In 1990 Pedro finishes the screenplay he began while shooting "¡Átame!". The title is taken from an old project, "Tacones Lejanos". An actual interpretative tour de force for two essential actresses of the "almodovarian universe": Marisa Paredes and Victoria Abril, the pillars of a work dominated by the word. "Tacones..." is another instant success in Spain, France and Italy.

After the melodramatic intensity of "Tacones...", Pedro takes another sudden turn in his career shooting one of his most unclassifiable movies: "Kika" (1993). It turns a choral film where each character belongs to a different film genre, thus generating a very free and heterodox movie. The public liked this, but the critics were lost /it couldn't have been any other way.