milton Díaz
Tipo 2º
Angie Gray
Chica Ana
Alicia Mora
Fiel
Laly Salas
Fiel
Jaime Chávarri
Priest
Marcelo García Flores
Policeman #1
Agustín Almodóvar
Policeman #2
Kika
Locutora T.V.
Concha Hidalgo
Tata Ángel
Juan Sánchez
Nurse
Antonio Passy
Otorrino
Kike Turmix
Tipo pelea 1º
Julián Sánchez
Tipo pelea 2º
Pedro Almodóvar
Francisco Montesinos (uncredited)
Fabio McNamara
Atracador Farmacia (uncredited)
6.9
Street Mobster
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.
1972-05-06 | ja
6.5
Kissed
Over the years, a child's romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalming and the most profound relationship of her life.
1996-09-07 | en
5.1
Open Window
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
2006-09-01 | en
6.6
Dorm
When 12-year-old Ton transfers to an all-boys boarding school, he's taunted by his peers and terrified by their tales about the ghosts that inhabit the school. Ton is utterly miserable until he befriends a mysterious fellow pupil.
2006-02-23 | th
7.0
The Free Will
After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his principal's brittle and estranged daughter. But even though superficially everything seems to work out Theo's seething rage remains ready to erupt.
2006-08-23 | de
6.4
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
1999-10-27 | en
6.1
Nine 1/2 Weeks
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
1986-02-09 | en
7.2
My Life as a Dog
A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.
1985-12-12 | sv
6.3
The Cell
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
2000-08-18 | en
5.6
The Anarchist's Wife
"The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.
2008-06-26 | es
7.0
The Accused
Out drinking one night after a fight with her boyfriend, three men brutally rape Sarah Tobias in a bar while people watch and cheer. District Attorney Kathryn Murphy takes the case; however, she allows the rapists to receive a mild sentence. A distraught Sarah decides to seek punishment for the men who witnessed and encouraged the rape. To get justice, Sarah must take the stand and revisit the night of her attack.
1988-10-14 | en
6.6
18 Roughs
Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its running. After moving in, Shimazaki finds out that this will also mean taking care of a flock of youngsters, and he soon becomes their none-too-successful warden. At work the boys are disciplined, as soon as they return to their dormitory however they turn into an unmanageable mob.
1963-09-11 | ja
6.7
Rosario Tijeras
Rosario Tijeras has been abused by men all her life, initially by her stepfather. Years later, she works as a paid assassin, seducing men and killing them when they least expect it. She meets Emilio, a wealthy womanizer, and his best friend, Antonio, at a nightclub, and starts an affair with Emilio despite Antonio's growing feelings for her. But circumstances bring her closer to Antonio, until her past catches up with her in a devastating way.
2005-08-12 | es
5.4
Brain Sex
A teenage couple drive around improvising radio shows, following night stalkers and rapists or peeping on various sexual escapades, describing what they see in detail, feigning shock and screams as the attackers become more violent.
1988-12-23 | ja
4.5
White Lily
Two women, Tokiko, a ceramic artist, and her apprentice, Haruka, are in a relationship. The couple is not an intrinsic lesbian, but they fell for each other by chance.
2016-10-07 | ja
5.6
The Nameless
The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts
1999-10-08 | es
6.7
Bully
This is the true story of Bobby Kent, a teen bully in the suburban town of Hollywood, Florida. Eventually, his best friend and girlfriend team up with the various other kids that are tired of getting beat up by him. Included in that group are the overweight Lisa Connelly. Together, seven teenagers lure Bobby out, deep into the swamp, promising him sex and drugs and when they get there, they beat him to death with baseball bats....
2001-06-15 | en
7.0
Kitchen Stories
Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik (Joachim Calmeyer). By the rules of the research institute, Folke has to sit on an umpire's chair in Isak's kitchen and observe him from there, but never talk to him. Isak stops using his kitchen and observes Folke through a hole in the ceiling instead. However, the two lonely men slowly overcome the initial post-war Norwegian-Swede distrust and become friends.
2003-09-19 | no
7.1
Tess
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line, but is left traumatised from her experiences.
1979-10-06 | en
7.7
Mysterious Skin
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
2005-03-30 | en