Spanish- Language Movies to Watch
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1. Spanish Affair (2014)
98 min | Comedy, Romance
Rafael, a Sevillian who has never left Andalucia, decides to leave his homeland to follow Amaia, a Basque girl unlike other women whom he has ever known.
Director: Emilio Martínez Lázaro | Stars: Clara Lago, Dani Rovira, Carmen Machi, Karra Elejalde
Votes: 18,532
2. Family United (2013)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
Five brothers reunite for a wedding at the family estate on the day that Spain plays in the 2010 World Cup final.
Director: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo | Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Roberto Álamo, Quim Gutiérrez, Miquel Fernández
Votes: 4,632
3. Goya's Ghosts (2006)
R | 113 min | Biography, Drama, History
Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, Randy Quaid
Votes: 31,949 | Gross: $1.00M
4. Salvador (2006)
134 min | Biography, Drama, History
A profile of anarchist and bank-robber Salvador Puig Antich, whose 1974 execution under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco ushered in a period of unrest that helped Spain transition to democracy.
Director: Manuel Huerga | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Tristán Ulloa, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Joel Joan
Votes: 3,450
5. Gran Hotel (2011–2013)
TV-14 | 3,098 min | Crime, Drama, History
A family-owned hotel in the fictional coastal Spanish town of Cantaloa in 1905: love, blackmail, jealousies, crime, comedy, and plots and counter-plots all involving the hotel's owners, guests, detectives, and residential employees.
Stars: Adriana Ozores, Amaia Salamanca, Yon González, Eloy Azorín
Votes: 11,201
6. Cable Girls (2017–2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama
Set in the 1920s, this is the story of four women from different backgrounds newly hired as operators for a phone company.
Stars: Blanca Suárez, Yon González, Ana Fernández, Nadia de Santiago
Votes: 16,148
7. Velvet (2013–2016)
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Romance
A feel-good, compelling Spanish story of a fashion house in Madrid in the late 50's, which is scene to money, fashion, drama, entanglements, love, jealousies, plots, counter-plots involving its owners, customers and residential employees.
Stars: Paula Echevarría, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Manuela Velasco
Votes: 6,793
8. High Seas (2019–2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two sisters discover disturbing family secrets after a string of mysterious deaths occur on a luxury ship traveling from Spain to Brazil in the 1940s.
Stars: Ivana Baquero, Jon Kortajarena, Alejandra Onieva, Eloy Azorín
Votes: 8,390
9. El embarcadero (2019–2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Mystery
When Alexandra discovers that her late husband led a double life, she secretly befriends the other woman, Veronica, to uncover what really happened at the pier the night that he died.
Stars: Álvaro Morte, Verónica Sánchez, Irene Arcos, Roberto Enríquez
Votes: 3,779
10. Cathedral of the Sea (2018)
TV-MA | 55 min | Drama, History
In 14th-century Barcelona, a serf's determined climb to wealth and freedom incurs the disdain of the noble class and the suspicion of the Inquisition.
Stars: Susana G. Esteban, Jordi Aguilar, Aitor Luna, Susana Ballesteros
Votes: 5,281
11. Morocco: Love in Times of War (2017)
70 min | Drama, War
In the Spanish city of Melilla, during the Rif War of the 1920s, Spanish volunteer nurses of Red Cross with no experience adapt to their new lives.
Stars: Amaia Salamanca, Álex García, Verónica Sánchez, Álex Gadea
Votes: 3,287
12. Skam España (2018–2020)
25 min | Drama, Romance
The series accompanies a group of 16-year-olds on the journey of their life following day to day in real time. Dependence on social media, how they face sex, love and ruptures, religion, the search of their identity and the need to fit in.
Stars: Alba Planas, Hajar Brown, Irene Ferreiro, Nicole Wallace
Votes: 1,173
13. Mar de plástico (2015–2016)
70 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A TV series recorded in the south of Spain which tells us about the murder of a girl called Ainhoa. Inspector Hector must find out who did it.
Stars: Rodolfo Sancho, Pedro Casablanc, Luis Fernández, Nya de la Rubia
Votes: 2,159
14. Isabel (2011–2014)
3,038 min | Biography, History
The life of Isabella I of Castile, also known as Isabella the Catholic.
Stars: Michelle Jenner, Ramon Madaula, Rodolfo Sancho, Jordi Díaz
Votes: 2,524
15. Patria (2020)
TV-14 | 463 min | Drama
The story of two families affected by ETA's terrorism in the Basque Country.
Stars: Elena Irureta, José Ramón Soroiz, Iñigo Aranbarri, Susana Abaitua
Votes: 6,437
16. If I Hadn't Met You (2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A man who loses his family in a tragic accident discovers that he can travel to alternate universes, compelling him to find a world in which his family can be saved.
Stars: Pablo Derqui, Andrea Ros, Javier Beltrán, Paula Malia
Votes: 2,956
17. Paquita Salas (2016– )
Comedy
After losing her biggest client, talent agent Paquita starts a search for new stars.
Stars: Brays Efe, Belén Cuesta, Lidia San José, Álex de Lucas
Votes: 3,869
18. La Unidad (2020–2023)
Action, Drama, Thriller
A secret unit of cops is assembled to stop a terrorist band from attacking Spain after their leader is arrested there.
Stars: Nathalie Poza, Michel Noher, Marian Álvarez, Fariba Sheikhan
Votes: 1,862
19. Bajo sospecha (2014–2016)
Thriller
A murder mystery full of family secrets, intrigue and obsession, as the police battle to solve a truly dark and puzzling case.
Stars: Yon González, Vicente Romero, Lluís Homar, Luisa Martín
Votes: 1,951
20. Inés of My Soul (2020)
Drama
This is a romantic historical drama based on the true story of the first woman "conquistador" who went to the South American land that would become Chile, and helped to form the city of ... See full summary »
Stars: Elena Rivera, Eduardo Noriega, Ismael Martínez, Nicolás Zárate
Votes: 479
21. La peste (2018–2019)
50 min | Crime, Drama, History
A series of murders take place in 16th-century Seville, where the plague has taken hold; a condemned man faces the Inquisition as he attempts to save the son of a friend by speaking out.
Stars: Pablo Molinero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Sergio Castellanos, Cecilia Gómez
Votes: 2,219
22. Hierro (2019–2022)
48 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Investigating magistrate Candela is transferred to El Hierro, the most remote of the Canary Islands. There, she discovers a suspicious community and is confronted by the death of a young local boy, murdered the day before his wedding.
Stars: Candela Peña, Darío Grandinetti, Kimberley Tell, Luifer Rodríguez
Votes: 2,760
23. Welcome to the Family (2018–2019)
TV-MA | Comedy
When an evicted single mom's estranged father dies, she and his second wife cover up his death after they learn that they've been written out of his will.
Stars: Melani Olivares, Ivan Massagué, Yolanda Ramos, Nao Albet
Votes: 537
24. La Línea Invisible (2020)
45 min | Drama, History
Based on the birth of Basque terrorists group ETA and their first terror attack, of which military police member José Antonio Pardines was a victim.
Stars: Àlex Monner, Anna Castillo, Patrick Criado, Joan Amargós
Votes: 1,349
25. Vida perfecta (2019–2021)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
When a young woman's life begins to slip into disarray, her sister and best friend come to her rescue.
Stars: Leticia Dolera, Celia Freijeiro, Aixa Villagrán, Enric Auquer
Votes: 1,176
26. Madres. Amor y vida (2020– )
Drama
A moving life story in which they, mothers and doctors, fight for their children's future, and their own.
Stars: Aida Folch, Alain Hernández, Belén Rueda, Carmen Ruiz
Votes: 249
27. La caza. Monteperdido (2019–2023)
TV-14 | 70 min | Drama
The unsolved case of two girls who disappeared from the Pyrenee town of Monteperdido five years ago is reopened when one of them reappears.
Stars: Megan Montaner, Alain Hernández, Beatriz Carvajal, Félix Gómez
Votes: 1,338
28. Si fueras tú (2017)
Mystery
Alba arrives to her new school and she realizes adapting won't be easy because everyone is looking at her - she is just like Cris, a girl who disappeared a half year ago.
Stars: María Pedraza, Óscar Casas, Lucía Díez, Juan Blanco
Votes: 205
29. Los Serrano (2003–2008)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Follows the Serrano family, who live in Round Santa Justa No 133, located in the fictional neighborhood of Santa Justa, in the Ribera del Manzanares, in Madrid.
Stars: Antonio Resines, Jesús Bonilla, Antonio Molero, Jorge Jurado
Votes: 4,036
30. El Príncipe (2014–2016)
75 min | Drama, Thriller
An intelligence agent is sent to El Principe, on the border with Morocco, to investigate a possible police collaboration with a terrorist cell, but finds unexpected love with the least suitable person: a drug baron's sister.
Stars: Jose Coronado, Álex González, Hiba Abouk, Rubén Cortada
Votes: 1,250
31. The Paradise (2020– )
370 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Finnish family is found murdered in cold blood on the Spanish Costa del Sol. The homicides shock Fuengirola's Finnish community and a criminal investigator is sent from Finland.
Stars: Fran Perea, Riitta Havukainen, María Romero, Carl-Kristian Rundman
Votes: 708
32. La señora (2008–2010)
72 min | Drama
In the 1920s Victoria and Ángel fall in love in a small town, northern Spain. They are two people both from a different social class, she is the daughter of a wealthy businessman and he ... See full summary »
Stars: Adriana Ugarte, Rodolfo Sancho, Roberto Enríquez, Berta Ojea
Votes: 323
33. Nasdrovia (2020–2022)
Action, Comedy, Drama
Edurne and Julián are two successful lawyers. They decided to quit their careers and open a Russian restaurant: the Nasdrovia. Unfortunately, it's so great that it becomes a favorite of the Russian mafia.
Stars: Leonor Watling, Hugo Silva, Luis Bermejo, Anton Yakovlev
Votes: 386
34. Un paso adelante (2002–2005)
50 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The show focuses on the professors and students at a prestigious art school in Spain. They want to be successful singers, dancers, and actors, but they learn as they go along that the path to fame is not easy.
Stars: Alfonso Lara, Beatriz Luengo, Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Erika Sanz
Votes: 1,608
35. The Refugees (2014–2015)
50 min | Thriller
Follows the Cruz family during the largest exodus in the history of mankind and their encounter with Alex, another refugee who will not hesitate to break the rules to fulfill his purpose.
Stars: Natalia Tena, David Leon, Dafne Keen, Ken Appledorn
Votes: 371
36. Aída (2005–2014)
60 min | Comedy
After her father's sudden death, Aida returns to her childhood neighborhood and tries to help her children get ahead in life.
Stars: Paco León, Pepe Viyuela, Melani Olivares, David Castillo
Votes: 2,437
37. La embajada (2016)
70 min | Thriller
Luis Salinas is the new Spanish ambassador in Thailand and has just moved with his family to Bangkok aiming to clean the embassy from any trace of corruption.
Stars: Belén Rueda, Abel Folk, Amaia Salamanca, Megan Montaner
Votes: 438
38. Merlí (2015–2018)
TV-MA | 58 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Meet the renegade philosophy teacher who's not afraid to speak his mind and break the rules to revolutionize his students' lives, including the son he barely knows and a student with a severe social phobia.
Stars: Francesc Orella, Pere Ponce, Carlos Cuevas, Marta Marco
Votes: 9,894
39. Criminal: Spain (2019)
40 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Psychological games abound between detectives and suspects in a tense interrogation room, where the search for answers sometimes comes at a moral cost.
Stars: Emma Suárez, Jorge Bosch, Álvaro Cervantes, María Morales
Votes: 4,724
40. The Endless Trench (2019)
TV-MA | 147 min | Drama, History
1936. A country taken by the fascism. A husband marked for the killing. A wife determined to all for saving him. An endless incarceration in his own home.
Directors: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño, Jose Mari Goenaga | Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Belén Cuesta, Vicente Vergara, José Manuel Poga
Votes: 7,298
41. Elisa & Marcela (2019)
TV-MA | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1901, Elisa Sanchez Loriga took on the identity of Mario Sánchez to marry her lover of fifteen years, Marcela Gracia Ibeas.
Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Natalia de Molina, Greta Fernández, Sara Casasnovas, Tamar Novas
Votes: 5,836
42. Vis a vis (2015–2019)
TV-MA | 53 min | Drama, Thriller
She broke the law for the boss she fell in love with. Now this naive girl has to pay the price.
Stars: Alba Flores, María Isabel Díaz Lago, Marta Aledo, Najwa Nimri
Votes: 25,884
43. Made in Mexico (2018)
49 min | Reality-TV
Get to know the opulent lifestyles and famous families of Mexico City's socialites and the expats vying for a spot in their exclusive social order.
Stars: Chantal Trujillo, Carlos Giron Longoria, Hanna Jaff, Roby Checa
Votes: 792
44. Julia Is (2017)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Julia goes to Berlin to study but once there, completely alone, she realizes that she doesn't know herself as well as she thought and that she has no idea what she wants to do while living in a completely new city.
Director: Elena Martín | Stars: Elena Martín, Oriol Puig Grau, Laura Weissmahr, Jakob D'Aprile
Votes: 545
45. Empowered (2018)
TV-MA | 87 min | Comedy
After to visit a Hindi guru healer, Paz loses control over what she says and starts speaking out everything that comes to her mind.
Director: Santiago Segura | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Diego Martín, Toni Acosta, Rafael Spregelburd
Votes: 2,585
46. Bad Education (2004)
NC-17 | 106 min | Crime, Drama
An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Javier Cámara, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Votes: 63,420 | Gross: $5.21M
47. Sin Nombre (2009)
R | 96 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A young Honduran girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the U.S. border.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga | Stars: Paulina Gaitan, Marco Antonio Aguirre, Leonardo Alonso, Karla Cecilia Alvarado
Votes: 34,056 | Gross: $2.53M
48. The Distinguished Citizen (2016)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who has been living in Europe for decades, accepts an invitation to receive another award. In Argentina he finds both similarities and irreconcilable differences with the people of his hometown.
Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat | Stars: Oscar Martínez, Dady Brieva, Andrea Frigerio, Nora Navas
Votes: 13,342
49. The Swamp (2001)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: Mercedes Morán, Graciela Borges, Martín Adjemián, Leonora Balcarce
Votes: 7,864 | Gross: $0.10M
50. The Wild Bunch (1969)
R | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien
Votes: 90,376 | Gross: $12.06M
51. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two friends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Christopher Evan Welch
Votes: 268,897 | Gross: $23.22M
52. Felipe y Letizia (2010)
150 min | Biography, Drama
Dramatisation of the romance between Spain's king Felipe and his wife Letizia.
Stars: Amaia Salamanca, Fernando Gil, Marisa Paredes, Juanjo Puigcorbé
Votes: 199
53. Amores Perros (2000)
R | 154 min | Drama, Thriller
An amateur dog fighter, a supermodel, and a derelict assassin, all separately struggling to find love, find their lives transformed by a devastating car wreck in Mexico City.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Álvaro Guerrero
Votes: 252,914 | Gross: $5.38M
54. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
R | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Votes: 703,080 | Gross: $37.63M
55. Amar (2017)
105 min | Drama, Romance
Laura and Carlos love each other as if every day was the last, and perhaps that first love intensity is what will tear them apart a year later.
Director: Esteban Crespo | Stars: María Pedraza, Pol Monen, Natalia Tena, Greta Fernández
Votes: 5,092
56. Volver (I) (2006)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama
After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo
Votes: 107,492 | Gross: $12.90M
57. The Orphanage (2007)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
Director: J.A. Bayona | Stars: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera
Votes: 163,616 | Gross: $7.16M
58. City of God (2002)
R | 130 min | Crime, Drama
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | Stars: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen
Votes: 801,191 | Gross: $7.56M
59. The Sea Inside (I) (2004)
PG-13 | 126 min | Biography, Drama
The factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 28-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas, Mabel Rivera
Votes: 85,256 | Gross: $2.09M
60. I Dream in Another Language (2017)
Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Romance
When a language dies, a unique vision of the world is lost forever.
Director: Ernesto Contreras | Stars: Fernando Álvarez Rebeil, José Manuel Poncelis, Eligio Meléndez, Fátima Molina
Votes: 4,054 | Gross: $0.00M
61. Maria Full of Grace (2004)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately-needed money for her family.
Director: Joshua Marston | Stars: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Guilied Lopez, Orlando Tobón, Virginia Cristina Ariza
Votes: 36,184 | Gross: $6.52M
62. The Beasts (2022)
137 min | Drama, Thriller
An expatriate French couple operate an organic farm in the Spanish countryside but clash with villagers.
Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Stars: Marina Foïs, Denis Ménochet, Luis Zahera, Diego Anido
Votes: 18,297
63. When Evil Lurks (2023)
Not Rated | 99 min | Horror
In a remote village, two brothers find a demon-infected man just about to "give birth" to evil itself. They decide to get rid of the body, only to end up unintentionally spreading chaos.
Director: Demián Rugna | Stars: Ezequiel Rodríguez, Demián Salomón, Silvina Sabater, Luis Ziembrowski
Votes: 31,245
64. The Envoys (2021– )
TV-MA | 55 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Two priests need to find the whereabouts of an alleged healer who mysteriously disappears. Soon they discover a psychiatric community on the outskirts of town which is hiding secrets behind the missing healer.
Stars: Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Claudia Zie, Assira Abbate
Votes: 1,129
65. Totem (2023)
95 min | Drama
Seven-year-old Sol is spending the day at her grandfather's home, for a surprise party for Sol's father, Tonatiuh. As daylight fades, Sol comes to understand that her world is about to change dramatically.
Director: Lila Avilés | Stars: Naíma Sentíes, Montserrat Marañon, Marisol Gasé, Saori Gurza
Votes: 2,429
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