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Actors: Liberto Rabal, Veronica Lynn, Francisco Rabal, María Isabel Díaz, Rosa Fornes
Synopsis: Directed by Orlando Rojas, Las Noches of Constantinopla (The Nights of Constantinople) follows erotic fiction writer Hernan Abascal (Liberto Rabal), his sister and aspiring songstress Cristiana (María Isabel Díaz), their Uncle Jorge (Francisco Rabal), and his illegitimate son, Pachi (Vladimir Villar Read More
Actors: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Merono, Macarena Gomez, Brendan Price
Synopsis: The nightmares of Paul Marsh (Ezra Godden), a successful businessman, are haunted by a mermaid that neither he nor his beautiful girlfriend, Barbara (Raquel Merono), can figure out. While on a boating vacation off the Spanish shore, a sudden storm sends their sailboat crashing into the rocks Read More
Actors: Rafael Alvarez, Karra Elejalde, Beatriz Rico, Francisco Algora, Juan Luis Galiardo
Actors: Daniel Guzman, Kandido Uranga, Rafael Velasco, Miguel Romero, Patricia Reyes Spindola
Synopsis: A thief discovers that crime runs in the family in this playfully dark comedy from Mexico. Inaki (Daniel Guzman) is a petty thief who makes his way pulling stickups with an elderly partner in crime (Francisco Rabal). The old man dies in the midst of a robbery, which attracts more police attention Read More
Actors: Adriano Giannini, Gwenaëlle Simon, Andoni Gracia, Oscar Ladoire, Georges Moustaki
Synopsis: Three young people are forced to examine their personal and political ideals in this drama. In 1975, Victor (Andoni Gracia) is a young man in his early twenties; while he and his family are originally from Portugal, they emigrated to Paris when Victor's parents decided they could no longer Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Jose Coronado, Dafne Fernandez, Maribel Verdú, Eulalia Ramon
Synopsis: Carlos Saura, one of the finest and most distinctive filmmakers in the Spanish cinema, wrote and directed this biographical epic concerning one of Spain's greatest artists, the painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. On his deathbed, Goya (Francisco Rabal), attended by his mistress, Leocadia (Eulalia Ramon Read More
Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Patxi Freytez, Fele Martínez
Synopsis: The seamy underside of drug dealing in Spain is explored in this Spanish drama. Thirteen-year-old Milio (Alberto Escobar) and his older brother Luis (Fele Martinez) run drugs in Madrid for wholesaler Don Vicente (Francisco Rabal). While their mother (Geraldine Chaplin) disapproves of their Read More
Actors: Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière, Ángela Molina
Synopsis: Surrealist master Luis Bunuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Federico Luppi
Synopsis: A rivalry between two actors proves to have dangerous consequences in this drama from Spain. Daniel (Federico Luppi) is the star of a popular television series who is interested in more prestigious work. and longs to appear on the legitimate stage. Daniel is lobbying for the leading role in Read More
Actors: Beatriz Batarda, Marcello Urgeghe, Luis Miguel Cintra, Isabel Ruth
Synopsis: Two weeks before her wedding, Maria Joao (Beatriz Batarda) is spoiled, hung over, possibly pregnant, and unwilling to exchange her party girl ways for her impending marriage. So, with the objections of her father (Luis Miguel Cintra) and the encouragement of her idiosyncratic Uncle Nini (Francisco Read More
Actors: Polly Walker, Vincent Perez, Franco Nero, Marisa Paredes, Leire Berrocal
Synopsis: Nick Hamm directed this historical romantic drama, rated PG-13 "for some politically motivated violence." The period prior to the Spanish Civil War provides the background setting for the arrival in Spain of young Irish governess Mary Lavelle (Polly Walker) who begins a year of employment with the Read More
Actors: Eric Magnusson, Nicholas Hope, Ingrid Rubio, Francisco Rabal, Luis Cuenca
Synopsis: Norwegian Bent Hamer earned himself quite a bit of fame with his first feature, Eggs. Carrying on the burlesque style of the first film, he tells the story of Almar, a young Norwegian sailor whose gold watch, of great sentimental value, has been broken. While waiting for repairs in a remote Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Katy Jurado, Carolina Papaleo, Edwarda Gurrola, Bruno Bichir
Synopsis: Mexican director Arturo Ripstein helmed this Mexican-Argentine-Spanish religious drama with Buñuelian overtones. Based on true events that took place in Mexico during the '70s, the film is updated to the present. Mama Dorita (Katy Jurado) leads the New Jerusalem cult with film-buff Papa Basilio (Francisco Rabal Read More
Actors: Alain Delon, Lauren Bacall, Xavier Beauvois, Arielle Dombasle
Synopsis: Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a Mexican hacienda with his wife Ariane (Marianne Denicourt). Lucien (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) also accompanies them. There, Alexandre meets the strange Read More
Actors: Karra Elejalde, Fernando Guillen-Cuervo, Alberto San Juan, Maria de Medeiros, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis: The third feature from popular Spanish filmmaker Juanma Bajo Ulloa is a sprawling and complex action comedy with a touch of Almodovar-esque surrealistic absurdity that simultaneously satirizes gangster movies, film noir, and the Catholic Church. Juantxo is the chief protagonist. Coming from a Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Nancho Novo, Juan Diego, Esperanza Roy, Clara Sanchis
Synopsis: Director Antonio Simon and writer Lino Braxe based this period mystery on a '40s screenplay by Luis Buñuel and Jose Rubia Braxe. In northern Spain, Wenceslao Corredoira (Francisco Rabal) negotiates property at Galicia with engineer Oscar Marsal (Nancho Novo). Wenceslao's sister is a bitter widow (Esperanza Roy Read More
Actors: Alejandro Martinez, Dafne Fernandez, Francisco Rabal, Manuel Bandera, Eusebio Lazaro
Synopsis: A relatively simple coming-of-age drama with autobiographical overtones from Carlos Saura, one of Spain's leading directors, the story is told from the viewpoint of 10-year-old Manu as he is shuffled from relative to relative in the hometown of his parents, who are busy trying to decide whether or Read More
Synopsis: One might consider this violent adaptation of the classical Greek tragedy as Sophocles with a South American twist. Set amidst the rebel wars (representing the Theban plagues) of contemporary Colombia, Mayor Edipo (Oedipus) must mediate a peace deal between conflicting guerrilla groups and the Read More
Synopsis: Little Felipe has been sick for a long time. To hasten his recovery, his parents send him to spend the summer of 1958 in the villa of his grandparents, located in the wealthy quarter of Cadiz. The warm climate of southern Spain is good for the boy, but the inhabitants of the great home may be a Read More
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
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Dominic Gould, Ángela Molina, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
Synopsis: Paul (Dominic Guard) is a journalist who is up to date on the latest horrors of the modern world and is heartsick about them. He has a wife (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) and a steady job but leaves both of them suddenly for parts unknown. His wife is worried about him, and she is angry that he left Read More
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
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Wadeck Stanczak, Smail Mekki, Julien Negulesco
Synopsis: An old man (Francisco Rabal) living in a Greek seaside village is enjoying a walk and the magnificent scenery when he strikes up a conversation with a young man looking out of his hotel room. At that moment, an earthquake demolishes the hotel, and when the authorities arrive, they are prepared to Read More
Actors: Paco Rabal, Jose Maria Mazo, German Cobos, Maribel Verdú, Maria Jose Moreno
Synopsis: This confusing and meandering mystery concerns a double crime committed in a rural village in 1956. Greedy land speculators, soldiers on leave, a house of prostitution, and a smuggler with a mentally challenged daughter are the focus of this crime drama that lacks suspense and suffers from being Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Ángela Molina, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Roberto Sosa, Alberto Pedro
Synopsis: Also known as Baroque, this Spanish-Cuban-Mexican film stars Francisco Rabal and Angela Molina. An exercise in allegory and symbolism, the film traces the history of Spain, from the days of the conquistadors onward. Somehow, all this logically concludes in a modern disco. Adapted from a novel by Read More
Actors: William Hurt, Timothy Hutton, Melissa Leo, Stockard Channing, Megan Follows
Synopsis: Martin (William Hurt) and Jack (Timothy Hutton) are World War II soldiers who go from being army buddies to bitter enemies during the war in this uneven melodrama. Not realizing they are brothers-in-law, Martin eventually learns that Jack is married to his sister Josie (Melissa Leo). On their Read More
Actors: Ana Belén, Francisco Rabal, Imanol Arias, Esperanza Roy, Aurora Bautista
Synopsis: This somber drama illustrates the cruel lengths some people will go to capitalize on unfortunate human oddities. When a beggar woman dies, her relatives fight over her son who has an enlarged head from having water on the brain. He is taken on tours of county fairs where his condition brings in Read More
Actors: Ángela Molina, Harvey Keitel, Daniel Ezralow, Francisco Rabal, Paolo Bonacelli
Synopsis: The vicious drug-related killings of young pre-teen boys are the fuel that moves this mystery-actioner into high gear. After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow) she is saved from being raped by a Camorra (organized crime) boss when the gangster is Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Juan Luis Galiardo, Inaki Miramon, Lydia Bosch, Eusebio Lazaro
Synopsis: With a message that is certainly slanted to one side, this engaging and well-wrought drama by Antonio Gimenez-Rico attacks the political and intellectual life as so much demagoguery and pedantry, and contrasts politics with the wisdom of a rustic country peasant. The story is told in flashbacks Read More
Actors: Imanol Arias, Victoria Abril, Charo Lopez, Francisco Rabal, Juan Echanove
Synopsis: Set at the end of the 1940s, this drama about Pedro (Imanol Arias), a medical researcher, and his relationships with his family and women underscores the mood of repression that dominated Spain during Franco's fascist regime. Pedro lives in a boardinghouse and is attracted to Dorita (Victoria Abril Read More
Actors: Lucas Martin, Paco Rabal Cerezales, Francisco Rabal, Asuncion Balaguer, Maria Luisa Ponte
Synopsis: This drama concerns a seven-year-old boy, Pepe Luis (Lucas Martin, as the younger Pepe and Paco Rabal Cerezales as Pepe at ten) who lives through the rise of Franco and the ensuing years under the fascist dictator. Presented from the perspective of the young Pepe, the Civil War and Franco are Read More
Actors: Charo Lopez, Miguel Narros, Alfredo Landa, Juan Diego, Ana Torrent
Synopsis: This literary film is imbued with the disenchantment of Spanish exiles who left their homes to protest Franco's fascist regime and then returned after its demise to find that democracy had not instilled either ethics or deep motivation in government leaders. Director Basilio Martin Patino presents Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Lambert Wilson, Francisco Rabal, Andrea Spada, Antonio Degli Schiavi
Synopsis: In this Italian drama, based upon the epic novel by Morante, a half-Jewish mother endeavors to conceal her identity during the Mussolini years, 1941-1947. The story is set in Rome where the mother has worked as a school teacher. It begins when the mother, who has a teenage son, is raped and Read More
Synopsis: While at a Spanish resort town, a wealthy man is lifted of $3 million as part of a nefarious scheme. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Agustin Gonzalez, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Imanol Arias, Berta Riaza
Synopsis: The poetic and iconoclastic lights of Bohemia have been dimmed in this interpretation of the original play by Ramon Valle-Inclan. Set at the turn of the 20th century in Madrid, the focus is on a perpetual drunk, the blind Max Estrella (Francisco Rabal) and his verses, sayings, and total disregard Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Concha Velasco, Victoria Abril, Sancho Gracia, Asuncion Balaguer
Synopsis: An accomplished and "enchanting" fantasy-romance, this story of a couple's love for each other and a pixie's benevolent intervention in their lives is entertaining from beginning to end. Cesar (Francisco Rabal) is a fake sorcerer and travels with his wife Pilar (Concha Velasco) in a combination Read More
Actors: Federico Luppi, Charo Lopez, Eva Cooper, Antonio Resines, Assumpta Serna
Synopsis: In this downbeat and drawn-out story of personal woe in exile, Martin (Federico Luppi) takes his daughter and leaves Uruguay to live in a specific city in northwestern Spain. Passing himself off as a basketball coach (a total scam -- he knows zip about the game), he manages to support the two of Read More
Actors: Daniel Gélin, Margaret Mazzantini, Emmanuelle Riva, Nino Castelnuovo
Synopsis: When a wealthy, elderly woman and an unknown stranger are murdered in the same small village on the same night, the judge who is charged with investigating the deaths begins to suspect that a new arrival in the village is connected to the crime. The only serious obstacle to chasing down that Read More
Synopsis: The titular rebel is Cuban political insurgent Che Guevara, whose life previously given less than stellar treatment in 1969's Che. This time, the "diary" serves as an expository gimmick, tracing Che's life, his involvement with the Castro rebellion, and death in Bolivia with an even mixture of Read More
Actors: Alfredo Landa, Francisco Rabal, Agustin Gonzalez, Juan Diego
Synopsis: Meant to reflect the harsh realities of segments of society in 1960s, Franco-era Spain, this slow-moving, drawn-out story is about a struggling, impoverished family who work on the estate of a wealthy aristocrat. Paco (Alfredo Landa) is the head of his small family who constantly tries to placate Read More
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
Actors: Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal, Victoria Abril, Emma Penella, Amelia de la Torre
Synopsis: Fernando Rey plays a Spanish cardinal who returns to his home town thirty years after leaving for Rome. Rey knew that he'd left an illegitimate daughter behind, but was unaware that he also has a granddaughter (Victoria Abril). The girl is embroiled in an affair with Rey's own brother (Francisco Rabal Read More
Actors: José M. Sacristán, Francisco Rabal, Charo Lopez, Manuel Zarzo
Synopsis: Director Gonzalo Suárez wrote this sequel to his 1967 film Ditirambo in which the lead character has a friend and fellow writer named Rocabruno (Francisco Rabal) who struggles with writer's block on a grand scale. Ditirambo (José Sacristán) has more enthusiasm than his friend, and unflinchingly Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Arturo Fernandez, Lola Flores
Synopsis: Gonzalo (Arturo Fernández) is a local "playboy" type who has landed in jail and is forced to talk one of the inmates, Gines (Francisco Rabal) into protecting him against the rowdier low-lifes in the prison. Gonzalo promises that when he is on the outside in a few months, he will repay Gines for Read More
Actors: Victoria Abril, Ana Belén, Francisco Rabal, Mario Pardo
Synopsis: Based on a 1943 book of the same title by Camilo José Cela, Colmena features the comings and goings of a wide variety of characters, all trying to survive in a poverty-stricken Madrid during World War II. Rather than feature any single story line, these people from all walks of life cross paths Read More
Actors: Ana Obregon, Gene Quintano, Francisco Rabal, Jerry Lazarus
Synopsis: In this 3-D adventure, a knock-off of Raiders of the Lost Ark, a mercenary history professor and his crack team of commandos head out to retrieve four stolen crowns said to possess the power of good and evil. It will not be an easy task as the crowns are being held by a mad cultist. The second Read More
Actors: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Francisco Rabal, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Mel Ferrer
Synopsis: Miller (Hugo Stiglitz) is a reporter on to something when he sees passengers disembark from a plane and start attacking and murdering whomever they come across -- no, they are not upset with their service, they are zombies -- or more accurately ghouls who need human blood to stay alive. While Read More
Actors: Giuliano Gemma, Claudia Cardinale, Francisco Rabal, Stefano Satta Flores, Michele Placido
Synopsis: In this fast-paced action/drama, a downtrodden farmer turns to crime and quickly rises to prominence in the Sicilian mafia. Along the way, he learns the importance of political connections and of having legitimate businesses to funnel ill-gotten cash into. Determined to do away with the old and Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Anja Pieroni, Giuliana Calandra
Synopsis: An idyllic May-December romance becomes unraveled when the much-older man begins suspecting that his tender young lover may be his own daughter, the result of an illicit affair many years before. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Dennis Hopper, Michael Moriarty, Antonella Murgia, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis: A phony evangelistic faith healer hires actors to pose with ailments and then appear cured. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Ramon Bieri, Peter Capell
Synopsis: The plot of William Friedkin's suspense thriller originated with the same Georges Arnaud novel that inspired Henri-Georges Clouzot's French suspense classic The Wages of Fear (1953). Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and Amidou play four men who, for various reasons, cannot return to Read More
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Griem, Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin
Synopsis: With fear and trepidation, the military division encamped in a desert fort await the return of a Tartar army--which attacked the fort years ago. One young soldier (Jacques Perrin), however, can't wait for the boredom to end and the fighting to begin. Ennio Morricone provided the musical score. Read More
Actors: Concha Velasco, Ismael Merlo, Ángela Molina, Francisco Rabal, Charo Soriano
Synopsis: Set near Barcelona at the time of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, this epic drama explores the adventures suffered by an uncommitted vacationing family caught unawares by the conflict. In focusing on the war's effects on the family, this film was able to offer much more devastating Read More
Actors: Juan Jose Camero, Thelma Biral, Francisco Rabal, Jose Maria Gutierrez
Synopsis: This South American western, set in 19th-century Buenos Aires, follows the trails of a young man who must leave his home after he fatally stabs an enemy. He ends up in Montevideo where he is assisted by a prominent arms and cattle smuggler. After proving his loyalty to the smuggler, the young man Read More
Synopsis: In this psychological melodrama, a nun becomes obsessed with purifying the souls of those dwelling in her hostel-convent. The guests, who inevitably become entangled with one another, include, a reproachable Polish priest and Nazi collaborator, a murderous widow, and a reporter who has come to do Read More
Actors: John Saxon, Francisco Rabal, Blanca Estrada, Frank Brana, David Carpenter
Synopsis: The real star of this police action/adventure is the "Guardia Civil" or Spanish national police force. In the story, a robber who consistently eludes capture by the police by crossing over the border into France, taunting the lawmen mercilessly, is cornered in a border farmhouse and receives his Read More
Actors: Ana Belén, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis: When an elderly relative (Francisco Rabal) who has made a fortune in the Americas returns to Spain for a visit with his relatives, the mother (Conchita Velasco) of a bevy of daughters feels certain that at least one of them can snare him for a secure future. Imagine her frustration, then, when the Read More
Actors: Martin Balsam, Tomas Milian
Synopsis: When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio (Martin Balsam) agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of the code, and a bloody mob war breaks out. It is only through the strong support of his family connections in Read More
Actors: David Hemmings, Alida Valli, Francisco Rabal, Andrea Rau
Synopsis: A malevolent man terrorizes his mother and a young, poverty-stricken girl when he finds himself excluded from his father's will. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jack Palance, Dany Saval, Bud Spencer
Synopsis: Italian action hero Bud Spencer stars in Maurizio Lucidi's comedy Western The Big and the Bad. While wandering through the West (which looks a lot like Spain), Spencer becomes intimate with the gorgeous Dany Saval -- discovering, all too late, that she is the younger sister of vengeful gunslinger Jack Palance Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Bud Spencer, Jack Palance, Renato Cestie
Actors: Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky, Martin Udvarnoky, Norma Connolly
Synopsis: This crime thriller with occult overtones puts a spine-tingling twist on the Jungian psychological notion of "the shadow." In the '30s, Holland and Niles Perry are 10-year-old twins growing up on an idyllic farm in the Connecticut countryside. Niles is a wholesome, outgoing lad, loved by the whole Read More
Synopsis: This autobiographical Italian film recounts director Elda Tattoli's progress from communism in the World War II era, to independent advocacy of Women's Liberation in the 1970s. In the process, one sees how the actual behavior of her Marxist allies betrayed the principles of women's equality she Read More
Synopsis: Science fiction often enables artists to explore social trends without being hindered by the limitations of current reality, and this Italian film does just that. It explores the meaning and consequences of the total automation of manufacturing. In this film, N.P. (Francesco Rabal) is an Read More
Synopsis: This unwieldy Spanish drama tells the story of what happens in a conservative country region, sometime in the past, when the new director of a home for mentally deranged women attempts to bring more modern and humane methods to the management and treatment of his charges. The staff and the Read More
Actors: Nuria Espert
Synopsis: This thoughtful drama recounts the life of Laia (Nuria Espert) as she awaits the return of her husband from a sea voyage, unsure whether her lover has killed him as she requested. This Spanish movie is based on a book by Salvador Espiru. The film depicts Laia's tomboy girlhood and struggle with Read More
Synopsis: In this adventure the 12-year-old heir to an oil fortune hooks up with a daring merchant seaman and together they expose a conspiracy in the boy's father's company. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Roger Van Hool
Synopsis: When he gets separated from his unit, Laforet (Roger Van Hool) becomes a de facto deserter during 1939 fighting in the French provinces. Most of the story concerns his love affair with a local farmgirl, as he competes for her affection with a refugee from Spain. When he presses her to make a Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Pierre Clémenti, Rosa Maria Penna, Emma Cohen
Synopsis: This uneven and hastily produced film suffers from many technical difficulties and is plagued by meaningless improvisation. Some attempt is made by the director to talk of some of the social problems in Brazil, but this entry qualifies as one itself. A narrator tells tales of the poverty stricken Read More
Actors: Irina Demick, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis: This is a biography of the painter Francisco Jose de Goya (1746-1828) who went from being a portrait artist for royalty and the notables of his day to painting searing images embodying his wholehearted disapproval of the atrocities of his time. In the middle of his life, the artist had a Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Dean Selmier, Asuncion Balaguer, Teresa Rabal, Alfredo Mayo
Synopsis: Dean Selmier plays an expatriate American in each story of this trilogy. Francisco Rabal and his family star in the first feature filmed at the Rabal family home in Madrid. An over aggressive American soldier tries to put the moves on his wife and daughter before he is clubbed and thrown into the Read More
Synopsis: Based on actual World War II events, La Battaglia d'Inghilterra chronicles the success of a German intelligence group's efforts to infiltrate the British army on the eve of the historic Battle of Britain. Directed by Enzo G. Castellari, the film features Ida Galli, Christian Hay, Van Johnson, Renzo Palmer Read More
Synopsis: Simon Bolivar is the true-life story of the leader of the 1817 Venezuelan revolution. Maximilian Schell stars as the title character. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Gio Petre, Marie Liljedahl, Julián Mateos
Synopsis: Frustrating both to those who view this X-rated movie seeking a simple sex-flick, and those looking for an art-piece, this movie is a bit of a spoof on both. The story concerns the Yugoslavian holiday of two toothsome Swedish girls. One of the girls, played by Maria Liljedahl, is (metaphorically Read More
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Actors: Mijanou Bardot, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis: Patricia (Mijanou Bardot) is a wealthy party girl who is bored with her jet-set lifestyle and friends. She gets in her car and drives off into the mountains in search of a new thrill. When two men wreck and burn her car, she joins them in their mountaineering life. She sleeps with one man, but Read More
Actors: Manuela Vargas, Mark Stevens, Marianne Koch
Synopsis: David (Mark Stevens) is a physician who returns to Spain 30 years after his involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Now a member of a medical convention, he looks up old friends and finds his former lover, now a married woman with a flamenco-dancing daughter. He and the daughter (Manuela Vargas) Read More
Synopsis: A Bolivian rebel-force leader attempts to survive in the mountains as he must escape from governmental military troops. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the 16th-century, when as a young man he goes to Italy to become a soldier for the Pope. Later he helps the Pope's emissary wage war against the Spanish Moors. His exploits win him great Read More
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Francisco Rabal, Macha Meril, Pierre Clémenti
Synopsis: Belle de Jour dramatizes the collision between depravity and elegance, one of the favorite themes of director Luis Buñuel. Catherine Deneuve stars as a wealthy but bored newlywed, eager to taste life to the fullest. She seemingly gets her wish early in the film when she is kidnapped, tied to a Read More
Actors: Silvana Mangano, Annie Girardot, Francisco Rabal, Massimo Girotti, Elsa Albani
Synopsis: This Dino De Laurentiis production from 1965 is actually an anthology of five different directors' work, each telling their own stories about witches. The five stories are "The Witch Burned Alive," "Civic Sense," "The Earth As Seen From The Moon," "The Girl From Sicily," and "A Night Like Any Read More
Actors: Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle, Francine Bergé, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis: This critically acclaimed moral drama is taken from a book written in 1760 by Denis Diderot. Suzanne (Anna Karina) is an intelligent, freedom-loving woman who is forced into a convent against her will. The fact that she was sired by a man who is not her mother's husband -- and that a suitable Read More
Actors: Marie Laforêt, Francisco Rabal, Serge Reggiani, Charles Denner
Synopsis: Marie (Marie Laforet) is a wealthy French female who receives a precious jewel from a secret service agent in this spy comedy. The agent is killed, and Dr. Kha (Akim Tamiroff) leads a group of international spies who are out to get Marie and the jewel. She is chased through several countries by Read More
Actors: Annie Girardot, Richard Johnson, Francisco Rabal, Alida Valli
Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Hardy Kruger, Francisco Rabal, Jean-Louis Maury
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Lea Massari, Philippe Leroy, Lino Ventura
Synopsis: El Tempranillo (Francisco Rabal) returns from the Napoleonic wars with a desire to continue fighting. He turns to banditry rather than live in poverty in his native Spain. Though his wife (Lea Massari) pleads for him to change his dangerous way of life, he refuses. When she is killed, the bandit Read More
Actors: Louis Jourdan, Francisco Rabal, Serena Vergano, Renaud Mary, Bernard Blier
Synopsis: Based on a Jules Verne tale about a make-believe, 19th-century country in the throes of revolution, this routine costume drama by Georges Lampin has a slight storyline about Mathias (Louis Jourdan), a noble count whose innate sensibilities lead him to side with the rebelling masses and Read More
Actors: Walter Chiari, Francisco Rabal, Leticia Roman, Riccardo Garrone, Dominique Boschero
Actors: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Lilla Brignone, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis: In this challenging drama by Michelangelo Antonioni, his characteristic long, significant periods of silence punctuate the message that people just cannot seem to communicate with each other. Capping off Antonioni's previous two films (L'avventura and La Notte) in much the same style, this tale Read More
Actors: Isabel Sarli, Francisco Rabal, Jardel Filho
Synopsis: A veneer of a morality play is layered onto this otherwise conventional slice-of-life drama by Argentine director Leopoldo Toree-Nilsson and co-scripted (as is often the case) by his wife, Beatrice Guido. The focus is on an attractive, rural working woman, Cora (Isabel Sarli), and the enigma of Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Teresa Velazquez, Silvia Fournier, Roberto Cañedo
Synopsis: Alfredo B. Crevenna directs this amusing Mexican comedy-drama, sprinkled with a few risqué situations but not as spicy as the book on which it is based. Popular actor Francisco Rabal plays the wealthy, elite friend of a woman (Terre Velasquez) who is caught in a serious dilemma. Her family has Read More
Actors: Elsa Daniel, Francisco Rabal, Leonardo Favio
Synopsis: The husband-and-wife team of Beatriz Guido and Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson once again write and direct, respectively, to create another drama about the lives of an upper middle-class segment of society. In this engaging story, a young woman, Laura (Elsa Daniel), comes back from boarding school to a Read More
Actors: Jacques Charrier, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis: This uneven Italian wartime drama looks at the conflict in World War II from another perspective, that of a young fascist. Rather than touting Nazi philosophy as acceptable, the story focuses on Marco (Jacques Charrier), a young soldier in the Italian army, and his first critical examination of Read More
Actors: Silvia Pinal, Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal, Margarita Lozano, Victoria Zinny
Synopsis: After 25 years' exile, Luis Buñuel was invited to his native Spain to direct Viridiana -- only to have the Spanish government suppress the film on the grounds of blasphemy and obscenity. Regarded by many as Buñuel's crowning achievement, the film centers on an idealistic young nun named Viridiana (Silvia Pinal Read More
Actors: Maria Felix, Francisco Rabal, Aurora Bautista, Fernando Rey, Carlos Rivas
Synopsis: A Marquis (Francisco Rabal) has a comfortable, predictable life until the women in his life inspire him to greater deeds. He first loves the wife of a Spanish nobleman, then the mistress of a Mexican dictator. He is convinced by his experiences to join the forces of the Mexican revolution. ~ Dan Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Ulla Jacobsson, Christian Marquand
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Ettore Manni, Rosita Arenas, Berta Riaza, Memmo Carotenuto
Synopsis: This routine period drama is set during the first half of the 19th century, when Queen Isabela II of Spain was opposed by her uncle, Don Carlos. In this story, Jose (Francisco Rabal) is an officer in Don Carlos' army who deserts but is captured and sentenced to be shot by a firing squad. In the Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Marga Lopez, Rita Macedo, Jesus Fernandez, Ignacio Tarso
Synopsis: Acclaimed director Luis Buñuel displays several of his trademark interests in this drama about a priest who leaves his order. The director's disdain for organized religion and the establishment, as well as his tendency to shock through visual imagery, are both apparent. Nazarin (Francisco Rabal) Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Silvia Solar, Angel Ortiz
Synopsis: Los Clarines del Miedo (The Bugles of Fear) is a Spanish bullfighting picture. So what else is new? Well, it happens that the film goes to great lengths to deglamorize bullfighting, showing it up for what it is: a debilitating, heartbreaking profession with as much sordidness and back-stabbing as Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Sylva Koscina, Gianna Maria Canale, Rik Battaglia, Philippe Hersent
Synopsis: Even within its category of stock sword-and-sandal films from Italy, this is a weak entry set in the Middle Ages and featuring the adventures of the Crusaders as they capture Jerusalem. Lacking panoramas of battles any larger than a handful of people at a time, some of the oomph is necessarily Read More
Actors: Marisa Allasio, Renato Salvatori, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis: Popular European leading lady Marisa Allasio stars in Marisa la Civetta. Our heroine's dilemma: four suitors, all equally qualified to be her husband. Whom can she choose, and how can she avoid breaking the hearts of the other three? The complication: While making her decision, Allasio offhandedly Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Luis Pena, Alberto Farnese
Synopsis: Also known as And God Forgives, this oddball melodrama was Spain's entry in the 1957 Berlin Film Festival. The story focuses on three murderers, two of whom are beyond redemption while the third may yet be straightened out. After a pulse-pounding chase, the trio is captured and sentenced to death. Read More
Actors: Yves Montand, Alida Valli, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis: La Grande Strada Azzura was also released as Squarcio, which happens to be the name of the character played by star Yves Montand. Squarcio is a provincial fisherman who expedites his daily catch through the illegal use of dynamite. The other villagers disapprove of Squarcio's methods, but they Read More
Actors: Dominique Blanchar, Julia Caba Alba
Synopsis: Though the title translates literally to Sister Unafraid, Sor Intrepida was released in English-speaking regions as Path to the Kingdom. Dominique Blanchar plays a popular singer who forsakes fame and fortune for the life of a nun. She has a few doubts about her calling, but all these are swept Read More
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