11. Devil's Backbone, The ( espinazo del diablo, El )
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega (II), Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve
Plot: A boy at an orphanage is haunted by a ghost that is trying to warn him and show how he really died. Takes place in Spain during WWII.
12. Talk to Her ( Hable con ella )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Actors: Javier Camara, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Geraldine Chaplin
Plot: While their significant others are comatose, they develop a friendship which involve all four of their past, present and future lives.
13. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ( Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios )
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco
Plot: When a woman's lover leaver her, she decides to track him down to find out why. His family has no idea and her girlfriend is too busy being worried about the police coming after her for her boyfriend's crimes. Seeking advice, they find a female lawyer - who just so happens to be the ex-lover's new flame - and then things get really complicated.
14. Embrace of the Serpent ( abrazo de la serpiente, El )
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ciro Guerra
Actors: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar, Brionne Davis
Plot: Taking place in 1909 and 1940. The Amazonian last survivor shaman of his tribe, travels
with two scientists, to look for the rare yakruna, a sacred plant. The film is inspired by the
diaries written by the two scientists during their field work in the Amazon.
15. Orphanage, The ( orfanato, El )
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Actors: Fernando Cayo, Belén Rueda, Roger Príncep, Andrés Gertrúdix
Plot: An orphan returns to her former orphanage with her new family to remodel and re-open the grounds. When she and her son venture to the beach he leaves a trail of sea-shells for one of his imaginary friends to follow. What exactly follows them back though?
16. Maria Full of Grace
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joshua Marston
Actors: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Virgina Ariza, Yenny Paola Vega, Rodrigo Sánchez Borhorquez
Plot: A young woman living in Mexico becomes pregnant and has no one to turn to. In desperation, she becomes a drug mule and smuggles drugs over the border.
17. North, The ( Norte, El )
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gregory Nava
Actors: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Diane Cary
18. Volver
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Chus Lampreave, Antonio de la Torre
Plot: A woman and her daughter conspire to kill the woman's lover, a sexually abusive man.
19. Spirit of the Beehive, The ( espíritu de la colmena, El )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Víctor Erice
Actors: Teresa Gimpera, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Ketty de la Cámara, Ana Torrent
Plot: Visually beautiful film about a young girl in fascist Spain who, after seeing a traveling exhibition of James Whale's classic "Frankenstein," believes the monster is hiding out in an abandoned barn.
20. Even the Rain ( También la lluvia )
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Historical/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Icíar Bollaín
Actors: Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde, Raúl Arévalo
Plot: A Spanish director on a tight budget decides to film his biopic on Christopher Columbus in Bolivia, in order to hire local actors on the cheap. Everything seems to be going smoothly, until a battle erupts over the privatization of the water supply - and one of his lead actors leads the protest movement.
