Plot: Harry Caine is a blind writer who shares his life with his agent Judit and her adult son Diego. Slowly, events in the present begin to bring back memories of the past. He hears that millionaire Ernesto Martel has died; a young film-maker, Ray X, appears and turns out to be Martel’s son, Ernesto Martel Junior. Diego is hospitalized after an accidental drug overdose in a Madrid nightclub. Harry collects Diego from the hospital and looks after him to avoid worrying his mother. Part of the main storyline is told in flashback as Harry narrates a tragic tale of fate, jealousy, abuse of power, betrayal and guilt.

Why See It: This 2009 film by Pedro Almodóvar is set in the 1990s and 2008. The film centers on a four-way tale of dangerous love, and was shot in the style of a hard-boiled 1950s American film noir.

Cast: Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, Rubén Ochandiano