Movies and TV shows set in spain

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in spain ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, erotic, psychological and stylized films and TV shows about / with female nudity, nudity, sex, murder, couples, love, friendship, male female relationship, love and romance and death plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres shot in Spain, USA, France and other countries.
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spain movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as spain: Costa! (2001), The Candidate (2018), Marshland (2014), Money Heist (2017), Spanish Affair (2014), Bad Education (2004), Barcelona (1994), Goya in Bordeaux (1999), The Ministry of Time (2015), Charles, Emperor King (2015).

List of movies set in spain

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 4.6
 3K
Costa! (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story about a wild week at the Spanish coast. Romance at the beach, competition on the dance floor. Salty water, sweet kisses...
Style: realistic, humorous, melancholic, sentimental, suspense ...
Plot: love triangle, beach, vacation, couples, love and romance, eurovision, summer romance, friendship, fall in love, rivalry, dancer's life, twentysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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The Candidate (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Manuel is a crooked politician who enjoys the lifestyle that kickbacks afford. He eats at fancy restaurants, parties with his friends on yachts, and provides a very luxurious lifestyle for his family. Manuel brazenly bribes, extorts, and pays off ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological
Plot: politician, corruption, treason, corrupt politician, politics, journalist, husband wife relationship, arrest, deception, evidence, police, death ...
Time: 2000s
Place: spain, china, iberian peninsula, canada
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 7.2
 36K
Marshland (2014)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The Spanish deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division - to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, detective, enigmatic, serious ...
Plot: police investigation, serial killer, investigation, kidnapping, torture, murder, partners against crime, sexual abuse, murder mystery, murder investigation, brutality, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place: spain, iberian peninsula
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 8.2
 527K
Money Heist (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, ...
Style: suspense, exciting, intense, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: heist, perfect crime, plot twist, thief, bank robbery, hostage situation, money, professor, planning, master criminal, hostage, career criminal ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, thailand
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 6.5
 18K
Spanish Affair (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Rafael, a Seville citizen who has never left the Spanish region of Andalucia, decides to leave his homeland to follow Amaia, a Basque girl unlike other women he has known.
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fish out of water, father daughter relationship, disorder, win over, wedding, couples, love and romance, womanizer, life turned upside down, wooing, amor, deception ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: spain, basque country
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 7.4
 63K
Bad Education (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are ...
Style: disturbing, neo noir, sexy, controversial, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: sexual abuse, transsexual, gay, child abuse, transvestism, boarding school, male nudity, teacher, transsexuality, gender, lgbt, coming of age ...
Time: year 2004, 80s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe
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 7.0
 7K
Barcelona (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. ...
Style: independent film, talky, humorous, clever, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: culture clash, cold war, cousin cousin relationship, hospital, drinking, economics, conservative, stoner, hipster, nato, businessman, expatriate ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place: spain, barcelona, europe, pentagon, madrid ...
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Goya in Bordeaux (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He ...
Style: surreal, realistic, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: biopic, artist, art, painter, art history, painting, storytelling, napoleonic wars, exile, artwork, famous, ancient ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, georgian era, year 1999, ancient times ...
Place: spain, france, europe
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The Ministry of Time (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 3155 min.
TV show
Story: A soldier from the 15th century, a university student from the 19th century and a nurse from the present join the secret 'Department of Time', a secret department within the Spanish government with the ability to travel through time. Their ...
Style: intense, feel good, hispanic, suspense, light ...
Plot: time travel, soldier, chase, destiny, escapades, altering history, time loop, spanish history, time, ancient, feminism, trio ...
Place: spain
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Charles, Emperor King (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: The series tells the story of Charles I or Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, one of the most powerful men Europe has met, the ruler of a empire as great in size as in diversity. As the life of Charles of Habsburg is told since his arrival to Spain, it ...
Style: serious, factual, captivating, tense, historical drama ...
Plot: aristocracy, spanish history, king, royal family, european history, renaissance, catholicism, society, church, royalty, rivalry, love and romance ...
Time: 16th century
Place: spain, portugal
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 7.3
 34K
Live Flesh (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A scorned ex-convict forces himself into the lives of the couple who put him behind bars.
Style: sexy, psychological, intense, emotional, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: infidelity, lust, unfaithful wife, nudity, disability, obsession, desire, older woman younger man, betrayal, sex, love triangle, rape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1970, year 1990 ...
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, sarajevo ...
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Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 145 min.
Story: In 17th century Spain Diego Alatriste, a brave and heroic soldier, is fighting in his King's army in the Flandes region. His best mate, Balboa, falls in a trap and, near to death, asks Diego to look after his son and teach him to be a soldier.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: spanish history, battles, soldier, european history, dishonesty, political intrigue, medieval, state affairs, tough heroes, sword fight, courage, tudors ...
Time: 17th century, year 2006, ancient times
Place: spain, bolivia, naples italy, flanders, madrid ...
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 6.4
 15K
Ham Ham (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia becomes pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents. Jose ...
Style: erotic, humorous, dark comedy, sensual, talky ...
Plot: sexuality, prostitute, passion, jealousy, male nudity, sex, matador, infidelity, sensuality, erotica, pregnancy, social differences ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: spain
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 8.3
 11K
Grand Hotel (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 3098 min.
TV show
Story: Grand Hotel is a Spanish drama television series directed by Carlos Sedes and starring Yon Gonzalez and Amaia Salamanca. It first aired on Antena 3 in Spain on 11 October 2011 and on Sky Arts 1 in the UK on 18 November 2012. The series, filmed at ...
Style: stylized, captivating, serious, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: hotel, investigation, love and romance, intrigue, high society, master and servant, social differences, maid, guest, power relations, love affair, society ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place: spain
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 6.9
 32K
Goya's Ghosts (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.
Style: period piece, intense, factual, realistic, costume drama ...
Plot: rape, artist, art, spanish history, prison, prostitute, painter, biopic, spanish inquisition, life is a bitch, lifestyle, painting ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, regency period, 19th century, year 2006 ...
Place: spain, persia, madrid
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 7.2
 46K
Sleep Tight (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Apartment concierge Cesar is a miserable person who believes he was born without the ability to be happy. As a result, he decides his mission is to make life hell for everyone around him. A majority of the tenants are easy to agitate, but Clara ...
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, stalking, apartment building, obsession, domestic disturbance, caretaker, maniac, woman in danger, danger, concierge, cruelty, blackmail ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: barcelona, spain, iberian peninsula, europe
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Sex, Party and Lies (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A youth group is preparing for what will be the summer of their life, including secrets, lies, sex, confusion, evenings and holidays.
Style: erotic, sexy, suspense, entertaining, light ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: sex, gay, lgbt, drug use, sexuality, threesome, passionate sex, coming of age, friendship, lesbian, first gay sexual experience, drug dealing ...
Place: spain
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 7.3
 68K
Sexy Beast (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The idyllic life of retired safecracker Gal is put at risk when a psychotic gangster from his past arrives at his villa in southern Spain, intent on bringing him out of retirement for one last job.
Style: dark comedy, neo noir, talky, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: heist, robbery, retired, mafia, safecracker, caper, organized crime, one last job, british gangster, bank robbery, psychopath, character study ...
Time: year 2000, year 2001, 20th century, 90s
Place: spain, england, mediterranean sea, europe, london
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 7.6
 10K
Butterfly (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, compassionate, political ...
Audience: teens
Plot: spanish civil war, coming of age, friendship, civil war, children, teacher, fascism, childhood, depression, anarchist, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, barcelona, europe, galicia ...
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 7.9
 117K
Talk to Her (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Style: psychological, emotional, surreal, sexy, sincere ...
Plot: rape, tragic love, friendship, suicide, loneliness, female nudity, obsession, impossible love, tragic event, hospital, sex, women ...
Time: near future, year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, jordan
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 5.5
 2K
Siesta (1987)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Claire (an American) wakes up in a terrible state at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state (blood-soaked and bruised), she has flashbacks from the past few days. She thinks she's killed someone, but isn't ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: murder, stalking, uncover truth, memory loss, female protagonist, who done it, dishonesty, danger, protagonist as suspect, dangerous attraction, sexual relations, haunted by the past ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: spain, europe, madrid
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 7.0
 55K
Warrior Nun (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A 19-year-old orphan named Ava wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back. She discovers she is now part of an ancient order that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth, and powerful forces ...
Style: scenic, unusual plot structure, captivating, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience: teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: nun, female protagonist, religion, supernatural, female warrior, angel, superhero, religion and supernatural, battles, demon, fantasy world, vatican ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: spain
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 7.7
 73K
Open Your Eyes (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Style: psychological, enigmatic, surreal, suspense, mind bending ...
Plot: disfigurement, dream, surrealism, psychiatrist, love, nightmare, paranoia, car accident, love triangle, memory loss, jealousy, insanity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe, madrid
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All About My Mother (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress' autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy's father about the death of the son he never knew he had.
Style: sad, hispanic, art house, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: aids, transvestism, lgbt, lesbian, transgender, prostitute, grief, friendship, transsexual, single mother, women, gay ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, nebraska, iberian peninsula, argentina ...
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 8.1
 7K
Velvet (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: In 1950s Spain, the heir to a fashion house romances a beautiful seamstress who works for the company, despite the objections of his family.
Style: romantic, stylized, sincere, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dressmaker, impossible love, fashion, male female relationship, seamstress, society, haute couture, love, fashion designer, true love, empire fashion, couple relations ...
Time: 1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s
Place: spain, europe
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 8.3
 2K
Isabel (2011)
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 3038 min.
TV show
Story: Charting the life of Isabella I of Castile, one of the most important women in Spain’s history, Isabel follows her passionate story from childhood to being crowned Queen. From her political struggles within King Henry IV's court to her ...
Style: serious, historical drama, realistic, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: royal family, spanish history, queen, royalty, aristocracy, unfaithful husband, conquering, palace intrigue, historical figure, throne, heir, rise to the top ...
Time: 15th century, middle ages, medieval times
Place: spain, europe, portugal
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The Time in Between (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 853 min.
TV show
Story: Sira Quiroga is a young Spanish dressmaker engaged to a solid suitor when a suave typewriter salesman upends her life. Spain is being upended by a civil war and the new regime's growing alliances with Nazi Germany. Sira, smart, gutsy and ...
Style: captivating, stylized, political thriller, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot: seamstress, spanish civil war, world war two, espionage, secret service, fascism, young girl, dressmaker, money problems, female protagonist, love affair, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: spain, morocco, portugal
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 6.3
 521
Caresses (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The eroticism exudes in the eleven interconnected stories that recount difficult relationships and violent sexuality
Style: experimental, realistic, erotic, semi serious, surreal ...
Plot: gay, father son relationship, male nudity, lesbian, male pubic hair, gay interest, gays and lesbians, infidelity, erotica, homelessness, regret, incest ...
Time: 90s
Place: spain, barcelona, europe
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Cathedral of the Sea (2018)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: In the 14th century, Barcelona is experiencing one of its most prosperous moments. The city has grown to La Ribera, a fishing district in which the largest Marian temple ever known is built: Santa María del Mar. But the construction runs parallel ...
Style: biblical, brutal, suspenseful, suspense, depressing ...
Plot: medieval, genocide, religion, envy, social relations, rich and poor, society, father son relationship, sea, social problems, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 14th century, middle ages, medieval times
Place: spain, barcelona
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The Limits of Control (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him across Spain, but also through his ...
Style: art house, psychological, talky, stylized, aesthetic ...
Plot: poetry, tai chi, dialogue, desert, murderer, addiction, african, self control, character study, mind control, traveler, sex ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, tokyo, europe, africa, madrid
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