The Best Spanish-Language Movies Streaming On Netflix!

*Updated November 2025

Some of the most watched movies on Netflix are in Spanish. In the United States, Hispanics remain the largest moviegoing demographic, accounting for 24% of film ticket sales and 24% of streaming subscribers. And with Netflix having the largest library of all streaming platforms with over 5,000 movies to date, there are some Spanish-language gems in there from all over Spain and Latin America.

It is undeniable that over the last decade, Spanish and Latino filmmakers have delivered movies that can stand toe to toe with any title in English or any other language. This list highlights 10 Spanish-language movies on Netflix that we consider essential viewing right now.

Here Are The Best Spanish-Language Movies Streaming On Netflix

1. Celda 211 (2009, 1hr 50m, Director Daniel Monzón / Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann, Antonio Resines)

Synopsis: This is hands-down one of the greatest Spanish thrillers ever made. A rookie prison guard arrives at his new job one day early, only to get knocked unconscious right as a violent riot breaks out, forcing him to pose as an inmate to survive. Luis Tosar, perhaps the greatest Spanish actor of his generation, delivers a career-defining performance as the ruthless but charismatic prisoner Malamadre, and the tension never lets up for a single second.

2. Ya No Estoy Aquí (2019, 1hr 52m, Director Fernando Frías de la Parra / Juan Daniel García)

Synopsis: When Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón endorse your movie, you know it’s special. A 17 year old street leader from Monterrey who lives for slowed down cumbia has to run to New York after a deadly clash with a cartel. In Queens he is cut off from his crew, his music, and the life that made him, and the film tracks how he tries to start over when everything he knows is gone.

3. La Sociedad de la Nieve (2023, 2hr 24m, Director J.A. Bayona / Enzo Vogrincic, Matías Recalt)

Synopsis: In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the heart of the Andes, and only 29 of 45 passengers survived the initial impact, forcing them to resort to unimaginable actions to stay alive for 72 days. Shot at the actual crash site, Spanish director J.A. Bayona delivers what critics are calling the definitive version of this story, even better than the 1993 film Alive.

4. El Hoyo (2019, 1hr 34m, Director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia / Iván Massagué, Zorion Eguileor)

Synopsis: A Spanish man wakes up in a vertical prison where one platform of food drops level by level, so the people on top feast and everyone below fights over scraps, making people turn on each other. This is a brutal and unsettling watch that blew up during the pandemic, and is still one of the most talked about films on Netflix because it makes you rethink how society really shares its resources.

5. Bajocero (2021, 1hr 46m, Director Lluís Quílez / Javier Gutiérrez, Karra Elejalde)

Synopsis: This is a fun thriller that hit #1 on Netflix’s U.S Top 10. A police officer transporting dangerous prisoners in an armored truck through a snowstorm becomes the target of an ambush, and he must fight threats from both outside and inside the vehicle while the temperatures plummet severely.  Think Assault on Precinct 13 meets Con Air with Javier Gutiérrez stealing scenes left and right.

6. A Twelve Year Night / La Noche de 12 Años (2018, 2hr 2m, Director Álvaro Brechner / Antonio de la Torre, Chino Darín)

Synopsis: Future Uruguayan President José Mujica and two fellow prisoners are held in solitary and tortured for 12 years under the dictatorship. It’s an inspiring film about resilience and the human spirit.

7. Durante la Tormenta (2018, 2hr 8m, Director Oriol Paulo / Adriana Ugarte, Chino Darín, Álvaro Morte)

Synopsis: During an electrical storm, a woman discovers she can communicate through an old TV with a boy from 25 years in the past, and by saving his life, she accidentally erases her own daughter from existence. If you liked Frequency or The Butterfly Effect, this mind-bending thriller will keep you guessing.

8. También La Lluvia (2010, 1hr 43m, Director Icíar Bollaín / Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar)

Synopsis: This is a smart film-within-a-film storyline. A film crew goes to Bolivia to shoot a drama about Columbus exploiting Indigenous people and runs straight into real life protests over a stolen water supply. Gael García Bernal and Luis Tosar deliver memorable performances questioning at times fiction from reality.

9. 100 Metros (2016, 1hr 48m, Director Marcel Barrena / Dani Rovira, Karra Elejalde)

Synopsis: Based on a true story, when a man is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and told he’ll soon struggle to walk even 100 meters, he decides to prove everyone wrong by training for and completing an Ironman triathlon alongside his skeptical father-in-law. This inspirational drama about  a man refusing to accept life’s limits.

10. El Callejón de los Milagros / Midaq Alley (1995, 2hr 20m, Director Jorge Fons / Salma Hayek, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo)

Synopsis: This movie influenced an entire generation of Latin American filmmakers. Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Naguib Mahfouz but transplanted from Cairo to Mexico City, this epic drama brings together the interconnected lives of neighbors in a downtown alley, including a young Salma Hayek in one of her breakthrough roles.

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