Spanish films about contemporary art

List of the best Spanish films about contemporary art according to the audience: My Masterpiece, Midnight in Paris, Carmina and Amen, 100 Meters, Lope, We Need to Talk, Elisa & Marcela, Toc Toc, Family United, Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryArgentina, Spain
Duration01:44

Arturo, the successful owner of an art gallery, and Renzo, a talented but decadent painter, are old friends who cannot stop bickering. One day, Arturo comes up with a solution to all their problems, but the plan they concoct turns out to be crazier and riskier than they originally expected.

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: 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: 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
    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: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:51

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    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:45

    In 1901, Marcela Gracia Ibeas took on the identity of Mario Sánchez to marry her lover of fifteen years, Elisa Sanchez Loriga.

    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: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:44

    The director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo ('Azuloscurocasinegro', 'Cousins​​'), he embarks on a new comedy that has as a backdrop the World Cup in South Africa and the setting is a wedding that takes precisely the day of the final. This will be the occasion in which five brothers, all with biblical names, Adam, Daniel, Caleb, Benjamin and Ephraim, gather to celebrate the engagement of Ephraim, the youngest of them, who marries his pregnant girlfriend. Will hours of uncertainty, joy and euphoria back, but it's time to unite for a common good. Can all together to face the situation and erected winners heading?

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountrySpain

    Spain, 1966. An English teacher who travels to Almería when he hears that John Lennon is making a film there befriends with a 16-year-old boy who has run away from home and a young girl who also seems to be running away from something.

    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: 5.1
    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: 6.7
    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: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySpain
    Duration02:18

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

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountrySpain, Germany

    Inspector Amaia Salazar confronts the origins of her nightmares as she unfolds the darkest secrets of the Baztan valley. Part 3 in the Baztan Trilogy.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, adventure
    CountrySpain, France

    When an engineer learns of a mysterious, impenetrable fortress hidden under The Bank of Spain, he joins a crew of master thieves who plan to steal the legendary lost treasure locked inside while the whole country is distracted by Spain's World Cup Final. With thousands of soccer fans cheering in the streets, and security forces closing in, the crew have just minutes to pull off the score of a lifetime.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror
    CountrySpain, USA, Mexico

    A group of people have just signed up to be camp Councillors at a foreign country. They expect the camp to be the place for a memorable summer. Instead, something strange is going on and some of the campers begin to act strange. Things go terribly wrong real fast as a terrible game of tag has the campers running for their lives or going after the campers.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy
    CountrySpain, USA
    Duration01:42

    A young woman is sent to Paradise Hills to be reformed, only to learn that the high-class facility's beautiful facade hides a sinister secret.

    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: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:52

    Through five stories, the movie addresses sex and love: Paco and Ana are a marriage looking for reactivate the passion of their sexual relations, long time unsatisfied; Jose Luis tries to recover the affections of his wife Paloma, sit down on a wheelchair after an accident which has limited her mobility; Mª Candelaria and Antonio are a marriage trying by all way to be parents, but she has the trouble that no get an orgasm when make love with him; Álex try to satisfy Natalia's fantasies, while she starts to doubt if he finally will ask her in marriage; and finally, Sandra is a single woman in a permanent searching for a man to fall in love. All them love, fear, live and explore their diverse sexual paraphilias and the different sides of sexuality, trying to find the road to happiness.

    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: 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: 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: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountrySpain

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

    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: 6.4
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountrySpain
    Duration00:51

    Víctor is a child who is found casually roaming by a country road. His mother, Patricia, a well-known lawyer specialist in media trails, realizes about it and she goes to the hospital, where explains to the police that Víctor is deaf, and he's unable to talk, speaking using sign language. In the police headquarter Víctor explains that he was kidnapped by a strange man when we was entering to the school. The police identifies a possible suspect named Charlie, a man with money troubles and an 8-months pregnant wife who can't explain where he was when Víctor was kidnapped from the school. Seeing the inability of the police to arrest Charlie after some failed attempts to meet Víctor, Patricia contacts Raúl, Patricia's former love interest and Víctor's father, to ask him that he or a friends of him threat seriously Charlie. But when is discovered that Víctor made a false identification, Patricia tries to stop Raúl, starting a chain of events which consequences will be out of control...

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama
    CountrySpain

    Ane is in her mid-forties and delighted when a stunning bouquet of flowers is delivered to her home. But the site manager has no idea who to thank – one thing is for sure; her jealous husband, Ander, is not the unknown cavalier. As these gallantries increase, always on a Thursday and always with an anonymous sender, Ane’s life takes on a new direction. The life of Lourdes is also sent into turmoil by beautiful bouquets of flowers: Since the death of her husband in a traffic accident, flowers have been deposited regularly at the scene. Lourdes’ mother-in-law, Tere, is determined to get to the bottom of the anonymous flowers. Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga’s feature film debut pays charming homage to three headstrong women and the power of flowers.

    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: 6.5
    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: 6.4
    Genrethriller
    CountrySpain

    A hit man receives the assignment to kill a woman. But what seems as another job complicates when he is about to execute her, but does not. He will have to go after those who gave him the contract, for, in his profession, those who do not comply with their duty end up dead. But the question remains, why did he not kill the woman?

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, adventure
    CountrySpain, USA
    Duration02:08

    When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.

    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: 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: 6.7
    Genredrama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:52

    A drama centered on a young woman who takes a summer job caring for a bed-ridden older man, and the intimate secrets they begin to share with one another.

    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: 6.2
    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: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:38

    Rafael, a Seville citizen who has never left the Spanish region of Andalucia, decides to leave his homeland to follow Amaia, a Basque girl unlike other women he has known.

    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: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryMexico, Spain, Denmark, USA
    Duration01:30

    To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, who accustomed to intimacy with whores since childhood, decides to gift himself with an intense night of love with a virgin teenager. Rosa Cabarcas, his old friend as a brothel madam arranges him the ideal young woman, Delgadina, a factory worker, who sells her virginity to support her family, but when he sees her sleeping angelically, he loses interest in pure pleasure and falls in love with her. That love was not meant to be true, but fate changes, and that hope is born of an opportunity for unbridled love.

    Genrehorror
    CountrySpain

    Lucía and her son live isolated from society in a flat place where there’s practically no life. The small family unit formed by mother and son hardly ever receives visitors, and their goal is to lead a quiet existence. At first they succeed, but the appearance of a mysterious, violent creature that starts stalking their small house will put the relationship that unites them to the test.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama
    CountrySpain

    Joaquin comes back to Granada in the eighties trying to find out about something happened when he was a child and the Spanish Civil War was going on. He helped an unknown man who survived after being executed. He finds the man, Galapago, who is now quite old, poor and with almost no memory. Joaquin takes care of him and finds hints that point to Galapago as Federico García Lorca.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountrySpain, Bulgaria, USA
    Duration02:30

    The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountrySpain, Bulgaria
    Duration01:50

      Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountrySpain

      A group of spanish tourists in Venice finds themselves fighting for their lives against locals that are not too keen on foreigners.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountrySpain, Portugal, France
      Duration01:49

      In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrehorror, action, comedy, short
      CountrySpain
      Duration00:15

      When Jacob tells Jesus that Lazarus, his son, is dead, he goes to his house to raise him from the dead.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantasy, drama
      CountryPortugal, Spain, France, Brazil
      Duration01:34

      A magical tale about a young photographer who falls madly in love with a woman he can never have, except in his dreams. Late one night, Isaac is summoned by a wealthy family to take the last photograph of a young bride, Angelica, who mysteriously passed away. Arriving at their estate, Isaac is struck by Angelica's beauty, but when he looks through his lens, something strange happens - the young woman appears to come to life. From that moment, Isaac will be haunted by Angelica day and night.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountrySpain, Germany, Luxembourg, Italy, France
      Duration01:31

      A romantic comedy centered on two young cooks and a female sommelier working in a famous Zurich luxury restaurant.

      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: 5.7
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountrySpain, USA
      Duration02:23

      A man imprisons the woman he's still obsessed with after years apart, then finds the tables turned on him.




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