
Tie Me Up Tie Me Down
Just released from a mental hospital, Ricky decides to start a new life and find the last memory about his parents. Having no way to approach Marina, porn star he once had sex with, he kidnaps her and tries to convince her to be his wife. Once she realizes that he will do everything for her, will she accept his feeling or still find a way to escape from him?




















10 August 1960, Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain


16 September 1964, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

12 December 1960, Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain

15 August 1937, Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo, Córdoba, Andalucía, Spain


31 December 1916, Spain

8 March 1926, Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain

7 May 1971, Madrid, Spain


17 March 1962, Madrid, Spain


4 July 1959, Madrid, Spain

1 August 1950, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

27 June 1936, Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain



7 February 1934, Madrid, Spain


11 June 1961, Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain




1958, Tui, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain

2 January 1933, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain




May 26, 2006
One of those movies that makes you laugh if you sit back and absorb the entire absurd situation at once.
January 01, 2000
Almodovar's polarities are so perfectly lined up in opposition to my own that it is quite possible for one of his movies to shoot right through my brain without striking a single cell.
August 08, 2014
...nothing much of interest occurs...
April 21, 2006
Typically nutty and passionate Almodovar
September 16, 2013
A curiously uplifting watch despite such a morose subject-matter.
May 20, 2003
Mr. Almodovar's comic invention runs out too soon, leaving the audience to giggle weakly in anticipation of the big laughs and disorienting shocks that never arrive.
January 01, 2000
A writer-director driven by his passion, Almodovar allows his movies to moan and sweat and writhe. Sex looks like sex, not pornographic but messy and warm. The curtains do not billow, the sheets burn.
July 17, 2011
Though this controversial film about romantic, sado-masochistic love in the hetero world is weak and ultimately disappointing, it's still worth seeing for understanding Almodovar's evolution.
October 01, 2003
Psychodrama and dark humor flow freely from this setup.
August 26, 2014
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! comes from a transitional phase in Almodóvar's career, one in which he was using bigger budgets to hone his aesthetic, create characters with greater depth, but still indulge a punkish urge to shock.
May 04, 2005
An off-kilter - and off-putting - mix of humor, sex, and Stockholm Syndrome obsession.
September 23, 2014
The film's tone is so campy and off-kilter it's hard to take any of it seriously... it's equally hard to find any of it particularly funny.