40 Best Spanish Movies on Netflix You Need to Watch
If you are looking for Spanish movies on Netflix you are in the right place. In this article, we are bringing you all the best Spanish movies you can find on your favorite streaming service.
Some of the movies are already well-known Spanish movies, while others are hidden gems you can only find on Netflix. So, check them out below and choose your next watch.
The Platform (2019)
Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s feature debut takes us on a journey through a bizarre vertical prison with one cell per floor and two prisoners per cell. A platform with food passes through the center of the prison and the prisoners have only two minutes to eat.
The ones at the top get the best food, while the ones below get only the leftovers. One man decides to change the situation…
Mirage (2018)
Some mysterious interference between two-time epochs will cause Vera, a happily married mother, to save the life of a boy who lived in her house 25 years earlier. But the consequences of her action will cause a chain reaction that will result in a new reality in which her daughter was never born…
Below Zero (2021)
On a lonely road, a prison transport is brutally assaulted. Martin, the policeman who was driving, survives and fortifies his position while the con men search for a way to finish him.
In Family I Trust (2019)
Bea is a successful architect who lives in Barcelona (Catalonia, northeast of Spain) with her boyfriend and boss, VÃctor, a CEO of an important company. During a night celebration of an important contract signed to make a skyscraper designed by Bea, in the bar appears the famous TV reporter and anchorwoman Rebecca Ramos, Victor’s personal erotic fantasy. Not measuring the consequences of her actions due to the alcohol she drank, Bea makes a meeting between VÃctor and Rebecca.
When to the next day she wakes up, VÃctor proposes to wed Bea and she accepts, but after she arrives at the job, Bea learns about a videotape where VÃctor and Rebecca make the love in a car that it’s on all TV channels. In front of all CEOs during a full meeting, Bea slaps VÃctor and destroys her design, being fired from the job. Looking for a break, she travels to her natal coastal town, Santa Clara, just to discover that her rest isn’t as easy as it seems: her eccentric, free-spirited and eternal smiling mother.
The Invisible Guardian (2017)
Near the bank of the Bastan river in the Navarre valley, the naked dead body of an adolescent girl appears under circumstances that connect it to a murder that happened a month earlier. Inspector Amaja Salasar leads an investigation that will bring her back to Elisonda, the village where she grew up and from which she tried to escape all her life.
Faced with the complex development of this case and with her own ghosts, Amaja’s investigation will turn into a race against time in the hunt for an inexorable killer in an environment that is fertile ground for superstitions and witchcraft.
So My Grandma’s a Lesbian! (2019)
Eva, a young and promising Spanish lawyer based in Edinburgh, sees her wedding plans with the heir to an important and ultra-conservative Scottish family in jeopardy when she learns that her grandmother, SofÃa, has decided to marry…
Verónica (2017)
Madrid, June of 1991. Verónica is a teenage girl surpassed by the circumstances after her father died recently, her mother works in a bar all day and she must care for her three siblings, twin girls LucÃa and Irene and the youngest Antoñito.
Still mourning her father’s death, Verónica decides to play Ouija with her friends Rosa and Diana, taking advantage of a total solar eclipse where all classmates and teachers are on the school’s rooftop watching it. Alone in the cellar, the girls try to contact their recently deceased family members, but the session goes wrong and something happens to Verónica.
She hid from her mother what has happened, Verónica starts to feel a strange presence inside the house and fears that these ghosts are a threat to any of her siblings. Advised by Sister Narcisa (nicknamed by the children as Sister Death) about the sinister spirit which is close to her, Verónica looking for a way to break the contact with the ghost and save everyone, suffering hallucinations.
Your Son (2018)
Dr. Jaime Jimenez’s life will collapse when his 17-year-old son remains in a vegetative state as a result of the beating he suffered at the exit of a discotheque. After realizing that justice does nothing to punish the guilty, he will personally embark on a journey straight to Hell in search of revenge.
Mother’s Love (2022)
A young man is standing up at the altar. His overprotective mother decides to join him is what would have been his honeymoon, so as not to waste the trip. He ails while his mum enjoys the trip of her life.
The Occupant (2020)
The plot revolves around Javier Muñoz (Javier Gutiérrez), a former executive who is forced to sell his apartment because of unemployment. He becomes obsessed with the new occupants, and begins infiltrating their lives.
A Twelve-Year Night (2018)
1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: “As we can’t kill them, let’s drive them mad.”
Through My Window (2022)
Raquel’s longtime crush on her next-door neighbor turns into something more when he starts developing feelings for her, despite his family’s objections.
The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)
Based on the true story of Spanish Civil War veteran Francisco Boix, a prisoner at Nazi German Mauthausen concentration camp, who preserved and hid photographs of the conditions at the camp. Boix and his fellow prisoners risked their lives to save negatives and evidence of the atrocities committed at Mauthausen.
Sky High (2020)
A commentary on Spanish society dressed as a thriller about the misadventures of a gang of young petty criminals after the real estate crash.
The Power of Silence (2017)
In the mid-1940s, Pau Casals is considered the best musician of the moment. Exiled in Prades, France, he promises not to play in public until the end of Franco’s dictatorship, and tries to help needy Republican families to protect themselves from the Gestapo as well. After the war is over, Pau hopes that the victory of the Allies will also mean the end of Franco’s dictatorship.
Elisa & Marcela (2019)
In 1901, Elisa Sanchez Loriga took on the identity of Mario Sánchez to marry her lover of fifteen years, Marcela Gracia Ibeas.
Amar (2017)
Laura and Carlos love each other as if every day is their last. Driven by the desire to control her own life and break free from her mother’s control, Laura dreams of getting pregnant. Both search for their place in this world, but one year later and a little more mature, their deep passion is just a memory.
Adu (2020)
The film intertwines three storylines related to African immigration to Europe. A six-year-old boy and his older sister make a desperate attempt to flee Benin for Europe, waiting on a runway to smuggle themselves inside an airplane’s cargo hold. Not far away, an activist against illegal hunting discovers the terrible scene of a dead elephant, its tusks removed.
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As well as fighting against illegal poaching, he has to face issues with his daughter, who recently arrived in the country. Thousands of miles to the north, in Melilla, a group of civil guards faces a mass assault on the Melilla border fence by Africans desperate to gain access to Spain.
The Chalk Line (2022)
The story is primarily set in a residential area with high-class villas. One night, Paula and her husband de Ella discover a wandering girl who is obsessed with a monster that will allegedly haunt her once she crosses a chalk square drawn on the ground.
After attempting to amend their conjugal relationship, the couple pledges to foster the girl on a temporary basis.
Toc Toc (2017)
A group of patients with various obsessive-compulsive disorders (TOC) meets for a session with an eminent psychologist. But since the doctor is late, they will have to wait for him, keeping their manias, impulses, obsessions and rituals under control…
The Perfect Family (2021)
The plot features the clash between a well-off family and a working-class family in the wake of an unexpected wedding between Pablo and Sara set to link both families, putting the world of LucÃa (the privileged groom’s mother) upside down.
The Paramedic (2020)
Angel works in an ambulance service. After a tragic accident, his personal life begins to deteriorate as he becomes more and more suspicious of his partner Vane.
Sounds Like Love (2021)
Maca, a clumsy 30-year-old who lives in Madrid, is stuck as an assistant for an oppressive and terrifying fashion influencer, wasting her talent and spending most of her time with men with whom she never manages to establish an emotional bond. Together with her two unique and loveable friends, Jimena and Adriana, Maca endeavors to make the most of life and happiness, despite her dead-end job, making almost everything possible.
All seems to be going well until Maca’s ex Leo returns to her life, flipping her almost perfect life upside down. Leo was the biggest mistake of Maca’s life, the man who tore her heart apart and obliterated her self-esteem and her faith in men.
Maca had forgotten all about him, but now she has to accept that he has suddenly come back into her life and she must face those emotions that she has repressed for so long, dealing with the unforgettable memory of what could have been and never was.
A Man of Action (2022)
Taking place from the 1940s to the 1980s and primarily set in France, the plot is freely inspired by the life of Paris-based Spanish anarchist, bricklayer, and bank robber Lucio Urtubia, known for forging a large-scale scam aimed at the City Bank.
Pixel Theory (2013)
The Program has changed everything. It has rejected human creativity has questioned free will and seems to be able of breaking the walls of reason. Universal Knowledge is now within reach but, is the human race ready?
Crazy About Her (2021)
After a magical night together, Adri voluntarily turns himself into the psychiatric institution where Carla lives.
The Distinguished Citizen (2016)
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.
I Love You, Stupid (2020)
Marcos (Quim Gutiérrez), a young man faces a series of nightmares after having a breakup with his longtime girlfriend Ana (Alba Ribas) ending an eight-year-old romantic relationship between the duo.
Marcos loses his job on the day after his breakup with Ana and he desperately sets out to reinvent himself and has to revisit the basics of being a modern man with the help of his childhood friend and an Argentinian YouTube guru.
Congreso Anyway (1993)
In remarkable footage of a conference held in Barcelona in 1993, participants like Frank Gehry discuss groundbreaking ideas in architecture.
I’m No Longer Here (2019)
In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.
More the Merrier (2021)
A comedy about a series of couples who dare to pay a visit to a swingers’ club, a place where established social rules and prejudices are left at the door. A desperate bride-to-be, two cousins separated since adolescence, a group of friends willing to experiment, and a couple trapped by their boring daily routine.
During the course of one night, they will live insane situations they never thought they would find themselves in, and for some, separating feelings from sex will prove to be something quite difficult to accomplish.
Live Twice, Love Once (2019)
A poignant tragic comedy about family, love, aging, Alzheimer’s, and dementia. A successful Spanish mathematics professor faces the awful reality of Alzheimer’s and increasingly reverts to earlier memories of lost love.
With hesitant but increasing support from his somewhat dysfunctional family, the professor pursues a childhood dream before losing all his memory, forging stronger family ties long the way.
Code Name: Emperor (2022)
Follows Juan, an agent working for the intelligence services, who also reports to a parallel unit involved in illegal activities.
7 Years (2016)
Four business partners have a fiscal problem in the company they work for and decide to determine which of them will take the fall and go to prison for their financial crimes. From debates and a vote in the group, whoever is nominated will be jailed for 7 years.
¡Ay, mi madre! (2019)
MarÃa is a young woman who, after the death of her mother, must return to her town in Andalusia. MarÃa is willing to get her inheritance, but to access it she has to meet one condition: marry and have children. For this, Maria will ask her cousin, her second cousin, for help.
Jefe (2018)
Sesar is the “boss” whom everyone hates, some “get behind him” and to whom no one tells the truth, a great successful entrepreneur who is on the verge of ruin. Overnight, his actions will fail, his associates will betray him, and his wife will throw him out of the house.
Buried in his office, he will tirelessly try to reclaim his company and his life. But he will not be alone in this. Sesar will meet a very unusual ally, Ariana, a cleaner from the night shift…
Under Her Control (2022)
SofÃa, who works for a multinational company, gets pregnant. Desperate for offspring, SofÃa’s boss Beatriz offers her a bargain involving the child (to be given in adoption) in exchange for a job promotion. Instead of interrupting her pregnancy, SofÃa accepts the offer.
Eye for an Eye (2019)
Mario, an exemplary man, lives in a village on the Galician coast. In the old people’s home, where he works as a nurse, everyone appreciates him. When the best-known narco in the area, Antonio PadÃn, recently released from prison, enters the residence, Mario tries to make Antonio feel at home.
Now, PadÃn’s two sons, Kike and Toño, are in charge of the family business. The failure of an operation will put Kike in jail and cause them to owe a large debt to a Colombian supplier. Toño will turn to the nurse to try to convince his father to assume the debt. But Mario has his own plans.
Despite Everything (2019)
Before the reading of their mother’s will, four estranged sisters find out that the man they’ve known as their father is not and each one has a different father. Their mother, Carmen, left a video testament in which she reveals her secret, and as a last wish and condition of receiving their inheritance tells her daughters to find their biological fathers, providing only the names of her former lovers. However, if one of them chooses not to do so, the inheritance is forfeited for all.
The siblings live separate lives and are opposites of each other. Sara is an accomplished magazine editor in New York City; Lucia, the youngest, is a discontented nonconformist engaging in sexual escapades; SofÃa is an artist and lesbian with commitment issues; and Claudia is conservative, hiding that her husband left her and coping with it by popping pills and drinking wine excessively. Compelled to tolerate each other, the four embark on a road trip to procure DNA samples of the men, discover their fathers, and claim their inheritance.
Fresh Flesh (2011)
Quico and Andrew traveled to the countryside in order to work at a house. They realize that they’re involved in a cult of cannibals led by Molly, a former hippie expert in kebabs made of human flesh. They then realize that when life’s difficult, there’s nothing better than raw meat.
