The best Francisco Rabal’s comedy movies

Francisco Rabal

Francisco Rabal

08/03/1926- 29/08/2001
Today we present the best Francisco Rabal’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Francisco Rabal’s movies.

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
7/10
Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.

The Witches

The Witches
6/10
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.

Airbag

Airbag
6.7/10
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 prostitute. Mafioso whorehouse owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends femme fatale Fatima to check things out. Juantxo and his friends are trying to get the ring back and in the process get involved in the war between gangs.

It Can Be Done, Amigo

It Can Be Done, Amigo
5.7/10
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.

One Hundred and One Nights

One Hundred and One Nights
6.5/10
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. Also a line of movie stars comes to visit him giving him back the pleasure of life - but amongst them there are also some young students only striving after his money for the realization of their film projects. The two stories - Monsieur Cinema's and the young people's life - are told in parallel until they come together in the end when the old man plays a role in the film made by the students.

The Beehive

The Beehive
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/10/1982
  • Character: Ricardo Sorbedo
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, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.

Eye of the Cat

Eye of the Cat
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/10/1975
  • Character: Eminenza
In this intellectual drama, Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who, somewhat like the Biblical King David, covets another man's wife as his own. Unlike David, however, Ras wants to humiliate Marcello (Nino Manfredi), a dedicated musician whose life he has already ruined. He forces Marcello to seek an annulment to his marriage through the Vatican.

The Reunion

The Reunion
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1963
  • Character: Alberto
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 past resurface.

Radio Stories

Radio Stories
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/07/1955
  • Character: Gabriel
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 money, a thief who answers a phone call while robbing and a child who needs to go to Sweden for an operation are the protagonists of these stories around the radio.

On Earth as It Is in Heaven

On Earth as It Is in Heaven
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/11/1995
  • Character: San Pedro
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 God was concerned about the progress of the world, and decided to send a second son to Earth. However, Jesus hears and does not agree, as they would have to rewrite history.

Coarse Salt

Coarse Salt
5.2/10
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 this situation, your manager will provide a time extension

El buscón

El buscón
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/11/1979
  • Character: Mata
XVII century Spain. Don Pablo tries to climb position and falls into the hands of students, rogues, whores, fake skilled, executioners, jailers and comedians. Based on "The Buscón called Pablos" Francisco de Quevedo.

El crimen de Pepe Conde

El crimen de Pepe Conde
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/10/1946
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 love with.

L'uomo dai calzoni corti

L'uomo dai calzoni corti
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/06/1958
  • Character: Mario
A kid runs away from a children's home to find his mother.

Marisa la civetta

Marisa la civetta
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/03/1957
  • Character: Antonio
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 her father, a railwayman; here she earns additionally at the station buffet, selling ice cream to passengers of passing trains. Beautiful and brisk, she was accustomed to the admiration of others and perfectly mastered the art of coquetry, but Marise’s heart remains calm until the young sailor Angelo, who is in a hurry on her first voyage, leaves the train on the platform on a sunny Sunday morning.

El apartamento de la tentación

El apartamento de la tentación
4.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/05/1971
  • Character: Hombre que se cruza con Julieta (uncredited)
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 assist clients instead of animals.

Tormento

Tormento
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/09/1974
  • Character: Agustín Caballero
A rich emigrant returns to Madrid where he meets the beautiful Amparo . The girl, however, lives a secret affair with a priest

The Revolution on Two Horses

The Revolution on Two Horses
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/04/2002
  • Character: Zio Henrique
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 their trip is Lisbon, which on that night was freed from Europe's longest dictatorship. The two are joined by Claire, Victor's former girlfriend and University classmate, who wants to take a break from her everyday life, leaving behind her husband and baby son, to form again, even for a few days, the traveling trio with her friends.

Crooks

Crooks
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/09/1983
  • Character: Ginés Jiménez Valera
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 help his friend what then creates many problems.

Hoy como ayer

Hoy como ayer
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/08/1966
  • Character: Ramón
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 progressed as much as he believed, and to confirme that living was better at his time

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