Antonio BanderasFilmography

Untitled Woody Allen Production

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Freida Pinto, Naomi Watts

Synopsis: Woody Allen sets his sights on London for his newest production, with a cast headed by Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, and Slumdog Millionaire's Freida Pinto. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

The Other Man

Actors: Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney, Romola Garai, Craig Parkinson

Synopsis: Rainmark and Gotham Films present this tale of a scorned husband who seeks out the man he thinks is involved with his wife in Richard Eyre's adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel The Other Man. Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Antonio Banderas, and Romola Garai star in the joint U.K./U.S.A. production. Read More

El Lince Perdido

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Robles, Cecilia Santiago, Abraham Aguilar, Cesar Sarachu, Esperanza Pedreno, Conchi Lopez Rojo, Julio Nunez, Stephen Hughes

Synopsis: As co-helmed by Manuel Sicilia and Raul Garcia, this CG-animated, Spanish-language children's adventure (translated as The Missing Lynx: Paws on the Run for its release in English-speaking countries) originated via the production efforts of Antonio Banderas, though his is not one of the voices on Read More

Chevolution

Synopsis: On March 5, 1960, Che Guevara, one of the architects of the Cuban revolution, attended a memorial service for seventy-five men who died while explosive cargo was being unloaded from a ship in the Havana harbor. Photographer Alberto Korda snapped a picture of Guevara at the event, and while it went Read More

My Mom's New Boyfriend

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Meg Ryan, Colin Hanks, Selma Blair, Keith David

Synopsis: When an uptight federal agent's sexually liberated mother enters into an affair with a man suspected of being involved in an international art-theft ring, it's up to the fresh-faced agent to keep an observant eye on the couple in question in writer/director George Gallo's lighthearted romantic Read More

The Code

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell

Synopsis: An experienced robber (Morgan Freeman) heavily in debt with the Russian mob engages a novice thief (Antonio Banderas) to pull off one last heist in this crime drama from director Mimi Leder (Deep Impact). Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill) co-stars in the Millennium Films production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler Read More

Shrek the Third

Actors: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews

Synopsis: Shrek and Fiona's (Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz, respectively) fairy-tale wedding has gone off without a hitch, yet just as the beaming newlyweds prepare to enjoy their blissful "happily ever after," the sudden death of King Harold (John Cleese) finds everyone's favorite ornery ogre being Read More

Shrek the Halls

Actors: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas

Synopsis: Picking up where Shrek the Third left off, this animated, original, half-hour special finds Shrek (Mike Meyers) doing his best to get into the Christmas spirit. Having promised Fiona (Cameron Diaz) and the kids that this will be the best Christmas ever, the loveable ogre realizes that in order to Read More

Bordertown

Actors: Maya Zapata, Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Sonia Braga, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: The celebrated Latino director Gregory Nava (American Family) helmed, scripted, and co-produced (with star Jennifer Lopez) Bordertown - a suspense thriller with an A-list Hispanic cast. Lopez portrays Lauren Adrian, an American correspondent from a Chicago newspaper, who longs to cover the U.S. Read More

Take the Lead

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown, Lauren Collins

Synopsis: A teacher and his students open up new worlds for one another in this urban drama inspired by a true story. Pierre Dulaine (Antonio Banderas) is a prize-winning ballroom dancer and instructor from Manhattan who volunteers his services to a high school in one of the roughest neighborhoods in the Read More

The Way of the English

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Alberto Amarilla, María Ruiz, Félix Gómez, Raúl Arévalo, Fran Perea

Synopsis: Director Antonio Banderas's reflective sophomore drama follows nascent poet Miguelito (Alberto Amarilla) and his best friends, Paco (Félix Gómez) and Babirusa (Raúl Arévalo), as they confront their pasts and ponder their futures while coming of age in 1970s-era southern Spain. Based on the novel Read More

Saturday Night Live: Antonio Banderas

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Mary J. Blige

Synopsis: This 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Antonio Banderas and features musical guest Mary J. Blige. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The Legend of Zorro

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Nick Chinlund, Julio Oscar Mechoso

Synopsis: The legendary Mexican hero returns to the screen in this swashbuckling sequel to the 1998 box-office hit The Mask of Zorro. It's 1850, and the people of California, eager to improve their difficult lot in life, have launched a campaign to become part of the United States. Don Alejandro de la Vega (Antonio Banderas Read More

Imagining Argentina

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Rubén Blades, Maria Canals, Leticia Dolera

Synopsis: Accomplished British screenwriter Christopher Hampton directs the political drama Imagining Argentina, based on the novel by Lawrence Thornton. Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda (Antonio Banderas Read More

Shrek 2

Actors: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Julie Andrews, Antonio Banderas

Synopsis: The cranky beast with a heart of gold returns to the big screen in this sequel to the computer-animated smash hit Shrek. After massive green ogre Shrek (voice of Mike Myers) and his new bride, Princess Fiona (voice of Cameron Diaz), return from their honeymoon, they receive an invitation to visit Read More

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Johnny Depp, Mickey Rourke, Eva Mendes, Danny Trejo, Enrique Iglesias, Marco Leonardi, Cheech Marin, Rubén Blades, Willem Dafoe

Synopsis: Director Robert Rodriguez returns to the characters of his breakthrough hits El Mariachi and Desperado in this grand scale south-of-the-border action-adventure saga. Sands (Johnny Depp) is a rogue CIA agent who is working in cahoots with Mexican officials who've caught wind of a plan by corrupt Read More

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Ricardo Montalban

Synopsis: The first American theatrically released 3-D movie from a major studio since 1991's Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over is the third entry in three years in Robert Rodriguez's family-oriented action-adventure series. Along with the four members of the Cortez family, played Read More

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey

Synopsis: Antonio Banderas plays the title role in this cable-TV reenactment of a little-known chapter in the life of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. The year is 1914: With Villa's war of rebellion against the Huerta forces going badly, he hits upon a brilliant method to finance his crusade. Actually Read More

Frida

Actors: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas

Synopsis: After being attached to a number of actors, directors, and producers, this long-gestating biography of one of Mexico's most prominent, iconoclastic painters reaches the screen under the guiding hand of producer/star Salma Hayek. Hayek ages some 30 years onscreen as she charts Frida Kahlo's life Read More

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu, Gregg Henry, Ray Park, Talisa Soto

Synopsis: Two former government agents square off as they search for the most deadly new weapon on Earth in this white-knuckle thriller. Sever (Lucy Liu) was once a top agent with the Defense Intelligence Agency, but she quit when her son was killed in a bungled raid organized by Gant (Gregg Henry), and has Read More

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara

Synopsis: The prepubescent, globetrotting, super-spy sibling duo from director Robert Rodriguez's surprise 2001 hit Spy Kids is back to save the world for a second time in this bigger-budget, larger-scale sequel. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams opens with our heroes Carmen and Juni (Alexa Vega and Daryl Read More

Femme Fatale

Actors: Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote, Eriq Ebouaney, Edouard Montoute

Synopsis: Brian De Palma blends the emotional netherworld of film noir with a stylish portrayal of life among the wealthy and powerful in Paris in this glossy thriller. Laure Ash (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) is a beautiful but mysterious woman who has aligned herself with a small ring of jewel thieves, led by a Read More

The I Love Lucy 50th Anniversary Special

Synopsis: Television's first and most influential situation comedy gets a loving tribute in this television special. The I Love Lucy 50th Anniversary Special includes interviews with the writers and directors who helped bring the show to life, a visit to Lucille Ball's hometown with Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr. Read More

Original Sin

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Jane, Jack Thompson, Gregory Itzin

Synopsis: A lonely man's search for companionship soon takes him to dangerous and unexpected places in this erotically charged drama. Luis Antonio Vargas (Antonio Banderas) is a successful coffee salesman living in Cuba in the 1880s. Luis has had little luck finding love among the women of his native Read More

The Body

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Olivia Williams, John Shrapnel, Derek Jacobi, Jason Flemyng

Synopsis: In this religious drama concerning the struggle between science and faith, Olivia Williams plays Sharon Golban, an Israeli archeologist who discovers a skeleton within a tomb in Jerusalem. After an intensive study and the accumulation of more information, the bones begin to resemble the remains of Read More

Spy Kids

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Alan Cumming

Synopsis: In this reteaming of actor Antonio Banderas and director Robert Rodriguez -- their first film together since the 1995 feature Desperado -- Banderas plays Gregorio; he and devoted partner Ingrid (Carla Gugino), comprise the greatest pair of secret agents working. Both are masters of disguise and Read More

The Many Faces of Zorro

Synopsis: Many actors have donned the telltale mask of justice worn by the sword and whip-wielding do-gooder over the years, and through it all, audiences sat captivated by the eternal struggle between the downtrodden masses and corrupted elite -- for no matter who portrayed the legendary Zorro, the Read More

Play It to the Bone

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Woody Harrelson, Lolita Davidovich, Tom Sizemore, Lucy Liu

Synopsis: After covering baseball in Bull Durham, basketball in White Men Can't Jump. and golf in Tin Cup, writer, director, and obvious sports fan Ron Shelton takes on the world of boxing in this comedy. Vince Boudreau (Woody Harrelson) and Cesar Sota (Antonio Banderas) are close friends and aspiring Read More

Crazy in Alabama

Crew: Director

Actors: Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Lucas Black, Cathy Moriarty, Meat Loaf, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner, Sandra Seacat

Synopsis: Comedy and drama take turns in this period piece based on a novel by Mark Childress. Peejoe (Lucas Black), short for Peter Joseph, lives in a small Alabama town in 1965, at the height of the Civil Rights movement. He becomes involved with a group of black students protesting the town's racially Read More

The 13th Warrior

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Dennis Storhoi, Vladimir Kulich, Omar Sharif

Synopsis: A cultured diplomat joins a band of savage warriors in time to meet an even more fearsome enemy in this historical adventure. In 922 A.D., Ibn Fadlan (Antonio Banderas) is a Muslim emissary from Baghdad en route to meet with the King of Saqaliba when he is captured by a gang of Vikings. While Ibn Read More

White River

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Beau Bridges, Antonio Banderas, Bob Hoskins, Wes Bentley

Synopsis: Two small-time crooks find themselves in deeper water than they can handle in this offbeat comedy. Edgar (Bob Hoskins) and Morales (Antonio Banderas) are a pair of minor-league grifters posing as men of the cloth, who travel through the deep South selling cheap socks at inflated prices to raise Read More

Hispanic Hollywood

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Dolores Del Rio, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero, José Ferrer

Synopsis: This video documentary looks at the history of Hispanic or Latino stars and pictures in Hollywood, focusing on the last half of the 20th century. Stars such as Jimmy Smits, Antonio Banderas, Sonia Braga, and others discuss their experiences as Hispanic actors. They reflect on prejudices and Read More

The Mask of Zorro

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stuart Wilson, Matt Letscher

Synopsis: Director Martin Campbell, well-known to the action arena after 1995's GoldenEye, teams up with executive producer Steven Spielberg to bring the first Hollywood production of creator Johnston McCulley's Zorro in over four decades to the big screen. With scenic 18th century Mexico as a backdrop Read More

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Royal Albert Hall Celebration

Synopsis: Andrew Lloyd Webber has written a multitude of musicals during his more-than-30-year career, including The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Evita, and Sunset Boulevard. Now, you can join PBS Home Video for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th birthday celebration. Share in the enjoyment and hear Webber's Read More

Evita

Actors: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail

Synopsis: Evita is based on the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Actually, the film is more of an opera, with only short moments devoted to dialogue. "Evita" is the friendly, family version of the proper name "Eva," and this film tells the story of Eva Peron (1921-52), a woman whose name evokes Read More

Never Talk to Strangers

Actors: Rebecca De Mornay, Antonio Banderas, Dennis Miller, Len Cariou, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: A beautiful but reserved criminal psychiatrist must deal with the obsessive stalking of a dangerous killer in this erotically charged thriller. The film's central tension emerges from the relationship between Dr. Sarah Taylor (Rebecca DeMornay), a highly professional psychologist, and a handsome Read More

The Celluloid Closet

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Sharon Stone, Tony Curtis, Harvey Fierstein, Tom Hanks, Lily Tomlin, Gore Vidal

Synopsis: Based on Vito Russo's groundbreaking 1981 work of film history, The Celluloid Closet gathers clips from dozens of mainstream Hollywood films to illustrate how the movies have dealt explicitly -- and more importantly, implicitly -- with gay and lesbian themes. Layered between the clips are Read More

Four Rooms

Actors: Tim Roth, Valeria Golino, Jennifer Beals, Antonio Banderas, Quentin Tarantino

Synopsis: Four of the most celebrated directors in the independent film community pooled their talents for this episodic comedy. Ted (Tim Roth) is the new bellboy at a beautiful but decaying luxury hotel; he is not having a good time of it on New Year's Eve, his first night on the job. In one room, a coven Read More

Two Much

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah, Joan Cusack, Danny Aiello

Synopsis: This Spanish-American production stars Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, whose romance on the set helped the film set box-office records in Spain. Director Fernando Treuba, who won an Oscar for Belle Epoque, made his English-language debut with Two Much, an updated screwball comedy. Banderas Read More

Assassins

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore, Anatoly Davydov

Synopsis: Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner helms this action-adventure yarn in which Robert Rath (Sylvester Stallone), a veteran, burned-out hit man for hire who's looking to leave his profession, meets a younger, crazier, more ambitious competitor, Miguel Bain (Antonio Banderas), who is out to best Read More

Desperado

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida, Cheech Marin, Steve Buscemi, Quentin Tarantino

Synopsis: Director Robert Rodriguez picks up where his successful independent debut El Mariachi left off with this slam-bang South of the Border action saga. Bucho (Joaquim DeAlmeida) is a wealthy but casually bloodthirsty drug kingpin who rules a seedy Mexican border town. Bucho and his men make the Read More

Miami Rhapsody

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Gil Bellows, Antonio Banderas, Mia Farrow, Paul Mazursky

Synopsis: The discovery of marital troubles in her family causes a young woman to question her own upcoming nuptials in this clever romantic comedy. Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Gwyn, a bright, slightly neurotic advertising copywriter who is initially thrilled when her boyfriend Matt (Gil Bellows) finally Read More

Of Love and Shadows

Actors: Jennifer Connelly, Antonio Banderas, Stefania Sandrelli, Camilo Gallardo, Patricio Contreras

Synopsis: The Spanish/Argentinian Of Love and Shadows (De Amor y Sombras) is a fragmentary adaptation of the Isabel Allende novel of the same name. The scene is Chile, during the dictatorial Pinochet regime of the early 1970s. Journalist Jennifer Connelly, insulated from the truth and enjoying the romantic Read More

Interview With the Vampire

Actors: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea, Christian Slater

Synopsis: Anne Rice's best-selling romantic horror tale about the origins of a centuries-old vampire inspired this popular, atmospheric chiller. One of director Neil Jordan's major Hollywood productions, the film stays close to its source material, retaining the frame of a young reporter (Christian Slater) Read More

Benito

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Claudia Koll, Meme Perlini, Susanne Lothar, Toni Bertorelli, Valentina Lainati, Ivano Marescotti

Synopsis: Antonio Banderas steps into the shoes of Italian Fascist dictator and prime minister Benito Mussolini in director Gian Luigi Calderone's epic biopic. From his stratospheric rise through the ranks of the socialist party to his youthful turn as the local chief of the Italian Socialist Party and his Read More

Il Giovane Mussolini

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Susanne Lothar, Meme Perlini, Ivano Marescotti, Claudia Koll

Synopsis: Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) has received short shrift in the history books, and his pitiful later career and the disastrous alliance he made with Hitler certainly qualify him to be vilified as a sinister buffoon. However, earlier in his life, many feel that his virtues far outweighed his flaws; Read More

Philadelphia

Actors: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Jr., Mary Steenburgen, Antonio Banderas, Ron Vawter, Joanne Woodward

Synopsis: At the time of its release, Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia was the first big-budget Hollywood film to tackle the medical, political, and social issues of AIDS. Tom Hanks, in his first Academy Award-winning performance, plays Andrew Beckett, a talented lawyer at a stodgy Philadelphia law firm. The Read More

The House of the Spirits

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas

Synopsis: Bille August directed this film version of the Isabel Allende novel, featuring a cast that includes Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, and Glenn Close. The story is a sweeping and brooding melodrama, spanning generations and filled with violence, revenge, and telekinesis. The tale begins in South America Read More

Outrage

Actors: Francesca Neri, Antonio Banderas, Walter Vidarte, Eulalia Ramon

Synopsis: An attractive circus performer (Francesca Neri) gets gang raped and takes justice in her own hands using her shooting skills. Things go awry, however, and she ends up on the run from the police. This undistinguished melodrama is not a high point in the career of celebrated Spanish director Carlos Saura Read More

The Mambo Kings

Actors: Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Cathy Moriarty, Maruschka Detmers, Desi Arnaz, Jr.

Synopsis: New York art dealer Arne Glimcher took his first crack at film directing with this florid, high-energy romance about two brothers who flee Cuba in the early 1950s to make it as musicians in the United States. Cynthia Cidre wrote the literate screenplay adapted from Oscar Hijuelos's Pulitzer Read More

Aventis

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, María Botto

Synopsis: In the year of The Mambo Kings, Antonio Banderas - then on the very cusp of stardom - also headlined the Spanish-language drama Aventis, directed by Vincente Aranda. Translated, the title refers to a Spanish blend of historical recounting and mythmaking. The story involves a doctor and nurse who Read More

Truth or Dare

Actors: Madonna, Warren Beatty, Sandra Bernhard

Synopsis: Truth or Dare is an outrageous, insightful, carefully controlled and (to non-fans) overlong documentary of singer Madonna's 1990 Blonde Ambition tour. Though much of the film is a paean to self-love and self-aggrandizement, we are permitted to see Madonna at her worst as well as her best. Just Read More

Una Mujer Bajo la Lluvia

Actors: Ángela Molina, Antonio Banderas, Imanol Arias, Kiti Manver

Synopsis: The name of mystery writer Edgar Neville may be relatively unknown in the U.S., but his novels have been the source for quite a number of films made in Europe. In this humorous story, set in Madrid, a woman (Angela Molina) standing in the rain is offered rides from two different cars. Either ride Read More

Terra Nova

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Massimo Bonetti

Synopsis: Quite a few decades ago, the Italian immigrants in this movie came to live in the Venezuelan countryside. They have settled in a region dominated by a crusty local aristocrat, and over the years they have had many encounters with him. It is finally time to take stock of their successes and Read More

Cuentos De Borges I

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Fernando Guillén, Pastora Vega, Hugo Soto, Miguel Dedovich

The White Dove

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Antonio Banderas, Emma Suarez, Mercedes Sampietro

Synopsis: Some people would say that Mario is a Basque terrorist, but he would probably say that he is simply a fervent activist on behalf of the Basque nationalist movement. In either case, he occasionally blows things up with the intention of destabilizing things where he lives. Some of these "activists" Read More

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Actors: Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Loles Leon, Julieta Serrano, Francisco Rabal

Synopsis: "I'll never love you . . . ever!" the sexy and attractive Marina (Victoria Abril) states emphatically to the love-struck Ricky (Antonio Banderas). You know she means what she says because when she makes this statement she is handcuffed and lashed to a bed, not exactly the proper way to warm anyone Read More

Against the Wind

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Emma Suarez, Bruce McGuire

Synopsis: Juan (Antonio Banderas) has been trying to escape the sexual demands of his sister for some time. He now works at a nuclear power plant as a very specialized kind of welder. A gypsy girl has taken up with him, but is temporarily displaced in his bed by his sister who has found him again, after a Read More

If They Tell You I Fell

Actors: Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, Antonio Banderas, Guillermo Montesinos

Synopsis: This complex and confusing Spanish feature intercuts stories from 1936, 1940, 1970 and 1988, and has Victoria Abril play three different parts in them. The lives of many people are shown to be tangled together in nearly incomprehensible ways, and many of the characters are prone to engage in Read More

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Actors: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Fernando Guillén, Julieta Serrano, Maria Barranco, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: Though the kinky characters and aberrant social behavior common to the works of Spanish director Pedro Almodovar are very evident in his Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the film is at heart a door-slamming farce in the grand tradition. The tiny apartment of pregnant actress Carmen Maura Read More

Baton Rouge

Actors: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Ángel de Andrés Lopez, Laura Cepeda

Synopsis: Antonio (Antonio Banderas) is a gigolo who is taken in by a wealthy middle-aged woman in this sultry crime drama. He moves into the posh apartment of Isabel Harris (Carmen Maura) and satisfies her sexual urges. When Isabel has reoccurring nightmares she is being raped, the couple visits a pretty Read More

Bajarse Al Moro

Actors: Verónica Forqué, Antonio Banderas, Juan Echanove, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Chus Lampreave

Synopsis: Chusa is a fashionable and party-loving denizen of modern-day Madrid. Some of her flashy lifestyle is paid for by her amateur hashish-smuggling operation. Like many others, she often flies down to Morocco to score some of this marijuana-derived drug and then smuggles it back in various places on Read More

Placer De Matar

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Mathieu Carrière, Victoria Abril, Berta Riaza, Walter Vidarte

Synopsis: Director Felix Rotaeta adapted the screenplay of Placer de Matar from own novel. Victoria Abril, who was incredibly busy when the film was made in 1987, plays the leading role (she wasn't exactly the heroine), while Berta Riaza costars as her mother. It's a thriller with plot twists aplenty; to Read More

Asi Como Habian Sido

Actors: Massimo Ghini, Juan Diego, Antonio Banderas, Nina Van Pallandt

Synopsis: Three college friends are reunited after 10 years in this routine drama. Told in a series of flashbacks, Tomas (Massimo Ghini) is a concert pianist who returns to Spain in hopes of looking up his two old friends. He finds one working in a recording studio, while the other has lost the use of his Read More

Eulalia

Actors: Juan Diego, Antonio Banderas, Nina Van Pallandt

Synopsis: The problems encountered by the sixteen-year-old beauty in this comedy might not strike north-of-the-border feminists as particularly amusing. One of six children, Eulalia leaves her country home to work as a maid in a rich person's house in the city. She lives with her young male cousin, who has Read More

Delirios de Amor

27 Horas

Actors: Martxelo Rubio, Maribel Verdú, San Jon Sebastian, Antonio Banderas, Michel Duperrer

Synopsis: A hopeless, bleak mood hangs over this heavy drama about three teens in San Sebastian, a port city on the Bay of Biscay in the Basque country of Spain. Covert references are made to political issues like the miseries of shipyard workers and to the police as rather brusque and hard-nosed. Drugs are Read More

Matador

Actors: Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martinez, Eva Cobo, Julieta Serrano

Synopsis: Once-great Spanish matador Nacho Martinez has been reduced to starring in gruesome "snuff" films. Martinez is idolized by Antonio Banderas, who has no notion of his idol's current illegal profession. Terrified at the thought of drawing blood in the bullring, Banderas nevertheless seeks out Read More

The Law of Desire

Actors: Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Miguel Molina, Manuela Velasco

Synopsis: Popular film director Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela) has found a new love in the form of handsome blue-collar Juan (Miguel Molina). Not altogether comfortable with his lifestyle, Juan decides to leave Pablo for a while to contemplate his future. Pablo insists that Juan keep in touch by sending Read More

Puzzle

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Carmen Elias, Patxi Andion, Héctor Alterio, Joan Miralles

Synopsis: Luis-Jose Comeron helms the 1986 direct-to-video suspenser Puzzle, starring Antonio Banderas (Desperado, Frida), Carmen Elias (The Flower of My Secret), Paxti Andion and Hector Alterio. The story concerns a planned bank heist that veers wildly off course when one of the perpetrators accidentally Read More

La Corte de Faraon

Actors: Ana Belén, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Antonio Banderas, Josema Yuste, Agustin Gonzalez

Synopsis: La Corte de Faraon is a romp of a zarzuela ("operetta" is a loose translation) that first appeared in 1910 (original libretto by Guillermo Perrin and Miguel de Palacios, original music by Vicente Lleó). The Pharaoh rewards his victorious general Putifar (Josema Yuste) with a new bride, Lota (Ana Belen Read More

Caso Cerrado

Actors: Pepa Flores, Patxi Bisquert, Encarna Paso, Isabel Mestres, Santiago Ramos

Synopsis: Leaving a lot of paths started but untrodden, this routine drama about a man fighting the system and losing flips back and forth between prison scenes, bank scenes, and what appears to be an incompetent Spanish court system. Cesar (Patxi Bisquert) is an up-and-coming banker, a champion of liberal Read More

El Caso Almeria

Actors: Agustin Gonzalez, Fernando Guillén, Manuel Alexandre, Margarita Calahorra, Pedro Diaz del Corral

Synopsis: In the ancient Phoenician city now known as Almería on the southeastern coast of Spain, three Civil Guards were convicted in 1981 of torturing and then murdering three men that were suspected Basque terrorists. This well-paced and suspenseful docudrama is about that case and how the courageous Read More

El Senor Galindez

Actors: Héctor Alterio, Joaquin Hinojosa, Antonio Banderas, Maria Casanova, Cecilia Roth

Synopsis: Expatriate Argentine Rodolfo Kuhn directed this chilling drama about two fascistic thugs who torture victims sent to them by an anonymous, unseen "Señor Galindez." One of the two is a family man, settled in with his wife and daughter to a typical homey lifestyle, and the other man lives alone and Read More

Los Zancos

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Laura del Sol, Antonio Banderas, Francisco Rabal

Synopsis: Carlos Saura's The Stilts (Los Zancos) features Fernando Gomez as a middle-aged professor/playwright. Falling head over heels in love with actress Laura DelSol, Gomez begins obsessing on the girl, despite her unwillingness to make a commitment. When another, younger man (Francisco Rabal) enters Read More

Y Del Seguro Libranos Senor!

Labyrinth of Passion

Actors: Cecilia Roth, Imanol Arias, Helga Liné, Fernando Vivanco

Synopsis: Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's films are colorful, sexy, and very funny, and this one is a perfect introduction to his work. An emperor's son, Reza Niro (Imanol Arias), comes to Madrid in disguise and sleeps with Sadeq (Antonio Banderas), an Islamic terrorist with a highly developed sense of Read More

Pestanas Postizas

Actors: Queta Claver, Antonio Banderas

Synopsis: In this melodrama, an over-the-hill hooker (she is 33), sobs her heart out when her lover (a 21-year-old Antonio Banderas in his first feature-length role) leaves her after two years of non-connubial bliss. That dramatic moment happens only after other events have taken them through Madrid's back Read More