# The 19 Best Antonio Banderas Movies

> Almodóvar provocations, swashbuckling heroics and one very persuasive cat. Three decades of range, and not everyone agrees which Banderas is the real one.

*By YPB Team · Published October 16, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-19-best-antonio-banderas-movies*

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1. **Puss in Boots: The Last Wish** — score 1000/1000
   The 2022 animated adventure that gave Banderas's swordsman cat his best solo film.
2. **Spy Kids** — score 546/1000
   The 2001 family adventure with Banderas and Carla Gugino as retired spies.
3. **Interview with the Vampire** — score 545/1000
   The 1994 gothic horror film with Banderas as the vampire Armand.
4. **The 33** — score 504/1000
   The 2015 survival drama about the Chilean miners trapped underground.
5. **The Skin I Live In** — score 457/1000
   Almodóvar's 2011 psychological thriller about a surgeon with a dark obsession.
6. **Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown** — score 403/1000
   Almodóvar's 1988 farce that brought Banderas international attention.
7. **Frida** — score 403/1000
   The 2002 biopic in which Banderas appears as muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros.
8. **The Mask of Zorro** — score 341/1000
   The 1998 swashbuckler in which Banderas takes over the mask from Anthony Hopkins.
9. **Pain and Glory** — score 341/1000
   Pedro Almodóvar's 2019 drama in which Banderas plays an aging director reckoning with his past.
10. **Law of Desire** — score 341/1000
   Almodóvar's 1987 melodrama that helped launch Banderas's career.
11. **Matador** — score 341/1000
   Almodóvar's 1986 dark comedy about a bullfighter and a lawyer obsessed with death.
12. **Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!** — score 269/1000
   Almodóvar's 1989 romantic comedy in which Banderas plays an obsessive admirer.
13. **Philadelphia** — score 269/1000
   The 1993 legal drama in which Banderas plays Tom Hanks's partner.
14. **Shrek 2** — score 269/1000
   The 2004 animated sequel that introduced Banderas as the voice of Puss in Boots.
15. **Desperado** — score 183/1000
   Robert Rodriguez's 1995 action film that made Banderas a Hollywood lead as a guitar-case gunslinger.
16. **Take the Lead** — score 183/1000
   The 2006 dance drama with Banderas as a ballroom instructor in a tough school.
17. **Original Sin** — score 183/1000
   The 2001 period thriller with Banderas and Angelina Jolie.
18. **Once Upon a Time in Mexico** — score 183/1000
   Rodriguez's 2003 conclusion to the Mariachi trilogy.
19. **Evita** — score 0/1000
   The 1996 musical in which Banderas sings opposite Madonna as Che.

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