Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)

Ricky is released from a mental hospital, and knows exactly what he wants to do. He hunts down Marina... (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Pedro Almodóvar
Written By: Pedro Almodóvar, Yuyi Beringola
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Francisco Rabal, Victoria Abril, Rossy de Palma, María Barranco, Julieta Serrano, Loles León, Lola Cardona
AKA: ¡Átame!
Country: Spain
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Feb 14, 2022 | sourheart | 3 36th |
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the world is a pervert
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Apr 15, 2021 | doyler29 | 70 36th |
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On paper, it sounds like either an uncomfortable creep fest or a very daring dark comedy. It's not really either. Banderas is too much charming puppy dog to feel like a real threat, and Abril is portrayed as vaguely cooperative, as if she knows she's never really in danger. It makes the disturbing premise seem fairly harmless, but it also makes the film feel oddly pointless.
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Mar 22, 2021 | ![]() |
Actionberg | 75 59th |
If you're gonna smut, smut with style.
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Aug 10, 2020 | Nepeta | 80 68th |
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Deranged, genre-mashing, deeply disturbing and very intentional in all its madness. I respect the stance of those that just can't justify Stockholm Syndrome being used for comedy like this, though everything Almodóvar does here feels very calculated and like he's aware that the stuff he is showing is deplorable. He doesn't endorse any of this behaviour, but instead takes these transgressions and uses them to make points about patriarchy, narratives and film-making.
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Sep 14, 2018 | ![]() |
SheWas | 51 46th |
Don't wanna watch the ugly romantic kidnap trope ever again if I can help it
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Nov 14, 2017 | ![]() |
Noblet | 25 5th |
It's a shame that a movie this beautiful is DOA just based on the premise. I tried to see it as a satire of how fucked up romances in movies tend to be, but it's always just horrifying. All the levity and bright colors just evaporate immediately in my mind because Ricky just never stops being gross. This movie is gross.
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Apr 12, 2017 | ![]() |
wetwillies | 85 59th |
Viewed April 11, 2017.
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Jul 16, 2016 | ![]() |
moraesfelipe | 55 43rd |
The colors, the beautifully shot sex scene, the bizarre love story. A film about idealized images -- from the director that holds a Body Snatcher's poster in his editing room and would like to have this actress as his lover to the prisoner that just wants her to know him better, and of course she falls for him. It stays in the limit of being sadistic, but relies too much on Almodovar's comfort zone and "clever" pop references -- action figures in sister's house, Night of the Living Dead on TV.
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Dec 18, 2015 | ![]() |
thewire | 76 68th |
It's as if the argument sequence from Le Mepris was stretched out into a 100-minute Hitchcock film.
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Oct 27, 2015 | ![]() |
Gnalkhere | 75 59th |
The sex scene was luciously shot
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Dec 14, 2014 | ![]() |
hsncrspywl | 84 74th |
I reckon it's pretty hard to get the tone right for a comedy about Stockholm Syndrome but here it's as close it gets - the whole film is just a little twisted, a heightened sort of reality, which allows for the action to be both dark and still humorous - the film even has a self-reflexive, metanarrative within about filmmaking which I found quite funny. Additionally that's a hell of a sex scene.
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Sep 22, 2014 | ![]() |
redflag | 98 93rd |
Seems like some people missed all the dark, bitter irony in this movie. I wouldn't call the ending "ambiguous;" the song finale is dripping with a twisted pain. The film takes all sorts of filmic and general cultural sexual tropes and forces the viewer to analyze them in detail through voyeuristic participation. The deeply patriarchal society implicated in all this is profoundly disturbing. We laugh, but we probably shouldn't. Almodóvar is explaining why.
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Aug 12, 2014 | Zipster | 80 50th |
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You haven't seen a sex scene till you've seen an Almodovar film. First of all, here we have Antonio Banderas playing one of the most lighthearted psychopaths in movie history, and once again not only does Almodovar supply a rich and passionate cast of colorful female characters but he allows his movies to wail and swelter and thrash. Sex isn't a pan to a window; sex is passionate fucking, not pornographic but soiled and feverish. The curtains don't flap, bodies and sheets sizzle.
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Aug 09, 2014 | ![]() |
pyrosexual | 83 74th |
Proves that its impossible to be raped by Antonio Banderas no matter how creepy or psycho he may be.
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Apr 06, 2014 | mkellins | 65 65th |
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A strange but fun and captivating film about the Stockholm syndrome. The ending is appropriately ambiguous. I enjoyed the film a lot, but it's not Almodovar's strongest work.
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Apr 04, 2014 | ![]() |
d_drudges | 60 69th |
Almodovar cleverly contrasts the impotent director, realizing his sexual fantasies in his movies, with a "madman" who instead of fantasizing acts on his desires. Instead of the usual financial restrains, the actress gets tied down with ropes and, like earlier in her career, eventually comes to accept that perhaps performing sexual acts is her role in life. The homage to The Graduate is cute but I wish they'd come up with another way to end the movie.
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Mar 20, 2014 | ![]() |
Disaster | 72 34th |
Oddly watchable for what tripe it was.
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Feb 15, 2014 | ![]() |
closedmouth | 40 5th |
Not a very good Almodovar film to start with, and then the repulsive "woman falls for her abuser" plot just made it worse.
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Oct 05, 2013 | ![]() |
PetrosTser | 70 66th |
Interesting from the word go and savagely erotic, "¡Átame!" might not rank among Almodóvar's finest, but remains a strong motion picture.
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Oct 05, 2013 | glm01 | 73 46th |
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73.000
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Jan 08, 2013 | ![]() |
TrixRabbi | 81 74th |
At times Morricone's score seemed to be emulating Hermann, and it hit me - this is a Hitchcock film. I don't quite know how I feel about the ending, and I'm not sure where this film stands with the gender politics, but it certainly provokes the questions.
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Dec 02, 2012 | ![]() |
JakeAesthete | 97 97th |
Tied with Women On the Verge... as my new favorite Almodovar. I might even give it a slight nod just for the love story factor that i always have a soft spot for. Like all of his films, the combination of garish exaggeration and heartfelt sincerity is wonderful (it might just be a gay camp sensibility thing, but calling him a less pessimistic Gregg Araki seems apt). Also it's basically a funny, colorful version of Sombre.
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Mar 22, 2012 | ![]() |
SirRobbie | 80 81st |
Great fun. I just love Almodovar !!!
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Jun 29, 2011 | ![]() |
Ptendency | 82 47th |
Buena peli para ver..
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Jan 23, 2010 | ![]() |
katje_ | 70 38th |
Guilty pleasure.
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Nov 30, 2009 | ![]() |
darkman | 76 68th |
Good movie, with the Stockholm Syndrom as the background for a love story. One of Almodóvar's best.
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Nov 22, 2009 | ![]() |
Stain | 40 23rd |
"Stockholm Syndrome can be fun". Whee...
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Jun 12, 2009 | ![]() |
FantacBob | 71 81st |
Almodovar having fun, I think.
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Jun 09, 2009 | ![]() |
NathanDarko | 91 85th |
Átame Almodovar ! Beautiful Movie
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Dec 28, 2008 | ![]() |
Isobelmoon | 89 92nd |
One of the best of Almodovar's films.
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Jul 25, 2008 | ![]() |
roujin | 70 78th |
One of the oddest love stories ever told.
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Nov 26, 2007 | ![]() |
JigmeDatse | 90 88th |
I love foreign movies, this was amazing.
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Aug 25, 2007 | st_fly | 71 71st |
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Good
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Aug 14, 2007 | ![]() |
auritech | 65 55th |
A decent outing from Almodovar, though not one of his better films. Not sure why it got an NC-17 either.
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Average Percentile 55.34% from 882 Ratings | ![]() |