Question: Do both films Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! and One Minute To Twelve have the directors from the same country?

Tie Me Down is a song by American recording duo New Boyz. The song is the second single from their debut album Skinny Jeans and a Mic, and features R&B singer Ray J. Ray J's chorus uses the Auto- Tune effect and there is also usage in the New Boyz' verses. Due to the success of the duo's first single, You're a Jerk, an EP was released called" Tie Me Down: EP" via digital download featuring the track and four other songs that would later be included on their debut album. The song has peaked at twenty- two on the" Billboard" Hot 100, becoming the duo's highest charting single and second consecutive top thirty hit. It charted at number five and forty- two on the Hot R&B/ Hip- Hop Songs and Rap Songs charts. The song fared better as the duo's first entry at pop radio, peaking at twenty- three on the Pop Songs. The video ranked at# 70 on BET's" Notarized: Top 100 Videos of 2009" countdown. <SEP> He came to prominence as a director and screenwriter during La Movida Madrileña, a cultural renaissance that followed after the end of Francoist Spain. Pedro Almodóvar Caballero( born 25 September 1949), credited professionally as Pedro Almodóvar, is a Spanish filmmaker, director, screenwriter, producer, and former actor. His first few films characterised the sense of sexual and political freedom of the period. In 1986, he established his own film production company, El Deseo, with his younger brother Agustín Almodóvar, responsible for producing all of his films since" Law of Desire"( 1987). Almodóvar achieved international recognition for his black comedy- drama film" Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown"( 1988), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and went on to more success with the dark romantic comedy film" Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!"( 1990), the melodrama" High Heels"( 1991) and the romantic drama thriller" Live Flesh"( 1997). His subsequent two films won an Academy Award each:" All About My Mother"( 1999) received the award for Best Foreign Language Film while" Talk to Her"( 2002) earned him the award for Best Original Screenplay. Almodóvar followed this with the drama" Volver"( 2006), the romantic thriller" Broken Embraces"( 2009), the psychological thriller" The Skin I Live In"( 2011) and the dramas" Julieta"( 2016) and" Pain and Glory"( 2019), all of which were in competition for the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival. His films are marked by his employment of certain actors and creative personnel, complex narratives, melodrama, pop culture, popular songs, irreverent humour, strong colours, and glossy décor. Desire, passion, family, and identity are among Almodóvar's most prevalent themes. Acclaimed as one of the most internationally successful Spanish filmmakers, Almodóvar and his films have gained worldwide interest and developed a cult following. He has won two Academy Awards, five British Academy Film Awards, six European Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, nine Goya Awards and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1997, Almodóvar received the French Legion of Honour, followed by the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 1999. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and received an honorary doctoral degree in 2009 from Harvard University in addition to an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Oxford in 2016 for his contribution to the arts. In 2013, he received an honorary European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award. In January 2017 he was named as President of the Jury for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. In 2019, he is going to be awarded with a Honorary Golden Lion at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. <SEP> He directed 41 films between 1923 and 1968. Nunzio Malasomma (4 February 1894 – 12 January 1974) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. <SEP> Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! The plot follows a recently released psychiatric patient who kidnaps an actress in order to make her fall in love with him. He believes his destiny is to marry her and father her children. (" Tie Me!") is a 1989 Spanish dark romantic comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Victoria Abril and Antonio Banderas alongside Loles Léon, Francisco Rabal, Julieta Serrano, Maria Barranco, and Rossy de Palma. The film was highly successful with both critics and audiences in Spain. Its United States release was entangled in controversy, instrumental in the implementation by the MPAA of a new rating category, NC- 17, for films of an explicit nature that were previously unfairly regarded as pornographic because of the X rating. <SEP> One Minute to Twelve( German: Eine Minute vor Zwölf) is a 1925 German silent drama film directed by Nunzio Malasomma and starring Luciano Albertini, Charlotte Ander and Elsa Wagner. In 1927 it was released in Britain by Gaumont British Distributors. <SEP> Victoria Mérida Rojas( born 4 July 1959), better known as Victoria Abril, is a Spanish film actress and singer. She is possibly best known to international audiences for her performance in the movie" ¡ Átame! Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!") by director Pedro Almodóvar.