Acting

Francisco Rabal

Born March 8, 1926 · Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain

Died August 29, 2001 · aged 75

Francisco Rabal Valera (8 March 1926 – 29 August 2001), popularly known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor. His career spanned more than 200 film and television roles, between 1942 and 2001. He received numerous accolades both in Spain and abroad, including the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actor Award and the Goya Award for Best Actor. Rabal was best known internationally for his collaborations wi…

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Belle de Jour

Belle de Jour · 1967

MovieDramaRomance

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

Sorcerer

Sorcerer · 1977

MovieThrillerAdventure

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 transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

L'Eclisse

L'Eclisse · 1962

MovieDramaRomance

Vittoria is a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! · 1990

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

MovieComedyRomance

After being released from a mental hospital, a troubled young man tracks down an actress he once had sex with and forces her into captivity, determined to make her part of his life.

Stay as You Are

Stay as You Are · 1978

Stay as You Are

MovieRomanceDrama

A married Roman landscape architect starts an affair with a young woman who might be a shadow from his past.

Dagon

MovieFantasyHorror

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 start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's secret..they worship Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea...and Dagon's unholy offspring are on the loose...

Viridiana

Viridiana · 1962

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 the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

One Hundred and One Nights

One Hundred and One Nights · 1995

One Hundred and One Nights

MovieComedyFantasy

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 the movies ever made.

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Belle de Jour

Belle de Jour · 1967

MovieDramaRomance

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

Hyppolite

Sorcerer

Sorcerer · 1977

MovieThrillerAdventure

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 transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

Nilo

L'Eclisse

L'Eclisse · 1962

MovieDramaRomance

Vittoria is a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.

Riccardo

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! · 1990

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

MovieComedyRomance

After being released from a mental hospital, a troubled young man tracks down an actress he once had sex with and forces her into captivity, determined to make her part of his life.

Máximo Espejo

Stay as You Are

Stay as You Are · 1978

Stay as You Are

MovieRomanceDrama

A married Roman landscape architect starts an affair with a young woman who might be a shadow from his past.

Lorenzo

Dagon

MovieFantasyHorror

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 start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's secret..they worship Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea...and Dagon's unholy offspring are on the loose...

Ezequiel

Viridiana

Viridiana · 1962

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 the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

Jorge

One Hundred and One Nights

One Hundred and One Nights · 1995

One Hundred and One Nights

MovieComedyFantasy

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 the movies ever made.

Luis Buñuel (voice)

Eagles Over London

Eagles Over London · 1969

Eagles Over London

MovieDramaAction

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 intelligence group. This all happens during the preliminary stages of the Battle of Britain.

Martin

Nightmare City

Nightmare City · 1980

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

A reporter and his doctor wife try to escape from the hordes of bloodthirsty, undead people exposed to nuclear radioactivity as military leaders fight a losing war of attrition against the relentless attacks.

Major Warren Holmes

It Can Be Done Amigo

It Can Be Done Amigo · 1972

It Can Be Done Amigo

MovieComedyWestern

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 boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless as it first appears.

Sheriff Franciscus

The Witches

The Witches · 1967

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Paolo (segment "La strega bruciata viva")

Hotel Fear

Hotel Fear · 1978

MovieHorrorMystery

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 enough, a cloaked figure starts killing off everyone that tries to harm her.

Marta's lover

The Desert of the Tartars

The Desert of the Tartars · 1976

The Desert of the Tartars

MovieHistoryDrama

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

M.llo Tronk

Death of a Cyclist

Death of a Cyclist · 1955

Death of a Cyclist

MovieCrimeDrama

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

(uncredited)

Long Days of Vengeance

Long Days of Vengeance · 1967

Long Days of Vengeance

MovieDramaWestern

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

Sheriff Douglas

The Holy Innocents

The Holy Innocents · 1984

The Holy Innocents

In 60s Extremadura, Paco el Bajo and his relatives work during day in a farmhouse, and silently suffer submission to their masters, who exploit them and treat them almost like animals. Meanwhile, Paco dreams that one day his children will be able to study.

Azarías

Legacy of the Incas

Legacy of the Incas · 1965

Legacy of the Incas

MovieAdventureWestern

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 and his son, leaving the 2 envoys to take the blame for it.

Gambusino

I Am the Law

I Am the Law · 1977

MovieDramaHistory

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 entrusts him with the arduous task of putting an end to the Mafia, a sinister criminal organization that has sown terror on the island for centuries.

Albanese the Outlaw

Nazarín

Nazarín · 1959

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.

Father Nazario

The Counsellor

The Counsellor · 1973

When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio 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 Sicily that Don Antonio is able to survive the mêlée and come out on top. Aghast at the situation he has caused, the godson becomes his leader's "consigliere," or Counselor at Crime.

Vincent Garofalo

Oedipus Mayor

Oedipus Mayor · 1996

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 potentate of the region. His investigation is directed towards all the armed factions that exist in Colombia.

Tiresias

The Nun

The Nun · 1967

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, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.

Dom Morel

It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game

It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game · 1974

It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game

MovieDramaThriller

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

Tío

Fortunata and Jacinta

Fortunata and Jacinta · 1980

Fortunata and Jacinta

The aristocrat Juan de Santa Cruz meets Fortunata, a girl of humble origins, and a passionate love arises between them; but his mother decides to marry him to her niece Jacinta.

José Izquierdo

Teresa de Jesús

Teresa de Jesús · 1984

Teresa de Jesús

An account of the life of Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582), from her spiritual awakening to her final days, as she struggles to reform the Order of the Carmelites and with her own faith.

Alonso

Il giovane Garibaldi

Il giovane Garibaldi · 1974

Il giovane Garibaldi

Miniseries about the early life of Garibaldi.

Bento Gonçalvez

Cervantes

Cervantes · 1981

The life of Miguel de Cervantes, writer of the iconic novel Don Quixote of La Mancha.

Mateo Alemán

History

History · 1986

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

The story of the half-Jewish Ida Raimundo and her two sons Antonio and Giuseppe in Rome, during and immediately after the Second World War.

Remo

Los desastres de la guerra

Los desastres de la guerra · 1983

Los desastres de la guerra

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

The painter Francisco de Goya is witness to the disasters and horrors caused by the bloody resistance of the Spanish people to the French occupation during the Napoleonic wars.

Goya

Christopher Colombus

Christopher Colombus · 1968

Christopher Colombus

SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama

Vittorio Cottafavi's four part series on the life of Christopher Colombus

Christopher Colombus

Truhanes

Truhanes · 1993

Ginés Giménez

Juncal

The world of bullfighting seen through the unforgettable adventures of a likeable rogue. A serious goring forced José Álvarez "Juncal", a famous bullfighter from the 1950s, to leave the bullfighting world, but it left him with a distinguished limp.

José Álvarez "Juncal"