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Fernando Rey has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1990s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by The French Connection.
1975
Drama

The French Connection
1971 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Prime Video · Included

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Miracle of Marcelino
1955 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Compañeros
1970 · Movie · Actor
Top 59%Prime Video · Included

The Hit
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 68%Prime Video · Included

Return of the Seven
1966 · Movie · Actor
Top 80%Prime Video · Included

Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
Dir. William Friedkin · With Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey

After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina

Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.
Dir. Lina Wertmüller · With Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler

Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend in the forbidden attic, hanging on a cross. A friend that would repay Marcelino's kindness by granting him one heart-felt wish.
Dir. Ladislao Vajda · With Pablito Calvo, Rafael Rivelles, Antonio Vico

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson

As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horacio is doomed.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero

1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver

Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
Dir. Sergio Corbucci · With Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance

Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
Dir. Stephen Frears · With John Hurt, Terence Stamp, Tim Roth
The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.
Dir. Sergio Corbucci · With Burt Reynolds, Aldo Sambrell, Nicoletta Machiavelli

Chico, one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven, now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico.
Dir. Burt Kennedy · With Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos
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