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** Eva is Diego's girlfriend, but Diego is attracted to María. He eventually breaks up with Eva.
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** Eva is Diego's girlfriend, but Diego is attracted to María. He eventually breaks up with Eva.Eva to pursue a relationship with María.
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Ángel (Banderas), a young man from a devout Catholic family, takes bullfighting classes with Diego Montes (Martínez) a retired matador. After a class, Ángel talks with Diego and confesses that he has no experience with women. He goes back home and tries to rape Eva (Cobo), his neighbour in the street at night.
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Ángel (Banderas), a young man from a devout Catholic family, takes bullfighting classes with Diego Montes (Martínez) a retired matador. After a class, Ángel talks with Diego and confesses that he has no experience with women. He goes back home and tries to rape Eva (Cobo), his neighbour and Diego's girlfriend, in the street a backstreet at night.
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* AteHisGun: This is how [[spoiler:María kills herself in the end, after stabbing Diego]].
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Ángel (Banderas), a young man from a devout Catholic family, takes bullfighting classes with Diego Montes (Martínez) a retired matador. During a class, Ángel feels faint and has a vision of a woman murdering a man during a sexual intercourse. After class, Ángel talks with Montes and confesses that he has no experience with women. He goes back home and tries to rape Eva (Cobo), his neighbour in the street at night.
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Ángel (Banderas), a young man from a devout Catholic family, takes bullfighting classes with Diego Montes (Martínez) a retired matador. During a class, Ángel feels faint and has a vision of a woman murdering a man during a sexual intercourse. After a class, Ángel talks with Montes Diego and confesses that he has no experience with women. He goes back home and tries to rape Eva (Cobo), his neighbour in the street at night.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Eva, the girlfriend of Ángel's teacher, happens to be Ángel's neighbour.
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* NoodleIncident: Before the start of the film, Ángel had to leave her mother's house and lived elsewhere for some time. Both her mother and the priest mention that he has just come back. We never hear where he was and why he was away.
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* ThePeepingTom: Ángel spies on Eva with binoculars when she has a shower.
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* AbusiveParents: Berta, a very religious person, seems to really despise her son Ángel. During his childhood, he was only allowed to pray and to work out. Now he is an adult and he must go to mass as a condition to keep on living at her mother's. When he says he needs to see a shrink, she rejects the idea. After he confesses the murders, she disowns him without hesitation.
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* {{Confessional}}: Ángel's mother insists that he goes to confession. Whether he does or not before surrendering to the police is ambiguous.
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* {{Confessional}}: Ángel's mother insists that he goes to confession. Whether He tells the priest he does or not before surrendering wants to confess, but he leaves the church and goes to the police is ambiguous.instead.
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* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: The film starts with a man masturbating while watching slasher movies. Then Ángel has a vision of a woman murdering a man during a sexual intercourse. [[spoiler:The film ends with María killing Diego while having sex with him, then killing herself.]]
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* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: The film starts with a man masturbating while watching slasher movies. Then Ángel has there is a vision of scene where a woman murdering a man during a sexual intercourse. [[spoiler:The film ends with María killing Diego while having sex with him, then killing herself.]]
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* OutWithABang: Ángel has a vision of a woman murdering a man with a hairpin during a sexual intercourse. [[spoiler:The film ends with María killing Diego and herself while they are having sex together.]]
* {{Seers}}: Ángel can see into the future, past and to other places during vertigo episodes. He sees María killing a man during a sexual intercourse. He is able to find the bodies of [[spoiler:Diego's]] victims. In the end, he sees what Diego and María are doing and he knows that they are in danger.
* {{Seers}}: Ángel can see into the future, past and to other places during vertigo episodes. He sees María killing a man during a sexual intercourse. He is able to find the bodies of [[spoiler:Diego's]] victims. In the end, he sees what Diego and María are doing and he knows that they are in danger.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Berta, a very religious person, wants to control the life of her son Ángel. During his childhood, he was only allowed to pray and to work out and could not go to the movies. Now he is an adult and he must consult a spiritual director as a condition to keep on living at her mother's. When he says he needs to see a shrink, she rejects the idea. She forces him to go to mass and she insists he should confess.
* OutWithABang:Ángel has a vision In the beginning of the film, a woman murdering murders a man with a hairpin during a sexual intercourse. [[spoiler:The film ends with María killing Diego and herself while they are having sex together.]]
* {{Seers}}: Ángel can see into the future, past and to other places during vertigo episodes. He sees María killing a man during a sexual intercourse. He is able to find the bodies of [[spoiler:Diego's]] victims. In the end, he sees what Diego and María are doing and he knows that they are in danger.
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* {{Seers}}: Ángel can see into the future, past and to other places during vertigo episodes.
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* DeliberatelyPainfulClothing: Ángel's mother wears a cilice around her thigh.
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* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: The film starts with a man masturbating while watching slasher movie. Then Ángel has a vision of a woman murdering a man during a sexual intercourse. [[spoiler:The film ends with María killing Diego while having sex with him, then killing herself.]]
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* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: The film starts with a man masturbating while watching slasher movie.movies. Then Ángel has a vision of a woman murdering a man during a sexual intercourse. [[spoiler:The film ends with María killing Diego while having sex with him, then killing herself.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Berta forces his adult son Ángel to go to mass. He says that he was only allowed to pray and to work out during his childhood. When he says he needs to go to a shrink, she rejects the idea. After he confesses the murders, she disowns him without hesitation.
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* AbusiveParents: Berta forces Berta, a very religious person, seems to really despise her son Ángel. During his adult son Ángel to go to mass. He says that childhood, he was only allowed to pray and to work out during his childhood. out. Now he is an adult and he must go to mass as a condition to keep on living at her mother's. When he says he needs to go to see a shrink, she rejects the idea. After he confesses the murders, she disowns him without hesitation.
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* CareerEndingInjury: Diego was injured by a bull (this is why he limps) and had to stop his career as bullfighter.
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* LoveTriangle:
** Eva is Diego's girlfriend, but Ángel is attracted to her and tries to rape her.
** Eva is Diego's girlfriend, but Diego is attracted to María. He eventually breaks up with Eva.
** Eva is Diego's girlfriend, but Ángel is attracted to her and tries to rape her.
** Eva is Diego's girlfriend, but Diego is attracted to María. He eventually breaks up with Eva.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Eva is in love with Diego. When he dumps her, she wants to win him back, even after hearing that he committed several murders.
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* ExactEavesdropping: When she gets into Diego's house, Eva overhears a short conversation between Diego and María, but it is enough for her to understand that they are both [[spoiler:murderers]].
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* AbusiveParents: Berta forces his adult son to go to mass. When he says he needs to go to a shrink, she rejects the idea.
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* AbusiveParents: Berta forces his adult son Ángel to go to mass.mass. He says that he was only allowed to pray and to work out during his childhood. When he says he needs to go to a shrink, she rejects the idea. After he confesses the murders, she disowns him without hesitation.
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This should not be confused with ''Film/TheMatador'', a 2015 comedy starring Creator/PierceBrosnan.
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This film should not be confused with ''Film/TheMatador'', a 2015 comedy starring Creator/PierceBrosnan.
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This should not be confused with ''Film/TheMatador'', a 2015 comedy starring Creator/PierceBrosnan.
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* AbusiveParents: Berta forces his adult son to go to mass. When he says he needs to go to a shrink, she rejects the idea.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: Diego and María are attracted to each other because they are both [[spoiler:murderers]].
* {{Confessional}}: Ángel's mother insists that he goes to confession. Whether he does or not before surrendering to the police is ambiguous.
* {{Confessional}}: Ángel's mother insists that he goes to confession. Whether he does or not before surrendering to the police is ambiguous.
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* DecoyProtagonist: The first part of the movie focuses on Ángel, his ill-being and his attempted rape. After he surrenders to the police and confesses the murders, the story focuses on Diego and María.
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* MurderSuicide: In the end, [[spoiler:María stabs Diego to death, then shoots herself in the mouth]].
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* ShoutOut: Diego and María watch ''Film/DuelInTheSun'' at the cinema.
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* AfraidOfBlood: Ángel feels faint when he sees blood.
* AttemptedRape: Ángel tries to rape his neighbour Eva in an alley at night, but he ejaculates before penetrating her.
* CreatorCameo: Creator/PedroAlmodovar appears briefly as the guy in charge of the fashion show.
* DisappearedDad: Ángel's father died years ago.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: A ''matador'' is a bullfighter, but it also means "killer" in Spanish. Diego is a bullfighter [[spoiler:and a killer]].
* FalseConfession: Ángel confesses four murders that he did not commit. Thanks to his psychic power, he is able to give some details about the murders, like to place where the bodies of [[spoiler:Diego's]] victims are buried.
* IHaveNoSon: When she hears that her son Ángel confessed four murders, Berta says that he is not her son any more.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: The film starts with a man masturbating while watching slasher movie. Then Ángel has a vision of a woman murdering a man during a sexual intercourse. [[spoiler:The film ends with María killing Diego while having sex with him, then killing herself.]]
* OutWithABang: Ángel has a vision of a woman murdering a man with a hairpin during a sexual intercourse. [[spoiler:The film ends with María killing Diego and herself while they are having sex together.]]
* {{Seers}}: Ángel can see into the future, past and to other places during vertigo episodes. He sees María killing a man during a sexual intercourse. He is able to find the bodies of [[spoiler:Diego's]] victims. In the end, he sees what Diego and María are doing and he knows that they are in danger.
* AttemptedRape: Ángel tries to rape his neighbour Eva in an alley at night, but he ejaculates before penetrating her.
* CreatorCameo: Creator/PedroAlmodovar appears briefly as the guy in charge of the fashion show.
* DisappearedDad: Ángel's father died years ago.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: A ''matador'' is a bullfighter, but it also means "killer" in Spanish. Diego is a bullfighter [[spoiler:and a killer]].
* FalseConfession: Ángel confesses four murders that he did not commit. Thanks to his psychic power, he is able to give some details about the murders, like to place where the bodies of [[spoiler:Diego's]] victims are buried.
* IHaveNoSon: When she hears that her son Ángel confessed four murders, Berta says that he is not her son any more.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: The film starts with a man masturbating while watching slasher movie. Then Ángel has a vision of a woman murdering a man during a sexual intercourse. [[spoiler:The film ends with María killing Diego while having sex with him, then killing herself.]]
* OutWithABang: Ángel has a vision of a woman murdering a man with a hairpin during a sexual intercourse. [[spoiler:The film ends with María killing Diego and herself while they are having sex together.]]
* {{Seers}}: Ángel can see into the future, past and to other places during vertigo episodes. He sees María killing a man during a sexual intercourse. He is able to find the bodies of [[spoiler:Diego's]] victims. In the end, he sees what Diego and María are doing and he knows that they are in danger.
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''Matador'' is a 1986 erotic thriller film directed by Creator/PedroAlmodovar, starring Assumpta Serna, Creator/AntonioBanderas, Nacho Martínez and Eva Cobo.
Ángel (Banderas), a young man from a devout Catholic family, takes bullfighting classes with Diego Montes (Martínez) a retired matador. During a class, Ángel feels faint and has a vision of a woman murdering a man during a sexual intercourse. After class, Ángel talks with Montes and confesses that he has no experience with women. He goes back home and tries to rape Eva (Cobo), his neighbour in the street at night.
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Ángel (Banderas), a young man from a devout Catholic family, takes bullfighting classes with Diego Montes (Martínez) a retired matador. During a class, Ángel feels faint and has a vision of a woman murdering a man during a sexual intercourse. After class, Ángel talks with Montes and confesses that he has no experience with women. He goes back home and tries to rape Eva (Cobo), his neighbour in the street at night.
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