Watch Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) Free Online

Release Date: 1990

Cast: Rossy de Palma, Francisco Rabal, Victoria Abril, María Barranco, Montse G. Romeu, Lola Cardona, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, Loles León

Categories: Movies, Romantic comedy, Sex comedy, Erotica, World cinema, Comedy, Black comedy, Romance Film

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Spanish: ¡Átame!) is a 1990 Spanish dark romantic comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril. The plot follows a recently released psychiatric patient who kidnaps an actress in order to make her fall in love with him. He believes his destiny is to marry her and father her children. The film was highly successful with both critics and audiences in Spain. Its release in the United States was entangled in controversy, instrumental in the implementation by the MPAA of a new rating category, NC-17, for films... MORE

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Spanish: ¡Átame!) is a 1990 Spanish dark romantic comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril. The plot follows a recently released psychiatric patient who kidnaps an actress in order to make her fall in love with him. He believes his destiny is to marry her and father her children. The film was highly successful with both critics and audiences in Spain. Its release in the United States was entangled in controversy, instrumental in the implementation by the MPAA of a new rating category, NC-17, for films of an explicit nature that were previously unfairly regarded as pornographic because of the X rating. 23-year-old psychiatric patient Ricky has been deemed cured and is released from a mental institution. Until then he has been the lover of the woman director of the hospital. An orphan, free, and alone, his goal is to have a normal life with Marina Ozores, an actress, former porn star, and recovering drug addict, whom he once slept with during an escape from the asylum. Ricky discovers Marina’s whereabouts from a film journal announcement of the start of her next film. He goes to the studio where LESS