The best Francisco Franco’s drama movies

Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco

04/12/1892- 20/11/1975
We present our ranking of the best Francisco Franco’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Francisco Franco.

The Endless Trench

The Endless Trench
7.2/10
A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.

The Last Circus

The Last Circus
6.5/10
The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spain’s most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by the fascist regime.

Operation Ogre

Operation Ogre
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 28/09/1979
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
In 1973, the dictator Francisco Franco rules Spain with an iron hand, but is aging and the future of the regime is in question. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor, so the Basque terrorist organization ETA decides that he must die to prevent the continuity of the dictatorship.

Paper Birds

Paper Birds
6.9/10
At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the members of a group of vaudeville performers have been stripped of everything: all they have left is hunger and the instinct to survive. Day after day, agonizingly, lost and helpless between the victors and the vanquished, the musician Jorge, the ventriloquist Enrique, the couplet singer Rocío and the orphan Miguel search tirelessly for something to eat and a safe place to live.

Últimas tardes con Teresa

Últimas tardes con Teresa
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/04/1984
  • Character: Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adapted from the novel by Juan Marse, the film shows two distant worlds in the Spain of the 50's, the suburban and the bourgeois, which are related through two characters, Manolo Reyes, vulgar motorcycle thief who aspires to escape poverty and Teresa Serrat, university student of bourgeois extraction seduced by the revolutionary cause.

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