Spanish movies about scientists

List of the best Spanish movies about brilliant scientists selected by visitors to our site: Finding Altamira, The Skin I Live In, Barcelona Summer Night, Way Down, The Cliff, Family United, Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed, Spanish Affair 2, Crazy About Her, Everybody Knows.

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: 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: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountrySpain, USA
Duration02:00

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySpain
Duration01:35

In 2012 the comet Rose crossed the skies of the city of Barcelona and its magic that night caused 346 love stories flourish. An atmosphere of dreams, hopes and desire mixed to give a special connection between people. From these stories six are the stars of the film. A dinner among friends with a love of life is coupled with a first time for miles. An encounter that can change their lives and revive old ties that clash with the discovery of a baby on the way. In parallel, the struggle between friendship and love strikes the last story, a clandestine love between gay athletes who have to make a tough decision.

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: 5.2
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: 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: 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: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySpain

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

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: 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: 4.6
Genreaction, comedy, adventure
CountrySpain

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

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: 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: 8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySpain
Duration01:49

"The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened in a frenetic race against time.

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: 4.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
CountryUSA, Spain
Duration01:21

V/H/S: VIRAL's segments include the story of a deranged illusionist who obtains a magical object of great power, a homemade machine that opens a door to a parallel world, teenage skaters that unwillingly become targets of a Mexican death cult ritual, and a sinister, shadowy organization that is tracking a serial killer. The segments are tied together by the story of a group of fame-obsessed teens following a violent car chase in LA that unwittingly become stars of the next internet sensation.

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: 5.9
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: 6.4
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: 5.6
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: 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: 6.4
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: 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: 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: 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: 6.8
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: 7.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
CountrySpain
Duration01:32

    A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.

    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: 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: 4.8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA, Germany
    Duration02:22

    On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.

    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: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, Spain, France, Canada, United Kingdom
    Duration02:22

    Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomorrowland."

    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: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure, family, music
    CountryArgentina, Spain, Italy
    Duration00:52

    Shot in Spanish and localized for markets around the world, “Tini – El Gran Cambio de Violetta” is set to thrill fans with everything they loved about the worldwide Violetta phenomenon including strong musical elements with new and original tracks, exciting choreography, compelling storylines, and intriguing characters. All made bigger and better for the big screen. The film shows how taking the role in the TV series was a pivotal moment for Tini leading to a personal ‘coming of age story’ about the young actress. In a story that reflects the teen star’s own real life, Tini will leave behind the world depicted in Violetta, striking out alone and embarking on a brand new adventure over one endless summer that will define her as a person and see her emerge as a new artist.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredocumentary
    CountrySpain

    Julita expressed her three greatest wishes shortly after getting married: lots of children, a monkey and a castle she can call her own. That all of these wishes have become a reality is probably down to the immense stubbornness of this charismatic and equally hilarious matriarch who has a weakness for collecting crazy objects. When financial circumstances force the family to sell their castle, her adult children are left sifting through a lifetime of peculiarities in search of a few lost bones… Spanish actor and neo director Gustavo Salmerón paints a deliciously absurd family portrait that just happens to reveal a lot about Spain, Catholicism and the economic crisis.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryColombia, Spain
    Duration01:32

    A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountrySpain

    Marcos' life turns upside down after he loses the same day his girlfriend and his job. Marcos' life turns wild after to meet Raquel.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryGermany, France, Spain, USA
    Duration02:35

    While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, fantasy, detective
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:34

    A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's secret..they worship Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea...and Dagon's unholy offspring are on the loose...

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong, France, Bulgaria, Spain, Sweden
    Duration01:01

    After fighting his demons for decades, John Rambo now lives in peace on his family ranch in Arizona, but his rest is interrupted when Gabriela, the granddaughter of his housekeeper María, disappears after crossing the border into Mexico to meet her biological father. Rambo, who has become a true father figure for Gabriela over the years, undertakes a desperate and dangerous journey to find her.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrecomedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountrySpain, United Kingdom, USA

    When Jesper distinguishes himself as the Postal Academy's worst student, he is sent to Smeerensburg, a small village located on an icy island above the Arctic Circle, where grumpy inhabitants barely exchange words, let alone letters. Jesper is about to give up and abandon his duty as a postman when he meets local teacher Alva and Klaus, a mysterious carpenter who lives alone in a cabin full of handmade toys.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
    CountrySpain

    In Seville, Juan is starting to enjoy his weekends outside of prison when tragedy strikes: his little girl is killed in what looks like an accident.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama, adventure, cartoon, short
    CountrySpain, France

    Birdboy and his animal friends plan their escape from an ecologically devastated island in this surreal, animated fantasy.

    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: 7.3
    Genredocumentary, sport
    CountrySpain
    Duration02:26

    Fascinating chronicle of the ascendancy of FC Barcelona - possibly the top team in the world and powerful emblem of Catalan identity - 'Barca: More than a Club'. Director Jordi Llompart charts the team's inexorable rise from its origins with founder Joan Gamper more than 100 years ago to a Champion's League-winning side that boasts striker Lionel Messi and prestigious coach Pep Guardiola.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredocumentary
    CountrySpain, France, Canada, USA

    The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975). In a democratic country, but still ideologically divided, the survivors seek justice as they organize the so-called “Argentinian lawsuit” and denounce the legally sanctioned pact of oblivion that intends to hide the crimes they were subjects of.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genremelodrama, adventure, cartoon
    CountrySpain

    The first journey around the world began under the command of Ferdinand Magellan and was concluded by Juan Sebastián Elcano. Five boats left Seville on September 20, 1519. Storms, famine, tribes… Three years later, only one made it back. An incredible adventure around the planet whose roundness was finally proven.

    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: 6.8
    Genredrama
    CountryNetherlands, Spain

    The Spanish family Gabarre-Mendoza is celebrating a birthday, when it is interrupted by a police inspection. In ‘La Cañada Real’, a shanty town just outside Madrid, the inhabitants are forced to leave their illegal homes. Each member of the family struggles in their own way with their unstable position.




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