Pain and Glory (2019)

Drama Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
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Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

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  1. 8½ (1963)
    "Almodóvar has named 8½ as the foundational reference for Pain and Glory's creative-stagnation premise. Salvador's blocked-director-recovering-through-memory structure maps directly onto Guido's; both films resolve their creative congestion via semi-autobiographical recollection." source

Pain and Glory (2019), directed by Pedro Almodóvar, was inspired by 1 earlier film — including 8½. Check out the citations below.