If Angela left you wanting more, you’re not alone. Spain has established itself as a powerhouse in TV production, with shows that combine gripping storytelling, complex characters, and international appeal. Netflix’s first European production hub in Madrid, opened in 2018 following the global phenomenon of Money Heist, helped cement Spanish shows as must-watch content for viewers worldwide.
Thanks to an enthusiastic global audience, Iberian productions consistently rank among the most-watched on the platform. In this article, we spotlight the best Spanish TV shows currently streaming on Netflix, complete with trailers, synopses, and all the essential details to guide your next binge.
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Old Dog, New Tricks
In a small Galician village, the country veterinarian Antón (Luis Zahera, the corrupt cop from Entrevías) sees his world collapse: with accounts not adding up and increasingly scarce clients, he is forced to leave the stables and pastures. Lending him a hand is his granddaughter Uxía, who “recycles” him into her shiny city pet store. It’s a cultural shock: the man who cared for cows and horses now has to sell “gourmet” snacks for spoiled dogs, learn polite smiles, handle demanding customers, and urban-paced colleagues.
Amid blunders, professional rivalries, and minor identity crises, the protagonist of this delightful series learns to tame (first and foremost) himself: discovering that behind the shine of the shelves are people and bonds capable of putting him back on track. The series intertwines the clash between rural and urban worlds, dry humor, and an affectionate uncle-niece bond that grows episode by episode.
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Muted
After six years of incarceration for the murder of his parents, Sergio Ciscar is released without ever explaining what really happened that night. His case becomes the subject of a psychiatric experiment: Dr. Ana Dussuel and her team secretly monitor him via a network of cameras, recording every habit and micro-reaction in hopes of understanding if he still poses a threat. What begins as scientific observation soon slips into a game of obsession and control.
The young man has decided to remain silent for six long years and seemingly continues to do so; his silence is interrupted only by the words of psychiatrist Ana and one of the few people Sergio speaks to, a girl he met in prison. Yet this silence, Sergio’s unspoken, nonexistent words, become increasingly forceful, almost deafening. The series leaves the viewer in limbo, trying to understand why he killed his parents, and whether he is truly guilty. The doubt remains until the last episode.
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The Wrong Side of the Tracks
A phenomenal success: The Wrong Side of the Tracks was the only Spanish TV show selected at the MIPTV 2022 Fiction Fresh T, ranking among Netflix’s top 10 in as many as 71 countries. The fourth season, recently released, is set in the eponymous, notorious Madrid neighborhood. Tirso is a grumpy and irritable war veteran living in Madrid in the late 2010s. He leads an ordinary life running a computer store in the dangerous Entrevías district. Problems begin when his adopted 17-year-old granddaughter, Irene, starts seeing Nelson, a troubled Colombian small-time dealer, with whom she plans to run away.
The neighborhood of Entrevías teems with drug dealing and crime, and the young girl embarks on a path into petty suburban delinquency. The veteran then decides to take control of the situation. Tirso allies himself with Ezequiel, a corrupt cop, and together they try to dismantle the gangs’ criminal plans.
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The Turkish Passion
It’s not just the story of a romantic love, based on the novel of the same name by Antonio Gala: mysteries and intrigues soon enter the scene. Olivia (Maggie Civantos), a Spanish fine arts professor with a brilliant career, wakes up from a coma in an Istanbul hospital after a suicide attempt. There, she answers questions from an inspector investigating Olivia’s involvement in an art smuggling ring with Yaman (Ilker Kaleli), her Turkish lover. Olivia’s story reconstructs in two phases the overwhelming passion she experienced with Yaman, which led her to abandon her life plans in Spain.
“The Turkish Passion” is an erotic novel written in 1993 by Antonio Gala and published in Italy by Rizzoli in 1995 (translated by Angelo Morino). The work is a bitter essay on love revolving around the main axis of the irresistible, fatal, and irrevocable attraction of eroticism and extreme sexuality.
Sky Rojo
Coral, Wendy, and Gina, the protagonists of the Spanish series, are three prostitutes who decide to escape the club where they work, the notorious Las Novias Club, seeking a new life nearly two thousand kilometers away in a remote village, after stealing money from their pimp, Romeo, who chases them with his henchmen Moisés and Christian. The three women open a bakery to launder the money stolen from Romeo.
The story unfolds from this premise. The third season evolves with Gina, while calling her mother in Cuba, being intercepted by Romeo. The man’s pursuit and the women’s escape resume, as do problems with Coral’s drug issues, the narrator.
Rotten Legacy
An emotional battle between a father trying to protect the legacy he has built and the children wanting to take control of their future: these are the premises of the series, or rather miniseries, which brings together a cast featuring some of the most renowned stars, such as José Coronado, already the star of the cult series Entrevías, here playing a media magnate. Everything changes when a serious illness forces him to retire for two years. Upon his return, he discovers that his four children – Yolanda, Andrés, Guadalupe, and Lara – are no longer the same, and the company he once firmly led now embraces values he despises.
Determined to save his legacy, Federico starts a silent fight, full of manipulations, secrets, and family betrayals. This brand-new Spanish series is available on Netflix since May 16, 2025.
The Gardener
This miniseries tells an engaging, high-tension story featuring one of the protagonists of Élite, Álvaro Rico, dominating the scenes as he searches for his path, facing difficult choices that will test his morality. The series follows Elmer (played by the aforementioned Álvaro Rico), a young man whose dominant and obsessive mother, La China Jurado (Cecilia Suárez), runs a double business: her gardening center is actually a cover for a hitman network. While Elmer tries to break free from his mother’s influence and find his own way, he faces difficult choices that will challenge his loyalty and morality.
Elmer, in fact, feels no emotions due to an old accident, and killing has always been easy for him. But everything changes when, planning the murder of the charming kindergarten teacher Violeta, he unexpectedly falls in love with her.
The Cook of Castamar
This miniseries, based on a novel by Fernando J. Múñez, transports viewers to 1720 Madrid, in a story where cooking, forbidden love, and political intrigues intertwine masterfully. A young agoraphobic cook finds refuge in the palace of the Duke of Castamar, Diego, after a past marked by the tragic death of her father, unjustly accused of treason. While immersing herself in cooking as an escape, a forbidden love blossoms between her and the duke, a man torn between heart and noble duties.
Obstructing this relationship are the duke’s mother, Donna Mercedes, who plots for Diego to marry noble Amelia Castro, and the sinister Marquis de Soto, driven by a dark desire for revenge. Political intrigues, social tensions, and an impossible love make this a captivating historical drama full of twists.
Raising Voices
The miniseries plot revolves around a 17-year-old girl named Alma. Like every teenager, Alma lives with fears and uncertainties, which she tries to overcome thanks to the friendship of Greta and Nata, her lifelong friends. Unfortunately, Alma’s life is turned upside down by an event that challenges her. Upon learning of a rape, Alma understands the need to report it and, a few days before the final second-year high school exams, she puts up a banner in front of her school facade that reads “beware, there’s a rapist hiding inside”.
However, the identities of the victim and attacker remain unknown, so rewinding five months back might reveal the truth. Alma, with the secret in her heart and the need to report the crime, finds herself involved in a situation bigger than herself.
The Snow Girl
Across the six episodes of the series, which just released its second season, unfolds the story inspired by the bestseller of the same name by Javier Castillo, published in Italy by Salani. The young journalist Miren Rojo (Milena Smit, Goya Award nominee) tries to reconstruct what happened on that cursed January 5, 2010, when Amaya Martín, a girl just 3 and a half years old, mysteriously disappears during the Three Kings Parade in downtown Malaga. Miren follows an investigation parallel to that of Inspector Millan, focusing on some details of her own past.
The first season ended with an “open” finale, clearly signaling the intention to continue the story. The last scenes of the first season show Miren Rojo, the protagonist, receiving an anonymous package during a book presentation, which seems connected to a complicated case of trafficking of women and children that the reporter uncovered during her investigations.
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Money Heist
A global success that hardly needs further introduction. Now in its fifth season, split into two volumes, it tells the story of eight thieves, each identified by the name of a city, who barricade themselves inside the Royal Mint of Spain with some hostages, in the most ambitious heist ever. Money Heist (La Casa de Papel) follows the adventures of a group of criminals led by the mysterious “Professor”. Their goal is to pull off the heist of the century: break into the Spanish State Mint and print 2.4 billion euros. Each member of the gang takes the name of a city to maintain anonymity: Tokyo, Berlin, Nairobi, Rio, Moscow, Denver, Helsinki, and Oslo.
During the robbery, they take several people hostage inside the building while police outside try to negotiate and resolve the situation. The series develops through twists, internal group tensions, and the Professor’s ingenious strategies, exploring themes such as resistance, social justice, and media manipulation.
Berlin
Soon we will see the second season of the Spanish series directed by Álex Pina, a prequel to Money Heist. A bold move by Netflix, which, just at the end of the previous season, cleverly intrigued viewers by announcing through the video the return of Pedro Alonso as Berlin. Berlin is a spin-off and prequel to Money Heist, focusing on the life of Andrés de Fonollosa, aka Berlin, before the events of the original series. Mainly set in Paris, the plot follows Berlin during his prime, planning one of his most ambitious heists: stealing jewelry worth 44 million euros in a single night.
To carry out this extraordinary heist, Berlin assembles a team of experts including Keila, a skilled computer engineer; Damián, a philanthropic professor and Berlin’s confidant; Cameron, a thrill-seeking risk lover; Roi, Berlin’s loyal assistant; and Bruce, the group’s man of action.
Alpha Males
The four friends Pedro, Luis, Raúl, and Santi feel lost in the new world of emancipated women and try to adapt. The Spanish show focuses on the four macho men, who see their male privileges disappearing with social changes, forcing them to adapt to new times. It’s an ironic reflection on very serious and current issues: from women’s condition to the identity crisis of the forty-somethings, caught between remnants of patriarchy and women’s emancipation, leading to the confusion that overtakes the so-called Alpha Males.
The second season continues from where we left off, with the four forty-year-old friends facing an identity crisis, dealing with delicate themes handled with grace and irony: equal opportunities, gender equality, #metoo, toxic masculinity, and patriarchy. Ultimately, they can no longer be the Alpha Males they once were.
