Spanish dream movies

List of the best Spanish movies about dreams, selected by visitors to our site: The Bookshop, Midnight in Paris, A Monster Calls, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, 20 Centimeters, The Legacy of the Bones, The Zigzag Kid, Spanish Affair 2, The Tip of the Iceberg, I Want You.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France
Duration02:21

Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA, Spain
Duration01:34

    A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA
    Duration02:30

    A boy imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way.

    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: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, musical
    CountrySpain, France

    Colloquially-told story of a few days in the life of Marieta, who's saving money for the last operation in her change from man to woman. She works as a prostitute in Madrid and longs for a legitimate job. Whenever she builds up her savings, her housemate and best friend Tomás finds ways to spend, lose, or cost her those funds. She meets Raúl, whom she likes and who likes her; the trouble is he also likes that part of her she wants removed. If that's not enough, she also has narcolepsy, and when she conks out, she dreams of musical-theater numbers in which she's the singing and dancing star. Are these dreams always going to be 20 centimeters out of reach?

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountrySpain, Germany

    Inspector Amaia Salazar must return to the Baztan valley in order to solve a series of suicides that seem to follow a similar pattern.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, adventure, family
    CountryNetherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, Spain, France
    Duration01:35

    Nono, a Dutch kid lacking two days being thirteen, runs away from problems at home and, disguised as a girl, takes up with the world's cleverest thief, who unbeknownst to Nono, may hold the bizarre key to his true identity.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountrySpain

    Amaia after breaking up with Rafa, falls in love with a Catalonian. Koldo, her father, goes to Sevilla to persuade Rafa to go to Catalonia and take Amaia's heart back.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller
    CountrySpain

    A large, multinational Company is badly shaken when three of its employees commit suicide. Sofía Cuevas, one of the company’s top executives, is chosen to prepare an in-house report to try and shed some light on the events.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:59

    Sequel to "Three Steps Above Heaven". The sexy Gin (Clara Lago) is the new love of Hache (Mario Casas), but this can not forget his former girlfriend (Maria Valverde), so the love triangle is inevitable.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime, history
    CountrySpain, France
    Duration01:10

    Barcelona, ​​Spain, 1921. A tough cop from Madrid arrives in the city to locate, under the suspicious scrutiny of corrupt local police officers, a significant amount of military weaponry stolen from a train, allegedly by revolutionary anarchists.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, musical, crime
    CountryDenmark, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Iceland, Germany, United Kingdom, Argentina, USA, Sweden, France
    Duration02:15

    Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life's troubles - even if just for a moment - by dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama, adventure
    CountryFrance, Germany, Spain, Belgium, USA
    Duration01:52

    A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySpain
    Duration02:18

    Multiple love stories unfold in Barcelona during Christmas's Eve.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountrySpain

    After her husband dies, Carmina keeps it a secret until a check that he had been expecting comes in.

    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: 5.2
    Genrethriller, melodrama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:39

    A mass suicide involving members of a cult takes place in the Canary Islands. Gabriel's younger sister, Cordelia, who he hasn't seen for years, was one of the cult followers. Gabriel decides to travel there and find out what happened.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountrySpain
    Duration02:21

    Nearly twenty years after the events of "The Girl of Your Dreams", in the 1950s, Macarena Granada, who has become a Hollywood star, returns to Spain to film a blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:51

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    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
    CountrySpain

    In 1950s Spain, the heir to a fashion house romances a beautiful seamstress who works for the company, despite the objections of his family.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:47

    Diego is a doctor so used to working in extreme situations that he has immunized himself to others' pain. He has switched off from his work, his partner and his commitment as a father. Over the course of a disturbing meeting, Diego is threatened with a gun. Hours later, he can only remember the sound of a bang and the strange feeling of having being hit with something more than a bullet. Diego has to take an irreversible decision which will affect his own life and that of his loved ones.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:34

    Toro (Spanish for "Bull") is a young con man and the right hand of Romano, a powerful mob boss in Torremolinos, Málaga (Andalusia, south to Spain). After Toro decides to leave Romano to get a life free of crime, his last sting fails, resulting one of his brothers dead and he sent to jail. Five years later, Romano realizes that López, Toro's older brother, is robbing him money from his tourism business and he orders to kidnap Diana, López's little daughter, until this one get back the money. Without options, López visits Toro, now a touristic driver with the third grade prison close to get the parole, who only wants to be free to marry his girlfriend Estrella. When Toro accepts to help López and both meet Romano looking for a solution, Toro ends attacking Romano's men and fleeing with Diana, trying to escape from Romano's revenge. But Romano starts a ruthless searching for they three, meanwhile Toro counts the hours to back the prison according to the third grade...

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror
    CountrySpain
    Duration02:02

    Madrid, 1990s. After making a Ouija with friends, a teenager is besieged by dangerous supernatural presences that threaten to harm her whole family. Inspired by terrifying police files never solved.

    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: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountrySpain

    Marcos Vela is a prestigious gastronomic journalist who accepts the request of an independent publisher to write an article on the recent emergence of the Clandestine Restaurants.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genredrama, adventure, history
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:47

    Spanish soldiers battle indigenous tribes and their own brutal natures as they search for a legendary city built of gold.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountrySpain, France, USA
    Duration01:56

    Tad Jones, the most awkward explorer, must rescue his beloved Sara from a millionaire who is looking for King Midas' necklace.

    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?

    Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime
    CountrySpain

    Introverted Girona student Nacho meets two delinquents from the city's Chinatown and gets caught up in a summer onslaught of burglaries and hold ups that will change his life.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:22

    The tentative romance between a gentle Madrid labourer and a working single mother becomes a struggle for survival when the woman’s violent boyfriend returns from prison, in the gritty, suspenseful debut feature from Spanish actor Raúl Arévalo.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy
    CountrySpain

    Toc Toc is a 2017 Spanish comedy film directed by Vicente Villanueva. The movie follows the adventures and misadventures of a group of patients with OCD dated at the same time.

    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
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, Spain, South Korea, Australia
    Duration02:36

    Burger Beard is a pirate who is in search of the final page of a magical book that makes any evil plan he writes in it come true, which happens to be the Krabby Patty secret formula. When the entire city of Bikini Bottom is put in danger, SpongeBob, Patrick, Mr. Krabs, Squidward, Sandy, and Plankton need to go on a quest that takes them to the surface. In order to get back the recipe and save their city, the gang must retrieve the book and transform themselves into superheroes.

    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: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, Spain
    Duration02:29

    Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow, but one day five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid and Ferdinand is mistakenly chosen. Based on the classic 1936 children's book by Munro Leaf.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountrySpain, Argentina

    Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, fantasy
    CountrySpain, France
    Duration01:50

    Basque Country, Spain, 1843. A police constable arrives at a small village in Álava to investigate a mysterious blacksmith who lives alone deep in the woods.

    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: 4.6
    Genreaction, comedy, adventure
    CountrySpain

    Agents from diverse Spanish local police forces are called to form a special team.

    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: 6.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
    CountrySpain, Cuba
    Duration01:32

    While Havana is full of zombies hungry for human flesh, official media reported that the disturbances are caused by dissidents paid by the United States. Panic seizes all until Juan comes to the rescue: he discovers he can kill the undead destroying his brain, and decides to start a small business under the slogan "We kill your loved ones."

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:03

    Carlos, a bank executive, begins his morning routine by taking his kids to school. As he starts the car he receives an anonymous phone call informing him that there's a bomb under his seat. A stranger's voice tells him that he only has a few hours to gather together a large amount of cash: if he doesn't, his car will blow up.

    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: 6.2
    Genredrama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:50

    An 8-year-old boy tracks down his father.

    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: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountrySpain, Germany
    Duration02:04

    Alma’s family has been producing quality olive oil in the Baix Maestrat area of Spain’s Castellón for generations. Yet changing pressures in the industry have made their traditional practices economically untenable, and the family is now in the mass-production poultry business. Alma’s grandfather has not spoken in years. Sadness envelopes him, and he no longer wants to eat. His sons—Alma’s father and uncle—are impatient with him, but Alma understands her grandfather. She realizes he has been grieving for a thousand-year-old olive tree that the family has uprooted and sold to pay some debts. (A sadly common reality in Castellón at present.) Unable to bear the idea that her grandfather could die without seeing this terrible wrong corrected, Alma undertakes a quixotic mission to locate the tree and return it to the family orchard, so that her grandfather may have peace in his final days.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, comedy
    CountrySpain

    Isabel is an actress recent in her 40 years old, unable to get new roles for movies or theaters, since then directors looking for younger women. She is married with the neurotic Ángel, a screenwriter who is working in his next cinema project with Susana, his producer and ex wife. After Isabel, Ángel, Susana and Carlos, Isabel's first husband, send away to them respective child to a school excursion, Isabel accepts to organize in her house a business dinner for Diego, an important Argentinian actor to negotiate his participation in the movie. During the dinner Carlos appears suddenly with a young girl called Álex, announcing their next wedding and moving to Brasil. But when a little time later Carlos dies unexpectedly, Ángel and Susana suspects of the guilty of Isabel, starting a series of events more maddened each time, along a long night where surprises seems not having end...

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountrySpain

    After a magical night together, Adri voluntarily turns himself into the psychiatric institution where Carla lives.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountrySpain, France
    Duration01:59

    After finding a lump in one of her breasts, Magda goes to visit her doctor who gives her bad news: she needs a mastectomy, preceded by severe chemo treatments. While she ponders this ill fortune at a soccer game where her son Dani participates, she attracts the attention of talent scout Arturo, who is looking for talented young players to enroll them in the junior leagues.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror
    CountrySpain, France

    Inspired by real events, the story centers around a family in the 70s who settles in the Madrid neighborhood of Malasaña where their new house will become the worst of their nightmares.




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