12 Movies Starring Francisco Rabal

Nazarin

Nazarin

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-06-20

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Mexico

Runtime:

94 min

IMDB Ratings:

(3348 Reviews)

Director:

Luis Buèuel

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Julio Alejandro (adapted for the screen by)

Luis Buèuel (adapted for the screen by)

Benito Pèrez Galdès (based on the novel by)

Emilio Carballido (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Nazarin is a priest, attempting to living a pure and honest life strictly according to Christian principles - but others only show him distrust and hatred, apart from the local prostitute...

Viridiana

Viridiana

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1962-03-19

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain, Mexico

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.3 (14860 Reviews)

Director:

Luis Buèuel

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Julio Alejandro

Luis Buèuel

Fullplot:

L'Eclisse

L'Eclisse

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1962-12-20

Languages:

Italian, English

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

126 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (10360 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Michelangelo Antonioni (scenario and dialogue)

Tonino Guerra (scenario and dialogue)

Elio Bartolini (scenario collaborator)

Ottiero Ottieri (scenario collaborator)

Fullplot:

In the suburbs of Rome, the translator Vittoria breaks her engagement with her boyfriend, the writer Ricardo, after a troubled night. Vittoria goes downtown to meet her mother, who is addicted to the stock market, and she meets the broker Piero on a day of crash. The materialist Piero and the absent Vittoria begin a monosyllabic relationship.

The Witches

The Witches

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1969-03-12

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (785 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Mauro Bolognini (segment)

Fabio Carpi (segment)

Roberto Gianviti (segment)

Agenore Incrocci (segment)

Luigi Magni (segment)

Enzo Muzii (segment)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (segment)

Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (segment)

Franco Rossi (segment)

Furio Scarpelli (segment)

Bernardino Zapponi (segment)

Cesare Zavattini (segment)

Fullplot:

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.

Eagles Over London

Eagles Over London

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1973-01-01

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

Italy, France, Spain

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (316 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaWar

Cast:

Writer:

Tito Carpi (story)

Vincenzo Flamini (story)

Josè Luis Martènez Mollè (story)

Gilles Morris-Dumoulin (story)

Enzo G. Castellari (story)

Tito Carpi (screenplay)

Vincenzo Flamini (screenplay)

Josè Luis Martènez Mollè (screenplay)

Gilles Morris-Dumoulin (screenplay)

Enzo G. Castellari (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In World war 2, a German undercover unit infiltrates British lines during the evacuation of Dunkirk, 1939. The film revolves around their successes and failures in disrupting R.A.F. operations during the Battle of Britain.

Eagles Over London

Eagles Over London

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1973-01-01

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

Italy, France, Spain

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (321 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaWar

Cast:

Writer:

Tito Carpi (story)

Vincenzo Flamini (story)

Josè Luis Martènez Mollè (story)

Gilles Morris-Dumoulin (story)

Enzo G. Castellari (story)

Tito Carpi (screenplay)

Vincenzo Flamini (screenplay)

Josè Luis Martènez Mollè (screenplay)

Gilles Morris-Dumoulin (screenplay)

Enzo G. Castellari (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In World war 2, a German undercover unit infiltrates British lines during the evacuation of Dunkirk, 1939. The film revolves around their successes and failures in disrupting R.A.F. operations during the Battle of Britain.

Corleone

Corleone

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-11-10

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

108 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (109 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Barrese

Orazio Barrese (novel)

Orazio Barrese (screenplay)

Massimo De Rita

Arduino Maiuri

Pasquale Squitieri

Fullplot:

Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?

Sorcerer

Sorcerer

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1977-06-24

Languages:

English, Spanish, French, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

121 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (8119 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Walon Green (screenplay)

Georges Arnaud (novel)

Fullplot:

A group of outcasts from different backgrounds and nationalities are forced by misfortune to work in an oil-drilling operation in South America. When fire breaks out of control, four of the outcasts are given the opportunity to earn enough money to get out by transporting six crates of unstable dynamite through miles of jungle in two ancient trucks.

La colmena

La colmena

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-10-03

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (605 Reviews)

Director:

Mario Camus

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Camilo Josè Cela (novel)

Josè Luis Dibildos

Fullplot:

As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.

On Earth as It Is in Heaven

On Earth as It Is in Heaven

Basic Info:

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (377 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

God decides to send another son to the earth to save the world. Jesus Christ disagrees because in such a case the history should be rewritten. To solve the dispute they decide to organise the apocalypse.

Goya in Bordeaux

Goya in Bordeaux

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-11-12

Languages:

Spanish, French

Countries:

Spain, Italy

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1347 Reviews)

Director:

Carlos Saura

Cast:

Writer:

Carlos Saura

Luigi Scattini (dialogue: Italian version)

Fullplot:

Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He continues to paint at night, and in flashbacks stirred by conversations with his daughter, by awful headaches, and by the befuddlement of age, he relives key times in his life, particularly his relationship with the Duchess of Alba, his discovery of how he wanted to paint (insight provided by Velèzquez's work), and his lifelong celebration of the imagination. Throughout, his reveries become tableaux of his paintings.

Dagon

Dagon

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-10-31

Languages:

English, Gallegan, Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (11756 Reviews)

Director:

Stuart Gordon

Cast:

Writer:

H.P. Lovecraft (short stories "Dagon" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth")

Dennis Paoli (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, the undisputed master of the macabre, Dagon tells the story of Paul Marsh, a young man who discovers that the truth will not set him free instead it condemns him to a waking nightmare of unrelenting horror. A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca looking for help. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul finds himself pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's dark secret: that they pray to Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea. And Dagon's unholy offspring are freakish half-human creatures on the loose in Imboca...

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