01 A swashbuckling cat spinoff that leans fully into Banderas's Zorro-adjacent charm.
Antonio Banderas – 10 Best Movies
By Vlad Zakh · February 23, 2026
Antonio Banderas started as one of Pedro Almodóvar’s favorite actors before Hollywood turned him into an action star, and Pain and Glory brought him back to where he started, decades later and far more acclaimed.
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02 A veteran hitman and his younger rival are hired for the same target.
03 A revenge thriller with a body-horror twist Almodóvar plays completely straight.
04 The Mariachi trilogy's finale, bigger and stranger than the two films before it.
05 A musical retelling of Eva Perón's rise, with Banderas as the film's narrator figure.
06 An early, formative Almodóvar collaboration built around obsession and identity.
07 A guitar-case gunslinger takes on an entire cartel in a Mexican border town.
08 A new Zorro trained by the aging original, still one of the best swashbuckling adventures of its decade.
09 A supporting role in one of the first mainstream films to center an AIDS discrimination case.
10 A filmmaker reckons with his health, his past lovers, and his own creative block.
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