The best Fernando Rey’s crime movies

Fernando Rey

Fernando Rey

20/09/1917- 09/03/1994
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Fernando Rey’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Fernando Rey.

The French Connection

The French Connection
7.7/10
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.

French Connection II

French Connection II
6.7/10
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.

Illustrious Corpses

Illustrious Corpses
7.3/10
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

The Running Man

The Running Man
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/10/1963
  • Character: Police Official
An insurance man (Alan Bates) gets chummy in Spain with a couple (Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick) who have collected on a fake death.

The Hit

The Hit
7/10
Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former "colleagues" and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance...

Monsignor

Monsignor
5.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaWar
  • Release: 22/10/1982
  • Character: Cardinal Santoni
The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.

The Ceremony

The Ceremony
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/12/1963
  • Character: Sanchez
A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.

Backfire

Backfire
6.1/10
A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler's sexy girlfriend.

High Crime

High Crime
6.9/10
An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.

Angel of Death

Angel of Death
3.8/10
A Jewish commando unit hunting Nazi war criminals tracks down the infamous Dr. Mengele in the jungle, and find that he is torturing nubile young virgins and performing horrible medical experiments on the locals. They prepare to battle their way past Mengele's hordes of fanatic Nazi bodyguards in order to get to him.

The Night Heaven Fell

The Night Heaven Fell
5.5/10
Ursula finishes her studies and returns to her aunt Florentine and uncle, Ribera who is the count. She falls in love with Lambert, the killer of her uncle.

One Way

One Way
5.4/10
Italian crime drama

Cabaret

Cabaret
A news story in the newspapers announces the investigation by the police of a major scam. Precisely, following the steps of the author of that crime, we will know the cabaret where the whole action of this drama will take place. A place where the paths of a multitude of characters cross and where it is possible to find men and women of great humanity.

Scent of a Crime

Scent of a Crime
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/10/1988
  • Character: Fayón
Spain, 1950s. The corpse of an unknown person appears in the town square of Bocentellas, within the mythical territory of Región. The inhabitants will ask for help to Captain Medina, young officer in command of a nearby military fort, until the arrival of the judge.

Playa prohibida

Playa prohibida
5.9/10
After her father has been murdered, the beautiful but allegedly insane Isabella lives in the house of her two nephews. A scenarist in need of inspiration walks on the beach and slowly unravels a series of murders.

Rebeldía

Rebeldía
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/09/1978
  • Character: Don Luis
One night, Don Luis, a noble and arrogant fifty care manners, bursts into the room of Antonia, one of her maids because as lord and master, all that lives with him are his possessions. Antonia hates him, but is also attracted to the refinement of a man who seeks only pleasure, and become complicit in a crime to bind him forever.

Crimen en el entreacto

Crimen en el entreacto
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 16/01/1954

Run Like a Thief

Run Like a Thief
4.8/10
The theft of a fortune in diamonds and the attempt by soldier of fortune Johnny Dent to outwit his pursuers who would stop at nothing to get their hands on the treasure forms the story-line. The chase reaches across the continent as Dent eludes the diamond syndicate police, a ruthless gangster, and a scheming girl in his attempt to escape.

A Candidate for a Killing

A Candidate for a Killing
4.1/10
A traveler becomes a target for various crime syndicates when it turns out he's a dead ringer for a wanted mercenary.

La laguna negra

La laguna negra
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/12/1952
  • Character: Miguel
In a village in the mountains of Urbión, brothers John and Martin, driven by greed and abetted by Candelas, Martin's wife, kill his father and sink the body in the Black Lagoon. His wife and one daughter of the victim does not know anything. In the village would get missing. However, from now weigh a curse on the land for which they have committed the crime, predicting each year misfortunes and bad harvests.

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