With the upcoming release of She Walks in Darkness, Spain adds another compelling story to its growing presence on Netflix. And it’s in good company: in 2018, the streaming giant opened its first — and so far only — European production hub in Madrid, following the worldwide success of Money Heist. Since then, Spain has become one of Netflix’s creative powerhouses, delivering a steady stream of thrillers, dramas, and romances that captivate audiences around the globe.
This article focuses on the best Spanish movies on Netflix. We’ve selected an exclusive list of 14 titles — for now — updated as of October 2025. Each film comes with its plot, cast details, and trailer, so all that’s left is for you to choose your next favorite story.
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A Widow’s Game
The Spanish thriller A Widow’s Game opens with a violent murder in the city of Valencia. The victim is a young newlywed man, and suspicion quickly falls on his seemingly innocent wife. As the investigation unfolds, a tangled web of toxic relationships, betrayals, and hidden motives comes to light. Tension rises scene after scene, inviting the audience to follow the investigators in uncovering the invisible thread connecting love and crime. Inspired by a real crime of passion that shook Spain in 2017, the film explores the story of a woman whose perfect facade hid a dangerous nature, a case that captured international attention and now comes to Netflix.
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Bad Influence
This highly anticipated Spanish thriller climbed the charts in less than 24 hours after its release. Reese Russell (Eléa Rochera), a young heiress, faces anonymous threats that turn her life upside down. To protect her, her father hires Eros Douglas (Alberto Olmo), a bodyguard with a turbulent past. As attraction grows between them, they are forced to confront dangerous secrets and social obstacles. The cast also features Mirela Balić from Elite and Enrique Arce from Money Heist. The film explores the complexity of human relationships, moving between passion and rationality.
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Bird Box Barcelona
Fans of psychological horror praised Bird Box, an initially niche film that became a global phenomenon starring Sandra Bullock. From the same producers comes Bird Box Barcelona, a spin-off directed by Spanish filmmakers David Pastor and Àlex Pastor, set in a Barcelona devastated by an invisible, deadly force.
After a mysterious entity decimates the world population, anyone who looks at it—even briefly—takes their own life, forcing survivors to live blindfolded. Sebastian and his young daughter Anna must navigate the deserted streets of Barcelona in a perilous journey for survival. Along the way, they form uneasy alliances with other survivors, only to face a threat even more sinister than the creatures that kill with a single glance.
Elisa and Marcela
Directed by Isabel Coixet, Elisa & Marcela tells the true story of two unconventional women who challenged the strict dogmas of 1901, celebrating the first same-sex marriage in Spain. Released in 2019, the film competed for the Golden Bear at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. Shot in black and white to evoke the era, it recounts an intense and at times violent story, revealing a long-forgotten chapter in history.
The film follows Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, who met at a school in Galicia at the end of the 19th century and fell deeply in love. Forced to separate due to social and family pressure, they reunite years later. Determined to stay together, Elisa adopts a male identity as Mario Sánchez to marry Marcela in a Catholic ceremony. Their union is eventually discovered, forcing the couple to flee and live a life marked by hardship and persecution.
God’s Crooked Lines
God’s Crooked Lines is a claustrophobic thriller set in a Barcelona asylum in the 1980s, exploring mental illness. Based on Los renglones torcidos de Dios by Torcuato Luca de Tena, it nods to classics like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Shutter Island. Nominated for six Goya Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actress, the film combines tense atmosphere with psychological depth.
Alice, a private detective, pretends to suffer from paranoia to investigate a murder inside the asylum. Hired by Dr. Raimundo García del Olmo, she must uncover hidden truths connected to his son’s death. Inside, reality and imagination blur, forcing Alice to confront truth and madness in a gripping psychological journey.
Parallel Mothers
Two women, Janis and Ana, meet by chance in a hospital room as they prepare to become mothers. Both are single and facing unplanned pregnancies, and their encounter sparks a deep bond, leading them to share joys, sorrows, and unexpected secrets.
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, the film offers an intimate reflection on motherhood and the lingering wounds of Spanish history. Penélope Cruz delivers an extraordinary performance, earning her an Oscar nomination, in a story that blends intense emotion, family entanglements, and poignant reflections on the past.
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Idiot Love
Idiot Love follows Pere-Lluc (Santi Millán), a thirty-year-old man drifting through a disillusioned life. One night, he meets the mysterious Sandra (Cayetana Guillén Cuervo) and feels an instant, irrational attraction that quickly turns into obsession. As Pere-Lluc pursues Sandra, his life spirals into a cycle of emotional dependency, where desire and frustration blur his sense of reality. The film explores passion, obsession, and introspection, showing how infatuation can become a labyrinth with no escape.
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The Platform
Back in 2019, The Platform became a cult Spanish thriller, praised for the performances of Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian. Released on Netflix on March 20, 2020, it quickly became one of the platform’s most famous Spanish films, sparking discussion on social inequality and capitalism. The story takes place in a vertical prison, where cells are stacked atop one another, each with a hole in the center. Once a day, a platform carrying food descends through the prison, leaving those in the lower cells with only leftovers. The main character, Goreng, enters the prison voluntarily and encounters Trimagasi, Imoguiri, Baharat, and Miharu, a woman searching for her daughter. According to previews, The Platform 2 will revisit this unique setting, adding new twists to the intense and thought-provoking world of the prison.
The Platform – Chapter 2
The Platform – Chapter 2 is available for streaming on Netflix starting October 4, 2024. In this dystopian thriller, prisoners are confined in a vertical prison, where food is only distributed to the upper levels. The first film showed the horrors of the lower levels, while level zero at the top houses a fully equipped kitchen. Each day, the staff prepares the platform with favorite dishes for all prisoners below. Every month, two companions are randomly moved from one level to another, if they survive. Netflix teased the sequel: “A mysterious figure has established a new law, but is it really possible to enforce justice in Hell?” A new tenant enters the fight against this brutal system. Eating from the wrong plate can be a death sentence. Details of the plot remain scarce, so fans will have to wait for the release of this highly anticipated second chapter.
Nowhere
Pregnant, alone, and adrift, Mia (Anna Castillo) struggles to survive after escaping a country ruled by a totalitarian regime. She and her partner Nico (Tamar Novas) begin their journey as clandestine travelers in a container bound for Ireland. Soon, Nico is moved to another container with the men, leaving Mia alone. The journey turns into a nightmare. When soldiers stop the container, all the women are forced out—and slaughtered—except Mia, who remains hidden. A storm then sweeps her container into the sea, where she wakes up stranded in the middle of the ocean. Nine months pregnant, Mia gives birth to Noa alone, in the midst of a raging storm. This high-tension thriller keeps viewers on edge until the final scene. Not recommended for the faint of heart—or those who can’t swim.
Despite Everything
The film follows the lives of four sisters, Sara (Blanca Suárez), Lucia (Macarena García), Sofia (Amaia Salamanca), and Claudia (Belén Cuesta), who, after reading their recently deceased mother’s will, discover they have four different fathers. Not only that, but to claim the inheritance, the sisters must find their respective fathers using a list of their mother’s lovers. So they embark on a journey that leads them to confront their mother’s past and reexamine their own lives and relationships. This path helps them rediscover the bond that unites them despite their differences and better understand themselves.
Infiesto
An intriguing and original thriller, set during the Covid-19 pandemic. Detectives Samuel García and Marta Castro arrive in a small mining town in Asturias to investigate the mysterious reappearance of Saioa, a young woman missing for three months. Set in March 2020, the investigation reveals that Saioa’s disappearance is part of a disturbing pattern linked to a cult practicing human sacrifices every three months. While the world grapples with the pandemic, García and Castro must confront the challenges of the case and their own personal fears in a tense race against time to stop further crimes.
Sister Death
The film is not inspired by real events, but its sequel, Verónica, is loosely based on the true story of Estefanía Gutiérrez Lázaro, a Spanish teenager who died mysteriously in 1992 after using a Ouija board. Directed by Paco Plaza, the story follows Sister Narcisa in the 2017 film Sister Death. Set in a convent during Francoist Spain, the film explores a historical context marked by the civil war. After witnessing a miracle, Narcisa decides to become a novice. Gifted with mystical sensitivity, she begins teaching young women, but her powers attract the hostility of other nuns, especially after the discovery of a lost relic. A disturbing presence haunts the convent, manifesting mostly at night and increasing in intensity. The story builds to a shocking revelation and a series of strange suicides, keeping viewers on edge until the very end.
Love, Divided
A romantic comedy, it’s a sweet love story between Valentina, a sunny pianist, and David, a video game developer who shares his apartment only with a cat. Aitana and Fernando Guallar shine in this romantic comedy, with Spanish singer Aitana as Valentina alongside Fernando Guallar as David. And guess what? The director also brought back a face much loved by the Italian audience, Miguel Angel Munoz, who played Rober in Paso Adelante. The story is all about the theory of opposites born to attract and, why not, love forever. But what happens when the wall falls? The past of the two might resurface, revealing completely unexpected surprises.
