Antonio Banderas
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
Labyrinth of Passion (1982)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Cecilia Roth, Luis Ciges…
- A nympho pop singer and her bisexual buddy cruise the decadent nightlife of Madrid, encountering Almodovar's usual slate of deviants –…
Law of Desire (1986)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Carmen Maura
- Sexual acrobatics and absurd humour abound as it explores the increasingly complex sex–life of a gay film director. Fun screwball romp.
Matador (1986)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martinez
- Almodovar breaks a few more screen taboos with this erotic black comedy about a bull–fighter and a smart female lawyer who share a morbid…
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (Atame!) (1989)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril
- A mental patient kidnaps his sexy B–movie idol in the hope that she will fall in love with him. Teasingly politically unsound, Almodovar…
Mambo Kings, The (1991)
- Dir. Arne Glimcher
Feat. Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas
- Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas play sibling Mambo freaks who spin out of the fast lane en route to the American Dream. The dance sequences are…
House of the Spirits (1993)
- Dir. Bille August
Feat. Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close…
- Alternately ponderous and fascinating screen version of Isabel Allende's acclaimed saga charting the turbulent history of a South American family…
Assassins (1995)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore
- A dark, protracted tale of two hitmen, old hand Sylvester Stallone who wants out of the racket, and new kid on the block Antonio Banderas out for…
Desperado (1995)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Cheech Marin, Steve Buscemi…
- Rodriguez' big–budget blow up of his cult hit EL MARIACHI, with Latino golden–boy Antonio Banderas as the vengeance–bent…
Miami Rhapsody (1995)
- Dir. David Frankel
Feat. Sarah Jessica Parker, Antonio Banderas, Mia Farrow…
- Sarah Jessica Parker brings her cutesy appeal to the predicament of a young woman disillusioned yet preoccupied with modern marriage. Woody Allen's…
Four Rooms (1995)
- Dir. Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Tim Roth, Antonio Banderas, Bruce Willis…
- Tim Roth's bellboy connects four wild comedies from four hot shot directors from the American indie scene, led by QT himself. A…
Evita (1996)
- Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Madonna, Antonio Banderas
- The Broadway Extravaganza, complete with Madonna, wall–to–wall songs and political melodrama, is bravely swallowed whole by Hollywood. …
Mask of Zorro, The (1998)
- Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones
- Scabarding much of the swordplay of the Tyrone Power original for mega–budget stuntwork and destruction, this ultimately swaps one brand of…
Thirteenth Warrior, The (1999)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Antonio Banderas
- A smouldering Antonio Banderas is an Arab recruited to make up the numbers by a group of Vikings on a kind of 'Magnificent 13' mission: defending a…
Crazy in Alabama (1999)
- Dir. Antonio Banderas
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffiths, Rod Steiger
- Antonio Banderas' directorial debut is an amiable film of two halves, split between a dramatic re–telling of the civil rights struggle in 1960s…
Original Sin (2000)
- Dir. Michael Cristofer
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie
- Candlelit plantation melodrama set in late 19th century Cuba, that ignites a ‘sight–unseen’ marriage between owner Antonio Banderas and…
Spy Kids (2001)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Cheech Marin…
- Smashing kidult adventure, in which action dir. Rodriguez lends his action talents to a James Bond–type tale with a twist: Antonio Banderas and…
Femme Fatale (2002)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
- Best viewed as a campy homage to the film noir genre, this snaky thriller revels in the multiple plot twists of its tale of diamond thieves and…
Spy Kids 2 - The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Steve Buscemi…
- The diminutive spies of the hit family thriller return for another colourful, goofy round of saving the day for the grownups.
In team with a rival…
Ballistic: Ecks Vs Sever (2003)
- Dir. Wych Kaosayananda
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu
- Panned on release, this over–geared action slambam has its own sense of chaotic fun that may be enjoyable for some out there.
Antonio…
Spy Kids 3-D (Game Over) (2003)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Ricardo Montalban…
- Another installment in the successful SPY KIDS franchise, adding the gimmick of '3–D' to the family action format.
This time round, the…
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Johnny Depp, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek…
- The final 'installment' in dir. Rodriguez' violent Mexican trilogy (see EL MARIACHI and DESPERADO), with Banderas again the loner in a dusty town,…
Imagining Argentina (2003)
- Dir. Christopher Hampton
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Ruben Blades…
- A controversial adaptation of Lawrence Thornton's award–winning novel, set in the Argentine dictatorship of the mid–1970s.
Thompson is…
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent…
- Zooming–in on an intriguing corner of 20th century history, this tells the unlikely (but true) story of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa's…
Legend Of Zorro, The (2005)
- Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell…
- Rather belated sequel to THE MASK OF ZORRO finds most of the cast (minus Anthony Hopkins) regrouping for another swashbuckling romp in 1850s…
Take the Lead (2006)
- Dir. Liz Friedlander
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown
- A thinnish retelling of the true story of Pierre Dulaine (played here by Antonio Banderas) who is credited with provoking the current enthusiasm for…
Shrek The Third (2007)
- Dir. Chris Miller, Raman Hui
Feat. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz…
- The franchise rolls on in this third installment of the animated comedy when the big green ogre’s new father–in–law falls ill.…
My Spy (My Mom's New Boyfriend) (2008)
- Dir. George Gallo
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Meg Ryan, Colin Hanks…
- Featherweight comedy–caper concerns an undercover FBI agent (Hanks) whose surveillance of an international art thief (Banderas) is undermined…
Other Man, The (2008)
- Dir. Richard Eyre
Feat. Laura Linney, Antonio Banderas, Liam Neeson…
- Melodrama starring Liam Neeson as a man whose struggle to find his missing and unfaithful wife (Linney) brings him into contact with her new lover…
Code, The (2009)
- Dir. Mimi Leder
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Tom Hardy…
- Routine heist film with Freeman playing a veteran thief who recruits a younger crook to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to…
Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4) (2010)
- Dir. Mike Mitchell
Feat. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz…
- Surprisingly enjoyable fourth entry in the franchise has the dastardly Rumpelstiltskin tricking the beloved green ogre into a dark alternate time…