Screenplay: Fernando Arrabal

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Fernando Arrabal. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Tree of Guernica

1975 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction Fernando Arrabal

Cast Mariangela Melato · Ron Faber · Cosimo Cinieri · Rocco Fontana

Plot The Spanish Civil War, as experienced by the town of Villa Ramiro. The local count and his Fascist nephews ally with the rebels; the count's son, indifferent to politics at...

6.8

196 votes

6.8

196 votes

Direction Fernando Arrabal

Cast George Shannon · Hachemi Marzouk · Emmanuelle Riva · Raoul Curet

Plot When his mother dies, the police want to talk to Aden Rey, but Aden, a guilt-ridden epileptic, has left for the desert. There he comes upon Marvel, a noble savage....

6.6

234 votes

6.6

234 votes

Fando and Lis

1968 · Movie · 93 min. · Mexico

Direction Alejandro Jodorowsky

Cast Sergio Kleiner · Diana Mariscal · María Teresa Rivas · Elizabeth Moore

Plot Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Long Live Death

1971 · Movie · 86 min. · France

Direction Fernando Arrabal

Cast Mahdi Chaouch · Nuria Espert · Anouk Ferjac · Ivan Henriques

Plot At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to...

6.4

452 votes

6.4

452 votes

Odyssey of the Pacific

1982 · Movie · 78 min. · Canada

Direction Fernando Arrabal

Cast Mickey Rooney · Anick · Jonathan Starr · Ky Huot Uk

Plot The plot revolves around a brother and sister who are staying with their aunt and uncle. There world is forever changed when a Cambodian boy comes to stay with them...

5.8

52 votes

5.8

52 votes

Car Cemetary (TV)

1983 · Movie · 86 min. · France

Direction Fernando Arrabal

Cast Alain Bashung · Juliet Berto · Micha Bayard · Roland Amstutz

Plot After a nuclear catastrophe, Milos Poncio Pilatos, a former procurer, receives in his waste land area, a cemetery of cars, to a band of rockers and punks chased by the...

5.7

85 votes

5.7

85 votes

Jorge Luis Borges. Una vita di poesia

1998 · Documentary · 66 min. · Italy

5.4

40 votes

5.4

40 votes

Farewell, Babylon!

1992 · Movie · 54 min. · France

Direction Fernando Arrabal

Cast Lelia Fischer · Spike Lee · Tom O'Horgan · Tom Bishop

Plot Lelia, a young dreamer and serial killer, walks along the streets of New York running up with diverse strange prominent figures who swarm for the suburbs of the great city.

5.2

60 votes

5.2

60 votes

The Big Ceremonial

1969 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Pierre-Alain Jolivet

Cast Ginette LeClerc · Michel Tureau · Marcella Sain-Amant · Fernando Arrabal

Plot When a boy is the victim of his over-protective mother, he leaves his home at night in search of female victims. When he meets a young girl who is a...

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