Spanish drama movies

List of the best Spanish drama movies selected by visitors to our site: Official Competition, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Impossible, The Sisters Brothers, Papillon, Blue Is the Warmest Color, Three Steps Above Heaven, Carnage, Through My Window, Dos.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountrySpain, Argentina

When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySpain, USA
Duration01:36

Two girlfriends 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.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama
CountrySpain, Thailand, USA
Duration01:49

    In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, western, crime
    CountryFrance, Spain, Romania, Belgium, USA
    Duration01:56

    Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, adventure, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, Czech Republic, Spain
    Duration01:00

    Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Spain
    Duration02:59

    Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama
    CountrySpain
    Duration02:03

    Story of two young people who belong to different worlds. It is the chronicle of a love improbable, almost impossible but inevitable dragging in a frantic journey they discover the first great love. Babi (Maria Valverde) is a girl from upper-middle class that is educated in goodness and innocence . Hache (Mario Casas) is a rebellious boy, impulsive, unconscious, has a appetite for risk and danger embodied in endless fights and illegal motorbike races, the limit of common sense

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Germany, Spain, Poland
    Duration01:20

    After 11-year-old Zachary Cowan strikes his classmate across the face with a stick after an argument, the victim's parents invite Zachary's parents to their Brooklyn apartment to deal with the incident in a civilized manner.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySpain

    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.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountrySpain

    Two people, a man and a woman, wake up naked and with their abdomens attached to each other.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountrySpain

    Centres on a psychiatric prison where a group of armed men aim to capture an incarcerated serial killer, but are met with resistance from the prison director.

    Markimdb: 5.3

    A woman named Amanda lies stricken, far from home. A young boy named David questions her, trying to make her remember. She's not his mother, he's not her son. As her time is running out, he helps her unravel a powerful, haunting story of obsessive jealousy, an invisible danger, and the power of a mother's love for her child.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountrySpain

    After losing her memory in a bizarre accident that kills most of her classmates, Alma tries to unravel what happened that day and regain her identity.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySpain

    11 years after her husband was killed by the Basque group ETA, Maixabel Lasa agrees to a request to meet one of the assassins who is in prison, in an attempt to find some kind of restorative justice.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Germany, Spain, USA

    A bank executive receives a bomb threat while driving his children to school that his car will explode if they stop and get out.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountrySpain

    Marina Quiroga, a daring upper-class girl with a detective’s soul, sets off to catch the serial killer that has been terrorizing her town with her faithful butler Hector’s help.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountrySpain, France

    Follows Juan, an agent working for the intelligence services, who also reports to a parallel unit involved in illegal activities.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama
    CountrySpain

    A family hiding a shocking secret starts over in Madrid, where new relationships complicate their plans and the past begins to catch up with them.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, crime, biography, history
    CountrySpain

    In this drama inspired by the life of Lucio Urtubia, an anarchist targets one of the world’s biggest banks with an ingenious counterfeiting operations.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryFrance, Spain, Germany, Portugal

    On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the high commissioner of the Republic and French government must investigate an ongoing rumor: the sighting of a submarine whose ghostly presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountrySpain

    A young pregnant woman named Mia escapes from a country at war by hiding in a maritime container aboard a cargo ship. After a violent storm, Mia gives birth to the child while lost at sea, where she must fight to survive.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountrySpain, France

    An overweight teen is bullied by a clique of cool girls poolside while holidaying in her village. The long walk home will change the rest of her life.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountrySpain, France

    A middle-aged French couple moves to a local village, seeking closeness with nature where their presence inflames two locals to the point of outright hostility and shocking violence.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySpain

    Two detectives are called to a small mining town in the Asturian mountains where a young woman who had been left for dead for months has suddenly appeared, leaving the detectives to question what dark forces are at work.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, adventure
    CountrySpain, Italy

    The life of a family of peach farmers in a small village in Catalonia changes when the owner of their large estate dies and his lifetime heir decides to sell the land, suddenly threatening their livelihood.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountrySpain

    A couple temporarily adopts a young girl that they found wandering around alone in the high road.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountrySpain, Portugal
    Duration02:08

    Based on the incredibly true story of a Spanish man with Multiple Esclorosis who tried to finish an Iron-Man: 3,8km swimming, 180km cycling and 42 running. And he was told that he could not make 100 meters.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
    CountrySpain, Argentina, France
    Duration01:01

    On a rainy morning six armed men in disguise rob a bank in Valencia .But what seemed like an easy heist quickly goes wrong with nothing unfolding as planned, and mistrust quickly builds between the two leaders of the gang.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genredrama, history
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:45

    This colourful feature debut from experienced producer Luis Miñarro offers an almost hallucinatory look at the world of Amadeo of Savoy, who was king of an ungovernable Spain for two years around 1870. This intriguing episode is transformed into a plea for beauty, creativity and joy. The film functions as a metaphor for contemporary Spain and its ongoing state of crisis.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountrySpain

    A group of friends and family reunite at the fancy new holiday home of a woman who is about to turn 40.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountrySpain, France
    Duration01:54

    The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:24

    Sun from Chicago (USA) and Lucas from Mallorca (Spain) meet each other in a students's flat in Barcelona. They fall in love and try to enjoy it without thinking of their separation at the term's ending. Will their love prevail?

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountrySpain, Colombia

    Oliver, a young film director, discovers on a porn Web site one night that the protagonist of one of the erotic videos is his younger half-sister Aurora. In the process of finding out what she was doing there, Oliver will become fascinated by his sister.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, comedy, drama
    CountrySpain, France
    Duration01:47

    The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spain’s most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by the fascist regime.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountrySpain, France, USA
    Duration01:38

    Roberto is an unemployed publicist who achieved success when he thought of a famous slogan: "Coca-Cola, the spark of life." Now he is a desperate man, trying to remember the happy days, back to the hotel where he spent the honeymoon with his wife. However, instead of the hotel, he finds a museum built around the Roman theater in the city. While walking through the ruins, he has an accident, an iron rod sticks into his head and leaves him completely paralyzed. If he tries to move he would die. Roberto becomes the focus of the media, which will change his life ...

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genredrama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:28

    Blog is the surprising tale of a group of teenagers, 15 year-old middle-upper class girls who are well educated, smart, sensitive and savvy. A group of youngsters with a secret plan and a shared purpose, something they believe to be an absolute goal and a universal truth: the need to experience strong emotions to set them apart from the rest.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genredrama, military, biography
    CountrySpain, USA, Argentina
    Duration02:02

    Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.While researching the life of Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, the young journalist Robert uncovers hidden stories of his estranged father Manolo, and is taken on a journey through the dark, terrible secrets of his family’s past.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountrySpain, France
    Duration01:44

    Manuel is a crooked politician who enjoys the lifestyle that kickbacks afford. He eats at fancy restaurants, parties with his friends on yachts, and provides a very luxurious lifestyle for his family. Manuel brazenly bribes, extorts, and pays off anyone who threatens to expose the activities of his inner circle. When he is singled out to take the fall for a case of fraudulent government contracts, rather than admit to any wrongdoing, Manuel decides to sell out his whole party in an effort to avoid jail time. It's a decision that puts many lives at risk.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, detective
    CountrySpain, France, USA
    Duration01:32

    The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
    CountrySpain, Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Portugal
    Duration02:16

    Toby, a cynical advertising director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:35

    Everyone knows what to do if one morning the sky would be absolutely full of UFOs: run as fast as you can. However, what would happen if the invasion started while you are in the flat of the girl of your dreams, the one you have just met?

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySpain, France, Italy, Argentina, Germany
    Duration02:01

    Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, detective, history
    CountrySpain

    Sira Quiroga is a young Spanish dressmaker engaged to a solid suitor when a suave typewriter salesman upends her life. Spain is being upended by a civil war and the new regime's growing alliances with Nazi Germany. Sira, smart, gutsy and resourceful with a Scarlett O'Hara-like ability to whip up designer duds on a moment's notice, Sira has spunk. Sira gains and loses a small fortune, is dumped by her cad of a lover in Morocco, runs guns to get the cash to start her life anew and becomes couturier to the Nazi wives stationed in Madrid. Urged on by her friend, the real-life British spy Rosalinda Fox, Sira, too, aids the British cause.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama
    CountrySpain

    In a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the holds of an airplane. Not too far away, an environmental activist contemplates the terrible image of an elephant, dead and fangless. Not only do you have to fight against poaching, but you will also have to meet the problems of your newly arrived daughter from Spain. Thousands of kilometers to the north, in Melilla, a group of civil guards prepare to face the furious crowd of sub-Saharan people who have begun the assault on the fence. Three stories linked by a central theme, in which none of its protagonists know that their destinies are doomed to cross and that their lives will no longer be the same.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:47

    Madrid, summer 2011. Economic crisis. 15-M movement and 1.5 million pilgrims waiting for the Pope’s arrival live side by side in a Madrid that’s hotter and more chaotic than ever. In this context, detectives Velarde and Alfaro must find what seems to be a serial killer. Their against-the-clock hunt will make them realise something they’d never imagined: neither of them are so very different from the killer.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:35

    J. is depressed. E. lives peacefully. S. tries to get back with his wife. G. resorts to anxiolytics. P. plays seduction games. María and Sara exchange their husbands. L. calls his lover in a peculiar way.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySpain

    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.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountrySpain, Brazil, France
    Duration01:30

    A chronicle of the life of Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega, who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of Theater in the 16th century. Lope returns home from war and enters the theater world when a producer's beautiful daughter takes a shine to him. They embark on a passionate affair as his plays begin to win popular acclaim.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySpain
    Duration02:05

    Carlos is a man who goes to a coffee shop-library to take a cup, where Irene is reading a book. Not a reason for it, Irene close to Carlos and talks with him, starting a friendship with a little rules: no pasts, no birth names, no modern ways to contact between them (as Internet or similar), and finally not falling in love each other. Calling themselves Hada Chalada ('Crazy Fairy') and Duende Chiflado ('Mad Goblin'), both pass the days walking around the city engaged with magic, surrealist and funnies conversations about life, love and themselves, at the same time that Carlos tries to end his new script with his friend Cristóbal, and eccentric writer obsessed with Japan.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:12

    Ágata suffers from a psychological disorder which prevents her from experiencing pleasure in all aspects of her life. Marc, through the use food, endeavours to help her overcome her problem.




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