Highest rated movie: Bad Education (2004)
Lowest rated movie: Run of the Arrow (1957)
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Movies starring Sara Montiel have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 69%.
Bad Education - released in 2004 - is Sara Montiel's highest rated movie, with a score of 78% based on 620 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Sara Montiel is Run of the Arrow - released in 1957 - with a score of 61% based on 11 reviews.
Sara Montiel (also Sarita Montiel or Saritísima; 10 March 1928 – 8 April 2013) was a Spanish singer and actress. She was a naturalized citizen of Mexico. Montiel was born in Campo de Criptana in the region of Castile–La Mancha in 1928 as María Antonia Abad (complete name María Antonia Alejandra Vicenta Elpidia Isidora Abad Fernández). After her work in John Orduña''s The Last Cuplé in 1957, Montiel worked in Europe, Latin America and United States. Montiel''s film Varietes was banned in Beijing in 1973. Her films The Last Cuple and La Violetera netted the highest gross revenues ever recorded for films made in the Spanish speaking movie industry during the 1950s/60s. She played the role of Antonia, the niece of Don Quixote, in the 1947 Spanish film version of Cervantes''s great novel.
She was portrayed in the Pedro Almodóvar film Bad Education by a male actor in drag (Gael García Bernal) as the cross-dressing character Zahara, and a film clip from one of her movies was used as well.
Sara Montiel has acted in films with Charles Bronson, Jack Elam, Gael García Bernal and Ernest Borgnine.
Sara Montiel has worked with these film directors: Pedro Almodóvar, Samuel Fuller and Robert Aldrich.
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