All About My Mother

All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre, 1999) — watch online on iFILM, Pedro Almodóvar's Oscar-winning drama from Spain. Manuela (Cecilia Roth) loses her teenage son to a traffic accident on the night of his seventeenth birthday. She travels from Madrid to Barcelona to find the father her son never knew — the person she walked away from sixteen years before.

Barcelona gives her back a world she had escaped. She reconnects with Agrado (Antonia San Juan), a transgender friend from her past. She becomes close to Rosa (Penélope Cruz), a young nun who is pregnant and HIV-positive. She takes a job assisting Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes), an actress consumed by her own grief and addictions. Every woman carries something. Nobody falls apart alone.

Almodóvar dedicated the film to all actresses, all women who act, and all who want to be mothers. It won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film and the Best Director prize at Cannes. Stream All About My Mother (1999) online on iFILM.