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Antonio Banderas has 77 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Interview with the Vampire.
Gangster Squad
2013
Crime · Drama

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
2022 · Movie · Voice
Top 2%Peacock · Included

Philadelphia
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Hulu · Included

Desperado
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Netflix · Included

Uncharted
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Hulu · Included

The House of the Spirits
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Life Itself
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%Prime Video · Included

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas

Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.
Dir. Joel Crawford · With Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek Pinault, Harvey Guillén

Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
Dir. Jonathan Demme · With Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards

After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes

El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. With the help of his friend and a beautiful bookstore owner, El Mariachi tracks Bucho, takes on his army of desperados, and leaves his own trail of blood.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek Pinault, Joaquim de Almeida

A young street-smart, Nathan Drake and his wisecracking partner Victor “Sully” Sullivan embark on a dangerous pursuit of “the greatest treasure never found” while also tracking clues that may lead to Nathan’s long-lost brother.
Dir. Ruben Fleischer · With Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Sophia Ali

Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.
Dir. Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton · With Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Chris Messina

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
Dir. Julie Taymor · With Salma Hayek Pinault, Alfred Molina, Mía Maestro
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
Dir. Richard Hughes · With Antonio Banderas, Kate Bosworth, Mojean Aria

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
Dir. Bille August · With Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons

As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.
Dir. Dan Fogelman · With Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening

The world’s most lethal odd couple – bodyguard Michael Bryce and hitman Darius Kincaid – are back on another life-threatening mission. Still unlicensed and under scrutiny, Bryce is forced into action by Darius's even more volatile wife, the infamous international con artist Sonia Kincaid. As Bryce is driven over the edge by his two most dangerous protectees, the trio get in over their heads in a global plot and soon find that they are all that stand between Europe and a vengeful and powerful madman.
Dir. Patrick Hughes · With Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek Pinault

Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero when he sets off on an adventure with the tough and street smart Kitty Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his town. This is the true story of The Cat, The Myth, The Legend... The Boots.
Dir. Chris Miller · With Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek Pinault, Zach Galifianakis

After being released from a mental hospital, a troubled young man tracks down an actress he once had sex with and forces her into captivity, determined to make her part of his life.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Loles León

It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped from prison he transforms troubled bandit Alejandro into his successor, in order to foil the plans of the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero who robbed him of his freedom, his wife and his precious daughter.
Dir. Martin Campbell · With Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.
Dir. Dougal Wilson · With Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer

Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their behavior but growing to respect them. As they travel together, they learn of a legendary evil closing in and must unite to confront this formidable force.
Dir. John McTiernan · With Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Dennis Storhøi

Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then return to civilian life. But finding his way out of the world of contract killing grows ever more dangerous as Rath falls for his female target and becomes a marked man himself.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore

Happily ever after never seemed so far far away when a trip to meet the in-laws turns into a hilariously twisted adventure for Shrek and Fiona. With the help of ever-faithful Donkey, Shrek takes on the potion-brewing Fairy Godmother, pompous Prince Charming, and infamous ogre-killer Puss In Boots.
Dir. Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon · With Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz

When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?
Dir. Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn · With Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Oscar Martínez

as Puss in Boots (voice) · Voice
Puss in Boots is on a mission to recover the Princess' stolen ruby from the notorious French thief, Whisperer. Reluctantly accompanied by three little kittens, Three Diablos, Puss must tame them before they endanger the mission.
Dir. Raman Hui Shing-Ngai · With Antonio Banderas, Gilles Marini, Charlotte Newhouse

A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based on the story of ballroom dancer, Pierre Dulane.
Dir. Liz Friedlander · With Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown, Yaya DaCosta

Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up his whip once more to make sure an ancient and powerful artifact doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
Dir. James Mangold · With Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen

An ex-special services veteran, down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at a run-down mall in a rough area of town. On his first night on the job, he opens the door to a distraught and desperate young girl who has fled the hijacking of a Police motorcade that was transporting her to testify as a witness in a trial. Hot on her heels is the psychopathic hijacker and his team of henchmen, who will stop at nothing to extract and eliminate the witness.
Dir. Alain Desrochers · With Antonio Banderas, Ben Kingsley, Liam McIntyre

On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to rival Amar, Sultan of Salmaah. The two men agree that neither can lay claim to the area of no man’s land between them called The Yellow Belt. In return, Nesib adopts Amar’s two boys Saleeh and Auda as a guarantee against invasion. Twelve years later, Saleeh and Auda have grown into young men. Saleeh, the warrior, itches to escape his gilded cage and return to his father’s land. Auda cares only for books and the pursuit of knowledge. One day, their adopted father Nesib is visited by an American from Texas. He tells the Emir that his land is blessed with oil and promises him riches beyond his wildest imagination. Nesib imagines a realm of infinite possibility, a kingdom with roads, schools and hospitals all paid for by the black gold beneath the barren sand. There is only one problem. The precious oil is located in the Yellow Belt.
Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud · With Mark Strong, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto

A midlife-crisis burdened Shrek, longing for the days when he felt like a real ogre, makes a pact with magic deal-maker Rumpelstiltskin. But when he's duped and sent to a twisted version of Far Far Away—where Rumpelstiltskin is king, ogres are hunted, and he and Fiona have never met—he sets out to restore his world and reclaim his true love.
Dir. Mike Mitchell · With Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz

A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez · With Antonio Banderas, Johnny Depp, Cheech Marin
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