Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

1989 film by Pedro Almodóvar

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! is a 1990 Spanish comedy crime drama movie. The story regards a psychiatric patient who, after being released from a mental ward, kidnaps a porn actress and tries to get her to marry him. Antonio Banderas plays Ricky, the psychiatric patient.

The movie was involved in a legal battle with the MPAA due to their decision to rate the movie X. The distributor, Miramax, filed a lawsuit against the MPAA. They did not win this case, so the movie was released unrated in United States theaters.