MATADOR (Pedro Almodovar)

Matador is a 1986 Spanish erotic thriller film co-written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar about a student matador, Ángel Giménez (Antonio Banderas), who confesses to murders he did not commit.

Diego Montes is a former bullfighter, forced into early retirement after being gored, who finds sexual gratification by viewing slasher films. Among the students in Diego's bullfighting class is Ángel, a diffident young man who suffers from vertigo. During one episode of vertigo in the practice ring, Ángel has a vision of a woman killing a man during sex with an ornamental silver hairpin, stabbing at the base of the neck as a matador kills a bull. After class, Diego asks Ángel whether he is homosexual, noting that he is not experienced with women. Ángel says he is not and vows to prove himself. Later that day, Ángel follows Diego's girlfriend, Eva, to a neighborhood alley, making a fumbling attempt to rape her. When Ángel shows shame, a disdainful Eva slaps him. As she leaves, Eva trips in the mud and gashes her cheek. At the sight of her blood, Ángel faints.