Best Spanish TV shows
This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Spanish TV shows" contains films with the following parameters. Style: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing and psychological. Plot: family relations, female nudity, investigation, female protagonist, danger, murder mystery, police, gay, society and murder. Genre: Drama, Thriller and Crime. Country: Spain, Mexico and Chile.
Best Spanish TV shows
TOP TV Shows: Money Heist (2017), Estoy vivo (2017), Elite (2018), The Time in Between (2013), Grand Hotel (2011), The Boat (2011), Velvet (2013), I Know Who You Are (2017), Cable Girls (2017), Under Suspicion (2014), Unauthorized Living (2018), Locked Up (2015), The Boarding School (2007), 30 Coins (2020), The Cook of Castamar (2021), The Mess You Leave Behind (2020), Isabel (2011), Paco's Men (2005), Disappeared (2020), The Embassy (2016).
List of Best TV Shows
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 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, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
heist, perfect crime, hostage situation, plot twist, bank robbery, planning, master criminal, thief, career criminal, hostage, professor, robbery ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
spain, madrid, europe, thailand, new mexico
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A policeman dies chasing a serial killer and is reincarnated in another policeman five years later, granted immortality in exchange of never revealing his true identity.
Style:
sentimental, psychological thriller, captivating, tense, touching ...
Plot:
unsolved crime, who done it, homicide detective, police investigation, serial killer, investigation, crime investigation, second chance, murder mystery, new life, murder investigation, maniac ...
Place:
spain
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101K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.
Style:
sexy, captivating, emotional, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, classmate, jealousy, lgbt, youth, murder, love and romance, society, school, infidelity, new school, seduction ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain
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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, costume drama, atmospheric ...
Plot:
seamstress, world war two, spanish civil war, espionage, secret service, fascism, young girl, dressmaker, female protagonist, love affair, world war one, fashion ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
spain, morocco, portugal, new mexico
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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, intrigue, love and romance, high society, investigation, master and servant, murder mystery, homicide detective, maid, love affair, social differences, guest ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, 20th century, 90s
Place:
spain, new mexico
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story:
A global cataclysm, caused by a fatal accident in Geneva (Switzerland) during the implementation of the particle accelerator will lead to the crew and students of the school-ship Polar Star to live the greatest adventure of their lives. Isolated and ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, atmospheric, apocalyptic, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ship, confined, danger, escapades, parents and children, lost at sea, science gone wrong, family relations, sailing, experiment gone awry, vestiges of humanity, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
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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, sincere, stylized, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
dressmaker, impossible love, fashion, seamstress, male female relationship, true love, haute couture, love, society, fashion designer, empire fashion, businessman ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
spain, europe, new mexico
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
A man ends up in hospital after a car accident. He does not remember his name, but it is soon discovered he is a famous attorney. To make things worse, the police start to suspect him of having murdered his missing niece.
Style:
exciting, tense, suspenseful, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
disappearance, amnesia, lawyer, investigation, niece, danger, memory, police, family relations, attorney, uncover truth, memory loss ...
Place:
spain
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1920s Madrid, four women at the National Telephone Company ring in revolution as they deal with romance, envy and the modern workplace.
Style:
stylized, romantic, period piece, captivating, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
female protagonist, female friendship, job, workplace, women, independence, love and romance, workplace romance, female nudity, spanish civil war, woman, class differences ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
spain, new mexico
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
TV show
Story:
In the small town of Cienfuegos, it's a very special day for 7-year-old Alicia Vega (Aroa Palacios) and her family: her First Communion. However, when they are celebrating at the family's restaurant, closed for the occasion, she goes ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, detective, crime drama ...
Plot:
obsession, investigator, police, twists and turns, who done it, manipulation, suspicion, murder mystery, missing child, family secret, child abduction, police procedural ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
spain
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story:
When a Galician shipper and drug lord hiding his Alzheimer's disease plans to retire, his second-in-command plots to steal the empire from the heir.
Style:
emotional, realistic, inspirational, suspenseful, meditative ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, heir, ambition, business, father son relationship, twists and turns, parents and children, fight, brutality, danger, rivalry, dishonesty ...
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30K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller.
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
women's prison, prison guard, lesbian, women in prison, female prisoner, corruption, prison, female homosexuality, lgbtq, dishonesty, jail, brutality ...
Place:
new mexico
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story:
El Internado Laguna Negra was a Spanish television drama-thriller focusing on the students of a fictional boarding school in a forest, where teenagers are sent by their parents to study. The boarding school is situated in a forest far from the city, ...
Style:
suspense, tense, enigmatic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder mystery, boarding school, death of friend, dealing with death, experiment, teenager, dungeon, siblings relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family relations, latina, unspoken love ...
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12K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Father Vergara—an exorcist, boxer and ex-convict—lives in a remote village in Spain. Hoping to be lost and forgotten, Vergara’s demons catch up to him.
Style:
dark, scary, disturbing, contemplative, tense ...
Plot:
exorcism, vatican, clergy, curses spells and rituals, priest, religion and supernatural, catholicism, female nudity, god or devil, demon, religion, supernatural ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
spain
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in early 18th-century Madrid, the plot follows the love story between an agoraphobic cook and a widowed nobleman.
Style:
costume drama, captivating, historical drama, epic, period drama
Plot:
social class, maid, domestic servant, ancient, monarchy, character change, wealthy family, changing lives, lifestyle change, male female relationship, society, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
spain, madrid
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story:
A teacher starts her job at a high school but is haunted by a suspicious death that occurred there weeks before and begins fearing for her own life.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
murder investigation, relationships, teacher student relationship, sex scene, marriage, blackmail, teacher, male female relationship, marital problem, investigation, society, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
spain
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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:
historical drama, serious, period piece, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
royal family, spanish history, queen, royalty, aristocracy, throne, conquering, palace intrigue, heir, unfaithful husband, medieval, historical figure ...
Time:
15th century, middle ages, medieval times
Place:
spain, portugal, europe, new mexico
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
TV show
Story:
Los hombres de Paco is a Spanish comedy television series, originally aired from 9 October 2005 to 19 May 2010 on the Antena 3. The series has also been broadcast in Argentina, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Morocco, Romania, Serbia, Italy, ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, semi serious, satirical, entertaining
Plot:
police detective, investigation, lesbian, satire, police investigation, partners against crime, teamwork, workplace situations, crime investigation, workplace, crime solving, coworker ...
Place:
spain
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
TV show
Story:
A group of six police officers solve disappearance cases that everyone else has already given up on.
Style:
psychological, touching, disturbing, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
police detective, police officer, police investigation, uncover truth, partner, society, family relations, dishonesty, partners against crime, escapades, law enforcement, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
Luis Salinas, the new ambassador to Thailand, who knows he's going to get his hands dirty in the next four years – if he makes it that long. He's accompanied by his wife, Claudia, and their daughter Ester. Aware that the familiar ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense
Plot:
ambassador, embassy, mother in law son in law relationship, corruption, diplomacy, sex scene, journalist, justice, father daughter relationship, murder, betrayal, adultery ...
Place:
bangkok thailand, thailand, spain
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Puenteviejo, 1902. Pepa midwife comes to Puenteviejo to exercise her profession. Her faith leads her to cross paths with Francisca Montenegro, landowner, and stepmother of Carlos Castro, a ex lover of Pepa and father of her child, a boy who was ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, sincere, contemplative, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
love, family relations, family secret, landowner, jealousy, female protagonist, secret, father son relationship, village life, inheritance, european history, spanish history ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
spain
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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, psychotronic, hispanic, suspense ...
Plot:
time travel, destiny, soldier, chase, escapades, time loop, altering history, spanish history, time, ancient, feminism, trio ...
Place:
spain
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Mexico, Spain
TV show
Story:
The Spanish "Conquistador" Hernán Cortés arrives in the shores of what today is México and faces both local demons and those who've sailed with him.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, stylized, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot:
aztec, conquistador, latin american history, medieval, historical character, power struggle, society, family relations, conflict, ambition, battles, courage ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
mexico, spain, latin america
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
TV show
Story:
A terrible event leads an investigator in Paris to come back to his birth town ten years after leaving it, where he has to confront the ghosts of his past and an unsolved mystery.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
police detective, danger, crime scene, murder, law enforcement, riddles and clues, police investigation, investigation, murder investigation, murder mystery, police, forensics ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Chile
TV show
Story:
Romantic historical drama based on the true story of the first woman "conquistador" who went to the South American land that would become Chile, and helped to form the city of Santiago.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological, disturbing, historical romance ...
Plot:
conquistador, romantic relationship, love, death of husband, female protagonist, governor, new love, journey, love and romance, widow, lost love, destiny ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
peru, santiago chile, chile, south america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story:
Mary a successful lawyer based in Madrid is shocked to discover she is adopted. A search for her biological parents soon leads to a web of deceit and betrayal. She uncovers a human trafficking operation, which leads her down a dark path.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, suspense
Plot:
revenge, kidnapped woman, slave trader, false accusation, lawyer, foster child, biological father, outlaw gang, search for father, family relations, lone hero, presumed dead ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.
Style:
sitcom, semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic
Plot:
noisy neighbor, family life, teenage life, neighbor neighbor relationship, couple relations, parents and children, love affair, best friend, elderly, gays and lesbians, apartment building, dating ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
spain, madrid
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Searching for his kidnapped daughter, Antonio sets off a series of events affecting scores of people when he maneuvers to be sent to prison in Colombia.
Style:
suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prison, desperation, kidnapping, abduction, missing child, male protagonist, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship, police, dishonesty, fight, family relations ...
Place:
colombia, spain, valencia spain, south america
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Genre: Animation, Short, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Lincoln Loud is an eleven-year-old boy who lives with ten sisters. With the help of his right-hand man Clyde, Lincoln finds new ways to survive in such a large family every day.
Style:
sincere, feel good, entertaining, humorous, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
girl, childhood, baby, boy, friendship, 17 year old, cliche, child protagonist, siblings relations, parents and children, sister sister relationship, large family ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
TV show
Story:
A secret unit of cops is assembled to stop a terrorist band from attacking Spain after their leader is arrested there.
Style:
political, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
terrorist, police, terrorism, police operation, international crisis, danger, revenge, team, murder, government, investigation, retribution ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
madrid
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