Malaga has been especially privileged as the location for the filming of some legendary titles in the history of Spanish movies such as: Los últimos de Filipinas by Antonio Román(1945), Amanecer en Puerta Oscura (Whom God Forgives) by Jose Maria Forqué (1957), Llanto por un bandido (Weeping for a Bandit) de Carlos Saura (1963) y más recientemente, El puente (Foul Play) by Juan Antonio Bardem (1976), La Sabina by Jose Luis Borau (1979), La Caja 507 (Box 507) by Enrique Urbizu (2001) and El Camino de los Ingleses (Summer Rain) (2006), by the director and actor born in Malaga, Antonio Banderas (2006).
International film shoots have also chosen Malaga for: Par un beau matin d’eté (Crime on a Summer Morning, 1965) de Jacques Deray, Lost command (1966) by Mark Robson and more recently, El Puente de San Luis Rey (The Bridge of San Luis Rey, 2004) by Mary McGuckian and Soldier of God (2005) by David Hogan.
Other directors who have filmed in Malaga include: Robert Rossen, Roger Vadim, Michael Powell, Jean Negulesco, Edgard Dmytryk, Joseph Losey, Richard Fleischer, George Cukor and Michelangelo Antonioni, among many others.