Antonio Banderas
Director, Actor
- 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…
- You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin…
- Not so much a serious Woody Allen film as a funny one without any jokes. An ensemble of fine actors stumble through a series of scenes with only a…
- Puss in Boots (2011)
- Dir. Chris Miller
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis…
- Slinky fairytale spin–off of SHREK finds the titular swashbuckling Spaniard on a whole new steal–stealing adventure. Despite slick…
- Haywire (2011)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Gina Carano, Michael Angarano, Channing Tatum…
- Steven Soderbergh directs this classy action vehicle for mixed martial arts star Gina Carano, here playing a black ops spy who is double crossed on…
- Skin I Live In, The (2011)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes…
- Over twenty years after their last collaboration, a gracefully middle–aged Antonio Banderas returns for Spanish maestro Pedro Almodovar to play…
- Ruby Sparks (2012)
- Dir. Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Feat. Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Chris Messina…
- Real–life couple Dayton and Faris (LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE) direct real–life acting couple Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan in this zesty satire…
- Machete Kills (2013)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Danny Trejo, Mel Gibson, Demian Bichir…
- More stupid splatter from exploitation exponent Robert Rodriguez, here reviving Danny Trejo's Mexican badass for another round of saving the world,…
- Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013)
- Dir. Manuel Sicilia
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Rupert Everett, Freddie Highmore…
- Essentially Pixar's BRAVE turned inside out, this amusing medieval fantasy centres on a young aspiring knight whose parents wish for him to instead…
- Expendables 3, The (2014)
- Dir. Patrick Hughes
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Harrison Ford…
- Harrison Ford and Antonio Banderas lend their arthritic bodies to this chest–thumping third installment, no longer a throwback to the heydays…
- Automata (2014)
- Dir. Gabe Ibanez
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Dylan McDermott…
- Antonio Banderas plays an insurance agent at a robotics corporation. He must investigate a series of violent incidents involving robots violating…
- Knight of Cups (2015)
- Dir. Terrence Malick
Feat. Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman…
- Terrence Malick's enigmatic ode to existential despair features Christian Bale as a screenwriter living in LA trying to make sense of the strange…
- Finding Altamira (2016)
- Dir. Hugh Hudson
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Golshifteh Farahani, Clément Sibony…
- Antonio Banderas plays Spanish archaeologist Marcelino de Sautuola whose 1879 discovery of the 10,000–year–old cave paintings in the Cave…
- Music of Silence, The (2017)
- Dir. Michael Radford
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Jordi Molla
- Drama inspired by the life of renowned opera singer Andrea Bocelli, based on his autobiography and starring Tony Sebastian (GAME OF THRONES) as the…
- Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria) (2019)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Penelope Cruz…
- A more restrained, but no less pretty and witty outing for septuagenarian director Pedro Almodóvar, which narrates evocative vignettes from the life…
- Dolittle (The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle) (2020)
- Dir. Stephen Gaghan
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen…
- Nutty remake of the 1967 musical with Robert Downey Jr. as the Welsh veterinarian who can talk to animals. Based loosely on the book The Voyages of…
- Official Competition (Competencia Oficial) (2021)
- Dir. Mariano Cohn
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz, Oscar Martinez
- This Spanish comedy is another enjoyable satire about movie making, this one largely set around the rehearsal of a big–budget, prestige drama…
- Uncharted (2022)
- Dir. Ruben Fleischer
Feat. Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas…
- Tom Holland plays a street–smart thief who is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter (Mark Wahlberg) to recover a fortune lost by Ferdinand…