The best Fernando Rey’s movies

Fernando Rey

Fernando Rey

20/09/1917- 09/03/1994
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The Miracle of Marcelino

The Miracle of Marcelino
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/02/1955
  • Character: Monje narrador
Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend in the forbidden attic, hanging on a cross. A friend that would repay Marcelino's kindness by granting him one heart-felt wish.

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.

1492: Conquest of Paradise

1492: Conquest of Paradise
6.4/10
1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.

Return of the Seven

Return of the Seven
5.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 19/10/1966
  • Character: Priest
Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico.

The Immortal Story

The Immortal Story
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/06/1968
  • Character: Merchant
An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman and an unknown sailor as actors.

Navajo Joe

Navajo Joe
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 25/11/1966
  • Character: Reverend Rattigan
The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.

That Obscure Object of Desire

That Obscure Object of Desire
7.8/10
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
7.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/09/1972
  • Character: Don Rafael
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

White Fang

White Fang
6/10
The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime lord in 1896 Yukon, Canada.

Shéhérazade

Shéhérazade
5.5/10
Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero.

Villa Rides

Villa Rides
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/05/1968
  • Character: Fuentes
Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner & pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa & his band of dedicated men in a march across Mexico battling the Colorados & stealing women's hearts as they go. But each has a nemesis among his friends: Arnold is tormented by Fierro, Villa's right-hand-man; and Villa must face possible betrayal by his own president's naiveté

Seven Beauties

Seven Beauties
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWar
  • Release: 20/12/1975
  • Character: Pedro the Anarchist Prisoner
Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

Guns of the Magnificent Seven
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/07/1969
  • Character: Quintero
In this third remake of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's hugely influential The Seven Samurai, the seven gunslingers (George Kennedy, Michael Ansara, Joe Don Baker, Bernie Casey, Monte Markham, Fernando Rey and Reni Santoni) liberate Mexican political prisoners, train them as fighters and assist them in a desperate attack on a Mexican fortress in an attempt to free a revolutionary leader.

Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/03/1972
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. The story concerns Marc Antony's attempts to rule Rome while maintaining a relationship with the queen of Egypt (Hildegarde Neil), which began while Antony was still married. Now he is being forced to marry the sister of his Roman co-leader, and soon the conflict leads to war.

Moon Over Parador

Moon Over Parador
6/10
Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.

Tristana

Tristana
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/03/1970
  • Character: Don Lope
Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope, a protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don sells his possessions to avoid manual labor and champions the causes of the dispossessed and downtrodden of society. He takes advantage of the vulnerable Tristana, who leaves him when she falls in love with Horacio. Unable to commit to him, she returns to Don Lope when she falls ill. He asks for her hand in marriage, and she accepts after losing her leg to cancer. She chooses to remain in a passionless union rather than be subject to the harsh realities of a society that refuses to change to the needs of women. Taken from the novel by celebrated author Benito Perez Galdos.

The Light at the Edge of the World

The Light at the Edge of the World
6/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 16/07/1971
  • Character: Captain Moriz
Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.

Voyage of the Damned

Voyage of the Damned
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 22/12/1976
  • Character: President Bru
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

Viridiana

Viridiana
8.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/05/1961
  • Character: Don Jaime
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.

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.

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