Spanish movies about artists

List of the best Spanish movies about artists selected by visitors to our site: Goya's Ghosts, Two Much, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, My Masterpiece, Volaverunt, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, Pain and Glory, Midnight in Paris, Second Skin, Caravaggio.

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: 6.9
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUSA, Spain
Duration01:49

Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySpain, USA
Duration01:58

A young gallerist is in love with two sisters at the same time. In order to solve the problem he decides to invent his own twin-brother.

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: 7.1
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: 5.7
Genrethriller, drama
CountrySpain, France
Duration01:30

The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries, at a time when Madrid was wobbling through a difficult time and setting the scene for the following Prim vs Crown uprising.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecartoon, history
CountrySpain, Netherlands

Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. Sculptor Ramón Acín, a good friend, buys a lottery ticket and promises Buñuel that he will pay for his next movie if he wins the prize.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama
CountrySpain, France
Duration01:26

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

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: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:40

    Diego is a doctor who has fallen in love with a married man with a son. Against the advice of his boss and best friend, he continues his affair with Alberto. The consequences of this affair profoundly alter not only the two men's lives, but also that of Alberto's wife.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrebiography, history
    CountryItaly, France, Spain, Germany
    Duration03:00

    The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius that will dare to defy the ideal vision of the world imposed by the Renaissance painters. A provoker that scandalized patrons and institutions, raising the altars the outcast figures he knew so well: drunkards, vagrants and prostitutes.

    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: 6.2
    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: 6.3
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:49

    El ángel de Budapest (Angel of Budapest) is a Spanish 2011 television World War II-Holocaust miniseries based on the book "Un español frente al Holocausto" (A Spanish against the Holocaust) written by journalist and radio executive director Diego Carcedo. The plot focuses on Ángel Sanz Briz, a Spanish ambassador in Hungary during World War II who helped to save the lives of thousands of jews from the Holocaust by lodging them in Spanish safe houses in Budapest.

    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: 6.9
    Genredrama
    CountryWest Germany, Portugal, France, Spain, Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:01

    On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956) . The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

    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: 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.

    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: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountrySpain

    The protagonist is a young woman, Joan Prats suffering from agnosia, a strange, primary visual disease that is one of the neuropsychological disorders of perception. Although her eyes and ears are in perfect condition, her brain is not able to correctly interpret the stimuli it receives. Joan is the only person to know an industrial secret left behind by her late father and becomes the victim of a sinister plan to extract this information. Her captors plan to use her sensory condition to help extract the information that they so desperately want.

    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
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountrySpain

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

    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: 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: 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: 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.

    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: 6.7
    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: 6.7
    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: 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: 5.2
    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: 5.5
    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: 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
    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: 6.4
    Genredocumentary, biography, sport
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA
    Duration00:54

    Cristiano Ronaldo: The World at His Feet follows the footballer from his beginnings in Portugal, breakthrough start with Manchester United and current career at Real Madrid.

    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: 5.9
    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: 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: 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: 6.5
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryGreece, Spain, Hungary
    Duration01:59

    The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".

    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: 4.4
    Genrethriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain
    Duration01:18

    The idyllic life of Bill, a retired aging rock star, and his young wife is rocked by a lover from her past, resulting in catastrophic consequences.

    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: 7.7
    Genredocumentary
    CountrySpain

    Discover Ana Carrasco, the Spanish rider who has revolutionized the two wheel's world and who, from an early age, had a dream: being world champion. A dream that came true.

    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: 4.6
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain
    Duration01:26

    A teenager finds her perfect life upended when she's stalked by a mysterious doppelganger who has her eyes set on assuming her identity.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, military
    CountrySpain
    Duration02:08

    Finished the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, in November 1940, while Spain is being crushed by the ruthless boot of dictator Franco, Pepita travels from rural Huelva to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia, who is seven months pregnant and imprisoned, haunted by the shadow of a death sentence.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountrySpain, France
    Duration01:43

    Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than happy relationship with her husband Paco, a military officer stationed in Brussels then later in Bosnia, who is distant both physically and emotionally.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, crime
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:46

    Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountrySpain

    Germán, an honest family man, sees how his whole world wobbles the night when, driving home, accidentally runs over two teenage girls. From that moment, Germán will have to do everything in his power to prevent his life from being destroyed forever.




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