Best movies on Apple TV+ (Espagne) : our Top 20

2006 · Pedro Almodóvar

A successful professional whose private life is unravelling—isolated, estranged from her father, and stalked by an obsessive ex—Joanna Mills begins experiencing violent, haunting visions of a woman’s murder and soon suspects she may be the killer’s next prey. Refusing to be passive, she follows the images to the small town where the victim lived, determined to uncover the truth and outrun the threat, only to find that some secrets refuse to stay buried.

With Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave and Antonio de la Torre

2022 · Javier Ruiz Caldera

Inspired by the life of Lucio Urtubia, the film follows a daring anarchist who becomes a modern-day Robin Hood in Paris, running a cunning forgery operation to produce counterfeit travelers’ checks. He funnels the stolen funds into radical causes he believes in, but his success provokes the wrath of America’s largest bank and the international forces determined to bring him down. As the stakes escalate, alliances shift and moral lines blur in a tense, high-stakes chase between conscience and the law.

With Juan José Ballesta, Miki Esparbé, Luis Callejo, Liah O'Prey, Alexandre Blazy, Josean Bengoetxea and Philip Schurer

2024 · Arantxa Echevarría

In the late 1990s in Spain's Basque Country, a young female police officer goes undercover to penetrate the ruthless separatist organization ETA.

With Carolina Yuste, Luis Tosar, Víctor Clavijo, Nausicaa Bonnín, Iñigo Gastesi, Diego Anido and Pedro Casablanc

2019 · Sam Mendes

During the fiercest days of the First World War, two young British soldiers are forced to cross enemy territory to deliver a vital message that could avert a deadly assault on hundreds of their comrades.

With George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Claire Duburcq and Colin Firth

2004 · Alejandro Amenábar

A former ship mechanic and part-time poet, Ramón Sampedro is left paralyzed from the neck down after a diving accident. For thirty years he campaigns for the legal right to choose his own death, while forging intimate bonds with his devoted lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who refuses to give up on convincing him that life still matters. Confined to his body but radiant in spirit, Ramón ultimately galvanizes those around him to embrace life more fully.

With Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas, Joan Dalmau, Josep Maria Pou, Mabel Rivera and Celso Bugallo

2023 · Daniel Calparsoro

Accused of involvement in a terrorist attack, Santi, a taxi driver, is captured and held hostage by one of the perpetrators.

With Luis Tosar, Inma Cuesta, Nourdin Batán, Milo Taboada, Patricia Vico, Lucas Nabor and Antonio Buíl

2010 ·

Following the collapse of his first marriage, journalist David Sheff is pulled into a relentless fight to save his teenage son, whose casual drug experimentation spirals into a crippling methamphetamine addiction.

With Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella, Eduard Fernández, Cheikh Ndiaye and Diaryatou Daff

2013 · Abdellatif Kechiche

Adèle's life is upended when she meets Emma, a vibrant young woman with blue hair; through their intense bond Adèle awakens to desire and begins to claim herself as both woman and adult. Seen and judged by those around her, she embarks on a turbulent journey—searching, stumbling, and finally finding who she truly is.

With Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Salim Kechiouche, Aurélien Recoing, Catherine Salée, Benjamin Siksou and Mona Walravens

2010 · Paul Greengrass

After being unfairly dismissed from Harvard, American student Matt Buckner takes refuge at his sister’s home in England. There he falls under the sway of her charismatic but unpredictable brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, who introduces him to the hidden world of football firms and street clashes. Immersed in that intense, often violent subculture, Matt learns to stand up for himself and forges a fierce, risky friendship that tests the limits of loyalty, trust and the cost of living dangerously.

With Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, Khalid Abdalla, Jason Isaacs and Igal Naor

1998 · John Turturro

A young Jewish American, accompanied by a troupe of eccentric, long-estranged relatives, travels to Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II, tracing her to the ruins of a village later destroyed by Nazi forces.

With John Turturro, Christopher Walken, Susan Sarandon, Rufus Sewell, Beverly D'Angelo, Ben Gazzara and Katherine Borowitz

2006 · Ken Loach

In 1920s Ireland, young physician Damien O'Donovan is poised to leave for a hospital appointment in London when a visit to a friend's farm is shattered by an incursion of British Black and Tans that leaves a local man dead. Shocked and outraged, Damien enlists alongside his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but the escalating political turmoil and moral compromises of the struggle drive an increasing wedge between them.

With Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, William Ruane and Roger Allam

1971 · Gérard Oury

Don Sallust is the king’s minister in Spain, a two-faced, greedy courtier who siphons off tax revenues and rules with hypocrisy, earning the hatred of the people he exploits. When the Bavarian-born queen accuses him of fathering an illegitimate child by one of her ladies-in-waiting, he is publicly disgraced, stripped of his office and compelled to retire to a monastery.

With Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch, Karin Schubert, Alberto de Mendoza, Paul Préboist and Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón

2002 · Cédric Klapisch

A buttoned-up French student moves into a shared apartment in Barcelona with six roommates from across Europe; as their lives intertwine, they discover how to communicate through the universal language of love and friendship.

With Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Kelly Reilly, Cécile de France, Cristina Brondo, Federico D'Anna and Barnaby Metschurat

2011 · Jaume Balagueró

Disenchanted and solitary, César works as the concierge of a wealthy apartment block in Barcelona, where he forges unusual, sometimes intimate ties with the building’s diverse and often eccentric residents.

With Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Alberto San Juan, Petra Martínez, Iris Almeida, Carlos Lasarte and Amparo Fernández

2002 · Miguel Ángel Vivas

After his mother dies suddenly, ten-year-old Nemo is sent to live with his maternal uncle and his family. Though his new relatives are polite and welcoming, Nemo’s twelve-year-old cousin Iván delights in teasing him, spinning dark tales about a Bogeyman who will come for him if he misbehaves. At first Nemo shrugs off the warnings, convinced Iván is only trying to scare him with made-up stories.

With Alberto Jiménez, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés, Junio Valverde and Isabel Gálvez

2008 · Woody Allen

Two friends on a summer getaway in Spain both find themselves captivated by the same charismatic painter, unaware that his stormy relationship with his ex-wife is about to resurface and upend their holiday romance.

With Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Christopher Evan Welch, Chris Messina and Patricia Clarkson

2015 · Carlos Saura

A richly layered portrait of the football world, where intense cross-border rivalries and private disappointments collide, and friendships persist despite national divides.

With Mía Maestro, Pedro Aznar, Juan Falú, Marian Farías Gómez, Gabo Ferro, Liliana Herrero and Jairo

2007 · Adrià García

Tim, a lonely orphan terrified of the dark, must face his deepest fear when stars begin disappearing from the night sky. Drawn into the secret world that wakes after sunset, he teams up with a mysterious guide called the Cat Shepherd and sets out on a strange, courageous quest to restore the lost stars and find himself.

With Natalia Rodríguez, Carlos Sobera, Hélène Bizot, Imanol Arias, Philippe Peythieu and Joshua Zamrycki

2005 · Emilio Maillé

A mother's boundless love for her son shapes every choice she makes, driving her to protect, forgive and sacrifice without hesitation.

With Flora Martínez, Alejandra Borrero, Kristina Lilley, Unax Ugalde, Manolo Cardona, Rodrigo Oviedo and Alonso Arias

2006 · Juan Pablo Buscarini

Santiago, a once-powerful boss now out of work, and Pilar, a driven but exhausted architect, tell her that the Hairy Tooth Fairy—Pérez, a small mouse—will slip into her room that night and leave a coin in exchange. A lone mouse who is keeping watch passes the news along to another, and that mouse passes it on until the message reaches Pérez, who presides over a bustling community of mice living aboard a boat in the harbor. There, hundreds of tiny workers receive the teeth, meticulously clean, carve and polish them into smooth, luminous pearls. The finished pearls are ferried through the city’s sewers to Morientes’s jewelry shop, where an old friend converts them into gold by weight. What begins as a comforting bedtime tale quietly reveals a secret network of care, craft and commerce beneath the streets.

With Alejandro Awada, Mariano Chiesa, Roly Serrano, Delfina Varni, Fabián Mazzei, Ana María Orozco and Joe Rígoli