My Favorite Spanish Films
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1. Welcome Mr. Marshall! (1953)
78 min | Comedy
After finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del Río start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive.
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Lolita Sevilla, Manolo Morán, José Isbert, Alberto Romea
Votes: 4,819
2. Death of a Cyclist (1955)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.
Director: Juan Antonio Bardem | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Alberto Closas, Bruna Corrà, Carlos Casaravilla
Votes: 4,497
3. Red Fish (1955)
100 min | Crime
One night of storm, Hugo and Ivón arrive at a hotel in Gijón (Spain) accompanied by the son of the first one. They go out to see the sea raging and, shortly after, Ivón returns asking for ... See full summary »
Director: José Antonio Nieves Conde | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Emma Penella, Félix Dafauce, Pilar Soler
Votes: 327
4. Placido (1961)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
In a small Spanish town, a group of old ladies decides to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "seat a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintillá, Manuel Alexandre
Votes: 3,769
5. Robbery at 3 O'clock (1962)
92 min | Comedy
Galindo works in a bank. One day he convinces the other employees in the bank to plan a hold-up in the bank they are working. They prepare everything carefully. However, real robbers come ... See full summary »
Director: José María Forqué | Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Cassen, Gracita Morales, Katia Loritz
Votes: 1,350
6. La hora incógnita (1964)
100 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a small Spanish town, a nuclear bomb is expected to explode. All neighbors leave, except for thirteen people who gather in the church and, with the help of the pastor, will find that there is still a possibility of salvation.
Director: Mariano Ozores | Stars: Emma Penella, José Luis Ozores, Antonio Ozores, Carlos Ballesteros
Votes: 159
7. El salario del crimen (1964)
91 min | Crime, Thriller
Mario is a very strict policeman but when in the course of his partner's murder investigation meets Elsa, an attractive woman accustomed to luxury, he will not hesitate to cross the limits of the law to continue with her.
Director: Julio Buchs | Stars: Arturo Fernández, Françoise Brion, José Bódalo, Manuel Alexandre
Votes: 72
8. Operación Secretaria (1966)
94 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Director: Mariano Ozores | Stars: Gracita Morales, José Luis López Vázquez, Fanny Cano, Manolo Gómez Bur
Votes: 49
9. Dante no es únicamente severo (1967)
78 min | Drama
The impossible relationship between a man and a woman, but also the destruction of aesthetics. The girl wants to seduce her beloved with incoherent stories that he does not care at all. ... See full summary »
Directors: Jacinto Esteva, Joaquim Jordà | Stars: Serena Vergano, Romy, Enrique Irazoqui, Susan Holmsquist
Votes: 92
10. El turismo es un gran invento (1968)
92 min | Comedy
After a vacation at a seaside resort, a Spanish mayor attempts to modify his small rural town for tourists in an attempt to make money.
Director: Pedro Lazaga | Stars: Paco Martínez Soria, José Luis López Vázquez, Ingrid Spaey, Rafael López Somoza
Votes: 334
11. Fin de semana al desnudo (1974)
93 min | Comedy
The hotel waitress and Rodolfo, a playboy who is going to spend a few days there with Octavia, witness how a wealthy lady, who is being robbed by some thieves, is accidentally killed by her lover during an argument
Director: Mariano Ozores | Stars: Lina Morgan, Alfredo Landa, Máximo Valverde, Antonio Ozores
Votes: 87
12. Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
R | 112 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador | Stars: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Antonio Iranzo, Miguel Narros
Votes: 8,025
13. Cría Cuervos (1976)
PG | 105 min | Drama
In the twilight of Francisco Franco's dictatorship, an 8-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt and try their best to acclimatize to a new reality. Can they summon up the courage to grow up?
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Ana Torrent, Conchita Pérez, Mayte Sanchez, Geraldine Chaplin
Votes: 11,398
14. Street Warriors (1977)
103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A gang of fifteen-year-old living in the suburbs of Barcelona have specialized in car theft. With that cars they are engaged in giving the "pull", storming shops to sell goods and attack ... See full summary »
Director: José Antonio de la Loma | Stars: Víctor Petit, Frank Braña, Xabier Elorriaga, Marta Flores
Votes: 625
15. Arrebato (1979)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.
Director: Iván Zulueta | Stars: Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Marta Fernández Muro
Votes: 3,391
16. Los bingueros (1979)
88 min | Comedy
Fernando Esteso, Andres Pajares and Antonio Ozores... funny, sexy and great movie!!!
Director: Mariano Ozores | Stars: Andrés Pajares, Fernando Esteso, Antonio Ozores, África Pratt
Votes: 637
17. El liguero mágico (1980)
96 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A solicitor's secretary goes to a creepy mansion to hand an inheritance to the deceased's niece. The house's service is trying to terrify the girl out of the house, where they know a treasure is hidden.
Director: Mariano Ozores | Stars: Andrés Pajares, Adriana Vega, Antonio Ozores, María Luisa Ponte
Votes: 232
18. Yo hice a Roque III (1980)
G | 80 min | Comedy
Federico provides accommodation in his house for his friend Roque who is unemployed and becomes annoying. To get rid of him, Fernando tries to make Roque a boxing champion who will be able to challenge the current national boxing champion.
Director: Mariano Ozores | Stars: Fernando Esteso, Andrés Pajares, Antonio Ozores, Florinda Chico
Votes: 455
19. El crack (1981)
M | 131 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Private detective Germán Areta gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies. But when Areta starts looking into case, it leads him to the ... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Garci | Stars: Alfredo Landa, María Casanova, Manuel Tejada, Miguel Rellán
Votes: 1,892
20. Es peligroso casarse a los 60 (1981)
98 min | Comedy
A recently-married old man with no descendants is notified he's a father when his offspring becomes an "orphan". He welcomes the news of having a child with great joy and decides to bring his progeny home immediately.
Directors: Mariano Ozores, Alejandro Ozores | Stars: Paco Martínez Soria, Julia Martínez, María Luisa Ponte, Antonio Ozores
Votes: 227
21. Al este del oeste (1984)
85 min | Comedy, Western
Bill 'Golden Guns' is hired to free a town from its outlaws. He wants to remain unnoticed, but falls in love with the mayor's daughter and the situation gets complicated when she is kidnapped.
Director: Mariano Ozores | Stars: Fernando Esteso, Antonio Ozores, Conrado San Martín, Adriana Vega
Votes: 232
22. Cuatro mujeres y un lío (1985)
96 min | Comedy
Federico, a lingerie manufacturer needs financing. A millionaire uncle of hers comes to visit him with his wife to complete the business. But Alicia has abandoned him after seeing some photos of him with a model.
Director: Mariano Ozores | Stars: Fernando Esteso, Antonio Ozores, Arévalo, Adriana Vega
Votes: 104
23. Sé infiel y no mires con quién (1985)
94 min | Comedy, Romance
Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Ana Belén, Carmen Maura, Antonio Resines, Santiago Ramos
Votes: 431
24. La vaquilla (1985)
122 min | Comedy, War
A platoon of mismatched soldiers crosses the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is to fight on the village's patron-saint's day. In addition to ruining the nationals' celebration, ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Alfredo Landa, Guillermo Montesinos, Santiago Ramos, José Sacristán
Votes: 2,100
25. In a Glass Cage (1986)
Unrated | 110 min | Drama, Horror
A former Nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.
Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: Günter Meisner, David Sust, Marisa Paredes, Gisèle Echevarría
Votes: 5,048
26. La estanquera de Vallecas (1987)
106 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A couple of ruffians enters a tobacconist in the neighborhood of Vallecas to steal. Having failed in its intention they finish entrench themselves in the place, being surrounded by police.
Director: Eloy de la Iglesia | Stars: Emma Penella, José Luis Gómez, José Luis Manzano, Maribel Verdú
Votes: 1,318
27. Amanece, que no es poco (1989)
110 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A village and the crazy situations encountered by its citizens.
Director: José Luis Cuerda | Stars: José Sazatornil, Carmen de Lirio, Francisco Martínez, Ovidi Montllor
Votes: 4,235
28. Todo por la pasta (1991)
88 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Everyone will literally do "Anything for the Dough" after a casino heist investigation uncovers dirty maneuvers that even cover political assassinations. Gradually the search for the loot money will tangle up until an ultra-violent climax.
Director: Enrique Urbizu | Stars: María Barranco, Kiti Mánver, Antonio Resines, Pepo Oliva
Votes: 381
29. Mutant Action (1993)
93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In a future ruled by attractive people, mutant terrorists kidnap a rich man's daughter to claim rights for the ugly. Escaping police, the mutant leader crashes into a planet of crazy miners where no women live.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Antonio Resines, Álex Angulo, Frédérique Feder, Juan Viadas
Votes: 5,781
30. The Red Squirrel (1993)
114 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A suicidal, has-been rock star tells an amnesiac woman they are longtime lovers after he witnesses her crash her motorcycle.
Director: Julio Medem | Stars: Emma Suárez, Nancho Novo, María Barranco, Karra Elejalde
Votes: 4,843
31. Todos a la cárcel (1993)
99 min | Comedy, Drama
In the celebration of the International Day of the Political Prisoner, the victims of the Franco repression convene in the Model Prison of Valencia. Among them are parvenus, mafiosi, ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: José Sazatornil, José Sacristán, Agustín González, Manuel Alexandre
Votes: 1,489
32. All Men Are the Same (1994)
102 min | Comedy, Romance
Three divorced men share a flat. They live together without trouble till they hire a cleaning lady with whom the three flirt.
Director: Manuel Gómez Pereira | Stars: Imanol Arias, Antonio Resines, Juanjo Puigcorbé, Cristina Marcos
Votes: 681
33. Antarctica (1995)
106 min | Crime, Drama
A rock star falls in love with a common pickpocket without any personal history. But soon she finds herself in a contraband of drugs and both try to escape it.
Director: Manuel Huerga | Stars: Ariadna Gil, Carlos Fuentes, José Manuel Lorenzo, Francis Lorenzo
Votes: 262
34. Thesis (1996)
R | 125 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Xabier Elorriaga
Votes: 42,453
35. Open Your Eyes (1997)
R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez
Votes: 73,230 | Gross: $0.37M
36. Airbag (1997)
124 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Mamacita's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside a prostitute's body. Mafioso whorehouse owner ... See full summary »
Director: Juanma Bajo Ulloa | Stars: Karra Elejalde, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Alberto San Juan, Maria de Medeiros
Votes: 5,042
37. Los lobos de Washington (1999)
R | 94 min | Action, Thriller
Alberto and Miguel have planned to steal a lot of money from their old pal Claudio...
Director: Mariano Barroso | Stars: Javier Bardem, Eduard Fernández, José Sancho, Ernesto Alterio
Votes: 447
38. Asfalto (2000)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Three young and desperate inhabitants of Madrid attempt to rise above their circumstances by any means available to them in that sun-drenched city. This tight-knit trio must scramble when ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Calparsoro | Stars: Najwa Nimri, Juan Diego Botto, Gustavo Salmerón, Alfredo Villa
Votes: 625
39. La caja 507 (2002)
Not Rated | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
One day, some robbers forcely open some safe deposit boxes of a bank and leave the owner trapped inside. Looking into the "507" box, he discovers that the death of his daughter some years ago was not accidental.
Director: Enrique Urbizu | Stars: Dafne Fernández, Antonio Resines, Miriam Montilla, Félix Álvarez
Votes: 2,870
40. The Baby's Room (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 77 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In Spain, the sports journalist Juan has a perfect life with his wife Sonia: they have just had a baby and moved to an old house that needs to be repaired in a fancy neighborhood. When ... See full summary »
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Javier Gutiérrez, Leonor Watling, Sancho Gracia, María Asquerino
Votes: 5,745
41. Un Franco 14 Pesetas (2006)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Spain 1960, the dawn of the country's economic development. Industrial "reorganization" means that many workers have lost their jobs and are forced to emigrate. Martin is one of them. ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Iglesias | Stars: Carlos Iglesias, Javier Gutiérrez, Nieve de Medina, Isabel Blanco
Votes: 1,451
42. REC (2007)
R | 78 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
Directors: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza | Stars: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano, Pablo Rosso
Votes: 196,607
43. Neon Flesh (2010)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Hoping to earn his mother's respect, a young hustler-turned-businessman tries to open a brothel with his two useless buddies.
Director: Paco Cabezas | Stars: Mario Casas, Vicente Romero, Luciano Cáceres, Macarena Gómez
Votes: 1,870
44. El mundo es nuestro (2012)
83 min | Comedy, Crime
Two thugs with no talent intend to follow in the footsteps of Dioni and plan a bank robbery. They end up becoming part of a massive media circus instead.
Director: Alfonso Sánchez | Stars: Alfonso Sánchez, Alberto López, Alfonso Valenzuela, Joserra Leza
Votes: 1,554
45. Roja Oscuridad (2018)
95 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A man stares a dead girl. He doesn't know what happen. Patricia has a visit: a woman warns her about a girl who's in danger. With the help of an old man, the killer recalls the events of the murder while Patricia begins to dream nightmares.
Director: Chris Jiménez | Stars: Eugenio Martínez, Lorena García, Elena García, Fátima Martín Acosta
Votes: 13
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