Spanish Movies, a list by VODKING

8.2

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80

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77

/11186/

4.2

/916678/

95

/239/

91

/62195/

98

/37/

4.0

age 15+

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.

86

8.0

/27827/

77

/514/

76

/537/

4.1

/42914/

97

/32/

90

/404/

4.0

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

86

8.0

/37743/

77

/722/

79

/708/

4.2

/63677/

94

/35/

92

/474/

4.0

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.

85

7.7

/22376/

74

/458/

76

/384/

4.2

/50677/

93

/29/

89

/500/

87

/4/

4.0

In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.

85

7.7

/11615/

79

/265/

74

/197/

4.0

/27530/

100

/13/

89

/128/

4.0

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.

85

7.8

/108720/

77

/1986/

76

/2003/

4.2

/247556/

98

/99/

93

/2326/

87

/34/

3.5

age 17+

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.

85

8.2

/239324/

80

/4204/

79

/2753/

4.2

/172741/

89

/137/

93

/2238/

80

/36/

4.0

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

84

7.8

/7468/

79

/511/

83

/485/

4.0

/30264/

96

/75/

99

/113/

70

/17/

3.5

age 13+

In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries an unorthodox new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential... and perhaps even their genius.

84

7.9

/121159/

75

/1639/

76

/1390/

3.9

/95309/

91

/135/

92

/2450/

86

/34/

4.0

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

84

8.0

/271175/

78

/3714/

76

/2812/

4.2

/249226/

93

/122/

94

/5208/

83

/31/

3.5

age 17+

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man. Their lives are catapulted into unforeseen situations instigated by the seemingly inconsequential destiny of a dog.

84

7.7

/139242/

75

/2961/

74

/1672/

4.2

/390854/

90

/195/

88

/4337/

89

/36/

4.0

age 18+

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

85

84

8.2

/23424/

80

/429/

80

/519/

4.2

/49365/

91

/43/

95

/281/

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

83

7.4

/13681/

73

/230/

72

/265/

3.7

/14714/

97

/33/

83

/105/

93

/7/

4.0

As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horatio is doomed.

83

7.6

/112014/

75

/1987/

74

/1847/

4.1

/181416/

91

/171/

89

/6078/

84

/38/

4.0

age 18+

A resourcefull working-class woman living in Madrid gets her hands dirty in family secrets with the help of a teenage daughter and hairdresser sister.

83

7.5

/13824/

73

/489/

73

/310/

3.9

/22228/

96

/165/

86

/49/

85

/27/

4.0

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

83

7.5

/66609/

74

/2404/

73

/1862/

4.1

/159380/

96

/306/

91

/78/

87

/43/

3.5

age 17+

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.

83

7.5

/5800/

79

/162/

75

/154/

4.2

/55821/

93

/55/

81

/29/

77

/12/

4.0

Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for an aging legendary musician. Shot in black-and-white, Güeros brims with youthful exuberance.

82

7.6

/23777/

77

/1869/

79

/743/

4.1

/218087/

98

/140/

88

/144/

87

/30/

3.0

age 8+

A lonely dog's friendship with his robot companion takes a sad turn when an unexpected malfunction forces him to abandon Robot at the beach. Will Dog ever meet Robot again?

82

7.8

/999/

73

/30/

75

/28/

4.0

/6602/

95

/19/

100

/38/

3.0

A woman is recruited to a prison controlled by organized crime while another woman searches for her missing daughter. Through images that submerges us in a journey from north to south Mexico, both testimonies collide and take us to the center of a storm: a country where violence has taken control of our lives, our desires and our dreams.

82

7.6

/73443/

76

/2158/

74

/1320/

3.8

/32244/

98

/47/

88

/495/

3.5

age 17+

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

82

7.3

/2738/

72

/99/

70

/69/

3.9

/11683/

97

/69/

86

/10/

85

/16/

4.0

Magdalena makes a journey to find her son, who has disappeared on his way to the Mexican border with the United States. Her odyssey takes her to meet Miguel, a man recently deported from the US. They start to travel together, Magdalena looking for her son, and Miguel hoping to see his mother again.

82

7.5

/50012/

75

/1184/

74

/966/

4.1

/201318/

94

/35/

89

/879/

85

/12/

Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.

82

7.5

/34908/

75

/833/

76

/734/

3.8

/19294/

88

/119/

89

/1262/

77

/22/

4.0

Sayra, a Honduran teen, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same American-bound train.

81

7.4

/37353/

73

/484/

72

/412/

3.6

/17625/

97

/142/

87

/1568/

87

/39/

3.5

age 17+

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.

81

7.4

/2122/

72

/112/

70

/71/

3.9

/5459/

97

/72/

80

/18/

4.0

In Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a for-profit ambulance, competing with other unlicensed EMTs for patients in need of urgent care. In this cutthroat industry, they struggle to keep their financial needs from compromising the people in their care.

81

7.2

/1349/

75

/48/

73

/62/

3.8

/8347/

87

/15/

89

/4/

4.0

age 14+

Max and Leo are 8 and 5 years old and have just immigrated to the US with their mother. Their days pass inside a tiny apartment, while they wait for their mother to come back, as they hold on to the hope of traveling to Disney.

84

81

7.9

/12137/

76

/260/

75

/260/

4.2

/26574/

100

/19/

94

/180/

Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death of her mother.

81

7.5

/12080/

71

/316/

73

/258/

3.8

/11769/

94

/110/

83

/187/

82

/21/

4.0

A black and white silent movie, based on the Snow White fairy tale, that is set in a romantic version of 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.

81

7.8

/25672/

77

/786/

76

/489/

4.2

/38609/

97

/147/

85

/177/

82

/31/

3.0

The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.

80

7.2

/1456/

68

/64/

71

/44/

3.8

/14922/

88

/41/

85

/12/

4.0

The life of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey during a day of bullfighting, from the moment he dresses up to the moment he undresses.

80

7.0

/4071/

68

/145/

67

/85/

3.9

/33668/

97

/77/

74

/10/

91

/21/

4.0

In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.

80

7.8

/169972/

79

/8230/

79

/3354/

4.2

/1068237/

90

/160/

88

/374/

72

/33/

3.0

age 15+

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

80

7.4

/65603/

73

/1132/

73

/1025/

4.0

/106424/

88

/147/

86

/2062/

81

/34/

3.5

age 18+

An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.

80

7.3

/4559/

73

/143/

76

/174/

3.9

/24252/

96

/55/

92

/5/

83

/14/

3.0

age 15+

Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, navigate life in their oppressive countryside village. Whilst their families struggle in the poppy fields harvesting opium, the girls try to grow alongside the creeping terror of their cartel oppressors.

80

7.3

/10253/

75

/398/

78

/513/

4.0

/66325/

98

/45/

90

/34/

72

/6/

3.0

age 16+

In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.

80

7.1

/20285/

71

/529/

73

/541/

3.4

/31120/

88

/48/

84

/1302/

86

/18/

4.0

age 16+

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.

79

7.9

/88412/

77

/1246/

75

/978/

3.8

/34592/

85

/132/

92

/1797/

74

/38/

3.0

age 16+

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ramón manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.

79

7.7

/76506/

75

/1678/

74

/1137/

3.9

/56987/

87

/45/

88

/1481/

Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.

79

6.8

/3886/

69

/128/

67

/94/

3.8

/15426/

100

/24/

87

/14/

80

/7/

3.5

José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.

79

7.6

/10503/

76

/307/

73

/240/

3.8

/22072/

96

/25/

91

/219/

69

/23/

3.0

The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.

78

7.1

/39774/

68

/1425/

68

/1009/

3.6

/147910/

96

/232/

78

/140/

88

/46/

3.5

age 15+

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

78

7.4

/7836/

70

/214/

71

/211/

3.7

/8399/

91

/34/

85

/117/

74

/14/

3.5

One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...

78

76

/318/

73

/261/

82

/28/

93

/581/

3.0

As young children, Otto and Ana become best friends, leading to the marriage of Ana's mother to Otto's father. When Otto and Ana become teenagers, they begin a sexual relationship, which they hide from their parents. The two fall deeply in love and seem destined to spend the rest of their lives together. However, their relationship is tested when Otto's mother dies and the two are separated.

78

7.4

/169632/

72

/4114/

72

/3032/

3.6

/141374/

87

/180/

86

/12143/

74

/33/

3.5

age 15+

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

88

78

8.3

/5063/

82

/130/

86

/201/

4.2

/24872/

100

/6/

94

/36/

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.

79

78

7.7

/13555/

75

/379/

78

/739/

4.0

/34217/

86

/68/

After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

78

7.3

/20564/

73

/526/

72

/425/

3.5

/27673/

85

/13/

79

/123/

4.0

A comedy that chronicles a chance encounter between Robert and a Chinese named Jun who wanders lost through the city of Buenos Aires in search of his uncle after being assaulted by a taxi driver and his henchmen.

78

7.2

/43959/

72

/703/

71

/691/

3.8

/33462/

82

/156/

75

/1564/

76

/32/