What Have I Done to Deserve This?

What Have I Done to Deserve This? (¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?, 1984) is an early Pedro Almodóvar film you can watch online on iFILM. Carmen Maura plays Gloria, a Madrid housewife who cleans other people's apartments by day, pops amphetamines to stay upright, and holds together a household that is coming apart at every seam.

Her husband is obsessed with a former pop singer and moonlights in shady deals. One son sells drugs; the other pursues the fathers of his classmates. Her mother-in-law only wants to go back to the village. The neighbor is a sex worker — and also the most sensible person in the building. Into this domestic wreckage Almodóvar drops a subplot involving forged Hitler diaries and an accidental death, without blinking.

The film is widely seen as the pivot point in Almodóvar's career: the moment the wild provocation of his early work started sharpening into something more emotionally precise. Shot on Madrid's working-class outskirts on almost no budget, it holds up as both black comedy and genuine portrait of exhaustion. Stream What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) online on iFILM.