All About My Mother (1999)

This is an imperfect-but-creditable Spanish movie. Manuela (Cecilia Roth) is a single mother who has raised her only son from infancy and nearly into adulthood. One night after watching a play together he is struck by a car and killed. She feels guilty that she lied to her son about his father being dead and the real reason she left him was because he became a transvestite and is now called Lola. She befriends a former nun (Penelope Cruz) who is pregnant, but is dying from the AIDS virus she received from Lola.

The movie won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The ideas about organ donations originated in Almodóvar's earlier film The Flower of My Secret (1995). A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by Tennessee Williams. In 1951 a film adaptation was made starring Marlon Brando. The accident scene is based on the 1977 film Opening Night. All About Eve is a 1950 film starring Bette Davis.