Spanish Conquest
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1. El Dorado (1988)
149 min | Drama, History
The film tells the epic story of an expedition that took place between 1560 and 1561, headed by Pedro de Ursúa, in search of "El Dorado." The territory they explored subsequently became ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Omero Antonutti, Eusebio Poncela, Lambert Wilson, Gabriela Roel
Votes: 660
2. Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)
PG-13 | 120 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Genoese navigator overcomes intrigue in the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain and gains financing for his expedition to the East Indies.
Director: John Glen | Stars: Marlon Brando, Tom Selleck, Georges Corraface, Rachel Ward
Votes: 3,225 | Gross: $8.25M
3. The Mission (1986)
PG | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn
Votes: 65,696 | Gross: $17.22M
4. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Del Negro
Votes: 62,290
5. The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
G | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1532, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro leads an expedition into the heart of the Inca Empire and captures the Incan Emperor Atahualpa and claims Peru for Spain.
Director: Irving Lerner | Stars: Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport, Leonard Whiting
Votes: 799
6. 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
PG-13 | 154 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, Loren Dean
Votes: 32,809 | Gross: $7.19M
7. Captain from Castile (1947)
Passed | 140 min | Adventure, Drama
The invasion of Mexico by Cortez, as seen by a young Spanish officer fleeing the Inquisition.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 2,226
8. Cabeza de Vaca (1991)
R | 111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A handful of survivors from a disastrous 1528 Spanish expedition to Florida journey across the coast until they reach Mexico.
Director: Nicolás Echevarría | Stars: Juan Diego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Roberto Sosa, Carlos Castañón
Votes: 1,201 | Gross: $0.79M
9. Eréndira la indomable (2006)
Not Rated | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The story of Princess Eréndira of the Tarascan, who, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, led her people in a fight against the Spanish conquerors in the region of the Aztec Empire.
Director: Juan Mora Catlett | Stars: Carlos Enrique Alarcón, Édgar Alejandre, Erandini Catalina Alvarado Villegas, Rubén Bautista
Votes: 148
10. Christopher Columbus (1949)
Not Rated | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan, Kathleen Ryan
Votes: 613
11. Seven Cities of Gold (1955)
Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Biography, History
In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Richard Egan, Anthony Quinn, Michael Rennie, Jeffrey Hunter
Votes: 583
12. The Other Conquest (1998)
R | 105 min | Drama, History
It is May 1520 in the vast Aztec Empire one year after the Spanish Conqueror Hernán Cortés' arrival in Mexico. "The Other Conquest" opens with the infamous massacre of the Aztecs at the ... See full summary »
Director: Salvador Carrasco | Stars: Damián Delgado, José Carlos Rodríguez, Elpidia Carrillo, Iñaki Aierra
Votes: 1,204 | Gross: $0.89M
13. La araucana (1971)
R | 100 min | Drama, History, War
A dramatization of Alonso de Ercilla's 16th-century epic poem about the Spanish conquest of Chile.
Director: Julio Coll | Stars: Elsa Martinelli, Venantino Venantini, Víctor Barrera, Julio Peña
Votes: 59
14. El jardín de tía Isabel (1972)
104 min | Adventure, Drama
Lope de Vega leads an expedition in search of El Dorado.
Director: Felipe Cazals | Stars: Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Claudio Brook, Ofelia Guilmáin, Gregorio Casal
Votes: 30
15. Retorno a Aztlán (1990)
95 min | Drama, History
A very hard drought devastates an ancient Mexican empire. Warriors and priests fight for power while people are dying. A group of priests return to Aztlan, the mythological place where ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Mora Catlett | Stars: Rodrigo Puebla, Rafael Cortes, José Chávez, Amado Zumaya
Votes: 108
16. Dawn of America (1951)
112 min | History
The story of Cristóbal Colón's tribulations to get financial support for a maritime expedition which should have provided a new commercial route to the Far East but discovered America instead.
Director: Juan de Orduña | Stars: Antonio Vilar, María Martín, José Suárez, Virgilio Teixeira
Votes: 63
17. La controverse de Valladolid (1992 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama, History
Spain conquered the seas, found a new world and different realities than the one known in Europe. But a question needed to be answered with what they found in those new territories: do the ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe | Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Carmet, Jean-Michel Dupuis
Votes: 414
18. Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (1993)
127 min | Drama
Director: Sergio Olhovich | Stars: José Alonso, Germán Robles, Claudette Maillé, Rolando de Castro
Votes: 23
19. Kino (1993)
109 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Before dying, feeling very ill, the italian father Francisco Eusebio Kino remembers when he was younger and traveled from Europe to New Spain (México). Although he wanted travel to China, ... See full summary »
Director: Felipe Cazals | Stars: Enrique Rocha, Rodolfo de Anda, Manuel Ojeda, Fernando Balzaretti
Votes: 51
22. Cuando Pizarro, Cortez y Orellana eran amigos (1979)
89 min | Adventure, Drama
An anthropological fable surrounding the clash of two cultures in the conquest of America.
Director: Gilberto Macedo | Stars: Claudio Obregón, Blanca Baldó, Paloma Woolrich, Jaime Guerra
23. Hernán Cortez (1974)
30 min | Short
Director: Raúl Araiza | Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Aurora Clavel, Antonio Medellín, Germán Robles
24.
Ven que te cuento (2007– )
Episode:
¿Quién era el cacique catia?
(2007)
Documentary
Director: Blanca Rey | Star: Memo Arteaga
25.
Paisaje con figuras (1976–1985)
Episode:
Francisco de Pizarro
(1976)
Biography, Drama, History
The conqueror Francisco de Pizarro during his childhood dreams of great feats.
Director: Mario Camus | Stars: Padua Ortiz de Mendivil, Modesto Blanch, José Carabias, Eduardo Calvo
26. The Road to El Dorado (2000)
PG | 89 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Two swindlers get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
Directors: Bibo Bergeron, Don Paul, Jeffrey Katzenberg | Stars: Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Armand Assante
Votes: 107,464 | Gross: $50.86M
27. La virgen de Guadalupe (1976)
105 min | Drama, History
In 1531, cross-currents are at work: led by Captain Delgadillo, Spanish troops are killing Indians; Temoc, a young Aztec leader, kidnaps the viceroy's blond daughter to show her the beauties of Aztec culture; and the two fall in love.
Director: Alfredo Salazar | Stars: Fernando Allende, Valentín Trujillo, Angélica Chain, Dacia González
Votes: 41
28. Even the Rain (2010)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, History
As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde, Juan Carlos Aduviri
Votes: 14,222 | Gross: $0.56M
29. Captain Orellana and the Possessed Village (2012)
Comedy
Captain Orellana, a former police investigator now working on his own, has been tapped for the wackiest, most dangerous case of his long career. He's hired by the department of health to examine the strange occurrences in a remote village.
Director: Javier Tessari | Stars: Andrea Ayala, Jorge Bac, Yolanda Coronado, José Mario Massella
Votes: 29
30. La primera fundación de Buenos Aires (1959)
41 min | Animation, Short
Director: Fernando Birri | Star: Raúl De Lange
Votes: 16
31. Christopher Columbus, the Enigma (2007)
75 min | Drama, History
A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Ricardo Trêpa, Leonor Baldaque, Manoel de Oliveira, Maria Isabel de Oliveira
Votes: 425
32. Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor (1982)
85 min | Comedy, Musical
Director: Mariano Ozores | Stars: Andrés Pajares, Fiorella Faltoyano, María Kosty, Rafaela Aparicio
Votes: 265
33. Christophe Colomb (1916)
110 min | History
Full length survey of highpoints in the explorer's life. Shows influencers he sought who supported his project and opposition and even indignities he suffered from enemies and those prejudiced against the idea of a New World.
Director: Gérard Bourgeois | Stars: Georges Wague, Jean Garat, Léontine Massart, Nadette Darson
Votes: 21
34. Balboa (1963)
96 min | Adventure, History
The glorification of the campaigns led by Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519), a group of Spanish conquistadors in the territory of present-day Colombia near the Panamanian border.
Director: José María Elorrieta | Stars: Frank Latimore, Pilar Cansino, Jesús Puente, Mario Morales
Votes: 45
35.
Once Upon a Time... The Explorers (1996–1997)
Episode:
Amerigo Vespucci
(1996)
TV-G | 26 min | Animation, Family, History
Everyone knows that Christopher Colombus discovered America. So why is it that this continent is not called Columbia, for example, instead of America?
Stars: Marie-Laure Beneston, Daniel Beretta, Roger Carel, Olivier Destrez
Votes: 24
36. Nuevo mundo (1978)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, History
A story of a priest set in 16th century Mexico who converted the local pagan population to Christianity by making a statue of the Virgin Mary resembling a native woman.
Director: Gabriel Retes | Stars: Aarón Hernán, Tito Junco, Bruno Rey, Juan Ángel Martínez
Votes: 102
37. Jericho (1991)
90 min | Adventure, Drama
At early 16th century a priest joins the Spanish colonizers in order to bring Christianity to the indios. The expedition is murdered by the indios, only the priest is sparred. Santiago, the... See full summary »
Director: Luis Alberto Lamata | Stars: Cosme Cortázar, Francis Rueda, Alexander Milic, Doris Díaz
Votes: 182
38. El bien esquivo (2001)
130 min | Drama
Period film. A mestizo (mixed race) Spanish and Indian soldier returns to Peru from Europe in 1618 to find a document that can prove he is not illegitimate.
Director: Augusto Tamayo San Román | Stars: Diego Bertie, Orlando Sacha, Jimena Lindo, Paul Vega
Votes: 91
39. Christopher Columbus (1943)
Adventure, Drama, History
Director: José Díaz Morales | Stars: Julio Villarreal, Consuelo Frank, José Baviera, Carlos López Moctezuma
Votes: 12
40. Chilam Balam (1955)
94 min | Drama, History
Director: Íñigo de Martino | Stars: Julio Aldama, Miguel Arenas, José Baviera, José Luis Carol
Votes: 9
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