Cast: Francisco Rabal

Direction Mario Camus

Cast Alfredo Landa · Francisco Rabal · Juan Diego · Terele Pávez

Synopsis In the 60s, somewhere in the Spanish countryside, Paco and his wife Régula are poor. Their lives are resignation, sacrifice and obedience as they work for a very wealthy landowner. Their fates are marked unless some unexpected event frees them.

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Silvia Pinal · Fernando Rey · Francisco Rabal · Margarita Lozano

Synopsis Viridiana (1961) follows a young nun, Viridiana, who visits her wealthy uncle before taking her final vows. Her uncle, a recluse with a dark past, harbors unsettling feelings for her. After a tragic turn of events, Viridiana inherits his estate...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Francisco Rabal · Marga López · Rita Macedo · Ignacio López Tarso

Synopsis Indigent village priest, Father Nazario is prepared to completely sacrifice himself in order to show the villagers the radically giving, humble, selfless way of life that he believes is the true Christian calling. But he discovers that most of the...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Jean Sorel · Michel Piccoli · Francisco Rabal

Synopsis In Belle de jour (1967), Séverine, a beautiful but emotionally distant young housewife, leads a double life. By day, she secretly works in a high-end brothel, adopting the alias "Belle de jour," while maintaining her respectable marriage by night. Torn...

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Alain Delon · Monica Vitti · Francisco Rabal · Louis Seigner

Synopsis 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...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Anna Karina · Liselotte Pulver · Francine Bergé · Micheline Presle

Synopsis In eighteenth-century France a girl (Suzanne Simonin) is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.

Direction Jaime de Armiñán

Cast Francisco Rabal · Amparo Baró · Luis Miguel Calvo · Lina Canalejas

Direction José Luis Sáenz de Heredia

Cast Francisco Rabal · Margarita Andrey · Tony Leblanc · José Luis Ozores

Direction Julián Marcos

Cast Francisco Rabal · Agustín González · Juan Luis Galiardo · Germán Cobos

Synopsis After the death of his mother, Rogelio, a wanted man for killing a police officer, meets with a gang of young criminals and friends in the tavern of Luis, located in a Madrid slum. As they're getting drunk, the situation...

Direction Mario Camus

Cast José Sacristán · Victoria Abril · Luis Escobar · Charo López

Synopsis The Beehive (1982) is a poignant drama set in post-Civil War Madrid, capturing a day in the lives of diverse characters struggling with poverty, loneliness, and survival in 1943. Directed by Mario Camus, the film weaves interconnected vignettes in a...

Direction Pasquale Squitieri

Cast Giuliano Gemma · Claudia Cardinale · Stefano Satta Flores · Massimo Mollica

Synopsis True story about the struggle against the Sicilian Mafia. In 1925 Mussolini, who came to power 3 years ago, sent Cesare Mori/1872-1942/ to Sicily, as a police prefect, with the task of whiping the Mafia out. The Fascist regime was...

Direction Joaquím Jordá

Cast Ricardo Bofill · Jacinto Esteva · Luis García Berlanga · Pere Portabella

Direction Mario Camus

Cast Ana Belén · Maribel Martín · Fernando Fernán Gómez · Mario Pardo

Direction José Luis López-Linares · Javier Rioyo

Cast Luis Buñuel · Eduardo Ducay · José Bello · Carlos Saura

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....

Direction Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

Cast Elsa Daniel · Francisco Rabal · Leonardo Favio · María Rosa Gallo

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast Yves Montand · Alida Valli · Francisco Rabal · Peter Carsten

Synopsis The nearly forgotten first feature by director Gillo Pontecorvo is an engaging artifact that whips up some strong suspense, in which a poor Italian fisherman named Squarcio (Yves Montand) supports his growing family (including Alida Valli as his wife) through...

Direction William Friedkin

Cast Roy Scheider · Bruno Cremer · Francisco Rabal · Amidou

Synopsis 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...

Direction José Luis Cuerda

Cast Fernando Fernán Gómez · Francisco Rabal · Jesús Bonilla · Mónica Molina

Synopsis On Earth as It Is in Heaven (1995) follows a middle-aged man who, after a near-death experience, starts seeing and interacting with angels in his everyday life. These celestial beings guide him through a series of humorous and touching encounters,...

Direction Juanma Bajo Ulloa

Cast Karra Elejalde · Fernando Guillén Cuervo · Alberto San Juan · María de Medeiros

Direction Jaime de Armiñán

Cast Francisco Rabal · Rafael Álvarez · Manuel Zarzo · Emma Penella

Synopsis José Alvarez, an aging, once-famous bullfighter is down on his luck. Without money and homeless, he attempts to get back in touch with the son and wife he abandoned in the past. His life story is one of women and...