Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for Parallel Mothers
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
2021 · FILM

Parallel Mothers

A fiercely independent expectant mother fights to safeguard her unborn child's future, only to confront a shocking revelation about the baby's lineage that threatens to unravel both her life and Spain's buried wartime secrets.

Directed by
Pedro Almodovar
Written by
Pedro Almodovar
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
123 min
Language
ES
Drama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Two unmarried women who become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late thirties, unrepentant and happy; and Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

Credits

Actors
Editor
Production Designer
Director of Photography
Writers
Director

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 39

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Teresa FontShot by Jose Luis AlcaineScored by Alberto IglesiasDesigned by Antxon Gomez

Box Office

2021 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$23.1M

Budget$11.0M
Worldwide gross$23.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $2.3M — 10% of worldwide · International: $20.8M (90%)

Opening weekend: $38K — 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $85K — 4% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3 theaters

Also known as

  • Parallele Mütterde
  • Parallel Mothersen

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).