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Francisco Rabal has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 2000s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Sorcerer.
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Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.
Dir. William Friedkin · With Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal

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

Vittoria is a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal

In 60s Extremadura, Paco el Bajo and his relatives work during day in a farmhouse, and silently suffer submission to their masters, who exploit them and treat them almost like animals. Meanwhile, Paco dreams that one day his children will be able to study.
Dir. Mario Camus · With Alfredo Landa, Terele Pávez, Belén Ballesteros

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo

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
In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.
Dir. Jacques Rivette · With Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle
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.
Dir. Juanma Bajo Ulloa · With Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Karra Elejalde, Alberto San Juan
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Francisco Rabal
A reporter and his doctor wife try to escape from the hordes of bloodthirsty, undead people exposed to nuclear radioactivity as military leaders fight a losing war of attrition against the relentless attacks.
Dir. Umberto Lenzi · With Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio

A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's secret..they worship Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea...and Dagon's unholy offspring are on the loose...
Dir. Stuart Gordon · With Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño
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