THE HITMAN’S WIFE’S BODYGUARD (2021)

 Directed By: Patrick Hughes  Written By: Brandon Murphy & Phillip Murphy  Based On Characters Created By & Story By: Tom O’Connor  Cinematography: Terry Stacey  Editor: Jack Hutchings & Michael J. Duthie

Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek, Frank Grillo, Antonio Banderas, Tom Hopper, Caroline Goodall, Richard E. Grant, Morgan Freeman, Alice McMillan 

The bodyguard, Michael Bryce, continues his friendship with assassin, Darius Kincaid, as they try to save Darius' wife Sonia

HAYWIRE (2011)

Editing, Cinematography & Directed By: Steven Soderbergh
Written By: Lem Dobbs

Cast: Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum, Bill Paxton, Michael Angarano, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas

Freelance covert operative Mallory Kane is hired out by her handler to various global entities to perform jobs which governments can't authorize and heads of state would rather not know about. After a mission to rescue a hostage in Barcelona, Mallory is quickly dispatched on another mission to Dublin. When the operation goes awry and Mallory finds she has been double-crossed, she needs to use all of her skills, tricks, and abilities to escape an international manhunt, make it back to the United States, protect her family, and exact revenge on those that have betrayed her.

THE LAUNDROMAT (2019)

Directed By: Steven Soderbergh 
Written By: Scott Z. Burns 
Based on the Book “Secrecy World: Inside The Panama Papers Investigation Of Illicit Money Networks and The Global Elite” By: Jake Bernstein 
Cinematography: Peter Andrews 
Editor: Mary Ann Bernard 


Cast: Meryl Streep, Antonio Banderas, Gary Oldman, Jeffrey Wright, David Schwimmer, James Cromwell, Sharon Stone, Robert Patrick, Larry Wilmore, Rosalind Chao, Matthias Schoenaerts, Nonso Anozie, Miracle Washington, Jessica Allain, Jay Paulson, Melissa Rauch, Will Forte, Chris Parnell 


A widow investigates an insurance fraud, chasing leads to a pair of Panama City law partners exploiting the world's financial system. It feels like this films almost a lesson with dramatization added. Based on the Panama papers. It seems like Meryl Streep is the audience surrogate in a buerocratic international video game. Where through her experience we learn all about this situation really about fraud and international banking.

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES: HALL OF FAME FILE #0028: PHILADELPHIA (1993)

Directed By: Jonathan Demme 
Written By: Ron Nyswaner 
Cinematography By: Tak Fujimoto 
Editor: Craig McKay 

 Cast: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robarbs, Joanne Woodward, Anna Deavere Smith, Chandra Wilson, Robert Ridgely, Bradley Whitford, Tracy Walter, Adam Lefevre, Charles Napier, Roger Corman, Obba Babtunde

FEMME FATALE (2002)

Written & Directed By: Brian De Palma 
Cinematography By: ‘Thierry Arbogast 
Editor: Bill Pankow 

 Cast: Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote, Rie Rasmussen, Gregg Henry, Eriq Ebouaney

THE SKIN I LIVE IN (2011)

Written & Directed By: Pedro Almodovar
Based on the novel "Trantula" Written by: Thierry Jonquet
Cinematography By: Jose Luis Alcaine
Editor: Jose Salcedo

Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Ayana, Blanca Suarez, Marisa Parades, Jan Cornet, Robert Alamo, Barbara Lennie

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (1994)

Directed By: Neil Jordan
Written By: Anne Rice (Based On her Novel)
Cinematography By: Philippe Rousselot
Editor: Mick Audsley & Joke Van Wijk

Cast: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Thandie Newton, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea, Christian Slater