Películas de Francisco Rabal

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre....

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...

Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.

A band of thugs belonging to an organized crime family assaults several casinos at the same time creating death and panic in their wake. As they flee...

A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people...

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but...

A young woman who comes to Rome and soon drifts into de facto prostitution in order to survive. She meets a misanthropic doctor and would-be poet,...

This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from...

The British High Command finds itself in the thick of a huge dilemma when it is realized that they have long been infiltrated by spies from a German...

After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.

Matacanes dies and goes to heaven just to discover that it was not as he expected, and everyone there is revolutionized lately. Peter explains that...

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...

In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways,...

The adventures and ups and downs of a cart of comedians that crosses the towns and cities of Spain.

Paul has left his wife and children. Now his wife and ex-mistress is on the hunt for him.

The story concerns the Yugoslavian holiday of two toothsome Swedish girls. One of the girls, played by Maria Liljedahl, is (metaphorically speaking)...

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives...

An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the...

Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

1860, in the Bay of San Fernando, Cadiz. Lola is an Andalusian singer who all men that meet her love. Along with guitarist Heredia, a man who is...

Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a...

During the 1800s, Peru's government sends 2 envoys to negotiate peace with the rebellious Incas but a treasure-hunter bandit shoots the Inca ruler...

Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger entrusts her with false jewels that contain a virus...

This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political...

An incredulous journalist witnesses how a gentleman in a portrait of the twenties comes out from the photo and becomes alive to discuss what has not...

César Neira, an almost forgotten Spanish actor, gets involved by chance with Teresa, a teacher from a small village in the province of...

After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow), she is saved from being raped by a Camorra boss as the...

Ernesto and Marta, a couple of newlyweds who have serious financial problems, are visited by a neighbor asking them to keep a large sum of money at...

After suffering three years of hard labor in a prison camp, former sheriff Ted Barnett escapes. Now he seeks revenge.

A young priest encounters major problems in the diocese where he must preach the word of the Lord, mainly as a result of hatred caused by differences...

A young girl and her mother run a hotel during the war. When the mother dies, the girl finds herself at the mercy of her sex-crazed guests. Soon...

Esperanza and Maria Jesús are two orphans because their father, Don Fernando, dies. He shared his buissines with Martina Echave, an old lover,...

The rivalry between the old bullfighter Manolo Carmona and young Romerita it takes to seduce Rocio, the Carmona's daughter, and elope with her. After...

A wealthy woman twice widowed, lives with his family and two servants in a shady country house in Galicia in the late nineteenth century isolated...

Based on Miguel Delibes novel. Rafael Corral, socialist member, decide to attend to the funeral of a friend although they had recomended him not to...

Berta is a German who comes to a small fishing village to marry Lorenzo, owner of an island and that only known her through his letters. The early...

Diego Acuña was one of the five thousand children taken to Russia during the Spanish Civil War. He was educated in the communist pedagogy and...

Cora is a Mexican prostitute with typically inconsiderate johns. She is troubled by a hole in the ceiling. The hole triggers flashbacks regarding how...

Like every night, Manuel remembers the old days of glory, when after the war he was a famous bullfighter. He and his friend Juan were the fashionable...

In a region of Andalusia, all the men lust after the miller's young wife.

Spain, 1950s. The corpse of an unknown person appears in the town square of Bocentellas, within the mythical territory of Región. The...

Commissario Paolo Ferro (Maurizio Merli) stars as a (typical) tough cop again. This time he returns to the city of Milan to go after a murder...

"Poliziotti solitudine e rabbia" or "Ein Mann namens Venedig" (A Man called Venice), as it was called in Germany, is an Italian-German crime drama...

Upon arrival in Barcelona, Miguel is fired from his job as a sailor and the financial problems which he will face from that moment will gradually...

Tania, an asylum patient, is under the doctor's care while suffering raging behavioral effects that follow the death of her exorcised mother.

Pedro Martín, a young and ambitious doctor, is studying the effect of cancerous cells on mice, but he has run out of mice in his laboratory,...

Manu travels to Murcia to spend the summer with their grandparents because their parents are getting divorced. Surrounded by gardens, sea, nature,...

Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò...

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him...

A famous composer creative in crisis and must compose a new album, but is going through a painful separation that prevents him from concentrating. In...

A man discovers that his girlfriend is a "stigmata" (someone whose hands and feet mysteriously bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was...

Two members of a former group of friends find themselves after many years by chance through the streets of Milan; after a moment, memories of the...

Following meetings between Spain and the United States a delegation of a mining company arrives to Granada in search of uranium. The company...

Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou,...

The story of Judas's betrayal of Christ.

In the empty house of his family, Ramon, a poet, remembers the last day of the life of his master: the last time he went out with his friend don...

A man of a certain social position falls in jail and request protection to a pickpocket and con man during his stay. On his release he promises to...

In the darkness gunfire is heard. On a road near a Spanish city an abandoned prison-van is parked. Next to the van lies two dead guards. The two...

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...

For the 17-year-old Mariza, there is no other house than the train station in Civitavecchia. Here, an orphaned girl lives early after the death of...

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...

Spain, 1936. The Civil War breaks out. In a village near Barcelona, several families decide to continue living in their summer houses until the...

Simon Bolivar is the true-life story of the leader of the 1817 Venezuelan revolution.

In a castle, somewhere in the Thirld World, Diaz is delirious, dreaming of the power he had in Eldorado, while oppressing the indians, workers and...

While a youth group led by Daniel causes the explosion of a truck loaded with materials to build a nuclear power plant, Laura accidentally kills his...

Adaptation of the text of Azorin theater play. In 1808, Napoleon's troops invaded a village in the Sierra de Madrid. Love triangle between a girl,...

César and Pilar tour the Spanish countryside with their bus, showing films and doing magic spectacles in small villages. In one of these trips...

The story of a family of bull fighters.

A young writer is invited to stay in a religious hostel run by a sinister, manipulative nun who plays deadly psychological games with the inhabitants.

Rosalía is a cashier at a supermarket. She lives alone, loves reading fairy tales and hides in a magic fantasy world in order to survive...

World War II provides the setting for a melodramatic tale of love and revenge.

Rudi is forced into racing for a kingpin drug dealer, but after the murder of his brother he swears revenge.

Los desafíos presents three separate stories that are linked by an American presence in Spain in the 1960s, with Dean Selmier playing the role...

The film tells the story of two writers in love with the same woman. For years, they have worked together. One day they separate. Ten years later and...

The story of a Spanish Cardinal who is told he only has one more year to live. He decides to return to his hometown, after an absence of 30 years, to...

A divorced woman is abandoned by her betrothed on the eve of her second marriage, and resigns herself to a humdrum life with her first husband.

A group of adventurers are gathered together to retrieve some mystical gems which are in the possession of a deadly cult.

Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a...

Barcelona in the early sixties: black and white chronicle of the ups and downs in the relationship of several young couples of the Catalan...

The parallel stories of a police commissioner and a bank robber whose lives eventually come together.

The Mighty Crusaders (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata) is a 1957 film about the First Crusade, based on the 16th-century Italian poem Jerusalem...

When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either...

A rich emigrant returns to Madrid where he meets the beautiful Amparo . The girl, however, lives a secret affair with a priest

Set in rural South of Spain in the 19th century, tells the story of group of outlaws, from very different origins, trying to survive, hiding from the...

Debra arrives in Sicily with her boyfriend Turi. As soon as they arrive, the women of the village do not welcome her into the community, giving them...

José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader...

Young man Marco Laudato, after the '8/9/1943's WW2 armistice, enlists in the Italian Social Republic army, attending the last days of the old...

A prophetic Film about the fundamental problem of our times, that automatization of the production process ultimately eliminates human labour. In...

The story of Che Guevara's desperate attempt to escape the mountains of Bolivia. Pursued by an elite ranger unit of the army led by a determined CIA...

A May-December romance. Roué Giulio Marengo, a Roman landscape architect unhappy in his marriage, meets Francesca, a young and beautiful...

A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the...

Comedy thriller directed by Miguel Hermoso.

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...

This literary film is imbued with the disenchantment of Spanish exiles who left their homes to protest Franco's fascist regime and then returned...

Guillermo is a lonely old man who sees his methodical existence interrupted with the appearance of a new neighbor. A relationship full of fights,...

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,...

"España insólita" is that different, unknown and humble Spain that does not appear on postcards or tourist itineraries. Aguirre...

13-year-old Milio admires his older brother Luis who belongs to a drug gang in a poor Madrid suburb. But after the death of a friend and gang member,...

The triumph of a young man in an important erotic literature contest reaches the ears of his grandmother.

A rivalry between two actors proves to have dangerous consequences in this drama from Spain. Daniel (Federico Luppi) is the star of a popular...

1868. Revolutionary Mathias Sandorf is determined to oust the dictatorship oppressing his country. The people see him as their liberator. Denounced...

Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and...

A blind couple's marriage is tested when the wife is drawn to a blind writer.

Matteo is a communist intellectual, the son of a wealthy bourgeois, who found himself blind from an eye after the war. One day in the streets of Rome...

Frank Willes, a young professional footballer, is involved in a road accident from which he emerges partially crippled, having crashed into the car...

Isabel returns to Spain, after several years of absence, to be cured of a neurosis. His daughter Ana, whom he has not seen in all this time, decides...

Family with young-adult children returns to Mexico after many years in Spain.

In order to get María Rosa, the woman he is deeply in love with, Marsal murders a moneylender hated by all the people and casts suspicion on...

Vannina and Giacinto are a young married couple who live their relationship in an unequal way; while the girl is submissive to the will of her...

A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.

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...

Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy...

Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lots of re-creations and dramatizations and points...

The making of Cabezas Cortadas.

A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a...

This haunting drama concerns a young woman on vacation from boarding school who discovers her aunt cloistered in the attic.

A young Hacienda-owner abuses women due to his traumatic youth while his mother covers for his sadistic actions.

Merli, teamed with Mexican star Hugo Stiglitz as his photographer buddy, plays a journalist investigating the shady activities of the local Mafia....

"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of...

Salvatore, known as "bread loaf", escapes from Caltanissetta's brewery to find his mother he never met. Before arriving in Venice, he stays in a...

During the first Carlist war in the 1830s in Spain a lieutenant falls into the enemy's hands and is arrested. When condemned, he claims he only...

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...

A young communist discovers the power of faith.

The story unfolds in Bilbao. Rocío (Emma Suárez), is in love with Mario (Antonio Banderas), a free rider with a lot of face that, to...

Two men and a beautiful woman are involved in a three-way relationship during a trip to Machu Picchu.

In the middle of the first world war, Barcelona is the center of multiple operations related to war, although Spain is a neutral country.

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...

Three short stories based on radio competitions, all linked by speaker Gabriel and his fiancee. Two inventors who want to patent a piston and need...

A Catholic priest lives in a communist country where all religious are being killed. When trying to escape is stopped by a commissioner who had been...

Spain's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1960

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...

Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.

It's the dawn of April 25, 1974, when Marco, a 25-year old Italian and his Portuguese friend Victor leave Paris on a yellow Citroen 2CV. The goal of...

After the death of his wife, Angel, a university professor and writer, he falls into a severe depression. He flees to his house in the country, but...

Benjamin Ortalora is a young man who leaves Buenos Aires after murdering a rival. He goes to Montevideo where his cool boldness draws the attention...

Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who covets another man's wife (Mariangela Melato) as his own. He gets what he wants, but Ras wants more: in...

Story set at the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay.

The Spanish sculptor meditates about his life and work

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in...

Juliet and Alberto are a marriage in which peace reigns home. Mood surely be upset if Juliet suspecte that her her husband uses the vet who runs to...

The troubling attraction of a young decorator, Agnès, on a small Spanish island, for a man everyone distrusts, whose wife has mysteriously...

Enrico struggles with his dysfunctional family and cheating wife, and eventually makes plans to kill them all.

Juan Alvarez, a Spanish refugee in Canada, shoemaker, picks up at his home Manuel, a 12-year-old Portuguese teenager, whom he teaches to read, to...

Analysis of the work of Luis Buñuel in fifty mini chapters. A co-production of Arsenal Films, Barcelona International Film Festival and Ovideo...

A biography of the Spanish painter Francisco José de Goya (1746-1828), who went from being a court painter to creating heartbreaking images...

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all...

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...

Last feature film of Stanislav Barabas

In a nameless European city, a local reporter and his doctor wife try to escape from hordes of blood thirsty zombies, undead people exposed to...

XVII century Spain. Don Pablo tries to climb position and falls into the hands of students, rogues, whores, fake skilled, executioners, jailers and...

Some friends struggle for their first jobs.

The new coach of the basketball team of Lugo arrives from Uruguay. He really knows nothing about training a basketball team so he keeps the previous...

The infamous Don Juan Tenorio, a reckless and charming libertine, engages in various amorous exploits and challenges morality in his pursuit of...

Pedro, a street photographer who fought during the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side, becomes obsessed with a young model.

Pepe Conde, a poor simple man, is tricked by a rich marquis to believe he has sold his soul to the devil to win the attention of the woman he is in...

Arcos de la Frontera, in the early nineteenth century, when Napoleon's troops invaded Spain. In house Alvareda they are preparing the wedding of the...

María Morena is a 1951 Spanish drama film directed by José María Forqué and Pedro Lazaga. It was entered into the 1952...

A newly remarried widow is accused of having murdered her first husband, who died from arsenical poisoning. Being her present husband a lawyer he...

After spending ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Juan is released.

The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic...

In 1922, Infantry Captain Fernando Salas, arriving from Madrid, joins, without much enthusiasm, a battalion ruled by Commander Almendro, a tough...

Federico is having an affair with Fernanda, which he believes widow, when in fact she is married. When the trick is discovered, a doctor appears very...

The whatever woman.

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...

Edipo, is appointed mayor of a town plunged in misery and violence. His first mission is to discover and punish the murderers of Layo, a well-known...