Top Spanish Movies


The Top Spanish Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Spanish List". Lists are calculated daily.

31. Who Can Kill a Child? ( Quién puede matar a un niño? )

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Actors: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Miguel Narros, Luis Ciges

32. What Have I Done to Deserve This? ( ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!! )

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Carmen Maura, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma, Ángel de Andrés López

33. Pellet ( Bola, El )

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Achero Mañas
Actors: Juan José Ballesta, Pablo Galán, Alberto Jiménez, Manuel Morón

34. Zama

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Actors: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan Minujín

35. Butterfly Tongues ( lengua de las mariposas, La )

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: José Luis Cuerda
Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Manuel Lozano, Uxía Blanco, Gonzalo Uriarte

36. Men with Guns

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Sayles
Actors: Federico Luppi, Damián Delgado, Dan Rivera González, Tania Cruz
Plot: A doctor in an unnamed Latin American country leaves his home in search of former medical students who he has trained to work in impoverished villages in the countryside. He begins to discover what is actually happening politically in his country when he is confronted by soldiers, guerillas, and impoverished citizens.

37. Carlos

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Olivier Assayas
Actors: Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo, Ahmad Kaabour
Plot: Mini-series based on the life of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez and idealist and sociopath who founded a terrorist organization and went on to raid the 1975 OPEC meeting.

38. Official Story, The ( historia oficial, La )

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luis Puenzo
Actors: Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana

39. Biutiful

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Actors: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella
Plot: A black market dealer by the name of Uxbal also has the power to see spirits of the dead. He has no qualms about exploiting his fellow man, but when he learns that he has terminal cancer, he goes on his own quest to find someone to care for his children.

40. Cell 211 ( Celda 211 )

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Daniel Monzón
Actors: Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann, Antonio Resines, Manuel Morón
Plot: An expectant father with a beautiful young wife, takes a job as a guard at a maximum-security prison. Taking a tour of the facility prior to his first day, a riot ensues. Finding himself trapped in the prison under lock-down with no guards around, he is forced to portray himself as a new prisoner to avoid being killed as a prison guard. After making some smart decisions, he is taken under the wings of the rioters and prison gang leaders. He faces a race against time to settle the riot peacefully while trying to understand his place as he starts to align more with his new prisoners than the law.

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