Spanish spy movies

List of the best Spanish spy movies selected by our site visitors: The Realm, Secret Agents, The Cold Light of Day, Wasp Network, The Bourne Ultimatum, Spy Time, The Time in Between, The Mole Agent, Submergence, The Four Musketeers.

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
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: 5.4
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryFrance, Italy, Spain
Duration01:49

From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading for Angola with a load of illegal weaponry. Lisa, Brisseau, Loïc, Tony and Raymond are professionals: they carefully set up their cover, plan all their moves meticulously, and carry out orders without asking questions. Perhaps they should. The code-name of the mission is "Janus"; and just like with the ancient deity, there are two opposite faces for every aspect of the operation: the objective of the French government, the role of each team member, the presumed friend and the assumed foe...

Markimdb: 4.9
Genreaction, thriller
CountryUSA, Spain
Duration01:33

After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryFrance, Brazil, Spain, Belgium

Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.

Markimdb: 8
Genreaction, thriller, adventure, detective
CountryUSA, Germany, Czech Republic, France, Spain
Duration01:55

    Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:56

    Adolfo, a thirty something security guard, is going through a bad patch. Not only his lifetime girlfriend has just to finished with him to be a guy with no ambition but, moreover, he becomes the target of a series of thugs led by Vázquez, a dangerous criminal who has just escaped from jail. Also he discovers that his father has a double identity. He is not a farmer engaged in the production of cold meat – as Adolfo has believed all his life, but Anacleto, a secret agent who is a bit down and the man who locked Vázquez up in jail thirty years ago. Adolfo will have to leave his comfort zone and work with his father, the person that Adolfo get on worse with in the world to survive the revenge of Vazquez and while, between shootouts and chases, trying to get his girlfriend back.

    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: 7.7
    Genredocumentary
    CountryChile, USA, Germany, Netherlands, Spain

    When a daughter becomes concerned about her mother's well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio, an 83-year-old man who becomes a new resident—and a mole inside the home, who struggles to balance his assignment with becoming increasingly involved in the lives of several residents.

    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: 6.9
    Genreaction, adventure, history
    CountryUSA, Spain, Panama, United Kingdom
    Duration01:48

    The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.

    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: 6.4
    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: 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: 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: 6.4
    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: 6.1
    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: 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: 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, 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: 5.9
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountrySpain, USA, France
    Duration01:32

    Tad is a celebrity archaeologist and adventurer just like his hero Max Mordon... in his dreams! In reality, Tad is a Chicago construction worker. One day, however, he is mistaken for a real professor and takes his place on a flight to Peru in search of the lost city of Paititi.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, adventure, biography
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:30

    A tale of cheats and impostors, taking its inspiration from true facts and from one of the most intriguing characters of recent decades: the spy Francisco Paesa.

    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: 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: 6.8
    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
    Genredrama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:50

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

    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: 4.6
    Genreaction, comedy, adventure
    CountrySpain

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

    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: 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: 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: 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: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Spain, United Kingdom, France
    Duration02:24

    Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Terrier's search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.

    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: 6.1
    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: 2.9
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, Spain, Sweden

    In a not too distant future, a totalitarian state run by ‘The Director” (Seagal) controls all aspects of life. All enemies of the state are dealt in the harshest way. Most of them are executed by the secret government’s assassins. The best operative is code-named “Condor” (Messner) – an elite agent and hit man for the government. However, in his latest assignment, “Condor” fails to kill an opposition leader, and finds himself on the run from the very same government agency that he works for. This sets in motion a chain of events with unforseen consequences for all involved.

    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: 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: 6.6
    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: 6.4
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountrySpain, Germany
    Duration02:21

    When the naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán, it is quickly linked to a similar murder one month before. Soon, rumours are flying in the nearby village of Elizondo. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or is it the basajaun, the ‘invisible guardian’ of Basque mythology? Inspector Amaia Salazar leads the investigation, taking her back to the heart of the Basque country where she was born, and where she hoped never to return. Shrouded in mist and surrounded by impenetrable forests, it is a place of unresolved conflicts and a terrible secret from Amaia’s childhood that will come back to haunt her. Faced with the superstitions of the village, Amaia must fight the demons of her past to confront the reality of a serial killer on the loose. But as she is drawn deeper into the investigation, she feels the presence of something darker lurking in the shadows…

    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: 6.9
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryArgentina, Spain
    Duration01:54

    Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.

    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: 4.7
    Genrecomedy
    CountrySoviet Union, Spain
    Duration01:40

    A love story between a mythical Russian minister and an opportunist TV series actress.

    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: 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: 5.2
    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: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, Spain, United Kingdom, Mexico

    The Loud family travel to Scotland and discover they are descendants of Scottish royalty as they move into their giant ancestral castle.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredocumentary
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain

    This fast-paced documentary captures the thrill of the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. With red bandanas tied to their bodies, people scatter as the bulls make chase. Injuries are common, but the runners think it's worth the risk.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Spain

    Two wealthy businessmen are about to get away with $5 million in ill-gotten money until their plans are revealed by an uninvited house guest.




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